Monday, 2/13/23 – 7pm
VirtualPoets! Kim Shuck hosts

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713 Passcode: 244211 Robert Eugene Rubino is a retired newspaper copy editor and sports columnist who has published prose and poetry in various print and online journals. In 2016 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in creative nonfiction and in 2022 published three collections: “Aficionado,” prose & poetry, hummingwordpress.com “Vanity Unfair,” poetry, cathexisnorthwestpress.com “Douglas…

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Sunday, 2/12/23 – 10am
Live Stream: A conversation with
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai
SF Lives Live Talks–
Journalist Denise Sullivan + guest
live streamed every 2nd Sunday at 10 a.m.

San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan conducts a monthly series of conversations (the second Sunday of each month from 10-11 a.m.) with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders and workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books and viewable on the Bird &…

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Saturday, 2/11/23 – 7:30pm
Adrian Areas Fuze Quintet

original latin jazz rock fusion explosion! Adrian Areas proudly carries a tradition that encompasses all the San Francisco jazz rock fusion history that constellates around the Azteca/Malo/Santana years. His uncle Chepito was right in the midst of that wonderful maelstrom. Thomas Molina, trumpet Josh Icban, guitar Jeff Patterson, bass Jimmy Toor, drums Adrian Areas, Moperc…

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Thursday, 2/9/23 – 7pm
The Alvarado Project celebrates
Claiming Our Stories:
An Intergenerational Anthology

Filipino American memoirs read by their authors and others

Pieces to be read this evening from the anthology will include: Janet Alvarado’s Introduction to Claming Our Stories – read by the author/editor Albert A. Acena’s “Where Have the Nurses Gone? – read by Laarni San Juan Rhys Alvarado’s “1946” – read by Alohi Alvarado Emil Guillermo’s “Centennial Club Members Ricardo and Willie: Filipinos in…

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Sunday, 2/5/23 – 7:30pm
GRUPO OKÁN TOYÉ

Ten musicians on the Bird & Beckett stage tonight! Ten musicians to pay! Sliding scale $10-40 cover charge requested. No reservations. No comps.  Only 30 seats! Doors open at 7:15. BYOB.GRUPO OKÁN TOYÉ is an Afro Cuban folkloric troupe dedicated to learning, performing and preserving the musical traditions specifically from Matanzas, Cuba! The group is…

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