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in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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Thursday, April 24th – 7:30pm
Writer/Director Megan Robertson
a reading of her theatrical documentary
If San Francisco Collapses
Join us for a reading of “If San Francisco Collapses,” a new documentary theatre play by Megan Robertson. As we live in an age defined by technological advancements, this play examines technology’s impact on the region which birthed it. San Francisco has historically been a mecca for revolutionaries, artists, and activists. How does this truth…
Tuesday, April 22nd – 7pm
Journalist/Ukraine war correspondent
Jen Stout and her book
Night Train to Odesa:
Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War
Night Train to Odesa just won a major award in the UK, and was abridged for BBC Radio 4. It sits between memoir, reportage, and literary journalism, and has been praised for its pacy narrative style – definitely not a dry tome on the war in Ukraine, but on-the-ground reportage, starting in Russia just before the invasion, moving…
None but defensive arms sales to Israel until Palestine secures a permanent peace
From the website of Senator Bernie Sanders: WASHINGTON, April 3 – After filing Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) to block the sale of two of the most egregious Trump Administration offensive arms sales to Israel, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today rose to bring the JRDs up for a vote by the full Senate. The sales…
Monday, April 21st – 7:30-9:30pm
Oakland School for the Arts
Alumni Quintet
home for a minute from China
and headed back to their post-OSA schools…
The Oakland School for the Arts Alumni Quintet brings together musicians whose roots trace back to the halls of OSA, where they studied under the mentorship of the legendary Dave Ellis—a guiding force who continues to shape their musical paths today. Though they’ve since scattered across the country, from San Francisco to Baltimore, Stockton to…
Monday April 21st to Sunday April 27th
Jazz musicians 18 to 80,
a war correspondent,
a playwright & her actors…
From Monday to Sunday, you can catch great jazz, hear from a Scottish war correspondent who left Moscow for Ukraine at the beginning of the war and is briefly on tour before returning there, attend the reading of a documentary theater piece in development… or just drop in during the day to buy a book……
Wednesday 4/16 through Sunday 4/20…
seven events
starting with jazz plays gospel & soul, and
capped Sunday by Gatsby revelations
and the Vince Lateano Trio
Seven Events in Five Days
From gospel to Brazilian choro, poetry to literary investigation and celebration, and all that jazz, Bird & Beckett offered you a lot this past week and capped it off with Bentley High scholars investigating F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Sunday at 3pm and the Vince Lateano Trio Sunday at 5pm Get your culture this…
Wednesday, April 16th – 7:30pm
Songs for Salvation: “Jazz Plays Spirituals”
Neil Adler & Gospel Interfaith Vocals
In troubled times music is a salve for the soul. This ‘Jazz plays Spirituals’ concert features Neil Adler (piano/bass), Michael Turner (voice/piano), David Adler (bass) and John Anning (drums). Neil Adler is a local bandleader/pianist and chromatic harmonica player whose has ‘Emi’s Song’ album, featuring a variety of jazz genres, was released with great success…
Kim Shuck’s VirtualPoets – 2nd & 4th Mondays
Monday, April 14th – 7pm
Poet Fatemeh Shams
Open mic follows
Fatemeh Shams is the author of When They Broke Down the Door (Mage 2016), which won Latifeh Yarshater’s Annual Book Award, and Hopscotch (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024) which won the 2023 Poetry International Chapbook Award. She teaches Persian literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Kim Shuck hosts featured poets with an open mic on the 2nd Monday…
April in Frisco! Grab a flight & join us!
Fight the power with music & culture!
Saturday (4/12) from 7:30-9:30pm, the Levit-Behrman Quintet, with Joel Behrman, trumpet; Jesse Levit, alto sax; Matt Clark, piano; Josh Thurston-Milgrom, bass; Jeff Marrs, drums. There’s a lot to be said about this quintet and its fine, well-traveled personnel. Suffice to say, they’re coming in tight and rehearsed. Read a whole lot more on the calendar…
Another Friday at Bird & Beckett
two wonderful varieties of jazz
dig it!
Friday (4/11) from 6-8pm, Eric & the In Crowd, tonight with Eric Shifrin, piano/vocal; Heath Proskin, bass; and Jimmy Duchowny, drums, plus a surprise guest. Jimmy, who’s just flown in from Brazil, is an old friend from Eric’s teenage jazz beginnings. Back then, in Malibu, Eric was playing sax and heard that a younger kid…