Walker Brents III addresses a different topic in each of his monthly talks, holding us in thrall with his storytelling prowess and his insights born of a wide-ranging sensibility and curiosity. This Sunday, he takes on the epic of Gilgamesh, born between the Tigris and the Euphrates, older than the Iliad, older than the Bible, older…

Aaron Germain’s Chance Ensemble plays a night of all original compositions, with a mix of straight ahead jazz, Brazilian, funk, and fusion. Arrangements include duos and trios within the quartet featuring: Mary Fettig, flute Murray Low, piano Jon Krosnick, drums Aaron Germain, upright and electric bass FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/368193923692006/ Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnw0E6T5Qw The Chance Ensemble and Bird…

Two legendary players of the avant garde! Larry Ochs, reeds Donald Robinson, drums Per Bay Improviser, a crucial site for tracking avant garde music in the Bay Area (found at, no surprise, bayimproviser.com): Larry Ochs works on and breathes music. He composes. He plays saxophone. He looks for adventurous ideas to take on and for…

May 2018 marks the start of our 19th year in business… Come celebrate on Friday, May 24th with Chuck Peterson’s legacy jazz band — the quintet known as the 230 Jones Street Literary Jazz Band and now featuring reed players Ray Loeckle and Jerry Logas, guitarist Glen Deardorff, bassist Dean Reilly and drummer Tony Johnson….

Established in 1937, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary journal that serves the City College of San Francisco community. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary, urban voices of our institution, Forum collects, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family. Publication is open to any who have ever been involved…

Our traditional twice-monthly poetry series has been hosted by Jerry Ferraz since the beginning, with Jerry usually performing a poem or a song at the start of each session’s open mic. Tonight, Jerry will stretch out with an hour of song, accompanied by viola player Karlyn DeSteno. Together, they’ve just recently developed a beautiful musical collaboration. The open…

The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project and the Jazz Philanthropists Union, with financial support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, present Alternative Acts: Seeking Truth Above #F 5/20/18: Kasey Knudsen Quartet Kasey Knudsen, sax; Lorin Benedict, vocals; Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Miles Wick, bass https://www.facebook.com/events/198530430870942/ [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUut7EmasvU” /] The “Alternative Acts” series is devoted to improvised and other avant…

Jane Kim! Jane has been a committed activist, loyal community member and elected official in SF for the last 20 years. She’s supporting universal child care for working families, affordable housing, health care and housing to resolve homelessness, clean streets, and sensible solutions to transit problems. She’s our hope! Please RSVP to Glen Park resident…

“This jazz baby makes the ’20s roar again and swings out ’30s tunes buoyantly enough to float away even the Great Depression…”    San Jose Mercury News  Roberta Donnay & the Prohibition Mob Band wail on 1920-30s swing, blues, and roots music in the jazz tradition. About their just-released cd “My Heart Belongs to Satchmo,”…