653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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Tuesday, July 28th – 6:30 pm
from Book of KingsPatrick James Dunagan & Friends
Hear Patrick James Dunagan read from his new poetry chapbook, from Book of Kings, Tuesday evening, 7pm.  It’s a beautiful piece of work from Bird & Beckett, designed and printed at Impart Ink, an errant press. Inscrutable on the surface, but completely approachable at the same time. And he’s joined by two marvelous compatriots in the…
Monday, July 27th – 7 pm
Film docs on Cuba!
Filmmaker Juanita Cordones-Cook
A program of short film documentaries on Afro-Cuban culture by Juanamaria Cordones-Cook. Professor Cordones-Cook (Romance Languages, University of Missouri) is an award winning documentary filmmaker who has filmed over 100 hours of events in Cuba, the USA, and Canada on topics related to the Afro-Romance Diaspora culture and literature, such as conferences, interviews, ritual dances, and…
Sunday, July 26th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Celebrate Avotcja’s 74th birthday
with Modúpue!
Avotcja—one of our very favorite musicians and culture warriors, and a bona fide jazz legend—kicks off Bird & Beckett’s Sunday music series in January every year in performance with her band, Modúpue.  And we were proud to host her here just a few months ago to receive an award from the Jazz Journalists Association —…
Sunday, July 26th – 2 pm
Talking Back: Voices of Color
A new anthology of social justice essays, edited by radical poet and Glen Park neighbor Nellie Wong, will be showcased at Bird & Beckett this Sunday, with readings by contributors on critical issues of the day — education, racism, immigration, LGBT, the penal system, feminism. 50 essays grouped in sections that include: Reading, Writing —…
Saturday, July 25th – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Vinnie Rodriguez Quartet
plays Ornette
Two sets focused on the influence of the late Ornette Coleman, featuring Patrick Wolff on tenor sax; Grant Levin on piano; Doug Stuart on bass; and Vinnie Rodriguez on drums. An excellent brief discussion of Ornette’s career and influence can be found at this link. Drummer Vinnie Rodriguez, who leads our 4th Saturday dates, was born…
Tuesday, July 21st – 7 pm
Our Right to the City: Fighting Against the Forces of Displacement
LaborFest!
Each July, LaborFest floods the City with programs in venues all over town. Â Haven’t been paying attention? Â Turn to their website and see what you’ve missed and what is coming up in the next ten days or so. Â It’s at this link. Tonight, it’s Bird & Beckett’s turn to share the labor movement’s vast riches…
Monday, July 20th – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Ed Coletti, David Magdalene
& David Beckman
open mic follows
Ed Coletti has recently published a new book of poems, The Problem with Breathing, and is joined in this reading by friends and fellow North Bay poets David Magdalene and David Beckman. An open mic follows. Bird & Beckett’s twice-monthly (1st & 3rd Mondays) poetry series is hosted by Jerry Ferraz, a near-legendary peripatetic bard…
Sunday, July 19th – 8-10 pm
Special engagement!
Pugsley Buzzard on tour!
Pugsley Buzzard! The piano wonder from Down Under… He’s back on tour, and returns for his fourth Bird & Beckett appearance, an occasion that makes us gleefully happy! Pugs is at once a rollicking stride piano master and a gravelly voiced singer, plumbing the extremes of dark fate and wry, whisky-soaked self-reflection. He plays barrelhouse blues & boogie woogie, growls his…
Saturday, July 18th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Heshima Trio featuring Gaea Schell
Bassist Heshima Mark Williams leads our 3rd Saturday dates.  He’s a San Francisco native whose playing springs from thirty years’ experience of the Bay Area’s rich musical heritage.  Heshima studied under the tutelage of the first African-American classical bassist in the Boston Symphony, Dr. Ortiz Walton.  He has toured with trombonist Julian Priester; trumpeter Eddie Henderson;…