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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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Sunday, March 8th — 2 pm
Bill Berkson & Dale Herd:
a poet and a short story writer
read their work
Two writers with recent books out from Coffee House Press will share the Bird & Beckett stage:  Dale Herd reading stories from Empty Pockets and Bill Berkson reading poems from Expect Delays. Bill Berkson came of age as a writer during the era of the “New York School” painters and poets in the late 1950s/early 1960s,…
Sunday, March 8th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Joe Warner Trio
Jazz pianist Joe Warner is one of the Bay Area’s brightest young talents, regularly sharing the bandstand with some of the region’s best and most experienced singers and instrumentalists, from bassists Marcus Shelby and Ron Belcher to drummer Howard Wiley to singers Denise Perrier and Faye Carroll.
Saturday, March 7th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Smith Dobson Group
Smith Dobson, vibes Jeffrey Burr, guitar Adam Gay, bass James Gallagher, drums Smith Dobson is a triple threat — a supremely talented musician on tenor sax, vibes and drums. Â He’s also one of the key motivators of the San Francisco jazz scene, and we’re fortunate to present him with a hand picked group of musicians…
Thursday, March 5th – 7 pm
Osha Neumann presents his memoir
Doodling on the Titanic
Osha Neumann, muralist, sculptor, and civil rights lawyer, will doodle and draw and read from just published Doodling on the Titanic: The Making of Art in a World on the Brink.
Tuesday, March 3rd – 7 pm
Ex Libris Gallery Opening
Jackson Whittington photos
Work in Kolkata and Pondicherry
Come Tuesday evening! Â Jack’s mounting his photos, and hard on the heels of the opening, we’re sending his sister Rebecca off to India along with Rebecca’s husband Abhijeet and the baby Kuheli. Â Double celebration! Gallery Ex Libris is now putting up its second exhibition. Make the Gallery Ex Libris a part of your arts landscape!…
Monday, March 2nd – 7 pm
Poet Franklin Zawacki
(Robt. Frost Award Winner 2014)
+ open mic
Franklin Zawacki’s poem “Roadsiding Hay” — which is reproduced below — just won him the 2014 Robert Frost Award. Â His bio can be read at the organization’s website (click here). Â Franklin will read selected and recent poems. Â An open mic follows. Roadsiding Hay It hardly matters what holds the load in place. My days…
Sunday, March 1st – 4:30-6:30 pm
CMC All Stars! A Year of the Ram Showcase with Betty Wong & Friends
On March 1st, Bird & Beckett is proud and pleased to welcome faculty and friends of that august institution, the Community Music Center, with its headquarters on Capp Street in the Mission District and its outpost in the Richmond… offering a musical education to countless San Franciscans of all ages for nine decades-plus! Once a…
Saturday, February 28th – 8-11 pm
Terrance Tony Quartet
plays jazz club
when lights are low…
Alto player Terrance Tony assembles the band each 4th Saturday of the month, drawing on some of the stellar players around the Bay Area. Â A couple of years ago, Terrance came out from Houston – where he was born and raised – and immediately gained everyone’s attention with his fleet bebop chops. Â “Houston’s a…
Sunday, March 1st – 2 pm
Margot Pepper presents her latest…
American Day Dream
plus poet Clifton Ross
Margot Pepper introduces her new noir/sci fi novel, American Day Dream (Freedom Voices Press, 2015).  Joined by Clifton Ross, reading selected and new poems. “Margot Pepper’s literary incursion into Science Fiction is just like her—daring, brave and fully imagined. She is a story goddess living in and out of verses, whose political stance is vital…
Friday, February 27th – 7 pm
Medea Isphording Bern on
San Francisco Jazz!
An excursion through the scrapbook of the music’s history in these parts, from Jelly Roll Morton passing through to Kid Ory in a longer sojourn, the post-WWII Fillmore jazz scene, Turk Murphy and his trad revival crew… the Blackhawk, Brubeck, the Both/And and Bimbos… and Keystone Korner, where three bucks got you in on a…