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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Sunday, February 22nd – 2:30 pm
Walker Talks!
the gifts of the nine muses…
Walker Brents III weaves a fascinating web of insight, association, speculation and delight the last Sunday of every month, following his muse where it takes him on topics divers — from epic literature to mythological tales to the enigmas of poetry and the profundities of philosophy and religion. This afternoon, Walker takes a personal and historical…
Sunday, February 22nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Denise Perrier / Tammy Hall Trio
w/bassist Gary Brown
Vocalist Denise Perrier was born in Louisiana but moved with her family to the East Bay Area at the age of five, and has had a thirty-year career performing in the Bay Area and touring Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Along the way, she’s been dubbed “The Voice with a Heart” and Jazz Times magazine reviewer Harvey…
Saturday, February 21st – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Destiny Muhammad Trio
Heshima Mark Williams presents the Destiny Muhammad Jazz Trio. Destiny Muhammad, harp Alex Baum, bass Jack Dorsey, drums Destiny Muhammad’s genre ‘Celtic to Coltrane’ is cool and eclectic with a feel of jazz & storytelling to round out the sonic experience. Destiny has opened for the Oakland East Bay Symphony, shared the stage with Jazz…
Friday, February 20th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Ensemble
plays from a 1970s bag
Scott Foster leads his quartet through territory not so often explored on the Bird & Beckett bandstand.  Remember the 1970s?!? Jim Peterson, reeds; Mike Bordelon on bass; and Ricky Carter on drums join the guitarist a freaky little expedition into a time, a place and an expanded frame of mind…
Monday, February 16th – 7 pm
Poets Ronald Sauer & Robert Anbian
open mic follows
Ron Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for translations of Baudelaire, Aloysius Betrand, and Jacques Prevert. Â A troubadour of urban America, Sauer is a musician, collagist, art collector, teacher of film history and…
Sunday, February 15th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Ouroboros
With Clark Coolidge on drums and Andrew Joron on theremin, Ouroboros is definitely a poets’ band, but the music is the thing for sure. Â Sheldon Brown, one of the very top sax players on the free improv scene, who can swing in a big band setting like nobody’s business, certainly insures that this is so….
Sunday, February 15th – 2:00 pm
Poet Kim Shuck celebrates her new collection, Clouds Running In
Kim Shuck presents poems from her new collection, Clouds Running In, (Taurean Horn Press, 2014). Kim Shuck is a poet, weaver, educator doer of piles of laundry, planter of seeds, traveler and child wrangler. She was born in her mother’s hometown of San Francisco, one hill away from where she now lives. Her ancestors were…
Saturday, February 14th – 8-11 pm
jazz club… when lights are low
The Grant Levin Quartet
featuring Noel Jewkes
jazz club…   when lights are low every Saturday night from 8 to 11 pm Noel Jewkes –saxophone Grant Levin –piano Joe McKinley –bass Hamir Atwal — drums Grant Levin’s beautifully supple mastery of the piano, his feel for melody and unusual harmonies and his deep skill in jazz improvisation and composition place him among…
Saturday, January 30th – 7:30 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
North Beach Brass Band
The mighty North Beach Brass Band takes over the venerable Bird & Beckett Books shop in Glen Park on Saturday January 30th. San Francisco’s talented North Beach Brass Band is at once a traditional brass band playing early jazz and golden standards, and an electrified funky jazz act playing classic blues, Motown and soul tunes….
Tuesday, February 10th – 7 pm
Sydney Clemens presents
Seeing Young Children with New Eyes
Parents, teachers and anyone who works or plays with young children will find much of value in Sydney Clemens’ new work, which springs from Reggio Emilia pedagogical principles and insights. For decades, Sydney, who has been a Glen Park resident for more than half her life, has written about young children and has given talks…