653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

1-415-586-3733
[email protected]

Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six

 

Live Streams every weekend!

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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

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.  A troubadour of urban America, Sauer is a musician, collagist, art collector, teacher of film history and…

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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.  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….

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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…

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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…

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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….

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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…

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Sunday, February 8th – 4:30-6:30 pm
John-Carlos Perea Quintet

which way west? Sunday concert series John-Carlos Perea Quintet The music of John-Carlos Perea combines jazz and creative improvised music with American Indian powwow and cedar flute music. With John-Carlos Perea on bass, flute and voice, the quintet features Jimmy Biala (drums), Karl Evangelista (guitar), Lewis Jordan (saxes) and Masaru Koga (saxes nd flute).  For…

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Sunday, February 8th – Noon-1:30 pm!
Todd Novak & the Benny Hillbilleez
play Bird & Beckett’s Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party!

Take singer-songwriter-guitarist Todd Novak from the Cowlicks, drummer Martyn Jones from the Mermen (who also drums for the Cowlicks) and Cowlicks bassist Johnnie Hamilton, add ScottTheakston (who’s played with George Clinton) playing some killer surf green guitar, then set them loose for 90 minutes with a rip roaring repertoire of surf n’ turf, ska, rockabilly and…

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Wednesday, February 4th – 6:30 pm
Launch party for CCSF’s
“Forum” literary magazine

Forum is the student-run literary journal put out twice a year by students at City College of San Francisco.  Join us for a party and reading to celebrate the launch of the spring 2015 issue, which features the work of dozens of fiction writers, essayists, poets and visual artists. Dedicated to providing a platform for…

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Tuesday, February 3rd – 7-9pm
Robbie Sugg, Recent Imprints
Gallery Ex Libris Opening Party

Come out this first Tuesday, February 3rd 7–9pm for the grand opening of Gallery Ex Libris (tucked inside Bird & Beckett), exhibiting recent lithographic monoprints by local artist Robbie Sugg! galleryexlibris.com

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