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in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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Thursday, July 10th — 7 pm
Poet Owen Hill
book release reading
Tonight, we’ll celebrate with Owen Hill as he reads poems from his new collection. A Walk Among the Bogus (Lavendar Ink, 2014).  Fellow poet Patrick James Dunagan will open the evening with a few of his own. Owen Hill comes from a line of Left Coast noir writers who’ve skulked from Hollywood to San Francisco, unafraid…
Monday, July 7th – 7:00 pm
Laborfest POETS!
Nellie Wong and Alice Rogoff
Nellie Wong’s four collections of poetry speak directly to labor issues. Her latest is “Breakfast Lunch Dinner” rooted in her formative experience working in her family’s restaurant in Oakland’s Chinatown. Alice E. Rogoff has published two collections of poetry. She will read from a new project, “The Labor Union Women on our Stairways” about women…
Sunday, July 6th, 4:30-6:30 pm
A Trad Jazz Celebration
The Buena Vista Jazz Band
Each year for five years running, we’ve welcomed the Buena Vista Jazz Band to the Bird & Beckett stage on the Independence Day weekend (and the last Sunday before Christmas too!) — and so it goes! Singer Darlene Langston will front the seven-piece band, which features Noel Weidkamp (trumpet), Max Perkoff (trombone), Don Neely (clarinet and vocal), Duncan James…
Sunday, July 6th – 2 pm
Laborfest remembers Ludlow!
author Zeese Papanikolas
Buried Unsung — Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre, Zeese Papanikolas’s meditation on the event 100 years ago, in 1914, that set off the Colorado Coalfields War.  The book takes as its focus this Greek immigrant miner who lost his life and whose memory would be lost to us but for the efforts of historian Papanikolas….
Friday, July 4th — 5:30 to 8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble plays the first Friday of every month at Bird & Beckett. Â Don’s been handling the lion’s share of the bass duties here since the series started way back in late 2002, and he’s still going strong. Â He’s a veteran of the late 1950s Los Angeles based Bud Shank Quartet, and brings…
Sunday, June 29th — 4:30 to 6:30 pm
The Albatross Clarinet Quartet
Dave Tidball (clarinet, bass clarinet) Jim Dukey (clarinet, bass clarinet) Dick Mathias (clarinet, bass clarinet) Charlie Keagle (clarinet) A return engagement by a favorite aggregation! With this concert, the Albatross Clarinet Quartet will present an array of new music, most of it conceived and arranged within the last year. The pieces range from straight-ahead be-bop to…
Sunday, June 22nd — 4:30-6:30 pm
Jazz pianist Joel Forrester
solo!
Joel Forrester returns to San Francisco — and Bird & Beckett — to play a few dates around the Bay. Â Joel’s well known for his work with the Microscopic Sextet, for solo accompaniment to silent films, for composing the theme for “Fresh Air” on NPR, and for thousands more compositions which he’s spun out as…
Monday, June 16 – 7:00 pm
“A Pocket of Poets” + open mic
Stephen Kopel, Nancy Wakeman, Al Averbach and Jane Rades read their work. Â Open mic follows. Â Jerry Ferraz hosts. Come one, come all! & Happy Bloomsday to you!
Wednesday, June 11 — 7 p.m.
J. Tony Serra: his life,
work & convictions!
Book release celebration & reading–
wine & roses will abound!
J. Tony Serra will present his new “chromatic, metaphoric autobiography” Tony Serra: The Green, Yellow and Purple Years in the Life of a Radical Lawyer (Grizzly Peak Press, 2014).  Written while in Federal prison for tax resistance, Tony goes into his defense of Black Panthers, S.L.A., New World Liberation Front, Nuestra Familia, Earth First, Hells Angels, Mafia and…
Monday, June 9th – 7 pm
CCSF Forum Spring Issue
publication party!
Join us this evening to hear from contributors to the new issue of Forum, the literary and arts magazine of City College of San Francisco! CCSF is a crossroads for students of all ages and backgrounds — and bright futures — and we are always delighted to get a glimpse in Forum’s pages of what they have to…