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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Monday, April 7th – 7:00 pm
POETS! hosted by Jerry Ferraz
Featured readers: José Luis Gutiérrez & Erica Goss — open mic follows
Erica Goss is a former editor of Caesura, the journal of literature and art put out by Poetry Center San Jose. She taught high school poetry for five years, has lead art and writing camps for young people, and currently teaches poetry workshops for adults. In 2012, she began writing a column on video poetry…
Sunday, April 6th — 4:30-6:30 pm
Vocalist Bobbe Norris
with the Larry Dunlap Trio
Seward McCain, bass
Jim Zimmerman, drums
Pianist Larry Dunlap and vocalist Bobbe Norris have been performing together since the late 1970s, married since about the same time. Born in San Francisco, she was singing at shopping center openings and like by the age of twelve. She was sitting in at Bop City in the 1950s while still a teen and,…
Saturday, April 5th – 7 p.m.
Amerarcana No. 5:
A Bird & Beckett Review
release reading and celebration!
Join us Saturday night, April 5th, to celebrate the fifth edition of our annual literary magazine, Amerarcana.  On hand for the reading will be contributors Duncan McNaughton, Richard O. Moore, Julien Poirier, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux and Sarah Heady, joining editor and designer Nicholas James Whittington and cover artist Jack Whittington. Amerarcana is really Nick’s baby, and we’re…
Sunday, March 30th — 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Heshima Duo
Bassist Heshima Mark Williams is a San Francisco native whose playing springs from thirty years’ experience of the Bay Area’s rich musical heritage. Â Heshima studied under the tutelage of the first African-American classical bassist in the Boston Symphony, Dr. Ortiz Walton. Â He has toured with trombonist Julian Priester; trumpeter Eddie Henderson; saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Sonny…
Sunday, March 30th — 2:30 pm
Hildegard von Bingen:
A Talk by Walker Brents III
“Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honor. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of…
Thursday, March 27th – 7:00 p.m.
Vincent Van Gogh, His Life & Art:
A Talk by Marlene Aron
A fabulous journey into the life and art of this amazing artist who created over 2000 works of art in the last ten years of his life. Â Artist and educator Marlene Aron will show over one hundred slides, including childhood drawings, rarely seen early works on paper, and paintings from his Impressionist years in Paris…
Sunday, March 23rd – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Americano Social Club
music for la dolce vita
Americano Social Club plays the perfect music for a sultry summer evening on the terrace of a beachside restaurant on the Adriatic, an idyll in Bahia, a midnight dalliance in a North Beach cafe…  or a lazy afternoon in a cozy little bookshop on the outskirts of town. Michael Zisman, mandolin, Jason Vanderford, guitar, and Joe Kyle,…
Sunday, March 23rd – 2 pm
Writer A. D. Winans reads
short stories from In the Pink
S.j. Cruz reads from
The Flowers Won’t Die
A. D. Winans will read from his first short story collection, In the Pink — erotic tales released in January by Pedestrian Press with a cover too scandalous for Amazon.com, and thus issued simultaneously in a cover tame enough for that demure literary institution. For decades, we’ve admired A.D. as a straight talker, poet and West Coast small…
Friday, March 21st – 5:30-8:00 pm
Scott Foster and Friends
play the music of Billy Strayhorn
Every third Friday, guitarist Scott Foster brings in a newly constituted ensemble for the occasion. On March 21st, saxophonist David Boyce, bassist Scott Chapek and drummer Tom Hassett will join Scott to explore the compositions of Billy Strayhorn. Â Strayhorn was a significant force behind the beautiful music of Duke Ellington, working with Ellington from…
Monday, March 17th – 7 pm
POETS!Jennifer Barone featured reader, followed by an open mic
Jennifer Barone has been a featured poet at the Red Poppy Art House, the Beat Museum, SFMOMA, the DeYoung, the Randall Museum, the San Francisco Public Library and other venues. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 Poets Eleven city-wide contest to represent North Beach, selected by Jack Hirschman, former SF Poet Laureate,…