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!

Sunday, Aug. 4th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
The Ruth Keady Quartet

which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, August 4th – 4:30-6:30 pm: Vocalist Ruth Keady with Madaline Duran, sax; Keith Saunders, piano; Scott Chapek, bass. Ruth Keady has a powerfully swinging way with jazz standards that’s gained…

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Wednesday, July 31, 6:30 pm:
Poets Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Jason Morris, Jackson Meazle

DOUBLE BOOK RELEASE READING Jackson Meazle joins Jason Morris and Sunnylyn Thibodeaux in reading to mark the publication by Bird & Beckett of Morris’ Local News and Thibodeaux’s 88 Haiku for Lorca by Morris’ PUSH Press. Meazle’s Jack of Diamonds and the Queen of Spades was published by Bird & Beckett in 2012. Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author…

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Sunday, July 28th, 2:00 pm:
Writer Donnelle McGee

Donnelle McGee is the author of Shine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012). He earned his MFA from Goddard College, and is now on faculty at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. Donnelle’s work has appeared in Controlled Burn, Colere, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Home Planet News, Iodine Poetry Journal, Permafrost, River Oak Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review,…

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Friday, July 26th, 9 pm:
Lao She’s “Teahouse”
a bilingual reading of excerpts

“Don’t Discuss State Affairs” (a sign mounted on the wall of the Yutai Teahouse — 1898, 1917, 1945) Lao She’s Teahouse is a classic of the Chinese theatre from the late 1950s, an episodic observation over the decades from the turn of the 20th century through the 1940s, set in a milieu where the common preoccupations of the…

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Sunday, July 21st, 4:30-6:30 pm
Noel Jewkes / Grant Levin Duo

which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, July 21st – 4:30-6:30 pm:  Noel Jewkes/Grant Levin Duo. Noel Jewkes is an acknowledged master of the jazz saxophone in Northern California, a musician’s musician with decades of top flight…

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Friday, July 19th, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The Scott Foster Organ Trio

We’re proud to announce that beginning in July, our “jazz in the bookshop” series will now feature a group led by guitarist Scott Foster on the third Friday of each month. Scott is a founding member of Bird & Beckett’s live jazz tradition, having played guitar on our Friday night dates ever since the series began back in late 2002….

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Sunday, July 14th, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio

 which way west? a weekly concert series at Bird & Beckett every Sunday afternoon, 4:30 to 6:30 there’s no cover charge, but your generous donations at the gigs and to the non-profit “Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project” make it possible for us to pay the musicians!   Pianist Grant Levin has made a name…

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Sunday, June 30th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
The Matt Renzi Quartet

which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, June 30 – 4:30-6:30 pm: The Matt Renzi Quartet Matt Renzi on sax and oboe Misha Khalikulov, cello John Wiitala, bass Smith Dobson V, drums Based now in New…

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Wednesday, June 26th, 7 pm:
Reception for photographers Irene Poon and Charles Wong

Please join us for a celebration of the work of two photographers with deep roots in San Francisco.  Charles Wong’s photo essays of Chinatown in the 1950s make a good starting point and the striking black and white work that both he and Irene Poon have done through the decades evoke much that is at once…

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Sunday, June 23rd
Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California

Sunday, June 23, at 2 pm, Bruce Neuburger will present his book, just published by Monthly Review Press, that details his immersion in the life most of us have only viewed through the windows of our cars as we hurtle along through the agricultural heartland of California.  Bruce was and remains a committed radical politically,…

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