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, October 20th, 2 p.m.
Here Tomorrow Book Release
with author J. K. Dineen
Here Tomorrow: Preserving Architecture, Culture, and California’s Golden Dream book release reading and celebration with writer J. K. Dineen. J. K. Dineen writes about urban planning, architecture, and real estate for the San Francisco Business Times. His book is fresh out from Heyday Press. Old buildings in our midst call to the imagination, evoking a…
Sunday, October 20th — 4:30-6:30 pm
The Harvey Robb 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, October 20th – 4:30-6:30 pm: Harvey Robb, sax; David Udolf, piano; Ron Belcher, bass; Danny Spencer, drums. Harvey Robb, tenor sax, has deep Detroit roots — where he grew up in the late…
Friday, October 18th, 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Scott Foster Ensemble
Jazz in the bookshop… every Friday without fail. San Francisco’s longest running neighborhood jazz party! Every third Friday, guitarist Scott Foster brings in a newly constituted ensemble for the occasion. Joining guitarist Scott Foster at Bird & Beckett this Friday, October 18th, are trumpet player Dave Scott, bassist Aaron Germain and drummer Surya Prashanka. This quartet has several…
Thursday, October 17th, 7 p.m.
Bird & Beckett Litquake Event
at the bookshop
Cherokee Voices: Poets Kim Shuck
& Indira Allegra and Folksinger Ed Dang
Thursday, October 17th at the bookshop on Chenery Street in Glen Park, 7 pm: Bird & Beckett in association with Litquake presents “Cherokee Voices” – Poets Kim Shuck and Indira Allegra joined by folksinger Ed Dang for a program of poetry and music, followed by an open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Kim Shuck is a…
Sunday, October 13th – 7 pm
Bird & Beckett Litquake Event
at the Vogue Theatre
Mohin’s Horses: South Asian
Oral Literature, Theatre,
Poetry, Music, Film
Sunday, October 13th, 7:00 pm at the Vogue Theatre 3290 Sacramento Street, at Presidio Bird & Beckett, in association with Litquake, presents: “Mohin’s Horses: South Asian Oral Literature, Poetry & Music” We’ve put together an exciting program of poetry, theatre, music and film for the opening weekend of Litquake that will feature: — Playwright Ranjon Ghosal performing…
Sunday, October 13th — 4:30-6:30 pm
Retro Blue
from the blues to beyond the edge…
Retro Blue is a band that fully embraces the jazz tradition:Â swing, bop, blues, r&b and free style, and explores uncharted sonic areas as well… Leader Jim Ryan has been on the Bay Area music scene since the late 90’s and began his active music career in Paris, France in the early ’70s, participating in…
Sunday, October 6th – 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Laurel Thomsen & Friends
If you’re ready to trail back to the neighborhood Sunday afternoon, Oct. 6th, by 4:30 or so — after three or four days of Golden Gate Park crowds for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — we’ll extend the spirit of the affair here at Bird & Beckett. Sunday, October 6th, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm, our “which way…
Hardly Strictly + Litquake
If you’re ready to trail back to the neighborhood Sunday afternoon, Oct. 6th, by 4:30 or so — after three or four days of Golden Gate Park crowds for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — we’ll extend the spirit of the affair here at Bird & Beckett. And a week later, Litquake begins — and will include two…
Wednesday, October 2nd, 7 pm:
Colleen McKee – Book Release – with Alan Kaufman and William Taylor, Jr.
Alan Kaufman and William Taylor, Jr. join Colleen McKee to celebrate the publication of her first full-length collection of ficton, poetry and memoir, Nine Kinds of Wrong, hot off the presses from JKPublishing. Expect tales of a beautiful world of addictive sorrows; glamorous, unwise sex; crime and cabaret; and more whiskey-soaked death than you can…
Tuesday, October 1st, 7 pm:
Peter Cherches and Meg Pokrass read
Peter Cherches is the author of Lift Your Right Arm (Pelekinesis, 2013) and two previous volumes of short prose, Condensed Book and Between a Dream and a Cup of Coffee. His work has appeared in the anthologies Poetry 180 and Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. His fiction…