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in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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Monday, October 5th – 7 to 9 pm
POETS! Dan Richman featured,
followed by an open mic
Jerry Ferraz hosts
Dan Richman returns with poems in hand. He read on our first bill of poets back in 1999 or so, and has continued to write all along, taking in the terrain on which San Francisco is built, the birds circling in the skies above, the people who inhabit it, going about their business day to…
Tuesday, September 24th — 7:00 pm
A Carnatic/Hindustani/Jazz Summit
 A Benefit Performance to raise funds for visiting playwright Ranjon Ghosal The Classical Music Traditions of South India and North India intertwine with American Jazz in an historic first encounter between renowned musicians Prasant Radhakrishnan and George Brooks. Carnatic/Jazz Saxophonist Prasant Radhakrishnan Hindustani/Jazz Saxophonist George Brooks bassist Bishu Chatterjee tabla player Vishal Nagar and…
Emil DeAndreis Book Release Party!
Wednesday, Stepember 25th, 7 pm
Beyond Folly: Misadventures in Substitute Teaching
Welcome to the wonderful world of public education, as seen through the eyes of seasoned substitute teacher, Horton Hagardy. It’s a time you might recall with great fondness if you were a student a day to escape the oppressive existence of your everyday tormentors. If you’re a substitute, however, these dark, funny, and often poignant…
Sunday, Sept. 22nd, 4:30 pm:
Albatross Clarinet Quartet
The Albatross Quartet, featuring Dave Tidball, clarinet, bass clarinet; Jim Dukey, clarinet, bass clarinet; Dick Mathias, clarinet, bass clarinet; and Charlie Keagle, clarinet, present a unique fusion of chamber music and jazz improvisation for clarinets and bass clarinets featuring original compositions and arrangements by members of the group and others.
Sunday, Sept. 22nd, 2:00 pm:
Poets Gwynn O’Gara,
QR Hand & Bill Vartnaw
with WordWind Chorus
Sonoma County Poet Laureate Bill Vartnaw and Sonoma County Poet Laureate emeritus Gwynn O’Gara are joined by poet QR Hand and the rest of WordWind Chorus (poet Brian Auerbach & saxophonist Lewis Jordan). QR will read separately as well as performing with WordWind. Of Q. R. Hand, the late, lamented Reginald Lockett (a founding member of…
Thursday, September 19th, 7:00 pm
Al Young, California poet laureate emeritus, and Jeanne Powell – POETS!
with open mic!
Al Young was the California Poet Laureate from 2005-2008, a high point in a towering career that began in the late 1960s with novels, poetry collections and more, through the 1970s on into the present… novels that include Who is Angelina? and Sitting Pretty, poetry collections including Dancing and The Sound of Dreams Remembered, books…
Wednesday, September 18th, 7:00 pm:
¡ Viva Lamantia !
Publication Party for the
Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia
OUT-there poetry & OUT-there jazz: Poets Clark Coolidge, Garrett Caples, and Andrew Joron (Caples and Joron are also the editors of the book), with bibliographer Steven Fama, plus music from OUROBOROS (Sheldon Brown & Joseph Noble, reeds; Andrew Joron, theremin; Clark Coolidge, drums) The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia represents the lifework of the most visionary…
Sunday, September 15th, 4:30-6:30
Pianist/Vocalist Frank Jackson
with the John Clark Quartet
featuring Noel Jewkes on reeds
Pianist and vocalist Frank Jackson has been an important part of the San Francisco jazz scene since the early 1950s if not earlier… having moved out from Texas with his family in 1942. Today, he’s respected as a swinging elder statesman of the music and he’s going strong. Read up on him at this link: …
Thursday, September 12th at 7:00 pm
Bird & Beckett Political Book Discussion Group
This group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month to consider books on current issues or with some historical relevance to what’s going on now… This month’s selection is The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz. Next month (October 10), the group will discuss a pair of unpublished manuscripts by Greg Harmon, “Commentaries from a…
Sunday, September 8, at 7 pm
Pugsley Buzzard solo
The piano wonder from down under…a Bird & Beckett favorite from three previous tours through our fair city…is squeezing in an hour’s show for you before making his way to the airport and thence to New Orleans, Alabama, etc., etc… Don’t miss this chance to hear some new material & some old favorites by a…