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in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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“Fifth Friday” jazz in the bookshop
The Michael Parsons Quintet
March 29th, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Our Friday evening jazz series has been going strong for more than a decade, and features four great bands in rotation each month– but on those lucky occasions when there’s a fifth Friday, we get the opportunity to bring in a different aggregation for your pleasure…Â this Friday, it’s pianist Michael Parsons with a fine…
Sunday, March 31st at 2:30 p.m.
Walker Brents III on W. B. Yeats
Each month, Walker Brents gives a talk on a subject literary, poetic, mythological, or wherever his investigations lead…Â This month, the poet William Butler Yeats and his enigmatic system articulated in the work called “A Vision”
Sunday, March 31st:
Sarode / Tabla Duo
Mallar Bhattacharya and Ferhan Qureshi
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, March 24 – 4:30-6:30 pm: Hindustani (North Indian) Classical Music. Bird & Beckett is pleased to present two concerts of Hindustani classical music on the last two Sundays in…
Monday, March 25th:
Patrick James Dunagan, Derek Fenner, Christina Fisher, poets
Monday, March 25th at 7:00 pm, Poets Patrick James Dunagan, Derek Fenner and Christina Fisher read poems and engage in repartee. Dunagan’s upcoming booke, Das Gedichtete, may or may not be hot off the Ugly Duckling Presse, in Brooklyn, and if so, may be read from. Regardless, there will be words to be heard, and,…
Sunday, March 24th
Hindustani Classical Vocal Recital
Pooja Chaudhuri
accompanied by Ferhan Qureshi
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, March 24 – 4:30-6:30 pm: Hindustani Classical Vocal Recital. Perhaps as long as three thousand years ago, the Vedic chant tradition originated in ancient India, setting the Sanskrit Vedas…
Sunday, March 24th, at 2 pm:
Poet Patrice Vecchione
/ A Reading & Workshop
Patrice Vecchione writes about what it means to be alive and alert to the world around her. She’s a woman who never left her girlhood jump rope behind, an artist unafraid of glitter, one who’d rather be near than far, an ordinary woman who, through poetry, celebrates the extraordinary in daily life. Her new book…
Thursday, March 21st at 7 p.m.
POETS! H. D. Moe & Cesar Love
Jerry Ferraz, M.C.
open mic follows
H. D. Moe (born 16 Nov. 1937) is considered one of the most important of the “baby beat” poets, with over 30 books of poetry to his credit. Living in Berkeley, California, Moe has served as editor and publisher of Beatitude Press, Embassy Hall Press and Deserted X Press, and as editor of the Berkeley…
Sunday, March 17th, 4:30 to 6:30 pm:
“Interstellar Space: John Coltrane’s
Universal Music and Spirituality”
Percussionist Anthony Brown, Ph.D.
and colleagues – concert/panel discussion
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, March 17th, 4:30 pm- Interstellar Space: John Coltrane’s Universal Music and Spirituality Dr. Anthony Brown–multiple percussion and Dr. Leonard Brown–saxophone, with Richard Grieg–bagpipes and poet Genny Lim, will present…
Sunday, March 17th, at 2 pm:
Poets Roxane Beth Johnson, Robin Ekiss & Xochi Candelaria
Roxane Beth Johnson’s first book of poetry, Jubilee (Anhinga, 2006), was the winner of the 2005 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Philip Levine was the judge. Her second book, Black Crow Dress, will be hot off the press from Alice James Books. She has won an AWP Prize in Poetry and a Pushcart Prize, 2007….
Sunday, March 10th, at 4:30 pm:
Betty Wong’s Musical Celebration of the Year of the Snake
Betty Wong hosts a musical celebration of the Chinese New Year with a cavalcade of music from Asia and North & South America, featuring faculty and friends of San Francisco’s Community Music Center (CMC). Classical and folkloric pieces from a number of traditions will be featured on the first half of the program, with a…