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Every Day is an Act of Resistance:
The Poetry of Carol Tarlen
Sunday, Sept. 9th at 2 pm: Work by the late poet/activist Tarlen will be read by Jack Hirschman (SF Poet Laureate, 2003-2006) and David Joseph, as well as Nellie Wong, Sarah Menefee, Agneta Falk and Louise Nayer. Carol Tarlen, who passed away in 2004, was a hugely influential and well-loved figure in the progressive literary…
Upcoming Which Way West?
Sundary afternoon concerts
Sunday concerts coming up (4:30 to 6:30 pm): Sept 9Â Â Â Â Sukhawat Ali Khan Ensemble – sufi two vocalists, harmonium, flute, tabla Sept 16Â Â Â Â David Solbach Trio – jazz David Solbach (clarinet), Jason Martineau (piano and vocals), Dan Fabricant (bass) Sept 23Â Â Â Â New Monsters – jazz Dan Plonsey (tenor sax), Steve Adams (alto and soprano saxes),…
SF Organ Trio – Phil Cousineau – Young/Griesser Accidental Quintet
Monday, September 3 – 7:00 pm Marsha Campbell & Sheppard B. Kominars POETS! PLUS AN OPEN MIC 1st & 3rd Monday of each month Hosted by Jerry Ferraz Regarding Marsha Campbell’s Revolutions per Minute (Beatitude Press, 2006), poet Ed Mycue has said “Bright statements emerge from smoky industrial sites or a countryside underwater. These ideas…
Writers RD Armstrong & G Murray Thomas
Friday, August 31st – 5:30 to 8:00 pm Special 5th Friday booking in our weekly jazz in the bookshop series Scott Foster Trio live jazz without fail every Friday since October 2002!! 10 years & counting… Each Friday, we present one of four combos in rotation, but when there’s a fifth Friday in a month,…
Coletti & Beckman – poets
Monday, August 20 – 7:00 pm POETS! Ed Coletti & David Beckman open mic follows two featured poets, 1st & 3rd Monday of each month hosted by San Francisco troubadour Jerry Ferraz Born in New York, Ed Coletti moved to Santa Rosa when he returned from the Vietnam War. A graduate of Georgetown University, he completed…
Aug. 19 – Husain Resan + Kopel/Hiemstra & August 8-12: Jimmy Ryan Quintet, Joe Pachinko, Bright Side Band
Sunday, August 19th – 4:30 to 6:30 pm Pasha Band (Husain Resan Ensemble) Pan-Arabic music We’re fortunate once again to have some of the Bay Area’s fine middle eastern musicians grace the Bird & Beckett stage this Sunday in our “which way west?” weekly concert series. Last December, you may have been lucky enough to…
Renee Gibbons + Craig Ventresco + + Seabop + Barbara Hunter
Sunday, July 29 – 2:30 pm Longing for Elsewhere Renee Gibbons reads from her memoir of a restless life Renee Gibbons — born in a Dublin tenement in the mid-20th century and for the past three decades a well loved figure in San Francisco’s North Beach bohemia — is widely known for the long-running column…
Poet A. D. Winans / Charles Hamilton Quartet
Sunday, July 22 – 2:00 pm Poet A.D. Winans & Friends Al Winans is a thoroughly engaged and committed poet, turning an unblinking stare on society and its lack of compassion for those aced out of the good life. He’s also got a long record, with his Second Coming Press, of championing (and publishing) poets…
Noel Jewkes Quartet + The Third Quartet
Live Jazz on Sunday / Poets on Monday Sunday, July 15 – 4:30 to 6:30 pm The Noel Jewkes Quartet Noel Jewkes (reeds), Grant Levin (piano), Adam Gay (bass), Bryan Bowman (drums) — joined for a tune on each set by vocalist Marky Quayle Noel Jewkes has been a mainstay on the Northern California jazz…
Coming up – July 2 to July 8
Sunday, July 8 – 2:30 pm Look What the Cat Dragged in Again A CD release party for Whitman McGowan’s latest Whitman McGowan started his spoken word career reading poems at a back alley coffeehouse, The Espresso Bar in Pasadena, California, where he put poems for a dollar each on the menu. After moving north…