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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Bird & Beckett Book Club
Thursday, Nov. 3rd, 7 pm Book Club 1st Thursday of each month all welcome! Falconer, by John Cheever, will be the book discussed this week. Next up: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom This group has been meeting monthly since long before there was a Bird & Beckett! Formed when our predecessor “Glen Park Books” was first established…
Tango No. 9
October 30th – Sunday, 4:30 to 6:30 pm All ages welcome – no cover – kids free Suggested donation for adults – $10 Tango No. 9 which way west? Sunday afternoon concert series Tango No. 9 has been making audiences swoon for 13 years with their exquisite sets of classic, nuevo and orginal tangos, and…
Walker Brents on Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
Sunday, October 30 – 2:30 pm Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh Walker Talks! Expository explorations on literary, mythological & historical themes Walker Brents III can always be relied on to entertain and edify as he muses on topics of timeless interest — in this instance, the Shahnameh. Composed by the 10th century Persian poet Ferdowsi, the Shanameh recounts the…
Chuck Peterson Quintet – 10/28/11
Friday, October 28, 5:30 to 8:00 pm The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band aka The Chuck Peterson Quintet with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits jazz in the bookshop every Friday! Tenor sax player Chuck Peterson finishes out the month’s schedule of Friday evening jazz sessions at Bird & Beckett with four long-time associates who…
Jinx Jones Jazzabilly All-Stars
which way west? Sunday concert series all ages welcome! $10 per adult suggested donation Sunday, October 23rd, 4:30 to 6:30 pm (two sets) Jinx Jones Jazzabilly All Stars Jinx Jones is a guitar star of the first magnitude on the San Francisco scene, effortlessly covering the bases from the Buck Owens sound of Bakersfield to…
jazz in the bookshop
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002! all ages welcome! $10 per adult suggested donation Friday, October 21st, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Aran-Foster-Peterson-Prell The third Friday of each month, three founders of our nine-year old series of Friday jazz parties join forces with a guest drummer to keep the bebop flame burning bright on…
Meltzer on Stage
Sunday, October 16 – 2 pm Maestro David Meltzer The Stuntman! Interviewed on the Bird & Beckett stage by Gerry Fialka David just wowed ’em in the Mission, at our Litquake reading at Kaleidoscope, trading “fours” with his new bride Julie Rogers and then dazzling ’em all with his fleet-footed delivery of the newly penned…
Parlor Tricks
Sunday, October 16th, 4:30 & 5:30 pm (two sets) Suggested donation $10 per adult kids always free! Parlor Tricks Industrial Ragtime Band which way west? Sunday concert series Imagine a New York Sunday morning in the spring of 1904, the electric streetlights winking off and Reverend Edward Martin Waller making his way from the maternity…
Litquake – B&B at Kaleidoscope
Thursday, October 13th, 7:00 pm Six at Kaleidoscope: San Francisco Poets For the Ages Buddhists, Beats & Beyond! Bird & Beckett at Litquake (offsite at 24th St & Folsom) Bird & Beckett takes its show to the Mission District to meet Litquake on its own turf! Poets David Meltzer, Neeli Cherkovski, Latif Harris, Julie Rogers,…
Litquake – Micah Ballard & Alli Warren
Monday, October 10th, 7 pm Micah Ballard + Alli Warren – POETS! Litquake at Bird & Beckett Litquake and Bird & Beckett both got their start in San Francisco in 1999, and we’re proud to be participating in that amazing city-wide literary festival for the first time with two events this week! First off, tonight…