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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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…
Don Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002! Friday, October 7th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble The first Friday of each month, bassist Don Prell puts together a combo and puts them through their paces, chasing down the bebop changes that continue to intrigue and delight us. This week, reed & flute…
Black Crown String Band
which way west? Sunday concert series Sunday, October 9th, 4:30 & 5:30 pm (two sets) $10 suggested donation per adult – kids welcome & free! The Black Crown Stringband Didn’t get enough bluegrass and old-time music last weekend at HSBG? True to its name, the festival ranges far afield from that lively and mournful music…
Vaganova Today + Allan Jacobs
Two Book Events This Weekend Sunday, October 9th, 1:00 pm Vaganova Today: The Preservation of a Pedagogical Tradition Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951) is revered as the visionary who first codified the Russian system of classical ballet training. The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, founded on impeccable technique and centuries of tradition, has a reputation for elite…
George Peacock Benefit
                      At First Christian Church at the corner of Duboce and Noe (adjacent to Duboce Park) Saturday, October 8th, 6:30 to 9:30 pm String Thing! A Benefit to Celebrate the Elegant Universe of George…
fingerstyle guitarist
October 2nd – Sunday, 4:30 to 6:30 pm Special guest “fingerstyle†jazz guitarist who must remain nameless! In the tradition of the famed Massey Hall concert in Toronto in 1952, where our patron saint Charlie Parker had to be billed as “Charlie Chan†for contractual reasons, we must not name the performer gracing our stage…
Poets Lyon, Mackey, Ormerod + Suffrage
Sunday, October 2nd – 1 pm From New York: Three Poets – One Hour Brant Lyon Mary Mackey & Jane Ormerod Three poets who love to perform, on tour! Jane Ormerod called us up and said she was coming to San Francisco, and could she bring some friends along for the ride, so how could…