Friends and family gather to celebrate the life of Ellen Wall (October 23, 1939-March 11, 2022), an English professor at City College of San Francisco for 34 years who had a profound impact on a great number of San Franciscans across generations and cultures. At 3:30pm, you’re welcome to meet at Ellen’s house at 225…

The first Sunday of each month, Bird & Beckett is proud and pleased to host a jazz combo comprising students from a local college or high school opening the program, followed by a student jam session led by a professional trio. Co-produced and underwritten by Jazz in the Neighborhood and Bird & Beckett, the students…

Karl Evangelista-guitar Francis Wong-saxophone Lisa Mezzacappa-bass Donald Robinson-drums $20 cover charge. BYOB. Live in the shop and live streamed on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. Your kind donations support the musicians and the stream. Filipino-American guitarist/composer Karl Evangelista presents Apura (Tagalog for “Very Urgent”), a project that explores the relationship between jazz-based…

Eric Scheide, saxophone Tom Disher, piano Tom Donald, bass Ramon Cairo, drums Latin & funk-infused jazz, heavy on originals in the vein of Horace Silver, Bill Evans and a panoply of influences. Once known as the Jazz Beaus, it’s the same four fellas with a new name and new music — a little jazz, a…

Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch host featured poets (and in this case, prose fiction writers), on the first Thursday of each month, with an open mic following the featured readers. Live in the shop and live streamed on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. Tobey Hiller is the author of six books: a…

Vince Lateano, drums Peter Barshay, bass Ben Stolorow, piano All jazz players welcome to take the stage. Or just come to listen. No cover charge. If you can’t make it into the shop, you can catch the live stream on our Facebook page or YouTube channel. Your donations to help pay the trio and support…

Noertker’s Moxie Annelise Zamula – tenor sax, flute, clarinet.Brett Carson – piano.Jason Levis – drums.Bill Noertker – contrabass, compositions.Tonight Noertker’s Moxie will be debuting some selections from a work-in-progress—a series of odd little ditties inspired by Samuel Beckett’s odd little novel Watt. The show will be recorded in anticipation of an upcoming “Noertker’s Moxie Live…

Drummer Tony Johnson brings in a quartet on the fourth Friday of each month. But, heck, we’re celebrating 20 years of Friday night shows! It’s a sextet tonight–the 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Sextet — with Charlie McCarthy, tenor saxophone & flute; Noel Jewkes, saxophones & flute; Si Perkoff, piano; Glen Deardorff, guitar;…

Doris Lessing’s book, Prisons We Choose To Live Inside is transcribed from lectures she gave in Canada in the mid-1980s.  Her themes have to do with the hypnotic power of mass-ideas in societies and individuals.  Although composed in what seems to us now a different juncture of time and space, her searching thoughts still pierce…

Write Now! SF Bay presents its fifth anthology, Uncommon Ground: BIPOC Journeys to Creative Activism. Many of us are deeply familiar with adversity and change. Our families have been tested by war, poverty, and discrimination for generations. Our DNA is suffused with profound lessons on how to cope with challenging times. And our writing is…