birdbeckett
jazz on the weekend
Friday, 6pm – 230 Jones Street
Friday, 8:30pm – Joyce McBride Trio
Saturday, 7:30pm – Hal Richards Quintet
Sunday, 5pm – Jam Session!
Jazz is our sweet spot. Make it yours. Support what we do in that regard! Make a donation to our 501(c)3 nonprofit and bring cash to the shows! Bird & Beckett is known internationally for what we’ve been doing. Live jazz and great books since 1999!
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Thursday, April 24th – 7:30pm
Writer/Director Megan Robertson
a reading of her theatrical documentary
If San Francisco Collapses
Join us for a reading of “If San Francisco Collapses,” a new documentary theatre play by Megan Robertson. As we live in an age defined by technological advancements, this play examines technology’s impact on the region which birthed it. San Francisco has historically been a mecca for revolutionaries, artists, and activists. How does this truth…
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Tuesday, April 22nd – 7pm
Journalist/Ukraine war correspondent
Jen Stout and her book
Night Train to Odesa:
Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War
Night Train to Odesa just won a major award in the UK, and was abridged for BBC Radio 4. It sits between memoir, reportage, and literary journalism, and has been praised for its pacy narrative style – definitely not a dry tome on the war in Ukraine, but on-the-ground reportage, starting in Russia just before the invasion, moving…
Read MoreNone but defensive arms sales to Israel until Palestine secures a permanent peace
From the website of Senator Bernie Sanders: WASHINGTON, April 3 – After filing Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) to block the sale of two of the most egregious Trump Administration offensive arms sales to Israel, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today rose to bring the JRDs up for a vote by the full Senate. The sales…
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Monday, April 21st – 7:30-9:30pm
Oakland School for the Arts
Alumni Quintet
home for a minute from China
and headed back to their post-OSA schools…
The Oakland School for the Arts Alumni Quintet brings together musicians whose roots trace back to the halls of OSA, where they studied under the mentorship of the legendary Dave Ellis—a guiding force who continues to shape their musical paths today. Though they’ve since scattered across the country, from San Francisco to Baltimore, Stockton to…
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Monday April 21st to Sunday April 27th
Jazz musicians 18 to 80,
a war correspondent,
a playwright & her actors…
From Monday to Sunday, you can catch great jazz, hear from a Scottish war correspondent who left Moscow for Ukraine at the beginning of the war and is briefly on tour before returning there, attend the reading of a documentary theater piece in development… or just drop in during the day to buy a book……
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