birdbeckett
Wednesday, November 19th – 6pm
A fundraiser for
7 Palestinian families
in Gaza
Bird & Beckett, a privately owned bookshop, weighs in: The contemporary suffering and persecution in Gaza, and in the West Bank, has been extreme and continues, though you’d hardly know it from the newspapers lately. What Hamas did on 10/7/23 is unforgivable and indefensible from where we stand. However, it is obvious to us that…
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Tuesday, November 18th – 7pm
Brian Shepperd and Friends: A Reading
Brian Shepperd, a formerly incarcerated, currently recalibrated man and the author of Confessions of a Compassionate Felon convenes a conclave of friends to share spoken word, poetry, chapter & verse reading from their own books. Read more at th3rdbridge.com
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Sunday, November 16th – 7:30-9:30pm
Allan Harris with the Sylvia Cuenca Trio
Allan Harris, vocals & piano Adam Shulman, piano Doug Miller, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Students, 10. Allan Harris returns! Earlier this year, in March, Allan was here at Bird & Beckett with a fantastic date based on “The Poetry of Jazz.” A cd of that music, recorded live in Ann Arbor,…
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Sunday, November 16th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with tenor saxophonist Bob Kenmotsu
Vince Lateano has been a mainstay of San Francisco jazz culture since he rousted out of the Army in 1965! His trio with bassist Peter Barshay and pianist Ben Stolorow has been making beautiful music together for years. Come and enjoy one of Bird & Beckett’s long running, and truly great, jazz residencies. Every third…
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Saturday, November 15th – 7:30pm
The Rumi Abe Quartet
Rumi Abe, piano. Armen Krakirian, trumpet. Joshua Thurston-Milgrom, bass. Miles Turk, drums. $20 cover charge at the door (cash please). byob. Students, $10; kids free. For a seat reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Rumi Abe has made a big mark in a very short time on the San Francisco jazz scene. Hailing from Japan,…
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Saturday, November 15th – 4:30pm
A reading for Woman Life Freedom:
Poems for the Iranian Revolution
Bänoo Zan & Cy Strom, co-editors of Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution, have invited poet Summer Brenner to join them in a reading of poems from their recently published anthology, which marks a world-historical moment: the first ever feminist revolution. Woman Life Freedom is the slogan chanted by the demonstrators in Iran.…
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