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Sunday, June 22nd — 4:30-6:30 pm
Jazz pianist Joel Forrester
solo!
Joel Forrester returns to San Francisco — and Bird & Beckett — to play a few dates around the Bay. Â Joel’s well known for his work with the Microscopic Sextet, for solo accompaniment to silent films, for composing the theme for “Fresh Air” on NPR, and for thousands more compositions which he’s spun out as…
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Monday, June 16 – 7:00 pm
“A Pocket of Poets” + open mic
Stephen Kopel, Nancy Wakeman, Al Averbach and Jane Rades read their work. Â Open mic follows. Â Jerry Ferraz hosts. Come one, come all! & Happy Bloomsday to you!
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Wednesday, June 11 — 7 p.m.
J. Tony Serra: his life,
work & convictions!
Book release celebration & reading–
wine & roses will abound!
J. Tony Serra will present his new “chromatic, metaphoric autobiography” Tony Serra: The Green, Yellow and Purple Years in the Life of a Radical Lawyer (Grizzly Peak Press, 2014).  Written while in Federal prison for tax resistance, Tony goes into his defense of Black Panthers, S.L.A., New World Liberation Front, Nuestra Familia, Earth First, Hells Angels, Mafia and…
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Monday, June 9th – 7 pm
CCSF Forum Spring Issue
publication party!
Join us this evening to hear from contributors to the new issue of Forum, the literary and arts magazine of City College of San Francisco! CCSF is a crossroads for students of all ages and backgrounds — and bright futures — and we are always delighted to get a glimpse in Forum’s pages of what they have to…
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Sunday, June 8th — 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Times Three “Off the Grid”
CD release!
Times Three — Paul Mindrup, piano; Scott Chapek, bass; Tom Hassett, drums — present their new album, “Off the Grid”. Â You can read their notes on the tracks by clicking here. Three journeyman jazz musicians enamored of interesting time signatures, underappreciated tunes and sly originals. Â Each of the three has put in productive work with…
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Sunday, June 8th — 2 pm
Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty
a presentation by Pat Moore
Born Eva Amalia Stricker in Budapest, Hungary in 1906, Eva Zeisel was a uniquely accomplished ceramicist and designer, who by her early 20s had already become an accomplished artist in the field.  She worked first in Budapest, then for Schramberger Majolikafabrik in Germany, and by 1932 was in the Soviet Union, soon to be appointed Artistic…
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