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  • Poet Leslie Simon – “Everything Appeared That Night” and Composer Wendy Loomis -“Gaudi’s Curves”

    Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Leslie Simon is a labor and progressive activist hero, and established CCSF's Poetry for the People class, which continues to this day. She has brought countless students into creative communion with progressive ideals.  Bottlecap Press recently published Leslie Simon's chapbook "Everything Appeared That Night. For the evening, she'll bundle copies of the chapbook with old copies…

    Free, donations welcome

  • All About San Francisco’s Stairways: No Walking Required! w/ Mary Burk & Alexandra Kenin

    Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Take a comfy seat and celebrate the grand finale of SF Stairway Month hearing authors Mary Burk (Stairway Walks in San Francisco) and Alexandra Kenin (Urban Trails series, San Francisco, East Bay, Peninsula and South Bay). And sharpen your wits: We will have special SF stairway trivia game designed by moderator Liz Novoa (aka Instagram’s…

    Free, donations welcome

  • Tom Molanphy – Marie’s Tree: Implosions and Injustice in San Francisco

    Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Local journalist Tom Molanphy will discuss his new book, Marie's Tree: Implosions and Injustice in San Francisco, with the three people who played crucial roles in this biography of Bayview Hunters Point environmental activist Marie Harrison (1948-2019.) Arieann Harrison,  her daughter who carries on her mother's fight through the Marie Harrison Community Foundation; Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai,…

    Free, donations welcome

  • Esmail Rahimian – “I Was There Before: Stories Without Names”

    Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    They said it didn't happen. But someone remembers. Esmail Rahimian's book is a gripping work of literary fiction that draws you into the moments where everything begins to break, and nothing ever returns the same. A girl steps into the streets and does not come back. A mother listens through the night as the sky becomes…

    Free, donations welcome