Thursday, May 1st – 7-9pm
Poets Deema K. Shehabi
Zeina Hashem Beck
Priscilla Wathington
followed by an open mic
A reading in turbulent times, with Palestine in mind and heart. Bring your poems. Michael Koch and Jerry Ferraz host. Deema K. Shehabi is a Palestinian-American poet, writer, and editor. She’s the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received a Northern…
Culture pushes back:
May 2nd to 11th, ten days / ten events
Friday, May 2nd – two concerts: at 6pm, it’s a trio led by trumpeter Mike Olmos with Jed Holtman, bass, and Andre Sumelius, drums. Mike Olmos is back at 8:30 in saxophonist James Mahone’s quartet with Sam Bevan, bass, and Michael Mitchell, drums. A phenomenal night of small combo jazz. Twenty bucks cash for either…
Wednesday, April 30th – 7pm
Graphic novelist Janice Shapiro
Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship
Wednesday, April 30th at 7:30pm, we’re pleased to present a book release party for short story writer & cartoonist Janice Shapiro with her debut graphic novel fresh out from Fantagraphics, Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship. That’s young Honoria at the far right, with her siblings and her mother, Sara Murphy, who, together which her husband Gerald…
Sunday, April 27th – 5-7pm
Jam Session!
Jazz is the sound of surprise. Risk an hour of your life! Byob and a twenty for the trio!
Saturday, April 26th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Hal Richards Quintet
Hal Richards, winds, reeds & arrangements. Henry Hung, trumpet. Rumi Abe, piano. Ron Belcher, bass. Akira Tana, drums. $25 cover charge, cash please! $1.50 surcharge on credit/debit. Please pay at the door, and byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Hal Richards is a musician of many horns. When he first strolled into…
Friday, April 25th – 8:30-10pm
Joyce Todd McBride Trio
Joyce Todd McBride, piano & compositions. Stacy Starkweather, bass. David Rokeach, drums. $20 cover charge, cash please! $1.50 surcharge per seat for credit/debit cards. please pay at the door, and byob. for reservations, call 415-586-3733. Joyce Todd McBride, widely adored as the director of the massed vocal ensemble Conspiracy of Venus, is also much admired…
Friday, April 25th – 6-8pm
The 230 Jones Street Band
Drummer Tony Johnson corrals the usual suspects — Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass. Make Tony’s dates a habit. Fourth Sunday of every month. The 230 Jones Street band plays two months in a row, then switches out for the Tony Johnson Quartet (Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax; Keith Saunders, piano; Eric Markowitz,…
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!
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…
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…