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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Saturday, June 7th – 8-11 pm
jazz club bonus date!
The Walter Savage Trio
with Grant Levin and Vince Lateano
Our only Saturday date in June happens on the 7th, when bassist Walter Savage, on a Bay Area swing from his home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, plays with two of the…
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Monday, June 2nd – 7 pm
POETS! Featured readers:
Paul Fericano and Linda King
open mic follows
 A rich reading with two poets of extraordinary experience.  Paul Fericano has a compulsively fascinating history as a poet and satirist with roots in the 1970s San Francisco cultural and political…
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Sunday, June 1st – 4:30-6:30 pm
DSB! The Dwaine Spurlin Band
with vocalist Nina Causey
“The Sax Man” Dwaine Spurlin was schooled at SFSU and was an understudy for saxophone titan Joe Henderson… he brings a dynamic group into Bird & Beckett featuring Spencer Allen…
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Sunday, June 1st — 2 pm
Latif Harris, Part Two:
A life in beat zen poetry
Continuing where he left off in mid-May, Latif Harris reads more work from the span of his career, and relates stories of what has happened along the way. Latif is…
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Friday, May 30th — 5:30 to 8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
special “fifth Friday” session!
The Pacific Jazz Connection
Live recording session tonight! Reed players Jerry Logas (bari sax) and Smith Dobson V (tenor sax) co-lead this quintet that delves into the 1950s West Coast sound that brought beautifully…
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