Sunday, August 11th:
An Afghan Afternoon
Little Kabul comes to San Francisco! 2:00 pm – “Secrets of Little Kabul: The Inside Scoop on Afghans in America” A panel discussion with journalist Fariba Nawa, memoirist Atta Arghandiwal and…
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Thursday, August 8th, 7 pm
The Righteous Mind by Haidt
Bird & Beckett Political Book Group
This week’s subject of discussion is Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. Anyone can come and join the discussion, and take part…
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Wednesday, August 7th, 7:00 pm:
Killing All Your Darlings…
& finding an audience
An evening with writers Seth Harwood and Jim Sidel -Â the first in a series featuring prose writers with emerging careers, who will read from their work and discuss matters of…
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Sunday, Aug. 4th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
The Ruth Keady Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, August 4th – 4:30-6:30…
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Wednesday, July 31, 6:30 pm:
Poets Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Jason Morris, Jackson Meazle
DOUBLE BOOK RELEASE READING Jackson Meazle joins Jason Morris and Sunnylyn Thibodeaux in reading to mark the publication by Bird & Beckett of Morris’ Local News and Thibodeaux’s 88 Haiku for Lorca by…
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Sunday, July 28th, 2:00 pm:
Writer Donnelle McGee
Donnelle McGee is the author of Shine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012). He earned his MFA from Goddard College, and is now on faculty at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. Donnelle’s work…
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Friday, July 26th, 9 pm:
Lao She’s “Teahouse”
a bilingual reading of excerpts
“Don’t Discuss State Affairs” (a sign mounted on the wall of the Yutai Teahouse — 1898, 1917, 1945) Lao She’s Teahouse is a classic of the Chinese theatre from the late…
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Sunday, July 21st, 4:30-6:30 pm
Noel Jewkes / Grant Levin Duo
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, July 21st – 4:30-6:30…
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Friday, July 19th, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The Scott Foster Organ Trio
We’re proud to announce that beginning in July, our “jazz in the bookshop” series will now feature a group led by guitarist Scott Foster on the third Friday of each month. Scott is a…
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Sunday, July 14th, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio
 which way west? a weekly concert series at Bird & Beckett every Sunday afternoon, 4:30 to 6:30 there’s no cover charge, but your generous donations at the gigs and to…
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