653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

1-415-586-3733
[email protected]

Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six

 

Live Streams every weekend!
Refresh your browser
to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or
YouTube channel!

But nothing beats being in the room
with the music & the musicians!

Friday, June 4 – 7:30pm
Tongo Eisen-Martin
+ Ahkeel Mestayer
jazz! live-streamed from the bookshop every Friday evening
is this not jazz? listen and discover!

San Francisco Poet Laureate
Tongo Eisen-Martin
plus
percussionist
Ahkeel Mestayer

~~Two sets of poetry & percussion~~

Crucial words and beats for our times

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We encourage you to read more about our poet laureate at this link
and to seek out his works, his readings and his books

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tongo-eisen-martin

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View our live streams on our

YouTube channel and our Facebook page.

No audiences in the shop just yet.

$10-20 suggested donation
Pay what your economics allow
at this link

We pay a “guaranteed fair wage”
of 
$150 to each of the artists performing
in our live streams
and you are the first one we look to in order
to get that money together, so please do what you can!

We are extremely grateful as well to the many individuals
in the community who donate to our nonprofit
Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (the “BBCLP”)
to help us build up the general fund from which
we augment audience donations when necessary!

Monthly donations are particularly helpful.

Donate to the BBCLP at this link to further our work!

Any questions?
Email [email protected] or call us at 415-586-3733!

We also thank and gratefully acknowledge
the City & County of San Francisco’s Grants for the Arts
for operating support of the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project!


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The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project

Our events are put on under the umbrella of the nonprofit Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (the "BBCLP"). That's how we fund our ambitious schedule of 300 or so concerts and literary events every year.

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The Independent Musicians Alliance

Gigging musicians! You have nothing to lose but your lack of a collective voice to achieve fair wages for your work!
The IMA can be a conduit for you, if you join in to make it work.

https://www.independentmusiciansalliance.org/

Read more here - Andy Gilbert's Feb 25 article about the IMA from KQED's site

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