Archive for February 2014
Monday, April 21 — 7:00 pm
POETS! hosted by Jerry Ferraz
Featured readers: Ronald Sauer
& Michael Koch — open mic follows
Ronald Sauer is a poet, translator and raconteur steeped in the work of Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertrand, Voltaire, Jacques Prevert, Jacques Roumain, the surrealists, and more. Â A little background on Michael Koch will follow. Jerry Ferraz hosts featured poets and an open mic at Bird & Beckett on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.
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Saturday, April 19th — 7:00 pm
Writer Daisy Rockwell: Taste
Daniel is a twenty-first century connoisseur with distinctive and often anachronistic tastes-aesthetic, culinary, and even mind-altering. When Daniel sets out to seek answers about his past in long-sealed documents, he makes a startling discovery that leads him on a cross-country quest. In the course of his travels, he becomes preoccupied with Antoinette, an enigmatic archivist…
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Friday, April 18th – 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Two Tenors: The Scott Foster Ensemble
Every third Friday, guitarist Scott Foster brings in a newly constituted ensemble for the occasion.  This week:  tenor sax players Ken Rosen and Harvey Robb make up the front line, with Scott on guitar and Richard Saunders on bass.  We’ll hear some marvelous players delving deep into the tenor sax tradition that is a cornerstone of…
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Sunday, April 13th — 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Jenny Ferris & Friends
Vocalist Jenny Ferris will be joined by reed player Rich Lesnik, pianist Laura Klein, bassist Dean Reilly and drummer Tom Hassett in a program of jazz standards.
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Sunday, April 13th — 2:00 pm
PEN Oakland Writers
A reading by six writers, all officers or Board members of PEN Oakland: Â Floyd Salas, Claire Ortalda, Sharon Doubiago, Kirk Lumpkin, Judith Cody and John Curl. About PEN Oakland: PEN Oakland (the “blue collar PEN”) was founded in 1989 to promote emerging multi-cultural literature and to educate about the nature of that work. Â PEN Oakland…
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In Oakland: Friday, April 11 at 8 pm
Amerarcana Release Reading No. 2
An East Bay launch party for the new, fifth, issue of our lovely literary magazine, Amerarcana, will take place with readings by contributors Micah Ballard, Steve Dickison, Marina Lazzara, Jackson Meazle and John Sakkis at on Friday, April 11th, 8 pm, at the Public School — 2141 Broadway, near 19th Street BART station. Nick Whittington will host, and…
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