Sunday, June 29th — 4:30 to 6:30 pm
The Albatross Clarinet Quartet

May 27, 2014

Dave Tidball (clarinet, bass clarinet) Jim Dukey (clarinet, bass clarinet) Dick Mathias (clarinet, bass clarinet) Charlie Keagle (clarinet) A return engagement by a favorite aggregation! With this concert, the Albatross Clarinet Quartet will present an array of new music, most of it conceived and arranged within the last year. The pieces range from straight-ahead be-bop to…

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Sunday, June 22nd — 4:30-6:30 pm
Jazz pianist Joel Forrester
solo!

May 25, 2014

Joel Forrester returns to San Francisco — and Bird & Beckett — to play a few dates around the Bay.  Joel’s well known for his work with the Microscopic Sextet, for solo accompaniment to silent films, for composing the theme for “Fresh Air” on NPR, and for thousands more compositions which he’s spun out as…

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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!

May 11, 2014

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 prison for tax resistance, Tony goes into his defense of Black Panthers, S.L.A., New World Liberation Front, Nuestra Familia, Earth First, Hells Angels, Mafia and…

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Monday, June 9th – 7 pm
CCSF Forum Spring Issue
publication party!

May 10, 2014

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 all ages and backgrounds — and bright futures — and we are always delighted to get a glimpse in Forum’s pages of what they have to…

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