Archive for October 2014
Sunday, February 1st – 2 pm
A reading by contributors to
Tule Review
Contributors to Tule Review, an annual literary journal published by the Sacramento Poetry Center Press, will read recent work and work from the new issue to celebrate its launch. Tule Review has been the literary journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center for twenty years. About five years ago, Tule became the flagship publication of Sacramento Poetry Center Press,…
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jazz club… when lights are low
The Love Gangsters
Saturday, January 31st – 8-11 pm
Straight out of North Beach… The Love Gangsters! Are you ready, Glen Park? Hell yes, you are…
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Friday, January 30th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop special!
Guitarist Howard Alden!
Howard Alden, passing through from his home in New York City, plays Bird & Beckett’s Friday evening jazz party in a trio format with local heroes and long-time associates Vince Lateano on drums and Peter Barshay on bass. Howard is one of the great jazz guitarists of our era.  In the late 1970s, at the tender…
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Monday, January 26th – 7 pm
Health Insurance Workshop
Covered California!
Karen Lipney conducts a workshop to help you sign up for insurance before the February 15 deadline. Â Bring your questions and quandaries, but rest assured it’s not rocket science!
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Sunday, January 25th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Dave Rocha Quartet
Pianist Gaea Schell, bassist Fred Randolph & drummer Tony Johnson join Dave Rocha, one of the Bay Area’s top jazz trumpet players, in our Sunday afternoon which way west? concert series, now in its sixth year of weekly sessions. Dave has worked in the New York big bands of Lionel Hampton and Machito, and with the Latin/Salsa…
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Sunday, Jan. 25th at 2:30 pm
Walker Talks! on Marsilio Ficino,
musician and philosopher
of the Renassiance
Walker Brents III continues his exploration of the mystical side of the Renaissance, with a talk on Marsilio Fichino, a musician and philosopher whose symbolic thought contributes greatly to contemporary poetic speech.
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