Posts Tagged ‘readings’
Birds of a Feather
Writers read their work
Sunday, September 23rd — 2:00 p.m. PAWA (Philippine American Writers & Artists) co-presents with Bird & Beckett “Birds of a Feather” — a reading featuring Bay Area writers Rabih Alameddine, Laura Goode and Barbara Jane Reyes. RABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of three novels, The Hakawati, I, the Divine, and Koolaids, as well as The…
Read MoreSF Organ Trio – Phil Cousineau – Young/Griesser Accidental Quintet
Monday, September 3 – 7:00 pm Marsha Campbell & Sheppard B. Kominars POETS! PLUS AN OPEN MIC 1st & 3rd Monday of each month Hosted by Jerry Ferraz Regarding Marsha Campbell’s Revolutions per Minute (Beatitude Press, 2006), poet Ed Mycue has said “Bright statements emerge from smoky industrial sites or a countryside underwater. These ideas…
Read MoreWriters RD Armstrong & G Murray Thomas
Friday, August 31st – 5:30 to 8:00 pm Special 5th Friday booking in our weekly jazz in the bookshop series Scott Foster Trio live jazz without fail every Friday since October 2002!! 10 years & counting… Each Friday, we present one of four combos in rotation, but when there’s a fifth Friday in a month,…
Read MoreAug. 19 – Husain Resan + Kopel/Hiemstra & August 8-12: Jimmy Ryan Quintet, Joe Pachinko, Bright Side Band
Sunday, August 19th – 4:30 to 6:30 pm Pasha Band (Husain Resan Ensemble) Pan-Arabic music We’re fortunate once again to have some of the Bay Area’s fine middle eastern musicians grace the Bird & Beckett stage this Sunday in our “which way west?” weekly concert series. Last December, you may have been lucky enough to…
Read MoreRenee Gibbons + Craig Ventresco + + Seabop + Barbara Hunter
Sunday, July 29 – 2:30 pm Longing for Elsewhere Renee Gibbons reads from her memoir of a restless life Renee Gibbons — born in a Dublin tenement in the mid-20th century and for the past three decades a well loved figure in San Francisco’s North Beach bohemia — is widely known for the long-running column…
Read MorePoet A. D. Winans / Charles Hamilton Quartet
Sunday, July 22 – 2:00 pm Poet A.D. Winans & Friends Al Winans is a thoroughly engaged and committed poet, turning an unblinking stare on society and its lack of compassion for those aced out of the good life. He’s also got a long record, with his Second Coming Press, of championing (and publishing) poets…
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