Coming up...
Monday, January 5th
a book release party for
Sharon Doubiago's
Love on the Streets:
Selected and New Poems
University of Pittsburg Press (2008)
(click here)
JAZZ IN THE BOOKSHOP
EVERY FRIDAY EVENING
5:30 TO 8:00 PM
A neighborhood tradition
since 2002!
Friday, January 9th
DOUBLE BILL!
First, from 5:30 to 8:00 pm
The Jimmy Ryan Quintet
Joel Ryan, trumpet
Rick Elmore, trombone
Scott Foster, guitar
Bishu Chatterjee, bass
Jimmy Ryan, drums
Followed at 9 pm
by
SYNTHESIS
original compositions, electronica
& jazz standards
featuring Noah Frank, trumpet,
Fender Rhodes & laptop
Natalie Cressman, trombone
Imanuel Junaedy, piano
Adam Nash, bass
Alex Nash, drums
a special late date before
Noah returns to school at
Berklee School of Music
The Bird & Beckett
Cultural Legacy Project
presents
Which Way West?
a world of live music
in your neighborhood
every Sunday afternoon
4:30 to 6:30 pm
Sunday, Jan. 11th at 4:30 pm
Percussionist Faisal Zaidan
with Rachel Valfer on oud
(preceded at 3:30 pm by a talk by
Jonathan Curiel, whose new book is
"Al' America: Travels through
America's Arab and Islamic Roots")
Jan. 18th at 4:30
Modupue
featuring Avotcja,
Sandy Poindexter, Jon Jang
Eugene Warren
and Ian Dogole
(preceded at 2:30 pm by contributors to CCSF's newly revived literary journal "Forum"
and followed at 6:30 by a birthday party cum reading for poet & cultural icon, Q.R. Hand)
Jan. 25th at 4:30
Passage to India Jazz
Prasant Radharkrishnan, sax
Vivek Anand, vocal
Bishu Chatterjee, bass
Ralph Grannich, drums
(preceded at 1:00 pm by a presentation by Alex Hatch of her new book "Cracks in the Asphalt" about SF's community gardens,
and at 2:30 pm by Walker Brents, who will give a talk about mythologist Mircea Eliade)
poets coming up:
Monday, January 19th
Rebecca Foust (click here)
& Joan Gelfand (click here)
open mic follows - 3 min. per poet
Martin Luther King Day!
please bring a poem that befits the occasion, whether it's one of your own or one you admire!
Monday, February 2nd
23rd Street Poets
contributors read their work
open mic follows
Monday, February 16th
Al Averbach & Kit Kennedy
open mic follows
The Bird & Beckett
Cultural Legacy Project
presents
poetry readings on the
1st & 3rd Monday of each month at 7:00 pm
with featured readers and an open mic
plus two weekly live music series:
"Jazz in the Bookshop" on Fridays
and
"Which Way West?" on Sundays
To recap, there's:
-- jazz every Friday evening from 5:30 to 8:00 pm
-- a book club on the 1st Wed. of each month
-- another book club on the 2nd Thursdays
-- an open reading from the great writers
on the 4th Thursdays
-- open mic poetry readings
on the 1st & 3rd Mondays
-- music of all stripes every Sunday afternoon
from 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Please support the musicians
with your donations at
the Friday and Sunday shows--
it's crucial to enable us to continuing offering music to the community.
$10 per adult suggested donation
($5 is ok too!)
kids very welcome
and very much free!
Think what it costs you to
go to the movies or buy a burrito,
and then think about that money
going to help musicians ply their craft!
It's a good investment in a time
when good investments are
a mite hard to come by!
