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Art House Gallery
And Cultural Center
2905 shattuck ave.
(between Ashby + Russell.)
Berkeley, Ca.
Balboa Theatre
3630 Balboa St @37th Avenue
San Francisco
(415) 221-8184
City Lights Books
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park,
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco
The Emerald Tablet
80 Fresno Street
North Beach
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Intersection for the Arts
925 Mission St. Suite 109
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(415) 626-2787
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3109 24th st,
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Om Shan Tea
233 14th Street,
corner of Natoma
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The Reader’s Café
The Reader’s Bookstore
Fort Mason Building C
Room 165
San Francisco
Sacred Grounds Cafe
2095 Hayes Street
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Studio 333
333 Caledonia Street
Sausalito, Ca.
Sunrise Restaurant
3126 24th. Street
(near folsom)
San Francisco
Yoshi’s San Francisco,
1330 Fillmore
San Francisco
Z Space
450 Florida S.
San Francisco
(415) 626-4370
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See the January 2012 Schedule
Sunday . February 12, 2012
3:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Coconut Grove Grand Ballroom
400 Beach Street
Santa Cruz, ca.
Produced by Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts Tickets available Now
Foghorns bloom,
we break upon meaning
Don Brennan
Spirit Walk &
Old World Cafes
Joie Cook
There Are Nights in San Francisco
John Dowling
The Revolution in North Beach
Jerry Ferraz
Guitara
Richard Hack
Boomtown Crepuscule
Leonard Irving
Bleak Morning on Jones Street
Paul Leclerc
Porter prospectus
Rosemary Manno
What the Beatniks Saw in North Beach & Ode To Michelangelo Park at Twilight
Bill Mercer
Vesuvio's North Beach
Jane Rades
My Adopted City
Ronald Sauer
The San Francisco Renaissance
Mark Schwartz
All the Critical Mass bicycles confiscated should be: &
There was a little alley
in San Francisco
Mike Aguzin
420 and a Vision & Cheer
Kim Shuck
On Columbus
Mia Kirsi Stageberg
Angels of San Francisco- 2,4&5
Vince Storti
Walking Woman 1 &
Mime Troupe Witness 1
ALLEN COHEN Poetry
April 23,1941 ~April 30, 2004
The Decline & Fall of San Francisco by Allen Cohen
* John Ross (1938-2011)
* Victor Martinez (1954-2011)
by Jorge Argueta
Jehanah Wedgewood
(1941- Nov, 2010)
Poet OZZY
Nov. 1940 - May 2007
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archived audio recordings from KPFA-FM radio in Berkeley (1949-1995)***
Feb. 1, 1952 ~ During this month American author Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969) had 1st psychedelic experience when Philip Lamantia gave him peyote.
Feb. 3, 1969
Continuous Projections of Films @ San Francisco Art Institute
Artist: Robert Nelson
Feb.6 ,2000 ~ Janice Mirikitani, wife of Rev. Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial, was named the poet laureate for San Francisco for 2000.
Feb. 12, 2003 ~ Led by poet Sam Hamill, today becomes a day of Poets Against the War conducted as a reading at the White House gates in addition to over 160 public readings. Since then, over 9,000 poets have joined this grassroots peace movement.
Feb.18, 1884 ~On this day the Moscow police seized all copies of anarchist
Leo Tolstoy's What I Believe In at the printers.
BIRTHDAYS
February 1, 1902 ~ born, James Langston Hughes. poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. An early innovators of literary art form jazz poetry.
There are words like Freedom
Sweet and wonderful to say.
On my heartstings freedom sings
All day everyday.
There are words like Liberty
That alsmost make me cry.
If you had known what I know
You would know why.
~ Langston hughes (1902-1967)
Feb. 2, 1882 ~ born, James Joyce, Irish novelist,and poet.
Feb. 4, 1900 born on this day ~ Jacques Prevert, French surrealist poet, artist, lyricist and author, and screen writer who worshiped freedom and glorified the spirit of rebellion and revolt.
Feb. 5,1914 ~ born, William Burroughs, American, social critic, painter and poet.
February 6, 1945 ~ born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, "Bob" Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician, Rastafari hero, and post-political leader.
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." .. Bob Marle
Feb. 7,1812 ~ born in Portsmouth, England, popular British novelist, social activist, and humanitarian Charles Dickens.
February 9, 1944 ~ born, American novelist & activist Alice Walker. 'Activism is my rent for living on this planet.'
Feb.10, 1890 ~ born ,Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize-winning Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, \translator of Goethe and Shakespeare. Doctor Zhivago
Feb 14, 1819 -- born in London, England: Joshua Norton I, Dei Gratia Emperor of the United States & Protector of México
~ Most Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader the US has ever had.
Feb.18, 1930 ~ born, Poet Joel Oppenheimer in Yonkers, NY.
(The Dancer; The Great American Desert).
Feb. 18, 1894 -- Andres Segovia, greatest classical guitarists was born in the Andalusian city of Linares, Spain & is brought up in Granada. Seqovia on youTube
On June 2, 1987 Andres Segovia died,age 94 at home in Madrid.
Rigby cartoon from June of 1987
"You can knock off the harps. We just got Segovia"
Feb. 20,1903 ~ born, diarist, feminist, erotic writer. Anaïs Nin (1903-1977).
Feb 22, 1892 ~ born, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), in Rockland, Maryland. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Remarking on the hazards of poetry: A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down.... If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book, nothing can help him.
Feb. 27,1886 ~born, Dada poet Hugo Ball in Germany. A pacifist, he left Germany during World War I for neutral Switzerland in 1916 .
Feb. 27, 1807 ~ born, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, educater, poet, novelist
GONE BEYOND
Feb. 10, 1862, ~ Elizabeth Siddell , the beautiful wife and favorite model of poet artist Gabriel Rossetti died from laudanum poisoning.
Feb 15 BC ~ Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
Feb. 17, 1982 ~ Jazz pianist Thelonius Monk dies in a Pork Pie hat, Englewood, New Jersey
Feb. 19,1951 ~ On this day, André Gide, 81, died in Paris.
The world will be saved, if it can be, only by the unsubmissive.... André Gide
San Francisco History for February
Friday, February 3 - Thursday, February 9
Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street
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SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE!
OPENING NIGHT for the heralded & gracious VUKANI MAWATHU CHOIR, often called "the spirit of the movement" and "cultural ambassadors of good will" as they perform a set of inspirational freedom songs of Southern Africa in the Big Theater!
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Friday, February 3, 2012
CITY ART Gallery
7:00 pm-10:00 pm
828 Valencia St.
(between 19th and 20th)
San Francisco, (map)
(415) 970-9900
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 2011
In the Back Room
LOVE HURTS
Opening Reception ~ e FIRST FRIDAY of EVERY Month
Friday February 3, 2012
7:00 pm
Caffe' Roma
526 Columbus Avenue
(at Union,
3 blocks north of Broadway)
San Francisco
"First Fridays" Poetry
with Jim Cook
Contact: hackett.philip@gmail.com
Friday February 3, 2012
8:00 pm and 10:00 pm
Yoshi’s San Francisco,
1330 Fillmore
San Francisco
MARIANNE AYA OMAC
with special appearance by JOAN BAEZ
featuring support by Shimshai
8pm - $30 ~ 10pm - $25
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Saturday February 4, 2012
3:00 pm –5:00 pm
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park,
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco
FEBRUARY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Todd Thomas Brown: Inheritance and Dreams
Artist Reception: February 4, 3:00 pm –5:00 pm
Kimball Education Gallery/Artist Studio
Inheritence and Dreams
will be showing thru Sunday Feb.12, 2012
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Saturday, February 4, 2012
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sacred Grounds Coffee House
2095 Hayes @ Cole Street
San Francisco
"Speakeasy" prose and poetry
Featuring
JEANNE POWELL
reading and book signing
hosted by Barbara Belle Diamond
February 4 ,2012
3:00 pm –5:00 pm
de Young Museum
Kimball Education Gallery/Artist Studio
Golden Gate Park,
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco
Wed., February 1– Sun. Feb.12, 2012
FEBRUARY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Todd Thomas Brown: Inheritance and Dreams
Artist Reception: Feb. 4, --1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Exhibition continues 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm through Feb. 12th
Saturday, February 4, 2012
From 6-10 pm,
Art House Gallery
And Cultural Center
2905 shattuck ave.
(between Ashby + Russell.)
Berkeley, Ca.
THE PEOPLE'S PARK DEFENSE COMMITTEE
presents
A BENEFIT FUNDRAISER for a VOLUNTEER ACTIVIST PARK.
Featuring performances by
Antioquia • Mana maddy +family • Andrea Prichett • Phoenix
Food not bombs! (Free Food)
food @ 6:00pm ~ performances start @ 7:00 pm
(this event is Acoustic & Unplugged.)
Help support the volunteer spirit that has made the park so famous
$10+ suggested donation Contact-(510)472-3170
www.people'spark.org
Saturday February 4, 2012
7:00 pm
Red Poppy Arthouse
2698 Folsom St
San Francisco
(415)826.2402
MAPP
(Mission Arts Performance Project)
FREE
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Sunday February 5, 2012
4:00 pm
Sunrise Restaurant
3126 24th. Street
(near folsom)
San Francisco
Continuing with the great tradition of poetry
in the Mission District
Poesía Revuelta/ Mixed Poetry
Open mic
Sunday February 5, 2012
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Redwood Cafe
8240 Old Redwood Hwy
Cotati, Ca.
(North Bay)
Clara Hsu ~ Jack & Adelle Foley ~ Randy Fingland
PoetClara Hsu is joined byLawrence Hsu and
Cameron Brochier, members of the progressive
rock band Phoenix Ash, in their first collaborative performance.
Jack Foley with his wife, Adelle will be appearing with Clara Hsu
and Randy Fingland will be reading too.
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Monday February 6, 2012
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Caffe' Greco,
423 Columbus Avenue ~
San Francisco
Feature and open mic ~
contact Philip Hackett
Monday February 6, 2012
7-10pm
Om Shan Tea
233 14th Street,
corner of Natoma
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Open Heart Poetry
Hosted by Marc Kockinos
Featured Poet
Serena Toxicat
Serena Toxicat is a poet, singer, model, actor, dancer
and healer. She is well known locally, lived in Paris for
8 years pursuing her acting, and has even sung inside
the Great Pyramid in Egypt! She wowed everyone during
the Open Mic a few weeks ago, with the emotional
depth and exquisite imagery of her poetry.
The other thing that makes this weeks feature
special is that February 6th is Serena’s Birthday!
So come out to Om Shan Tea this Monday to help
Serena celebrate her birthday with us, hear her
extraordinary poetry, and share your words
on the Open Mic!
6:30 pm Open Mic Signup
7:00-7:30 pm Open Mic
7:30-8:00 pm Featured Poet(s)
8 pm-10 pm Open Mic
Monday, February 6
7:30 pm
Balboa Theatre
3630 Balboa St @37th Avenue
San Francisco
(415) 221-8184
LOOKING THROUGH A GLASS ONION:
DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES’ WHITE ALBUM
A MULTIMEDIA JOURNEY INTO THE RECORDING STUDIO
WITH THE BEATLES
An Innovative Multimedia Presentation
Created and Hosted
by Composer, Producer and Beatles Expert Scott Freiman.
Advance Tickets. Admission $15.00
Learn more about Beatles Lectures at www.beatleslectures.com
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Tuesday February 7, 2012
7:00 pm
City Lights Books
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
Granta Journal & Zzyzzyva
Two quintessential literary journals join up for a special evening
of readings with Zyzzyva's Laura Cogan & Oscar Villalon
-and- Granta's John Freeman.
Readings by Daniel Alarcon, Herb Gold, and Dean Rader
Tuesday February 7, 2012
Green Apple Books
506 Clement St.
San Francisco
Lysley Tenorio's new short story collection,
Monstress. Monstress centers around the contradictions and complexitites of the Filipino-American experience and the universal human search for belonging in the underbelly of the American Dream. Come to the Green Apple's ' Granny Smith Room' and find out why Tenorio is being hailed as "an electric literary talent" and "a singular new voice in American fiction". We'll see you there!
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Wednesday February 8, 2012
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Studio 333
333 Caledonia Street
Sausalito, Ca.
S U N S E T P O E T R Y B Y T H E B A Y
presents
featuring
Ellery Akers ~ Charles Entriken ~ Gail Rudd Entrekin
Wednesday February 8, 2012
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Park Branch Library
downstairs
(bet. Cole and Shrader)
San Francisco
On the Page, Off the Page. Open Mic Poetry with Diamond Dave.
Food for the Body, the Mind, and the Spirit.
Come eat, drink, listen, perform. Invite your friends.
On the Page, Off the Page., open mic
on
the Second Tuesday of each month.
Wednesday February 8, 2012
7:30 pm-10:00 pm
Sacred Grounds Cafe
2095 Hayes Street
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Sacred Grounds Reading Series
featuring
Avotcja Jiltonilro
Hosted by Dan Brady
Come joing us and step up
to the mic to read or recite.
The oldest poetry open mic in the country!
Fine poetry since 1972!
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