Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

Beloved by parents and children alike, Olive the Storyteller tells stories and tall tales from around the world.

Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy is a storyteller, writer, workshop leader and curriculum consultant in San Francisco, where she has been an artist-in-residence in public and private schools since 1986. She has brought the joy and magic of storytelling to countless children and grown-ups over the past three decades, preserving and transmitting this ancient yet relevant art form through transformative and engaging live performances and high-quality recordings.

9:30AM   |   FREE

Share your words with fellow writers and poets, hosted by Laura Booth.

Looking to find spaces to present your literary voice and perspective? Interested in building community around a shared love of poetry? Join us for our monthly Poetry and Prose Open Mic! All levels of writers and poetry buffs are encouraged to attend.

Sign-ups open at 6:30PM; reading starts at 7PM  |  Free

Share your words with fellow writers and poets, hosted by Laura Booth.

Looking to find spaces to present your literary voice and perspective? Interested in building community around a shared love of poetry? Join us for our monthly Poetry and Prose Open Mic! All levels of writers and poetry buffs are encouraged to attend.

Sign-ups open at 6:30PM; reading starts at 7PM  |  Free

Share your words with fellow writers and poets, hosted by Laura Booth.

Looking to find spaces to present your literary voice and perspective? Interested in building community around a shared love of poetry? Join us for our monthly Poetry and Prose Open Mic! All levels of writers and poetry buffs are encouraged to attend.

Sign-ups open at 6:30PM; reading starts at 7PM  |  Free

Mimi of Mimi and and Friends comes to Black Bird Bookstore to sing, dance, and tell stories. An energetic start to the weekend for kiddos of all ages!

9:30AM   |   FREE

Beloved by parents and children alike, Olive the Storyteller tells stories and tall tales from around the world.

Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy is a storyteller, writer, workshop leader and curriculum consultant in San Francisco, where she has been an artist-in-residence in public and private schools since 1986. She has brought the joy and magic of storytelling to countless children and grown-ups over the past three decades, preserving and transmitting this ancient yet relevant art form through transformative and engaging live performances and high-quality recordings.

9:30AM   |   FREE

Mimi of Mimi and and Friends comes to Black Bird Bookstore to sing, dance, and tell stories. An energetic start to the weekend for kiddos of all ages!

9:30AM   |   FREE

Beloved by parents and children alike, Olive the Storyteller tells stories and tall tales from around the world.

Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy is a storyteller, writer, workshop leader and curriculum consultant in San Francisco, where she has been an artist-in-residence in public and private schools since 1986. She has brought the joy and magic of storytelling to countless children and grown-ups over the past three decades, preserving and transmitting this ancient yet relevant art form through transformative and engaging live performances and high-quality recordings.

9:30AM   |   FREE

Beloved by parents and children alike, Olive the Storyteller tells stories and tall tales from around the world.

Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy is a storyteller, writer, workshop leader and curriculum consultant in San Francisco, where she has been an artist-in-residence in public and private schools since 1986. She has brought the joy and magic of storytelling to countless children and grown-ups over the past three decades, preserving and transmitting this ancient yet relevant art form through transformative and engaging live performances and high-quality recordings.

9:30AM   |   FREE

An anti-germ Author Storytime hosted by a local physician.

Author Shan Woo Liu is the great-granddaughter of Wu Lien-teh. She is an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Masked Hero, her publishing debut, was inspired by her daughter Kaili’s first-grade project about Dr. Wu, written in early 2020. Both mother and daughter are proud to share the story of Dr. Wu and help children understand that heroes come in all shapes, sizes, genders, and races. Shan Woo Liu lives with her family in Massachusetts.

Masked Hero is the story of Dr. Liu's grandfather Wu Lien-teh, a doctor himself who was called into action as a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China over a hundred years ago. Medical experts were summoned to help contain it—among them Dr. Wu, who had overcome hurdles to be a doctor since his boyhood in Malaysia. Unlike others, Dr. Wu deduced the disease was spread through airborne bacteria and advocated for quarantines and other measures familiar to readers today, including the use of a face covering he designed from layers of cloth and gauze: the first version of the N95 mask.

9:30AM   |   FREE

The author of Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting speaks about how to 'unsubscribe', and why.

7PM   |   FREE

Join us at Black Bird for the west-coast launch of the second installation of the City of Dragon’s graphic novel series, Rise of the Shadowfire: A Graphic Novel.

Jaimal Yogis is an award-winning writer, outdoorsman, and frequent teacher. He is the author of the memoir Saltwater Buddha, which has been made into a feature documentary film, and The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing, and Love. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, he has written for ESPN: The Magazine, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, San Francisco magazine, Surfer’s Journal, and many other publications. He lives in Washington D.C. with his wife, Amy, and their three sons.

In Rise of the Shadowfire, Grace and friends are back for a brand new adventure! Ever since the battle in Hong Kong, Grace and her friends have been trying to find a way to get to Paris. When Nate suddenly appears and whisks Grace away to the Dragon King's lair, she learns that Daijiang and his underlings are searching for an ancient relic that will let them subjugate the dragons, and Grace needs to find it first! With Grace's burgeoning Hùnxuè powers, the team must get to Paris and stop Daijiang's plan.

9:30AM   |   FREE

A billingual (Spanish / English) Storytime with author Michael Genhart who will be reading from his new book El Espanol es la Lengua de mi Familia.

Dr. Michael Genhart has been a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco and Marin for 25 years. He has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families, dealing with various facets of mental health and illness: anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, trauma, abuse, sexuality, work stress, bereavement and chronic health conditions. During this time, he has specialized in working with children who have gay or lesbian parents, gay teens and coming out issues, same sex relationships, and LGBTQ parenting matters. Additionally, he has supervised advanced psychology student interns through local doctoral training programs and been a consultant to colleagues particularly with regard to working with the LGBTQ population. He has also spent the last fifteen years visiting and speaking at local elementary, middle and high schools to engage students in conversations about LGBTQ issues. He is a consulting psychologist to The Campaign to Change Direction which aims to change the story about mental health, mental illness, and wellness in this country.

9:30AM   |   FREE

A coffee brewing demonstration hosted by Fellow Coffee.

1PM