A musical book club of Bay Area musicians who write and perform original songs inspired by books.
THE BLUEST EYE
by Toni Morrison
November 20, 2022 1 to 2:30pm
Mars Record Shop Backyard
4125 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA
Since its publication, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye has consistently landed on the American Library Association’s most banned books list. We’re celebrating this book (and belatedly honoring Banned Books Week) to help bring attention to something dear to all of us — artistic and intellectual freedom and the opening of minds.
Flyer by Yoko O.K.
CRUSHED: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR (Book One)
by TRINIDAD ESCOBAR
April 3, 2022 3-4:30pm
The Museum House Porch @ Peralta Hacienda Park
2465 34th Ave, Oakland, CA
Crushed is a biomythography (a literary form coined and mastered by Audre Lorde). This is the graphic memoir of cartoonist and poet Trinidad Escobar.
Flyer by Yoko O.K. (based on Trinidad's work)
Listen Like You Mean It
by Ximena Vengoechea
November 7, 2021 / 3-4:30pm
The Museum House Porch @ Peralta Hacienda Park
2465 34th Ave, Oakland, CA
Flyer by Yoko O.K.
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
July 25, 2021 / 6-7:30pm
The Museum House Porch @ Peralta Hacienda Park, Oakland, CA
100 Boyfriends is a series of innovative vignettes, snippets, and short stories exploring despair, connection, desire, heartbreak, identity, and sex. Purnell is something of a legend in the Bay Area punk scene, and a friend of the BBC. It's a short, wild read.
Flyer by Yoko O.K.
Peter Wohlleben
The Hidden Life Of Trees
w/Prologue & Reading of
Maya Angelou, "When Great Trees Fall"
July 26, 2020 / 6:00-7:15pm
@ ZOOM ROOM, EVERYWHERE USA
Flyer by Yoko O.K.
Tommy Orange,
There There
November 3, 2019 / 6:30-8 (doors at 6).
@ East Bay Booksellers
Oakland, CA.
Flyer designed by Yoko O.K.
James Baldwin (short stories)
Going to Meet The Man
June 23rd, 2019 / 6:30-8 (doors at 6).
Aisle 5, Oakland
Flyer designed by Yoko O.K.
Octavia Butler,
Dawn from the Xenogenesis Trilogy.
Sun. January 20th 2019 / 6:30-8pm
at Studio Grand in Oakland
Flyer designed by Yoko O.K.
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia.
Aug. 30th, 2018 / 7:30pm
Octopus Literary Salon.
The Inaugural BBC Oakland event!
Flyer designed by Yoko O.K.