A musical book club of Bay Area musicians who write and perform original songs inspired by books.
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
Flyer by Yoko OK (based on Trinidad's work)
Crushed is a biomythography (a literary form coined and mastered by Audre Lorde). This is the graphic memoir of cartoonist and poet Trinidad Escobar.
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 OK
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
July 25, 2021 / 6-7:30pm
The Museum House Porch @ Peralta Hacienda Park, Oakland, CA
Flyer by Yoko OK
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.
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 OK
Video link here
Tommy Orange
There There
November 3, 2019 / 6:30-8 (doors at 6).
@ East Bay Booksellers
Oakland, CA.
Flyer by Yoko OK
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 Ok
Octavia Butler's, Dawn from the Xenogenesis Triology.
Sun. January 20th 2019 / 6:30-8pm
at Studio Grand in Oakland
flyer designed by Yoko Ok
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia.
Aug. 30th, 2018 / 7:30pm
Octopus Literary Salon.
The Inaugural BBC Oakland event!
Flyer designed by Yoko OK.