Upcoming Events

When the Time Comes Reading and Discussion
Sunday, July 5 - 1:00PM

When the Time Comes: Families with Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions is a timely and compassionate book about the often difficult decisions facing many families that include elderly parents. Written by journalist Paula Span, a regular contributor to the New York Times' "New Old Age" blog and an award-winning member of the faculty at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, When the Times Comes is like a support group in print, following a dozen families who help their aging parents navigate old age in a variety of ways. While it is not a how-to manual, it is practical and useful; it includes a resource lists, distillations of a great many academic studies, and interviews with researchers, experts and advocates.
For more information on Span and When the Time Comes, please visit her website.
We hope you'll join us for this important reading and discussion!


No Knuckle Knockers Today- But There Will Be Klezmer!
Sunday, July 5 - 3:00PM

The Knuckle Knockers have their traveling hats on this month- we'll miss them! However, we are very lucky to be welcoming accordionist Rob Reich and his equally musically gifted friends back to Red Hill today from 3 to 5! Rob et al play amazing klezmer music, so if you missed it last week, come by this week to experience it firsthand.

Homey hayseeds hailing from the Heights of Bernal, the Knuckle Knockers stoke the raging fires of the vintage American music tradition. Blazing fiddles, mandolin, guitar, and five-string banjo set the bookstore in front-porch toe-tappin' mode. The Knuckle Knockers pipe in on all the favorite themes that fill any narrative need: love, death, fire and brimstone.
The Knuckle Knockers are: Karen Celia Heil, of the Creole Belles on fiddle, guitar, banjo, and vocals; Martha Hawthorne of the Stairwell Sisters, on guitar, banjo, vocals; and Bill Foss, a beloved Bay Area Old Timer who performs in everybody's band (the Crooked Jades and the Earl Brothers, et al.) because he's so dang good, on mandolin, fiddle, banjo, vocals.


Check out their site!


Octomutt
Sunday, July 12 - 3:00PM

Ted Savarese on guitar and Ashley Adams on upright bass make for esoteric lullabies, David Lynch does showtunes and seriously whimsical beauty.

"There's a definite down home, earthy feel to Octomutt's music -- seeming very casual and off the cuff -- however an occasional detour into more trippy, eccentric territory is certainly not out of the question. "
-Aquarius Records
Each project is treated in a unique way and utilizes other instrumentalists accordingly for color and texture. As friend and fellow musician Amy Molinelli says, Octomutt “sounds like San Francisco—like its skyline, like its angles, like its hills.”

www.octomutt.com


Heller Highwater
Sunday, July 19 - 3:00PM

Heller Highwater have become Red Hill Sunday favorites. They are: John Heller on guitar and vocals, Mike Mechanic on guitar and vocals, Andrew Waegel on banjo, dobro and vocals and Chris Xiques on bass and vocals. Sweet country harmonies from some of the sweetest country boys in the Bay Area!


Puppet Show!: Sean's Shadows
Sunday, July 26 - 3:00PM

Instead of music today, Red Hill is very excited to be hosting Sean Powers, a storyteller who uses the ancient art of shadow puppetry to bring well-loved traditional folktales to life. Mr. Powers has been performing with his puppets for nine years, and in that time, has appeared at over sixty libraries, schools and theaters in Northern California. He has created ten different plays based on tales from around the world, all of which are visually stunning and highly entertaining.
For more information about Mr. Powers and his shows and workshops for kids, please visit his website.
We hope you'll join us for this one-time-only storytelling event- it's sure to be a mezmerizing time!


Past Events

Klezmer at Red Hill!
Sunday, June 28 - 3:00PM

Free klezmer in the bookstore- 'nuff said!
If you miss it this week, they'll be playing next Sunday too- come on down!

Debut Bernal Swap: Grown-up Clothing!
Sunday, June 28 - 9:00AM

Red Hill is very excited to announce that we'll be hosting a series of monthly themed swaps on the fourth Sunday of every month!
This will be our first swap, and we think it'll be a good one. Please bring your clean, gently used grown-up clothes (no kids' clothes- sorry!) of all sizes to the store anytime between 9 and 5, and do some hunting for some like-new duds to replace those you've given away.
All unclaimed items will be donated to the appropriate charity after the swap ends.
Please join us this Sunday for a little facetime with your neighbors and your local booksellers (plus free klezmer music from 3 to 5 pm!). We look forward to seeing you!


Doctors Without Borders Slideshow & Discussion by Donna Canali
Thursday, June 25 - 7:00PM

Donna Canali is a Bernal Heights resident and a nurse. She recently returned from Africa where she worked with Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) as Field Coordinator responsible for starting a new MSF project in a Somali refugee camp in Kenya. This is Donna's fifth assignment with MSF in Africa. She will give a brief background on MSF and her previous missions and focus her presentation on challenges facing the refugees in the Dadaab Refugee Camp. Talk and slideshow will start promptly at 7 PM. Join us for an informative and lively evening of discussion on international human rights!


 

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