Bards & Brews Open Mic Event To Be Held at Bessemer Library, June 6

May's Bards & Brews event was held at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

The Birmingham Public Library’s monthly Bards & Brews poetry performance and beer tasting will be held Friday, June 6, 2014, at the Bessemer Public Library. The open mic event will feature music at 6:30 p.m., with poetry starting at 7:00 pm. The beer tasting will be provided by the Druid City Brewing Company of Tuscaloosa, AL.

Brian “Voice Porter” Hawkins will emcee the event, which is free and open to the public. Attendees must be 18 years or older to attend, and 21 years or older to be served. IDs will be checked.

The July 11 Bards and Brews will be a Slam at the North Birmingham Regional Library of the Birmingham Public Library.

Bards & Brews, which is made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, is usually held on the first Friday of the month at various locations around Birmingham. For more information call 205-226-3670, email hm@bham.lib.al.us or visit the Bards & Brews Facebook page.