The First Bards & Brews Of 2023 Happening At The Central Library On Friday, January 6

Flyer for the first Bards & Brews Open Mic of 2023. The writing is in gold aginst a dark background. You can see the city of Birmingham at night and there are champagne bottles overlayed the image. Bards & Brews is on Friday, January 6, from 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Bards & Brews returns the first Friday of January, kicking off 2023 with an open mic and featured poet Glennwood!

This open mic will be at the Central Library on Friday, January 6, 6:30—8:30 p.m. Mersey Craft Spirits is providing mixed drinks for the night and this is their first time at Bards & Brews.  

  • What: Bards & Brews January Open Mic
  • When: Friday, January 6, 6:30—8:30 p.m.
  • Where: Central Library | 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203
  • Details: Bards & Brews celebrates the new year with their first open mic of 2023. Support some of the Birmingham metro area's most talented poets, including featured poet Glennwood. Attendees are welcome to take the stage and share their original works or listen to others as a part of the crowd. Mersey Craft Spirits will be providing drinks for the first time at Bards & Brews. Patrons must be 18 and up to attend and 21 and up with proof of I.D. to drink. This program is sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Throughout the year of 2023, Bards & Brews will host a mix of alternating featured poets and guest entertainers as the opener. 

Al Elliott is hosting, and Glennwood, a Bards & Brews regular, is the first featured poet of 2023. Glennwood is a familiar face around the Birmingham poetry scene and he has won several Bards & Brews slams with his powerful poetry. Hear him—and other talented poets—live tomorrow night.

Mersey Craft Spirits will be joining us for the first time, providing drinks for the night. They are a local distillery founded in 2018 inspired by the adventurous and entrepreneurial spirit of Gavin and his family member's ancestor F.A. Poole. Mersey gets its name from the Queen of the Mersey ship that had two voyages to New Zealand, which is where the Poole family hails from. You can "taste the terroir" in their grain to glass spirits, reflecting the local environment the grain grows in.

Join us for the first Bards & Brews of 2023 with an open mic at the Central Library!

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By Cheyenne Trujillo | Library Assistant Ⅲ, Public Relations

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