Birmingham Public Library Blog

  Bards & Brews, the Birmingham Public Library's popular monthly spoken word poetry event, is going on the road this Friday to Birmingham's Lakeview Entertainment District.   If you ever wanted to share spoken word poetry before a live audience, join us at TrimTab Brewing, 2721 5th Avenue South , at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 7, for a Bards & Brews Open Mic celebration of Women's History Month. Founded in 2013, TrimTab is a small Birmingham brewery specializing in expressive IPAs, experimental stouts and fruited sour beers .     Singer Viktoria Vennice will be the featured artist and Thed Weller will serve as our host. Follow Viktoria Vennice on Instagram @therealviktoria . Bards & Brews is free and open to the public. You must be 18+ to enter & 21+ to drink from TrimTab with proof of I.D. Bards & Brews open mics are welcome to all forms of spoken word arts.  Bards & Brews is sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts. ...

Did you make a New Year's Resolution to eat the right foods in  2025? Then plan on joining the  Birmingham Public Library  this Tuesday, March 4, for "Mindful Eating: What's Eating You?," the next class in the 2025 workshop series  "Self-Care MasterMind: Community Edition."  This free series of engaging discussions about emotional and physical health happens every first Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on the first floor of the  Central Library downtown , 2100 Park Place.  The instructor for the  Self-Care MasterMind: Community Edition  series is Christina (C. J.) Wade, a licensed massage therapist and certified health coach.    C.J. Wade, instructor for the Self-Care MasterMind series. Check out this blog by Jim Murray, librarian at the Central Library, about BPL resources available to help people maintain a healthy diet.    In a Q&A with BPL PR Director Roy Williams, class instructor C.J. Wade ...

Image credit: Corinne Cox - The Cat IS the Hat The Birmingham Public Library kicks off Women’s History Month  with an exhibition of works by Alabama sculptress Corinne Cox. Art with Spin features raku-fired ceramic depictions of imaginary creatures perched in open books, spinning heads topped with fantastical objects and animals, and vessels clenched by dragon’s claws.  Art with Spin  will be on view in the Lobby Gallery at the Central Library through May 23. A reception for the artist will take place on Saturday, March 15, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. on the first floor.  Says Cox, “I like art that tells a story and creates an emotion. By making my sculptures spin the viewer can interact and engage in the story of the piece. My favorite emotion created is usually happiness and laughter, but the rich darkness of raku can spin in mystery. My spinning head candle lanterns were inspired by the jack-o’-lantern. I enjoyed carving a pumpkin each year but was sad when it can time to ...