Calendar of Events

August 12: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (rated PG)

– When kids sneak into inventor Wayne Szalinski’s upstairs lab to retrieve an errant baseball, his experimental shrink ray miniaturizes them. When Szalinski returns home, he destroys the device – which he thinks is a failure – and dumps it in the trash, throwing out the kids along with it. The four children, now 1/4-inch tall, must survive the journey back to the house through a yard where sprinklers bring treacherous storms and garden-variety ants stampede like elephants.

If You Go

• All movies begin at dusk in Pack Square Park on 80 Court Plaza in downtown Asheville.
• Rec n Roll Fun Zone programming starts at 7 p.m.
• Pets, smoking, and alcohol are prohibited.
• Free parking is available in marked spaces on city streets and in city-owned lots on Marjorie Street after 6 p.m.

Henderson County Parks & recreation hosts a free movie screening and food truck at parks across the county this summer! Food truck opens at 7pm, movie starts at nightfall (approx 8pm). Bring your blanket and chair!

– May 13 | Jackson Park | Encanto
– June 17 | Etowah Park | Clifford the Big Red Dog
– July 15 | East Flat Rock Park | Sing 2
– July 29 | Tuxedo Park | Space Jam
– August 12 | Dana Park | Luca

The premier of “Racist Roots,” a 25-minute film created by the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, exposes the death penalty’s deep entanglement with slavery, lynching and racism. The film features several stories of Black men, including an Asheville man, who were unjustly convicted and sentenced to death. Panel discussion will follow.

This event is presented by the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, as part of “Just Sentencing: How North Carolina’s Death Penalty Grew from Racist Roots.”

Join Foundy Street, Wedge Brewing, and Grail Moviehouse for an outdoor screening of Xanadu, performances by Drag Queen Ganymede, DJ Set by Jaze Uries, exclusive limited seating from Sunnyside Trading Company, a Gospel Ice Cream Pop-Up, and lots of fun all benefitting Cat Fly Film Festival!

TFAC invites all artists: painters, sculptors, writers, performers & more — to a casual weekly drop-in gathering on Saturday mornings at 9 AM to share your works in progress, alert others, and chat about art and what’s happening in your community. The first weekly Coffee is Saturday, August 20 at 9 am. No RSVP needed, just drop by! Free parking available on Melrose Avenue, behind and alongside TFAC.

The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which a team makes a movie – writes, shoots, and edits – in just 48 hours. Phew! The Awards Night will include a “Best of” screening of the TOP TEN short films, followed by an Intermission and the Awards, including the award for BEST FILM! Bring your family and friends to this fun, annual celebration of our creative local film community.

Benefit for The Hope Chest For Women

Join us after hours to watch Luca (PG) in August. Films take place in the library community room after the library has closed. Popcorn will be served. Chairs will be out, but you’re welcome to bring blankets, sleeping bags, or pillows to sit on the floor.

Food and beverage welcome, but beverages must contain lids. No alcoholic beverages on library property and no child can be left unattended. Masks are not required in libraries but we ask you to respect other people’s space and wear a mask if you prefer.

TFAC invites all artists: painters, sculptors, writers, performers & more — to a casual weekly drop-in gathering on Saturday mornings at 9 AM to share your works in progress, alert others, and chat about art and what’s happening in your community. The first weekly Coffee is Saturday, August 20 at 9 am. No RSVP needed, just drop by! Free parking available on Melrose Avenue, behind and alongside TFAC.

Asheville Sister Cities celebrates our sister city in Nigeria with a screening of the PBS film Sacred Journeys. The film follows the Festival of Osun-Osogbo, an annual pilgrimage from Osun to Osogbo, Nigeria. It celebrates the goddess of fertility, Osun, and renews the contract between humans and the divine.

This ceremony is part of the Yoruba religion, which has upwards of 100 million practitioners, and is one of the world’s 10 largest religions. Door open at 6:00 pm for Refreshments and followed by film viewing and discussion FREE to Attend! Donations accepted. The Collider, Downtown Asheville

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. Theremins, synthesizers and feedback machines abound in this glorious ode to the women who helped shape, not just electronic music but the contemporary soundscape as we know it.

Avant-garde composer Laurie Anderson narration accompanies fascinating archival footage to trace the history of the technological experimentation of sound, the deconstruction of its parts and the manipulation into something altogether other. While traversing a range of musical approaches and personalities, from academia to outsider art to television commercials, we meet Clara Rockmore, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Laurie Spiegel and Eliane Radigue, among many other fascinating and enigmatic musical geniuses and their peculiar way of hearing the world.

Creative Prompt
Write a story from within a bubble.

Where
https://www.the-rhu.com/

Fun Fact for this day

### 3 Sept, 1976 Mars Viking 2 Lands

September 3rd, 1976 : The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 launched on September 9th, 1975 lands on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet’s surface.

TFAC invites all artists: painters, sculptors, writers, performers & more — to a casual weekly drop-in gathering on Saturday mornings at 9 AM to share your works in progress, alert others, and chat about art and what’s happening in your community. The first weekly Coffee is Saturday, August 20 at 9 am. No RSVP needed, just drop by! Free parking available on Melrose Avenue, behind and alongside TFAC.