Calendar of Events

Come and join us for our Grand Opening of Over the Selvage. Those wearing costumes will receive 10% off their entire purchase. Party is Friday and Saturday, 10-6pm. Come to enter in for a door prize. Goodie bags will be given (while supplies last).

Normal hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 10 am -6pm.

This is the 10th year for Ooh La La Curiosity Market that is an artist’s market that takes place in Pritchard Park, located in the center of beautiful downtown Asheville and will showcase the work of local artists.

Taking place over 14 Saturdays throughout Summer and every Saturday in October.

Ooh La La will feature works by local painters, leather smiths, jewelry makers, potters, up-cycled crafters, and other curious delights, all beneath the colored canopies of large market umbrellas. You will also enjoy three different musicians performing throughout the day.

Ooh La La is also a fundraiser for Animal Haven of Asheville, a no kill shelter.

Come and join us for our Grand Opening of Over the Selvage. Those wearing costumes will receive 10% off their entire purchase. Party is Friday and Saturday, 10-6pm. Come to enter in for a door prize. Goodie bags will be given (while supplies last).

Normal hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 10 am -6pm.

Santa’s Shoppe 2022 will be held November 4 – November 6, 2022 at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.

Friday, November 4th: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday, November 5th: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday, November 6th: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tickets can be purchased from JLS members, online, or at select local retailers.

Cost: $5.00 in advance, $10 at the door

Santa’s Shoppe 2022 will be held November 4 – November 6, 2022 at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.

Friday, November 4th: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday, November 5th: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday, November 6th: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tickets can be purchased from JLS members, online, or at select local retailers.

Cost: $5.00 in advance, $10 at the door

Grab a glass of complimentary champagne as you shop Cloth’s pre-holiday sale. Enjoy up to 50% Off multi-season men’s & women’s apparel and merchandise. Sale happening from 11am to 4pm on Saturday, November 5th at the President’s Lounge in the Sammons Wing. Featured cocktails and drinks will be available for purchase at the bar. All sales are final. Fall & Holiday parking rates are in effect.

Join us for our monthly poetry event featuring three poets and coordinated by Mildred Barya. This month, we welcome Sarah Cooper, Barbara Costas-Biggs, and AE Hines. This is a hybrid event, meaning there is an option to attend virtually and a limited amount of seats available to attend the event in-store. The event is free but registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendance.

Please click here to register for the VIRTUAL event. The link required to attend will be emailed to registrants prior to the event.

Please click here to register for the IN-PERSON event.

This event includes a book signing. If you are not attending in person but would like a signed book you may request one using the comments field when you order online or by call the store at 828-254-6734 during store hours.

If you decide to attend and purchase the authors’ books, we ask that you purchase from Malaprop’s. When you do this you make it possible for us to continue hosting author events and you keep more dollars in our community. You may also support our work by purchasing a gift card or making a donation of any amount below. Thank you! Feel free to email [email protected] with questions. We look forward to seeing you, whether in-person or online!

Sarah Cooper is the author of two poetry collections: Permanent Marker (Paper Nautilus, 2020) and most recently, 89% (Clemson University Press 2022).  Her poems also appear in Lunch, Sinister Wisdom, Iron Horse and other anthologies and literary journals.  Currently, Sarah is a PhD candidate in Rhetorics, Communication and Informational Design at Clemson University. Her dissertation project explores how spatial practices intersect with lesbian identity. She is a professor of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at Clemson University where she received the Holman Award for teaching, was a 2021 LGBTQ+ Faculty Excellence Award winner, a 2022 Gentry Award winner for teaching excellence and the 2022 Tee A. Corrine Fellow at the University of Oregon. For more, visit https://www.sarahcooperpoet.com/poetry

Sometimes, a poem can show us a map of the human heart and all its pumping valves, all the blood it welcomes and lets go. In 89%, Sarah Cooper gives us that map from all angles-the love and loss of a mother, the loss and love of self, the way romantic love can scare us into silence. In this stunning debut collection, Cooper splays open these moments of tenderness with precision and skill. This book is both the carving knife and the soothing balm. These poems have an unflinching eye-they see all the way through us and then swaddle us in whole, critical heartbeat of truth. 89% won the poetry prize for the Clemson-Converse Literature Series.

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Barbara Costas-Biggs is a poet and librarian from Southern Ohio. Her work has appeared in Appalachian Review, Northern Appalachian Review, The Pikeville Review, 8Poems, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, The Other Shore, was a finalist for the Washburn Prize from Harbor Review. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and an MLIS from Kent State University. For more, visit http://stilljournal.net/interview-barbara-costas-biggs.php

“Things can be idyllic and then ugly,” Barbara Costas-Biggs writes. “A basket of pears in ochre, then piss the same color.” In Broken On the Wheel, the familiar is made strange, as it is in dreams. The speaker of these poems is a mother, a griever, a “hope-against-hoper,” so it’s no wonder this collection is packed with epiphanies and memories and crapshoots—“That in-between stuff./ What we, I hope, are mostly made of.” Broken On the Wheel is a perceptive, masterful debut.

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AE Hines’s debut collection, Any Dumb Animal, received Honorable Mention in the North Carolina Poetry Society’s 2022 Brockman-Campbell Book contest, and was also a daVinci Eye finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book award. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, Rhino, American Poetry Review, Poet Lore, The Greensboro Review, Ninth Letter, The Missouri Review, Tar River Poetry and elsewhere. Born and raised in rural North Carolina, AE resides in Charlotte and Medellín, Colombia. For more, visit https://www.aehines.net

Any Dumb Animal (Main Street Rag, 2021), AE Hines’s poetry collection, presents a memoir-in-verse as told by a gay man raised in the rural South who comes of age during the AIDS crisis. Flashing back and forth in time, a cast of recurring characters and circumstances are woven into a rich tale of survival and redemption, exploring one man’s life as a queer son, father, and husband, over a span of more than thirty years.

Join us for our indoor holiday market on Saturday, Nov. 12.

Ext The market will be open to the public from 10
am – 4 pm each day with no cost for attendance. The employees’ work, as well as Rite of Passage
garments, will be available for purchase.
The Sew Co. team is made up of talented makers across a multitude of creative disciplines. In
celebration of this talent and the fast-approaching holiday season, the Makers Market will feature
the work of 10+ team members with varying products including hand-knit hats, paintings +
prints, vintage upcycling, home goods, leather bags + wallets, and much more.
Rite of Passage’s newly released Fall Collection will also be on display. Come try on clothes and
enjoy hot apple cider and light refreshments in the open-air gallery while browsing handmade
goods and chatting with the Sew Co. team!

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Sew Co is a full-service cut and sew manufacturer of sewn objects with socially responsible and
unconventional business concepts. In the midst of thousands of textile jobs moving overseas,
Sew Co. was founded in 2010 as an effort to preserve the skill of sewing and our domestic
manufacturing economy.
RITE OF PASSAGE is a slow fashion label inspired by the darker, delicate details found in
nature. Designer Giovanni Daina-Palermo and entrepreneur Libby O’Bryan, two friends,
professional pattern makers, and conceptual artists founded the brand in 2018.

Ext The market will be open to the public from 10
am – 4 pm each day with no cost for attendance. The employees’ work, as well as Rite of Passage
garments, will be available for purchase.
The Sew Co. team is made up of talented makers across a multitude of creative disciplines. In
celebration of this talent and the fast-approaching holiday season, the Makers Market will feature
the work of 10+ team members with varying products including hand-knit hats, paintings +
prints, vintage upcycling, home goods, leather bags + wallets, and much more.
Rite of Passage’s newly released Fall Collection will also be on display. Come try on clothes and
enjoy hot apple cider and light refreshments in the open-air gallery while browsing handmade
goods and chatting with the Sew Co. team!

———-
Sew Co is a full-service cut and sew manufacturer of sewn objects with socially responsible and
unconventional business concepts. In the midst of thousands of textile jobs moving overseas,
Sew Co. was founded in 2010 as an effort to preserve the skill of sewing and our domestic
manufacturing economy.
RITE OF PASSAGE is a slow fashion label inspired by the darker, delicate details found in
nature. Designer Giovanni Daina-Palermo and entrepreneur Libby O’Bryan, two friends,
professional pattern makers, and conceptual artists founded the brand in 2018.

Inspired by nature and following the self-published released of How to Heal the Planet from Wherever You Are, Cortina Jenelle introduces Oshanna Church of Spiritual Activism, with Oshanna debuting as a dynamic experience rooted in ceremony and inviting nature as a co-facilitator through theater, art and spoken word. After each production, all ticket proceeds are donated to a mission partner who is doing work in service to Mother Earth while also furthering truth, healing and reconciliation across race, gender and class.

Black Starseed: Immaculate Conception is the second installment of the Black Starseed series, which goes back in time as a prelude to Black Starseed: Revolutionary Reimagination (2020) – a debut partnership between adé PROJECT and PechaKucha Asheville co-creating a storytelling experience in voice of Black women at the intersection of creativity x spirituality. In this prelude, the life story of Cortina Jenelle becomes a moving memoir and an embodiment of a shared story from the matriarchs of Black, indigenous descent in a world where femininity, Blackness, sovereignty and indigeneity were not just criminal, but a threat to society. Black Starseed: Immaculate Conception may appear to just tell the story of one, yet is actually one version of the same story that constantly loops through time. Do you know how purposeful, brilliant and divine you already are, Starseed? This is heart song of the black sheep generation + millennials, and those born torn between ancestral remembrance and playing the game of life to win. Join us in a gathering of art, theater, ceremony (with a bonus book signing post-show) and storytelling and leave reminded of how to heal the planet from wherever you are.

Ticket proceeds benefit cleanup of the French Broad River with our mission partner for this show, Asheville Greenworks.

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS HERE IN THE BEAUTIFUL WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS.

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS HERE IN THE BEAUTIFUL WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS.

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS HERE IN THE BEAUTIFUL WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS.

On Sunday, November 27 more than 1,800 Museum Stores representing all 50 states, 24 countries, and five continents will celebrate Museum Store Sunday, the 5th global annual day to Be a Patron and shop conscientiously. Just in time for the holidays, find distinctive gifts filled with inspiration and educational value. Through your purchases, you’re not only supporting the Asheville Art Museum, but you’re also championing small businesses, independent suppliers, and artisan makers whose products are featured in our Museum Store.

Join us for a two day hand made craft extravaganza! Our talented volunteers (Elves) have been busy creating unique holiday decor perfect for holiday gifts or to treat yourself.

The French Broad River Garden Club Foundation presents its 95th Annual Holiday Greens Market. This one-of-a-kind, historic event features unique, handcrafted works by regional artists including wreaths, centerpieces, pottery, ornaments, jewelery and many more items. It is a unique experience offering many options for holiday gift-giving and home decorating.

Join us for a two day hand made craft extravaganza! Our talented volunteers (Elves) have been busy creating unique holiday decor perfect for holiday gifts or to treat yourself.

The FBRGCF’s 95th Annual Holiday Greens Market is a historic event featuring unique, handcrafted works by regional artists including wreaths, centerpieces pottery, ornaments, jewelry, decorations, baked goods and many more items. This one-of-kind experience offers many options for holiday gift-giving and home decorating, marking the beginning of the holiday season. Proceeds from the sale support local horticultural and conservation scholarships and projects.

Join us for a two day hand made craft extravaganza! Our talented volunteers (Elves) have been busy creating unique holiday decor perfect for holiday gifts or to treat yourself.

Come get your Christmas décor and gifts from the annual Land O’ Sky
Garden Club Christmas Bazaar, which includes all handmade, original and all-natural items, including pre-made wreaths, a
decorate your own wreath bar, gifts, greenery, Christmas aprons, vintage gift tags, yule logs, pine boughs, baked goods, jellies
and much more