Calendar of Events
Upcoming events and things to do in Asheville, NC. Below is a list of events for festivals, concerts, art exhibitions, group meetups and more.
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The original CZT-only Take and Teach event! Sign up for the mailing list to be the first to know all about it. Registration opens in September. www.TangleU.com and See you there!
https://www.facebook.com/events/291451734971535/
Xiu Xiu
w/ Secret Shame
at The Mothlight
Tuesday May 7th
Doors 8pm
Tickets: $13adv, https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1815441
More Info:
http://www.xiuxiu.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1936470513322891/
10pm
21+
Donation$
One Stop
Join us downstairs during Funk Jam for an all-star local cast of rotating DJ’s spinnin’ vinyl and scratchin’ like there’s no tomorrow!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2261496624135396/?event_time_id=2261496690802056
From Thursday, May 2nd until Saturday, June 22nd, Momentum Gallery hosts a two-person, mixed media exhibition called Dissolution. The collection features individually created and collaborative works by two artists, Seth Clark and Jason Forck. Original collages mounted to panels play off architectonic sculptures in glass and wood culminating in a cohesive body of work that explores the notion of deteriorating architecture. This event is free and open to the public.
Wildflowers springing from the ground are a sign that spring and warmer weather are right around the corner. Capture photos of your family and friends enjoying the Park and enter them into our Shades of Spring Photo Contest for a chance to win fabulous prizes. We’ll use the winning entries on our website and Facebook album, and you’ll win some fun prizes. Photos must be taken within the Chimney Rock section of the Park.
Cost: No additional cost to enter.
https://www.facebook.com/events/267786327235081/?event_time_id=267786347235079
An exhibition of youth art titled “Let a Joy Keep You,” is on display from April 1 to May 31, 2019. The inspiration for the art comes from the first line of Carl Sandburg’s poem “Joy.” Each of the 70 canvases reflects how the young artists chose to interpret what joy means to them. Visitors can see the installation at the Sandburg Home when they visit. Young artists are represented from across the country and locally, including students from Sugarloaf Elementary School in Hendersonville, NC.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2304444942927531/?event_time_id=2304444962927529
Explore our Aaron Siskind exhibition along with an artist, historian, or scholar who will give perspective and context to the work from their particular point of view. Guest Speaker: Diana C. Stoll, arts writer and editor of books, journals, and catalogs for Aperture Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, and other cultural institutions.
FREE
https://www.facebook.com/events/518790941962599/
Have a pint and express yourself to creating works of art in the beer-themed coloring books! Adult Coloring will be held every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Bring in your own coloring gear or pick through our many gel pens and themed coloring books.
Art
https://www.facebook.com/events/320830388762640/?event_time_id=320830415429304
This new class in our Fitness Center will incorporate Qigong, strengthening, mediation and yoga. This class is geared to all ages and gender, especially male golfers.
Qigong is a practice that typically involves moving meditation, slow flowing movement and deep rhythmic breathing that provides a calm meditative state of mind.
Classes are $10.00/person.
This class will be lead by instructor Dr. John Akers. Dr. Akers is a recently retired Wofford language professor and classical guitarist who has taught wellness classes at Wofford, the Spartanburg YMCA, and Zen Garden. Dr. Akers played and coached collegiate soccer, has practiced meditation over 40 years, and teaches a daily routine of yoga and core strengthening enhanced by Qigong energy play. Dr. Akers is also an avid golfer committed to carrying his own clubs, without a cart.
https://www.facebook.com/events/407581593350375/?event_time_id=407581633350371
Select a wine on draft and fill a plēb urban winery 500mL or 1L growler for a reduced price (see menu for availability and pricing). Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.
https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/?event_time_id=859748784386255
Join the Ruhland family for some work on their adopted trail.
Park at bottom of Ingles Field Connector and then walk up and clean drains, etc. Most of the work would be performed on IFG proper.
Be sure to bring your own tools and PPE (personal protective equipment) if you have it.
Long pants, closed toe shoes, eye protection. We will have tools, hard hats, extra gloves if you need to borrow any.
https://www.facebook.com/events/311998376136701/
Our weekly dose of James Hammel’s awesome selection of cover songs and original tunes! Always a good show, and you’re bound to see someone you know at the bar!
https://www.facebook.com/events/325013448112541/?event_time_id=325013501445869
Strong & the Strong 30-90 Day Challenge
Ages 13 and up
A high intensity class designed to provide a full workout in a short time. Come once or take the whole series & join the 90 day fitness challenge. Bring a yoga mat or towel & water. No preregistration required. FREE
May 1-July 17
(No class 7/3)
Wednesdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm
Recreation Park Pavilion
https://www.facebook.com/events/1523312957803744/?event_time_id=1523312964470410
A Wine Deconstructed is an Education Series hosted by plēb urban winery on the second Wednesday of the month. Depending on the topic, one or two wines will be deconstructed to identify the various components and discuss their meaning in the wine.
https://www.facebook.com/events/318802065417640/?event_time_id=318802075417639
Have a pint and express yourself to creating works of art in the beer-themed coloring books! Adult Coloring will be held every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Bring in your own coloring gear or pick through our many gel pens and themed coloring books.
Art
https://www.facebook.com/events/320830388762640/?event_time_id=320830422095970
Instructor: Alison Chism
Wednesdays, May 8 – June 26
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Tuition: $660
This 8-week class is geared to the person who wants to develop a firm foundation in hot glass. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or have some experience, this class will deepen your understanding of glass as an artist’s material. Students will lead an exploration from solid sculpture to vessel-making. Emphasis is on furnace glass, however, all aspects of sound studio practice will be covered including coldworking.
https://www.facebook.com/events/301929300514948/?event_time_id=301929307181614
This event is FREE and open to the public and will be live-streamed on Facebook. Seating is limited. If we exceed capacity Delia has graciously agreed to stay and sign books for those who couldn’t get a seat. You may also purchase a book from Malaprop’s to have it personalized and pick it up or have it shipped after the event. https://www.malaprops.com/book/9780735219090
Please stay tuned for important details.
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She’s barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals
immediately suspect Kya Clark. But she is not what they say. Years earlier, when six-year-old Kya watched her Ma walk down the dirt footpath, away from the family’s rough-hewn wooden shack tucked back in the marsh, she didn’t know it would be for the last time. And, then one by one, her siblings and Pa walked away, too, leaving her alone with the marsh as her only provider and companion.
Relying on her sharp instincts and lessons from the natural world, Kya builds a life of solitude away from the scornful, prying eyes of the townspeople. A born naturalist, she becomes an expert in the ways of the marsh that teems with life and reveals its secrets to the careful, watchful girl. Lessons and secrets that she will need for her very survival.
Solitude is not easy. Yearning to be touched and loved, Kya is drawn to two young men from town, both intrigued by her wild beauty. Each man offers different paths and promises of worlds beyond the marsh—but lies can be told, promises broken, and a tumble from an old fire tower can look a lot like murder.
Thought-provoking and deeply moving, WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
About the Author:
Delia Owens is the coauthor of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa, including Cry of the Kalahari and Secrets of the Savanna. She has won the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, the African Journal of Ecology, and International Wildlife, among many others. She currently lives in Idaho and Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1236141856540913/
The French Broad Valley Music Association: FBVMA jam session is focused on regional fiddle tunes and songs. Carol Rifkin and John Mitchell cohost weekly, bring an instrument to play or just enjoy the music, its free, kid friendly, donations encouraged. Key Players are intermediate to advanced but beginners are most welcome and encouraged to attend to listen, learn/quietly play along. More experienced players sit in the inner circle and take turns choosing fiddle tunes or songs. Guests, families and kids are invited to listen and often sing along. This style of community play has been used to entertain and pass down music to kids for generations.
The French Broad Valley Music Association is a 501c3 non-profit organization formed to celebrate local musical heritage. “Our community. Our music. Our sense of place.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/231970501048591/?event_time_id=231970561048585
Come practice with me every Wednesday evening at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards at 6pm-7pm to get over that crazy mid week hump!
All levels welcome for an upbeat and energizing power flow while focusing on turning inward and cultivating an intention that you can take with you off your mat!
10$ for 60 minute power vinyasa flow and glass of wine!
6pm-7pm Please share and feel free to bring your friends!
DM if you have any questions! Hope to see you there✨✨
https://www.facebook.com/events/1224464734374111/?event_time_id=1224464791040772
Head full of useless knowledge? Now’s your time to shine! Join us every Wednesday at 6:30pm for a night of interactive trivia perfect for all skill levels.
Live scoring, music rounds, photo rounds and even themed categories!
Prizes awarded each week for the 1st place team!
https://www.facebook.com/events/277072849778679/?event_time_id=357420365077260
Trivia Night is every Wednesday Night at Legends on the Lake starting at 6:30pm. Arrive early to secure your seats and ensure that you do not miss any of the action! Compete as a team or individually for prizes each week. Trivia is free to all who would like to compete. Prizes will be distributed by team, one prize per team. The certificates are good for any following visit. We ask that teams be limited to a maximum of 8 players for the sake of seating and space.
https://www.facebook.com/events/254689012071408/?event_time_id=299382844268691
¡Triskatrivia!
2019’s Themes: (updated as they are determined)
May 1 – Outer Space
May 8 – The 60’s
May 15 – Video Games
May 22 – The Office
May 29 – Star Trek
¡TriskaTrivia! is Triskelion’s Themed Trivia Night!
Starts at 7pm, and usually lasts at least an hour and a half.
Glorious Prizes:
First Place Team: $25 Gift Card
Second Place Team: $15 Gift Card
Each member of the team that wins the Very Hard Questions Round (almost always Round 3), will win a free beer.
If at least 6 people dress up in costumes that relate to the night’s theme, then the best dressed (determined by me) wins a free beer!
(that means if your entire team of 6 are the only ones dressed up, then a member of your team is destined to get a free beer)
There are six rounds, with 10 questions each, and each round will be on a different subject that relates to the night’s theme… Each question is worth 5 points.
Teams can consist of up to six players, or you can play by yourself if you have no friends.
Cheating is not allowed… no phones, no “yelling out of answers” (even wrong ones), and no handy reference materials… This is not an open book trivia night.
Come on out and show off your Brainz!!!
(or lack thereof)
https://www.facebook.com/events/2020001851418998/?event_time_id=2020001904752326
$15 / $18
A Tale of transformation weaving songs, healing sounds, and storytelling. Woven Green presents a soulful and heart-opening concert experience as the couple weaves their signature blend of folk, rock, world, and new age music in a spiritual stream of consciousness that invites listeners to the transcendental and mythic world they so passionately inhabit.
Seated Lounge Show:: Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation :: All Other Seating is First Come First Serve General Admission :: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations
https://www.facebook.com/events/337107116703610/
Andy Cohen, Master Blues Musician, with Ash Devine in Concert at Flood Gallery
Andy Cohen rolls through Asheville, NC on a rare occasion. Join us for a special concert of piedmont blues, road worthy fingerstyle folk blues, and other heartfelt original tunes! Andy is a connoisseur of Rev. Gary David repertoire on guitar, and a general life long student of all blues style. Cohen has been on the road for almost 50 years, and at 72, still wanders the countryside with a car load of character and instruments. Ash Devine, friend, surrogate niece, and student of Andy Cohen, will accompany for a few originals, traditional songs from WNC, Carter Family repertoire, and more.
The concert is based on a sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Fingerstyle country blues guitar pickin workshop available the night before the concert! Limited spaces are available for this rare opportunity to study with Andy! For more info and to register, email Ash at [email protected].
Monthly meeting of Asheville Chapter of PFLAG, a local support group for families with LGBTQ members.
https://www.facebook.com/events/261896614668892/?event_time_id=261896644668889
Singer/guitarist, Izzi Hughes, is no newcomer to music or performing. She brings a youthful energy to every performance, while “wowing” the audience with her musical maturity. Her eclectic mix of songs will remind you of the old ones you have forgotten, while putting a unique twist on the new ones of today.
https://www.facebook.com/events/391996968197540/
Monthly gathering of PFLAG members and interested community members. Peer-led support meeting; printed resources available.
Hello Friends!PFLAG Asheville is made up of LGBTQIA+ individuals, their families, and allies and is part of the national network of PFLAG chapters in various cities and towns across the U.S. Our Chapter membership is comprised of community members coming together for fellowship, friendship, support, connection, education and resources.We will be hosting a General Support Meeting, consisting of peer to peer support, discussion and resources in a sharing circle format, facilitated by PFLAG Board Members.Free street parking after 6pm, after-business hours at TD Bank lot, parking lot behind church. Please arrive before or promptly by 7pm as the church’s doors must remained locked. A representative of PFLAG will be at the door to let you in. Enter on first floor through glass doors.
https://www.facebook.com/events/569413323542757/
What is Stanley’s favorite day? What is Pam’s favorite flavor of yogurt? If you know these and many more join us for another night of trivia all about the wonderful characters from The Office! Prizes for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd! Team size limited to four people per team. Cheers everyone!
https://www.facebook.com/events/289212875326833/
Pure Barre Asheville and the Junior League of Asheville, Inc. are partnering for a great night of fitness and bonding on Wednesday May 8 at 7:15pm. This is open to all current League members and any women interested in learning more about the JLA!
This is a donation based class ($12 minimum donation) and 100% of the proceeds will go back to the Junior League of Asheville. There are 25 spots available, so confirm your spot early through this link http://purebarre.com/nc-asheville/#healcode , scroll down until you find the May 8th, 7:15pm class and then register.
If you have never been to Pure Barre, please arrive a few minutes early to complete paperwork and get settled.
Dress code: leggings/pants that come below the knee, a full-length top (no midriffs allowed), and sticky socks must be worn in the studio.
For more information please contact Jamie Bryan Whitlock at [email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/events/361456557826554/
Do you have a bunch of useless facts stored in the back of your head? Do you like the occasional beer on a weekday? Well… Trivia on Wednesday nights at Catawba Brewing might’ve just become your new weekly tradition. Come join us and Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes at 7:30!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2108899619191274/?event_time_id=2108899642524605
