Calendar of Events

These are our regular Public Events. If you want to schedule a private session you can here: https://www.betterthanunicorns.com/play-vr/

We pick the games, you pay a flat admission fee of $15 ($10 for students) and jam!
Come early… we will queue players up as you show up!

Sign our waiver, rules, and media release ahead of time here: https://www.betterthanunicorns.com/play-vr/

Bring your friends and #getyourheadinthegame!

Become a Patreon to join our inner circle to explore how deep the immersive rabbit hole goes: https://www.patreon.com/betterthanunicorns!

https://www.facebook.com/events/302734167026800/?event_time_id=302734277026789

What a year it has been for Hickory Nut Gorge Outreach. Their impact in addressing hunger and responding to emergency services with love and compassion has been astounding. The year ahead moves HNG Outreach to new headquarters at 2556 Memorial Highway, (the former location of Dr. Burch’s medical practice).
Plan to join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of this special organization and as we come to learn all about what they have planned for 2019 and how we can all help.

https://www.facebook.com/events/349053309261672/

There’s something magical about the Upstate — it’s in the beauty of the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains and idyllic acres of farmland, our life-giving waters and lush, towering trees. It’s what makes this land such a magnificent place to call home.

But our region is at a crossroads, and we have an important decision to make. We can sit back and watch as our farms, forests and mountains are paved over. We can do nothing as our waterways are polluted. Or we can band together to protect this land we call home and promote positive, responsible growth. The choice is yours, and the time is now.

Join Upstate Forever at Zen Greenville from 5:30 – 7:30 pm Tuesday, March 19 as we celebrate the launch of Crossroads, our campaign to protect and maintain our region’s high quality of life for future generations. We will enjoy drinks, hors d’oeuvres and live bluegrass with brief remarks at 6:00 pm.

This complimentary event is open to all passionate about shaping the future of the Upstate. Your RSVP is appreciated as space is limited. To RSVP, visit ufcrossroads.eventbrite.com.

https://www.facebook.com/events/427864111287991/

This class is designed for tight and sore people! We’ll do a full body foam roller in about 1/2 an hour, and we’ll also add in tennis balls, dowels, the wall, and other props. We’ll stretch deep into your hips, hamstrings, calves, quads, pecs, chest, arms, shoulders, and more, while enjoying delicious chocolate.

$15 in advance/$20 at the door/BYO foam roller. $40 if you want us to buy you one, and you’ll take it home with you.

PRE-PAYMENT RECOMMENDED as space is limited. Buy here: www.ciscopilates.com/pricing or https://squareup.com/market/alexis-miller-cisco-pilates/foam-roller-deep-stretch-workshop

https://www.facebook.com/events/2098058640270166/

Taste merlot from around the world. $25 plus tax.
https://metrowinesasheville.com/wine-blogs/blog/entry/think-you-don-t-like-merlot

https://www.facebook.com/events/289902435217251/

Come enjoy a performance by all of our Third Grade Champions! The first performance will begin at 5:30 PM and will feature Mrs. Weeks, Mrs. Oakes, and Ms. Hewitt’s classes. The second performance will begin at 6:45 and will feature Ms. Boing and Mrs. Harper’s classes.

https://www.facebook.com/events/349701952281058/

Brewpon $2 Tuesdays!
$2 bottles and cans
$2 off select drafts
$2 off select menu items!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1376253399198796/?event_time_id=1376253499198786

Tuesday’s and Thursday’s 6-9pm for 2 weeks

https://www.facebook.com/events/320496398602790/

Project Management for the Public Sector
As a project manager that may work with local, state, or federal government agencies there are key issues, definitions, coordination needs and processes that when known can help you avoid pitfalls, duplication and errors of omission when working on Government projects. To better equip you to work with government agencies, learn what unique topics and considerations government project managers need to know and why.

While this presentation will use primarily federal government examples, many of the topics addressed apply equally to government agencies at local and state levels. Project management methods and terms for government organizations can be dictated by contracting regulations, legislative mandates, military considerations, human factors requirements, and agency and departmental coordination needs. The Department of Defense and several other agencies do not use Project Management Institute materials. Concepts and definitions are similar but not exact. Explore with us what the federal government uses for project management, why the Project Management Book of Knowledge has a Government Extension and what you need to know to successfully manage a government project.

https://www.facebook.com/events/163089174567062/

Join us for another FREE Public Tree Workshop, generously hosted by Wedge at Foundation. Mark Foster, City Arborist for Asheville, will discuss the variety of challenges that urban trees face due to the complications of their environment. In this workshop, we will examine these challenges and discuss possible solutions for your trees. We will compare stress factors urban trees face, and talk about ongoing maintenance including mulching, watering, fertilizing, tree support systems, and lightning protection.

Funding for Asheville GreenWorks’ Tree Workshops provided by the NC Forest Service and Duke Energy.

Register Here: https://goo.gl/forms/U4PpUkiVQb2xW1oM2

https://www.facebook.com/events/351416155549133/

The statewide investigative news nonprofit organization, Carolina Public Press, will hold a community Newsmakers forum on women’s health and safety issues, with a focus on sexual assault in North Carolina, from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19, at Studio 215 in Fayetteville.

The free and public forum, Unbalanced Justice: Sexual Assault in NC, will include the results a six-month long journalism project investigating the rates of sexual assault convictions in North Carolina.

The investigation, led by Carolina Public Press, is in collaboration with ten news partners in North Carolina: Durham Herald Sun, The Fayetteville Observer, Hickory Daily Record, NC Health News, The (Raleigh) News & Observer, (Greensboro) News & Record, Winston-Salem Journal, WLOS News 13, WRAL-TV and WUNC North Carolina Public Radio. The statewide reporting series is currently scheduled to be published in March.

In addition to discussions about the collaboration’s findings, the forum will also feature conversations with community organizations, state leaders and policy makers, law enforcement and prosecutors, survivors and others about concerns about and possible solutions to reporting, investigating, prosecuting and convicting sexual assault cases in North Carolina.

Panelists will be:

Deanne Gerdes, executive director of Rape Crisis Volunteers of Cumberland County
Alicia Marks, assistant district attorney, NC Prosecutorial District 14, Cumberland County
Lt. John Somerindyke, Fayetteville Police Department
Bella Truong, assistant district attorney, NC Prosecutorial District 14, Cumberland County

For more information on how to sponsor, attend or comment on the series, contact Carolina Public Press at 828-774-5290.

This is one of three forums the organization is holding on this topic in March. Other locations include Raleigh (March 20) and Charlotte/Huntersville (March 26). Visit www.carolinapublicpress.org for details.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2021276011514763/

Congratulations!! You did it! You completed not only the training program but you also ran the Asheville Half & Full Marathon at the Biltmore Estate!!
That’s reason to celebrate!
Join us from 6- 7pm on Tuesday night at Fleet Feet Asheville for food & drinks, as we reminisce on the past months of running together and share ALL the stories!
Come solo or bring your family/ friends- after all, they’re a part of this, too!

https://www.facebook.com/events/357993888257888/

Where? Foothills Wellness Center, Inc. – Fitness Center
When? Tuesday & Thursday 6pm
Who? Mark Sawyer
Cost? $10.00/class, discounts available for advanced purchase of punch card with multiple classes
More information? 828-859-5004 or [email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/events/338945186681233/?event_time_id=338945203347898

Find out how to best advocate for the issues you care about within our local government. Español abajo…

The League of Women Voters along with a coalition of local nonprofits working to empower our community to advocate effectively, is presenting this series so that you can productively communicate with local representatives, staffers and commission members.

Each session will be a panel discussion with representatives about how to best communicate about the issues you are passionate about and will work through scenarios on advocating for things like city infrastructure, community services and affordable housing.

Panel discussion will be moderated with time for questions from the audience.

Event series:
March 19 – Asheville City Government
April 9 – Buncombe County Government
May 14 – Board of Education

Come to one or all sessions!

Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like Spanish interpretation services or childcare (include the number of children and ages)

Coalition members include: Just Economics of WNC, League of Women Voters, Children First CIS of Buncombe County, MountainTrue, YWCA of Asheville

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Educación cívica (civics 101)

Serie educativa

Descubra cómo defender mejor los problemas que le interesan dentro de nuestro gobierno local.

La Liga de Mujeres Votantes (The League of Women Voters) y Mountain True, junto con una coalición de organizaciones locales sin fines de lucro, están trabajando para empoderar a nuestra comunidad para abogar de manera efectiva. Juntos, presentamos esta serie para que pueda comunicarse de manera productiva con representantes locales, miembros del personal y miembros de la comisión.

Cada sesión será un panel de discusión con representantes para mejorar la manera en que se comunican sobre los temas que les apasionan y trabajarán a través de escenarios para abogar por cosas como la infraestructura de la ciudad, los servicios comunitarios y la vivienda asequible.

El panel de discusión será moderado con tiempo para preguntas de la audiencia.

Serie de eventos:
19 de marzo- Gobierno de la Ciudad de Asheville
9 de abril- Gobierno del Condado de Buncombe
14 de mayo- Junta Directiva de Educación

Detalles:
De 6:30 a 7:45pm
En la sala comunitaria del YWCA
185 S French Broad Ave, Asheville, NC
Se servirán pequeños bocadillos

¡Venga a una o a todas las sesiones!

Póngase en contacto con nosotros en [email protected] si desea servicios de interpretación en español o cuidado de niño/as (incluya el número de niño/as y sus edades).

Los miembros de la coalición incluyen: Just Economics of WNC, League of Women Voters, Children First CIS of Buncombe County, MountainTrue, YWCA of Asheville

https://www.facebook.com/events/2190539710992582/?event_time_id=2190539714325915

From Executive Producer James Cromwell and award-winning director Keegan Kuhn (Cowspiracy, What The Health) comes RUNNING FOR GOOD, the feature-length sports documentary following world record marathon runner Fiona Oakes in her attempt not only to set a new global record in endurance racing, but to compete in the “toughest footrace on earth,” the Marathon Des Sables, a 250km race through the Sahara Desert.

With overcoming her own adversity, Fiona’s true drive to achieve incredible feats of speed and human endurance are motivated by a deep desire to raise awareness for the plight of animals. Her achievements help fund a 400+ animal sanctuary that she takes care of every day.

Join us on March 19th at the Grail Moviehouse in Asheville for a screening of this documentary. All proceeds from the event will benefit the residents of Farmshire Animal Sanctuary. We hope to see you there! <3

https://www.facebook.com/events/393333334561485/

Let’s come together for good conversations and cheer each other on.

Free to attend, although I do encourage that you buy the book at Firestorm or support them through other patronage.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1552670134869821/

For more information, visit https://www.blueghostbrewing.com/2019-wnc-natural-history-series.html

Blue Ghost Brewing Company is excited to announce The 2019 WNC Natural History Educational Series will occur on certain Tuesdays of February-April, beginning at 7PM. 10% if sales these nights will go to the partnering non-profit organizations or their causes. The event is free and open to the public. Dates, topics, presenters & organizations benefiting are as follows:

February 19 — Wild Turkeys
Stephen Tillotson, Park Ranger, Chimney Rock State Park (Chimney Rock State Park’s Earth Day Celebration)

March 19 — Black Bears in the Smokies
Lynda Doucette, Retired Park Ranger, Smoky Mountain National Park (Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park)

April 9 — Blue Ghost Fireflies
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Science, Biology & Ecology, Brevard College (Brevard College)

The multimedia presentations will last for about 45 minutes and feature a question and answers session at the end. There will be 12 beers on tap, Bold Rock Hard Cider, a red & white wine and a draught non-alcoholic homemade Blue Ghost 2-Diddy Root Beer for purchase. Food options will be available as well from Blue Ghost’s own The Hungry Ghost from 5:30-7:15 PM.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1960554030666817/?event_time_id=1960554040666816

We’ve been talking to the folks from Bardic Alchemy, a Celtic Rock band from Asheville and they’ve agreed to play at Triskelion as many Tuesdays as they can come down to the Brewery.

Bardic Alchemy is a brand new element in the Celtic Rock world. This trio, based in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina is comprised of multi-instrumentalist Connell Sanderson, guitarist Nick Marcone and percussionist and vocalist Tyler Watts.

Bardic Alchemy is best described as a psychedelic trip into a musical world that is heavily inspired by the Celtic musical traditions…run through various effects pedals. Everything from soothing, mellifluously reverberating whistle melodies supported by groovy guitar lines and thumping djembe beats to high energy dance tunes on the Scottish and Irish pipes to three part vocal harmonies and even improvised pieces, Bardic Alchemy is a surprisingly dynamic and unpredictable musical journey.

So… Tuesdays… will now be…

Celtic Rock Tuesday!

https://www.facebook.com/events/425715451498873/?event_time_id=425715454832206

MORE INFO
https://organicgrowersschool.org/gardeners/spring-gardening/

Learn to design, plant, and manage your garden. This 6-week course—every Tuesday, March 5–April 9, 2019—is divided into 3 topics. You may register for 1 topic ($50), 2 topics ($95), or the full series ($135).

Topic 1—Designing—Tuesdays, March 5 & 12, 2019
Topic 2—Planting—Tuesdays, March 19 & 26, 2019
Topic 3—Managing—Tuesdays, April 2 & 9, 2019

Each TOPIC has two sessions…

SESSION 1—Classroom (March 5, March 19, and April 2)
7:00–9:00PM
Lenoir-Rhyne University
36 Montford Ave
Asheville, NC 28801

SESSION 2—Garden (March 12, March 26, and April 9)
6:00–7:30PM
Dr. John Wilson Community Garden
99 White Pine Dr.
Black Mountain, NC 28711

TOPIC 1—DESIGNING
• Why you should consider growing organically
• Important site, size, and design considerations for your garden
• Growing the soil and nutrient basics
• Garden seasons
• Useful tools

TOPIC 2—PLANTING
• Techniques for starting seeds and transplants
• Dealing with common problems
• How much to plant
• Composting and vermicomposting (composting with worms!)
• Converting your lawn to garden
• An edible yard
• Maximizing your garden space

TOPIC 3—MANAGING
• The virtues of mulch
• Water and fertilization considerations
• Compost tea
• Cover cropping and NPK—nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K)
• Organic disease and insect control
• Tips for Fall gardening

The series is taught by Diana Schmitt McCall, Garden Manager at Dr. John Wilson Community Garden and Eat Smart Black Mountain.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2275053316051105/?event_time_id=2275053326051104

Poets who wants to participate should send in 2-3 Poems.
Poems will be out into a lottery.
AHS/SILSA poets: stop by Room 121 & get someone else’s work. Poets from other schools: add a note to your poems when you email and we will get back to you with a set. Use those poems to make something new!
You could do an imitation of their style, write an ode to them/their poetry, respond to one of their ideas, pick a line to build off, write a Golden Shovel—- or something else entirely! Whatever you do I’ll become your poem for the first (3:30 time limit) or second (2 minute time limit of the slam)
Poems should be sent to/ for more information: [email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/events/412144766025253/

Join the resounding voices of the Asheville Symphony Chorus, hundreds of enthusiastic audience members, and four professional soloists led by music director Michael Lancaster in a glorious “sing-along” of the beloved Requiem Mass by Mozart on March 19, 2019. Accompany others in singing this classic work or enjoy the soaring sound of more than 300 voices bringing history to life. Bring your own score if you’re able and want to sing; a limited number of scores will be available for singers who need them.

Singers’ call time is 6:15 pm and the performance begins at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 at http://ashevillesymphonychorus.com/concerts.html.com and at the door. Tickets will go quickly! Get yours today to secure your seat!

For more information: https://ashevillesymphony.org/event/mozart-requiem-sing-along/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1981669565467691/

Join us for a night of all things Shameless on Showtime! Lagunitas Brewing Co will be sampling out great beer and providing awesome prizes! Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and best team name! Cheers everyone!

https://www.facebook.com/events/768285816875998/

Come out and see what the fuss is all about! Team Trivia Tuesday at Sanctuary Brewing Company with host Josh Dunkin!

Team Trivia Western NC & The Upstate of SC is every Tuesday at 7 PM at Sanctuary Brewing Company on 1st Avenue in Downtown Hendersonville! There is no limit to how many people can participate on each team. You can have 1 or 20!

The game is free to play and the top two teams each week receive a gift card of $40 (1st place) and $20 (2nd place).

https://www.facebook.com/events/281414405828018/?event_time_id=281414442494681

Join us each Tuesday evening at 7pm for Trivia night at Refinery 13! Teams may consist of 1-6 players and prizes are awarded to first and second place teams each week!

https://www.facebook.com/events/395895714508426/?event_time_id=395895851175079

Test your Friend’s knowledge! We know you’ve binge watched it enough. Prizes for the winners and best team name!

https://www.facebook.com/events/418316678709964/

Jeff Tweedy
plus Jim Elkington
Show: 7:30pm
Doors: 6:30pm
$35 – $40
Ages 18+

Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/jeff-tweedy/

A PERSON GETS TO A CERTAIN STAGE IN LIFE — I’m there myself — no longer in the throes of child-raising (that magnificent distraction), when he starts to think of death not as some abstraction that happens to other people but as a big, indifferent train that, even at this moment, is rolling out of a station located at an unknown, but not infinite, distance away. “Isn’t it time, now, to finally be happy?” the universe starts asking, along with a second, complicating question: “But how can I be happy in a world like this?” Put another way: we seem born to love, and yet everything here is conditional (i.e., comes to an end). How should we live when the huge piano labeled “Death” is eventually going to fall, not only on us, but on everyone we love?

This album is, it seems to me, an answer. Or, more than an answer, it’s a nod to the validity of the question.

Should I be wary of life or enjoy it? the listener asks.

Yes, Jeff Tweedy says.

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After many years of asking myself what art is for, I’ve arrived at this: the role of the artist is to reach across space and time and console — to offer, not a cure or a prescription, but, rather, non-trivial consolation.

Jeff is our great, wry, American consolation-poet. I don’t mean this abstractly: to see him play is to find yourself in a crowd of people being actively consoled — being moved, reassured, validated, made to feel like part of a dynamic aural friendship. Jeff told me once that what he’s trying to communicate to his listener is: “You’re OK. You’re not alone. I’m singing to you, but I also hear you.” A testimony to the value Jeff places on this connection: after playing a number of solo acoustic shows in 2016 and 2017, he decided to make an album of those songs that seemed to speak most directly to those audiences. WARM is that album.

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Great art is really just great personhood in compressed form — a distillation of a human being that thrums with that being’s exact flavor. I’ve had this feeling meeting writers like David Foster Wallace, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison: a sense that years of hard work had refined what was personal in them into work that, though infused with particularity, has blossomed into universality. I have this feeling about Jeff and his music. The true mark of style in any art form is that, within a few seconds, you know who the artist is. Listen to five seconds of WARM and you’ll know it’s Jeff — by the sound of the guitars (the musical heart of the album is the circa-1930s Martin 0-18 that has been heard, at least a little, on every Wilco album, and is used on every track on this record) and by that magnificent voice: friendly (but formidable); tender (yet skeptical); edgy (but warm); but also by some other quality that seems, once things get going, to be present even in the pauses, some essential Jeffness that has come to be a vital component of my inner life over my many years of listening to him.
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For a long time now, it seems to me, our culture has assumed that the function of art is to warn, to blame, to critique, to scoff, to dismiss. And those are some of its functions, for sure. But an art that only does those things is destructive. Destruction already being the dominant mode of our culture, we don’t need any more of it. Anyone who advocates “burning down the house” has likely never been inside a building on fire. By what do we really live? Our lives — our real lives — are made almost wholly of attempts at tenderness. We work hard on behalf of those we love, daydream about their future happiness, go out of our way to save them even the slightest pain, comfort them when the pain arrives just the same.

Jeff is, to my mind, a warrior for kindness, who has made tenderness an acceptable rock-n-roll virtue. By “tenderness” I don’t mean that New Age thing, where someone drives a spike through your head and you place hands palm-to-palm and do a cheesy deep bow while thanking them for the new coat rack. No: Tweedy-tenderness is sophisticated and badass and funny. It proceeds from strength and good humor and does not preclude being angry or tough or peeved. It is based on the premise that you are as real as he is and as deserving of attention, and that the world is worthy of our full and fearless interest, just as it is.

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A poet is someone who lets language respond to language, trusting that meaning and sound are good friends who, given a little room, will work things out. Jeff writes by getting a musical track together and then humming / mumbling along until he finds a melody, which will start forming itself into words and phrases, while he waits patiently to see what he has been wanting to say. This is a remarkably sensitive method that lets meaning come out on its own terms, as subtly or overtly as it likes, and I am somehow put in mind of fireflies (lightning bugs, as we used to call them in Chicago), swelling into brightness and then being gone, as you ask yourself: did I just see that?

Certain lyrical flowers sprout up with regularity across the ten song-yards that are this record. A son who has lost a father sings to his wife, his sons, that father. There are apologies, and mirror-twins; threats to enemies (“I’d love to take you down / and leave you there”) and entreaties (“Let’s go rain again!”) and dreamy challenges (“I wonder how much freedom we can dream”) and ornery morphings of language that serve a simple function: they make the listener love language again.

“I leave behind / a trail of songs,” Jeff sings in “Bombs above,” “From the darkest gloom / to the brightest sun.”

What can a song do in this world? Well, you know. It can open a person right up. It can jolt you out of some bullshit state of mind, of sloth, of hubris. It can make that dead world out there suddenly come alive. It can make you (father, husband, son / mother, wife, daughter) newly aware that time is short and whatever love you have had better get spent, pronto. It can make you fond of things — and of the writer — for causing all of that newness to appear in your tired, old, habituated mind, which, under the influence of the song, is a kid again, on a summer day.

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WARM is one of the most joyful, celebratory, infectious collections of songs I’ve heard in a long time. It’s intimate and yet vast and feels lovingly made, by actual people, in some particular place, and not inside a computer. As I was listening, I kept picturing a tight little cabin in the woods somewhere (the woods of Chicago?) under a big yellow moon, with four or five Jeffs in there all playing different instruments, and Spencer on drums, and Susie and Sammy are there too, and there’s a fire going, and a feeling of love and discovery and fondness in the smoky air.

Also in there, I think, is the spirit of Jeff’s father, Bob Tweedy, who passed away in 2017. His death was, as Jeff puts it, “the death that most people would sign up for.” That is: he had what is called a “good death.” There was some concern that the family might not make it to his side on time, but they did, and he passed surrounded by love, everyone rising to that profound occasion, and apparently there may have been some singing involved. This is not the death everyone gets, but Jeff’s father got it, that strange and much-to-be-desired blessing. How must it affect one’s view of the world to see someone you love, at the end of his life, get the merciful gift of a dignified release? And so, one of the things I find coursing through this record is gratitude, even joy, that such a thing can happen, along with a sense of wonder at the realization that death, for as much as we fear it, does not actually negate anything, or anything essential.

“Oh, I don’t believe in heaven,” Jeff sings, in the title track, “I keep some heat inside. Like a red brick in the summer: warm when the sun has died.” What’s the red brick? That would be us, you and me. And Jeff too. Where does that warmth come from? What is that mysterious thing that is sustaining us, moment to moment (even in this moment), by infusing us with love and curiosity and a desire to go on?

Exactly, says Jeff.

— George Saunders

www.wilcoworld.net

https://www.facebook.com/events/574539919650976/

Another Country is progressive bluegrass. Their music is a truly unique blend of the thoughtful songwriting of country music, the infectious ear-candy of pop music and the artful beauty of acoustic bluegrass music.

Every Tuesday evening Isis presents our Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions. The sessions are hosted each week by a local bluegrass musician with friends or a band. Following the host band, Bluegrass musicians from the Asheville area gather on stage to jam in an open session. Occasionally, we feature a touring band that will perform prior to the open session and help co-host the jam. It’s always a great evening of music and community.

https://www.facebook.com/events/619586705171421/

Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 1
Mendelssohn: String Quartet, Op. 80
Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67

The New York Times recently lauded the Takács Quartet for “revealing the familiar as unfamiliar, making the most traditional of works feel radical once more”, and the Financial Times described a recent concert at the Wigmore Hall: “Even in the most fiendish repertoire these players show no fear, injecting the music with a heady sense of freedom. At the same time, though, there is an uncompromising attention to detail: neither a note nor a bow-hair is out of place.” Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess.

Classical Guitar Performances by Andy Jurik and Christopher Crecelius, accompanied by the beautiful vocals of Rachel Hansbury.

Andy (Dizzy) Jurik and Chris Crecelius present both Traditional and Modern compositions for the classical guitar, highlighting their works which include their arrangements of “Danza Paraguya” & “Estudio en Si Menor” – composer Barios, “Big Brother” – composer Stephane Wremble, “Bistro Fada” known recently from Woody Allen’s movie “Midnight in Paris”, Bach, and more. Many evenings will include a special performance by vocalist Rachel Hansbury, singing Sous le Ciel – composer Ernesto Cordero, a special Carter Family tune, and classic Edith Piaf, accompanied by Andy Jurik. $5 at the door.

A cheese plate and lite bite menu is available, including a featured “Cheese, Wine & Chocolate” special each Tuesday.

https://www.facebook.com/events/372028070041838/?event_time_id=372028083375170

Start from the beginning and learn the fundamentals of spins, climbs, and sexy dance moves on the static and spin pole! This concentrated eight week series is great for building strength and a quicker understanding of the mechanics, timing, and grace that is helpful for pole dancing.

We will focus on the static pole for the first 6 weeks and move to an introduction of the beauty of spin pole for the last two.

Pole dancing is fun, an amazing workout, and sensually expressive. Enjoy learning with the same group of students each week who are all brand new to pole.

Bring heels because they are fun to dance in and a lot less intimidating than they seem!

$128 for the series. Reserve your spot here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=330572&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0

https://www.facebook.com/events/624852267970616/?event_time_id=624852281303948