Calendar of Events

Start your no-obligation free 14 day trial any day of the week (see our class schedule link below). 12 women ages 35 to 55 are invited to be part of an exclusive FREE trial of dance fitness classes at Jazzercise South Asheville Fitness Studio. Take at least 5 classes within 14 days, then offer honest feedback via survey. When complete, you will receive a $50 credit towards registration (making the JF $0 for you!).

Check out the BEFORE & AFTER photos of real results from Jazzercise! Space is limited! To be a part of the trial group, please direct message us with the class day and time you would like to begin. For a complete class schedule, visit: https://jcls.jazzercise.com/facility/jazzercise-south-asheville-fitness-center

*Must begin your trial no later than April 15. Available to new clients only. Message us while spots are still available! Please arrive 15 minutes before your 1st class and bring a clean-bottomed pair of athletic shoes you can change into for class (dirt, sand, and tiny rocks will scratch our new studio floors).

https://www.facebook.com/events/2294581184153215/?event_time_id=2294581254153208

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/2260375557328117/?event_time_id=2260375583994781

Objective: Demonstrate myofascial release techniques with a foam roller.

The course covers how to use a foam roller to perform myofascial release.

Wear comfortable clothes and bring snacks/water as desired.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1128672613952503/

NC State Senator Terry van Duyn will be speaking on the importance of state government and current issues facing North Carolina at 10 a.m. Monday, April 8 in Ferguson Auditorium on the A-B Tech Asheville campus. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Kasey Baker at [email protected].

https://www.facebook.com/events/806556313064627/

Join us for another free legal name change clinic. We will supply you with all of the paperwork needed for the name change and help you answer any questions you may have while navigating this often confusing process. It’s easier with friends!

Our clinic is free, but there are different costs associated with the name change process that you will pay to different agencies along the way, and they are as follows:

Fingerprint fees: $10 each (you’ll need 2 sets)
State background check: $14
FBI background check: $18
Name change petition: $120
Notary fees: vary by location
There is also a charge for a new copy of your birth certificate, but that depends on what state you were born in. To find that info, check https://www.vitalchek.com.

Not all fees are due at the same time in the name change process. Fingerprints are the first step in the process which you then send off for the the state and FBI background checks. The federal background check can take up to 3 months to return, so you will have a little time to get the filing fee for the name change petition together.

If you feel like you would be more comfortable with an escort to the ID Bureau for fingerprinting or to the courthouse to file papers, please let us know in advance of the clinic date so that we can make the proper arrangements.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1708098039316464/?event_time_id=1708098082649793

FREE 8-Week Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Program

Registration Required – Spaces are Limited

Many older adults experience a fear of falling. People who develop this fear often limit their activities, which can result in physical weakness, making the risk of falling even greater. A Matter of Balance is a program designed to reduce the fear of falling and increase activity levels among older adults. It includes 8 two-hour sessions for a small group of 8-12 participants led by a trained facilitator. This nationally recognized program was developed at the Roybal Center at Boston University.

Who should attend?

The program is designed to benefit older adults who:

Are concerned about falls

Have sustained falls in the past

Restrict activities because of concerns about falling

Are interested in improving flexibility, balance and strength

Are age 60 or older, community-dwelling and able to problem solve

What do participants learn?

The program enables participants to achieve significant goals. They gain confidence by learning to:

View falls as controllable

Set goals for increasing activity

Make changes to reduce fall risk at home

Exercise to increase strength and balance

https://www.facebook.com/events/391841454714697/

FREE 8-Week Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Program

Registration Required – Spaces are Limited

Many older adults experience a fear of falling. People who develop this fear often limit their activities, which can result in physical weakness, making the risk of falling even greater. A Matter of Balance is a program designed to reduce the fear of falling and increase activity levels among older adults. It includes 8 two-hour sessions for a small group of 8-12 participants led by a trained facilitator. This nationally recognized program was developed at the Roybal Center at Boston University.

Who should attend?

The program is designed to benefit older adults who:

Are concerned about falls

Have sustained falls in the past

Restrict activities because of concerns about falling

Are interested in improving flexibility, balance and strength

Are age 60 or older, community-dwelling and able to problem solve

What do participants learn?

The program enables participants to achieve significant goals. They gain confidence by learning to:

View falls as controllable

Set goals for increasing activity

Make changes to reduce fall risk at home

Exercise to increase strength and balance

https://www.facebook.com/events/391841454714697/?event_time_id=391841478048028

Want to learn basic sign langauage? Register today for this 3 week basic sign language class where you will learn simple signs to communmicate with people who are deaf or nonverbal.
Registration required! Call 828-648-2924.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2188201414571015/?event_time_id=2188201417904348

Techniques for helping clients manage chronic lower back pain.

Objectives:

1. Apply massage techniques for managing chronic lower back pain.

2. Identify contraindications for lower back pain management.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1962725037082413/

“Hola, Asheville” is a group for bilingual / bicultural families (English / Spanish) to get together and play, read and socialize in Spanish. Our goal is to create a fun environment for our kids to cultivate their other language. We’ll be playing games, sharing stories about our countries, and talking about books we’ve read.

No registration necessary. Group is welcome to anyone. We will meet every other Monday downstairs in the activity room.

https://www.facebook.com/events/302598390609920/

The next Koontz PTO meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 8th at 3:30. The PTO is looking for parents who are interested in serving on the board, come check out what committees and positions are available for next year. Hope to see you there:)

https://www.facebook.com/events/808884822819906/

We are releasing a delicious new IPA –

Type and style you’ll have to just come and find out!

https://www.facebook.com/events/861930714154883/

Monday, April 8th
5-7pm
Gold’s Gym on Hendersonville Road
FREE informational table with WNC Superheroes

WNC Superheroes are a group of community members committed to helping those in acute distress. Our Superheroes give their time and resources to those in a severe crisis to help prevent short-term trouble from becoming long-term problems. Using local crowdfunding, we provide people in our community who want to help a method to directly help those in our community that is in crisis.

We offer quick and practical solutions for short-term needs such as:
-Food insecurity
-Re-establishing essential utilities
-Emergency housing
-Problem-solving for those overwhelmed by their day-to-day living conditions
-Support for people leaving abusive relationships

We are there to provide a quick response to a crisis before that crisis becomes a long-term problem. After the situation is stabilized, our Community Resources Coordinator will evaluate the situation and refer those in need to available resources within the community.

Our partnerships with Eblen Charities, Helpmate, Our VOICE, and Working Wheels, enable us to do what we do best, being the quick fix for an acute crisis.

www.WNCSuperheroes.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/2295531247393501/

Game starts at 5pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/602893106838384/

As if you needed another reason to come see us, we will have 75 cent wings every Monday from 5pm-close.
We have all of our wonderful flavors of wings available, plus a special sauce of the week.

We also have $4 draft beers on special, so stop in and get your Tiger Wing on!

(This special is dine-in only, not available for takeout).

https://www.facebook.com/events/155915711920833/?event_time_id=155915721920832

Join Fermenti at Sow True Seed for a Fermenting from the Garden Demo and Discussion. We will discuss ways to #growtoferment using Sow True Seed and your Fermenti Home Fermentation Kit to preserve your harvest the traditional way, increasing nutritional value! We will cover basic fermentation principles, have a live demo of how to ferment, and share creative recipe ideas from your garden.

Meg Chamberlain holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the Corcoran College Of Art and Design, among other accreditations. In 2008, Meg and husband Lars began primitive homesteading in Missouri without the use of power and running water. From these conditions, a unified understanding of how traditional food production and preservation could be modernized without losing its heritage was identified and food waste practices were explored. In 2017, Fermenti was created- a fermentation powerhouse here in the mountains of WNC. At FERMENTI, we help connect you to that amazing past by teaching traditional Lactic Bacteria fermentation of vegetable ingredients and how they can help us preserve our future! Please join us and help bring this tradition back to life!

https://fermenti.biz/

https://www.facebook.com/events/571318703387770/

Join us for our next chapter meeting to help us cultivate community around combatting climate change through storytelling, understanding the urgency behind our efforts to match policy at scale of the climate change crisis we face, and learn more about the Green New Deal now.

Please encourage youth environmental enthusiasts to attend (although the Young at Heart are certainly welcome!) – middle school, high school, college, recent graduates, and millennials!

AGENDA
Part 1: Storytelling
We know the science behind the climate crisis – it’s not up for debate. However, movements are built around shared values, not science, and we use the craft of storytelling to allow us to connect around common values to build a strong movement from all walks of life.

At Sunrise, we share our stories with each other to break down the culture of isolation that we live in and build deep connections worth fighting for. Learn about the Sunrise approach which emphasizes storytelling, a captivating strategy to connect with others about climate change issues on an emotional level, first and foremost.

We’ll discuss storytelling, share a few examples, and do a short breakout session.

Part 2: Green New Deal 101
Being an informed advocate of the Green New Deal and understanding it deeply will help us be stronger ambassadors in each of our communities as well as our broader collective one. We’ll then shift the meeting into Green New Deal 101 session – learning more about the history of the GND, what we’re fighting for now, common talking points and responses to common questions, and discussing what the GND means to us, right now, as we decide how to carry this movement forward.

Part 3: Next Steps
The Sunrise Asheville Hub is just getting started! We’ll conclude the meeting by discussing plans for our Asheville town hall in May and learn how you can help us put together this larger event.

Sunrise is launching a 15-city, star-studded GND tour that includes some of the new faces of the Democratic Party, movement leaders and more to tell people about the Green New Deal and give them the tools and resources to pressure their policymakers to get behind it. We’re adding a stop in Asheville, and you can help us make it a success!

The Tour will take the fight for a Green New Deal to every town across America and share our pathway to victory now through 2020.

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ABOUT SUNRISE
Sunrise is building a movement led by young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We’re transforming our generation’s anger and frustration at witnessing a lifetime of political inaction on climate into a mass movement to pass a Green New Deal for America.

Sunrise began because our political leaders have utterly failed us. Some take millions of dollars in bribes from fossil fuel CEOs, others don’t seem to have the courage to stand for the solutions we need to preserve life as we know it. We need to build a movement that’s ready to relentlessly demand politicians fight for what we need, not just what pundits say is politically possible, and when needed elect new leaders who will represent our generation.

https://www.facebook.com/events/307265239939116/

Audition for ACT’s next musical, Hands on a Hardbody!

For 10 hard-luck Texans, a new lease on life is so close they can touch it. Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed with nothing but hope, humor and ambition, they’ll fight to keep at least one hand on a brand new “hardbody” Nissan truck in order to win it. In the hilarious, hard-fought contest, only one winner can drive away with the American dream. Based on a true story.

For more information about the auditions, please visit: http://ashevilletheatre.org/get-involved/audition/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1988414468130018/?event_time_id=1988414474796684

5 course beer pairing dinner created by our very own, Chef Matt Grush. It will be quite an evening. Come join us. Burial Beer Co.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2301655130071017/

Join us at Dry Falls Brewing Company for a fun paint night! Hues of Hendo supplies all materials – including one 16×20 canvas, an easel, an apron, the use of painting supplies & of course, step-by-step instruction for each painter.

All you do is show up ready to have fun & enjoy some of Dry Falls’ delicious beer! Their beer selection is extensive and you can’t go wrong with any of the delicious food trucks that frequent the brewery.

$25 per painter
To register and reserve your seat(s), simply email [email protected] so we know to save a spot for ya!

Cheers!
Jessica

https://www.facebook.com/events/2184187451911665/

Join Ballet Hispánico company dancers for a thirty-minute Latin social dance class followed by dancing and drinks. This class for adults features salsa, merengue, Afro-Cuban, and other Latino folk dance forms, and is open to all levels of dancers.

This event is hosted by YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market Street, Asheville.

Tickets: $10 (tax included)
Class size is limited to 50 people

Learn more: https://www.dwtheatre.com/Online/article/latinsocialdanceclass

More information about Ballet Hispánico’s Asheville performances and residency: http://bit.ly/dwt-ballet-hispanico

https://www.facebook.com/events/340513509930805/

Fly Tying and beer has come to Weaverville. Starts Monday at 6:30pm and running until 9pm. Bring your vice and materials and grab a beverage and tie away. If your new to tying flies, or have no exposure to it, we want you to come too. We will have vices and materials to help show you the ropes. We will have raffle prizes and plenty of stories to be shared. Now you finally have something to make you look forward to Monday’s!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1838414896270037/?event_time_id=1838414912936702

Come connect with other homebrew enthusiasts at our monthly Homebrew Club meeting!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2353497921546644/?event_time_id=2353497924879977

Have a terrible case of the Mondays? Got a sick a twisted sense of humor? Come play Cards Against Humanity with us! We have 3 box sets with every expansion. We’re pushing tables together, making new friends, and having laughs every Monday!

https://www.facebook.com/events/371611523634185/?event_time_id=371611556967515

It Takes All Kinds Open Mic Night at Sanctuary Brewing Company!

Calling all singers, songwriters, stand ups, poets and prophets! Come one, come all.

Host Josh Dunkin and Steven Durose of The Gathering Dark want to hear all of your stuff!

No Mimes!

https://www.facebook.com/events/531022364070354/?event_time_id=531022394070351

Pub Theology meets on the second Monday of the month from 7:00-9:00.

Pub Theology is a group of spiritual and intellectual seekers—searchers. In the relaxed, comfortable setting of a pub (or café, or living room), we discuss God, the church, the history and politics of religion, and all that falls within the embrace of the quest for truth. Our goal is non-judgmental inquiry; safe, fair, and open discussion of ideas that have puzzled and tested humans from the beginning of civilization. Pub Theology is a “great ideas” group that welcomes people of all faiths, or none.

https://www.facebook.com/events/189329621949501/?event_time_id=189329655282831

Civil rights activist and Medal of Freedom winner Sylvia Mendez will be the keynote speaker for UNC Asheville’s activities commemorating the 65th anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down school segregation laws. Her talk, free and open to everyone, takes place at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 8, in Lipinsky Auditorium.

Sylvia Mendez is the oldest daughter of Gonzalo Mendez, a Mexican immigrant, and Felicitas Mendez, a Puerto Rican, who challenged segregation in the courts so that Sylvia and other Latinx children could be provided the same quality of education provided to white students. Her parents were plaintiffs in the landmark Mendez v. Westminster School District (1947) case that ended school segregation in California and paved the way for Brown v. Board of Education.

Mendez later earned a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and worked for 33 years as a nurse at the Los Angeles USC Medical Center, becoming assistant nursing director of the Pediatric Pavilion. She was awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she and her family have received numerous awards and recognitions including a U.S. postage stamp commemorating the Mendez v. Westminster School District case. Last year, an English-Spanish two-way immersion school in Berkeley, California was renamed the Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in her honor.

UNC Asheville will be hosting additional Brown v. Board of Education commemorative events throughout April, including documentary screenings, panel discussions, and exhibitions. Find event details at https://www.unca.edu/events-and-news/event/brown-v-board-of-education-65th-anniversary-keynote-talk-by-sylvia-mendez/. These events are free and open to the public.

These events are presented with sponsorship from UNC Asheville’s Africana Studies Program, Diversity Action Council, Office of the Provost, Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs, NEH Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Pre-College Outreach Programs & GEAR UP, and Belk Distinguished Professor.

https://www.facebook.com/events/290582328507102/

On Monday nights, Kids Eat Free thanks to Acropolis Pizza!
Bring the whole family to McCormick Field. Kids 12 & under will receive a voucher at the gate for a free hot dog and a drink!

Are you a high school or college student interested in a career in sports?

This Monday, April 8th, buy a ticket to Sports Management Night.
Enjoy this night of networking while watching Tourists baseball!
Sports Management Night starts at 5 pm. Come listen to industry professionals talk about what it is like to claim a ballpark as their office!

https://www.facebook.com/events/442660209808295/

The Bearded Dragons Inn hosts their weekly West Marches game. This is a drop in game for all to join. If you have never played before come and join us. Our amazing community will teach you all you need to know. If you have years, or even decades of experience stop on by as well as you’ll experience a whole new style of play. For more information check out our website:
https://sites.google.com/outlook.com/westmarchesattriskelion/home

https://www.facebook.com/events/377998122745064/?event_time_id=377998159411727

Risqué Monday is a weekly burlesque show at The Odditorium presented by Deb au Nare’s Burlesque Academy of Asheville. Come see a mix of burlesque performers from newbies to veterans EVERY WEEK! You will never see the same show twice!

Performances by:
Kitty Mousetrap – Performance Artist
Orange Crush
Rebel B Elle
and Deb au Nare

Hosted by The Cat Pfish
Our stage kitten of the evening, Ada Pixels

Doors start at 8:30pm and the show will start promptly at 9pm!
$15 for 18 and up!

https://www.facebook.com/events/255371005349681/