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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2021 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards
The Museum, with the assistance of its volunteer docents and support from the Asheville Area Section of the American Institute of Architects, is proud to sponsor the WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards. Students in grades 7–12 from all across our region are invited to submit work for this special juried competition. The Museum works with the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers to facilitate regional judging of student artwork and recognition of our community’s burgeoning artistic talent.
In early spring each year, award winners are featured in an exhibition, and are honored at a ceremony. Regional Gold Key recipients’ work is sent to the National Scholastic Art competition hosted by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
Across the Atlantic
Across the Atlantic
American Impressionism Through the French Lens
This extraordinary exhibition, drawn from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, explores the path to Impressionism through the 19th century in France. The show examines the sometimes complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 1880s and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed. More than 65 paintings and works on paper help tell the story of the “new style” of painting which developed at the end of the 19th century—one that emphasized light and atmospheric conditions, rapid or loose brushstrokes, and a focus on brightly colored scenes from everyday life, including both urban and rural settings when artists preferred to paint outdoors and capture changing effects of light during different times of day and seasons of the year.
Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges and The Maurer Family Foundation.
The Asheville Art Museum announces Meeting the Moon, an exhibition featuring prints, photographs, ceramics, sculptures, and more from the Museum’s Collection. This exhibition will be on view in the Asheville Art Museum’s McClinton Gallery February 3 through July 26, 2021.
2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Apollo space program at NASA, but its inception was hardly the beginning of humankind’s fascination with Earth’s only moon. Before space travel existed, the moon—its shape, its mystery, and the face we see in it—inspired countless artists. Once astronauts landed on the moon and we saw our world from a new perspective, a surge of creativity flooded the American art scene, in paintings, prints, sculpture, music, crafts, film, and poetry.
This exhibition, whose title is taken from a 1913 Robert Frost poem, examines artwork in the Asheville Art Museum’s Collection of artists who were inspired by the unknown, then increasingly familiar moon. Meeting the Moon includes works by nationally renowned artists Newcomb Pottery, James Rosenquist, Maltby Sykes, Paul Soldner, John Lewis, Richard Ritter (Bakersville, NC), and Mark Peiser (Penland, NC). Western North Carolina artists include Jane Peiser (Penland, NC), Jak Brewer (Zionville, NC), Dirck Cruser (Asheville, NC), George Peterson (Lake Toxaway, NC), John B. Neff (NC), and Maud Gatewood (Yanceyville, NC).
“Meeting the Moon offers the opportunity to combine science and popular culture with works of art in the Museum’s Collection,” says Whitney Richardson, associate curator. “I think all visitors will find something that draws them into this exhibition, whether it’s the artwork, poetry, music, or science of space travel. It’s such an affirmation of humanity to find these mysteries, like the moon, which enchant us all.”
This exhibition is organized by the Asheville Art Museum and curated by Whitney Richardson, associate curator. Visit ashevilleart.org for more information about this and other exhibitions.
This exhibition features archival objects from the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection presented alongside artworks from the Museum’s Black Mountain College Collection to explore the connections between artworks and ephemera. This exhibition is organized by the Asheville Art Museum and curated by lydia see, fall 2020 curatorial fellow, with support from a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant through the Council on Library and Information Resources.
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The Asheville Art Museum presents Fantastical Forms: Ceramics as Sculpture on view at the Museum November 4, 2020 through April 5, 2021. The 25 works in this exhibition—curated by associate curator Whitney Richardson—highlight the Museum’s Collection of sculptural ceramics from the last two decades of the 20th century to the present. Each work illustrates the artist’s ability to push beyond the utilitarian and transition ceramics into the world of sculpture.
North and South Carolina artists featured include Elma McBride Johnson, Neil Noland, Norm Schulman, Virginia Scotchie, Cynthia Bringle, Jane Palmer, Michael Sherrill, and Akira Satake. Works by American artists Don Reitz, Robert Chapman Turner, Karen Karnes, Toshiko Takaezu, Bill Griffith, and Xavier Toubes are also featured in the exhibition.
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Join us for a magical journey of exploration and wonder. Each week we discuss a variety of topics that will not only inspire and inform but also transform and enlighten.
What we’re about
Welcome to The Eminent Way. We meet weekly to discuss all manner of things related to cultural, occult, religious, and esoteric subjects – as they pertain to one’s personal development journey.
Your life in the Universe is made possible by the fact of Creation itself. This planet we call home, this grand theater of expression, is the crucible in which the unseen becomes seen; the unmanifest is made plain; the unknown becomes known.
For seventy or more years, this is your home, in which each moment is extended to you the permission to be, to know, and to do.
You condensed from the unseen realms of force and power according to definite, inescapable laws that govern and make this theater possible. The very laws that created the Universe made you possible too. You are a microcosm of the whole – everything that exists outside of you also exists within, for, in reality, there is no difference; it is simply a matter of scale.
The ancients knew well that to study the Universe is to study oneself, and to study oneself is to explore the Universe. And yet, without exact knowledge of the fundamental laws of force, power, matter, and consciousness, one’s journey becomes a detour of idle speculation.
And yet, there is a Way that originates outside of life but must be practiced within it; a Way that does not arise from the mind of man, yet directly involves it; a Way that helps one connect with the evolutionary signal of creation that informs human purpose.
This is The Eminent Way.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
Welcome to your new home, Samson and Bonita! The two red foxes will be joining the other residents of the WNC Nature Center and are coming to us from Izzie’s Pond Sanctuary in Liberty, S.C.
Samson and Bonita have something more in common than their new home. They are both less than a year old and were both injured as a result of being caught in leg-hold traps and each has three legs, which means they would not be able to survive in the wild but can live safely in a zoo environment.
“The Nature Center has long provided excellent care for animals that, for one reason or another, could not live in the wild,” said WNC Nature Center Director Chris Gentile. “We are so excited to be able to welcome red foxes back to our Center.”
Come say “Hi!” to Samson and Bonita at the WNC Nature center beginning Feb. 11, when they’ll enter their new habitat for the first time.
Postponed
Important Information
The performances of Hamilton at the Peace Center have been postponed until late summer 2022.
The Peace Center is working to reschedule the events, and new dates will be announced as soon as possible. Ticket holders will be contacted when details become available.
This “theatrical landmark has transformed theater and the way we think about history” (The New York Times)
Hamilton is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway, Hamilton has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theater — a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education. With book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow’s acclaimed biography. It has won Tony®, Grammy®, and Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an unprecedented special citation from the Kennedy Center Honors.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
FIRST SET BY THE HOUSE BAND & SECOND SET IS A JAZZ JAM
Stop by on the first Sunday of the month 2-5pm to grab a beer, have a bite to eat and possibly meet your new best friend from Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue.
Songs From The Road Band performs with Steve “Big Daddy” McMurry of Acoustic Syndicate fame at the first annual Asheville Winter Grass concert at One World Brewing West in Asheville, NC. This is an OUTDOOR Socially distanced event. All CDC safety precautions will be in place. Seating is reserved in advance. There will be craft beer and food truck available. The Saturday show is sold out and tickets for the Sunday show are available now!
All performances Eastern Standard Time
*Ticket sales will end 2 hours prior to each performance and the Zoom link will be sent out at that time*
Life and literature collide in this smart comedy about books and the people who love them. Ana is a Type A personality who lives in a letter-perfect world with an adoring husband, the perfect job, and her greatest passion: Book Club. But when her cherished group becomes the focus of a documentary film, their previously predictable discussions turn into pandemonium in front of the inescapable camera lens. Add a provocative new member along with some surprising book titles, and this buoyant comedy will have everyone laughing… and reflecting. Discretionary warning: Mild Adult Content and Language.
“[An] uproarious social comedy.”—chicagocritic.com
“By the end, you honestly felt like part of the book club.” —broadwayworld.com
The women of the SEC are back to compete in the 2021
Women’s Basketball Tournament! Catch all of the action
and see who will be crowned champion at the Bon Secours
Wellness Arena March 3-7!
In conjunction with Sunday Sessions Live (and virtual) music: Food Truck Sundays will bring a new or rotating “staff favorite” cuisine each week to the Beechams Curve offerings.
Gan Shan West, our main culinary provider 6 days a week, is closed on Sundays. Enjoy the convenience, delicious variety and the music – all in one Sunday Funday stop!
Jack of the Wood : Sunday-Irish Session
Sundays
1 till who knows when?
Traditional Irish music is kept alive at Jack of the Wood with our unplugged Sunday session.
Jack of the Wood
95 Patton ave
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 252.5445
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
Hosted by Eric Swanson and Garrett Andrews! Swanny & Friends celebrating the man, the myth, the legend Eric Swanson!BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
Postponed
Important Information
The performances of Hamilton at the Peace Center have been postponed until late summer 2022.
The Peace Center is working to reschedule the events, and new dates will be announced as soon as possible. Ticket holders will be contacted when details become available.
This “theatrical landmark has transformed theater and the way we think about history” (The New York Times)
Hamilton is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway, Hamilton has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theater — a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education. With book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow’s acclaimed biography. It has won Tony®, Grammy®, and Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an unprecedented special citation from the Kennedy Center Honors.
The Speakeasy is designed to use improv for positive change through fast-paced play and collaboration. Through teaching the deeper nature of improv, The Speakeasy aims to inspire Artists to stay actively engaged in their craft, grow as individuals, and contribute to the growth of their artistic community. We want our community to have a blast, grow as people, and feel comfortable doing exactly what our name says… speak easy! Instructor Tim Hearn’s approach to both the arts as well as the craft of teaching prioritizes the process of play over the final result. He implements the rules of improv as a philosophy for living and as an indispensable tool for performance.
The first course offered will be “The Fellowship,” Sundays or Mondays at 7:00pm, beginning March 7th and running for 10 weeks. With specific learning targets addressed through a focus on process over product, this course is suited to new students who have never before taken an improv class as well as to seasoned improvisers looking for a new take on familiar techniques. Each week offers a distinct lesson designed to ensure students learn through group experience and active play. Classes will be in-person with enrollment limited to ten students, and all COVID precautions will be observed. Location is TBD.
More information about Speakeasy Improv, the curriculum, and enrollment can be found at: https://themagnetictheatre.org/speakeasy-improv
For questions, please contact Artistic Director