Montford Pre-Teen Afterschool Program
Pre-registration required. FREE for the 2021-2022 school year
August 23, 2021 – June 3, 2022 | Monday-Friday | 3:30-6pm
5th-6th graders.
New program designed to meet the needs of your pre-teen.
Providing time dedicated to school assignments, life skills, arts,
communication, leadership, fitness, nutrition, and loads of fun.
Location: Montford

Teen Leadership Program
Pre-registration required. FREE for the 2021-2022 school year
August 23, 2021-June 3, 2022 | Monday-Friday | 3:30-6pm
6th-9th graders.
Looking for a cool and enriching alternative for your Teen to attend
this school year? We offer creative activities, diverse projects,
field trips, and more.
Locations: Grant, Shiloh, Stephens-Lee

Join the Asheville Fit Tribe Group for a 60 minute of strength training. You will get personalized training with the power of the group to positively motivate you. Get ready to get a full body workout in for all fitness levels. So, no matter where you are at from beginner to collegiate athlete Trainer Preston will make sure you get a phenomenal workout. For Strength day we focus on slow controlled weight lifting. Learning how to become more aware of our bodies. We hope you give us a shot and see what we are all about!! For any question shoot Preston a text/call (984)204-0591.

Let’s meet at Dobra Tea (West Asheville location) to enjoy tea, snacks, and each other’s company while chatting about our businesses. I look forward to seeing you in-person for tea! **We will most likely be meeting indoors for this event. If the weather surprises us and it’s a warmer December day, we can meet on the back patio.

Visit the galleries on a scavenger hunt for inspiration, then join us in the studio to create handmade cards! We’ll experiment with stamping, monoprinting, and relief printing. This program is perfect for date-night, me time, or catching up with family and friends.

Please note:

• In accordance with Buncombe County and city directives, a limited number of people can be in the studio at one time. To ensure all participants have time to create, we may ask you to limit your time

Join the Asheville Fit Tribe Group for a 60 minute of strength training. You will get personalized training with the power of the group to positively motivate you. Get ready to get a full body workout in for all fitness levels. So, no matter where you are at from beginner to collegiate athlete Trainer Preston will make sure you get a phenomenal workout. For Strength day we focus on slow controlled weight lifting. Learning how to become more aware of our bodies. We hope you give us a shot and see what we are all about!! For any question shoot Preston a text/call (984)204-0591.

Join instructor Jacqueline along with vocal meditation specialist and sound healer Shana Adams for this collaborative workshop experience.

The two will teach different breathing techniques and the benefits of each, linking them together with an asana to create a gentle flow. Shana will play the pan drum during the yoga portion.

After yoga, Shana will lead participants through a few sound activities for the collective group. She’ll then introduce the chakra bowls, in which Jacqueline will lead a point by point relaxation while Shana plays the chakra bowls, creating a peaceful and relaxing atmosphere to fully unwind and release.

The workshop will end with a 7-10 minute savasana sound bath.

This workshop is $30. If you have a yoga membership, email or DM us for a 10% off discount code!

Free outdoor movies on our giant LED screen are always a hit with all ages.  Rabbit Rabbit is a huge outdoor venue with enough space to accommodate 3000 people, so we have plenty of seats for everyone!

Isaac Hayes first came to prominence not as a performer or an artist in his own right, but as a staggeringly successful in-house songwriter, session player and producer for legendary Memphis-based Stax Records. The list of hit songs by other artists but with an Isaac Hayes writing credit is beyond impressive: “Soul Man,” “Hold On, I’m Comin’,” “B-A-B-Y,” “Wrap it Up,” and more than 30 other charting singles between 1966 and 1970.

So successful was Hayes that Stax gave him a record deal of his own. 1968’s Presenting Isaac Hayes was a commercial dud, but in retrospect, it hinted at Hayes’ future superstar status. Six of his next seven albums hit the #1 spot on the R&B chart (the other made it to #2), and underscoring his wide appeal, all seven of those LPs made it to the Top 20 on the mainstream album chart as well. His 1971 double-LP Shaft soundtrack also claimed #1 spot on the mainstream LP charts.

Among that nearly unprecedented tun of creative and commercial triumphs, Isaac Hayes’ most significant release was the audaciously-titled Black Moses. A double LP released in 1971, just a few months after Shaft), Black Moses was not only an exemplar of the man’s inimitable style, it was an artistic, cultural and sociopolitical statement from a Black man at the peak of his powers.

A renaissance man for the ages, Hayes could do it all. In addition to writing, arranging and producing, he played piano, organ, flute, saxophone, vibraphone and percussion. Though there were many Black artists in the late’ 60s and early ‘70s who deserved creative autonomy, Isaac Hayes was one of relatively few to demand and receive it.

For the latest installment of Citizen Vinyl’s talks, Asheville-based author and music journalist Bill Kopp will be joined by musician/rapper Davaion Bristol (Spaceman Jones) to spin select cuts from the 2LP Black Moses, and to lead a discussion about the music and its place in history. This special evening is an opportunity to peer into a musical window and revel in the creative output of one of the great and influential renaissance men of soul music, and of popular music in general.

👉 Refreshments will be available from Session Bar and Café who will offer the full menu until 9pm

Tickets must be purchased online this year. Your ticket is valid for a one-time use any night of the festival; tickets are not date-specific.

• $10 for personal vehicles (standard cars/vans)
• $25 for sprinter vans, trailblazers, and conversion vans
• $50 for buses and motorcoaches
• 20% of the proceeds benefit Special Olympics Buncombe County

Lake Julian Festival of Lights has become a tradition for many mountain families and visitors. Visitors are invited to watch the lights twinkle over the lake and listen to their favorite seasonal tunes while driving through the magical wonderland.

Lake Julian Festival of Lights takes place nightly from December 1-23 from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Please check our Facebook page for information on closings due to winter weather.

Winter Lights returns to the gardens November 19-January 1

Tickets are now sold PER VEHICLE, not per person.

We are thrilled to announce that the 2021 Winter Lights holiday event will welcome members and guests back into the gardens as it returns to the traditional outdoor walk-through open-air show format. The famously tall 50-foot lighted tree and the Quilt Garden will be back, outfitted with new designs in lights, while throughout the gardens, popular arrangements will mingle with ones never seen before.

You can find everything you need to know about Asheville’s Brightest Holiday Tradition at the tabs above, and be sure to secure your tickets now.

We hope you will join us this holiday season!

Winter Lights is the Arboretum’s largest annual fundraiser, and supports many parts of its mission driven programming.

Join the Asheville Fit Tribe Group for a 60 minute of strength training. You will get personalized training with the power of the group to positively motivate you. Get ready to get a full body workout in for all fitness levels. So, no matter where you are at from beginner to collegiate athlete Trainer Preston will make sure you get a phenomenal workout. For Strength day we focus on slow controlled weight lifting. Learning how to become more aware of our bodies. We hope you give us a shot and see what we are all about!! For any question shoot Preston a text/call (984)204-0591.

Decorate a dozen of your own take-home dog treats just in time for the holidays with Jackie from 3 Eggs Cakery of Asheville! Jackie will lead you through the decorating process to ensure you create some adorable treats for your pups.

This event will be in the bar. You’re welcome to bring your pups along to hangout and play while you decorate!

The WNC Historical Association presented the first Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award to Wilma Dykeman in 1955 for The French Broad. Last year’s winner was Dr. Sandra Muse Isaacs for her work, Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance. Other authors who have received the award include Charles Frazier, Robert Morgan, John Parris, Gail Godwin, John Ehle, Robert Brunk, Michael McFee, Lee Smith, Ron Rash, Wiley Cash, Wayne Caldwell, Fiona Ritchie, and Doug Orr.

A prize of $2,500.00 accompanies the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award and will be virtually presented to the author on Thursday, December 9 at 6:30pm during a live Zoom event that will include readings by the finalists. Please reserve this date.

The Award Panel this year consists of: Catherine Frank, Chair, Director, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville; Daniel Clare, English Department, A.C. Reynolds High School; Dee James, professor emeritus, UNC-Asheville; Leslee Johnson, English Department, UNC-Asheville; Tom Muir, Historic Site Manager, Thomas Wolfe Memorial; Gordon McKinney, professor emeritus, Berea College; Terry Roberts, Director, National Paideia Center; and Jim Stokely, President, Wilma Dykeman Legacy.

This year’s finalists were chosen from an original group of 40 nominations. The finalists, listed below, encompass a broad range of genres and forms.

Mary Othella Burnette

Lige of the Black Walnut Tree: Growing Up Black in Southern Appalachia

Wayne Caldwell

Woodsmoke

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Even As We Breath: A Novel

Vicki Lane

And the Crows Took Their Eyes

Matthew Wimberley
All the Great Territories

I just moved to Asheville in June. I’d like to meet and create community with people who are curious, like to laugh, value inner growth and are good-hearted. Come with your different opinions, unique sharing and stories. For each gathering they’ll be a short intro for people and a different topic of discussion. Topic would include, an event that changed my life,” a book, movie or play that altered you, or tell us something you imagine will be entirely new to us…like “how a singer interprets a song.” Any suggestions for future topic would be welcome.

This will be a virtual event on Zoom. I will send you a link for the meetup a few days prior to the meeting.
***What to expect:
A safe and positive space to meet interesting people and comfortably share interests, joys, and challenges.
***Agenda:
Each member introduces themselves in 2 minutes. A topic to share will be suggested (if the group is larger than 10, breakout rooms will be created). All members will return to the main forum after 10 minutes in smaller groups and have the option to share their thoughts from the breakout room or just hang back and listen or ask questions.

Get dinner and drinks while you laugh the night away to some of the areas’ best Standup comics, in a ridiculously fun environment!! For more info contact Michele Scheve at [email protected].

• FACE COVERINGS REQUIRED ONBOARD AT ALL TIMES.

  Highlights

  • Hop on board the Holly Jolly Christmas Trolley for a fun and festive celebration of the season featuring the sights and sounds of the holidays!
  • This seasonal favorite features an entertaining blend of holiday storytelling and traditional Christmas caroling.  Enjoy stories of local lore and holiday traditions, then join-in with our on-board musician singing classic carols and songs of Christmas. And all the while the Holly Jolly Trolley is rolling past festive holiday decorations in downtown Asheville, Biltmore Village and the Montford and Grove Park neighborhoods.
  • This has all the makings of a jolly good family tradition!

  Good to Know

  • Haven’t been caroling in a while?  Not to worry! Songbooks will be provided for use during the tour.
  • Please note, you will see Christmas lights on this tour, however, it is not a “lights tour.” Caroling and storytelling take center stage on the Holly Jolly Trolley.
  • Trolleys are heated and enclosed with clear vinyl roll-down curtains.

  Exclusions

   

  • Gratuities

Everyone has a story. Many of us attempt to put our story in writing.  Some of us get published. An even smaller number can take credit for having written something of lasting value.

On eight evenings from September to December at the West Asheville Library, the Wilma Dykeman Legacy will celebrate four memoirs of lasting value from the mountains of Western North Carolina. These sessions will be offered in person and online

Through four lectures and four book discussions the following writers will be featured:

Thursday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m.
Talk by Jim Stokely, son of Wilma Dykeman and President of the Wilma Dykeman Legacy, featuring Wilma’s memoir Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood.

Wednesday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m.
Book discussion of Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood.

Thursday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m.
Talk by Walter Ziffer, retired engineer, minister, and professor, featuring his memoir Confronting the Silence: A Holocaust Survivor’s Search for God.

Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m.
Book discussion of Confronting the Silence: A Holocaust Survivor’s Search for God.

Thursday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m.
Talk by Dr. Warren J. Carson, retired Professor of English and Director of the Gospel Choir at the University of South Carolina Upstate, featuring Nina Simone’s memoir, I Put a Spell on You.

Wednesday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m.
Book discussion of I Put a Spell on You.

Thursday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m.
Talk by Mary Judith Messer, featuring her memoir Moonshiner’s Daughter.

Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m.
Book discussion of Moonshiner’s Daughter.

All programs are free, and everyone is invited. Light refreshments will be served. To register for the online/zoom meetings, email [email protected]. For more information contact the West Asheville Library.

A Flat Rock Playhouse Christmas

“If you are looking to be blown away by raw talent, then look no further than Griffin House.” —American Songwriter

This two man adaptation is a fast-paced and imaginative production that combines Dickens’ brilliant original text with both traditional and unexpected Christmas music, along with  old-fashioned foley-style sound effects. These dynamic performers beautifully impart this epic, timeless story of discovery of the heart, appealing to both adults and children in a fresh way.

$25.00 Virtual Tickets at See Upcoming Dates for Zoom – A Christmas Carol at North Carolina (thundertix.com)

It’s Thanksgiving Eve, and Jean and Doug couldn’t be more excited about the holiday season. The halls are decked, the trees are up, and the kids, Rosemary and Bing, will be arriving any minute. Son-in-law Mike and new grandbaby Suzie round out the family gathering, and loving tolerance and charity abounds. But Jean has arranged a surprise for them all that makes them question her sanity, and as Thanksgiving Day dawns, the family must decide: How far will they go to make Jean’s ultimate Christmas wish come true?

Like a book club, but we’re reading plays!
We’re planning this to be a free, monthly series beginning in December.

Check out a copy of the script and read it in advance, then come ready to discuss! Tickets are free and open to all, but please reserve a spot in our online meet up (reservation link posted soon)!

We’re reading: The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Discussion hosted and moderated by Ria Young

Scripts available to check out at the ACT Box Office. If you’d prefer to purchase your own (hard copy or e-copy), click here.

Thursday, January 13, 2022 * 7:30 pm

We’re reading: Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Discussion hosted and moderated by Ria Young

Scripts available to check out at the ACT Box Office. If you’d prefer to purchase your own (hard copy or e-copy), click here.

A very old saying goes that no one saves us but ourselves. Recognizing and breaking free from the patterns impeding our forward progress can be transformative — just ask Bully’s Alicia Bognanno. Indeed, the third Bully album, SUGAREGG , may not ever have come to fruition had Bognanno not navigated every kind of upheaval imaginable and completely overhauled her working process along the way.

“There was change that needed to happen and it happened on this record,” she says. “Derailing my ego and insecurities allowed me to give these songs the attention they deserved.”

SUGAREGG roars from the speakers and jumpstarts both heart and mind. Like My Bloody Valentine after three double espressos, opener “Add It On” zooms heavenward within seconds, epitomizing Bognanno’s newfound clarity of purpose, while the bass-driven melodies and propulsive beats of “Where to Start” and “Let You” are the musical equivalents of the sun piercing through a perpetually cloudy sky.

Hosted by Sahaja Yoga Meditation DFW
Join this FREE evening session for Meditation, specifically for Moms.

About this Event
We are creating this Meditation space for moms 💟 that can help
🤲 create a supportive community of moms who can come together and meditate
🤲 build a meditation routine
🤲 implement self-care, and take pause in hectic lives
🤲 bring calmness and balance that can reflect on kids and household
🤲 share experiences and learn to grow in this journey together

Join this FREE evening session for Meditation, specifically for Moms. Meditation is a simple way to de-stress, and it can help bring peace and balance, especially in these hectic times.

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