Calendar of Events

Useful and Beautiful: Silvercraft by William Waldo Dodge features a selection of functional silver works by Dodge drawn from the Museum’s Collection. Organized by the Asheville Art Museum and curated by Whitney Richardson, associate curator, this exhibition will be on view in the Debra McClinton Gallery at the Museum from February 23 through October 17, 2022.

William Waldo Dodge Jr. (Washington, DC 1895–1971 Asheville, NC) moved to Asheville in 1924 as a trained architect and a newly skilled silversmith. When he opened for business promoting his handwrought silver tableware, including plates, candlesticks, flatware (spoons, forks, and knives), and serving dishes, he did so in a true Arts and Crafts tradition. The aesthetics of the style were dictated by its philosophy: an artist’s handmade creation should reflect their hard work and skill, and the resulting artwork should highlight the material from which it was made. Dodge’s silver often displayed his hammer marks and inventive techniques, revealing the beauty of these useful household goods.

The Arts and Crafts style of England became popular in the United States in the early 1900s. Asheville was an early adopter of the movement because of the popularity and abundance of Arts and Crafts architecture in neighborhoods like Biltmore Forest, Biltmore Village, and the area around The Grove Park Inn. The title of this exhibition was taken from the famous quotation by one of the founding members of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, William Morris, who said, “have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” Not only did Dodge follow this suggestion; he contributed to American Arts and Crafts silver’s relevancy persisting almost halfway into the 20th century.

“It has been over 15 years since the Museum exhibited its collection of William Waldo Dodge silver and I am looking forward to displaying it in the new space with some new acquisitions added,” said Whitney Richardson, associate curator. Learn more at ashevilleart.org.

New Seltzer Launches Holy Water Brew Pub (located inside Thirsty Monk Biltmore Park) is launching two new Hard Seltzers: Cranberry Lime Cosmo and Piña Colada Smoothie seltzer – this amazing creation will be their first smoothie seltzer offering. Flights and Cans will be available for purchase. Visit the Thirsty Monk Facebook page for their enticing weekly food specials. Don’t forget Thirsty Monk Biltmore Park and Tasty Greens (next door to Thirsty Monk) offer 10% off to Biltmore Park Residents!

Join us at Eliada Home’s campus for a small group guided walking Farm Tour. Tours last approximately 1 hour. Participants will learn about outdoor and greenhouse growing practices, aquaponics, hydroponics, market gardening, corn maze production, and learn about our Animal Therapy program.

We will be meeting at the PARC building and walking to the different greenhouses, garden site, and a visit with our animals. Reservations required, tickets are $10 each visitor (to be collected at the time of the tour).

We recommend bringing the following: comfortable shoes for walking on pavement and grass, hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen.  This tour is not handicap accessible and will require participants to climb stairs and walk on uneven ground.

We will begin out tour promptly at the starting time, so please arrive 5-10 min early to allow for parking and check-in. If you are running late or cannot make your tour, please email [email protected] or call #828-348-2287.

All proceeds from ticket sales from your farm tour go directly back to helping the Campus Farm Program grow more food for the children of Eliada!

Click above photo to sign up for a time slot and number of people in your group. Payment for tour will be collected when you arrive. Cards accepted.

This tour is best suited for school age children ages 10+ and adults.

Join us at Eliada Home’s campus for a small group guided walking Farm Tour. Tours last approximately 1 hour. Participants will learn about outdoor and greenhouse growing practices, aquaponics, hydroponics, market gardening, corn maze production, and learn about our Animal Therapy program.

We will be meeting at the PARC building and walking to the different greenhouses, garden site, and a visit with our animals. Reservations required, tickets are $10 each – kids 10 and under free (to be collected at the time of the tour). Group rates- $7 per person groups 5 and more.

We recommend bringing the following: comfortable shoes for walking on pavement and grass, hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen.  This tour is not handicap accessible and will require participants to climb stairs and walk on uneven ground.

We will begin out tour promptly at the starting time, so please arrive 5-10 min early to allow for parking and check-in. If you are running late or cannot make your tour, please email [email protected] or call #828-348-3387.

All proceeds from ticket sales from your farm tour go directly back to helping the Campus Farm Program grow more food for the children of Eliada!

Click above photo to sign up for a time slot and number of people in your group. Payment for tour will be collected when you arrive. Cards accepted.

This tour is best suited for school age children ages 10+ and adults

Join us to discuss this month’s book: Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown

This is a hybrid in-person/virtual meeting. Participants may come in person to the North Asheville Library or participate via Zoom.

Registration is required for the Zoom link.

The North Asheville Book Club meets on the 3rd Tuesday of every month.

Vixi Jil Glenn is a storyteller native to WNC. Her love for all things Appalachian has evolved into a passion for the old-timey Jack Tales as told by the Ray Hicks’ family from Banner Elk, NC. Vixi enjoys telling ancient faerie tales as well as sharing her own style of original rhyming faerie tales. She often reminds people that she is friends with faeries, elves, leprechauns and all sorts of little people.

This special performance is part of the American Perspectives Storytelling Project sponsored by the Asheville Art Museum and Art Bridges. Thank you to our sponsors!

Hosted by: The Buddhist Studies Institute

FREE – ONLINE – 30 MINUTES – DAILY
🌺Guided meditation support and community🌺

🌸Stabilization and Liberation:
In order to liberate our minds– we need stable calm.

🌸Consistency & Commitment:
Stabilizing in calm clear presence takes consistent training.

🌸Support & Community:
Daily Meditation is a container and support for your meditation focus.

Expand your meditation circle- join us online any day or every day!

Formerly known as 100 Days of practice to support a Tibetan Yogis tradition to practice 100 days in the winter, this has now been expanded to continue daily. To learn more and register: https://buddhiststudiesinstitute.org/daily-meditation/

The Saluda Tailgate market features growers from both Polk and Henderson counties. It is an agriculture-only market meeting every Friday from May through October, 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the city’s West Main Parking lot. Local producers are connected with consumers to keep food dollars in the community and support regional fresh food and family farms, thereby protecting the flourishing of beautiful ridges, fertile fields and clean watersheds. Cash, credit/debit, and EBT cards are all accepted with a Polk County Community Foundation grant often doubling EBT value.

The market has been a spring to fall Saluda tradition since 2010, with neighbors gathering to meet growers and purchase a complete and balanced array of meat, fish, poultry, eggs and cheese, seasonal vegetables and fruit, baked and preserved goods, flowers, herbs, and plants for the home gardener.

Visiting Asheville soon and looking for a fun way to fill your Friday night? The Asheville Drum Circle is a tradition unique to the area. While locals usually begin the beating of drums, tourists are welcome to join, dance, or simply take in the incredible atmosphere at any point.

If you’re looking for things to do in the area during your stay, this is a must! Here’s everything you should know about the Drum Circle.

The Asheville Drum Circle is a free event that’s open to all.

Join us after hours to watch Luca (PG) in August. Films take place in the library community room after the library has closed. Popcorn will be served. Chairs will be out, but you’re welcome to bring blankets, sleeping bags, or pillows to sit on the floor.

Food and beverage welcome, but beverages must contain lids. No alcoholic beverages on library property and no child can be left unattended. Masks are not required in libraries but we ask you to respect other people’s space and wear a mask if you prefer.

August’s Craft Cinema presentation is a free screening of the 2020 documentary “George Nakashima, Woodworker” followed by a live, virtual Q & A with its director, Independent Filmmaker and George’s nephew, John Nakashima.

This film is the result of two decades of research and features never before seen still and film photography of George Nakashima, a leading figure in the American craft movement. It offers a rare and very personal perspective of the artist, his creative process, and the work that he designed and produced over a 54-year period.

Complimentary beverages and popcorn courtesy of Bhramari Brewing Co. and Poppy Handcrafted popcorn are provided. Thank you to our Craft Cinema series sponsor, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Led by frontman, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Chris Higdon, The Mango Furs are a psychedelic band for the modern world, swirling the vintage influences of 1960s garage rock, surf music, and other trippy sounds into contemporary records like 2021’s Passages. This is textured, transportive music, as warm and woozy as the sunbaked Gulf Coast shoreline that ran beside Higdon’s hometown.

Raised in coastal Florida, Chris first fell in love with rock & roll while sitting behind the dashboard of his father’s truck. “My dad would listen to Allman Brothers or Jimi Hendrix and play drums on the steering wheel,” he remembers. Before long, Chris was playing rock songs of his own, earning write-ups in the local paper while still a teenager. Along the way, he also spent some time living with his grandmother, an eccentric painter whose unchecked creativity inspired her grandson. “She dressed crazily and wasn’t afraid to do her own thing,” says Chris, who named Mango Furs after a brightly-colored item from his grandmother’s closet.

Passages arrives on the heels of Mango Furs’ 2019 debut, Inner Migrations. Higdon wrote more than 40 songs for the project, eventually choosing a collection of 10 tracks that mixed neo-psychedelia, shoegaze, chillwave, and rock & roll into the same track list. The result is an album grounded not only in spacey arrangements, but sharp songwriting, too. It’s a record that casts a mood while delivering a message, with Higdon writing about the various passages in his own life.

“I’d gone through some big life changes, having lost my grandmother and becoming a father,” he says of the creative process. “Time doesn’t stop, though. It just keeps moving, and it’s up to you to fulfill your dreams and chase down your goals. No one’s going to do it for us. Passages is about moving through those transitions in your life.”

Atmospheric and anthemic, Passages brims with synthesizers, electric guitar fuzz, snippets of field recordings, echoes of reverb, and plenty of melodic spark. There’s a roomy reach to songs like “Be the Wheel Not the Road” and “Heart Ghosts,” which Chris credits to the longtime influence of Pink Floyd. “I watched Live From Pompeii years ago, back when the world was still coming out of the grunge era,” he remembers. “At the time, the radio was playing a lot of in-your-face music, but Pink Floyd was different. Those guys laid back and only spoke up with their instruments when it was needed. It taught me a lot about learning to shut up, listen, and let other things happen.”

Years later, Chris Higdon is still listening. Passages is the latest chapter in a story that’s still unfolding, capturing a prolific songwriter reaching his peak as a producer, bandleader, guitarist, and musical auteur. It’s headphone music at its most compelling — evocative, ethereal, and immersive, designed to pull the listener into the album’s lush soundscape — performed by a band whose songs have been heard on MTV shows, Netflix programs, and concerts alongside headliners like Liz Cooper & the Stampede.

“Music should be about sincerity and intention,” he says. “It shouldn’t be about trying to ‘make it.’ To me, ‘making it’ is just having the ability to make music. I’ve learned that, and maybe that’s why Passages has a sunnier color to it than what I did before. It’s uplifting. It’s feel-good music.”

Bring your own skates and roll bounce with us to your favorite soundtrack.

Features legendary songwriters Cindy Morgan, Wil Nance and Jason Sever Cindy Morgan, Wil Nance and Jason Sever are a blend of GRAMMY® nominated, Dove award winning, chart-topping songwriters who’ve penned songs for George Strait, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Brad Paisley, Diamond Rio, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw and many more! Showcasing their mission to support the military community, Operation Song will be presenting a songwriter event at the Tryon Fine Arts Center. District 113 NC State Representative Jake Johnson is scheduled to appear. Operation Song will also be honoring local hero, Major General Jack A. Davis and his family. Major General Davis served in the United States Marine Corps for 37 years. He is a decorated Vietnam Veteran and an active member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Tryon. If unable to attend, please consider a donation at www.operationsong.org or text “SONG” to 615-471-6008. You can also download our app at: https://subsplash.com/operationsong/app! Operation Song is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that pairs Nashville Songwriters with veterans, active duty, and their family members to tell their story through the process of songwriting. To learn more visit www.operationsong.org & like us on socials. Operation Song® is a tax-exempt public charity (federal tax ID #46-5442758). All contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.

Top of the Grade concert featuring Peggy Ratusz, 7-9pm, Come out to enjoy the music of Asheville Chanteuse Peggy Ratusz
who performs an infectious, sultry, multi-layered brand of original, traditional and modern Blues, Soul, R&B and Jazz music,
Attendees should bring their own chairs or blankets, Food, soft drinks, beer and wine, and coolers are allowed, Events are rain or
shine, Free, Ella Grace Mintz Stage at Top of the Grade Park at McCreery Park, Saluda, Saluda.co

Blood at The Root written by Dominique Morisseau – BLOOD AT THE ROOT is a striking ensemble drama based on the Jena Six; six Black students who were initially charged with attempted murder for a school fight after being provoked with nooses hanging from a tree on campus. This bold new play by Dominique Morisseau (Sunset Baby, Detroit ’67, Skeleton Crew) examines the miscarriage of justice, racial double standards, and the crises in relations between men and women of all classes and, as a result, the shattering state of Black family life.

“Bursting with youthful exuberance, critical race issues, emotional authenticity, and astonishing beauty.  It is powerfully auspicious“-DC Theater Arts

“Blood at the Root vividly illustrates the near impossibility of getting through one’s teenage years-fraught in the best-case scenario-unscathed when also having to tackle larger societal problems. It’s a necessary and evocative production all-around.” – Chicago Reader

Throughout his 30+ year career, Dan Tyminski has left his mark in every corner of modern music. Tyminski’s voice famously accompanies George Clooney’s performance of the Stanley Brother’s classic song, “I’m A Man of Constant Sorrow,” in the film, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou and his vocal collaboration with Swedish DJ Avicii on the song “Hey, Brother” was a global smash, having been streamed over 1 billion times to date.

Dan has also contributed guitar and/or harmony to projects by Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, Aaron Lewis and Rob Thomas, to name a few. In addition to his highly successful solo career, Dan Tyminski has played guitar and mandolin for Alison Krauss and Union Station since 1994. His unmatched instrumental skills and burnished, soulful tenor voice have been key components of the band.

Dan has been honored with 14 Grammy Awards, was named Male Vocalist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association 4x, and was recognized as 2004’s Male Vocalist of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America.

The Dan Tyminski Band will be on tour throughout 2022 in support of a forthcoming full-length album. The Dan Tyminski Band is Maddie Denton (fiddle), Jason Davis (banjo), Grace Davis (bass), and Gaven Largent (dobro).

The Fangmeyer Theatre at HART
Directed by Steve Lloyd

When a badly botched version of Hamlet- “to be or not to be, that’s the point…”- hits a local stage, Henry Condell and John Heminges, two of Shakespeare’s closest friends, know they have to act. Three years after William Shakespeare’s death, a group of actors meet to try and gather the Bard’s scattered masterpieces and create the First Folio. It’s a theatrical, beat-the-clock race to save a legacy. The Book of Will is full of the wit and nerve you would expect from Shakespeare’s favorite actors and a triumph that will leave your heart full of joy. 

Suitable for all audiences.

Directed by Steve Lloyd

When a badly botched version of Hamlet- “to be or not to be, that’s the point…”- hits a local stage, Henry Condell and John Heminges, two of Shakespeare’s closest friends, know they have to act. Three years after William Shakespeare’s death, a group of actors meet to try and gather the Bard’s scattered masterpieces and create the First Folio. It’s a theatrical, beat-the-clock race to save a legacy. The Book of Will is full of the wit and nerve you would expect from Shakespeare’s favorite actors and a triumph that will leave your heart full of joy. 

A WNC PREMIERE! by Catherine Bush Directed by Rodney Smith Opening 8/19/2022 – 9/17/2022

Astronomers and educators from the PARI will be joining the Cradle of Forestry for the evening of August 26th, to share the wonders of the night sky. PARI scientists will be sharing all about the importance having dark skies, how light and telescopes work before heading outside to explore the night sky through telescopes with all in attendance. It is sure to be a great night with stars and science to share throughout the event.

Cradle educators will be joined by Melanie Crowson and Tim DeLisle of Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute: PARI

The Hot Girls’ End of Summer Report
Friday August 26
The Orange Peel
101 Biltmore Ave, Downtown Asheville

8p, doors at 7p • fully seated show

Standup Comedy Show
Featuring the HOTTEST and FUNNIEST female identifying comedians from around the region!
Hosted by Morgan Bost

Featuring Lace Larrabee who was recently on NBC’s America’s Got Talent with yesses from all the judges. This actress, comedian and podcaster is best known for “Queen America,” “Punchline” and “Flophouse.” with Hilliary Begley, fresh off her European tour, best known for Dumplin’ on Netflix and Amazon Prime. plus Moira Goree, Becca Steinhoff and more great regional comedians

Show: 8pm | Doors: 7pm
$17 – $20

The Hot Girls’ End of Summer Report
Friday August 26 at The Orange Peel
101 Biltmore Ave, in Downtown Asheville
8p, doors at 7p • fully seated show

You wont want to miss this Standup Comedy Show as the HOTTEST and FUNNIEST comedians from around the region get back in town to give us their Hot Girl End off Summer report!

Featuring Lace Larrabee who was recently on NBC’s America’s Got Talent with yesses from all the judges. This actress, comedian and podcaster is best known for “Queen America,” “Punchline” and “Flophouse.” with Hilliary Begley, fresh off her European tour, best known for Dumplin’ on Netflix and Amazon Prime.

plus Moira Goree, Becca Steinhoff and more great regional comedians you don’t want to miss this HOT evening out!!

Hosted by the amazing Morgan Bost