Classic movies at reasonable prices are only part of the experience. Decorations, introductory speakers, gala celebrations, and specialty beer make the films all the more entertaining for everyone.

TFAC Film Series Returns with classic movies you’ll want to see on the big screen!
2nd Tuesdays of the month starting October 12th
$7 Single Admission

North by Northwest                               January 11
Funny Girl                                               February 8
Raiders of the Lost Ark                           March 8
Jaws                                                        April 12
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid     May 10

Doors open at 6:15 p.m. for fun and mingling. The film starts at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are accessible online for a single film or the entire Film Series, and concessions will be available.

Films will be shown in the Auditorium, allowing PLENTY of room for comfortably distanced seating.  Please see TFAC Covid policies by clicking the button below.

WNC Dance Academy presents our annual Manna Foodbank Benefit Showcase. This production features the WNC Dance Academy performing company, along with several talented local professional artists. Come join us for a beautiful evening of dance with all proceeds going to benefit Asheville’s Manna Foodbank.

Concert features acclaimed fiddler Andrew Finn Magill, Concert proceeds benefit local hunger relief,
Masks Required

Tickets $25 – are available at the Hendersonville Visitor Center.

Three brilliant Black women at NASA – Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson – serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the first American space orbit.

This event is free, but space is limited so please register in advance.

Celebrate Black History throughout the year with Asheville Parks & Recreation. During February, events take place around the city including movie screenings, soul food meals, a pie baking contest, neighborhood cleanups, and more.

All programs follow current public health guidelines from Buncombe County Health and Human Services.

Classic movies at reasonable prices are only part of the experience. Decorations, introductory speakers, gala celebrations, and specialty beer make the films all the more entertaining for everyone.

TFAC Film Series Returns with classic movies you’ll want to see on the big screen!
2nd Tuesdays of the month starting October 12th
$7 Single Admission

Raiders of the Lost Ark                           March 8
Jaws                                                        April 12
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid     May 10

Doors open at 6:15 p.m. for fun and mingling. The film starts at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are accessible online for a single film or the entire Film Series, and concessions will be available.

Films will be shown in the Auditorium, allowing PLENTY of room for comfortably distanced seating.  Please see TFAC Covid policies by clicking the button below.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering career, he was often harassed and  treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. This acclaimed documentary lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover, reminding everyone that true American progress is always hard-won. Call 828-350-2051 for more info.

Mr. Poitier was a Bahamian American actor, film director, and diplomat. Born in 1927 in Miami, he was the
first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (1963). He grew up in the
Bahamas, but moved to Miami at age 15, and to New York City when he was 16. He received two
competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and
a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.
Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. He joined the American
Negro Theatre, landing his breakthrough film role as a high school student in the film Blackboard
Jungle (1955). In 1958, Poitier starred with Tony Curtis as chained-together escaped convicts in The Defiant
Ones, which received nine Academy Award nominations; both actors received nominations for Best Actor, with
Poitier's being the first for a Black actor. They both also had Best Actor nominations for the BAFTAs, with
Poitier winning.
In 1964, he won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963),
playing a handyman helping a group of German-speaking nuns build a chapel. Poitier also received acclaim
for Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), and A Patch of Blue (1965). He continued to break
ground in three successful 1967 films which dealt with issues of race and race relations: To Sir, with
Love; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and In the Heat of the Night, the latter of which won the Academy
Award for Best Picture for that year.
He received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for his performance in the last film, and in a poll the next
year he was voted the US's top box-office star. Beginning in the 1970s, Poitier also directed various comedy
films, including Stir Crazy (1980), starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, among other films. After nearly a
decade away from acting, he returned to television and film starring in Shoot to Kill (1988)
and Sneakers (1992).

Cry, the Beloved Country won the 1952 David O. Selznick Golden Laurel Award for its contribution to
international understanding and good will. Cry, the Beloved Country was clandestinely co-written by John
Howard Lawson.  The first President of the Writers Guild of America (West) – Lawson was branded a
Communist Sympathizer and ‘blacklisted’ by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during
the 1950’s.  Questioned by members of the committee, including Congressman Richard M. Nixon of
California, Lawson was charged with Contempt of Congress and spent time at the Federal Prison in Ashland,
Kentucky.
His storied career continued off the stage, serving as a Bahamian Ambassador to Japan. Sir Sidney he was
knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II in 1968. In 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the
highest civilian honor in the United States, by President Barack Obama. In 2016, he was awarded the BAFTA
Fellowship for outstanding lifetime achievement in film.