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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Saturday, February 24, 2018
ASHEVILLE TOURISTS JOB FAIR
Feb 24 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
ASHEVILLE TOURISTS JOB FAIR

If you or someone you know is looking to become an integral part of the Asheville Tourists organization, seasonal employment is available at the ballpark for the upcoming baseball season.

 

Interviews for part-time jobs during the 2018 season will take place at the annual McCormick Field job fairs; the first of two to be held Saturday, February 24 from 9am-noon. Applicants should report to the front gate of McCormick Field.

 

Openings include positions in the general concessionaire department for cashiers, cooks, wait-staff, and concession stand managers. Also, the Tourists are looking to fill positions in Customer Service and Fan Experience, Box Office employees, Parking Attendants, Groundskeeping, Mascots, Bat boys/Bat girls, Jade Bombers (crowd energizers) and merchandising.

Monday, March 5, 2018
FIRST MONDAYS in Brevard
Mar 5 @ 12:30 pm

FIRST MONDAYS in Brevard: March 5
On Monday, March 5 at 12:30 PM, trumpeter Neal Berntsen and trombonist David Jackson—both BMC faculty members—will be joined by pianist David Gilliland at the First Mondays concert in Scott Concert Hall at the Porter Center on the Brevard College campus. The afternoon’s concert will feature a delightful and varied program of works including Stepjan Sulek’s Sonata Vox Gabrieli, Maurice Ravel’s Piece en forme de Habanera, Isaac Albeniz’s Tango, Blacher’s Trio and Eric Ewazen’s Pastorale

March’s local charity partner is United Way of Transylvania County. (unitedwaytransylvania.org)

Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Children’s Literature Advocate Colby Sharp to Discuss New Children’s Book, The Creativity Project
Mar 14 @ 4:30 pm
Children’s Literature Advocate Colby Sharp to Discuss New Children’s Book, The Creativity Project
Renowned educator, blogger, and children’s literature advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse, and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge in his new children’s book, The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection (Little, Brown & Co., hardcover, $16.99, on sale 3/13/18). Colby will be discussing the book at a free community event at Sterling Community Center (113 Minus St., Greenvilleon Wednesday, March 14th, at 4:30pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Fiction Addiction will have books for sale at the event, or you can pre-order beforehand online, at the store, or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.
The Creativity ProjectColby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other: photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds into any form of creative work they wanted to share.
The result is a stunning collection of words, art, poetry, and stories by some of our most celebrated children’s book creators. A section of extra story starters by every contributor provides fresh inspiration for readers to create works of their own. Here is an innovative book that offers something for every kind of reader and creator!
Contributors include: Tom Angleberger, Jessixa Bagley, Tracey Baptiste, Sophie Blackall, Lisa Brown, Peter Brown, Lauren Castillo, Kate DiCamillo, Margarita Engle, Deborah Freedman, Adam Gidwitz, Chris Grabenstein, Jennifer L. Holm, Victoria Jamieson, Travis Jonker, Jess Keating, Laurie Keller, Jarret J. Krosoczka, Kirby Larson, Minh Lê, Grace Lin, Kate Messner, Daniel Nayeri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Debbie Ohi, R.J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, Dav Pilkey, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Dan Santat, Gary Schmidt, John Schu, Colby Sharp, Bob Shea, Liesl Shurtliff, Laurel Snyder, Javaka Steptoe, Mariko Tamaki, Linda Urban, Frank Viva, and Kat Yeh.
Friday, March 23, 2018
Immigration Lunch & Learn
Mar 23 @ 12:00 pm
Immigration Lunch & Learn

 

Join Pisgah Legal Services immigration law experts for a lunch session to learn how changes to immigration policies and enforcement are affecting our neighbors.

 

Friday, March 23rd | 12-1:30pm

Trinity Episcopal Church

60 Church St.| Downtown Asheville

 

Suggested Donation: $10/person

Lunch provided by Green Opportunities

 

RSVP to Nora Frank by March 16 at (828)210-3774 or [email protected]
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Asheville Tourists Baseball Game
Apr 12 @ 7:00 pm
Asheville Tourists Baseball Game

The Asheville Tourists are a minor league baseball team based in Asheville, North Carolina. They play in the Class A South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Colorado Rockies since 1994.

Asheville teams have played under the Tourists moniker in different leagues and classifications for decades, with the earliest dating to 1897. The current team has played continuously in what is now known as the South Atlantic League since 1976. They have won three league championships, first in 1984 and most recently in 2014. Previous Tourists teams won a total of four additional championships.

The Tourists play home games at McCormick Field. The park opened in 1924, renovated in 1959, and renovated again for the 1992 season. McCormick Field seats 4,000 fans, and is notable for the scoreboard which reads “Visitors” in the guest slot and “Tourists” in the home slot

Asheville Tourists vs. Columbia Fireflies
Apr 12 @ 7:05 pm
McCormick Field

Come cheer on the Tourists!

Friday, April 13, 2018
Clemson Baseball vs. Miami FL
Apr 13 @ 6:30 pm
Clemson University

Come cheer on the Tigers!  Learn more at http://www.ClemsonTigers.com!

Asheville Tourists Baseball Game
Apr 13 @ 7:00 pm
Asheville Tourists Baseball Game

The Asheville Tourists are a minor league baseball team based in Asheville, North Carolina. They play in the Class A South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Colorado Rockies since 1994.

Asheville teams have played under the Tourists moniker in different leagues and classifications for decades, with the earliest dating to 1897. The current team has played continuously in what is now known as the South Atlantic League since 1976. They have won three league championships, first in 1984 and most recently in 2014. Previous Tourists teams won a total of four additional championships.

The Tourists play home games at McCormick Field. The park opened in 1924, renovated in 1959, and renovated again for the 1992 season. McCormick Field seats 4,000 fans, and is notable for the scoreboard which reads “Visitors” in the guest slot and “Tourists” in the home slot

Asheville Tourists vs. Columbia Fireflies
Apr 13 @ 7:05 pm
McCormick Field

Come cheer on the Tourists!

Saturday, April 14, 2018
Fuente de Vida 5K
Apr 14 @ 9:30 am

A fundraising 5k that all proceeds will benefit the Fuente de Vida Ministry in Honduras that rescues girls, ages 2-18, from abusive homes and educates these young girls.

Race will go on rain or shine

Race is not timed but does have a time limit of 1 hour and 15 minutes

The race will start at 9:30am but packet pick up and paper registration will start at 8am.

Charity event: NO Refunds

Clemson Baseball vs. Miami FL
Apr 14 @ 5:00 pm
Clemson University

Come cheer on the Tigers!

Asheville Tourists Baseball Game
Apr 14 @ 6:00 pm
Asheville Tourists Baseball Game

The Asheville Tourists are a minor league baseball team based in Asheville, North Carolina. They play in the Class A South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Colorado Rockies since 1994.

Asheville teams have played under the Tourists moniker in different leagues and classifications for decades, with the earliest dating to 1897. The current team has played continuously in what is now known as the South Atlantic League since 1976. They have won three league championships, first in 1984 and most recently in 2014. Previous Tourists teams won a total of four additional championships.

The Tourists play home games at McCormick Field. The park opened in 1924, renovated in 1959, and renovated again for the 1992 season. McCormick Field seats 4,000 fans, and is notable for the scoreboard which reads “Visitors” in the guest slot and “Tourists” in the home slot

Asheville Tourists vs. Columbia Fireflies
Apr 14 @ 6:05 pm
McCormick Field

Come cheer on the Tourists!

Sunday, April 15, 2018
Clemson Baseball vs. Miami FL
Apr 15 @ 1:00 pm
Clemson University

Come cheer on the Tigers!  Learn more at http://www.ClemsonTigers.com!

 

Falafel 5K
Apr 15 @ 10:10 am

Don’t miss out on the only 5K race in Asheville that ends with a Falafel sandwich. Run with us on Sunday, April 15 at 10 am at the Asheville Jewish Community Center at 236 Charlotte Street! A local favorite, the Falafel 5K was voted one of WNC’s BEST road races in the 2015 Mountain Xpress “Best of WNC” poll. All registered participants for the 5K will receive a race shirt (unless the t-shirt free option is chosen).

Asheville Tourists Baseball Game
Apr 15 @ 2:00 pm
Asheville Tourists Baseball Game

The Asheville Tourists are a minor league baseball team based in Asheville, North Carolina. They play in the Class A South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Colorado Rockies since 1994.

Asheville teams have played under the Tourists moniker in different leagues and classifications for decades, with the earliest dating to 1897. The current team has played continuously in what is now known as the South Atlantic League since 1976. They have won three league championships, first in 1984 and most recently in 2014. Previous Tourists teams won a total of four additional championships.

The Tourists play home games at McCormick Field. The park opened in 1924, renovated in 1959, and renovated again for the 1992 season. McCormick Field seats 4,000 fans, and is notable for the scoreboard which reads “Visitors” in the guest slot and “Tourists” in the home slot

Asheville Tourists vs. Columbia Fireflies
Apr 15 @ 2:05 pm
McCormick Field

Come cheer on the Tourists!

Monday, April 16, 2018
Asheville Tourists Baseball Game
Apr 16 @ 7:00 pm
Asheville Tourists Baseball Game

The Asheville Tourists are a minor league baseball team based in Asheville, North Carolina. They play in the Class A South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Colorado Rockies since 1994.

Asheville teams have played under the Tourists moniker in different leagues and classifications for decades, with the earliest dating to 1897. The current team has played continuously in what is now known as the South Atlantic League since 1976. They have won three league championships, first in 1984 and most recently in 2014. Previous Tourists teams won a total of four additional championships.

The Tourists play home games at McCormick Field. The park opened in 1924, renovated in 1959, and renovated again for the 1992 season. McCormick Field seats 4,000 fans, and is notable for the scoreboard which reads “Visitors” in the guest slot and “Tourists” in the home slot