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.