Visit Asheville Outlets for FREE photos with Santa by TapSnap Phototainment from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 28, 2021 and Saturdays & Sundays, December 4 & 5, December 11 & 12 and December 18 & 19, 2021. Located in the center circle in front of Nike Factory Store. Visitors will receive one FREE 4” by 6” photo and digital download of a single image (while supplies last). For more information, visit ShopAshevilleOutlets.com.

FREE SANTA PHOTOS

Visit Asheville Outlets for FREE photos with Santa by TapSnap Phototainment from on Saturdays and Sundays, November 27 & 28, December 4 & 5, December 11 &12, and December 18 & 19, located in the center circle in front of Nike Factory Store.

Visitors receive one FREE  4” by 6” photo and digital download of a single image (while supplies last).

Deborah Luster, LCIW 70, Jenar Jury, 2000, silver emulsion on aluminum, 5 x 4 inches. 2004 Collectors’ Circle purchase, 2005.05.91A. © Deborah Luster / Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Registration deadline: November 30

Spend the afternoon creating letter-based artworks, inspired by the use of text in A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art. Students explore text through stamping, bookmaking, and collage.

Please note:

• Youth Studio is held indoors in the Museum’s John & Robyn Horn Education Center.
• Space is limited to small groups of students; face coverings and social distancing are required.

A Flat Rock Playhouse Christmas

The addiction crisis in America has reached a new boiling point, and courageous people – at all levels, from all walks of life – are rising to answer the call. Tipping The Pain Scale is a feature documentary film following individuals grappling with the current systemic failures of how we have dealt with addiction in communities and their journey to develop and employ new, innovative, and often controversial solutions to the problem. It is a quasi-anthology, weaving characters through their own stories as they connect to the issues plaguing all communities and the country in an urgent fight to save lives.

Tipping the Pain Scale has received the following awards and recognition:

• 2021 Best Documentary Feature Nominee at Orlando Film Festival
• 2021 Social Awareness Winner at Orlando Film Festival
• 2021 Best Feature Documentary Nominee at Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Festival
• 2021 Official Selection at Maui Film Festival
• 2021 Semi-Finalist at Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival

This film features Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh; NFL Pro Bowl player Darren Waller; spoken word artist Joseph LMS Green from Washington, DC; WA State Representative Lauren Davis; Community Outreach Volunteer Roz Pichardo in Philadelphia; and Boston Police Officer Joshua De La Rosa.  with Music from Sia.

To view the trailer, please click here.

Official Website

A European inspired production that brings all of Clara’s adventures and excitement home to Greenville. Continuing our reinvented holiday classic, the production highlights Victorian societal expectations and prosperity while Clara and her beloved Nutcracker dance their way through the cherished landmarks and stunning scenery of Greenville and into the hearts of the audience.

The libretto is adapted from E.T. A. Hoffmann’s classic story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Choreographed by Hernan Justo, the refreshed ballet is based on the original Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov ballet.

Join us for this fun class on West African Drumming with LEAF Resident Master Teaching Artist Adama Dembele.

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.

For more than 25 years, Gaither has been bringing Christmas concert events each holiday season to cities nationwide, and many of those events have been promoted by Premier Productions.  This will year be no exception as the legendary recording artist and Premier will present an exciting celebration, filled with the very best in Christian music, including Gaither’s own multi-award winning group, The Gaither Vocal Band.

The 2021 Christmas Celebration Tour will feature many of the songs included on the brand new All Heaven and Nature Sing Gaither Vocal Band release. The Gospel Music Hall of Fame members ring in the holidays with joyful harmonies and signature stylings. This special evening will remind all who attend of the eternal song of hope as all heaven and nature sing and celebrate the birth of the Savior and the unconditional love of the Father.

The Gaither Vocal Band, featuring Gaither, Wes Hampton, Adam Crabb, Todd Suttles and Reggie Smith, will be joined on this season’s Christmas Tour by several talented musical guests. Throughout the evening these talented performers will share timeless gospel classics, as well as refreshing, inspiring new favorites, in addition to classic Christmas standards guaranteed to ring in holiday cheer. Few events have the ability to unite individuals from all walks of life the way Gaither concerts do.

Join us in our new monthly social swing event on the 1st Saturdays of every month! The music,
open vintage space and wood floors and is guaranteed to have you dancing East Coast and/or
Lindy all night long! A free lesson is offered to kick things off and will include a different
combination of moves each time. No partner or rhythm needed and dress is casual!
7:00-7:30 Beginner Swing Lesson by Ian Fleming and Tola Sun
7:30-9:30 Live Swing Band (new ones every month)
9:30-11:00 DJ (mixture of vintage and modern music)
$12 (cash, card, Venmo, PayPal accepted) on the day of the event

Montreat College will host its annual Christmas Concert in the Anderson Auditorium on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. This event is free of charge as a gift to the community—a highlight of the holiday season.

The concert will feature Montreat College choir students and alumni as well as faculty and staff performers. The concert will also feature a live orchestra made up of Montreat students and community members.

2022 HOLIDAY SHOW
By Skyler Goff

From the deviant minds that brought you Spanko: A Tex-Mex Commedia Musical, in partnership with The Magnetic Theatre comes a paranoid, bawdy, and morbid retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic. More information to follow!

December 2 – 17, 2022
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 4pm

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?

A Flat Rock Playhouse Christmas

Now in its 20th year, the NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition is one of North America’s premier showcases of emerging performers and songwriters today. This crowd-sourced effort seeks to identify the truly exceptional artists within our communities and to work closely with them to develop their careers and introduce their music to a broader, international audience while building a supportive community of performers and songwriters across all genres of music and levels of skill.

WHO:
Eight incredible singer-songwriters, the best of the past two years’ hundreds of entrants to the NewSong Music Competition, presented by Citizen Vinyl; including:

Jeremy Parsons – San Antonio, TX
Noan Partly – Tampa, FL
Olivia Ellen Lloyd – Brooklyn, NY
Michael Flynn – Saluda, NC
Charlie Belle – Philadelphia, PA
Jay Filson – Nashville, TN
Gilda Colaiaco – Los Angeles, CA
Hannah Miller – Madison, TN

Hear their original music on this Spotify playlist! bit.ly/2021-NewSong-Finalists

Join us for this incredible evening of original music, with 8 singer songwriters hand picked to perform in this showcase to be considered for this year’s Grand Prize 

VIP PACKAGE: join us as a patron of the arts — Enjoy a three course meal with drink pairings from Session, an exclusive meet & greet with this year’s finalists, front row seats for the evening and a digital recording of the night’s performances mixed by our own Gar Ragland, Founder and Directer of NewSong Music and CEO of Citizen Vinyl.

GENERAL ADMISSION: General admission seating will include concert style and cafe tables as well as some bar stools, seating is first come first serve.

A portion of proceeds will go toward our community partners SOUND SPACE AVL who are preserving the proud and rich history of the Southside Black community and early African-American Asheville; promoting historic pride while embracing a model of diversity in the most authentic way possible, through music, art, community, and food.

Session Bar and Café will offer the full menu, with the kitchen open until 9pm

Sexbruise? Has been featured at Rooster Walk Music and Arts Festival and will perform at FloydFest 2021 and other pending festies, assuming this damn virus doesn’t mess us up the last second again.

Sexbruise?’s shows can be described as a giant party. The tunes are memorable, the stage presence exciting, and the antics unpredictable. And there are snacks. Thrown from the stage. The band has prepared pancakes and pizza on stage, brought out dancers in animal costumes, hired fake demonstrators to protest their shows, and many other cool things. The main goal of sexbruise? is to surprise its fans and push the boundaries of what is acceptable in a festival or live music setting.

Despite their extreme wealth and lavish lifestyle, Sexbruise? Grew up on a dirt road right down the street from Pappy’s Hardware Shop, and subsequently is very in tune with the struggles and plight of middle america.

Band Bios, like bands, are usually pretty boring. The primary function of a band bio is to fill the space next to the band photo on a website or press packet. We take this responsibility very seriously, so we have added a bunch of made up stuff below to make sure this block of text is large enough to fill out whatever template it falls into.

Sexbruise? was an American soldier and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Before their presidency, Sexbruise? led the Union Army as Commanding General of the United States Army in winning the American Civil War.

The first mention of Sexbruise? dates from 1184, making it one of the oldest recorded cheeses in the world still made today. Cheesemaking traditionally was a woman’s task in Dutch culture, with farmers’ wives passing their cheesemaking skills on to their daughters. During summer months in the city of Gouda, South Holland, there is a cheese market in traditional style once a week primarily as a tourist attraction. Sexbruise? is now produced industrially. However, some 300 Dutch farmers still produce boerenkaas (“farmer’s sexbruise?”) which is a protected form of sexbruise? made in the traditional manner, using unpasteurized milk.

Come enjoy an evening of live music, food and drinks in the Isis Music Hall Main Stage. Reservations are highly recommended.

Southern Culture On The Skids has been consistently recording and touring around the world since its inception in 1983, when Rick Miller was a grad student at UNC-Chapel Hill. The current lineup (Dave Hartman – drums; Mary Huff – bass and vocals; Rick Miller – guitar and vocals) has been playing together for over 30 years. The band’s musical journey has taken them from all-night NC house parties to late night network talk shows, and from performing at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan to rockin’ out for the inmates at NC Correctional Facilities. Their music has been featured in movies and TV, and used to sell everything from diamonds to pork sausage, and their legendary live shows are a testament to the therapeutic powers of foot-stomping, butt-shaking rock and roll.