Calendar of Events

RACES
Finish off your year the right way, the best way, with a great run. Beautiful trails on the scenic and historic Lookout Mountain make the Lookout Mountain 50 miler, 20 miler & 10K a great event for all. To register: http://bit.ly/RACEWILDTRAILS

WILD TRAILS MEMBER DISCOUNTS
http://bit.ly/WILDTRAILS_MEMBERSHIP
+ Receive 10% off any race as a member of Wild Trails
+ Receive free entry into any 3 races** as a “Trail Steward”

COURSE
With a start and finish at Covenant College on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and a beautifully challenging course that will take you through the Chattanooga Nature Center, Arboretum, and Lula Lake Land Trust, this is clearly one of the best races in the Southeast each year. The 10K is fun for everyone, especially younger runners just coming off of their cross country seasons!

**Member discounts excludes the Chattanooga Trail Relay and Upchuck 50K.

https://www.facebook.com/events/590056258000457/

Reclaimed Creations is a unique sculpture exhibit created by renowned artist Sayaka Ganz. Utilizing reclaimed plastic objects, such as discarded utensils, Ganz creates amazing sculptures that visually appear unified at a distance, but are in fact separated when examined up close. Described as using a “3D impressionistic” style, Ganz’s exhibit includes installations of animals in motion, which are in rich in color and energy, to create an illusion of form.

About the Artist

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Sayaka Ganz grew up living in Japan, Brazil and Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. A lecturer and teacher, Ganz’s work has been displayed at various institutions around the globe, including the Hermann Geiger Foundation in Cecina, Italy, the Isle Gallery in Isle of Man, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.

My work is about perceiving harmony, even in situations that appear chaotic from the inside. When observing my sculptures up close, one might see gaps, holes and items being held on only by small points; step away, however, and the sculptures reveal the harmony created when the objects are aligned to the same general (but not identical) direction. Similarly, it is important to gain perspective by stepping back from current problems and look at the larger picture. Then one can perceive the beauty and patterns that exist.”

Come try a fun mix of Pilates and yoga! Try it out for free next Saturday! ??

https://www.facebook.com/events/1053412208161033/

Annual Holiday Open House, children free.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1463516633793292/

Asheville’s UltiGift tournament will be hosted Saturday, December 15th at Memorial Stadium. The tournament is open to all High School and Adult populations interested. The registration fee is $20 and a new unused and unwrapped children’s toy to be donated to our local Toys for Tots chapter.

http://ultigift.org/e/asheville-nc

The goal is to field 4-5 teams to play throughout the day with 4 games played. The schedule is tentative though we’ll likely begin between 9-10 a.m. Gender ratios will be dependent upon registration numbers. Team size will be dependent upon registration numbers.

In an effort to create an awesome event and environment for all we will be accepting baked goods and other food for the day of the event as well as additional donations of nonperishable goods for Manna Food Bank and clean and gently used (or new) blankets, coats, sweaters, gloves, hats and socks to be taken to the Jewish Community Center to help support the homeless population. The food and clothing items are not part of your registration and are unnecessary but are encouraged and welcomed.

Please, feel free to contact me with any questions regarding the event.

Thank you for participating!

Matt Gordon and AUC

https://www.facebook.com/events/333784387447097/

On Saturday, December 15th at 9am we invite you to a 2-hour running form clinic to improve your running technique and avoid injuries during your training. The clinic will be taught by Danny Dreyer, Founder of Chi Running and held at the UNCA Track. We highly encourage you to come for a technique tune-up to get your marathon training off to a great start.

If you haven’t already signed up for the half marathon or full marathon training program – please sign up before you attend the training runs – Get signed up here -> http://ashevillemarathon.com/community/training/

#runlucky7avl #runwithus

ChiRunning/ChiWalking Danny Dreyer

https://www.facebook.com/events/2193175610920992/

Breakfast Buffet With Santa. Adults
$7.00
Children $5.00
Photos by Garret Photography FREE 4X6
PKG Options available
Sponsored by Champion Credit Union and Smokey Mountain Santa. All money collected will be given to Haywood Christian Ministeties
Each child will receive a toy and treat bag from Santa.
Merry Christmas

https://www.facebook.com/events/2002618633136835/

Join us and our good buddy Santa for breakfast + FREE Photos with Santa (Printed on the Spot!) + Special Santa Play Package

Santa’s Package:
1 Hour Special Package + 2 Attractions for $15
[Offered until 12pm 12.15]

https://www.facebook.com/events/2239321746282492/

Join us for a memorable morning with our Santa Cow!

https://www.facebook.com/events/706942086327907/

Christmas at Biltmore Daytime Celebration*
Saturday, November 3, 2018 – Sunday, January 6, 2019 (daily)

*Included with estate admission.
*Does not include “Candlelight Christmas Evenings”

Experience the holidays wreathed with the wonder of Biltmore. Our celebration presents Christmas on a grand scale with more than 55 trees decorated by our talented staff, accented with miles of ribbon, garlands, and lights. Festive menus in our restaurants and holiday wine tastings make for a memorable visit.

Learn more about #ChristmasAtBiltmore or plan your visit: biltmore.com/Christmas

https://www.facebook.com/events/104655743803303/?event_time_id=104655823803295

SEW YOUR VERY OWN WALLET, KEY FOB OR FLASK!
Join Diamond Brand Gear and In Blue Handmade to learn the basics of sewing, how to use a machine, and leave with your very own creation. In an intimate setting in downtown Asheville, we will be creating your choice of a leather wallet, key fob or flask (all materials provided). Bring your own sewing machine to learn more about your tool or use one of ours at the micro-factory. At the end of the class enjoy refreshments and an opportunity for additional Q&A with our master sewing wizards. You leave with your very own handmade item for yourself or to gift for the holidays. Cost of the class (materials included) is only $35!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1020646518106243/

Join SAHC and the Hemlock Restoration Initiative (HRI) on a hike to explore some beautiful stands of Carolina hemlocks in the Fairview Farming Community, where SAHC has helped protect over 1,300 acres of forest and historic farmland. We will learn about Carolina hemlock ecosystems, the hemlock woolly adelgid, and current options and efforts to control the adelgid.

We will hike up Conserving Carolina’s Trombatore Trail and visit several SAHC protected properties, giving hikers a chance to learn about our land protection work in the area. We will complete the hike at a large stand of hemlocks near our Strawberry Gap conservation easement, where we will discuss the hemlock woolly adelgid and mitigation options. We will be rewarded with scenic views of Hickory Nut Gorge and Mount Mitchell from Blue Ridge Pastures!

Register online at: https://appalachian.org/event/trombatore-hemlock-hike/

https://www.facebook.com/events/311946326198957/

Our countdown to open has started and we are kicking-it-off with a weekend of free yoga. Come try a class, or two or three, and meet our team of experienced and diverse teachers. See the full schedule at https://everybodyyoganc.com/class-schedule. Sign-up online to reserve your space or just drop-in.

https://www.facebook.com/events/550974951994314/?event_time_id=550974955327647

Come find delightful pottery gifts for yourself and everyone on your list right in the studio where they were made! My pottery studio will be open Saturday, December 15th, from 9:00-5:00, at 118 Beech Street, Black Mountain, NC. I have dinnerware, mugs, sponge holders, soap pumps, teapots, bacon cookers, serving bowls, and so much more! Come check it out! You can see more online at www.sarahsunshinepottery.com.

The studio is also open anytime by appointment until December 17th (at which point it will be closed for a few weeks). To make an appointment, message me, or call / text 828-333-1884.

Directions: Drive on I-40 to Black Mountain and take exit 64. Head north toward downtown on Rt. 9 toward Montreat and stay on this road seven more blocks past downtown. Beech Street is on the left, and the studio is at the top of the hill.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1589348177831287/

Join Diamond Brand Gear and In Blue Handmade to learn the basics of sewing, how to use a machine, and leave with your very own creation. In an intimate setting in downtown Asheville, we will be creating your choice of a leather wallet, key fob or flask (all materials provided). Bring your own sewing machine to learn more about your tool or use one of ours at the micro-factory. At the end of the class enjoy refreshments and an opportunity for additional Q&A with our master sewing wizards. You leave with your very own handmade item for yourself or to gift for the holidays. Cost of the class (materials included) is only $35!

We’re Spreading Pawsitivity with monthly donation days! This month 30% of the day’s proceeds will be donated to the Asheville Humane Society.

Spreading Pawsitivity includes
?Our Essentials bath appointments on a walk-in basis (you can call for breed specific pricing)
?Spa-on-the-Go packages for $32.00
?Nail trim and file for $15.00
?Nail trim only for $10.00

We’re pleased to offer
✨20% off for civil servants
✨Free bathing and nails for the dogs of the homeless
✨30% of all proceeds donated to the local charity of the month

Our Essentials bath now offers essentials premium shampoo, premium conditioner and teeth brushing included!

Our Spa-on-the-go includes
Nail trim and file
Teeth brushing and breath freshener
Light brushing
Ear cleaning
Paw pad check
Aromatherapy spritz and
A bandana or bows

On Spreading Pawsitivity days our Nail trims and Nail trim and file prices are $5 less than our normal walk/in or spa day nail service prices!

No appointment necessary! Just stop by and sign up on the list to have your dog pampered for a great cause.

We do require proof of up to date rabies vaccines for any service, including walk-in nails.

All bath dogs must be signed up by 2:00 pm in order to be finished by our closing time of 3:00.

?See you then and as always thank you for helping us Pay It Forward?

https://www.facebook.com/events/1655499098081987/

An all-day event with happenings in many of the downtown businesses and galleries taking the place of the December Art after Dark this year and a new partner in the Winter ART Smokies Style series.

The day begins with breakfast with Santa at Firefly Taps & Grill from 9-11am. $5 gets you pancakes, bacon, juice, hot chocolate. Specialty adult hot chocolate and coffee with added liqueurs available. Visit by Santa and a storytelling corner.

Ornament making station at Haywood Co Arts Council.

Christmas Cookie decorating at ReMax.

The Strand Theater showing “Elf” at 11:00am. Free admission (limited seating)

Wall Street Books: 10:00am Christmas Story Hour
4-6pm Harry Potter Christmas with the Sorting Ceremony

Street Musicians ~ Blue Ridge Brass 1:00-3:00 Haywood Community Chorus Shady Grove United Methodist Church carolers 3:00 Christmas Carol Sing-a-long with Steve Whiddon

https://www.facebook.com/events/2279471412085570/

Our South Asheville location is hosting a brunch on our patio on Saturday, 12/15 with a very special guest star: Santa Claus himself!

Santa will be available for photos and wishlist sharing from 9:30AM – 12:30PM before he has to return to the North Pole.

While visiting with Santa, enjoy a full breakfast buffet for $12 per person. Kids under 5 eat free! The buffet includes scrambled eggs, bacon, sweet potato pancakes, biscuits & gravy, and potato cracklins as well as coffee and tea.

Make a reservation for this can’t-miss family event! Please select “Outdoor Seating” when placing your reservation to ensure your spot near Santa.

https://tupelohoneycafe.com/location/southside-asheville/reservations/

https://www.facebook.com/events/188976295386708/

Join us for AVL WBL Ride #5, presented by & Sag Support by Motion Makers Bicycle Shop.

All participants must sign in/waiver before each Saturday ride. Please leave plenty of time to park, get your gear ready and to sign/in! Restrooms are available. The rides are free, but donations are appreciated to help offset costs of the rides. COMPLETE ALL the AVL WBL RIDES & WIN PRIZES!

We will make announcements before the ride on Saturday so plan to be inside Bold Rock by 9:45am to hear the announcements and to meet the ride leaders. We will plan to start the ride promptly at 10am.

AVL WBL Routes and Cue Sheets will be posted every week on Wednesday on our Facebook event page. Please download these files to your Garmin and/or print your own cue sheets for each ride.

The AVL-WBL is excited to host the best structured, long, winter-road training rides on the planet. But we are more than just a ride, we are a cycling community, a network, and even a family; we look out for each other on the road.

We offer A, B+, B and C groups during the AVL-WBL with SAG support. All levels of cyclists are encouraged and invited to attend.

The AVL-WBL rides are not designed to drop riders, but neither do we coddle the masses. Rides are ridden at a steady tempo – not too fast, not too slow. Our goal is to ride smooth and steady, avoiding rapid accelerations and decelerations. We try and hold a steady, solid and quick tempo for the entirety of a ride.

AVL-WBL RIDE GROUPS:

A group = experienced, pro’s/elites, competitive, ‘team’ racers & can maintain 18-22 mph throughout entire ride. This is a DROP ride, if you can’t hang please join one of the B groups.
B+ group = experienced, mostly non-competitive, & can maintain 17-19 mph throughout the entire ride. This is a DROP ride, if you can’t hang please join B- group.
B group = experienced, non-competitive & can maintain 15-17 mph throughout the entire ride. No Drop, but expected to keep B pace.
C Group = novice/beginner riders, riding an easier pace. No one left behind.

https://www.facebook.com/events/578722592587683/

Join Gretzky for Coffee and Donuts in the Education Room at Asheville Humane Society! Gretzky has been waiting since February for a home of his own… he’s been overlooked far too long! We hope this event will showcase what a wonderful dog Gretzky is, and give him the opportunity to meet one-on-one with potential adopters. You’ll get to meet with Gretzky while enjoying refreshments. Treats for him, and coffee and donuts for you! Plus, you can visit the other dogs available for adoption at the Adoption Center.

Gretzky looks forward to meeting you!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/977242279134498/

Bring the kids to Wine Sage and Gourmet to see Appalachian Santa and decorate their own Gingerbread boy or girl! We will have the dough ready-made thanks to Sweet Magnolia Bakery and the kids can decorate their own cookie and visit with Santa! Event is free and will be held downstairs in the Wine Cellar.

https://www.facebook.com/events/291604828150771/

**LISA JONES WILL HAVE FRESH CUT AND LIVE TREES – WREATHS AND GARLAND – FARM ALFRESCO FOOD TRUCK WILL HAVE MEXICAN AND SOUTHERN FOOD AVAILABLE AS WELL AS HOT CHOCOLATE – COFFEE AND ATOLE**

** CRAZY CHICKEN LADY CREATIONS (KIM SHELDON) WILL HAVE HANDMADE SEWN FABRIC AND QUILTED ITEMS **

** LOVINGDYI (CHRISTINA RIDEOUT) WILL HAVE CHALK COUTOR – THERE WILL BE A “MAKE & TAKE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS FOR $5 EACH – CHOOSE FROM 6 DIFFERENT STENCILS **

**AUNT BEE’S SOAPS & CANDLES (MARTI GARREN) BEES WAX CANDLES – HONEY SOAPS & GOATS MILK SOAPS **

**RURAL WREATHS (BRITTANY ALEXANDER) WILL HAVE BURLAP WREATHS – HOLIDAY, WINTER AND EVERYDAY DÉCOR **

**SASSY SHOTS (CRYSTAL BRACKEN) WILL HAVE A HOLIDAY THEMED PHOTO BOOTH – 1 FREE PHOTO YOU CAN DIGITALLY UPLOAD – COME DRESSED FOR YOUR HOLIDAY PHOTO**

** ROB LYTLE WILL HAVE HANDCRATED WOOD ITEMS **

**RANDY GOODWIN WILL HAVE SOUTHERN HATS AND JEWERLY**

https://www.facebook.com/events/657335761327509/

When reflecting on the current state of the environment, it seems that we have entered into times of seismic sorrows. Carbon emissions, water pollution, fracking, and changing climate patterns all point to a troubling reality with serious consequences for human and non-human populations. Through weavings, installations, sculpture, and print, artists Rena Detrixhe and Tali Weinberg (Tulsa, OK) explore the complex relationship between humans and the planet, offering insights, expressing grief, and creating space for resilience and change.

In Time of Seismic Sorrows is curated by Marilyn Zapf and organized by the Center for Craft. The Center for Craft is supported in part by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

The South has always been home to a blend of cultures — from Native Americans here by 14,000 years ago to Europeans 500 years ago, followed by Africans forced to migrate. By 1500, cultures in the South included Creek, Cherokee, Catawba, Choctaw, Chitimacha, and Coushatta, from Europe English, Scottish, Irish, and German, and Africans from Senegal to Congo. Baskets were integral in daily life, as agricultural equipment for gathering, sifting, storing, and serving the finished product or as receptacles for tools, clothes, sacred objects, and even infants.

Initially each culture had its own preferred basket material and method of manufacture — twilled rivercane for Native Americans, plaited oak for Europeans, and coiled grasses for Africans. Interaction between groups spurred adaptations to changing circumstances, such as the use of white oak by the Cherokee in the 1800s, as rivercane stands were decimated by European settlements. Native Americans also adopted the European picnic, flower, egg, and market baskets to sell in the 20th-century art market. Native and European Americans wove honeysuckle into baskets after 1854, when introduced from Japan. By the 17th century African Americans discovered bulrush along the coasts, coiling it into large, round “fanners” to winnow rice. Later bulrush was one medium among sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto, giving rise to the name “sweetgrass baskets” along the coast.

Baskets were woven not only for use in the fields and homes or for sale in art galleries but also as a connection to ancestors and spirits, as designs were said to come from inside one’s head, from memories of one’s mother’s motifs, or from the Creator. Indeed, working with one’s hands in nature to gather materials and to form them into a basket was considered spiritually and physically healthy, becoming a part of the practice of occupational therapy around World War I.

Today, basketweavers in the South from all three traditions are teaching the next generation to continue this art. Artists from across the region work with old and new materials in old and new forms, innovating for their legacy, for art’s sake, and for political causes, as embodied in the varied vessels in this gallery and epitomized in the virtuosic miniature examples in the case at right.

JOY TO THE WORLD 5K
HOSTED BY TRINITY OF FAIRVIEW STUDENTS

Saturday, December 15
Fletcher Park • 10:00 a.m.

Early Online Registration: $25
Race Day Registration: $30

Entry fee includes a long-sleeve race t-shirt. Shirts are guaranteed to the first 100 registrants.

Early online registration ends at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, December 14. Please register on race day after this time.

Early registration packs may be picked up at Fleet Feet Sports in Biltmore Park (8 Town Square Blvd #165, Asheville, 28803)
on Friday, December 14 from 4:00–7:00 p.m.

Race sponsorships available. When you sponsor, you get your company on the back of our race shirt, as well as in all of our race promotion. Interested? Please email [email protected].

All proceeds go to the senior class summer mission trip to Puerto Rico. Contact Pastor Cody ([email protected] or 828-628-1188) with questions.

Register and get all the race info at www.JoytotheWorld5K.com.

https://www.facebook.com/events/540344706392411/

Join us any Saturday for outdoor activities at the garden. Local youth involved in programming for building life skills, improving literacy and leadership development welcome young people in the area to join them, and we are always in need of adult volunteers to help with mentoring. Involvement in the Shiloh Community Garden also includes the experience of growing produce organically, lessons in permaculture and the science of sustainability, healthy meal preparation, and entrepreneurship. Come join the fun!

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