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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Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 19 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

TAPAAS Grant for BCS Educators
Oct 19 all-day
online

TAPAAS for BCS Educators

Apply by November 18 | TAPAAS is an arts-integration program that implements high quality artist residencies to create craft and performance experiences across all curriculum. Since 2010, TAPAAS has impacted more than 9,000 students, trained over 55 artists, and provided more than 850 days of artists in residence. All teachers in the Buncombe County Schools district are welcome to apply — application opens October 17.

Cozy Up For Fall Virtual Spiritual Retreat
Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Soul Kyst

🍂Registration is now open for October’s Cozy Up for Fall Retreat!🍂

RELAX, RECHARGE & BE INSPIRED with our 2-hour live spiritual retreat.
Wednesday, October 19th 7 pm to 9 pm ET

https://soulkyst.com/virtual-spiritual-retreats/

Opening Meditation and Closing Visualization
Facilitated by Randi Botnick

EFT Pro Tapping Workshop
Facilitated by Karen Berzanski

During this retreat, you’ll learn how to use the mind-body tool, Pro EFT™ Tapping to:

Look at the past year and identify what you want to release and let go of
Get super clear on what you want and don’t want moving into the final months of the year
Leave with inspired ideas on how to create the most luxurious and pleasurable holiday season you’ve ever experienced.
Take these 2 hours of well-deserved relaxation time to slow down and reset, and experience personal breakthroughs.

For more details and to register: https://soulkyst.com/virtual-spiritual-retreats/

Thursday, October 20, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 20 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

TAPAAS Grant for BCS Educators
Oct 20 all-day
online

TAPAAS for BCS Educators

Apply by November 18 | TAPAAS is an arts-integration program that implements high quality artist residencies to create craft and performance experiences across all curriculum. Since 2010, TAPAAS has impacted more than 9,000 students, trained over 55 artists, and provided more than 850 days of artists in residence. All teachers in the Buncombe County Schools district are welcome to apply — application opens October 17.

Gluten-free comedy open mic at Ginger’s Revenge  
Oct 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Ginger's Revenge  

  • Gluten-free comedy open mic at Ginger's Revenge
  • 6:00pm – 8:00pm

    Open mic comedy every Thursday from 6-8pm at Ginger’s Revenge Tasting Room.

    Rotating hosts each week Clay Jones, James Burks and Katy Hudson

    No cover
    Signup starts at 5:30, and signup order will not necessarily be show order. Each comic gets 5 mins of stage time

Friday, October 21, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 21 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

TAPAAS Grant for BCS Educators
Oct 21 all-day
online

TAPAAS for BCS Educators

Apply by November 18 | TAPAAS is an arts-integration program that implements high quality artist residencies to create craft and performance experiences across all curriculum. Since 2010, TAPAAS has impacted more than 9,000 students, trained over 55 artists, and provided more than 850 days of artists in residence. All teachers in the Buncombe County Schools district are welcome to apply — application opens October 17.

Saturday, October 22, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 22 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

Mindful Self-Compassion 9-Session Class Outdoors Near Warren Wilson
Oct 22 all-day
Charles D. Owen Park

MSC is an empirically-supported 9-session program that helps participants develop and deepen the skills of self-compassion. Activities include meditation, talks, discussion, and experiential exercises. This class will be held rain or shine outdoors in a beautiful setting over nine Saturdays, 9/17-11/19, skipping 10/15.

We will meet from 10:30AM-2PM with a 30-minute break for lunch midway through each session. Each class participant will receive a copy of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook.

Register at mindfulselfcompassionasheville.com by 8/30 for early-bird pricing.

Reasonably Priced Babies Improv Comedy Show
Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm
Black Mountain Center for the Arts

Reasonably Priced Babies Improv Comedy Show

The Black Mountain Center for the Arts is proud to host the Asheville based improv comedy troupe, Reasonably Priced Babies. RPB is a formidable improv comedy group consisting of Tom Chalmers, Mondy Carter, Karen Stobbe, Kim Richardson and Josh Batenhorst.

This is how it works: RPBs will ask the audience for suggestions and then they make that come to technicolor life. Get ready to be a part of the experience because this show will push the envelope of ridiculous fun.

Doors open at 6:30pm. Masks are encouraged but not required.

Halloween Comedy Beauty Pageant
Oct 22 @ 8:00 pm
The Orange Peel

1st Annual Asheville Comedy Halloween Beauty Pageant
A +18 Comedy Show
The Orange Peel
October 22, 2022
8p/doors at 7p
$15 online/$17 at box office
Fully seated show

The area’s best comedians will be in character (think vampire, Batman or Alice from Wonderland,a politician, a dog, a witch, a game character, cartoon character or alien …so many possibilities!) and will be playing their part in this ridiculous pageant which will test these very special contestants in “beauty,” “talent,” “swimsuit” and standup comedy!

Decided by audience participation, YOU are in charge of who wins the prizes and is crowned the Asheville Monarch of Halloween for 2022!

You don’t want to miss the funnest event of the season! Free candy & Popcorn! Come early to enjoy Buzz Radio Asheville “All Asheville Music & Comedy, All Original, All Styles, All The Time.”

Produced by Slice of Life Comedy, Buzz Radio Asheville, The Hot Seat & Disclaimer Standup Comedy

Sunday, October 23, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 23 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

Monday, October 24, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 24 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

TAPAAS Grant for BCS Educators
Oct 24 all-day
online

TAPAAS for BCS Educators

Apply by November 18 | TAPAAS is an arts-integration program that implements high quality artist residencies to create craft and performance experiences across all curriculum. Since 2010, TAPAAS has impacted more than 9,000 students, trained over 55 artists, and provided more than 850 days of artists in residence. All teachers in the Buncombe County Schools district are welcome to apply — application opens October 17.

An Evening with David Sedaris
Oct 24 @ 7:30 pm
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

An Evening With David Sedaris

Tickets on sale to public Aug. 5th

This is a unique opportunity to see the best-selling humorist in an intimate setting. As always, Sedaris will  be offering a selection of all-new readings and recollections, as well as a Q&A session and book signing.  Books will be available for sale at the event, courtesy of Malaprop Bookstore/ Cafe

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, Mr. Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent  humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness  proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human  condition today. One of his new books, The Best of Me (Little Brown/ Hachette, Fall 2020), is a collection  of 42 previously published stories and essays, about which novelist Andrew Sean Greer wrote in the New  York Times: “You must read “The Best of Me.” It will be a new experience, knowing that enough time has  passed to find humor in the hardest parts of life. More than ever — we’re allowed to laugh.”

If you love David Sedaris’s cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you’re getting  into at his live readings. You’d be wrong. To see him read his own work on stage allows his  autobiographical narrative to reveal a uniquely personal narrative that will keep you laughing throughout  the evening. Don’t miss this event!

Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 25 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

TAPAAS Grant for BCS Educators
Oct 25 all-day
online

TAPAAS for BCS Educators

Apply by November 18 | TAPAAS is an arts-integration program that implements high quality artist residencies to create craft and performance experiences across all curriculum. Since 2010, TAPAAS has impacted more than 9,000 students, trained over 55 artists, and provided more than 850 days of artists in residence. All teachers in the Buncombe County Schools district are welcome to apply — application opens October 17.

Small Engine Maintenance and Repair Cafe
Oct 25 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
SAHC Community Farm

Chris Link
demonstrating
maintenance on BCS
tractor

We will begin with a 1-hour small engine diagnostic, repair, and maintenance demonstration led by Community Farm Manager Chris Link. The workshop will be followed at 6 pm by a “Repair Cafe“, which helps folks repair household goods. This Repair Cafe session will be especially well-equipped for small engines and other farm/garden related jobs like blade sharpening, handle replacements, and power tool repair. FREE and open to the public

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 26 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

TAPAAS Grant for BCS Educators
Oct 26 all-day
online

TAPAAS for BCS Educators

Apply by November 18 | TAPAAS is an arts-integration program that implements high quality artist residencies to create craft and performance experiences across all curriculum. Since 2010, TAPAAS has impacted more than 9,000 students, trained over 55 artists, and provided more than 850 days of artists in residence. All teachers in the Buncombe County Schools district are welcome to apply — application opens October 17.

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 27 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

Farm Beginnings Year-Long Program
Oct 27 all-day
Organic Growers School

Farm Beginnings is training the next generation of farmers in the many skills required to start and expand a successful farm business: passion, clear goals, production experience, financial and marketing know-how, and more. Farm Beginnings® will help you build these skills through one year of farmer-led training, mentoring, and networking.

We support individuals in clarifying their goals and strengths, developing agricultural skills, and growing profitable, equitable, and ecologically sound farm businesses. We use a holistic management frame, farmer-led classroom sessions, on-farm tours, mentoring, and an extensive farmer network.

$100 off tuition if you apply by August 1st!

Who should apply?
This course is ideal for those who are considering full-time farming, or part-time farming while pursuing outside employment. Farm Beginnings is a great opportunity for those wanting to change careers to start farming or develop an existing agricultural hobby into a more serious business. Students do not need to currently own land, but 1 season minimum of experience doing farming or garden work in the last five years is required.

Apply today! Scholarships are available.

https://organicgrowersschool.org/farmers/farm-beginnings/

TAPAAS Grant for BCS Educators
Oct 27 all-day
online

TAPAAS for BCS Educators

Apply by November 18 | TAPAAS is an arts-integration program that implements high quality artist residencies to create craft and performance experiences across all curriculum. Since 2010, TAPAAS has impacted more than 9,000 students, trained over 55 artists, and provided more than 850 days of artists in residence. All teachers in the Buncombe County Schools district are welcome to apply — application opens October 17.

Gluten-free comedy open mic at Ginger’s Revenge  
Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Ginger's Revenge  

  • Gluten-free comedy open mic at Ginger's Revenge
  • 6:00pm – 8:00pm

    Open mic comedy every Thursday from 6-8pm at Ginger’s Revenge Tasting Room.

    Rotating hosts each week Clay Jones, James Burks and Katy Hudson

    No cover
    Signup starts at 5:30, and signup order will not necessarily be show order. Each comic gets 5 mins of stage time

Friday, October 28, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 28 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

TAPAAS Grant for BCS Educators
Oct 28 all-day
online

TAPAAS for BCS Educators

Apply by November 18 | TAPAAS is an arts-integration program that implements high quality artist residencies to create craft and performance experiences across all curriculum. Since 2010, TAPAAS has impacted more than 9,000 students, trained over 55 artists, and provided more than 850 days of artists in residence. All teachers in the Buncombe County Schools district are welcome to apply — application opens October 17.

Saturday, October 29, 2022
Artist Support Grant
Oct 29 all-day
online

The Artist Support Grant provides funding emerging or established artists to create work, improve their business operations, or bring their work to new audiences. Grants range from $500-3,000.

Mindful Self-Compassion 9-Session Class Outdoors Near Warren Wilson
Oct 29 all-day
Charles D. Owen Park

MSC is an empirically-supported 9-session program that helps participants develop and deepen the skills of self-compassion. Activities include meditation, talks, discussion, and experiential exercises. This class will be held rain or shine outdoors in a beautiful setting over nine Saturdays, 9/17-11/19, skipping 10/15.

We will meet from 10:30AM-2PM with a 30-minute break for lunch midway through each session. Each class participant will receive a copy of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook.

Register at mindfulselfcompassionasheville.com by 8/30 for early-bird pricing.

Creepy Curiosity Cabinet Workshop
Oct 29 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Purple Crayon

Halloween can be just as much fun for adults as it is for children—especially if you find creepy things fun to play with! Indulge your dark side this Halloween weekend by creating a creepy curiosity cabinet!

Curiosity cabinets were pieces of furniture or entire rooms where 19th century people displayed items they had collected in their travels or scientific investigations. These Victorians also had a fascination with the morbid and peculiar juxtapositions of people, animals, and things.

In this frighteningly fun workshop, mixed media artist Kate Corcoran will show you how to create a miniature curiosity cabinet that you can pull out each October or display all year round. In the process, you’ll learn how to compose, layer, and adhere mixed media materials: skills that you can apply to all mixed media projects!