Calendar of Events
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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Join New Belgium for an outdoor walk learning how the brewery incorporated pollinator friendly plants into the design of the landscape. We’ll identify various plant species and be on the lookout for butterflies, bees, beetles and other pollinators. Please meet at the Liquid Center (21 Craven Street, 28806) and RSVP on the pollination celebration website.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (828) 250-4260
Event Location: Lake Julian Park – 406 Overlook Extension Arden, NC
arth Skin is based upon the forms and textures of the earth using inspiration from aerial photography of Western North Carolina and topographical maps of local areas, including Pisgah National Forest and Balsam Range. Created by ceramic artists Trish Salmon and Crystal Allen, Earth Skin includes wall structures and pieces designed for mantles, shelves and tables. All works are available for purchase and a portion of the sales will be donated to The North Carolina Arboretum Society.
About the Artists
Trish Salmon
Trish has been studying clay for many years through the various classes available to her when she lived in the Atlanta area. Taking classes at Penland was a life changing experience and a turning point in her desire to become a studio ceramicist. She and her husband moved to Western North Carolina in 2007, and she has pursued her claywork full time after her career as a kitchen designer. Immediately after retirement, she enrolled in Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Program in clay where she received her Associate’s Degree in 2014. She currently is a member of the Odyssey Coop Gallery in the River Arts District in Asheville, NC. She is also a founding member of Artisans on Main in downtown Weaverville where her studio is and where her work is primarily displayed.
Crystal Allen
Before discovering ceramics, Crystal earned a degree in Graphic Art and Design. She has also taught calligraphy, dabbled in watercolors and and learned how to felt, dye and spin natural fibers from her own llamas and sheep. Most recently, Crystal completed the Professional Crafts: Clay Associates degree at Haywood Community College. Her pottery is primarily functional, with altered or hand built additions. Her pieces are produced in her studio, one of her favorite places on earth!
Art in Bloom – Plein Air Paintings
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (828) 774-3000
Link: http://www.leicestercommunitycenter.com
Welcome Table Free Meal every Wednesday 11:30am-1:30pm
Join GreenWorks and The Grailhouse for an exciting new documentary film called The Guardians, which monarch ecologist Dr. Lincoln Brower calls “an eye-opener for conservation advocates.” Mexican poet and conservationist Homero Aridjis describes it as “a moving and compelling portrayal that brings home the confrontation between those who want to preserve the monarch butterfly forest and those who would destroy it for short-term gains.” A portion of ticket sales benefit Bee City USA Asheville.
Based on the iconic animated film, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s Aladdin Jr. is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure.
Showtimes are Thursdays at 3:00PM, Fridays at 1:00PM and 4:00PM, Saturdays at 1:00PM and 4:00PM, and Sundays at 3:00PM.
125 S. Main St. Hendersonville, NC 28792
arth Skin is based upon the forms and textures of the earth using inspiration from aerial photography of Western North Carolina and topographical maps of local areas, including Pisgah National Forest and Balsam Range. Created by ceramic artists Trish Salmon and Crystal Allen, Earth Skin includes wall structures and pieces designed for mantles, shelves and tables. All works are available for purchase and a portion of the sales will be donated to The North Carolina Arboretum Society.
About the Artists
Trish Salmon
Trish has been studying clay for many years through the various classes available to her when she lived in the Atlanta area. Taking classes at Penland was a life changing experience and a turning point in her desire to become a studio ceramicist. She and her husband moved to Western North Carolina in 2007, and she has pursued her claywork full time after her career as a kitchen designer. Immediately after retirement, she enrolled in Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Program in clay where she received her Associate’s Degree in 2014. She currently is a member of the Odyssey Coop Gallery in the River Arts District in Asheville, NC. She is also a founding member of Artisans on Main in downtown Weaverville where her studio is and where her work is primarily displayed.
Crystal Allen
Before discovering ceramics, Crystal earned a degree in Graphic Art and Design. She has also taught calligraphy, dabbled in watercolors and and learned how to felt, dye and spin natural fibers from her own llamas and sheep. Most recently, Crystal completed the Professional Crafts: Clay Associates degree at Haywood Community College. Her pottery is primarily functional, with altered or hand built additions. Her pieces are produced in her studio, one of her favorite places on earth!
Art in Bloom – Plein Air Paintings
Mama Maisha and King Daddy’s Chicken and Waffles are teaming up to raise funds to promote healthy, safe pregnancies on June 21. From 3PM until 10PM, 20% of all proceeds from food and beverage purchases will be donated to Mama Maisha.
Asheville physicians Dr. Reta Graham and Dr. Jeff Graham, in affiliation with local and regional non-governmental services, founded Mama Maisha, the first Safe Motherhood Intervention Project in the Mara region of Tanzania. Mama Maisha works at the village level, providing essential prenatal care and delivery services, as well as education and resources to empower women to make wise decision regarding family planning, healthy pregnancies, and safe delivery for every child.
Learn more about Mama Maisha at http://mamamaisha.org.
Join BGA staffer Heather Rayburn as she hosts a special book club in celebration of Pollinator Month. Participants should read Dr. Erica McAlister’s “The Secret Life of Flies” before the event. Refreshments will be served as we discuss the book, review its highlights, and look at some slides about these fascinating insects.
Why this book? Everyone knows about the sexy bee pollinators, but the plant world also benefits from the pollination of other insects, bats, birds, rodents and even lizards. McAlister, a British entomologist, “gets under the wings of these crucial creatures as she ventures into the land of the fly. From hungry herbivores and precocious pollinators to robber flies, danceflies and the much maligned mosquito, she describes the different types of fly, their unique and often unusual characteristics, and the unpredictable nature of their daily life.”
Heather is the creator of www.MonarchLover.org, a website dedicated to promoting the planting of native milkweed to help the endangered Monarch butterfly. She’s worked at the Botanical Gardens for 10 years.
[This book will be available for purchase in the Visitor Center by April 2018. Members get 10% off the retail price.]
Call 828-252-5190 to register and pre-pay
Chamber Member networking event at Red House Studios & Gallery, 310 West State St. Black Mtn.
5-7pm Drop In
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (828) 774-3000
Link: http://www.leicestercommunitycenter.com
Leicester History Gathering, meets every 3rd Thursday of the month at 7pm. Different local history topic discussed each month.
FREE. 6/21 Gotcha Groove (Variety Dance Band). Food vendors onsite. At Lake Tomahawk.
Based on the iconic animated film, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s Aladdin Jr. is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure.
Showtimes are Thursdays at 3:00PM, Fridays at 1:00PM and 4:00PM, Saturdays at 1:00PM and 4:00PM, and Sundays at 3:00PM.
125 S. Main St. Hendersonville, NC 28792
arth Skin is based upon the forms and textures of the earth using inspiration from aerial photography of Western North Carolina and topographical maps of local areas, including Pisgah National Forest and Balsam Range. Created by ceramic artists Trish Salmon and Crystal Allen, Earth Skin includes wall structures and pieces designed for mantles, shelves and tables. All works are available for purchase and a portion of the sales will be donated to The North Carolina Arboretum Society.
About the Artists
Trish Salmon
Trish has been studying clay for many years through the various classes available to her when she lived in the Atlanta area. Taking classes at Penland was a life changing experience and a turning point in her desire to become a studio ceramicist. She and her husband moved to Western North Carolina in 2007, and she has pursued her claywork full time after her career as a kitchen designer. Immediately after retirement, she enrolled in Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Program in clay where she received her Associate’s Degree in 2014. She currently is a member of the Odyssey Coop Gallery in the River Arts District in Asheville, NC. She is also a founding member of Artisans on Main in downtown Weaverville where her studio is and where her work is primarily displayed.
Crystal Allen
Before discovering ceramics, Crystal earned a degree in Graphic Art and Design. She has also taught calligraphy, dabbled in watercolors and and learned how to felt, dye and spin natural fibers from her own llamas and sheep. Most recently, Crystal completed the Professional Crafts: Clay Associates degree at Haywood Community College. Her pottery is primarily functional, with altered or hand built additions. Her pieces are produced in her studio, one of her favorite places on earth!
Art in Bloom – Plein Air Paintings
Please join one of the staff horticulturist at Carolina Native Nursery to learn more about native plants. We will show you how we grow native azaleas and many plants from seed, wander around the nursery and learn more about many of the plants here. Plus our retail area will be open.
15% of all retail sales during the 2018 Pollinator Celebration will go to Bee City! Please come out to the nursery and buy native plants. With over 200 species available, Carolina Native Nursery is your only local connection for native plants. Much more information at our website: www.carolinanativenursery.com or visit our Facebook page.
Please join one of the staff horticulturist at Carolina Native Nursery to learn more about native plants. We will show you how we grow native azaleas and many plants from seed, wander around the nursery and learn more about many of the plants here. Plus our retail area will be open.
15% of all retail sales during the 2018 Pollinator Celebration will go to Bee City! Please come out to the nursery and buy native plants. With over 200 species available, Carolina Native Nursery is your only local connection for native plants. Much more information at our website: www.carolinanativenursery.com or visit our Facebook page.
Antique, Classic Car & Bike Cruise-In. All invited! Food and refreshments available with a donation benefiting Meals on Wheels of Buncombe County. No alcohol on premises. Restrooms on site. Music. Bring your chairs!
Based on the iconic animated film, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s Aladdin Jr. is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure.
Showtimes are Thursdays at 3:00PM, Fridays at 1:00PM and 4:00PM, Saturdays at 1:00PM and 4:00PM, and Sundays at 3:00PM.
125 S. Main St. Hendersonville, NC 28792
arth Skin is based upon the forms and textures of the earth using inspiration from aerial photography of Western North Carolina and topographical maps of local areas, including Pisgah National Forest and Balsam Range. Created by ceramic artists Trish Salmon and Crystal Allen, Earth Skin includes wall structures and pieces designed for mantles, shelves and tables. All works are available for purchase and a portion of the sales will be donated to The North Carolina Arboretum Society.
About the Artists
Trish Salmon
Trish has been studying clay for many years through the various classes available to her when she lived in the Atlanta area. Taking classes at Penland was a life changing experience and a turning point in her desire to become a studio ceramicist. She and her husband moved to Western North Carolina in 2007, and she has pursued her claywork full time after her career as a kitchen designer. Immediately after retirement, she enrolled in Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Program in clay where she received her Associate’s Degree in 2014. She currently is a member of the Odyssey Coop Gallery in the River Arts District in Asheville, NC. She is also a founding member of Artisans on Main in downtown Weaverville where her studio is and where her work is primarily displayed.
Crystal Allen
Before discovering ceramics, Crystal earned a degree in Graphic Art and Design. She has also taught calligraphy, dabbled in watercolors and and learned how to felt, dye and spin natural fibers from her own llamas and sheep. Most recently, Crystal completed the Professional Crafts: Clay Associates degree at Haywood Community College. Her pottery is primarily functional, with altered or hand built additions. Her pieces are produced in her studio, one of her favorite places on earth!
Art in Bloom – Plein Air Paintings
Seasonal – Saturday morning community event featuring organic and sustainably grown produce, plants, cut flowers, herbs, locally raised meats, seafood, breads, pastries, cheeses, eggs and local arts and handcrafted items.
9am to Noon, 130 Montreat Rd. behind First Baptist Church.
Want to see what all the mud is about at the Mad Mountain Mud Run? If you are curious about the Mud Run or just want to enjoy the muddy entertainment, attend the FREE Finish Line Festival on Saturday, June 23, 2018 from noon to 6 pm. The festival is being held during the 7th Annual Mad Mountain Mud Run, a benefit for Hands On! Children’s Museum. The community is invited to cheer on the muddy runners while enjoying food, beverages, and live entertainment with friends and family.
FREE – Children of all ages welcome.
The 3rd Annual Fletcher Firefly Festival will be held on Saturday, June 23rd from 1-10pm at Blue Ghost Brewing.
Enjoy the release of new Summer Seasonals including a Tangerine Hefeweizen and a Toasted Coconut Blonde Ale, 30+ local artists and vendors, a kids’ bounce house and crafts, and live music from Barstool Sailors, Fwuit, and The Stipe Brothers! FREE.
Bring your own lawn chairs and/or blankets.
For more information, click here.
Ultimate Foodies Tour. Advance reservations required. Book on line – http://creativemountainfoodtours.com
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (828) 250-4260
Event Location: Lake Julian Park – 406 Overlook Extension Arden, NC
Link: http://buncomberecreation.org
Each Saturday in June from 5-7pm., 10+ galleries and specialty shops in downtown Black Mountain will offer FREE wine while you shop!