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.
Interested in adding an event to our calendar? Please click the green “Post Your Event” button below.
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A Sowing Circle Presentation: Presenter: John Bowen, Extension Master GardenerSM Volunteer This three-part program is presented by John Bowen, Extension Master GardenerSM volunteer and long-time gardener. John shares tips and tricks for starting seeds indoors and tending the young plants until they are ready to transplant into your garden. He talks about containers, planting media, lights, temperature, and other parts of the process to grow those healthy, robust transplants we all need. He also discusses timing and helps us learn when to plant for the best outcome. To access this video on the Buncombe County Master Gardener website, click on the link below: Starting Seeds and Growing Transplants Indoors Or go to www.buncombemastergardener.org, click on the ‘Gardening Videos’ tab at the top of the page and select the video from the list provided. |
The Buncombe County Parks, Greenways, and Recreation Advisory Board has a vacancy for a resident from District 1. Meetings are currently held virtually at 6 p.m. on the third Monday of each month. The deadline to apply is 5 p.m. on Fri., Mar. 12.
Buncombians are the guiding star for Buncombe County Recreation Services. They inform us of how they use parks and what projects we should prioritize. The Parks, Greenways, and Recreation Advisory Board is an extension of that transparency, ensuring a two-way conversation is always happening when it comes to improving equitable access to recreation and enhancing the quality of life in our community.
There is a great amount of diversity among those who use Buncombe County parks and recreation facilities; the ultimate goal is an advisory group that reflects this. The board’s mission statement is: “Advocating for cultural preservation and changing lives through equitable recreation opportunities in public spaces, greenways, and parks.”
For a detailed position description and to apply, click here.
Are you looking for a great way to get involved with your community and make a difference? Boards, committees, and commission members aid the governing process by keeping Buncombe County in touch with the ideas and attitudes of our community. They help provide direction for the allocation of funds, the provision of human services, protection of residents, property, and our natural resources.
Public input is vitally important to the success of our County, and right now Buncombe County has vacancies on a number of boards and commissions. Learn more about vacancies, deadlines to apply, and the application process at buncombecounty.org/transparency.
Featured board vacancies
Juvenile Crime Prevention Council
The Juvenile Crime Prevention Council is seeking a youth member. There is one vacancy for a person under 18 and is also a member of the State Youth Council.
Parks, Greenways, & Recreation Advisory Board
The Parks, Greenways, and Recreation Advisory Board has a vacancy for a resident of Buncombe County, District 1. The deadline to apply has been extended to March 12, 2021.
What could be better than picking up a monthly box of mouthwatering grassfed beef and pasture raised pork from Hickory Nut Gap Farm? Having it delivered directly to your front door, of course. Contactless, COVID-safe home delivery will be coordinated in partnership with Leading Green Distribution.
Available ONLY as a three month prepaid subscription. Offered in Large (about 15lbs per month) and Small (about 10lbs per month) sizes to fit the needs of just about any household on a convenient monthly schedule.
- A selection of 100% Grassfed Beef, Pasture-Raised Pork and Pasture-Raised Chicken
- Monthly boxes contain (for example): steaks, roasts, sausages, ground meats, whole chicken, chicken breast, pork chops, bacon
- DISCOUNTED 10% OFF RETAIL
- Delivered right to your front door within the city limits of Asheville.
- 3 Month pre-paid subscription – also includes 10% off other Farm Store meat purchases
Another Cuba Trip!
This annual conference brings together student EcoReps, sustainability interns, and faculty and staff advisers from around the region for a weekend of peer leadership training and collaboration. This conference is a great opportunity to learn from your peers, share your successes (and get constructive feedback), and get inspiration you can bring back to your own campus.
Key topics in 2021 will include:
• Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in our work
• Effective Student Leadership/ Peer 2 Peer education
• Zero Waste initiatives
• Educational initiatives & events
• Adapting to COVID-19
• Translating student visions into institutional action
This conference will be held VIRTUALLY due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.
Register
There is no fee to attend, however, you must register to participate in the virtual sessions. The registration deadline is Friday, March 19 at midnight.
Land Conservation
Take a tour of our French Broad River Greenways! Running from Hominy Creek Park in West Asheville all the way up to the planned extension through the Town of Woodfin, the Asheville greenway system provides many opportunities for recreation and connection. Special thanks to Connect Buncombe for creating this wonderful video highlighting our growing greenway system.
Frontline Essential Workers group 3
To get more information on vaccine distribution for Group 3 and beyond, text BCAlert to 99411. Read more about the frontline essential workers in Group 3 at the NCDHHS website.
Opening the Door to Change presents the history of education in Western North Carolina, with a particular emphasis on Madison County, from the mid-nineteenth century through the late twentieth. Here, learning has taken many forms, from in-home instruction, common, subscription, and religious schools, to colleges of farming and craft. The curriculum of these schools, as well as their very construction, and in some cases closing, was deeply entwined with the changing needs and values of the Western North Carolina Appalachian community.
The exhibition focuses on the dynamic relationship between community values and education, with a special focus on how students and their families navigated the economic, geographic, and racial challenges to education. Trends and changes in curriculum, assessment, and classroom design will also be explored.
The virtual exhibition will feature didactic panels showcasing a survey of schools within Madison County and highlighting the effect community values had on the curriculum, function, and format of these institutions. Online visitors may also get a sneak-peak at an original film, produced by the Museum, presenting the oral histories of several Madison County residents sharing their personal recollections and memories of past school-days.
Additional films will spotlight the Historic Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School and Laurel School, with first-hand accounts from former students and teachers.
This virtual exhibition is sponsored by the Madison County Tourism and Development Authority.
Hosted by WitchCon
Join the largest online magical conference in the world, devoted to Witchcraft, Conjure, and Rootwork.
About this Event
March 5th to 7th, 2021, Brian Cain, Christian Day and the HEX Education Network present WitchCon Online, featuring over a hundred classes by over a hundred Witches and Conjurers from across the globe ready to share their time-honored wisdom and witchery.
WitchCon Online presenters are the preeminent masters of the magical arts and hail from across a rainbow spectrum of occult and spiritual practices. Their classes are personally designed to help beginners, novices, and experts alike draw upon the power of magic!
WitchCon Online 2021 registration includes admittance to all livestream video classes, rituals, and performances, each personally designed to help beginners, novices, and experts alike draw upon the power of magic. It also grants access to watch every class after the event has ended via our on-demand library so you don’t have to miss a magical moment!
The conference is livestreamed by the Hex Education Network on Crowdcast, a web-based platform with no need to download an app!
WitchCon Online attendees will love shopping live with our magical presenters, each showcasing powerful ritual tools, signed books, exquisite jewelry, and spellcrafts handmade by true practitioners in half-hour Live Sales. You don’t have to travel to the ends of the Earth to scour the witch markets: you can buy from enchanting artisans and score amazing tools and talismans from the comfort of your own home. Our Virtual Vendors’ Hall is free to the public as well!
The WitchCon Online Virtual Meet and Greet lets you meet and interact live on Zoom with WitchCon presenters and its hosts Brian Cain and Christian Day. This is a great way to get to know your favorite teachers and what’s even better is that it’s free and open to the public!
March is Red Cross Month, and for more than 130 years, heroic American Red Cross volunteers have provided hope and urgent relief to families in communities across the country.
This March the community is invited to join in the lifesaving mission of the Red Cross and be
someone’s hero by rolling up a sleeve to give blood.
According to the Red Cross, someone in the U.S. needs blood every two seconds to respond to
patient emergencies. Accident and burn victims, heart surgery and organ transplant patients,
and those receiving treatment for leukemia, cancer or sickle cell disease may all require blood.
All blood types are needed.
Be a hero in your community by rolling up a sleeve….
To make an appointment or to learn more, download the American Red Cross Blood Donor
App, visit RedCrossBlood.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or enable the Blood
Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device. Completion of a RapidPass® online health history
questionnaire is encouraged to help speed up the donation process. To get started, follow the
instructions at RedCrossBlood.org/RapidPass or use the Blood Donor App. A blood donor card
or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who
are 17 years of age in most states (16 with parental consent where allowed by state law), weigh
at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High
school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height
and weight requirements.
Immerse Yourself in Music
Become part of the BMC community. Experience the thrill of performing with the world’s most celebrated artists. Practice your craft and develop your skills in a picturesque rehearsal studio – in nature, beside the lake, amongst the white pines, alongside the stream. Share a communal lunch or an impromptu conversation with faculty and guest artists in our cafeteria. Interact with patrons who fill our auditoriums and love to hear your music.
We welcome you, the next generation of musicians and artists. We encourage you, and challenge you, to experience the magic of the Brevard Music Center. In a community of musicians, you will be transformed. On the stage and in the classroom, you will be inspired. In just one summer, you will make new friendships that will last a lifetime.
This is Brevard. Be inspired. Be here.
With the convenience of being open year-round, 7 days a week, the WNC Farmers Market offers a selection of farm-fresh produce at the lowest prices in Western N.C. Our popular retail buildings, providing a selection of non-perishables, fruits, vegetables, crafts and more, are open daily.
The Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville is proud to announce “An Evening with The Avett Brothers” on November 19, 2021, in the ExploreAsheville.com Arena. Tickets for the event will go on publicly on Friday, March 5 at 10:00am via Ticketmaster.com. A select number of tickets will be available via The Avett Guild for members. For more information about this event, please click here.
EVENT: An Evening with The Avett Brothers
WHEN: November 19, 2021 at 8:00pm (Doors at 7:00pm)
WHERE: ExploreAsheville.com Arena at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville | 87 Haywood Street
TICKETS: Public tickets go on sale begins on Friday, March 5 at 10am
The Avett Brothers made mainstream waves with their 2009 major label debut, I And Love And You, landing at #16 on the Billboard Top 200 & garnering critical acclaim. In 2012, The Carpenter hit #4 on the Billboard Top 200 & was followed by Magpie And The Dandelion (2013) which debuted at #5 on Billboard’s Top 200. True Sadness (2016) achieved The Avett Brothers’ highest career debut to date hitting #1 on Billboard’s Top Albums Chart, #1 Top Rock Albums Chart, #1 Digital Albums Chart, #3 on Billboard Top 200 & scoring 2 Grammy noms. That same year, the band was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. In 2017, documentary May It Last: A Portrait of The Avett Brothers (co-directed by Judd Apatow & Michael Bonfiglio) was released. The film followed the band as they wrote their Grammy-nominated album True Sadness. The film was released theatrically & on HBO to rave reviews & is now available on DVD/Blu-Ray/VOD. In November 2018, the band headlined a concert for Hurricane Florence Relief, raising $325,000 to help those affected by Hurricane Florence. In 2019, the band released their 10th studio album Closer Than Together feat. single High Steppin’ which reached #1 on the Americana Radio Chart. New album The Third Gleam (August 2020) debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Americana/Folk Albums Chart, with the vinyl debuting at #1 on the Vinyl Albums Chart. Single “Victory” hit #1 on the Americana Radio Singles Chart. The Avett Brothers played two drive-in shows at The Charlotte Motor Speedway in the span of three months and ended 2020 on a high note with a livestream of their 17th annual New Year’s Eve concert. An estimated 150,000 fans watched the show, which featured a full-band performance and an impressive lineup of special guests. Coming in 2022: Swept Away – a musical inspired by & featuring the music of The Avett Brothers.
It’s time for kids to vote for their favorite books!
Throughout the month of March, kids can vote for the NC Children’s Book Award by visiting any Buncombe County Public Library location. The North Carolina Children’s Book Award is a children’s choice program sponsored by school and public librarians in North Carolina. The awards are designed to introduce kids to books and to instill a lifelong love of reading.
The Library has partnered with the Board of Elections to provide official voting booths for kids to vote.
Kids can vote in person at any of these libraries between March 2 and March 31:
- Enka-Candler
- Fairview
- North Asheville
- Pack Memorial
- South Buncombe
- Swannanoa
- Weaverville
- West Asheville
Kids can also vote “absentee” by asking for a ballot at any library, or they can drop their completed ballot in our book drop before the end of March to “mail in” their vote.
You are eligible to vote if 1) You’re a kid and 2) You’ve read or listened to at least 5 of the picture book nominees and/or 3) You’ve read or listened to at least 3 of the junior book nominees. Kids may vote for each category if they have read or listened to the required number of titles.
For more information on the NC Children’s Book Award and a list of the nominees, please visit the North Carolina Children’s Book Award.
If you’d like to have the picture books read to you, just click the “Read Aloud” link under any book.
Any questions? Contact your friendly neighborhood librarian.
Sunday Fun Day at Kolo
Kolo Bike Park access is just $10 for the entire day every Sunday
Enjoy the sights and sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains while traveling along the Tennessee and Nantahala (nan-tuh-HAY-luh) River.The historic trellis bridge Fontana Trestle takes you across Fontana Lake and into the beautiful Nantahala Gorge. Onboard dining is available by selecting our First Class Seating option or pre-purchasing one of our boxed lunches, an amazing unique moving dining experience. Arrive at our layover destination in the heart of the Nantahala Gorge for a one-hour layover where you can relax by the river or enjoy sightseeing!
We are operating under all current COVID-19 safety guidelines and ask that you follow all protocols. Find the information HERE! *Please be aware dining options are currently not available at your layover destination. You are advised to enjoy onboard dining by pre-purchasing a box lunch meal option along with your train tickets.*
Plan on being here by 1 hour before your departure.
2021 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards
The Museum, with the assistance of its volunteer docents and support from the Asheville Area Section of the American Institute of Architects, is proud to sponsor the WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards. Students in grades 7–12 from all across our region are invited to submit work for this special juried competition. The Museum works with the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers to facilitate regional judging of student artwork and recognition of our community’s burgeoning artistic talent.
In early spring each year, award winners are featured in an exhibition, and are honored at a ceremony. Regional Gold Key recipients’ work is sent to the National Scholastic Art competition hosted by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
Across the Atlantic
Across the Atlantic
American Impressionism Through the French Lens
This extraordinary exhibition, drawn from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, explores the path to Impressionism through the 19th century in France. The show examines the sometimes complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 1880s and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed. More than 65 paintings and works on paper help tell the story of the “new style” of painting which developed at the end of the 19th century—one that emphasized light and atmospheric conditions, rapid or loose brushstrokes, and a focus on brightly colored scenes from everyday life, including both urban and rural settings when artists preferred to paint outdoors and capture changing effects of light during different times of day and seasons of the year.
Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges and The Maurer Family Foundation.
The Asheville Art Museum announces Meeting the Moon, an exhibition featuring prints, photographs, ceramics, sculptures, and more from the Museum’s Collection. This exhibition will be on view in the Asheville Art Museum’s McClinton Gallery February 3 through July 26, 2021.
2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Apollo space program at NASA, but its inception was hardly the beginning of humankind’s fascination with Earth’s only moon. Before space travel existed, the moon—its shape, its mystery, and the face we see in it—inspired countless artists. Once astronauts landed on the moon and we saw our world from a new perspective, a surge of creativity flooded the American art scene, in paintings, prints, sculpture, music, crafts, film, and poetry.
This exhibition, whose title is taken from a 1913 Robert Frost poem, examines artwork in the Asheville Art Museum’s Collection of artists who were inspired by the unknown, then increasingly familiar moon. Meeting the Moon includes works by nationally renowned artists Newcomb Pottery, James Rosenquist, Maltby Sykes, Paul Soldner, John Lewis, Richard Ritter (Bakersville, NC), and Mark Peiser (Penland, NC). Western North Carolina artists include Jane Peiser (Penland, NC), Jak Brewer (Zionville, NC), Dirck Cruser (Asheville, NC), George Peterson (Lake Toxaway, NC), John B. Neff (NC), and Maud Gatewood (Yanceyville, NC).
“Meeting the Moon offers the opportunity to combine science and popular culture with works of art in the Museum’s Collection,” says Whitney Richardson, associate curator. “I think all visitors will find something that draws them into this exhibition, whether it’s the artwork, poetry, music, or science of space travel. It’s such an affirmation of humanity to find these mysteries, like the moon, which enchant us all.”
This exhibition is organized by the Asheville Art Museum and curated by Whitney Richardson, associate curator. Visit ashevilleart.org for more information about this and other exhibitions.
This exhibition features archival objects from the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection presented alongside artworks from the Museum’s Black Mountain College Collection to explore the connections between artworks and ephemera. This exhibition is organized by the Asheville Art Museum and curated by lydia see, fall 2020 curatorial fellow, with support from a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant through the Council on Library and Information Resources.
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The Asheville Art Museum presents Fantastical Forms: Ceramics as Sculpture on view at the Museum November 4, 2020 through April 5, 2021. The 25 works in this exhibition—curated by associate curator Whitney Richardson—highlight the Museum’s Collection of sculptural ceramics from the last two decades of the 20th century to the present. Each work illustrates the artist’s ability to push beyond the utilitarian and transition ceramics into the world of sculpture.
North and South Carolina artists featured include Elma McBride Johnson, Neil Noland, Norm Schulman, Virginia Scotchie, Cynthia Bringle, Jane Palmer, Michael Sherrill, and Akira Satake. Works by American artists Don Reitz, Robert Chapman Turner, Karen Karnes, Toshiko Takaezu, Bill Griffith, and Xavier Toubes are also featured in the exhibition.
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Join us for a magical journey of exploration and wonder. Each week we discuss a variety of topics that will not only inspire and inform but also transform and enlighten.
What we’re about
Welcome to The Eminent Way. We meet weekly to discuss all manner of things related to cultural, occult, religious, and esoteric subjects – as they pertain to one’s personal development journey.
Your life in the Universe is made possible by the fact of Creation itself. This planet we call home, this grand theater of expression, is the crucible in which the unseen becomes seen; the unmanifest is made plain; the unknown becomes known.
For seventy or more years, this is your home, in which each moment is extended to you the permission to be, to know, and to do.
You condensed from the unseen realms of force and power according to definite, inescapable laws that govern and make this theater possible. The very laws that created the Universe made you possible too. You are a microcosm of the whole – everything that exists outside of you also exists within, for, in reality, there is no difference; it is simply a matter of scale.
The ancients knew well that to study the Universe is to study oneself, and to study oneself is to explore the Universe. And yet, without exact knowledge of the fundamental laws of force, power, matter, and consciousness, one’s journey becomes a detour of idle speculation.
And yet, there is a Way that originates outside of life but must be practiced within it; a Way that does not arise from the mind of man, yet directly involves it; a Way that helps one connect with the evolutionary signal of creation that informs human purpose.
This is The Eminent Way.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.
BY JAMIE KNOX, TRAVIS LOWE AND JASON PHILLIPS
Come see the story of Alyx and Dru, as it unfolds throughout their lives, performed along the Reed Creek Greenway. Audiences will walk the trail and see scenes of the same couple, played by a different pair of actors in each scene. Love changes us, in so many ways, and we can’t wait to have you with us on the journey. Starring: Andy Thompson, Bailey Loundsberry, Brooks Wallace, Carin Metzger, Christine Eide, Daniel Henry, Daphne Phillips-Sprague, Devin Stevens, Dillon Giles, Hanni Muerdter, Heather Bronson, Katie Jones, Kay Wise-Denty, Kirby Gibson, Lauren Otis, Locksley Blanchard, Marcello de Barba, Paula O’Brien, Reed Horsley, Scott Fisher, and Zak Hamrick. With trail guides: Dakota Mann, George Heard, Jered Shults, and Ryan Dever. Directed by Jason Phillips.
February 27th-March 14th, staggered showings on Saturdays and Sundays
- This is an outdoor show. Audiences will be standing and walking on the Reed Creek Greenway for the entire length of the show, which will be about 60-75 minutes and 1.5 – 2 miles.
- Masks are required to be worn by all audience members at all times during this show. Audiences are limited to 10 people and will be socially distancing.
- There are no restrooms available for this show.