Calendar of Events

Ben’s Tune-Up is proud to present an up close and personal music series led by Leeda Lyric Jones featuring women who Rock the Asheville music scene.
Every tuesday night these talented women will be performing in Ben’s new indoor cozy music nook.This November and December we are featuring artists Eleanor Underhill and Peggy Ratusz rotating weekly with Leeda Lyric Jones.

Music Schedule Every Tuesday 7-9
Leeda Lyric Jones Solo show: 11/13, 11/27, 12/11 & 12/25
Eleanor Underhill Solo show: 11/6 & 12/4
Peggy Ratusz Trio: 11/20 & 12/18

Lyric is a Western North Carolina favorite and holds several Mountain Xpress “best of” awards including, best funk band,best vocalist, best lyricist, best r&b/soul, best singer-songwriter. Since taking to the streets, Lyric has shared the stage with legends such as George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Mavis Staples, Gladys Knight, Booker T. Jones, Little Big Town, Dionne Warwick, Cedric Burnside, Amy Ray (Indigo Girls), Fred Wesley & the Lee Boys, Count M’Butu and Warren Haynes.

Peggy Ratusz has been pulling from the cream of the Asheville music crop since moving here in 2002. This “ruby throated” chanteuse has been a finalist in the International Blues Challenge in 2008, 2010 and 2016. A winner in three categories in the 2016 WNC’s “Best of” reader’s poll (Best Vocalist, Best in Blues and Artist Who Gives Back), she’s opened for Tedeschi-Trucks Band, Geoff Atchison, the Beach Boys and the recently departed Denise LaSall

Eleanor plays a variety of instruments including piano, trombone, guitar and banjo ukulele, but her discovery of the banjo has defined her sound and image. At 14, she composed her first song and has since written a large catalogue of music that has supported the creation of four albums: Gathering by the Barrel House Mamas, along with Underhill Rose’s self-titled debut, Something Real, an Americana Music Association Top 20 release, and The Great Tomorrow, which was named the #1 Progressive Bluegrass Album by the Roots Music Review. Her unique musical style and prolific writing ability has generated significant attention outside of her bands, as she has won top honors at Asheville’s Songwriting Idol Contest and played on the Grammy Award Winning Song “Mind Over Matter” by Kid-Hop artist, Agent 23 Skidoo..

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Join us on Tuesdays for Open Mic Night in the taproom! 7:30PM signup, 8PM start. Poetry, comedy, and music welcome.

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As is traditional, The Krektones will play rock n roll mush ups of holiday songs for Christmas day night! The only festive thing that’s cool other than hognog is these three kings.
It’s a really nice time every year
PLUS! Get your photo taken with the real Santa Claus. I know you’re all bad boys but can still ask him for that tickle me Elmo you been eyeing

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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.”

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

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Join us for an after holiday, community sweat session with Eliza Sydney!

Free to sign up, it will be our only class that day so grab your spot before they’re all gone!

Enjoy!!

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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.

Enjoy a visit to Christmas pasts from the 1840s to the 1890s. Each room contains antique and reproduction decorations and traditions. Four live trees, one of which will be decorated with traditional Appalachian decorations, hand made by our SMH over History club.
Admission at the door $9 adults, $5 children/students, free for WNC Historical Association members and A-B Tech students.
Group tours may be requested at 828-253-9231
Special 12 Days of Christmas Scavenger Hunt for children.

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During the month of December, local artist Scott Mills will be featured in the FW Gallery at Woolworth Walk.

Scott Mills was born in Detroit, MI in 1977. He works predominately in the mediums of oil and acrylic paints. Scott is completely self-taught in his artistic career and credits his study of music as a young child for opening his imagination and leading to his love for the visual arts. His work is derived from a deep love of nature and a desire to turn the feelings of awe, mystery, gratitude and love into visual depictions that can inspire the same feelings in the viewer. Scott has his artwork included in private collections across North America and Europe. He regularly takes part in group exhibitions and solo shows across the United States. He resides in the mountains of Asheville, NC with his wife and two children.

Come meet Scott and enjoy the opening reception on First Friday, December 7th from 5-7 pm.

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As Virginia Woolf said, “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Food and water are essential for survival, but mankind’s relationship to food has transformed over time from one of sustenance to one laden with personal and cultural significance.

A Matter of Taste explores depictions of food and drink in art and reveals how images of fruits and vegetables can function as complex metaphors for excess, status, memory, and politics. Drawn from southern museums and private collections, this exhibition showcases over 35 paintings, decorative arts, and works on paper by artists such as Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Claes Oldenburg.

This show spans 400 years and multiple continents, revealing the evolving role of food and drink in various media and cultural contexts. While depictions of fruit and vegetables appeared in ancient times, still life painting as an independent genre dates to 16th-century Holland.

In 19th-century America, still life paintings remained popular but evolved in terms of subject matter, media, and message. Painters such as Thomas Wightman, George Forster, and De Scott Evans embraced Dutch still lifes and used food as commentary on the current political climate and the transient state of the human condition.

Illustrated newspapers led to an increase of cartoons by artists such as Winslow Homer and William Hogarth, who utilized food and drink as social satire. The 20th-century modern art movement further changed the perception of food. The culture of mass production enabled Pop artists to elevate seemingly mundane foodstuffs to high art. Yet, other contemporary artists explored the symbolic and nostalgic role of food seen in works by Tim Tate, Linda Armstrong, and Laquita Thomson.

Visitors will also experience an elaborately set dining table fit for a sumptuous feast. Dining became its own art form over time and communicated one’s social standing and wealth. Each of the table’s six place settings represent a different culture and offer a glimpse into global dining customs. Selective drinkware will accompany this section revealing how tea sets and even punch bowls reflected an owner’s prestige.

I’m subbing for Cathy Keith this holiday week- join me for some Noontime Nia!

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Pot Luck meal for families grieving the loss of a child during the holidays. Our son Seth Donaldson, a chef, always wanted people to come together to help each other through good times and bad times. He often referred to having an extra seat at the table for anyone who might need to join us at the last minute. “Empty Chairs At Empty Tables” is from Les Miserables’ “There’s a grief that can’t be spoken
There’s a pain goes on and on
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone”.
Renowned Poet James Nave will perform Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”. It will be poignant!

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The darkest of Pisgah brews, the beer formerly known as Vortex II took a significant transformation when Pisgah brewers added a heavy dose (25lbs in 5bbls) of raw cocoa nibs from local Chocolate legends, French Broad Chocolates, to the brite tanks… thus creating what will now only be known as “Chocolatized”. Congratulations to the Pisgah brewers, as this Russian Imperial Stout aged on cocoa nibs brought home a coveted Gold Medal at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival for the Chocolate Beer Category.

A new 500ml bottle package and a new design courtesy of Zak Rutherford Designs!

The Taproom will open at 4pm, at which point bottles and draft pours will be available. Happy Holidays!

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We’re supporting those impacted by the Camp Fire by brewing #ResilienceIPA. We will donate 100% of Resilience sales to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund to help Butte County rebuild its community. #ButteStrong #SierraNevada

Beer: Blue Ghost’s Resilience IPA – 6.7% ABV, 70 IBUs

Food: Wing Night Wednesday with other offerings from The Hungry Ghost

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With Melt Your Heart being on site at Foundy daily, we’re joining up to bring you $10 Wednesdays. Come to our Foundation location and get any grilled cheese sandwich and any beer for just $10!

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Open 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. Advance Tickets Required. Enjoy the wonder of the park dazzlingly lit for the holidays, with a nighttime train and more.

Candlelight Christmas Evenings*
Saturday, November 3, 2018 – Saturday, January 5, 2019 (Select Dates)

*Check website for availability/dates
*By reservation only.
*Pricing varies by date.

Candlelight, firelight, and live music bring holiday warmth to the extravagant holiday décor of Biltmore House, creating an evening to remember. Evening guests can also take advantage of Antler Hill Village & Winery to enjoy free wine tastings. Advance reservations are required for evening visits.

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

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Join us for the release of our newest brew this Wednesday, 12/26 at 6PM: Bonus Cup Coffee Stout!

Made with cold brewed coffee from our friends at Counter Culture and darkened with roasted barley, this beer is toasty, roasty, rich, and smooth. Flaked oats give this brew a creamy mouthfeel, pairing wonderfully with the coffee flavor and aroma.

ABV 5.9%
15 IBU

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Experience Asheville’s brightest holiday tradition at Winter Lights at The North Carolina Arboretum. Walk through an outdoor winter wonderland and see the Arboretum’s gardens dressed in more than half-a-million holiday lights. Roast s’mores by the fire, listen to your favorite holiday tunes or enjoy a cup of hot cocoa, cider or beer. Proceeds from the event will support the Arboretum’s educational programs, exhibit and facilities year-round.

Tickets range from $8-18 and must be purchased in advance online at www.ncwinterlights.com.

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The French Broad Valley Music Association jam session is focused on regional fiddle tunes and songs. Carol Rifkin and John Mitchell cohost weekly, bring an instrument to play or just enjoy the music, its free, kid friendly, donations encouraged. Key Players are intermediate to advanced but beginners are most welcome and encouraged to attend to listen, learn/quietly play along. More experienced players sit in the inner circle and take turns choosing fiddle tunes or songs. Guests, families and kids are invited to listen and often sing along. This style of community play has been used to entertain and pass down music to kids for generations.

The French Broad Valley Music Association is a 501c3 non-profit organization formed to celebrate local musical heritage. “Our community. Our music. Our sense of place.”

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Tour Gatlinburg’s most dazzling light displays by hopping aboard the Gatlinburg Trolley Ride of Lights! This popular winter tradition is the perfect way to see our mountain town in all its Winter Magic splendor. Get your tickets today!

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¡Triskatrivia!

Wednesday nights are for Themed Trivia! Every Wednesday will be a new themed trivia night.

Teams can be up to six people, no phones, no yelling out of answers. There will be several rounds of questions, each a different category based on the night’s theme. There will also be a “Very Hard Questions” round, in which the players on the winning team will all get a free beer.

Glorious prizes will be awarded to the first and second place teams.

Come on out and show off your Brainz!!!

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YOU ASKED FOR MORE SCREENINGS!

TWO MORE CHANCES FOR A FANTASTIC & UNIQUE MOVIE EXPERIENCE!

Our four screenings of The Greatest Showman Sing-Along this year sold out in advance with the entire theater singing along. We’ve never seen so many happy faces walking out of the theater.

You don’t have to know the words to the songs! The Sing-Along version of the movie shows the lyrics of each song at the bottom of the screen to help the audience.

CLICK LINK BELOW to see a video example of what it’s like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4qCbA4r3WA

It doesn’t matter if you are a terrible singer, so come out for this unique screening and have some fun!

TICKETS: Tickets are only $3.00. You can also purchase tickets at our 675 Merrimon Avenue location.

PURCHASE ONLINE TICKETS HERE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/asheville-pizza-and-brewing-co-14694243693

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the imagination of P. T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business & tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

CONTENT GUIDELINE: Rated PG for thematic elements. The word “damn” is used a few times.

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After seeing her fiancé on TV kissing another woman at the Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mary’s life falls apart — just in time for the holidays. Over the next year, she stumbles back into the dating world, where “romance” ranges from weird and creepy to absurd and comical. It seems nothing can help Mary’s growing cynicism, until the charm and innocence of a five-year-old boy unexpectedly brings a new outlook on life and love. This heartwarming one woman show offers a hilarious and modern alternative to the old standards of the holiday season.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1658799787558592/?event_time_id=1658799850891919

Open to any who identify as male and aspire to an open heart.

This is a pilot for a regular ongoing CI Men’s Group. Please share your thoughts on this Survey!
https://goo.gl/forms/iGpgDbSw5qvzbFbl1

These three gatherings will be co-facilitated by Michael Hurd and CJ O’Reilly.
If you are interested in facilitating movement based men’s work, please fill out the Survey above and mark accordingly!

We seek to grow connection between fellow men in community through relating in conversation and movement. We will explore movement, men’s issues, boundaries and consent, and enjoy some awesome creative movement physicality.

We will explore movement and stillness, words and silence, in combinations of individual, pair and group work with both structured and less/un-structured time.
Sharing, discussing and labbing around themes, topics and skills that commonly arise in dance (and life), for instance:

– co-creative community and connection
– our experiences of being male on and off the dance floor
– communicating around boundaries and consent verbally and non-verbally
– the play of receptivity and assertiveness in dance communication
– skills for etiquette and safety, eg. safe & fun weight sharing; skills for initiating, maintaining & ending dances

Dec. 19, 26, Jan 2 – 7:30pm-9:30pm
at Homewood
19 Zillicoa St Asheville NC 28801

Drop-ins for these gatherings are welcome. Pre-register if you would like.

Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/DLLnv27Xz0uLpWK52
Website: https://www.ashevillejam.com/contact-improv-mens-group/

Suggested Contribution:
$50 ($30-75) for the 3 weeks or $10-20 per week
None turned away for lack of funds.

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Do you have a bunch of useless facts stored in the back of your head? Do you like the occasional beer on a week day? Well… Trivia on Wednesday nights at Catawba Brewing might’ve just become your new weekly tradition. Come join us and Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes at 7:30!

https://www.facebook.com/events/216005722664010/?event_time_id=216008329330416

Do you have a bunch of useless facts stored in the back of your head? Do you like the occasional beer on a week day? Well… Trivia on Wednesday nights at Catawba Brewing might’ve just become your new weekly tradition. Come join us and Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes at 7:30!

https://www.facebook.com/events/216005722664010/?event_time_id=216007932663789