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.
MONDAY
5pm Bellydance 101 with Olivia Blahowsky
$14 drop in or class card
6pm Bellydance Hip Hop Fusion with Lisa Zahiya
$50 4 week series. Starts Feb. 4
TUESDAY
6pm Bellydance 1 with Lisa Zahiya
$90 8 week series. Starts Feb 12
7pm Bellydance 2 with Lisa Zahiya
$90 8 week series. Starts Feb 12
8pm Bellydance Specialty Series with Lisa Zahiya: Dancing with the Stars
$50 4 week series. Starts Feb. 5
THURSDAY
5pm Bellydance Fitness with Emily Nowels
$10 drop in or class card or Bellydance card
6pm Bellydance Drills with Emily Nowels
$14 drop in, class card, or Bellydance card
7pm Bellydance 1.5 Choreography with McKinley Quincey
$50/4 week series. Starts Feb.7
8pm Fantasy Fusion Choreography with Olivia Blahowsky
$50/4 week series. Starts Feb.7
https://www.facebook.com/events/398426467630819/?event_time_id=398426477630818
Come grab a burger, side and a year round brew for $12 every Thursday starting November 1st. From 5-8PM you can get this special deal from The Hungry Ghost. Join in on #BGtrivia @ 6:30PM for a night of fun and food.
Beer options include:
IPA
Pale Ale
LAGA (Light American Golden Ale)
English Porter
Grapefruit IPA
Mango IPA
https://www.facebook.com/events/353635038713926/?event_time_id=353635105380586
It’s just as delicious as it sounds…
https://www.facebook.com/events/448262182376887/
Introducing our newest weekly entertainment – Canned Heat. An all-vinyl DJ night with Death Jam Jasper. Every genre. Every artist. Every Thursday. Super chill.
BONUS – two rotating beers will be on sale for $3/pint all day, every Thursday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/238186547045957/?event_time_id=294846014713343
Join us as we welcome Deep River Brewing back to WNC! We will be tapping a keg of their amazing BBA Imperial Milk Stout Collaboration without Representation and Backcountry Black IPA!
https://www.facebook.com/events/238572620367251/
A boutique food truck serving up gourmet comfort food.
www.olivecateringcompany.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/2257236084333541/
“Oyster, Oyster” is back at Legends. Join us every Thursday night at Legends on the Lake starting at 5:30pm. Fresh $.60 Oyster Raw Bar. And Chef features from the kitchen including:
• Oysters Rockefeller
• Oyster Scampi
For details, please call 828.694.3045.
https://www.facebook.com/events/379711562563277/?event_time_id=379711602563273
Ladies, please join us the first Thursday of every month** for great wine, great friends, and lots of fun!
**July’s event will not be held because of the 4th.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2190909954570744/?event_time_id=2190909964570743
Come out to Sidetracked and enjoy a delicious pairing of sweet and savory prepared bacon, carefully paired with Sidetracked brews!
$13 (includes taxes) for four generous samplings of beer and bacon!
(Does not include tip).
https://www.facebook.com/events/768822250143608/
Join us, Mount Inspiration Apparel and The Appalachian Trail Conservancy on February 7th for our Bear Can Blueberry Chocolate Wheat Ale Release! $1 from each pint of this delicious wheat ale will be donated to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy who leads large efforts to protect, maintain and celebrate the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (A.T.)!
We are also raffling off a few Catawba beer items, along with some amazing swag from Mount Inspiration Apparel and Appalachian Trail Conservancy starting at 6:00!! Raffle tickets will be $2 each and all of the funds will be donated to ATC!
Why did we call this beer Bear Can Blueberry Chocolate Wheat Ale you ask? Well… Bear Can is a storage device used by many backcountry campers and Appalachian Trail hikers to keep their food safe from bears. It’s the best way to practice Leave No Trace along commonly frequented recreation resources like the Appalachian Trail because hanging food is unreliable due to limited availability of suitable branches and savvy bears increasingly skilled at bear-bag snatching.
https://www.facebook.com/events/960938647628107/
Come celebrate the passage of the Tennessee Wilderness Act – 20,000 acres of protected public land on the Cherokee National Forest! Raise a glass, thank the legislators that made it happen (Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator Bob Corker, and Dr. Phil Roe), and win some GREAT GIVEAWAYS from Rock/Creek and Patagonia!
https://www.facebook.com/events/494535124286730/
Join us for Girl’s Night Out on Thursday, February 7th!
6:00pm – 8:30pm
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Calling all choco-holics! We will be painting ceramic wine goblets, sipping on wine, and of course: eating chocolate and sweet treats all night long! Chocolate, wine, and painting, the perfect combination for a fun Girl’s Night Out!
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Price includes pottery and refreshments. Sign up through the ticket link on this event page! Facebook RSVP will not ensure your spot!
You may BYOB.
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Reservations required to ensure space and adequate supplies. Order form accessible through event’s ticket link. If you have any questions message or call: (828) 253-8181
For a 100% refund, cancellations must be made at least 48 hours in advance. Cancelations made within 48 hours of event will be given store credit. If you do not attend the event and do not give notice, no refund or store credit will be issued.
https://www.facebook.com/events/684116681982659/
Join Butchers Bessie Smith and Matt Helms as they demonstrate a pork break down, discussing the various cuts and cooking techniques as they go. Then the POLKA music starts! They’ll teach you all you need to know about fresh AND smoked sausages! This will be a HANDS ON course allowing you to learn the techniques so YOU can make your OWN sausages at home!
You’ll get to enjoy some of our sausages, along with some charcuterie PLUS we will have a special beer pairing to learn about different types of beer that go nicely with our sausage.
Each participant will have the opportunity to take home some sausages as well!
https://www.facebook.com/events/269387653755627/
FIT is a four week, high intensity interval training program focused on functional exercises in a peripheral heart action circuit to maximize muscle recruitment. This specialized small group training program will push your muscles to the max and keep them guessing with a combination of strength, cardio, and dynamic movement. Only 10 spots available for each session. Reserve yours today and take your exercise routine to the next level! Join us for our next session of FIT led by personal trainer Elizabeth Loop.
Members $40, non-members $60
https://www.facebook.com/events/393457461229201/?event_time_id=393457464562534
Join us at New Belgium Brewing for our first DRAFT meetup of the year. We’ll have a fast-paced event full of ideas, entrepreneurs and bikes, capturing the exciting things happening in the bike industry.
Program:
6:00 – 6:30 pm: Doors open, beer and banter
6:30 – 7:30 pm: Program + Speakers
7:30 – 8:00 pm: More beer and banter
Speakers include:
Kristy Carter, Friction Shift Projects, LLC
Shanna Powell, EndlessBikeCo.
Ritchie Rozzelle, GO Mountain Commuting and Strive Beyond Regional Coordinator
John Ende, Asheville International Randonneurs
@DraftMeetup #DraftMeetup
Hiring? Need a job? Job networking encouraged here too.
https://www.facebook.com/events/478923549301560/
$5.00 suggested donation for admission
https://www.facebook.com/events/570503753402379/
Woof Meow Rescue and Pinups for Pitbulls present:
My Fluffy Valentine
-An Adoption Event-
WMR + PFPB are joining forces for this must-attend Valentines Extravaganza!
Join us for this fun evening and meet your new second half, partner in crime, adventure partner, and/or BFF!
CUTE ADOPTABLE PUPS
SWEET SPECIALS
LIVE MUSIC w/ Drunken Prayer, Krektones, and DJ Lilo!
DJ from 6-8
Bands from 8 until they turn into pumpkins!
https://www.facebook.com/events/345522066245876/
If you’re running out of good options for an entertaining Thursday evening, then you need to join us for Oysters On The Half Shell (And Champagne!)
Oysters on the half shell provided by Toogoodoo Oyster Co. and Maggioni Oyster Company Asheville. And of course, live music all evening long by Brooke and Nick.
Cost of oysters: $2.75 each -OR- $2.50 with the purchase of wine, beer or champagne.
Please visit the EventBrite page to select your seats. https://bit.ly/2G4VGwS
Selecting your seat reserves the table for the entire evening from 6pm – 9pm. This reservation is then used to order Oysters. If you have any special requests, please contact us at [email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/events/1234636446704345/
It’s the most anticipated evening of entrepreneurship in all of Asheville – the Hatch Pitch Party!
Presented in partnership with Venture Asheville – You can have a big idea or run a big business – you are welcome to pitch!
This month’s pitch party will take place on Thursday, February 7th at 6pm, in the Anthroware lounge at Hatch AVL.
If you haven’t been to one of these yet, you should be kicking yourself! You are missing out! Here’s the description:
Open-Mic Night for Entrepreneurs
One of the most important skills an entrepreneur needs to develop is their pitch. While there are several kinds of pitches, this event is an open event for anyone to give a 1-minute pitch. Just you, no slides. Let’s see you communicate your big idea! As an added benefit, pitchers will receive feedback from their peers.
As a super bonus, best pitch as voted on by the audience will win a guaranteed spot at an upcoming 1 Million Cups Asheville. Synergy, yo!
This event is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to pitch, as opportunities to validate your ideas to an unbiased audience are rare!
https://www.facebook.com/events/292016538380684/?event_time_id=292016545047350
Twelve years after Michael Pollan first opened our eyes to the modern problems of the industrial food complex, organic farmer and successful businessman Robert Turner explores what has changed in our food culture and how the current ‘grow local’ and ‘farm to table’ movement is now determining where and how we live. In Carrots Don’t Grow on Trees an organic farm takes center stage in a new kind of agriculturally-based community where residents gain closer connections healthy food and the farmers who grow it. Turner wasn’t trying to build Utopia; the community he envisions is the next logical step for the ‘eat your view’ movement that has already changed restaurant menus around the world. Turner takes a no-nonsense business approach to saving small farms and protecting our local farming capacity while preserving the important knowledge of growing food for future generations.
Robert Turner is a writer for several columns in regional food and lifestyle magazines, an entrepreneur, and the founder of multiple businesses in such diverse industries as manufacturing, licensing, publishing and real estate development. Now owner of an organic farm and the Executive Director of the Creekside Farm Education Center, Turner is a dedicated advocate for small, local farmers and sustainable food production. Mr. Turner is a graduate from Illinois State University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature. He currently lives with his wife Kara on a working farm in the mountains of Western North Carolina. They have two sons in college.
We ask that you purchase the books you want to be signed at our events from Malaprop’s. When you do this you are not only supporting the work it takes to run an events program, you are also telling the publishers that they should keep sending authors here. Can’t make it to the store for the event? Call us or order the book on our website in advance, and we’ll get it signed for you. Make sure you write your preferences in the comments if you purchase online.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1417481528384651/
The Asheville Marathon and Half Training Group will have weekly technique and Hill Training on Thursday evenings at 6pm at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Parking Lot – OLLI – UNCA.
Each workout will last one hour. During these workout sessions we will be doing some hill interval training (everyone’s favorite) to improve your hill technique as well as your conditioning.
If you haven’t already registered for the marathon or half marathon training group, you can sign up online and attend these technique and hill trainings and our weekeng long runs. Find out more here –> http://ashevillemarathon.com/community/training/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2133268403589289/?event_time_id=2133268436922619
Patrick Dodd, a fan-favorite contestant from The Voice, will be joining us every Thursday to rock out with his band and the occasional special guest. Swing on by the Tasting Room for some southern-styled rock and jam influenced tunes, $3 pints of Highland Pilsner, and a limited small batch brew that we like to call For the Love of Dodd!
About Patrick Dodd
After years of honing his chops on Beale Street in Memphis, TN, Native Memphian, Patrick Dodd was recently thrust into the national spotlight as a contestant on NBC’s The Voice. Viewers loved his signature rasping growl that echoes with soul and heartfelt rocking rhythm that Dodd displayed on stage for a worldwide audience to hear! Viewers cried “Foul” when Dodd was eliminated from the show and demanded that he get on the road and tour.
Patrick and his band have been influenced by such gifted players as Gregg Allman, The Black Crowes, The Black Keys, Gov’t Mule and Derek Trucks along with soul icons like Steve Wonder and Ray Charles. The group gets every room moving, from the first note to the final guitar flourishes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2288090488099272/?event_time_id=2288090508099270
Join us for trivia every Thursday at 6. Check each date for our new theme!
Think you know your stuff? We’ll call your bluff!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1231329450367252/?event_time_id=1231329467033917
Join us for trivia every Thursday at 6. There will be fun prizes for the winners and losers. Maybe an impromptu dance party?
Hosts rotate each week
Think you know your stuff? We’ll call your bluff!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1231329450367252/
These are our regular Public Events. If you want to schedule a private session you can here: https://www.betterthanunicorns.com/play-vr/
We pick the games, you pay a flat admission fee of $15 ($10 for students) and jam!
Come early… we will queue players up as you show up!
Sign our waiver, rules, and media release ahead of time here: https://www.betterthanunicorns.com/play-vr/
Bring your friends and #getyourheadinthegame!
Become a Patreon to join our inner circle to explore how deep the immersive rabbit hole goes: https://www.patreon.com/betterthanunicorns!
https://www.facebook.com/events/302734167026800/?event_time_id=302734220360128
Got the winter blues? Come out and enjoy 4 local Cheesetrail cheeses paired with 4 ciders – learn the ins and outs of both cider and cheese, and shake those blues for just $20 per person. PLUS all ticket holders will be in a drawing for 2 FREE 2019 Carolina Mtn Ciderfest tickets given away the night of the event.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1197374790411108/
The 3rd Annual Asheville Winter Swim League will kickoff in January and go through February. All levels and abilities of swimmers are welcome to attend!
What is the AVL Swim League? The intention of the swim league is to build a better swimming community in WNC. All levels and abilities of swimmers will be training together in a friendly, cohesive, structured and coached GROUP atmosphere.
How is the AVL structured? The Swim League is intended for adults, ages 16 and Up, we welcome swimmers of all experience levels including Novice/Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced/Expert Swim Groups with swim leaders and pool-side support and instruction.
Location: All swims unless otherwise noted will meet at the Leila Patterson Center in Fletcher, NC. The LPC Pool is an INDOOR, 25 Yard pool… pretty incredible! We meet Thursdays 6:30-7:30pm. We will have 3 lanes reserved for the Swim League. To prevent over crowding in the lanes, it will be first come first serve.
Cost: The Swim League is FREE. A $5 Suggested Donation for Coach Led Swims are accepted when you sign in at the swim. These donations are for iDream Athletes Foundation and for our coaches/leaders on the pool-deck at each group training.
Contact [email protected] with questions or suggestions!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1173582029474153/?event_time_id=1173582042807485
Keith Wimsett will share the top five strategies that some of the most successful people in the world use to achieve their goals and transform their lives. This class will break down, step-by-step, how to make your New year’s Resolutions “quit proof” and entirely painless.
https://www.facebook.com/events/735768996807214/
Join Jennifer for an Intro to Pole Fitness 6 week series. By the end of this series, students will be all set to attend Pole 2 classes, and may also attend any Pole Dance classes on the schedule (such as Sultry Pole). Students will learn Pole Fitness Level 1 in its entirety, and will be proficient in many beginner skills upon completion. Expect a thorough yoga-inspired full body warm up followed by pole conditioning skills to help you achieve your pole fitness goals. Students will also learn basic pole combinations in addition to skills, and will have time to experiment and play at the end of class. Class will end with a brief feel-good cool down stretch session.
$60 for the full series, occurs on Thursdays at 6:30pm from January 3rd to February 7th. Sign up now from your student account at circusdb.org/empyrean. We only allow for 6 sign ups for the beginner series for the comfort of new students and to allow for ample time on the poles, so be sure to sign up ASAP as these series sell out QUICK! We offer 2 hours of open studio per missed class of a series.
https://www.facebook.com/events/195806667985708/?event_time_id=195806694652372
Irish Session at Triskelion!
( Every first and third Thursday of the month)
A session is a community celebration of traditional Celtic Music and an exploration of a vast, colorful, musical world that originates from Ireland, Scotland and the other Celtic nations.
The tunes start at 6:30 and the final set will finish by 8:30; every first and third Thursday of the month.
All skill levels are welcome, beginners are invited and it is free to the public. We will mainly be playing dance tunes from the Irish music tradition, but certainly not strictly!
If you are interested in playing traditional Celtic music, please come join us!
https://www.facebook.com/events/137638900463983/