Calendar of Events

This nonprofit organization has held the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival in Burnsville each year in September since 2006. Come celebrate a love for reading and community, as a portion of the profits will support CM Lit Fest.

https://www.facebook.com/events/656960088094294/

This new class in our Fitness Center will incorporate Qigong, strengthening, mediation and yoga. This class is geared to all ages and gender, especially male golfers.

Qigong is a practice that typically involves moving meditation, slow flowing movement and deep rhythmic breathing that provides a calm meditative state of mind.

Classes are $10.00/person.

This class will be lead by instructor Dr. John Akers. Dr. Akers is a recently retired Wofford language professor and classical guitarist who has taught wellness classes at Wofford, the Spartanburg YMCA, and Zen Garden. Dr. Akers played and coached collegiate soccer, has practiced meditation over 40 years, and teaches a daily routine of yoga and core strengthening enhanced by Qigong energy play. Dr. Akers is also an avid golfer committed to carrying his own clubs, without a cart.

https://www.facebook.com/events/407581593350375/?event_time_id=407581596683708

On select Wednesdays, we’re giving 10% of our food sales at Black Mountain Ale House and $1 for every beer purchased from Black Mountain Brewing to Bounty & Soul — a nonprofit creating healthier communities by providing fresh healthy food, nutrition literacy and health & wellness resources.

Let’s give back to our local community!

https://www.facebook.com/events/340921139966891/?event_time_id=350727795652892

On select Wednesdays, we’re giving 10% of our food sales at Black Mountain Ale House and $1 for every beer purchased from Black Mountain Brewing to Food Connection — a local nonprofit that collects surplus food from restaurants and caterers in #Asheville and delivers the food to those who will enjoy it to reduce food waste.

Help give back to your local community!

https://www.facebook.com/events/274249286576153/?event_time_id=274249293242819

On specific Wednesdays, we’re giving 10% of our food sales at Black Mountain Ale House and $1 for every beer purchased from Black Mountain Brewing to PEG Partners — a US-based nonprofit organization focusing on issues of literacy, critical thought and artistic expression, in partnership with Guatemalan schools and libraries.

Help give back to your community and the people who need it most!

https://www.facebook.com/events/278924029456401/

February 8 – 17 Ice Skating at the Festival Grounds!
Monday-Friday from 4 – 8pm, Saturday & Sunday from noon – 8pm, Adults $8 and Kids $5
Sessions are 45 minutes on the hour with skates included, the last session will be at 7pm, there is a limit of 40 skaters per session and skating is first-come/first serve!
* Kids Skate Free on Monday, February 11th!
*Special Family Skate for $20 on Wednesday, February 13th!
A Concession Stand will be available along with a 9 Hole Mini Golf Course, Yard Games including Ladder Ball, Giant Connect 4, Giant Jenga, Pipe Ball, Bottle Ring Toss and Can Toss, plus a Bounce House!

https://www.facebook.com/events/221757075442697/?event_time_id=221757095442695

25% OFF Mighty Meaty or Veggie Meatloaf on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 4-6pm, during the month of February!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/704049793329322/?event_time_id=704049799995988

Select a wine on draft (some exceptions apply) and fill a plēb 500mL growler for $12 or a 1L growler for $20. Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.

https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/?event_time_id=859748734386260

You guys seemed to love our $10 Meal Deal with Melt Your Heart so we are bringing it to January and February! We’ve joined up to bring you $10 Wednesdays. Come to our Foundation location and get any grilled cheese sandwich and any beer for just $10!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2191957971069756/?event_time_id=2191957991069754

Every Wednesday in 2019, The Corner Kitchen and Chestnut will donate a portion of the proceeds from all wines sales to a local non-profit. The selected January/February is Asheville City Schools Foundation. To learn more about them please visit https://www.acsf.org/

2018 Donation Recipients
January & February – Our VOICE
www.ourvoicenc.org
March & April – Verner Center for Early Learning
www.vernerearlylearning.org
May & June – SAHC
https://appalachian.org
July & August – Mama Maisha
September & October – Brother Wolf
https://www.bwar.org/
November & December – Pisgah Legal Services
https://www.pisgahlegal.org/

https://www.facebook.com/events/604865433271873/?event_time_id=604865456605204

Three opportunities to dance with Melvin!

Wednesdays in February
5pm Animation & Robotics Technique with Melvin
$50 4 week series

6pm Hip Hop Choreography Series with Melvin
$50 4 week series

7pm Lyrical Hip Hop with Melvin
$50 4 week series

https://www.facebook.com/events/2073600962717768/?event_time_id=2073600969384434

A boutique food truck serving up gourmet comfort food.

www.olivecateringcompany.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/284387638912813/

Save the Date! Start practicing your BBall skills for HFE’s 2nd Annual Parent vs. Teacher Basketball Game!
Who will win? Will the parents defend last year’s trophy?
Come out and join in the fun!

Tentative Schedule
5:00-5:30pm: Shirt Pick Up
5:45-6pm: Brief PTO Touch Base to hear what’s happening at HFE
6:00-7:30pm: The GAME BEGINS!

PTO will be selling Pizza Slices, drinks and snacks – all funds go towards end of year field trips/PTO initiatives.

Team Sign Up by Friday, 2/8!
https://goo.gl/forms/DE0jY3rj7E7k2GZG2
$10 Donation for individual Parent Players – all funds go towards the end of year field trips
Teachers play for Free

Form will be sent home with sign up and to collect $10 check made to HFE PTO or $10 cash or whatever amount you’d like to donate for HFE.

https://www.facebook.com/events/297477437783401/

We hope you can make it out to another community potluck, this time at United Community Development, in the basement of World Wide Missionary Baptist Church. As we continue to build relationships centered on dismantling white supremacy within ourselves & our community, we are centering economic class and its important place in the work of building a cross-class movement. “If we don’t become bold about what cross-class solidarity work means as white folks yearning for racial justice, our work will be less effective and our wins short-lived.”
– http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/cross-class-capacity-tool.html

Ignoring issues of class can have a disastrous effect on our resilient, collaborative, and far reaching movements for racial justice. So let’s come together to brainstorm ways to see class divisions and take action for an inclusive and durable movement. We will be breaking bread together, and then breaking into caucuses where there will be opportunities to build class consciousness, focus on bringing in more folks, and promote cross class leadership and organizing going forward.

We are grateful for United Community Development who is providing us the space, and will be brimming to hear a brief explanation of its work and its project The Real Asheville Initiative, a multiracial group placing poor and working class people of color in charge of the collection of data and the movements for change they wish to see. We will be collecting donations as a thanks for letting us use the space, and can offer information on how to get involved in this crucial work.

Everyone is welcome! Please bring a dish to share or just yourself!
To RSVP, ask questions, or volunteer to help: [email protected]

We lack the ability to provide childcare at this time. Please message us if you would like to assist in providing childcare services so that we can extend the invitation to parents/ caregivers.
Apologies, as United Community Development is not wheelchair accessible.

https://www.facebook.com/events/944426592417507/

Our weekly dose of James Hammel’s awesome selection of cover songs and original tunes! Always a good show, and you’re bound to see someone you know at the bar!

https://www.facebook.com/events/325013448112541/?event_time_id=325013461445873

200 Community Bills of Rights have been passed in Cities and Counties around the county. They establish citizens rights to local self-governance, that is, being able to make decisions about the places we live. Asheville’s Community Bill of Rights establishes our Right to a Healthy Climate above that of corporations to make a profit and our Right to purchase electricity from companies that use only renewable energy.
This will be the first Community Bill of Rights passed in NC.

Come be a part of the petition campaign that will get the Community Bill of Rights on the next City election ballot so everyone can vote on it. There are opportunities to get involved starting at just one hour a week for 4 weeks.

https://www.facebook.com/events/523175078189885/

A Wine Deconstructed is an Education Series hosted by plēb urban winery on the second Wednesday of the month. A single wine will be deconstructed to identify the various components and discuss their meaning in the wine.

https://www.facebook.com/events/318802065417640/?event_time_id=318802072084306

Have a pint and express yourself to creating works of art in the beer-themed coloring books! Adult Coloring will be held every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Bring in your own coloring gear or pick through our many gel pens and themed coloring books.
Art

https://www.facebook.com/events/320830388762640/?event_time_id=320830402095972

Kimber Lanning is Founder and Executive Director of Local First Arizona, a statewide organization implementing innovative strategies for new models of economic development that create vibrant local economies. Kimber’s talk will begin at 6pm; doors will open at 5:30pm. This event is free, but seating is limited, please register here (https://buildingourcitykimberlanning.eventbrite.com).

Lanning is an entrepreneur, business leader and community development specialist who works to cultivate strong self-reliant communities and inspire a higher quality of life for people across Arizona. Lanning’s passions, which are seen throughout her work, include fostering cultural diversity and inclusion, economic resilience and responsible growth for Arizona.

Building our City is brought to you by the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, Mosaic Community Lifestyle Realty, the Asheville Downtown Association, the City of Asheville, Urban 3, Carleton Collins Architecture, Asheville Grown, Mountain True, Aloft Asheville Downtown and Friction Shift.

https://www.facebook.com/events/397860547687410/

Looking for an activity for you and someone special in your life? This month, learn how to show your heart some love through food in this hands-on partner cooking class! You and your partner of choice will work together to make three recipes, while learning the heart healthy benefits along the way from a Registered Dietitian.

Class is open to the public and located at the downtown Asheville YMCA in the Multipurpose Room 2. Cost is $30 for YMCA members, and $40 for non-members. Must register both partners together. Kids are allowed if partner is an adult over the age of 18. For more information or to register, visit the front desk of the downtown YMCA or call Lauren at 828-575-2939 or email [email protected].

https://www.facebook.com/events/214210906192991/

The French Broad Valley Music Association: FBVMA 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.”

https://www.facebook.com/events/231970501048591/?event_time_id=231970527715255

Come practice with me every Wednesday evening at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards at 6pm-7pm to get over that crazy mid week hump!

All levels welcome for an upbeat and energizing power flow while focusing on turning inward and cultivating an intention that you can take with you off your mat!

10$ for 60 minute power vinyasa flow and glass of wine!
6pm-7pm Please share and feel free to bring your friends!
DM if you have any questions! Hope to see you there✨✨

https://www.facebook.com/events/1224464734374111/?event_time_id=1224464737707444

Valentine’s Day isn’t always a great day for everyone. So in keeping with my belief that it’s not just about romance – but about loving each other in general, we will be hosting a Galentine’s Evening at Wine Sage and Gourmet. Bring your gal pals and let’s celebrate each other! Food, wine and fun! Have a friend who could use some cheering up – bring her! A fun craft project will be an option if you care to participate! A few other surprises as well!

https://www.facebook.com/events/296332387743798/

Alright gals, it’s time for hearts, glitter, flowers, bubbly — that’s right, you guessed it – February the 13th is Galentine’s Day! We’ve planned a night you don’t want to miss! Grab your best gal pals and join us in celebrating each other.

Becky, our Hoka rep, will be joining us! She’s bringing Hoka swag for the first 20 women and I’ve heard rumors of games!

Cara, our Brooks guru, will be with us helping with personalized bra fittings and answering any questions or concerns you might have. Every lady attending will receive a $15 voucher, good towards any Brooks bra.

We’ll have wine, bubbly, cheese, crackers, veggies– let’s just say, we will have all the snacks! Plus we will be doing raffles throughout the night!

It’s time for a much needed girls night!

** RSVP from Tickets Available link to reserve your spot **

https://www.facebook.com/events/1178876915602641/

A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman’s husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their “normal” life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.
When Judy Goldman’s husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper ad for an injection to alleviate back pain, the outpatient procedure sounds like the answer to his longtime backaches. But rather than restoring his tennis game, the procedure leaves him paralyzed from the waist down–a phenomenon none of the doctors the family consults can explain. Overnight, Goldman’s world is turned upside down. Though she has always thought of herself as the polite, demure wife opposite her strong, brave husband, Goldman finds herself thrown into a new role as his advocate, navigating byzantine hospital policies, demanding and refusing treatments, seeking solutions to help him win back his independence.
Along the way, Goldman flashes back to her memories of their life together. As she tries envision her family’s future, she discovers a new, more resilient version of herself. Together is a story of the life we imagine versus the life we lead–an elegant and empathetic meditation on partnership, aging, and, of course, love.

JUDY GOLDMAN is the author of two award-winning poetry collections and two novels, Early Leaving and The Slow Way Back, which was a finalist for SIBA’s Novel of the Year and winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction. Her memoir, Losing My Sister, was a finalist for both SIBA’s Memoir of the Year and ForeWord Review’s Memoir of the Year. Her work has appeared in Real Simple, The Washington Post, and in many literary journals. She teaches writing workshops throughout the Southeast, and serves on the permanent faculty of Table Rock Writers Workshop. Born and raised in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Goldman has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, for many years. She and her husband have two children and four grandchildren.

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/345594676020907/

Dayton!

Looking for a fun date/single’s night just before Valentine’s Day? We’ve got the PERFECT thing!

On February 13th, starting at 6pm, we’ll be tapping a bunch of incredible stouts that we love!

Hi-Wire Brewing 10W40
North High Brewing Filthy McNasty
Founders Brewing Co. CBS
Founders KBS
Warped Wing Brewing Company Whiskey Rebellion
Warped Wing Whiskey Rebellion w/ Peaches, Vanilla, and Caramel
Clown Shoes Beer Snow in the Maple Tree
& New Holland Brewing Co. Dragons Milk Reserve (Orange Chocolate)

This is going to be a ton of fun and we can’t wait to see you there!

#GetSome #CraftBeer #ValentinesDay #Dayton #Beavercreek

https://www.facebook.com/events/595419664256467/

Come hang out with the Asheville Tri Club, meet new and old friends, run, and drink beer. We’ll be joining the Highland Brewing Co. Run Club for their weekly Wednesday run, then staying for a beer and company.

Run: Meet at 6 PM at the Brewery (just look for other people dressed in hi-vis lycra and running shorts), the run begins at 6:15. It’s very casual, all paces and all faces welcome, and you can go however long you want (it’s an out ‘n back). Bring a headlamp because it’ll get dark.

Beer & tri club social: Option A: Finish your run, and drink beer. Option B: If you can’t join the run, meet us around 7 PM at the brewery. Again, look for the people who look like they’ve been for a run. At least one tri club member will have an Asheville Tri Club shirt on so you can know you’re talking to a triathlete.

This is an informal event open to everyone. It’s free to join the run and social, but you’ll have to buy your own beer this time. There’s usually a food truck too.

https://www.facebook.com/events/763351014033917/

Would you like to improve your Spanish language skills? Join us for learning and conversations in Spanish this January – March. We will meet for six sessions to build rapport as a group and confidence in speaking and reading Spanish.

To sign up, email the South Buncombe Library at [email protected] or call 828-250-6488. The group is limited to 10 participants. Participants must be able to converse in Spanish at a basic level. Older teens are welcome, children under 15 are welcome with adults.

The group will meet from 6-7 pm on Wednesday nights January 16 and 30, February 13 and 27, and March 13 and 27.

https://www.facebook.com/events/230068681243700/

Would you like to improve your Spanish language skills? Join us for learning and conversations in Spanish this January – March. We will meet for six sessions to build rapport as a group and confidence in speaking and reading Spanish.

To sign up, email the South Buncombe Library at [email protected] or call 828-250-6488. The group is limited to 10 participants. Participants must be able to converse in Spanish at a basic level. Older teens are welcome, children under 15 are welcome with adults.

The group will meet from 6-7 pm on Wednesday nights January 16 and 30, February 13 and 27, and March 13 and 27.

https://www.facebook.com/events/230068681243700/?event_time_id=230068691243699

Aaron Wood is quite the renaissance music man. He grew up steeped in the traditions of blues and folk music of North Carolina. His father has shared the stage with the likes of Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley and performed at The Grand Ole Opry, taking Aaron with him every chance he got. It didn’t take long before the music took hold, and he studied any kind of music he could get his fingers on.

One look at the long list of artists he has shared the stage with exemplifies his diversity and respect from his musical peers. From Jimmy Martin to Leon Russel, R.L. Burnside to Warren Haynes, Sara Evans to Carlos Santana, Aaron has played with and learned from some of those who have helped shaped music into what it is today.

Each Wednesday features a different performer joining Woody on stage.

https://www.facebook.com/events/408992216504465/?event_time_id=422003815203305