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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Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Discussion Bound Book Club
Sep 8 @ 12:00 pm
Online

The group is not meeting in our store for now but hey are holding a virtual book club meetings. Click here for details.

Hosted by the Asheville Art Museum, this monthly discussion is a place to exchange ideas that relate to artworks and the art world. The club typically meets the second Tuesday of every month at noon at Malaprop’s. Click here to view important news and find the selection for this month.

 

Event date:
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 – 12:00pm
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 – 12:00pm
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 – 12:00pm
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 – 12:00pm
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Virtual Jewish Book Club
Sep 8 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Online

The Jewish book club (separate from the Israeli book club )  meets monthly on the second Tuesday at 1 PM at the JCC to discuss selected books by Jewish authors.

If you are interested in joining the book club, please email tami@jcc-asheville.org.

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Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Launches Even As We Breath
Sep 8 @ 6:00 pm
Online

Join us for this exciting Book Launch! This event is free but registration is required. Registrants will receive an email on the day of the event with the URL and password required to attend on Zoom. Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle will sign and personalize books ordered prior to the event. Please pre-order the book via the link below and add your personalization request in the comments section during checkout. If you decide to attend and to purchase the author’s book(s), we ask that you purchase from Malalprop’s. When you do this you are supporting our work and keeping more dollars in our community.

EVEN AS WE BREATHE

Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville’s luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. The experience introduces him to the beautiful and enigmatic Essie Stamper — a young Cherokee woman who is also working at the inn and dreaming of a better life. With World War II raging in Europe, the resort is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners of war. A secret room becomes a place where Cowney and Essie can escape the white world of the inn and imagine their futures free of the shadows of their families’ pasts. Outside of this refuge, however, racism and prejudice are never far behind, and when the daughter of one of the residents goes missing, Cowney finds himself accused of abduction and murder. Even As We Breathe invokes the elements of bone, blood, and flesh as Cowney navigates difficult social, cultural, and ethnic divides. Betrayed by the friends he trusted, he begins to unearth deeper mysteries as he works to prove his innocence and clear his name. This richly written debut novel explores the immutable nature of the human spirit and the idea that physical existence, with all its strife and injustice, will not be humanity’s lasting legacy.

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her work Going to Water won the Morning Star Award for Creative Writing from the Native American Literature Symposium and was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She is coeditor of the Journal of Cherokee Studies and serves on the board of trustees for the North Carolina Writers’ Network.

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Exploring and Settling the American West Bookclub
Sep 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Online

Exploring and Settling the American West: Four Classic Books Explained and Discussed

ASHEVILLE: The American West. It has been a land of myth and romance, turbulent history and great literature.
On eight evenings from September to December, the Wilma Dykeman Legacy will celebrate four classic books . Through four lectures and four book discussions — all beginning at 7:00 PM via Zoom (see link below)– the following writers will be featured:
Tuesday, September 8 Lecture by Dr. Victoria Barker about Elizabeth Madox Roberts and her novel The Great Meadow
Tuesday, September 15 Book discussion about The Great Meadow
Tuesday, October 13 Lecture by Dr. Michael Sartisky about A.B. Guthrie and his novel The Big Sky
Tuesday, October 20 Book discussion about The Big Sky
Tuesday, November 10 Lecture by Dr. James Aton about John Wesley Powell and his memoir The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
Tuesday, November 17 Book discussion about The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
Tuesday, December 8 Lecture by Dr. Charles Peek about Willa Cather and her novel O Pioneers!
Tuesday, December 15 Book discussion about O Pioneers!

 

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Thursday, September 10, 2020
Library News Libraries Offer Passport Around the World
Sep 10 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Buncombe County Libraries

Ready for a change of scene, but not ready to travel in the age of COVID-19? The library has just what you need. Check out Passport Around the World. Call BCPL’s Ask a Librarian line (828) 250-4700, email [email protected], or call or email your local library, and tell us where you would like to virtually visit. Your librarian will select 5-10 items about your destination of choice, anything from documentaries, folktales, and cookbooks to travel guides, poetry, and children’s books. We will notify you when your items are ready. Pick up your Passport bundle at the curbside pickup location of your choice. Bon Voyage!

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Lit Cafe Bookclub – The French Broad with Jim Stokely
Sep 10 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
zoom
Wilma Dykeman (1920 – 2006) was a writer, speaker, teacher, historian, and environmentalist. Her son, Jim Stokely, President of the Wilma Dykeman Legacy, will speak about his mother and her groundbreaking work, The French Broad, in this 45-minute presentation followed by time for moderated questions.

Zoom Webinar
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Friday, September 11, 2020
Leave it Better Sweepstake Eno + Explore Brevard
Sep 11 all-day
Online

LEAVE IT BETTER SWEEPSTAKES

Enter to win an ENO Leave No Trace Double Nest hammock and suspension system today! ENO and Explore Brevard are excited to partner in the effort to promote our new Leave It Better campaign. Entering is easy. Simply follow these steps and you’ll be automatically entered into the sweepstakes:

 

STEP 1
Follow ENO Hammocks and Explore Brevard on Instagram or Facebook.

 

Step 2
Post an example of how you Leave No Trace and go the extra step to Leave It Better on your own social media account with the hashtag #ILeaveItBetter

 

Step 3
Watch our social media accounts for winner announcements at the end of August, September and October!

 

Each month will have multiple winners so stay tuned.

See below for official contest rules and alternate form of entry.

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The Bird Who Sang Beethoven Brevard Music Center
Sep 11 all-day
Online

The Bird Who Sang Beethoven is a children’s book in rhyme about a baby bird born in the concert hall at the Brevard Music Center just as Beethoven’s Fifth is being played and he thinks that is what birds sing! His offspring continue the tune for generations and spread it far and wide!

About the Author: Harper Howze is a freshman at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas, and an aspiring writer. This is his first published work. Lucille Chaveas, his co-author and “Grand” (mother), is a Brevard resident and avid supporter of the Brevard Music Center.

Price: $12.00

Authors: Harper Howze, Lucille Chaveas

Illustrator: Megan Robertson

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Library News Libraries Offer Passport Around the World
Sep 11 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Buncombe County Libraries

Ready for a change of scene, but not ready to travel in the age of COVID-19? The library has just what you need. Check out Passport Around the World. Call BCPL’s Ask a Librarian line (828) 250-4700, email [email protected], or call or email your local library, and tell us where you would like to virtually visit. Your librarian will select 5-10 items about your destination of choice, anything from documentaries, folktales, and cookbooks to travel guides, poetry, and children’s books. We will notify you when your items are ready. Pick up your Passport bundle at the curbside pickup location of your choice. Bon Voyage!

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Book Club Webinar: Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout
Sep 11 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center

Join the Swannanoa Valley Museum for an online book club discussion of award-winning songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler’s autobiography “Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout.” Registrants will receive a Zoom link before…

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Saturday, September 12, 2020
Leave it Better Sweepstake Eno + Explore Brevard
Sep 12 all-day
Online

LEAVE IT BETTER SWEEPSTAKES

Enter to win an ENO Leave No Trace Double Nest hammock and suspension system today! ENO and Explore Brevard are excited to partner in the effort to promote our new Leave It Better campaign. Entering is easy. Simply follow these steps and you’ll be automatically entered into the sweepstakes:

 

STEP 1
Follow ENO Hammocks and Explore Brevard on Instagram or Facebook.

 

Step 2
Post an example of how you Leave No Trace and go the extra step to Leave It Better on your own social media account with the hashtag #ILeaveItBetter

 

Step 3
Watch our social media accounts for winner announcements at the end of August, September and October!

 

Each month will have multiple winners so stay tuned.

See below for official contest rules and alternate form of entry.

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The Bird Who Sang Beethoven Brevard Music Center
Sep 12 all-day
Online

The Bird Who Sang Beethoven is a children’s book in rhyme about a baby bird born in the concert hall at the Brevard Music Center just as Beethoven’s Fifth is being played and he thinks that is what birds sing! His offspring continue the tune for generations and spread it far and wide!

About the Author: Harper Howze is a freshman at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas, and an aspiring writer. This is his first published work. Lucille Chaveas, his co-author and “Grand” (mother), is a Brevard resident and avid supporter of the Brevard Music Center.

Price: $12.00

Authors: Harper Howze, Lucille Chaveas

Illustrator: Megan Robertson

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Library News Libraries Offer Passport Around the World
Sep 12 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Buncombe County Libraries

Ready for a change of scene, but not ready to travel in the age of COVID-19? The library has just what you need. Check out Passport Around the World. Call BCPL’s Ask a Librarian line (828) 250-4700, email [email protected], or call or email your local library, and tell us where you would like to virtually visit. Your librarian will select 5-10 items about your destination of choice, anything from documentaries, folktales, and cookbooks to travel guides, poetry, and children’s books. We will notify you when your items are ready. Pick up your Passport bundle at the curbside pickup location of your choice. Bon Voyage!

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Paddle Wilma Dykeman’s French Broad
Sep 12 @ 10:00 am – 3:30 pm
Amboy Road River Park
PADDLE 
THE FRENCH BROAD
Saturday, September 12

Join us at Amboy Road River Park as we prepare to paddle 6.5 miles exploring part of Wilma Dykeman’s French Broad. This float, with four interpretive stops and one stop for lunch, will take approximately five hours. We will learn about this river section’s natural and cultural history including the tenuous relationship between humans and the river.

Date: Saturday, September 12, 2020
Time: 10:00am – 3:30pm
Cost: $35 members/$50 general
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Sunday, September 13, 2020
Leave it Better Sweepstake Eno + Explore Brevard
Sep 13 all-day
Online

LEAVE IT BETTER SWEEPSTAKES

Enter to win an ENO Leave No Trace Double Nest hammock and suspension system today! ENO and Explore Brevard are excited to partner in the effort to promote our new Leave It Better campaign. Entering is easy. Simply follow these steps and you’ll be automatically entered into the sweepstakes:

 

STEP 1
Follow ENO Hammocks and Explore Brevard on Instagram or Facebook.

 

Step 2
Post an example of how you Leave No Trace and go the extra step to Leave It Better on your own social media account with the hashtag #ILeaveItBetter

 

Step 3
Watch our social media accounts for winner announcements at the end of August, September and October!

 

Each month will have multiple winners so stay tuned.

See below for official contest rules and alternate form of entry.

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Categories: Community Games
The Bird Who Sang Beethoven Brevard Music Center
Sep 13 all-day
Online

The Bird Who Sang Beethoven is a children’s book in rhyme about a baby bird born in the concert hall at the Brevard Music Center just as Beethoven’s Fifth is being played and he thinks that is what birds sing! His offspring continue the tune for generations and spread it far and wide!

About the Author: Harper Howze is a freshman at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas, and an aspiring writer. This is his first published work. Lucille Chaveas, his co-author and “Grand” (mother), is a Brevard resident and avid supporter of the Brevard Music Center.

Price: $12.00

Authors: Harper Howze, Lucille Chaveas

Illustrator: Megan Robertson

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Categories: Bookclubs Family Fun Music
Library News Libraries Offer Passport Around the World
Sep 13 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Buncombe County Libraries

Ready for a change of scene, but not ready to travel in the age of COVID-19? The library has just what you need. Check out Passport Around the World. Call BCPL’s Ask a Librarian line (828) 250-4700, email [email protected], or call or email your local library, and tell us where you would like to virtually visit. Your librarian will select 5-10 items about your destination of choice, anything from documentaries, folktales, and cookbooks to travel guides, poetry, and children’s books. We will notify you when your items are ready. Pick up your Passport bundle at the curbside pickup location of your choice. Bon Voyage!

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Monday, September 14, 2020
The Bird Who Sang Beethoven Brevard Music Center
Sep 14 all-day
Online

The Bird Who Sang Beethoven is a children’s book in rhyme about a baby bird born in the concert hall at the Brevard Music Center just as Beethoven’s Fifth is being played and he thinks that is what birds sing! His offspring continue the tune for generations and spread it far and wide!

About the Author: Harper Howze is a freshman at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas, and an aspiring writer. This is his first published work. Lucille Chaveas, his co-author and “Grand” (mother), is a Brevard resident and avid supporter of the Brevard Music Center.

Price: $12.00

Authors: Harper Howze, Lucille Chaveas

Illustrator: Megan Robertson

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Book Club: Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout
Sep 14 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center

From the Publisher: “Award winning songwriter, musician, author, playwright, poet, visual artist, and Appalachian Renaissance man Billy Edd Wheeler is best known for penning “Jackson,” which was popularized by Johnny…

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Mystery Book Club
Sep 14 @ 7:00 pm
Online

The club will meet virtually during the Covid-19 pandemic. If you are interested in attending, please email [email protected] for instructions about how to attend the club event.  

Join host Tena Frank for Malaprop’s Mystery Book Club! Click here to see a full schedule of what the club is reading. Club attendees get 10% off the book at Malaprop’s!

The club meets at Malaprop’s on the second Monday of every month at 7:00pm.

Event date:
Monday, August 10, 2020 – 7:00pm
Monday, September 14, 2020 – 7:00pm
Monday, October 12, 2020 – 7:00pm
Monday, November 9, 2020 – 7:00pm
Event address:
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The Bird Who Sang Beethoven Brevard Music Center
Sep 15 all-day
Online

The Bird Who Sang Beethoven is a children’s book in rhyme about a baby bird born in the concert hall at the Brevard Music Center just as Beethoven’s Fifth is being played and he thinks that is what birds sing! His offspring continue the tune for generations and spread it far and wide!

About the Author: Harper Howze is a freshman at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas, and an aspiring writer. This is his first published work. Lucille Chaveas, his co-author and “Grand” (mother), is a Brevard resident and avid supporter of the Brevard Music Center.

Price: $12.00

Authors: Harper Howze, Lucille Chaveas

Illustrator: Megan Robertson

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Evening Book Club: One Second After
Sep 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Online

Evening Book Club: One Second After

Fairview Evening Book Club will be reading One Second After by William R. Forstchen for the month of September and discussing it on Tuesday, September 15th at 7pm via ZOOM!

Apocalypse prophecies and terrorist uprisings in a near-future world erupt when all of the planet’s technologies abruptly stop working, triggering global looting, food riots, and insurrections; a situation that places humanity’s fate in the hands of a small mountain village in the American south.

Book Club meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7pm.
Email [email protected] if you would like more information or would like to attend one of our discussions.
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Exploring and Settling the American West Bookclub
Sep 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Online

Exploring and Settling the American West: Four Classic Books Explained and Discussed

ASHEVILLE: The American West. It has been a land of myth and romance, turbulent history and great literature.
On eight evenings from September to December, the Wilma Dykeman Legacy will celebrate four classic books . Through four lectures and four book discussions — all beginning at 7:00 PM via Zoom (see link below)– the following writers will be featured:
Tuesday, September 8 Lecture by Dr. Victoria Barker about Elizabeth Madox Roberts and her novel The Great Meadow
Tuesday, September 15 Book discussion about The Great Meadow
Tuesday, October 13 Lecture by Dr. Michael Sartisky about A.B. Guthrie and his novel The Big Sky
Tuesday, October 20 Book discussion about The Big Sky
Tuesday, November 10 Lecture by Dr. James Aton about John Wesley Powell and his memoir The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
Tuesday, November 17 Book discussion about The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
Tuesday, December 8 Lecture by Dr. Charles Peek about Willa Cather and her novel O Pioneers!
Tuesday, December 15 Book discussion about O Pioneers!

 

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020
The Bird Who Sang Beethoven Brevard Music Center
Sep 16 all-day
Online

The Bird Who Sang Beethoven is a children’s book in rhyme about a baby bird born in the concert hall at the Brevard Music Center just as Beethoven’s Fifth is being played and he thinks that is what birds sing! His offspring continue the tune for generations and spread it far and wide!

About the Author: Harper Howze is a freshman at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas, and an aspiring writer. This is his first published work. Lucille Chaveas, his co-author and “Grand” (mother), is a Brevard resident and avid supporter of the Brevard Music Center.

Price: $12.00

Authors: Harper Howze, Lucille Chaveas

Illustrator: Megan Robertson

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D+D with Raj on Zoom
Sep 16 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Online

Teen – (grades 6-12)

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Outdoor Trivia Night with Bingeable!
Sep 16 @ 7:00 pm
Catawba Brewing Company - South

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Join us and Bingeable Trivia every Wednesday at 7pm for outdoor trivia night!!
-All trivia players must have a seat outside to play. There are a limited amount of tables outside so get here early to claim your seat
-Tables are spread out 6 feet apart for social distancing
-Players will text in their answers instead of turning in sheets
-And masks are required while ordering beers inside

We will have a theme every other week! Trivia is subject to cancellation depending on the weather.

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Visiting Writer Series: Sharon Harrigan, author of “Half” and “Playing with Dynamite”
Sep 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Online

Sharon Harrigan, author of the novel Half, and the memoir, Playing with Dynamite, will read and discuss her work when UNC Asheville’s Visiting Writer Series, all online this year, continues on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m.  This event is free and open to everyone on Zoom with pre-registration required at this link.

This reading will be hosted by UNC Asheville Professor of English Lori Horvitz, author of The Girls of Usually.

Upcoming Events in the Fall 2020 Virtual Visiting Writer Series

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m. – Creative nonfiction writer Angela Morales.

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m. – Local Poets/Writers Luke Hankins and Sebastian Matthews.

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 7:00 p.m. – Novelist Xhenet Aliu.  

Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7:00 p.m. – Poet Melissa Range

Look for log-in links closer to the dates at unca.edu/events.

For more information, email Professor of English Lori Horvitz, [email protected].

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Thursday, September 17, 2020
The Bird Who Sang Beethoven Brevard Music Center
Sep 17 all-day
Online

The Bird Who Sang Beethoven is a children’s book in rhyme about a baby bird born in the concert hall at the Brevard Music Center just as Beethoven’s Fifth is being played and he thinks that is what birds sing! His offspring continue the tune for generations and spread it far and wide!

About the Author: Harper Howze is a freshman at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas, and an aspiring writer. This is his first published work. Lucille Chaveas, his co-author and “Grand” (mother), is a Brevard resident and avid supporter of the Brevard Music Center.

Price: $12.00

Authors: Harper Howze, Lucille Chaveas

Illustrator: Megan Robertson

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Categories: Bookclubs Family Fun Music
Library News Libraries Offer Passport Around the World
Sep 17 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Buncombe County Libraries

Ready for a change of scene, but not ready to travel in the age of COVID-19? The library has just what you need. Check out Passport Around the World. Call BCPL’s Ask a Librarian line (828) 250-4700, email [email protected], or call or email your local library, and tell us where you would like to virtually visit. Your librarian will select 5-10 items about your destination of choice, anything from documentaries, folktales, and cookbooks to travel guides, poetry, and children’s books. We will notify you when your items are ready. Pick up your Passport bundle at the curbside pickup location of your choice. Bon Voyage!

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Notorious HBC (History Book Club)
Sep 17 @ 7:00 pm
Online

This club will meet virtually during the Covid-19 pandemic. If you are interested in attending, please email [email protected] for more info and instructions! 

Join host and Malaprop’s bookseller Patricia Furnish to discuss a range of books across different periods of history. The club tackles challenging subjects, hence “NOTORIOUS.”  Click here to see a full schedule of what the club is reading. Club attendees get 10% off the book at Malaprop’s!

The club meets at Malaprop’s on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm.

Event date:
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – 7:00pm
Thursday, September 17, 2020 – 7:00pm
Thursday, October 15, 2020 – 7:00pm
Thursday, November 19, 2020 – 7:00pm
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