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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Join us for the release of Hellbender Helles, a special brew that benefits The Pisgah Conservancy’s project to protect these amazing creatures and their habitat! Rumor has it Rocky the Hellbender will make an appearance!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2422615671314283/
Come by and see the dogs we have with us for adoption! We have some wonderful animals looking for a forever home!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2196297213979355/
We are so excited to welcome Sweet Cheesus back to the brewery! Everyone loved their food last time, so make plans now to join us. They add this hot melty cheese on top of anything from their menu – amazing! Gluten free and vegan options available.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2362073537142433/
Learn to brew like the pros by cloning an award-winning craft brew favorite! Since most commercial brewers got their start as homebrewers, they’re eager to share their knowledge and pro tips. Attemping a clone beer is a great way to fine tune your skills as a homebrewer and better understand how subtle differences in equipment, volume, and water composition can alter the outcome of a beer.
Foothills Brewing Company sales representative, Ryan Weir, will be co-instructing this class. Participants will have the option to brew a clone of either Jade IPA or People’s Porter (batch size = 5 gallons or approximately 2 cases). After 2 weeks of fermentation, you’ll be invited back to bottle your beer and take it home to enjoy! You’ll also get some fresh Foothills schwag and product samples. Also included in your ticket is a pint of the Foothills feature tap beer!
This class is geared towards the beginner to intermediate brewer. No experience needed, but you must be 21. Participants are welcome to bring one brewing partner at no additional charge.
We invite anyone intersted in this class to stop by Fifth Season Gardening on Saturday October 6th for a tasting of Foothills Jade IPA and People’s Porter and get registered for the class!
About Foothills Brewing Company: Award winning brewery featuring some of the best hand-crafted beers in the Southeast! Located in Winston-Salem, NC.
https://www.facebook.com/events/301631263953574/
We’re releasing Trail Boss Ale this Saturday just in time for the cooler fall weather. Trail Boss is an American Strong Ale which has a rich hearty flavor and a well-balanced finish. Come and pair it up with a burger from the CHUBwagon which will be here from 2-8. We’re also celebrating the opening of seasonal mountain bike trails, which officially open on Monday
https://www.facebook.com/events/257257214977403/
Have you given a Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society shelter pet a forever home? Then you are invited to our 4th Annual CHHS Forever Family Reunion! Bring your CHHS alumni pet and come mingle with fellow CHHS Adopting Angels at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park on Pine Street in Highlands on Saturday, October 13th from 1pm-3pm for an afternoon of family fun. Admission is free! Our Forever Family Reunion is also celebrating our 31st anniversary of saving lives and finding forever homes.
There will be free commemorative pet bandanas, fun-filled games and contests, raffle prizes, live music by Steve Johannessen, and human-and-pet caricature portraits by the amazing artist Brett Brown. And we are all going to gather together for a great big ol’ family group photo!
Don’t have a CHHS shelter pet? We can help with that! For anyone attending the event “empty-handed”, the CHHS H.E.A.R.T. of North Carolina mobile adoption/rescue vehicle will be there with adorable, adoptable shelter pets looking for their new forever home. We will be hosting adoptions that day on-site, and you can become the newest member of the CHHS Forever Family!
CHHS Adopting Angels, CHHS alumni pets, and anyone interested in adopting a current CHHS shelter pet are all welcome to come join the fun! Pets must be well-behaved, up- to-date on vaccinations and on a non-retractable leash at all times. For more information, please call (828)743-5769.
https://www.facebook.com/events/967179536798041/
In this workshop, students will learn traditional printmaking techniques using linoleum blocks and water-based inks. Each participant will learn to carve a block using their own original artwork (or use one of our designs). We will then practice inking and transferring the design, using various ink colors to achieve different looks. Our final project will be printing a series of 10 note cards on Italian felted paper, blank on the reverse and ready for your personalized message.
Your carved block is yours to take home so you can continue practicing, printing and creating!
No experience necessary! All levels welcome!
Fee: $60 (all materials included!)
https://www.facebook.com/events/451968201959819/
Blue Ghost is celebrating all things great about the fall with our 3rd Annual Harvest Festival on October 13th!
Details below as well as at: https://www.blueghostbrewing.com/2018-harvest-festival.html
Join us from 1-10PM for a day of music, tasty eats, sweet treats from The Hungry Ghost , Amazing Pizza Company + local vendors and fun for the whole family.
Here’s what’s happening:
NEW BEER:
Release of our No Noggin Pumpkinhead Ghostman Ale at 1PM.
We’re giving away 50 original, No Noggin artwork engraved glasses to the first 50 customers and selling the rest. Quantity is limited.
MUSIC:
1 – 2:30 The Maggie Valley Band
3:30 – 5:30 Modern Strangers
6:30 – 9:30 Sons of Ralph
KID’S ACTIVITIES:
– Bounce House 1-6PM
– Tractor Rides 1-3PM
– Hay Searches @ 2 AND 6PM
The Hungry Ghost will be cooking up their regular menu plus specialty items for the day. They’ll also be selling 1/2 priced appetizers until 3:30PM. Make sure to grab yourself some apple infused sweet treats while you’re at the festival!
*Brother Wolf Animal Sanctuary will also be on site.
*Local vendors, farmers, artists and food makers will be on site until 6PM.
Mark your calendars now and be sure to join us for a day of fun with your friends and family!
*Dogs are welcome but must be on a leash at all times.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1128163154013419/
Come meet our adoptable furry friends. Learn more about Brother Wolf in Henderson County.
https://www.facebook.com/events/234558310556753/
SORRY WE HAD TO CANCEL
DUE TO MICHAEL & HIS AFTERMATH…MAJOR CLEANUP NEEDED. ?
Join Brenda as she talks about planting cold tolerant container gardens using fall favorites such as pansies, cabbages, kales, perennials, & unique items from your own garden.
She will also answer questions about fall clean-up, fertilizing, pruning & cutting back perennials.
Seminar is limited to 35 people so please sign up by emailing [email protected], stop by the garden center or by giving us at call at 828-696-8000
https://www.facebook.com/events/468903806954120/
Join us for the sixth annual CiderFest NC fundraiser, featuring ample tastings of hard cider, mead and apple wine, along with artisanal food, live music, workshops, a kids zone, and more along the scenic French Broad River.
As the largest annual fundraiser for the nonprofit Green Built Alliance, the al-fresco event will be held during the peak of fall colors and the height of this area’s busiest tourism season from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 at the Salvage Station, at 468 Riverside Drive, just outside of downtown Asheville, NC.
The fifth annual CiderFest in 2017 connected a record-setting 1,500 people with 20 national and local cider, mead and apple wine makers, and the 2018 event is expected to draw another sell-out crowd to sample sips from an even larger mix of local and national, small and large pourers. In addition to tasting cider and mead, guests can enjoy bites of artisanal food including local cheeses, baked goods, caramels, ice cream, and more. This year’s event will also welcome a mix of food trucks to offer paid meals for hungry cider-sippers throughout the afternoon.
This quintessential family-friendly fall fest also offers arts and crafts from local vendors, live music, a kids zone, and community demos and workshops.
For the second time this year, a limited number of VIT (Very Important Taster) tickets offer advance entry to the event a full hour early beginning at noon to enjoy exclusive access to tastings from our cider and mead makers and artisanal food vendors before the crowds arrive. You may even have the opportunity to sample some specialty, small-batch or limited-release ciders and meads that won’t be available during the regular event. In addition to early access, VITs will also receive free parking on-site at the Salvage Station for convenient access to make the most of your time at the event, as well as a complimentary commemorative CiderFest NC snifter.
CiderFest NC is a carbon-neutral event and will be offsetting the event’s footprint for each ticketholder through contributions to the nonprofit’s Appalachian Offsets program, which is currently fundraising to install a solar system on the roof of Isaac Dickson Elementary School.
Tickets go on sale on Fourth of July, and since the event has sold out in recent years, people are encouraged to plan ahead and buy their tickets early.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2144480792437964/
Visitors to Grovewood Village will have the opportunity to learn the story of Biltmore Industries on a guided history tour, offered Wednesday – Saturday at 1pm during April – November. The tour includes a visit to Biltmore Industries’ production facility (aka Dye House), where guests can peek into the past and view the original looms, carding machines, spinning mule and dye vats used to make the famed Biltmore Handwoven Homespun.
The tours last approximately 45 minutes and operate on a first-come, first-served basis, open to 25 people. There is no charge to take the tour, but donations are appreciated. Tours begin at the Homespun Museum in Grovewood Village, where a docent will give a detailed overview of Biltmore Industries’ historic importance before leading guests into the 100-year-old Dye House (usually closed to the public).
Private group tours are also offered for a fee and should be scheduled at least one week in advance.
Shelby is teaching a kudzu weaving workshop this Saturday starting around 1pm at HoneyLa! Come weave, it’s going to be so fun. $10-$15 sliding scale or $5 for honeyla members. All funds go to the space!
https://www.facebook.com/events/487235891795388/
Join us in Studio 256 to watch jewelry enameling right before your eyes! We use both a kiln and a torch to fire silver jewelry with glass enamel for a bright pop of color. Drinks and light snacks provided, and you can browse our gallery filled with jewelry made right here in the studio.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2084875751775827/
Join us for our 1st annual Oktoberfest party!! $20 presale tickets will get you a souvenir logo 33 oz stein and one fill. You can buy tickets at either of our locations starting September 1st. Tickets day of will be $25. We will have an incredible day of music with an authentic Polka band and PMA! There will also be crafts, games, competitions, food and all around fun!! There will be tons of cool prizes and activities all day and evening including:
Pumpkin painting (all ages)
Best dressed contest
cornhole tournament
yodeling contest
beard & mustache competition
brat toss
stein holding contest
and more to come!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/317029595700431/
Please save the date for our annual fall festival!
2:00-6:00 PM
We wil lhave all the usual goodies and more this year! Come see you TGS staff in the dunk tank!! We will need to know if you’re entering the chili cook off and horseshoe contest and we are asking for cake donations for the cake walk we are having this year!!
Live music, arts and crafts, fun things for the kids, hay rides, special menu and so much more!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2105104286474976/
Recommended for children 5+ and their families.
Bring your family to the Center for Craft for a fun, free afternoon of interactive gallery tours, story-time, and hands-on crafting. The Center for Craft invites children and their guardians to the gallery for kid-friendly exhibition tours and a series of short, hands-on activities inspired by the work of the current exhibition, In Times of Seismic Sorrows.
Did we mention treats? We will have treats on hand!
Tours are hosted each hour, on the hour. Hands-on activities are on-site throughout the event. Story time begins at 4:30 pm.
ABOUT ALICE VOGLER, FAMILY FUN DAY ACTIVITY LEADER
Alice is an educator, timed-based, artist and curator. She has lived and traveled all over, gathering ideas and inspiration. She loves to invent new ways for children, young and old, to create and explore. Her passion is out-of-school-time education and she has worked in community art centers, afterschool programs, art museums and children’s museums for two decades.
Alice received her Bachelors of Fine Arts (’98) from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon, and her Masters of Fine Arts (’01) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tuffs University in Boston Massachusetts.
This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition In Times of Seismic Sorrows, on view August 21, 2018 – January 26, 2019 at the Center for Craft. www.craftcreativitydesign.org/in-times-of-seismic-sorrows
In Times of Seismic Sorrows is curated and organized by the Center for Craft. The Center for Craft is supported in part by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
https://www.facebook.com/events/266525247291322/
Bring your family to the Center for Craft for a fun, free afternoon of interactive gallery tours, story-time, and hands-on crafting. The Center for Craft invites children and their guardians to the gallery for kid-friendly exhibition tours and a series of short, hands-on activities inspired by the work of the current exhibition, In Times of Seismic Sorrows.
Did we mention treats? We will have treat on hand!
Tours are hosted each hour, on the hour. Hands-on activities are on-site throughout the event. Story time begins at 4:30 pm.
We’re doing it up BIG in the Old City!! We’ll have German food & beer, LIVE MUSIC, food and craft vendors. Break out your lederhosen!! All ages event!
HOW MUCH- $15 at the door. Ticket price includes glass Stein (first 1,000 tickets sold) and your first beer! Children under 12 are free. 12+ will need to purchase a Children’s Ticket at the gate for $10.
WHERE- Happening in the parking lot on E Jackson Ave under the JWP overpass just past Barley’s in the Old City!
WHEN- Saturday, Oct 13th from 2pm to 8pm.
#oldcityknox #knoxvilleoktoberfest #Knoxville #oktoberfest #lovedowntownknox #visitKnoxville #Knoxrocks #865life #knoxbeer
https://www.facebook.com/events/2020511534628040/
Join Full Circle friend, Barbara Barnett on Saturday afternoons at Full Circle! Barbara is a certified Laughter Yoga teacher as well as certified Martha Beck Life Coach. She will guide you through Laughter Yoga followed by “Walk 15.” You can find more info by visiting our website – https://www.fullcirclewnc.org/workshops–events.html
FREE, Donations Joyfully Accepted
#StopStoppingYourself #MarthaBeck #laughteryoga #meditation #music #FullCircleCommunityWellness
https://www.facebook.com/events/563246130759127/?event_time_id=563246137425793
Come join us Saturday October 13 from 2 – 5 PM for Lavendar Fields: ethereal folk and electronic world music. This performer will have you mesmerized!
Cheers!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2467309433294067/
Bob Sinclair and the Big Deals is a North Carolina-based acoustic band with 15 years of performing Sinclair’s original, upbeat, gypsy-jazz music. Using acoustic instruments this ensemble could be playing in a Paris café or a barn dance – comfortable, a little sophisticated and more than a little fun! With musical range that extends from playing the famed Bluebird Café to regional brew fests to jazz concerts to municipal events to being showcased at Merlefest – Sinclair can be counted on for fun music and great performances.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2101882446552574/
Bob Sinclair and the Big Deals is a North Carolina-based acoustic band with 15 years of performing Sinclair’s original, upbeat, gypsy-jazz music. Using acoustic instruments this ensemble could be playing in a Paris café or a barn dance – comfortable, a little sophisticated and more than a little fun! With musical range that extends from playing the famed Bluebird Café to regional brew fests to jazz concerts to municipal events to being showcased at Merlefest – Sinclair can be counted on for fun music and great performances.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1914628565496333/
XYZ Spirits will be having a tasting the afternoon of Saturday, October the 13th beginning at 2pm-5pm. We will be celebrating Marion’s 35th #MountainGloryFestival! In keeping with the theme, we will be sampling some of the Blue Ridge’s best #LOCAL #Libations! The perfect way to end a day filled with the Glory of these Mountains that we call home! NO CHARGE to the public, MUST be 21!
Marion, North Carolina celebrates the arrival of autumn in the Blue Ridge during their annual 35th Mountain Glory Festival. For 35 years, beautiful downtown Marion has hosted this popular celebration on the 2nd Saturday in October.
Visitors looking for original #Handicrafts will find plenty of choices shopping with three jam packed blocks, featuring locally made #Arts and #Cafts. Enjoy lots of #FestivalFoods and the wide variety of #LiveEntertainment, focusing on old time #MountainMusic.
#NCBeer #NCCraftBeer #Beer #Wine #NCWine #NCFineWines #MadeinMcDowell #ShopMcDowell #DrinkLocal #BlueRidgeTraveler #VisitNC #GotToBeNC #GotToBeMarionNC #GotToBeXYZ #XYZSpirits
https://www.facebook.com/events/148215379305624/
Live music w/ Brother Blue Bird, DJ Chilligan and more.
https://www.facebook.com/events/316281552284106/
Help make decorations for the library’s Harry Potter display at Spooky Meadows. Make crafts to take home, and if all crafts are completed a skeleton key will be yours! Program is for children in grades 3rd-5th. Call (828) 764-9274 to register for this event.
https://www.facebook.com/events/3252317374793335/
A series of seminars to introduce secrets of traditional Japanese foods. How to chose and eat to strengthen your body and prevent unhealthy conditions.
You can attend only the theme you are interested in.
Oct 13th (Sat) 3pm to 4pm
*Introduction “Basic concept of Japanese secrets”
*Food categories and balance
Nov 10th (Sat) 3pm to 4pm
*Benefits of each ingredients
Dec 8th (Sat) 3pm to 4pm
*Fermented foods
Instructor: Naoki Kubota, AP, LAc
Kubota Zone Acupuncture
$20.00 per session
Please pay on site
Capacity: 15
Pre registration is required
Please message us or email to [email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/events/465087563986652/
Western Carolina will enshrine its 29th induction class into the WCU Athletics Hall of Fame that includes a Saturday morning ceremony and again recognition at halftime of the WCU-UTC football game.
Western Carolina Athletics will again celebrate the culture and traditions of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Members of the EBCI will have an exclusive reserved pregame tailgate area with EBCI representatives participating in the pregame coin toss on the field. Group tickets for EBCI members are available while supplies last at the WCU Cherokee Center starting in mid-September. For more information, call (828) 497-7920.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1875730349156510/
Join us for the Georgia vs. LSU game on the big screen! Plenty of food, brews, and Bulldog fans at our place.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2189663651281019/
NC Songsmiths is an organization that produces tour series for songwriters from or based out of NC.
Brian Hill – Reggae/Rock/Pop
Sunday, October 7
Friday Friends, Morganton – 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Monday, October 8
The Local, Boone – 6:45PM – 8:45PM
Tuesday, October 9
MadCo Brew House, Marshall – 6:00 – 8:00PM
Wednesday, October 10
The Wine and Oyster, Biltmore Village – 7:00 -9:00PM
Thursday, October 11
Catawba Brewing, Morganton – 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Friday, October 12
Taste Full Beans, Hickory – 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
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The Twisted Pear – Rutherfordton – 8:00 – 10:00 PM
Saturday, October 13
Lake James Cellars Winery, Glen Alpine – 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/2099629713700135/