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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Gut health has been proven to contribute to brain health, heart health, and overall immune system wellness. Join us for these three workshops, and learn how to eat and move better for a healthy gut!
Fermenting 101: Sauerkraut, Kimchi, and Kombucha
February 21 | 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Happy Belly Yoga
March 21 | 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Improving Digestion with Ayurveda
April 18 | 6:00-7:30 p.m.
$15 per class | Save 15% by registering for the entire series
https://www.facebook.com/events/576089376151730/
Gut health has been proven to contribute to brain health, heart health, and overall immune system wellness. Join us for these three workshops, and learn how to eat and move better for a healthy gut!
Fermenting 101: Sauerkraut, Kimchi, and Kombucha
February 21 | 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Happy Belly Yoga
March 21 | 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Improving Digestion with Ayurveda
April 18 | 6:00-7:30 p.m.
$15 per class | Save 15% by registering for the entire series
https://www.facebook.com/events/576089376151730/?event_time_id=576246622802672
Join us in honoring Susan’s transition into grandmotherhood! While we will be celebrating Susan and all she has contributed to this garden over the years, this will be a space to celebrate you too. Here are some words from her and we hope to see you there!
“For ten years now, I’ve been doing work I passionately love and believe in at The Lord’s Acre—thanks to you. This spring I’ll be taking a sabbatical to do something I love even more, helping care for our first grandchild.
Over time, people have come to associate me with The Lord’s Acre. I don’t. I associate it with all of you.
I realized then that I have been a garden conductor. I had a vision for what needed to be done to create something meaningful and found people who were far more talented than I to work together to make it possible. For ten years I have watched this vision come to life, thanks to the thousands of folks who have donated, volunteered, or worked on the board—all doing things I’m not the least bit capable of.
It’s been an honor and a gift to share this vision and watch you—watch everyone together—make it a reality.”
**Please feel free to bring a side or desert to share as we will be providing a “main” dish.**
https://www.facebook.com/events/274656476794483/
Join us at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe for a conversation with author Andrew Reynolds, UNC CH Professor, and Campaign for Southern Equality Executive Director Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, about Reynolds’ new book, “The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World.”
The event will preview Reynolds’ book and take a look at the long history of out LGBTQ politicians and their impact on our national and international communities. The conversation will also touch on local organizing in Asheville and beyond, including insight from Beach-Ferrara, who serves as a County Commissioner for Buncombe County and is the first out LGBTQ person elected to the position.
Grab a copy of the book, meet the author, and learn how you can get involved in LGBTQ organizing with the Campaign for Southern Equality.
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/295973547733990/
It’s Thirsty Thursday at the Asheville Tourist’s!! Join us at McCormick field and enjoy $1 sodas and domestic beers, along with discounted craft beers!! Remember it’s $1 for your wristband and a CASH only night. See you at the ballpark!!
**Thirsty Thursday is Presented By Catawba Brewing & 105.9 The Mountain
https://www.facebook.com/events/320710595300301/?event_time_id=320710598633634
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=1231329493700581
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=302734323693451
Local Asheville poet Brandon Amico will read from his debut collection of poems, Disappearing, Inc. (published by Gold Wake Press, March 2019). The reading will be followed by a Q&A with the audience and then a book signing.
Disappearing, Inc. interrogates our fragmented and relentless moment in American history, one that constantly breaks down the self in order to analyze and assign value to our constituent parts—what poet Michael Bazzett (author of The Interrogation and You Must Remember This from Milkweed Editions) calls “the media-technogasm of 21st century capitalism” in his praise for Amico’s poems, which “crackle with energy as they joke and juke their way to exploring what it means to live a fully human life” today.
Tackling everything from dying bees and a crumbling climate to technology, self-worth, and self-preservation, Disappearing, Inc. weaves tenderness, humor, wistfulness, and anger without sacrificing poetry’s crucial sense of curiosity. Karen Skolfield, author of the Barnard Women Poets Prize-winning Battle Dress (W. W. Norton, 2019), says: “Just like the targets of every clever marketing pitch, readers of Brandon Amico’s debut book can’t help but buy into his wit, his keen eye for the insidious in the everyday, his understanding of loneliness in a throng, his attention to language.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/1963844430591319/
Join us to connect with parents of children living with T1D at this regularly scheduled meeting and learn some advanced management techniques from our local Pediatric Endocrinology group. For more information please reach out to Megan Ritchie at [email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/events/382859972479663/
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/?event_time_id=137638927130647
We are tasting 6 wines and serving up Mario Batali’s wine stained penne pasta. $30 Call 828-687-3838.
https://www.facebook.com/events/324153498296143/?event_time_id=324153504962809
Are you new to western North Carolina and have questions about gardening here? This class is specifically designed for newcomers to the area or ‘Mountain Transplants’. Learn how to grow a vegetables and fruits successfully.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2265343360453559/
Join us every Thursday night at 6:30 for the finest trivia in Asheville! Complete with fantastic beer and awesome prizes courtesy of Catawba Brewing Co.
Find out more info @ https://www.facebook.com/trivianightatcatawbabiltmore/
https://www.facebook.com/events/359055401343268/?event_time_id=359055451343263
Join us for a night of the best songs from the 2000s! From Usher, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga to Nelly, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and many more! Prizes for all bingo winners! Come out and sing along to the best songs from the 2000s!
https://www.facebook.com/events/266162760934955/
Main St. NoTones – Acoustic jam session at the Hub. The NoTones welcome all singers & musicians. First & Third Thursday of each month, 7:00 pm – whenever.
https://www.facebook.com/events/244654603082232/?event_time_id=244654623082230
Join Sanctuary Brewing Company and Ben Phan, Guitarist and Songwriter on February 7th, 2018 for an evening of incredible music by an even more incredible person!
A year of jazz conservatory at Virginia Commonwealth University left Ben Phan rebellious: uninspired by the environment and fed-up with the structure, he knew he didn’t want to be an academic musician.
So Phan began his professional career as a founding member of the Richmond Afrobeat Movement, a blend of jazz, funk and African dance music which earned significant attention in the South, including a TV appearance and other media features.
A stint as Musical Director for Free Run Wine Merchants gave Phan a chance to develop his professional skills, setting up musical events for the company, which included solo jazz gigs as well as band arrangements.
Phan then joined a bluegrass and folk band, the Rusty Strings, and discovered the joy in sitting on a porch and singing together with others, simply for the love of music.
In 2014, Phan decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail and his life changed forever. Along with everything else he needed, he carried a mini-guitar on his back and became known by the name “Shredder” because of how he “shredded the guitar” when he played. Five months of travel on foot, 2,668 miles from the Mexican border all the way into Canada, playing for himself and the people he met, transformed his relationship with music. He began writing songs, drawn from his experiences on the trail as well as his past struggles with depression, addiction, loss and love. The music offered hope and solace, to him and to his audiences.
The time on the Pacific Crest Trail renewed Phan’s passion for music. With a prolific body of original work, he returned to Asheville to record his first solo EP, “Hold On, Let Go.” He assembled a band, made up of some of the best musicians in Asheville: besides liking his music, they appreciate the dedication and professionalism Phan brings to his work. The band released it’s debut album, “Dreams in Modern Folk”, to a sold out crowd at the Altamont Theatre, one of Asheville’s finest listening rooms. The band continued to perform successful shows over the following year, refining their high energy sound which combines fiery improvisation with rich composition. This led to a successful kickstarter campaign to fund their next album, “Fear is the Teacher”, which the band is currently recording with Grammy winning producer Matt Williams. Phan continues to perform with the band, as a solo artist, and in collaborations with other musicians; he has also built a successful guitar teaching practice, which he finds a great source of inspiration.
Phan is a prolific poet, songwriter, and guitarist, with the soul of an improviser. He crafts his songs to give room for improvisation, presence, and self-expression in the moment. He believes that the best live music is when everyone playing is co-creating – which means that every one of his concerts offers audiences a different sound and a unique experience.
https://www.benphanmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2247769432106100/
Sale Dates and Times:
Public Onsale : Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
Casting Crowns Fan Presale : Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
Ticketmaster Presale : Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
Local Presale : Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
VIP Packages Presale : Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
VIP Packages Onsale : Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
Official Platinum Presale : Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
Official Platinum Public Onsale : Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
https://www.facebook.com/events/1574908319277172/
Come out and see Eric Play. Everyone enjoys when he comes and plays that wonderful music we all love.
https://www.facebook.com/events/560566051108825/
Come join us for an hour of Japanese language and culture immersion at Waku Waku Eatery!
All comprehensive – levels welcome. Whether you’re a Japanese-American seeking to have engaging conversation with other ex-pats or a beginner looking to pursue a deeper knowledge of the country’s rich language and history.
We have educational activities to keep everyone included and authentic Japanese food!
The event is FREE (except foods and drink) We will get together every Thursday night at WAKUWAKU Eatery. If you have Meetup App, please join us.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1362435697214661/
$15 / $15
Jon Shain and FJ Ventre mix some serious blues chops into the singer-songwriter/Americana genre. Hailing from the Triangle area of NC, they tour nationally and are fast making a name for themselves as producers at Good Luck Studio in Chapel Hill, NC. For fans of John Hiatt, The Band, and Keb’ Mo’.
Seated Lounge Show:: Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation :: All Other Seating is First Come First Serve General Admission :: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations
https://www.facebook.com/events/441131723096220/
Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia is a team trivia played in 7 rounds over the course of 2 endlessly entertaining hours. The game covers everything pop culture and is always irreverent by nature. The game is not your average pub quiz as it explores everything from didgeridoo covers of pop songs to bad celebrity tattoos and everything in between. Ever wanted to identify animals by their gonads? Then this is the game for you! Mitch curates a one of a kind trivia smorgasbord of random, unusual, and hilarious subjects. This absurd trivia game is not about historical facts or sports stats, it is all about random movies, unforgettable ear-worms, and the hilariousness of growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. The game starts at 7pm in the cozy One Stop in downtown Asheville. Drink specials include $4 bourbon/$4 Washington Apple Shots and $5 White Russians, and food is available from MOJO Kitchen which offers 1/2 price nachos during the game! Best of all the winning team each week takes home a collection of Totally Rad Prizes including a $35 gift certificate to The One Stop/MOJO Kitchen.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2129604460458895/?event_time_id=2129604517125556
Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia is a team trivia played in 7 rounds over the course of 2 endlessly entertaining hours. The game covers everything pop culture and is always irreverent by nature. The game is not your average pub quiz as it explores everything from didgeridoo covers of pop songs to bad celebrity tattoos and everything in between. Ever wanted to identify animals by their gonads? Then this is the game for you! Mitch curates a one of a kind trivia smorgasbord of random, unusual, and hilarious subjects. This absurd trivia game is not about historical facts or sports stats, it is all about random movies, unforgettable ear-worms, and the hilariousness of growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. The game starts at 7pm in the cozy One Stop in downtown Asheville. Drink specials include $4 bourbon/$4 Washington Apple Shots and $5 White Russians, and food is available from MOJO Kitchen which offers 1/2 price nachos during the game! Best of all the winning team each week takes home a collection of Totally Rad Prizes including a $35 gift certificate to The One Stop/MOJO Kitchen.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2129604460458895/
It’s not bike night. It’s not movie night. It’s Moto Movie Night.
Last event was fantastic, we packed the house, and everyone had a blast. We’ll do it bigger, better (and a little louder) this time.
Our latest location is in the heart of West Asheville at a new space called the Alleycat Social Club. It has plenty of standing and sitting space as well as an outdoor patio. There will be some roped off parking for motorcycles and additional off street parking for those non-riders coming out.
PSA: This month’s movie may contain some content not suitable for young children. Please be advised.
We look forward to seeing everyone out again.
Cheers!
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https://www.facebook.com/events/403588063769560/
Come socialize with Asheville FM DJs and hosts at The Block Off Biltmore. You can meet the DJs or talk with our Volunteer Coordinator about getting involved. This is a casual event so bring a friend.
https://www.facebook.com/events/341107603204011/
***Tickets become available one week before the show, at 3pm ET.
BAMBOOZLED: Prepare a five-minute story about your greatest con, your Tom Sawyer moment, or the day gullibility got the best of you. That time when you managed to pull the wool over someone’s eyes … or that moment you became the mark. Hoodwinker or the hornswoggled. Scammer or the snookered. Did you get them all to paint the fence or unwittingly show up with your brushes?
https://themoth.org/events/bamboozled-asheville
For more details on preparing a Moth story if you’d like to participate, follow the link above.
It is brilliant and quietly addictive” – The London Guardian
“New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket” – The Wall Street Journal
The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. It is a celebration of both the raconteur, who breathes fire into true tales of ordinary life, and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. At the center of each performance is, of course, the story – and The Moth’s directors work with each storyteller to find, shape and present it.
Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide.
Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore it, often in unexpected ways. Since each story is true and every voice authentic, the shows dance between documentary and theater, creating a unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience.
Moth stories dissolve socio-economic barriers, expose vulnerabilities, and quietly suggest ways to overcome challenges and see with new eyes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2212619625654275/
Do you drink and know things? Come out for $3 drafts and show off your big brain box!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2275612219386852/?event_time_id=2275612276053513
Poet Mildred K Barya, short story writer Michael Carroll, novelist Silas House, essayists, Erika Howsare, & Randon Billings Noble and novelist Kathryn Schwille will read from new work. Books will be for sale and signing. Curated & emceed by Barbara Roether. More info below, and see whytherearewords.com for even more details.
Mildred K Barya has authored three poetry books: Give Me Room to Move My Feet (Amalion Publishing), The Price of Memory After the Tsunami (Mallory International), and Men Love Chocolates But They Don’t Say (Femrite Publications). She has also published prose, poems, or hybrids in Tin House, Poets.org, Northeast Review, Poetry Quarterly, among others. mildredbarya.com
Michael Carroll won the 2015 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his collection Little Reef and Other Stories. His work has been included in the Yale Review, Southwest Review, Open City, The Harvard Review, and many other journals, as well as such anthologies as The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories. His second collection, Stella Maris and Other Key West Stories (Turtle Point Press) is a multi-character sequence set in Key West. He lives in New York.
Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of six novels: Clay’s Quilt (2001); A Parchment of Leaves (2003); The Coal Tattoo (2005); Eli the Good (2009); and Same Sun Here, co-authored with Neela Vaswani, (2012), and Southernmost (June 2018), which was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Other books include nonfiction and plays. His work frequently appears in The New York Times, Salon, and other publications. silashouse.com
Erika Howsare is the author of How Is Travel a Folded Form?, a hybrid poetry/essay work recently published by Saddle Road Press. She also collaborated with Kate Schapira on FILL: A Collection, a book-length meditation on waste, and has authored and co-authored a number of chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared at Fence, Verse, EOAGH, and many other outlets, and her prose may be found at the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Millions, and elsewhere. erikahowsare.com
Randon Billings Noble’s full-length essay collection Be with Me Always was published by the University of Nebraska Press in March 2019, and her lyric essay chapbook Devotional was published by Red Bird in 2017. Individual essays have appeared in the Modern Love column of The New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. Currently she is the Founding Editor of After the Art. http://www.randonbillingsnoble.com/
Kathryn Schwille is the author of the novel What Luck, This Life, selected by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as one of nine best southern books of 2018. Her short stories have appeared in New Letters, Memorious, Crazyhorse, Literary Hub, and other journals, and have twice been cited for special mention in the Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the MFA program at Warren Wilson College, she lives in Charlotte and teaches at Charlotte Center for Literary Arts. kathrynschwille.com
Barbara Roether is the author of the novel This Earth You’ll Come Back To (McPherson & Company) and the poetry collections The Middle Atlas and Saraswati’s Lament. Her essays, book reviews, and feature articles on Buddhism, education, poetry, and art, have appeared in magazines large and small. She is married to the journalist Mark MacNamara and holds an MFA from Bard College. www.barbararoether.com
Why There Are Words – Asheville is a branch of Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series and a program of WTAW Press, a nonprofit publisher of exceptional literary books.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1042385155971528/
Sponsored by Hydro Flask and in Winston-Salem by Great Outdoor Provision Co.
The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR has arrived in the USA for the first time ever and will be at the Hanesbrand Theatre in W-S for ONE NIGHT ONLY on April 18, 2019! This tour is a celebration of the fantastic women around us who are doing extraordinary things. The films are to be enjoyed by women and men of all ages!
The event features an all new set of short films including the premiere of Katie Walsh’s film, Surfing to Cope about American surfer, Brianna Cope. You’ll also experience climbing, skiing, mountaineering, snowboarding and travel films from all over the world.
The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR was launched in to a sell-out crowd in Sydney in May 2017 and has since grown to become a success throughout Australia, Asia and the UK. We are very pleased to be bringing the tour to North America for the first time beginning September 2018.
Being adventurous doesn’t always have to mean being the fastest, going the highest or doing the most extreme things. Adventure for the most of us is stepping outside our comfort zone and climbing our own personal Everest.
Our selection of unique films have been carefully chosen to show awesome women achieving their adventurous goals. The films showcase real stories about women from a variety of cultures and sports around the world. So bring your adventurous family, friends, girlfriends, partners and children to celebrate with us adventurous women!
The tour is sponsored by Hydro Flask, and supported by CLIF Bar, The Inertia, RECOVER, Eco-Products, Roofnest and AndShesDopeToo.
https://www.facebook.com/events/322059468418691/
Asheville, home of the original Thirsty Thursday, where you can enjoy $1 regular beers and cokes and $2 craft beers at Thursday Tourists games thanks to Catawba Brewing & 105.9 The Mountain.
https://www.facebook.com/events/265261824386171/
The true story of the small town that welcomed the world.
Broadway’s Come From Away has won Best Musical all across North America!
The New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
Don’t miss this breathtaking new musical written by Tony® nominees Irene Sankoff and David Hein and helmed by this year’s Tony-winning Best Director, Christopher Ashley. Newsweek cheers, “It takes you to a place you never want to leave!”
On 9/11, the world stopped. On 9/12, their stories moved us all.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1593634484083053/?event_time_id=1593634504083051