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.
Interested in a short-term tutoring commitment?
We’ve sent three lucky winners to London and one lucky winner to Hawaii – but in this summer’s raffle, someone’s going to win $10,000! Heck, you could go to BOTH London and Hawaii if you won (fly coach, stay in hostels?) Or build that outdoor firepit you’ve seen on HGTV, or rent a super swank beach house for a week, or anything you want, really, because it’s your $10,000!
Raffle tickets are $50 and only 500 will be sold! And proceeds from every ticket you buy supports operations and programming at Asheville Community Theatre!
ELIGIBILITY: Present employees of Asheville Community Theatre and any immediate family members residing with the employees are not eligible to participate. Must be 18 years or older to enter. Contest void where prohibited. You need not be present to win.
Back to school time is right around the corner (sorry kids), and Buncombe County wants to help make sure every student has everything they need.
When: July 15-Aug. 12
Where: Donation boxes will be located at:
- County HR, on the first floor of 200 College St.
- 60 Court Plaza, Sheriff’s Office on the 4th floor
- Buncombe County Detention Facility
- Jeff Hewitt’s Office at Leicester Crossing on New Leicester Hwy
Types of donations needed: backpacks, pencils, crayons, glue sticks, packs of Kleenex, paper, wireless notebooks, folders, money donations.
Thank you in advance for helping us provide much needed school supplies
Hello!
Greetings Volunteers,
We are gearing up for our August 16th Downtown After 5 with The Artisanals, The National Reserve and Emma’s Lounge. We are still in need of volunteers for our set up shift and 2nd shifts (remember 2nd shifts get 2 credits, and to receive VIP access to our end of year party a late shift is required). Please share our sign up page and help us spread the word with local friends and businesses.
We are winding down our Downtown After 5 series and we are so appreciative of everyone’s support and time to help us make these events successful.
See you next Friday,
Jessica and Meghan
Buncombe County is excited to announce applications are open for nonprofits looking for a cash infusion. For the fourth year, Tipping Point Grants are seeking proposals from nonprofit organizations working to help support County Commissioners’ six strategic priorities:
- Affordable housing
- Clean, renewable energy
- Diverse community workforce
- Early childhood education
- Justice resource support
- Opioid awareness
All projects must be a part of a Buncombe County-based nonprofit with 501c3 or a similar charitable IRS tax exempt designation. All individual innovators must be in partnership with a nonprofit agency.
Ready to apply for a Tipping Point Grant?
Official Tipping Point Grant applications are required. You may apply online here, or you can pick up hard copy applications at the Community Engagement office at 199 College St., right next door to the Register of Deeds’ office from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Please contact the office to make sure someone is there to provide you with an application. The deadline for submitting a grant is on Friday, Aug. 30, 2019 by 5 p.m.
Optional grant writing workshops will be hosted by Buncombe County on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, 3-5 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15 and Friday, Aug. 16 from 5-7:30 p.m. Workshops will be held on the ground floor of 200 College St.
These are free sessions and open to anyone. Applicants will be able to get support on proposal writing and will be able to leave the workshop with an application ready to go and/or submitted. If you have any questions, contact Rasheeda McDaniels at (828) 250-4102.
For complete information about Tipping Point Grants, visit BuncombeCounty.org/Grants.
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Come experience the love of clay with our talented artists at Odyssey ClayWorks! Learn to sculpt, coil, and even get to try your hand at throwing on the potter’s wheel in a fun and upbeat atmosphere. All skill levels welcome.
From Buncombe County Libraries:
Do you love to read? Do you like children? The Buncombe County Public Library’s Preschool Outreach Project (POP) is currently looking for volunteers. POP is an outreach service of the library, a program designed to bring the joy and excitement of books to children in child care centers. Our volunteers offer stories, songs, puppets and smiles to our youngest book lovers – children under the age of 5.
No formal experience is needed, just a strong commitment to both children and reading. Most volunteers spend approximately five hours per month on POP, reading twice a month at their assigned center. We ask that volunteers commit to participate with our program for one full school year. All story time materials are provided by the library.
All POP volunteers must participate in story time training and submit to a background check. The next training is Monday, Aug. 26.
Interested volunteers must complete a volunteer application before Aug. 19. Applications can be filled out here.
Momentum Gallery in downtown Asheville hosts new summer exhibitions – Mariella Bisson, Setting Shapes; Oil paintings by two new painters: Samantha Keely Smith and Paul Sattler; and a group invitational called Give Me Wood. These exhibitions continue at 24 N Lexington Avenue through the end of August.
Mariella Bisson deftly delineates the sculptural planes of regional waterfalls and sylvan scenes creating refreshingly contemporary landscape paintings. Her oil-over-collage paintings feature built-up texture, suggesting the complex surface of stone and tree bark, lichen, and moss. Bisson’s paintings demonstrate a strong understanding of formal composition and reflect a sensibility honed from time she’s spent immersed in the outdoors. Of note, Bisson is a two-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant and was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in painting.
Samantha Keely Smith creates inspired and stirring abstract paintings in oil. The Brooklyn-based artist sees her paintings “as an expression of our internal turbulence. They reflect the overwhelming reality of being constantly aware of what is happening in the wider world – Change is the only constant.” Smith’s nebulous compositions are evocative of luminous cloudscapes and primordial oceans. Brilliant areas of stained pigment collide with waves of painterly brush strokes ultimately conjuring imagined environments with a timeless quality. “These paintings are about the essence of who we all are, as human beings… We all want love and connection.” Smith’s works give form to fluctuations between turbulence and calm present in everything from our emotions to the temporal world. Overall, Smith’s focus is on the underlying psychological impact of the dawning awareness of our shifting reality.
An accomplished oil painter, Paul Sattler was the recipient of the John R. Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In 2004, he was selected to exhibit at the 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the National Academy of Design in New York, where he received the Wallace Truman Prize. Dramatic narratives unfold in his charged and enigmatic oil paintings which reference historic and literary sources. Sattler comments, “A diverse population of animals are enmeshed in my works’ human-inhabited environments, theatrical locales, and domestic dramas.”
Give Me Wood is an imaginative and evocative collection of contemporary painting and wood sculpture. Central to the identity and creation of all the extraordinary two- and three-dimensional works in the exhibition is the common material of wood. The participating artists defy logic, explore space (both real and imagined), carve, bend, turn, and otherwise construct some truly amazing and innovative work! Featuring Michael Alm, Garry Knox Bennett, Gil Bruvel, Christian Burchard, Tom Eckert, David Ellsworth, Ron Layport, Wendy Maruyama, and Sylvie Rosenthal.
Outback Give Back – Donate, Mate!
There’s never been a better time to stop by your local Outback Steakhouse! And The Blood Connection is giving you an easy way to eat for FREE.
For the entire month of August, TBC and Outback Steakhouse are working together to spread the word about blood donation. Partnerships like this are essential to the community’s blood supply. Outback Steakhouse’s enthusiasm to partner with TBC has helped the blood center reach new donors and save more lives!
The Outback Give Back Promotion runs August 1st – August 29th. Donors who give blood at any TBC center on any Thursday will receive a $20 Outback gift card and a free Bloomin’ Onion ® coupon. To find a center near you, click here.
On August 29th, 18 Outback Steakhouse locations will host a blood mobile for a collective blood drive at the same time, 2-7 P.M. Blood donors will receive a $20 Outback gift card and a free Bloomin’ Onion® coupon. After donating, they can walk right in and enjoy a free dinner at Outback, a thank you for saving lives!
Donors can visit any TBC center in the Upstate of South Carolina, and Raleigh and Asheville in North Carolina: 435 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC; 341 Old Abbeville Highway, Greenwood, SC; 5116 Calhoun Memorial Hwy, Easley, SC; 1308 Sandifer Boulevard, Seneca, SC; 270 North Grove Medical Park Drive, Spartanburg, SC; 225 Airport Road, Arden, NC; 5925 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC. Centers are open Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on the weekends 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ensuring equity in education is truly a social justice issue. In addition to the shocking national and local literacy statistics, one of our greatest concerns is the growing disparity in achievement in local schools. We are committed to training as many new tutors as possible this fall so they can each keep a child from becoming one of these statistics.
Please join us! If you’d like to change a child’s life in the new school year, contact Rebecca to enroll in the Youth Literacy training this September. Check out our training dates here.
Summer is all about outdoor fun, spending quality time together as a family and taking in the wonderful sights of nature. Submit your photos of your family hiking, sunlight making its way through the trees or of the fantastic views that make Chimney Rock so special. We’ll use the winning entries on our website and Facebook album, and you’ll win some fun prizes. Photos must be taken within the Chimney Rock section of the Park.
Cost: No cost to enter contest.
https://www.facebook.com/events/540542089755630/?event_time_id=540542263088946
There’s more than Chunky Monkey and New York Super Fudge Chunk in downtown Asheville’s Ben & Jerry’s this summer.
Art created by Vance Elementary School fifth grade students of art educator Robbie Lipe is now on display on the brick walls opposite the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The exhibit depicts the students’ interpretation of the artist Kehinde Wiley and the contemporary portraits he creates inspired by traditional Baroque paintings. It will be featured through the end of the summer.
“Ben & Jerry’s is excited about showcasing art from the community inside our scoop shop,” said general manager Chris Carter. “Making use of our walls to show what local artists are creating complements our social mission — to be actively involved in the places we live and do business. I hope this is the first of many art exhibits on our walls.”
Carter gave all the credit for the exhibit to Ms. Lipe, who teaches kindergarten through 5th-grade students at Vance Elementary. She was named the North Carolina Arts Educators Association “Art Educator of the Year” in 2017-2018.
Ben & Jerry’s is located at 19 Haywood Street. Current hours are Monday-Thursday 12 pm to 10 pm; Friday 12 pm – 11 pm; Saturday 11:30 am – 11 pm; Sunday 11:30 am – 10 pm.
For more information, call Carter at 310-601-6247.
Join us for another free legal name change clinic. We will supply you with all of the paperwork needed for the name change and help you answer any questions you may have while navigating this often confusing process. It’s easier with friends!
Our clinic is free, but there are different costs associated with the name change process that you will pay to different agencies along the way, and they are as follows:
Fingerprint fees: $10 each (you’ll need 2 sets)
State background check: $14
FBI background check: $18
Name change petition: $120
Notary fees: vary by location
There is also a charge for a new copy of your birth certificate, but that depends on what state you were born in. To find that info, check https://www.vitalchek.com.
Not all fees are due at the same time in the name change process. Fingerprints are the first step in the process which you then send off for the the state and FBI background checks. The federal background check can take up to 3 months to return, so you will have a little time to get the filing fee for the name change petition together.
If you feel like you would be more comfortable with an escort to the ID Bureau for fingerprinting or to the courthouse to file papers, please let us know in advance of the clinic date so that we can make the proper arrangements.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1708098039316464/?event_time_id=1708098062649795
We are lucky to have incredible Animal Educators to help us spread the word on the important roles they play in the Park. Join one of our Park naturalists for an informal program where your family will love meeting some of our wilder teammates! Kids of all ages are sure to take home some fun facts and special memories. Then, grab a Track Trail brochure at the Animal Discovery Den and round out the day with a hike along our Great Woodland Adventure trail with 12 education stations. Don’t forget your camera!
Cost: Included with Park admission.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1102692779911730/?event_time_id=1102692819911726
We are lucky to have incredible Animal Educators to help us spread the word on the important roles they play in the Park. Join one of our Park naturalists for an informal program where your family will love meeting some of our wilder teammates! Kids of all ages are sure to take home some fun facts and special memories. Then, grab a Track Trail brochure at the Animal Discovery Den and round out the day with a hike along our Great Woodland Adventure trail with 12 education stations. Don’t forget your camera!
https://www.facebook.com/events/714700392244282/?event_time_id=714700438910944
Join the art organizations that help make Buncombe County great at the AAAC Refinery. We will have fresh economic development data from Creative Vitality Suite to share, as well as some materials about the new WelcometoAVL.com website and mobile platform. The public is welcome to attend!
- Pointers on why economic development data is important with Heidi Reiber, the Director of Research at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce.
- An introduction to the new WelcometoAVL.com website and mobile platform with Pat Kappes, the Director of Public Affairs for Explore Asheville CVB.
- Followed by an update on changes coming to the Downtown Asheville Arts District, presented by Michael Manes, the Director of Blue Spiral 1.
The public is welcome to attend to learn more about the organizations that make the art in Asheville great!
Do you want to be a part of getting Asheville to 100% renewable energy? Are you a student or educator here in Asheville?
Every month Community Roots hosts a #WhatCanYouDo meeting about Asheville’s Climate Bill of Rights.
These next 2 month will focus on building momentum in our schools with both students, teachers and parents.
Come and learn and jump into this bold campaign!
www.cmroots.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/2308436752701983/
The Regional Artist Project Grant is an annual grant program that provides financial support to developing professionals by funding a project pivotal to the advancement of their careers as artists. The selection criteria include artistic merit, the potential of the project to contribute to the artist’s professional growth, and the feasibility of the project itself. The Asheville Area Arts Council, Toe River Arts Council, and the Madison County Arts Council are pleased to announce the 2019/2020 Regional Artist Project Grant application is open.
The Regional Artist Project Grants awarded range from $400 – $1,200. Full or partial cash match is not required but is preferred. Artists currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program and artists who have received a Regional Artist Project Grant within the last two funding cycles are not eligible.
Each year the three arts councils hold grant workshops. These are highly recommended. If you’ve never applied for funding or are unsure of your project, please try to attend one of these:
- Monday, August 12, 5:30-6:30 pm | West Asheville Library: 942 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806
- Tuesday, August 20, 5:00-6:00 pm | Weaverville Library: 41 Main Street, Weaverville, NC 28787
- Wednesday, August 28, 5:30-6:30 pm | Black Mountain Library: 105 N Dougherty Street, Black Mountain, NC 28711
- Friday, September 13, 4:00-5:00 pm | Asheville Area Arts Council: 207 Coxe Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
Joining us for the Backstage Ball? Here’s a sneak peek of some of the auction items up for grabs on that night!
Host FRP favorite Nat Zegree at your house for supper during his next visit to Flat Rock – December 2019. Evening includes hilarity, frivolity and scintillating conversation.
Exclusive Event Only Opportunity! A chance to steal the spotlight at the Backstage Ball. Treat yourself or ambush a friend to make them squirm with delight. The winner will grace the stage to experience a personalized musical tribute, performed before a live audience, especially for them.
No audition necessary! Make your stage debut at the State Theatre of North Carolina with a cameo in one performance of FRP’s upcoming holiday extravaganza. Buy for yourself or give the opportunity as a gift and dazzle friends and family under the direction of Playhouse mastermind, Artistic Associate Matthew Glover.
Make your matinee an afternoon to remember with a private reception for 12 guests at the historic Lowndes house, just across from the Mainstage. This charming party includes tea, light lunch fare and live piano music by a talented Flat Rock Playhouse musician.
Enjoy a week-long stay for up to 8 people on gorgeous St. Maarten Island. This impeccable private home provides a sumptuous setting for sun, surf and serenity. (Airfare not included)
Don’t change it…Embrace it!
For any woman who wants to love, is learning to love, or already loves her body. About 90% of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. Instead of trying to change, hide or disassociate from them, which effectively denies women their full personal power, join other women as we reclaim them. Step into your birthright to live in and love your amazing body regardless of shape, weight, or age. It’s a radical act, which is needed. For when sleeping women wake, mountains move.
We won’t ask you to change a thing. That’s part of the problem to begin with. Feel free to go a diet, binge on Oreos, “let yourself go”, join Crossfit, read another self help book, party all night, dye your hair, get plastic surgery, wear heels, grow your pit hair…we don’t care!!! Just be yourself… and reclaim the time, energy and money we as women put into changing ourselves. Imagine what we would do without an internalized corset!!
Five-week series to reclaim your body image & body wisdom:
Week 1: Media, Culture & the Water We Swim in.
Week 2: The Lineage of Shapes, Sizes & Parts.
Week 3: Eating Food: healthism, nourishment, guilt & pleasure.
Week 4: Getting Old: sags, greys, wisdom, wrinkles, regret, & freedom.
Week 5: Cycles: pregnancy, periods, pain, transformation, & power.
Mondays from 6 – 9, starting July 22nd at Jubilee! 46 Wall Street. with Wise Woman Practitioner Jackie Dobrinska
Pre-registration requested:
Whole series $150 for series
No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email me directly if you want to register at a different rate. [email protected]
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starts July 22
from 6:00 – 9:00
Pre-registration requested:
Whole series $150
Jubilee! Community
To Register email me at [email protected]
No one turned away for lack of funds.
This series offers us a way to acknowledge and potentially recover the juicy, amazing body and the power that lives within it. At the very least, it gives us an opportunity to see how connected we are as women.
(While this topic encompasses all genders, for the sake of this series we are focusing on women who identify as women and have female-hormone based cycles.)
https://www.facebook.com/events/2855338371358689/?event_time_id=2855338381358688
Don’t change it…Embrace it!
For any woman who wants to love, is learning to love, or already loves her body. About 90% of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. Instead of trying to change, hide or disassociate from them, which effectively denies women their full personal power, join other women as we reclaim them. Step into your birthright to live in and love your amazing body regardless of shape, weight, or age. It’s a radical act, which is needed. For when sleeping women wake, mountains move.
We won’t ask you to change a thing. That’s part of the problem to begin with. Feel free to go a diet, binge on Oreos, “let yourself go”, join Crossfit, read another self help book, party all night, dye your hair, get plastic surgery, wear heels, grow your pit hair…we don’t care!!! Just be yourself… and reclaim the time, energy and money we as women put into changing ourselves. Imagine what we would do without an internalized corset!!
Five-week series to reclaim your body image & body wisdom:
Week 1: Media, Culture & the Water We Swim in.
Week 2: The Lineage of Shapes, Sizes & Parts.
Week 3: Eating Food: healthism, nourishment, guilt & pleasure.
Week 4: Getting Old: sags, greys, wisdom, wrinkles, regret, & freedom.
Week 5: Cycles: pregnancy, periods, pain, transformation, & power.
Mondays from 6 – 9, starting July 22nd at Jubilee! 46 Wall Street. with Wise Woman Practitioner Jackie Dobrinska
Pre-registration requested:
Whole series $150 for series
No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email me directly if you want to register at a different rate. [email protected]
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starts July 22
from 6:00 – 9:00
Pre-registration requested:
Whole series $150
Jubilee! Community
To Register email me at [email protected]
No one turned away for lack of funds.
This series offers us a way to acknowledge and potentially recover the juicy, amazing body and the power that lives within it. At the very least, it gives us an opportunity to see how connected we are as women.
(While this topic encompasses all genders, for the sake of this series we are focusing on women who identify as women and have female-hormone based cycles.)
https://www.facebook.com/events/2855338371358689/
RSVP here: https://secure.everyaction.com/GxGoiac81U6jsWYWHBteiA2
Join MountainTrue’s Green Riverkeeper and French Broad Riverkeeper for a Muddy Water Watch training session! You’ll learn how to identify sources of sediment runoff, stormwater best management practices, the law surrounding sediment and erosion control, and how to use our Muddy Water Watch mobile app to document and report sediment pollution. Get informed and become a citizen watchdog for issues in your area!
https://www.facebook.com/events/209795186638935/
Come on out and find out what the Board is planning, all members are encouraged to attend. We value everyone’s input.
Occasionally, we will have special guests presenting and attending! Stay tuned!
https://www.facebook.com/events/433904474074407/
Presented by the Lake Lure Lions Club.
Games, Fun and Prizes. Fun for the whole family. Every Monday night starting at 7:00pm. Lakeview Terrace at Rumbling Bald Resort.
May 27th – Sept 16th, 2019.
https://www.facebook.com/events/259931391584766/?event_time_id=259931411584764
Come connect with other homebrew enthusiasts at our monthly Homebrew Club meeting!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2353497921546644/?event_time_id=2353497931546643
Have a terrible case of the Mondays? Got a sick a twisted sense of humor? Come play Cards Against Humanity with us! We have 3 box sets with every expansion. We’re pushing tables together, making new friends, and having laughs every Monday!
https://www.facebook.com/events/371611523634185/?event_time_id=371611620300842
It Takes All Kinds Open Mic Night at Sanctuary Brewing Company!
Calling all singers, songwriters, stand ups, poets and prophets! Come one, come all.
Host Josh Dunkin and Steven Durose of The Gathering Dark want to hear all of your stuff!
No Mimes!
https://www.facebook.com/events/531022364070354/?event_time_id=531022454070345
Pub Theology meets on the second Monday of the month from 7:00-9:00.
Pub Theology is a group of spiritual and intellectual seekers—searchers. In the relaxed, comfortable setting of a pub (or café, or living room), we discuss God, the church, the history and politics of religion, and all that falls within the embrace of the quest for truth. Our goal is non-judgmental inquiry; safe, fair, and open discussion of ideas that have puzzled and tested humans from the beginning of civilization. Pub Theology is a “great ideas” group that welcomes people of all faiths, or none.
https://www.facebook.com/events/189329621949501/?event_time_id=189329668616163
Kids Eat Free
Kids (12 and under) receive a voucher for a hot dog and drink as they enter the front gate. | Presented By Acropolis Pizza
Doggies on the Diamond
Bring your pups out to McCormick Field! | Presented By Patton Avenue Pet Company
https://www.facebook.com/events/536304750191493/