Calendar of Events

During the month of December, local artist Scott Mills will be featured in the FW Gallery at Woolworth Walk.

Scott Mills was born in Detroit, MI in 1977. He works predominately in the mediums of oil and acrylic paints. Scott is completely self-taught in his artistic career and credits his study of music as a young child for opening his imagination and leading to his love for the visual arts. His work is derived from a deep love of nature and a desire to turn the feelings of awe, mystery, gratitude and love into visual depictions that can inspire the same feelings in the viewer. Scott has his artwork included in private collections across North America and Europe. He regularly takes part in group exhibitions and solo shows across the United States. He resides in the mountains of Asheville, NC with his wife and two children.

Come meet Scott and enjoy the opening reception on First Friday, December 7th from 5-7 pm.

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Hey kids, you have several opportunities to share your wish list with Santa at the Original Mast Store in Valle Crucis. He will be there form 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturdays in December. Santa will also be taking last minute requests on Christmas Eve before he heads out for his ’round the world tour. He’ll be there from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Make sure your parents bring a camera to capture Christmas memories.

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Hey kids, you have several opportunities to share your wish list with Santa at the Original Mast Store in Valle Crucis. He will be there form 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturdays in December. Santa will also be taking last minute requests on Christmas Eve before he heads out for his ’round the world tour. He’ll be there from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Make sure your parents bring a camera to capture Christmas memories.

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As Virginia Woolf said, “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Food and water are essential for survival, but mankind’s relationship to food has transformed over time from one of sustenance to one laden with personal and cultural significance.

A Matter of Taste explores depictions of food and drink in art and reveals how images of fruits and vegetables can function as complex metaphors for excess, status, memory, and politics. Drawn from southern museums and private collections, this exhibition showcases over 35 paintings, decorative arts, and works on paper by artists such as Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Claes Oldenburg.

This show spans 400 years and multiple continents, revealing the evolving role of food and drink in various media and cultural contexts. While depictions of fruit and vegetables appeared in ancient times, still life painting as an independent genre dates to 16th-century Holland.

In 19th-century America, still life paintings remained popular but evolved in terms of subject matter, media, and message. Painters such as Thomas Wightman, George Forster, and De Scott Evans embraced Dutch still lifes and used food as commentary on the current political climate and the transient state of the human condition.

Illustrated newspapers led to an increase of cartoons by artists such as Winslow Homer and William Hogarth, who utilized food and drink as social satire. The 20th-century modern art movement further changed the perception of food. The culture of mass production enabled Pop artists to elevate seemingly mundane foodstuffs to high art. Yet, other contemporary artists explored the symbolic and nostalgic role of food seen in works by Tim Tate, Linda Armstrong, and Laquita Thomson.

Visitors will also experience an elaborately set dining table fit for a sumptuous feast. Dining became its own art form over time and communicated one’s social standing and wealth. Each of the table’s six place settings represent a different culture and offer a glimpse into global dining customs. Selective drinkware will accompany this section revealing how tea sets and even punch bowls reflected an owner’s prestige.

Learn what Astrology can reveal to you about yourself, your life path, and your loved ones!

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And what to my wondering eyes should appear…a jolly ol’ elf making one last visit before heading off for his ’round the world tour.

You can visit with Santa at the Mast Store in Hendersonville on Christmas Eve from noon until 3 p.m. Bring your list and your camera – it’s sure to be a special time to remember.

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Looking for that perfect gift? Our apparel (hoodies, t-shirts, caps) will be 15% off through Dec. 24th.

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Please join us for our Christmas Eve Service, Monday, December 24 at 1:30 p.m. in CLC dining room.

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Don’t let Monday get you down! Swing on by the Tasting Room for Game Night! We have giant Jenga, ping pong, corn hole, and board games to keep you busy while you sip on $3 year-round and seasonal beers.

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The Christmas pickle is a Christmas tradition for some Americans. A decoration in the shape of a pickle is hidden on a Christmas tree, with the finder receiving either a reward or good fortune for the following year. This year at Eluvium Brewing Company we want to start our own Christmas tradition as a way to say thank you to all of you wonderful peeps who support us year round. On Christmas Eve we will be hiding our Christmas Pickles around the brewery, if you find one we will gift you with something special. Come out to the brewery on Christmas Eve, we’ll be open 4 – 9 pm, and find a Christmas pickle and claim a gift.

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Open 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. Advance Tickets Required. Enjoy the wonder of the park dazzlingly lit for the holidays, with a nighttime train and more.

Candlelight Christmas Evenings*
Saturday, November 3, 2018 – Saturday, January 5, 2019 (Select Dates)

*Check website for availability/dates
*By reservation only.
*Pricing varies by date.

Candlelight, firelight, and live music bring holiday warmth to the extravagant holiday décor of Biltmore House, creating an evening to remember. Evening guests can also take advantage of Antler Hill Village & Winery to enjoy free wine tastings. Advance reservations are required for evening visits.

Learn more about #ChristmasAtBiltmore or plan your visit: biltmore.com/Christmas

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Tis the Season for our Annual Christmas Eve Five Course Dinner!
There will be seatings at 6 PM and 8 PM
Come and enjoy one of our signature Christmas cocktails as well as a unique farm to table menu that you and your loved ones will enjoy without the usual holiday clean up! Call for details! 828-350-3033

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Experience Asheville’s brightest holiday tradition at Winter Lights at The North Carolina Arboretum. Walk through an outdoor winter wonderland and see the Arboretum’s gardens dressed in more than half-a-million holiday lights. Roast s’mores by the fire, listen to your favorite holiday tunes or enjoy a cup of hot cocoa, cider or beer. Proceeds from the event will support the Arboretum’s educational programs, exhibit and facilities year-round.

Tickets range from $8-18 and must be purchased in advance online at www.ncwinterlights.com.

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This is a weekly event, and a guaranteed fantastic night of music, food, and good vibes!

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This is a weekly event, and a guaranteed fantastic night of music, food, and good vibes!

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Our famous burger night featuring a delicious Foothills Local Meats double-cheeseburger, fries, and pint for $12 is getting a season long helping of football. Join us as we show every MNF game on the big screen at Big Top throughout the season.

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Reclaimed Creations is a unique sculpture exhibit created by renowned artist Sayaka Ganz. Utilizing reclaimed plastic objects, such as discarded utensils, Ganz creates amazing sculptures that visually appear unified at a distance, but are in fact separated when examined up close. Described as using a “3D impressionistic” style, Ganz’s exhibit includes installations of animals in motion, which are in rich in color and energy, to create an illusion of form.

About the Artist

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Sayaka Ganz grew up living in Japan, Brazil and Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. A lecturer and teacher, Ganz’s work has been displayed at various institutions around the globe, including the Hermann Geiger Foundation in Cecina, Italy, the Isle Gallery in Isle of Man, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.

My work is about perceiving harmony, even in situations that appear chaotic from the inside. When observing my sculptures up close, one might see gaps, holes and items being held on only by small points; step away, however, and the sculptures reveal the harmony created when the objects are aligned to the same general (but not identical) direction. Similarly, it is important to gain perspective by stepping back from current problems and look at the larger picture. Then one can perceive the beauty and patterns that exist.”

Christmas at Biltmore Daytime Celebration*
Saturday, November 3, 2018 – Sunday, January 6, 2019 (daily)

*Included with estate admission.
*Does not include “Candlelight Christmas Evenings”

Experience the holidays wreathed with the wonder of Biltmore. Our celebration presents Christmas on a grand scale with more than 55 trees decorated by our talented staff, accented with miles of ribbon, garlands, and lights. Festive menus in our restaurants and holiday wine tastings make for a memorable visit.

Learn more about #ChristmasAtBiltmore or plan your visit: biltmore.com/Christmas

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When reflecting on the current state of the environment, it seems that we have entered into times of seismic sorrows. Carbon emissions, water pollution, fracking, and changing climate patterns all point to a troubling reality with serious consequences for human and non-human populations. Through weavings, installations, sculpture, and print, artists Rena Detrixhe and Tali Weinberg (Tulsa, OK) explore the complex relationship between humans and the planet, offering insights, expressing grief, and creating space for resilience and change.

In Time of Seismic Sorrows is curated by Marilyn Zapf and organized by the Center for Craft. The Center for Craft is supported in part by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

The South has always been home to a blend of cultures — from Native Americans here by 14,000 years ago to Europeans 500 years ago, followed by Africans forced to migrate. By 1500, cultures in the South included Creek, Cherokee, Catawba, Choctaw, Chitimacha, and Coushatta, from Europe English, Scottish, Irish, and German, and Africans from Senegal to Congo. Baskets were integral in daily life, as agricultural equipment for gathering, sifting, storing, and serving the finished product or as receptacles for tools, clothes, sacred objects, and even infants.

Initially each culture had its own preferred basket material and method of manufacture — twilled rivercane for Native Americans, plaited oak for Europeans, and coiled grasses for Africans. Interaction between groups spurred adaptations to changing circumstances, such as the use of white oak by the Cherokee in the 1800s, as rivercane stands were decimated by European settlements. Native Americans also adopted the European picnic, flower, egg, and market baskets to sell in the 20th-century art market. Native and European Americans wove honeysuckle into baskets after 1854, when introduced from Japan. By the 17th century African Americans discovered bulrush along the coasts, coiling it into large, round “fanners” to winnow rice. Later bulrush was one medium among sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto, giving rise to the name “sweetgrass baskets” along the coast.

Baskets were woven not only for use in the fields and homes or for sale in art galleries but also as a connection to ancestors and spirits, as designs were said to come from inside one’s head, from memories of one’s mother’s motifs, or from the Creator. Indeed, working with one’s hands in nature to gather materials and to form them into a basket was considered spiritually and physically healthy, becoming a part of the practice of occupational therapy around World War I.

Today, basketweavers in the South from all three traditions are teaching the next generation to continue this art. Artists from across the region work with old and new materials in old and new forms, innovating for their legacy, for art’s sake, and for political causes, as embodied in the varied vessels in this gallery and epitomized in the virtuosic miniature examples in the case at right.

A collaboration of music from all AMC facilitators and former guests
Asheville Movement Collective is hosting a Holiday dance to benefit Our VOICE, an Asheville community nonprofit organization serving all individuals in Buncombe County affected by sexual assault and abuse, through counseling, advocacy and education.
All proceeds will benefit Our VOICE along with supplies collected. (See list bellow)

10:30 warmup 11:00 am circle

Price: $10-20+ Sliding Scale – Proceeds go to Our VOICE, feel free to pay up the sliding scale

Children are welcome. Childcare *NOT* provided for this event.

Dancers are invited to bring supplies for survivor kits that Our VOICE provides to people served by their programs. Their greatest need is for supplies listed in the Human Trafficking Backpack.

If you represent a supplier and are willing to donate supplies in bulk, please contact us!

The list of supplies you could donate follows:

Backpack Necessities

Must include:
● Blanket
● Condoms
● Toothpaste and Toothbrush
● Tampons and pads
● Water bottle
● Gift Card
● Soap
● Shampoo
● Conditioner
● Snacks
● Our contact information

OK to Include:
● Wash cloth
● Water bottle
● Underwear/clothes
● Roll of quarters
● Flash light
● Emergency phone
● Notebook and pens
● Approved books/reading material
● Wipes
● Lotion
● Hand sanitizer

NEVER Include:
● Razors/blades
● Personal notes
● Religious scriptures
● Other people’s contact or business cards

HIGH PRIORITY DONATION NEEDS:
● Flip phones
● Shampoo and conditioner for a diverse group of hair types
● Gift Cards
● Quarters
● Backpacks

Thank you!
AMC offers a shared experience and a shared place for spontaneous, free-form movement. What each of us brings to this shared place affects everyone, and we create this experience together with:

-Awareness of others and ourselves
-Permission from others and ourselves
-Participation through movement and presence

We practice moving in healthy community by:
-Arriving without strong scents (including perfumes, oils, and body scents)
-Dancing in bare feet, socks, or supportive footwear
-Maintaining a nonverbal dance space
-Encouraging a substance-free space
Children are welcome. Childcare provided for this event.

www.ashevillemovementcollective.org
AMC is a 501c3 nonprofit organization

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As Virginia Woolf said, “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Food and water are essential for survival, but mankind’s relationship to food has transformed over time from one of sustenance to one laden with personal and cultural significance.

A Matter of Taste explores depictions of food and drink in art and reveals how images of fruits and vegetables can function as complex metaphors for excess, status, memory, and politics. Drawn from southern museums and private collections, this exhibition showcases over 35 paintings, decorative arts, and works on paper by artists such as Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Claes Oldenburg.

This show spans 400 years and multiple continents, revealing the evolving role of food and drink in various media and cultural contexts. While depictions of fruit and vegetables appeared in ancient times, still life painting as an independent genre dates to 16th-century Holland.

In 19th-century America, still life paintings remained popular but evolved in terms of subject matter, media, and message. Painters such as Thomas Wightman, George Forster, and De Scott Evans embraced Dutch still lifes and used food as commentary on the current political climate and the transient state of the human condition.

Illustrated newspapers led to an increase of cartoons by artists such as Winslow Homer and William Hogarth, who utilized food and drink as social satire. The 20th-century modern art movement further changed the perception of food. The culture of mass production enabled Pop artists to elevate seemingly mundane foodstuffs to high art. Yet, other contemporary artists explored the symbolic and nostalgic role of food seen in works by Tim Tate, Linda Armstrong, and Laquita Thomson.

Visitors will also experience an elaborately set dining table fit for a sumptuous feast. Dining became its own art form over time and communicated one’s social standing and wealth. Each of the table’s six place settings represent a different culture and offer a glimpse into global dining customs. Selective drinkware will accompany this section revealing how tea sets and even punch bowls reflected an owner’s prestige.

The mission of the Bounty of Bethlehem is and has always been to provide a meal for anyone and everyone that comes through the doors by giving folks a place to gather for fellowship, togetherness and a warm meal, no matter who you are, how you worship, or from where you come. Join us as a single or as a family, and make lifelong friendships. We all share so much through the family style dinners and the shared seating. No one should be alone on Christmas Day. You are welcome.

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How about the stomach-friendly meal the day after Christmas dinner?

Dec 25th, Christmas night. We recommend buffet style meal.
You can eat little by little in a balanced state
It is also good to challenge dishes you have never ate before.

☆over 19yrs old $9.00
☆13yrs old to 18yrs old $7.00
☆Under 12yrs old $4.00
☆Under 4yrs old FREE
　　♥Plus tax
　　♥Except Beverages

Open at 4pm to 8pm

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Open 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. Advance Tickets Required. Enjoy the wonder of the park dazzlingly lit for the holidays, with a nighttime train and more.

Candlelight Christmas Evenings*
Saturday, November 3, 2018 – Saturday, January 5, 2019 (Select Dates)

*Check website for availability/dates
*By reservation only.
*Pricing varies by date.

Candlelight, firelight, and live music bring holiday warmth to the extravagant holiday décor of Biltmore House, creating an evening to remember. Evening guests can also take advantage of Antler Hill Village & Winery to enjoy free wine tastings. Advance reservations are required for evening visits.

Learn more about #ChristmasAtBiltmore or plan your visit: biltmore.com/Christmas

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We will be opening late on Christmas Eve & Day (6pm) but we’re here for you <3 Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to everyone!
Bring your shitty xmas gift and trade it in for a new one!

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Experience Asheville’s brightest holiday tradition at Winter Lights at The North Carolina Arboretum. Walk through an outdoor winter wonderland and see the Arboretum’s gardens dressed in more than half-a-million holiday lights. Roast s’mores by the fire, listen to your favorite holiday tunes or enjoy a cup of hot cocoa, cider or beer. Proceeds from the event will support the Arboretum’s educational programs, exhibit and facilities year-round.

Tickets range from $8-18 and must be purchased in advance online at www.ncwinterlights.com.

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Where? Foothills Wellness Center, Inc. – Fitness Center
When? Tuesday & Thursday 6pm
Who? Mark Sawyer
Cost? $10.00/class, discounts available for advanced purchase of punch card with multiple classes
More information? 828-859-5004 or [email protected]

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