Feeling a bit in the doldrums these days? Could you use good a pick-me-up? It might be time to indulge in some comfort food—particularly some super colorful superfood comfort from a winter farmers market. We’re talking about making sweet potato gnocchi.
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.
Sunday, February
21, 2021
Oyster Roast Benefit for Our Voice at Catawba Brewing
Food Truck Sundays
“Join Catawba Brewing Company – South Slope and Jettie Raes for a ticketed Oyster Roast benefitting Our Voice!!
WHEN: February 21st 2-5pm. Drop in any time between those hours to enjoy your oysters and beer!
WHERE: Catawba Brewing Company’s Spacious outdoor area with tents and socially distanced picnic tables! 32 Banks Avenue!
WHAT’S INCLUDED: For $65 your ticket will include 2 dozen oysters perfectly steamed by the Jetties Raes team, cocktail sauce, saltines, hot sauce, lemons and 2 beer tokens redeemable for any beer or glass of wine you’d like! Oysters can also be purchased a la carte if 2 dozen is not enough for you!
BENEFITS: Half of the proceeds will be donated to Our Voice, a non-profit crisis intervention and prevention agency which serves victims of sexual violence, age 13 through adult, in Buncombe County. 24-hour crisis line is 828.255.7576 or text Voice or Voz to 85511.
Tickets must be purchased in advance!
Masks are required at this event. We cannot seat more than 6 people at one table.
Let’s get shucking!!”
In conjunction with Sunday Sessions Live (and virtual) music: Food Truck Sundays will bring a new or rotating “staff favorite” cuisine each week to the Beechams Curve offerings.
Gan Shan West, our main culinary provider 6 days a week, is closed on Sundays. Enjoy the convenience, delicious variety and the music – all in one Sunday Funday stop!
Monday, February
22, 2021
Black History Month – Book List for Young Readers
New Home Delivery of Our Award-Winning CSA Meat Sampler Subscription
BEER Release: Black Is Beautiful! Donations to Know Your Rights Campaign
Blue Monday with Mr Jimmy at the Joint Next Door
Science Fiction Book Club
What could be better than picking up a monthly box of mouthwatering grassfed beef and pasture raised pork from Hickory Nut Gap Farm? Having it delivered directly to your front door, of course. Contactless, COVID-safe home delivery will be coordinated in partnership with Leading Green Distribution.
Available ONLY as a three month prepaid subscription. Offered in Large (about 15lbs per month) and Small (about 10lbs per month) sizes to fit the needs of just about any household on a convenient monthly schedule.
- A selection of 100% Grassfed Beef, Pasture-Raised Pork and Pasture-Raised Chicken
- Monthly boxes contain (for example): steaks, roasts, sausages, ground meats, whole chicken, chicken breast, pork chops, bacon
- DISCOUNTED 10% OFF RETAIL
- Delivered right to your front door within the city limits of Asheville.
- 3 Month pre-paid subscription – also includes 10% off other Farm Store meat purchases
Black Is Beautiful is a collaborative effort in partnership with our friends at @weatheredsoulsbrewing whose shared mission is to bring awareness to the injustices that many People of Color face daily. Additional proceeds from select retailers will be donated to the Know Your Rights Campaign.
Enjoy the friendly local atmosphere, great food and drinks, and live blues from Mr Jimmy at the Joint Next Door in Fairview NC every Monday at 6pm
This club will meet virtually via zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Please email [email protected] for the link to join!
Join host and Malaprop’s Bookseller Allison Beatty to dive into the wreck of the wily and wonderful world of sci-fi, weird fiction, speculative fiction, literary horror, and disturbing fiction with a healthy mix of underappreciated classic and contemporary books. The club normally meets at Malaprop’s on the last Monday of every month at 7:00pm.
Click here to see a full schedule of what the club is reading. Club attendees get 10% off the book at Malaprop’s!
Tuesday, February
23, 2021
Black History Month – Book List for Young Readers
New Home Delivery of Our Award-Winning CSA Meat Sampler Subscription
BEER Release: Black Is Beautiful! Donations to Know Your Rights Campaign
LITCAFE: Ann Woodford When All God’s Children Get Together
Catawba Brewing: Painting + Pints
What could be better than picking up a monthly box of mouthwatering grassfed beef and pasture raised pork from Hickory Nut Gap Farm? Having it delivered directly to your front door, of course. Contactless, COVID-safe home delivery will be coordinated in partnership with Leading Green Distribution.
Available ONLY as a three month prepaid subscription. Offered in Large (about 15lbs per month) and Small (about 10lbs per month) sizes to fit the needs of just about any household on a convenient monthly schedule.
- A selection of 100% Grassfed Beef, Pasture-Raised Pork and Pasture-Raised Chicken
- Monthly boxes contain (for example): steaks, roasts, sausages, ground meats, whole chicken, chicken breast, pork chops, bacon
- DISCOUNTED 10% OFF RETAIL
- Delivered right to your front door within the city limits of Asheville.
- 3 Month pre-paid subscription – also includes 10% off other Farm Store meat purchases
Black Is Beautiful is a collaborative effort in partnership with our friends at @weatheredsoulsbrewing whose shared mission is to bring awareness to the injustices that many People of Color face daily. Additional proceeds from select retailers will be donated to the Know Your Rights Campaign.
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Get Your Art Buzz On at Catawba Brewing in South Slope!
No artistic talent needed, just the desire to have fun! We take the time to guide you step by step to complete your very own take-home masterpiece. Catawba has a variety of drinks to choose from (beer, wine, cider, and non-alcoholic drinks.)
Please arrive 15 minutes early to get signed in and find your seat.
Wednesday, February
24, 2021
Black History Month – Book List for Young Readers
New Home Delivery of Our Award-Winning CSA Meat Sampler Subscription
BEER Release: Black Is Beautiful! Donations to Know Your Rights Campaign
Wednesday Kid’s Night! Chick-fil-A Asheville Mall
Live Stream: Wayne Caldwell Launches Woodsmoke in conversation with Ron Rash
Robert’s Totally Rad Trivia
What could be better than picking up a monthly box of mouthwatering grassfed beef and pasture raised pork from Hickory Nut Gap Farm? Having it delivered directly to your front door, of course. Contactless, COVID-safe home delivery will be coordinated in partnership with Leading Green Distribution.
Available ONLY as a three month prepaid subscription. Offered in Large (about 15lbs per month) and Small (about 10lbs per month) sizes to fit the needs of just about any household on a convenient monthly schedule.
- A selection of 100% Grassfed Beef, Pasture-Raised Pork and Pasture-Raised Chicken
- Monthly boxes contain (for example): steaks, roasts, sausages, ground meats, whole chicken, chicken breast, pork chops, bacon
- DISCOUNTED 10% OFF RETAIL
- Delivered right to your front door within the city limits of Asheville.
- 3 Month pre-paid subscription – also includes 10% off other Farm Store meat purchases
Black Is Beautiful is a collaborative effort in partnership with our friends at @weatheredsoulsbrewing whose shared mission is to bring awareness to the injustices that many People of Color face daily. Additional proceeds from select retailers will be donated to the Know Your Rights Campaign.
Join us EVERY Wednesday night for Kid’s Night! Children receive a free four-count kid’s meal with the purchase of an adult meal. See you on Wednesdays!
Like most of our events, this event is free, but registration is required. Click here to RSVP for this event. Prior to the event the link required to attend will be emailed to registrants.
Wayne Caldwell will sign and personalize copies of Woodsmoke purchased from Malaprop’s! Pre-order below and put your personalization request in the comment section during checkout (e.g. “to Jane”).
If you decide to attend and to purchase the authors’ books, we ask that you purchase from Malaprop’s. When you do this you make it possible for us to continue hosting author events and you keep more dollars in our community. If you would like to support us without purchasing a book, you may purchase a gift card or make a donation of any amount. Thank you!
Woodsmoke is a poetry collection that renders the experience of living out life in a single, exquisite place–“in the shadow of the mountain my father said was mother to us all”–Mount Pisgah in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Wayne Caldwell, author of the novel Cataloochee, brings us the waning days of Posey Green, who cuts his own firewood, looks after himself, and tends to the land where his wife Birdie and her people are buried. Posey’s colloquial narrative poetry is presented as found verse, conjured from Posey’s internal musings–and these poems alternate with those of a new neighbor, a sympathetic female poet who observes Posey and his surroundings and creates a more formal poetic record of his days.
Wayne Caldwell is the author of the novels Cataloochee (2007) and Requiem by Fire (2010). He has won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award from the Western North Carolina Historical Association and the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Woodsmoke is his first collection of poetry. He lives with his wife, Mary, just west of Asheville, on land that has been in her family since 1831. In his spare time, he works up firewood.
Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Nothing Gold Can Stay, a New York Times bestseller, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize and winner of the 2019 Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature, he is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University and lives in Clemson, SC.
Totally Rad Trivia invades 12 Bones South every Wednesday evening for two hours of Pop Culture Trivia. Grab a beer, some BBQ and buckle in for some fun and challenging Trivia.
Thursday, February
25, 2021
Black History Month – Book List for Young Readers
New Home Delivery of Our Award-Winning CSA Meat Sampler Subscription
BEER Release: Black Is Beautiful! Donations to Know Your Rights Campaign
Black History: Actively Aging Through Activism and Art with Ann Miller Woodford
“When All God’s Children Get Together: Fostering Racial Justice Book Club with Ann Woodford,
Black Experience Book Club
Connect Beyond Festival Book Club: “The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose.”
What could be better than picking up a monthly box of mouthwatering grassfed beef and pasture raised pork from Hickory Nut Gap Farm? Having it delivered directly to your front door, of course. Contactless, COVID-safe home delivery will be coordinated in partnership with Leading Green Distribution.
Available ONLY as a three month prepaid subscription. Offered in Large (about 15lbs per month) and Small (about 10lbs per month) sizes to fit the needs of just about any household on a convenient monthly schedule.
- A selection of 100% Grassfed Beef, Pasture-Raised Pork and Pasture-Raised Chicken
- Monthly boxes contain (for example): steaks, roasts, sausages, ground meats, whole chicken, chicken breast, pork chops, bacon
- DISCOUNTED 10% OFF RETAIL
- Delivered right to your front door within the city limits of Asheville.
- 3 Month pre-paid subscription – also includes 10% off other Farm Store meat purchases
Black Is Beautiful is a collaborative effort in partnership with our friends at @weatheredsoulsbrewing whose shared mission is to bring awareness to the injustices that many People of Color face daily. Additional proceeds from select retailers will be donated to the Know Your Rights Campaign.
The presentation will include ways that Woodford has highlighted the voices of people that have often been overlooked, as she shares the history and heritage of African Americans who have lived in far Western North Carolina communities.
The lecture will be followed by four additional virtual events featuring Woodford on Thursdays, March 11 and 25, and April 8 and 15 from 1-2 p.m. Those free-to-the-public sessions, held under the theme “When All God’s Children Get Together: Fostering Racial Justice Book Club with Ann Woodford,” will address several topics covered in the author’s new book.
Participants, who can register at https://aarp.cvent.com/AnnWoodfordBookClub, will discuss subjects listed below with facilitators and Woodford:
March 11–General Overview. How African American people in this region compare to nationwide: race relations and racial disparities.
March 25–History of Ethnic Cleansing in Georgia and how it led to African American people coming to Western North Carolina (includes other national cleansings, the Green Book and a coup in Wilmington, N.C.)
April 8–What is White Privilege and how it can make a difference; Using your power to make a difference.
April 15–Steps that can be taken to smooth race relations locally and beyond.
As a child in a segregated, one-room, one-teacher “colored/negro” elementary school in the small mountain town of Andrews, N..C. Woodward’s talents as an artist were discovered by one of her teachers. Soon, she was using oils, pencil, charcoal and ink as she drew remarkable scenes of people, animals and landscapes, which has led to a long career as an artist. Eventually, her creativity knew no boundaries, as she has excelled as a writer, designer, entrepreneur and speaker. Learn more about Woodford at her website, https://anntree.com.
Event participants can find her book at the library, various local and national online sellers or on her website. While the book is recommended, it is not required to participate.
The lecture will be followed by four additional virtual events featuring Woodford on Thursdays, March 11 and 25, and April 8 and 15 from 1-2 p.m. Those free-to-the-public sessions, held under the theme “When All God’s Children Get Together: Fostering Racial Justice Book Club with Ann Woodford,” will address several topics covered in the author’s new book.
Participants, who can register at https://aarp.cvent.com/AnnWoodfordBookClub, will discuss subjects listed below with facilitators and Woodford:
March 11–General Overview. How African American people in this region compare to nationwide: race relations and racial disparities.
March 25–History of Ethnic Cleansing in Georgia and how it led to African American people coming to Western North Carolina (includes other national cleansings, the Green Book and a coup in Wilmington, N.C.)
April 8–What is White Privilege and how it can make a difference; Using your power to make a difference.
April 15–Steps that can be taken to smooth race relations locally and beyond.
As a child in a segregated, one-room, one-teacher “colored/negro” elementary school in the small mountain town of Andrews, N..C. Woodward’s talents as an artist were discovered by one of her teachers. Soon, she was using oils, pencil, charcoal and ink as she drew remarkable scenes of people, animals and landscapes, which has led to a long career as an artist. Eventually, her creativity knew no boundaries, as she has excelled as a writer, designer, entrepreneur and speaker. Learn more about Woodford at her website, https://anntree.com.
Event participants can find her book at the library, various local and national online sellers or on her website. While the book is recommended, it is not required to participate.
https://www.aarp.cvent.com/AnnWoodfordBookClub
YMI Cultural Center and Buncombe County Public Libraries have partnered on a book club exploring modern Black authors. December’s selection is The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Asheville’s YMI Cultural Center (YMI) and Buncombe County Public Libraries (BCPL) are partnering to create a book club focusing on modern Black authors and readers. Beginning Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, the Black Experience Book Club will meet twice per month at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month.
To maximize safety, meetings will be held in a hybrid in-person and online format during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anyone interested may join the meeting via Zoom or meet in person at the YMI Impact Center, 39 S. Market St., Suite A, Asheville, NC 28801. In-person meetings will be capped at 10 participants in order to observe social distancing.
To register to attend in-person, please call YMI staff at 828-257-4540 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Thursday or email [email protected] at any time. To receive the Zoom link or for questions regarding finding copies of book club titles, please contact Alexandra Duncan at [email protected]. You may also find information about upcoming titles and request the Zoom link through the library’s Events Calendar. Visit buncombecounty.org/library and click on Events Calendar at the top of the page.
In December 2020, the Black Experience Book Club will discuss The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. In January 2021, members will discuss The Coldest Winter Ever, by Sister Souljah, and in February 2021, Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi. Selected titles for future months will be announced in book club meetings, on the library’s Events Calendar, and via YMI and BCPL social media channels. Readers may borrow any of these titles at any BCPL location or at the YMI. Copies will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis, so participants are encouraged to reserve their copies early.
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The first book club feature will be The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose by Chris Wilson. Registration is available now and the online meetups will be on February 25th, March 11th, and March 25th (includes Author Q&A). The book has been described as “An inspiring instructive, and ultimately triumphant guide to turning your life around, from a man who used hard work and his Master Plan to convert a life sentence into a second chance.”
Friday, February
26, 2021
Black History Month – Book List for Young Readers
Hosted Weekend with Killer Bees Honey at Half-Mile Farm
New Home Delivery of Our Award-Winning CSA Meat Sampler Subscription
Fresh at Farmers Markets This Week
Brunch B’yahad Virtual
Hailing from Lake Toxaway, North Carolina, Killer Bees Honey owners Sean Collinsworth (a certified North Carolina Beekeeper) and wife Denise Altay (marketing and sales) will present another sweet weekend for guests of Half-Mile Farm in February. Like fine wine and chocolate, pure honey is a product of local terroir. Soil, air, water, climate and of course, plants and flowers contribute to the complexity of regional honey. Sean and Denise will present a sit-down sensory experience where guests will learn about life in the hive, how bees make honey, the differences between honey varietals, and what to look for when searching for honey purity all while savoring honey from the Killer Bees apiary.
What could be better than picking up a monthly box of mouthwatering grassfed beef and pasture raised pork from Hickory Nut Gap Farm? Having it delivered directly to your front door, of course. Contactless, COVID-safe home delivery will be coordinated in partnership with Leading Green Distribution.
Available ONLY as a three month prepaid subscription. Offered in Large (about 15lbs per month) and Small (about 10lbs per month) sizes to fit the needs of just about any household on a convenient monthly schedule.
- A selection of 100% Grassfed Beef, Pasture-Raised Pork and Pasture-Raised Chicken
- Monthly boxes contain (for example): steaks, roasts, sausages, ground meats, whole chicken, chicken breast, pork chops, bacon
- DISCOUNTED 10% OFF RETAIL
- Delivered right to your front door within the city limits of Asheville.
- 3 Month pre-paid subscription – also includes 10% off other Farm Store meat purchases
Brunch B’Yahad is now available through Zoom meeting here.
Join new and old friends for light brunch, socialization and lively discussion. Featured guest speakers, and relevant cultural and timely topics will fill our minds.