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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The Authors for Literacy Dinner & Silent Auction featuring Wiley Cash will begin with a cocktail hour and silent auction to include distinctive art and crafts, autographed and rare books, and priceless opportunities to enjoy excursions in Asheville and beyond. Following the cocktail hour, event guests will enjoy a three-course dinner and presentation by a current Literacy Council student. Wiley Cash will then give the keynote presentation and autograph guests’ books. Book sales will be managed by Malaprop’s Bookstore & Café.
For more information about the Spelling Bee, please see our blog post here or contact LuAnn Arena.
New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett will keynote the Literacy Council’s 10th Annual Authors for Literacy Dinner & Silent Auction at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel.
On Sunday, February 4, the Friends of Music at St. John in the Wilderness in Flat Rock will present a concert of music from Mozart to My Fair Lady. The concert celebrates the completion of the church’s new Parish Hall and the donation of a Yamaha Grand Piano. It will be held in the new Parish Hall beginning at 3:30 p.m.
The program will include Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major, K. 414, played by St. John Organist and Director of Music, Dewitt Tipton, along with members of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra. Greenville professional singers Danielle Knox, soprano, Grant Knox, tenor, and Adrian Smith, bass-baritone, will sing opera arias and the final trio from Gounod’s Faust. They also will sing excerpts from My Fair Lady joined by the St. John Parish Choir.
Admission is free; however, donations will be gratefully accepted. For more information, call (828) 693-9783 or visit www.stjohnflatrock.org.
Pianoforte with Deborah Belcher and Members of the Asheville Wind Quartet
For the event, Belcher will perform solo works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt, and will be joined by members of the Asheville Wind Quintet for chamber music by Robert Schumann and Beethoven. This varied program spans the emotional scale from lyricism through drama to rollicking virtuosity.
A chamber music theatre work for actor and trio (cello, piano & percussion) celebrating the lives of the great African-American poets, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay as seen through the eyes of the great muralist and painter Aaron Douglas. Text is by Akin Babatunde.The musical score includes works by jazz giants Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus as well as concert music by Jeffrey Mumford and George Walker.
The Black Mountain College Summer Institutes in art and music began in 1944. The Second Music Institute in 1945 was devoted to the study of polyphony and ensemble playing. According to the college’s own press release, “The Gordon String Quartet performed the Quartets No. 4 and No. 7 of Hugo Kauder, who was invited to the Music Institute as resident composer, and as a representative of a contemporary polyphonic style. Among the works of Hugo Kauder performed during the Music Institute were a sonata for violin and piano, songs, choruses, a horn sonata, and a trio for oboe, horn, and piano.” Other participants and performers included Erwin Bodky (harpsichord/piano), Emanuel Zeitlin (violin), Josef Marx (oboe), Eva Heinitz (viola da gamba/cello), Gertrude Straus (violin), and Willem Valkenier (horn). Many of Kauder’s works for horn were inspired by and dedicated to Valkenier. They had been close friends since meeting and working together in Vienna before 1920.
The Tesla Quartet’s goal is to reconnect and establish Kauder’s legacy as part of the ongoing rediscovery of the artists and work associated with the legendary Black Mountain College.
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About Black Mountain College
Legendary even in its own time, Black Mountain College attracted and created maverick spirits, some of whom went on to become well-known and extremely influential individuals in the latter half of the 20th century. A partial list includes Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Josef and Anni Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Cy Twombly, Kenneth Noland, Susan Weil, Vera B. Williams, Ben Shahn, Ruth Asawa, Franz Kline, Arthur Penn, Buckminster Fuller, M.C. Richards, Francine du Plessix Gray, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Dorothea Rockburne and many others who have made an impact on the world in a significant way. Even now, decades after its closing in 1957, the powerful influence of Black Mountain College continues to reverberate.
Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.
Edvard Tchivzhel, conductor
Yekwon Sunwoo, Gold Medal Winner of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3, op. 30, D minor
Brahms: Symphony No. 4, op. 98, E minor
A new star is born! The suspense builds as we await the Greenville debut of the Gold Medal Winner of the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo. Mr. Sunwoo will thrill audiences with his performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, and the concert comes to a grand finish with Brahms’ heartfelt and passionate Fourth Symphony.
Phone: (828) 250-4718
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Performance
Age Group: Teen – (grades 6-12),Adult
Library: Pack Memorial
Location: 67 Haywood St. – Asheville
Jazz Hour at Pack presents “Michael Jefry Stevens & Friends.”
Musicians are Jason Moore on Saxophone, Kevin Kehrberg on bass, Brian Palmieri on drums, and Michael Jefry Stevens on Steinway Piano.
Program is free and held in our auditorium downstairs.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
When: Tuesday, April 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Where: The Collider, Downtown Asheville
Worldwide, the conservation community is grappling with the challenge of ensuring that natural systems – and the species that depend on them – have the ability to adapt to climate change and will continue to thrive. Fortunately, we know that land protection can strategically increase the resiliency of natural systems. SAHC has partnered with the Conservation Trust for NC, Open Space Institute, Wildlands Network, NEMAC, EcoForesters and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to develop sophisticated frameworks to assess vulnerability and identify priorities for climate resilience.
Our own Southern Appalachians have been identified as critical to the path of migration for species from the southeast. SAHC continues to use new data and new modeling to build upon our strategic land protection planning. By prioritizing areas adjacent to large protected tracts and creating contiguous networks of conservation lands for wildlife corridors we continue to create more resilient landscapes.
Join us as we discuss how we are working together with new climate data to create a network of resilient protected lands and why our efforts matter now more than ever.
Panel discussion moderated by Jay Leutze, SAHC Board President and author.
Panel members:
Jess Laggis, Farmland Program Director, SAHC
Megan Sutton, Program Director, The Nature Conservancy
Ian Johnson, Geospatial Science Communications Associate, NEAMAC
Maria Whitehead, Senior Project Manager, Open Space Institute
RSVP to Pauline Heyne at [email protected] or 828.253.0095 ext. 216
Free and open to the public.
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: A-B Tech Ferguson Auditorium
A-B Tech invites you to engage with a panel of activists and leaders from local organizations as they discuss youth empowerment successes and challenges in the community.
Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
Location: Hill Street Baptist Church
Be an informed voter. The Racial Justice Coalition hosts a Buncombe County Sheriff Candidate Forum. All candidates have been invited. Childcare and Spanish interpretation will be provided.