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.
WEDNESDAY
5pm Teen Contemporary with Melvin
$50 4 week series. Starts Jan. 9
THURSDAY
4pm Kids Hip Hop Series with Lisa
Semester runs 1/17/19 – 5/16/19
$50/month or $160/semester
5pm Teen Hip Hop Series with Lisa
Semester runs 1/17/19 – 5/16/19
$50/month or $160/semester
https://www.facebook.com/events/368264583936462/
Gin & Tonic- A simple and classic drink perfect for novice drinkers as well as seasoned veterans. Clean, crisp and refreshing, Gin and Tonic is everything you could ask for in a cocktail, so much so we are devoting a whole theme to it. On Thursdays we offer Tonic Thursday’s. We’ll introduce you to a whole new way of drinking G & T with a rotating special each week: A different tonic, a different gin, and so many different garnishes to choose from we’ll just keep searching for that perfect combination and include you in the process.
This Weeks Feature: Yuzu Gin & Tonic
Bombay Gin, Yuzu juice, Schweppes Tonic Water
* What is Yuzu? A Japanese Citrus Fruit
https://www.facebook.com/events/249218945972021/
Join us for the first After Hours of the season with business host, David on the Corner. This is a great way to meet your local business owners and town/county officials!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1582700411830459/
School Age – Registration Required
Every Thursday at 4:30pm – Marion Branch Library
Kids ages 5-10 are invited to sign up for a 15-minute reading session with one of our therapy dogs. A fun way to build literacy skills and confidence! Free and open to the public. Registration required. Spaces are limited.
https://www.facebook.com/events/276148443079536/
Come Dressed with your poodle skirts, leather jackets, and time warp with us back to the 50’s!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2442424862466072/
How can I give a better audition?
What are they looking for?
What am I doing right?
What am I doing wrong?
Sit down with the directors of McDowell Children’s Theatre and a few of our friends for a no-stress evening of focusing on how to present your best self at a theatrical audition! This event is designed for youth performers K-12 who are looking to improve their audition and interview skills. What are the directors paying attention to? What do we see all the time? What do we wish we were seeing more of?
Ask us all the questions! We’re theatre adults who have auditioned and been-auditioned for shows for years, let us share some insight.
This is a cost-free event. Even if you have never participated in an MCT show before, use this as an opportunity to meet us and see what it is all about! Open to all!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1995062850609004/
Burial Beer Co. Tap Feature at
Barracuda Taphouse and Grill, Coconut Grove
Thursday January 31, 2019
5PM- all night
https://www.facebook.com/events/386934545417124/
Light, malty and sweet!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1262613610564263/
Join us from 5-6 for a special listening party for Mandolin Orange’s upcoming release, “Tides of a Teardrop”!
In addition to listening to the album before its release date, we’ll be giving away FREE PRIZES and sharing refreshments! Come hang with us!
Some of the prizes include:
– Signed LP and signed CD
– Mandolin Orange merch
– Yep Roc shirt stickers
– Mandolin Orange stickers
See you on Thursday!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2006129466140803/
Come out and enjoy Thirsty Monk’s Belgian Dark Ale and a portion of sales from this small batch brew will be donated to non-profit, Pisgah Legal Services. This offer is good while supplies last at both the downtown and Biltmore Park locations. Stop in between 5-7 on Thursday January 31, 2019 at the Thirsty Monk Biltmore location to learn more about Pisgah Legal and the services they provide for low-income people in need of free civil legal aid.
https://www.facebook.com/events/323086008312370/
You’re invited to visit
Mars Hill Retirement and network with other professionals in the senior living industry.
Make new connections and get valuable updates on the services we offer our residents and seniors in our community.
THURSDAY
JANUARY 31ST
STARTING AT 5:00 PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/311260212847753/
MONDAY
5pm Bellydance 101 with Lisa Zahiya
$14 drop in
6pm Bellydance Hip Hop Fusion with Lisa
$90 8 week series. Starts Jan. 7
7pm Bellydance Specialty Series with Lisa: Veils
$50 4 week series. Starts Jan. 7
8pm Bellydance Advanced Choreography with Lisa Zahiya
$90 8 week series. Starts Jan. 7
TUESDAY
6pm Bellydance 1 with Lisa Zahiya
$50 4 week series. Starts Jan. 8
7pm Bellydance 2 with Lisa Zahiya
$50 4 week series. Starts Jan. 8
8pm Bellydance Specialty Series with Lisa: Rhythms
$50 4 week series. Starts Jan. 8
WEDNESDAY
7pm Tribal Fusion Flow: Inspire Improv with Violet
$14 drop in, class card, or Bellydance card
THURSDAY
5pm Bellydance Drills with Emily
$14 drop in, class card, or Bellydance card // buy class passes
6pm Bellydance 1.5 Choreography with McKinnley
$50/4 week series. Starts Jan. 10 // Register
7pm Bellydance Fantasy Fusion with Olivia
$50/4 week series. Starts Jan. 10
SATURDAY
10:45-11:45am Bellydance Fitness with Emily
$10 drop in or class card or Bellydance card
https://www.facebook.com/events/1153400568148167/
Interested in middle school at FCS? Come and check it out, ask questions and gain insight about the process. We look forward to meeting you and answering any questions for you and your future scholars!
https://www.facebook.com/events/282547772431625/
Learn more about how dogs communicate – both for your comfort and that of the dog! Our animal behavior coordinator, Caitlin Morrow, will impart some of her expertise and help to make us better care providers. This class is a great way to learn more about how your dog communicates with you and other dogs, and is required for one-on-one dog handling, and fostering, both at the Haywood County Animal Shelter, and at the Sarge’s Animal Rescue Adoption Center.
https://www.facebook.com/events/615911525491242/
Join us in the UUFH Fellowship Hall for the cross quarter holiday. We will hold traditional rite and make house blessing waters (save some snow from today’s storm). Bring water in a container and snack or drink to share for fellowship and bites following ritual. Gather in at 5:30 with rite to begin at 5:45. Donations welcome. We continue to collect food and clothing items for IAM if you are so inclined.
https://www.facebook.com/events/331780130746390/
Interested in being a volunteer on our 24/7 crisis line? Sign up for our Crisis Response Volunteer Advocate Training!! Learn skills for supporting survivors of sexual violence over the phone and in the hospital.
Training sessions are held on Thursdays from 5:30-8:30 pm at the Our VOICE office.
****must attend at least 6 out of the training days****
Winter Training: Thursdays between January 10th – February 28th
(EXCEPT FEBRUARY 14TH)
Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-voice-volunteer-advocate-training-tickets-52910946064
Qualifications of an Advocate:
Understanding of sexual violence
Ability and willingness to listen and communicate with survivors
of sexual violence
Evidence of good judgment in everyday relations with others
Ability to show concern and empathy for survivors
Reliability and responsibility
Ability to manage emotions and reactions to survivors’ stories
Patience with self and others in difficult situations
Ability to work with diverse populations
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What Our VOICE Crisis Response Advocates Do:
Take crisis line calls during evening, weekend and holiday hours
Assist callers in crisis
Provide hospital accompaniment for sexual assault victims, their friends and family
Provide client with appropriate referrals to community agencies, 211 or Our VOICE Client Services Coordinator
Respond to hospital calls in teams of two whenever possible
Provide to all victims of sexual assault information regarding options and procedures
Know how to take emotional care of self and ask for help when needed
Give options, not answers or advice = client empowerment
Complete 21 hour Training
Pre-training interview and references required
Includes homework outside of sessions—readings and activities
1 session may be missed and made up
On Call Shifts: minimum 2 shifts each month
Monday thru Friday 5 pm to 8 am
Saturday and Sunday 8 am to 8 am
Office Holidays 8 am to 8 am
Respond to on-call calendar scheduling requests by 20th of each month
Responsible for finding coverage if not able to cover shift
Attend In-Service Meetings held monthly
Learn new policies, laws and current issues
Guest presenters on special topics
Share concerns and case examples with other advocates
Feel connected to the community of Our VOICE Advocates
Mandatory attendance for minimum of 4 out of 12 meetings
Report Client Contacts
All calls and hospital accompaniments must be reported no later than 9 am the next business day
Reports can be submitted in person or online
Requirements: Reliable transportation, cell phone and internet/email.
If you have any questions, please contact Quinn, the Volunteer Coordinator at (828) 252-0562 ext 105 or email them at [email protected].
https://www.facebook.com/events/965422873648464/
“Oyster, Oyster” is back at Legends. Join us every Thursday night at Legends on the Lake starting at 5:30pm. Fresh $.60 Oyster Raw Bar. And Chef features from the kitchen including:
• Oysters Rockefeller
• Oyster Scampi
For details, please call 828.694.3045.
https://www.facebook.com/events/379711562563277/?event_time_id=379711622563271
Come see what Lower School at IC Imagine is all about, join us for our Open House for prospective families!
The evening will begin with a presentation from Jenn Townley, Head of School, Erika Wellman, Director of Fine Arts and Lower School Principal and Assistant Principal, Jamie Williams and Ellen Girardi. Kindergarten families will have the opportunity to hear about Kindergarten programming and have a question and answer session with the Kindergarten team.
This event will take place at our Lower School Campus:
1000 Brevard Rd. Suite 175
Asheville, NC 28806
https://www.facebook.com/events/2257235287930464/
Join Byron Ballard for the annual candle-blessing at Asheville Raven & Crone. Bring the candles you’ll be using this year and have them blessed with song, dance and prayer. We’ll each light a candle with Brigid’s Fire from Kildare and smoor them down to return to our own hearths. A sweet way to begin Imbolc.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1937697076313594/
Corner Table discussion group will be starting again at Currahee Brewery. We will meet on Thursdays at 6:00, with our first meeting this Thursday, January 10, 2019. Discussion leaders will be Karen Kleuver and Beverly Barnett from First United Methodist Church. We will be keeping the same general format as before.
Please come join us and invite others that you think might be interested. The questions for this week will be:
1. When in your life have you ever had an “epiphany”, or a moment of awakening where a light bulb came on for you?
2. In what ways has life been like a journey for you?
3. What are you searching for now, and what in direction do want your life to go?
4. What is a trip you have been on (good or bad) that you will never forget?
You should also feel free to bring your own questions.
https://www.facebook.com/events/287037198831923/
https://www.facebook.com/events/331591910788388/
In the final battle with drug-resistant bacteria, one woman’s blood holds a secret weapon. Rory and her father have survived the antibiotic crisis that has killed millions, including Rory’s mother–but ingenuity and perseverance aren’t their only advantages. When a stoic and scarred young military veteran enters their quiet life, Rory is drawn to him against her better judgment . . . until he exposes the secrets her mother and father kept from her, including the fact that her own blood may hold the cure the world needs, and she is the target of groups fighting to reach it first. When the government comes after Rory, aiming to use her for a cure it can sell to the highest bidder, she’s forced to flee with her father and their new protector. But can she find the new path of human evolution before the government finds her?
Rachael Sparks was born in Waco, Texas. She graduated with a degree in microbiology from Texas A&M University and her first college job was ghostwriting a nonfiction science book. After a decade-long career in Austin, Texas, as a transplant specialist, she joined a startup fighting healthcare acquired infections. After relocating with her husband, young daughter, and mother to Asheville, North Carolina, she finally put her first novel onto the page. In her free time she serves on the board of the Asheville Museum of Science and loves to cook, brew, garden, and spend time with friends and family in between obsessively researching new science concepts, history, or new recipes.
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/312981526221064/
Join me at Malaprop’s Bookstore for a reading and signing!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2235908326655186/
Your monthly dose of vinyl is here!
DJ Stylus (aka Robin Tolleson) spins the best wax and sets the groove in motion.
Cheers!
https://www.facebook.com/events/145314503026093/
The Asheville Marathon and Half Training Group will have weekly technique and Hill Training on Thursday evenings at 6pm at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Parking Lot – OLLI – UNCA.
Each workout will last one hour. During these workout sessions we will be doing some hill interval training (everyone’s favorite) to improve your hill technique as well as your conditioning.
If you haven’t already registered for the marathon or half marathon training group, you can sign up online and attend these technique and hill trainings and our weekeng long runs. Find out more here –> http://ashevillemarathon.com/community/training/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2133268403589289/?event_time_id=2133268446922618
Patrick Dodd, a fan-favorite contestant from The Voice, will be joining us every Thursday to rock out with his band and the occasional special guest. Swing on by the Tasting Room for some southern-styled rock and jam influenced tunes, $3 pints of Highland Pilsner, and a limited small batch brew that we like to call For the Love of Dodd!
About Patrick Dodd
After years of honing his chops on Beale Street in Memphis, TN, Native Memphian, Patrick Dodd was recently thrust into the national spotlight as a contestant on NBC’s The Voice. Viewers loved his signature rasping growl that echoes with soul and heartfelt rocking rhythm that Dodd displayed on stage for a worldwide audience to hear! Viewers cried “Foul” when Dodd was eliminated from the show and demanded that he get on the road and tour.
Patrick and his band have been influenced by such gifted players as Gregg Allman, The Black Crowes, The Black Keys, Gov’t Mule and Derek Trucks along with soul icons like Steve Wonder and Ray Charles. The group gets every room moving, from the first note to the final guitar flourishes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2288090488099272/
Patrick Dodd, a fan-favorite contestant from The Voice, will be joining us every Thursday to rock out with his band and the occasional special guest. Swing on by the Tasting Room for some southern-styled rock and jam influenced tunes, $3 pints of Highland Pilsner, and a limited small batch brew that we like to call For the Love of Dodd!
About Patrick Dodd
After years of honing his chops on Beale Street in Memphis, TN, Native Memphian, Patrick Dodd was recently thrust into the national spotlight as a contestant on NBC’s The Voice. Viewers loved his signature rasping growl that echoes with soul and heartfelt rocking rhythm that Dodd displayed on stage for a worldwide audience to hear! Viewers cried “Foul” when Dodd was eliminated from the show and demanded that he get on the road and tour.
Patrick and his band have been influenced by such gifted players as Gregg Allman, The Black Crowes, The Black Keys, Gov’t Mule and Derek Trucks along with soul icons like Steve Wonder and Ray Charles. The group gets every room moving, from the first note to the final guitar flourishes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2288090488099272/?event_time_id=2288090504765937
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=1231329463700584
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=302734213693462
The 3rd Annual Asheville Winter Swim League will kickoff in January and go through February. All levels and abilities of swimmers are welcome to attend!
What is the AVL Swim League? The intention of the swim league is to build a better swimming community in WNC. All levels and abilities of swimmers will be training together in a friendly, cohesive, structured and coached GROUP atmosphere.
How is the AVL structured? The Swim League is intended for adults, ages 16 and Up, we welcome swimmers of all experience levels including Novice/Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced/Expert Swim Groups with swim leaders and pool-side support and instruction.
Location: All swims unless otherwise noted will meet at the Leila Patterson Center in Fletcher, NC. The LPC Pool is an INDOOR, 25 Yard pool… pretty incredible! We meet Thursdays 6:30-7:30pm. We will have 3 lanes reserved for the Swim League. To prevent over crowding in the lanes, it will be first come first serve.
Cost: The Swim League is FREE. A $5 Suggested Donation for Coach Led Swims are accepted when you sign in at the swim. These donations are for iDream Athletes Foundation and for our coaches/leaders on the pool-deck at each group training.
Contact [email protected] with questions or suggestions!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1173582029474153/?event_time_id=1173582059474150