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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Art in Bloom – Plein Air Paintings
Half Day Camps ($125)
June 25 -29
July 9-13
July 23-27
July 20-Aug. 3
Every Saturday in July the park stays open late, until 9:00 p.m., so you can make more time for family memories. Enjoy evening train and stage shows, rides at dusk, and fun throughout the park.
What’s Cookin’? Clay Camp Ages 8-12 with Sara Ballek
July 9-13
Monday- Friday, 9am-12pm
Learning about the foods and tools in your kitchen can be exciting, but what if you had the chance to make some of your own? In this class, students will cook up ideas to create playful, sculptural objects from the kitchen. We will be focusing on using the wheel and hand building to create fun, functional objects for everyday use or play!
Phone: (828) 250-4754
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Preschool – (ages 3-5)
Location: 749 Fairview Rd. – Asheville
Library: Oakley / South Asheville
Preschool story times are geared towards 3-5 year-olds and include singing, stretchers, and creative activities.
Phone: (828) 250-6488
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Toddler – (ages 18 mos.-2 yrs.)
Location: 260 Overlook Rd. – Asheville
Library: Skyland / South Buncombe
Toddler Times are interactive story times for children ages 18 months to 3 years.
Phone: (828) 250-6482
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Baby – (ages 4 mos.-18 mos.)
Location: 41 N. Main St. – Weaverville
Library: Weaverville
Mother Goose Time is a lively language enrichment story time serving our youngest folks–the 4 month-old to 18 month-old set.
Phone: (828) 250-4752
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Preschool – (ages 3-5)
Location: 1030 Merrimon Ave. – Asheville
Library: North Asheville
Preschool story times are geared towards 3-5 year-olds and include singing, stretchers, and creative activities.
Phone: (828) 250-4754
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Toddler – (ages 18 mos.-2 yrs.)
Location: 749 Fairview Rd. – Asheville
Library: Oakley / South Asheville
Toddler Times are interactive story times for children ages 18 months to 3 years.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (828) 774-3000
Link: http://www.leicestercommunitycenter.com
Welcome Table Free Meal every Wednesday 11:30am-1:30pm
Slab It Up Clay Camp Ages 6-10 with Kelsey Sickmeyer
July 9-13
Monday- Friday, 2-5pm
We’re going to try all sorts of different techniques to turn flat slabs of clay into gorgeous works of art! 3-dimensional portraits, puzzles, boxes, and classic cups, plates and bowls. This camp is PERFECT for folks who LOVE to focus on decorative techniques. We’ll transform the surfaces of your work into fabulous designs that will look great anywhere.
Phone: (828) 250-4752
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Summer Reading Programs
Age Group: Family – (children of all ages)
Location: 1030 Merrimon Ave. – Asheville
Library: North Asheville
Bring a stuffed animal (or doll) that will spend a night in the library! We will have a brief storytime followed by an opportunity to inroduce your beloved stuffy to the group. Afterwards kids will read (to the best of their abilities) a story to their stuffy and then leave their stuffy for a night in the library. Pick up will be from 11-6 on Thursday. Age 18 months to 8 years. No groups please.
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For the seventh consecutive year, the Asheville Habitat ReStore at 31 Meadow Road near Biltmore Village is encouraging residents to show off their creativity and talent for a chance to win in the ReStore ReUse Contest. Garden shed, artist studio, chicken coop…tree house, playhouse, tiny house…if you recently built a structure like this using predominantly reused building materials, Habitat wants to know. The contest runs July 1-August 31 and submissions must be sent electronically. Information and entry form will be available on ashevillehabitat.org starting July 1 st . The purpose of the contest is to showcase innovative building projects constructed predominantly of used building materials. “Our customers often tell us about the projects they make using materials purchased at the ReStore. This contest is a great way to showcase their projects and inspire others to reuse, recycle and repurpose usable materials,” said Scott Stetson, ReStore General Manager. Five judges will select winners in the following categories: Furniture, Homesteading, Live and/or Work Space, Home Décor, Youth (age 16 and under), and Best in Show. Winners will be announced in mid-September.
While having school supplies may simply be an item on the ‘to-do’ list for many parents and guardians, for others, the calculator that their child needs, or a backpack without last year’s broken zippers, may not be in the cards. 
These parents—and especially their children—should not have to worry about heading into school without the necessary supplies. This is why the United Way has this drive and, by contributing the supplies our students need to succeed, we’re investing in the future of our community. Together we are stronger. United, we make a difference. #BackpacktotheFuture.
This year’s 2018 school supply drive will be July 9th trough July 27th. If you visit www.handsonasheville.org/
Based on the iconic animated film, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s Aladdin Jr. is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure.
Showtimes are Thursdays at 3:00PM, Fridays at 1:00PM and 4:00PM, Saturdays at 1:00PM and 4:00PM, and Sundays at 3:00PM.
125 S. Main St. Hendersonville, NC 28792
arth Skin is based upon the forms and textures of the earth using inspiration from aerial photography of Western North Carolina and topographical maps of local areas, including Pisgah National Forest and Balsam Range. Created by ceramic artists Trish Salmon and Crystal Allen, Earth Skin includes wall structures and pieces designed for mantles, shelves and tables. All works are available for purchase and a portion of the sales will be donated to The North Carolina Arboretum Society.
About the Artists
Trish Salmon
Trish has been studying clay for many years through the various classes available to her when she lived in the Atlanta area. Taking classes at Penland was a life changing experience and a turning point in her desire to become a studio ceramicist. She and her husband moved to Western North Carolina in 2007, and she has pursued her claywork full time after her career as a kitchen designer. Immediately after retirement, she enrolled in Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Program in clay where she received her Associate’s Degree in 2014. She currently is a member of the Odyssey Coop Gallery in the River Arts District in Asheville, NC. She is also a founding member of Artisans on Main in downtown Weaverville where her studio is and where her work is primarily displayed.
Crystal Allen
Before discovering ceramics, Crystal earned a degree in Graphic Art and Design. She has also taught calligraphy, dabbled in watercolors and and learned how to felt, dye and spin natural fibers from her own llamas and sheep. Most recently, Crystal completed the Professional Crafts: Clay Associates degree at Haywood Community College. Her pottery is primarily functional, with altered or hand built additions. Her pieces are produced in her studio, one of her favorite places on earth!
By highlighting these and other works, Brevard Music Center is presenting some of Bernstein’s greatest output and showing a wonderful variety of his music that is at the core of American classical music experience. We spend so much time celebrating the works of European masters like Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler, and Dvôrak. And those works all deserve to be celebrated. But they must stand alongside Bernstein, Copland, and Gershwin—these masters gave American classical music its voice.
It’s wonderful for Brevard to be joining in with orchestras and institutions all around the world in celebrating the birth of one of the most compelling musicians of our time…or any other time.
THE 2018 BREVARD MUSIC CENTER | LEONARD BERNSTEIN FESTIVAL
Sun., June 24: Beloved Bernstein
Mon., July 9: Bernstein & Friends
Thurs., July 12: Leonard Bernstein/An American Icon (free lecture/details to come)
Fri., July 13: A Bernstein Celebration
Sat., July 14: West Side Story (movie + live symphony)
Sun., July 15: Bernstein the Educator
Thurs., July 26 & Sat., July 28: Candide (opera with English supertitles)
Sun., August 5: Season Finale: Bernstein’s Mass
Art in Bloom – Plein Air Paintings
Half Day Camps ($125)
June 25 -29
July 9-13
July 23-27
July 20-Aug. 3
Every Saturday in July the park stays open late, until 9:00 p.m., so you can make more time for family memories. Enjoy evening train and stage shows, rides at dusk, and fun throughout the park.
What’s Cookin’? Clay Camp Ages 8-12 with Sara Ballek
July 9-13
Monday- Friday, 9am-12pm
Learning about the foods and tools in your kitchen can be exciting, but what if you had the chance to make some of your own? In this class, students will cook up ideas to create playful, sculptural objects from the kitchen. We will be focusing on using the wheel and hand building to create fun, functional objects for everyday use or play!
Phone: (828) 250-6488
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Preschool – (ages 3-5)
Location: 260 Overlook Rd. – Asheville
Library: Skyland / South Buncombe
Preschool story times are geared towards 3-5 year-olds and include singing, stretchers, and creative activities.
Phone: 828-250-4756
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Toddler – (ages 18 mos.-2 yrs.)
Location: 105 N. Dougherty St. – Black Mountain
Library: Black Mountain
Toddler Times are lively interactive story times for children ages 18 months to 3 years.
Phone: (828) 250-4758
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Toddler – (ages 18 mos.-2 yrs.)
Location: 1404 Sandhill Rd. – Candler
Library: Enka-Candler
Toddler Times are interactive story times for children ages 18 months to 3 years.
Phone: (828) 250-4754
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Baby – (ages 4 mos.-18 mos.)
Location: 749 Fairview Rd. – Asheville
Library: Oakley / South Asheville
Mother Goose Time is a lively language enrichment story time serving our youngest folks–the 4 month-old to 18 month-old set.
Phone: (828) 250-4750
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Preschool – (ages 3-5)
Location: 942 Haywood Rd. – Asheville
Library: West Asheville
Preschool story times are geared towards 3-5 year-olds and include singing, stretchers, and creative activities.
Slab It Up Clay Camp Ages 6-10 with Kelsey Sickmeyer
July 9-13
Monday- Friday, 2-5pm
We’re going to try all sorts of different techniques to turn flat slabs of clay into gorgeous works of art! 3-dimensional portraits, puzzles, boxes, and classic cups, plates and bowls. This camp is PERFECT for folks who LOVE to focus on decorative techniques. We’ll transform the surfaces of your work into fabulous designs that will look great anywhere.
Phone: (828) 250-6482
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Performance,Summer Reading Programs
Age Group: Family – (children of all ages)
Location: 41 N. Main St. – Weaverville
Library: Weaverville
Multi-instrumentalist Paul Hutchison brings the science of sound to life with a live performance! Please pick up your free tickets beginning June 28th.
Phone: (828) 250-6480
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Arts & Crafts
Age Group: Family – (children of all ages),Adult
Location: 1561 Alexander Rd. – Leicester
Library: Leicester
Have you always wanted to learn how to knit? Do you have any unfinished knitting or crochet projects hanging around? If so, come join us for an afternoon free workshop with Ellen Whitcomb who has taught knitting to adults and children for over 30 years. Supplies are available for use during the workshop, but bring your own if you can. Experienced knitters are encouraged to sit and knit with us. All ages welcome.