Calendar of Events

A three part pop-up series featuring local artists, this event is both a great opportunity to grab something unique for the folks you love (and yourself!) and a fundraiser for the Firestorm Community Sustainers Program. A portion of each sale will help to underwrite social movement space and grassroots community programming at our co-op.

Different artists will be featured on each date, so plan to attend all three! Hours will be 11am to 4pm.

Saturday, Dec. 15th
Including Talia Scarpelli, MKR Fiber Arts, and Retool

Sunday, Dec. 16th
Including Bear Dog Designs, Sticks & Stones Craft Collective, and Madeline Owen

Saturday, Dec. 22nd
Including Abacus Corvus Artwork, HTV Jewelry, Ceramic Song, and Emily Eagan Art

https://www.facebook.com/events/1203847526432598/?event_time_id=1203847543099263

Do you or someone you know love wolves, dogs, love to paint, love wine, or just love to have fun and support our local wolfdog sanctuary while doing so??? Saturday, December 15th, come on out to Weinhaus at 86 Patton Ave in downtown Asheville for a wolf-themed Christmas “paint-and-sip” fundraiser!

Half of all tickets sales will be going directly to Full Moon Farm, a wolfdog santuary located in Black Mountain. (You can learn more about Full Moon Farm and its residents by clicking here: http://fullmoonfarm.org/ ) As it is with most animals, expenses can be much higher in the winter months, and running the sanctuary for these beautiful and majestic wolfdogs is no different. (They eat A LOT!) Not only will you be supporting the sanctuary by painting with us, but you will also have the opportunity to MEET one of the “ambassadogs” from the sanctuary, as well as talk to some of the volunteers and learn all about Full Moon Farm and wolfdogs!

Bring someone along as a Christmas gift, give someone this experience as a gift, give your finished painting as a gift, OR gift it all to yourself! (You’re TOTALLY allowed to do that.) The whole painting is instructed by one of our talented artists, step by step, and all supplies are provided. We also provide aprons to keep your clothes paint-free, and you get to take home your masterpiece at the end of class! Come ready to try a few brews or wines while you paint, which you can purchase right at the Weinhaus bar. (This event is definitely open to anyone younger than 21 years of age, and kids, too!)

Tickets are $35 per person and the class is limited to 32 guests, so get your tickets soonPlease purchase your tickets ahead of time, it helps us out greatly, and makes sure you get a spot.)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

https://www.facebook.com/events/291505568146659/

This fresh adaptation of the film is set in the fictional studio of WVL Radio Theatre, which is struggling to stay on the air one snowy winter’s night. The professional voice actors are unable to get to the studio, but the show must go on—and so a small but intrepid band of employees manages to create the story’s dozens of characters and scenes using just their voices and some everyday household items for sound effects.

https://www.facebook.com/events/334279477356360/?event_time_id=334279504023024

We all have that “One Night Out Outfit”. One, that has been sitting in the closet for past few years or decades? Is it a Flapper Party Dress from New Year’s Eve 2015? Best man’s tuxedo? Prom outfit? Ballroom gown? Last year’s birthday party look? One from “theatre sale” rack?
Bring it in, and swap it for a fresh new look just in time for the New Year’s Eve Party!
Sparkles, lace, rhinestones, ruffle, feathers, sequin, corsets, fur, fringe – bring it all!
Don’t forget about shoes and accessories!
All sizes, all styles, all genders – ALL ARE WELCOME! Revamp your closet at no cost to you, and no harm to the Planet.
Five dollars suggested donation to Community Roots, and you can swap till you drop!
We will serve sparkling, hot chocolate and biodegradable glitter till run out!
Let’s play dress up! Let’s celebrate!

P.S.
Please, RSVP (get your free ticket from Eventbrite). It will help us get the right amount of supplies. Also, be sure to bring your ID, if planning to have some bubbly! Cheers!

https://www.facebook.com/events/567386367040037/

Mount Inspiration & One World Brewing West present: Cheers for Charity! A fundraising event hosted at One World West.

This will be BY FAR the most fun holiday fundraising event you’ve ever experienced. The event is donation based and open to the public. WEAR THE CRAZIEST HOLIDAY OUTFIT YOU HAVE! There will be a prize for the wildest costume. Details will be updated as they solidify.

The basics:

– 6 p.m.: “Doors open!”
– 6:30 p.m.: Everyone participating is split into random teams (different colored bandanas will be randomly distributed to determine teams), and each nonprofit will say a few words.
– 7 p.m.: Everyone is free to move around the bar and participate in games (giant Jenga, ring toss, trivia, etc.). Each game you win will earn you a point for your team.
– 8 p.m.: Each individual on the winning team will receive a prize pack (prizes TBD). The big time raffle will start (raffle prized TBD)! Craziest holiday costume winner is chosen (crazy costume prize TBD).
– 9 p.m.: Stick around for some AWESOME music! PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) & Center of Motion at OWBW will start to play.

This event will be a fundraiser for:
1. Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
2. Dogwood Alliance
3. Appalachian Trail Conservancy

Participants are limited (total participants TBD). This event will be first come first sign up. If you’d like to participate, RSVP “GOING” to this event so that you’ll get a reminder to be at the event before 6 p.m., and hopefully you’ll get there in time to be on one of the teams! Dec. 15th SantaCon, A Red, White and Bearded Event! participants… be here or be square!

https://www.facebook.com/events/299532280688720/

This fresh adaptation of the film is set in the fictional studio of WVL Radio Theatre, which is struggling to stay on the air one snowy winter’s night. The professional voice actors are unable to get to the studio, but the show must go on—and so a small but intrepid band of employees manages to create the story’s dozens of characters and scenes using just their voices and some everyday household items for sound effects.

https://www.facebook.com/events/334279477356360/

This fresh adaptation of the film is set in the fictional studio of WVL Radio Theatre, which is struggling to stay on the air one snowy winter’s night. The professional voice actors are unable to get to the studio, but the show must go on—and so a small but intrepid band of employees manages to create the story’s dozens of characters and scenes using just their voices and some everyday household items for sound effects.

https://www.facebook.com/events/334279477356360/?event_time_id=334279534023021

Mount St. Helen’s nuns are putting on a Christmas show which is an original ballet based on “The Nutcracker“. The show is filled with the traditional “nunsense humor” and one-liners that have made the Nunsense shows so popular.

~~En Español abajo~~

Mark your calendars, call a sitter, tell all your friends… The annual Champagne and Oysters holiday formal is back for another round, bigger and better than ever!

Urban Orchard Cider Company will host us at their amazing new South Slope location.

More details to come, but look forward to great outfits, even better people, cider and beer specials, photo booth, DJ and late night dance party, and of course the titular champagne and oysters.

This event will be a fundraiser for Just Economics, a local non-profit organization that works to support living wages for WNC workers, affordable housing, effective public transit, grassroots leadership, civic engagement, and community resilience.

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¡Vuelve la fiesta formal “Champaña y Ostras” para otra ronda, más grande y mejor que nunca!

Esta vez, nuestro anfitrión será Urban Orchard Sidrería en su nueva ubicación al sur del centro de Asheville.

Habrán más detalles en las próximas semanas, pero pueden contar con trajes bonitos, muy buena gente, bebidas geniales, fotografía, música para una fiesta de baile, y por supuesto ostras y champaña.

Este evento sirve para recaudar fondos para Just Economics, una organización que trabaja para trabajadores, transporte público, vivienda asequible y desarrollo comunitario.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1399149836886579/

Mount St. Helen’s nuns are putting on a Christmas show which is an original ballet based on “The Nutcracker“. The show is filled with the traditional “nunsense humor” and one-liners that have made the Nunsense shows so popular.

Tis’ the season for a Murder Mystery! Put on your best ugly Christmas sweater and come join us for a festive collaboration with The Watermark Theatre Collective, The Monte Vista Hotel, and Milton’s on December 16th at 4:30PM! Enjoy dinner, dessert, and an interactive show where guests will be asked to help characters determine who the mystery killer is. This will be a fun and exciting evening of dinner theatre you don’t want to miss! There will also be an Ugly Sweater Competition!

More Info:
A murder mystery dinner is a type of dinner theater in which audience members cooperate with each other and interact with performance cast members in order to solve a fictitious murder scene. Murder mystery dinner shows are most often comedic in nature and performed in coordination with the serving of a multi-course meal. The goal of a murder mystery dinner is for participants to gather clues provided throughout the plot and use them to deduce the identity and motive of the “murderer.”

Sunday December 16th, 2018
$55 per ticket includes Dinner, Dessert, and the Murder Mystery Dinner Experience

Dinner Menu

Mixed green salad, toasted almonds, shaved apple and a balsamic vinaigrette

Braised beef short rib, butternut grits, grilled broccoli
or
Roasted butternut squash, pumpkin seed granola, carrot purée, sage and a house made farmers cheese

Lemon tart, toasted meringue, and blueberries

Call (828) 669-8870 if you have any questions!

https://www.facebook.com/events/712796179094450/

This will be our next meeting time rescheduled from the canceled Dec. 13th meeting.
We’ll have plenty of hot coffee waiting on you as we gather together to discuss the 2019 Tourism & Events Season for our Village. We’ll provide an update on the Dec. 7th Chili cook-off fundraiser too. It was a big success!

Your CDA Board of Directors

https://www.facebook.com/events/210244009889745/

Theatre of the Oppressed (T.O.) is a form of popular community-based education that uses theater as a tool for social change. Originally developed out of Augusto Boal’s revolutionary work with peasant and worker populations in Latin America, it is now used all over the world for social and political activism, conflict resolution, community building, therapy, and government legislation. It is also practiced on a grassroots level by community organizers, activists, teachers, social workers, cultural animators, and more. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as “spect-actors” they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living.

Lise Kloeppel joined the UNC Asheville Drama Department in 2008, where she’s been actively involved with TheatreUNCA as an actress (Urinetown) and director (The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek). She has experience in a variety of educational and community settings as a public school teacher, teaching artist, administrator, and community-based artist.

“With a background in popular education (Freire) and theater of the oppressed (Boal) philosophy and practices, I use theater and the arts as an educational and community-building tool for people from all different ages, experiences, and backgrounds to find new ways of actively engaging in the world around them. I am interested in the role artists play in society and how we can use our tools of transformation to create a more just, peaceful, and connected world.” – Lise Kloeppel

https://www.facebook.com/events/310235959700113/

Let us take the stress away of gift wrapping and let us take care of it! We are wrapping gifts for donations from now until Christmas Eve. The money will benefit the fur babies of Henderson County.?

https://www.facebook.com/events/374543749962026/

School is out and we want to celebrate by having a social and fundraiser with our good friends Ben and Jerry! Come and eat ice cream from 6:30-8:30 and 20% of the profits go towards YO! What?! So come out and support your favorite local LGBT+ youth non-profit and eat your favorite ice cream!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/343699019782124/

The Fourmata quartet will be competing with 14 other (Jr Varsity quartet contest) at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in January! Enjoy an evening of singing, group-singing and fun, sponsored by Asheville a cappella groups.
#BHSOPRY

https://www.facebook.com/events/342353493016555/

Catawba Brewing is proud to participate in the Resilience IPA fundraiser project in partnership with over 1000 craft breweries across the country.

Giving back to our local communities has always been at the top of the Catawba mission statement, and we’re happy to help Sierra Nevada give back to theirs by donating 100% of our Resilience IPA sales to the Camp Fire Relief Fund.

Look for our Resilience IPA to start pouring in Catawba tasting rooms on Friday, December 21. Please come out and join us as we raise a glass to our friends and fellow craft beer lovers on the West Coast.

https://www.facebook.com/events/360380184720183/

Catawba Brewing is proud to participate in the Resilience IPA fundraiser project in partnership with over 1000 craft breweries across the country.

Giving back to our local communities has always been at the top of the Catawba mission statement, and we’re happy to help Sierra Nevada give back to theirs by donating 100% of our Resilience IPA sales to the Camp Fire Relief Fund.

Look for our Resilience IPA to start pouring in Catawba tasting rooms on Friday, December 21. Please come out and join us as we raise a glass to our friends and fellow craft beer lovers on the West Coast.

https://www.facebook.com/events/270031890362947/

We’re so excited to be part of the campaign for Sierra Nevada’s Resilience IPA.

We’ll be releasing this brew at both locations on Friday, 12/21, to support Sierra Nevada’s efforts to rebuild following the California fires.

About Resilience IPA:

ALCOHOL CONTENT 6.8% by volume
BEGINNING GRAVITY 16.0° plato
ENDING GRAVITY 4.0° plato
BITTERNESS UNITS 65

YEAST Ale yeast
BITTERING HOPS Chinook, Centennial
FINISHING HOPS Cascade, Centennial
MALTS Two-row Pale, Caramel

From Sierra Nevada:

When the Camp Fire started in the hills above our Chico brewery on November 8, 2018, it soon became the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The fire burned more than 153,000 acres, killed at least 85 people, and destroyed more than 13,000 homes. Many of our employees and community members were severely impacted by this tragic event.

In the days following the fire, we announced plans to brew Resilience Butte County Proud IPA, a fundraiser beer for Camp Fire relief. We committed to brewing the beer and donating 100% of the sales to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund, aimed at long-term community rebuilding support. And we asked every brewery in the country to do it with us.

We sent out the “bat signal” calling our friends in the industry, asking our suppliers to donate ingredients, asking other breweries (our competitors) to donate their time and labor costs, and asking our wholesalers and retailers to carry the beer for free. It was a big ask, and we never could have anticipated the response.

More than 1,400 breweries signed up to brew Resilience. Our suppliers donated ingredients to every brewery nationwide. Wholesalers and retailers agreed to carry the beer and donate every dollar they received. All of them agreed to do this for free to benefit people they had never met.

In all, Resilience Butte County Proud IPA should hit the market in mid-late December more than 17,000 barrels—or 4.2 million pints—strong. Every dollar Sierra Nevada receives will go to those impacted by the Camp Fire.

Thank you to the brewing community. Thank you to our suppliers. Thank you to our wholesalers and retailers. And thank you to every single customer who is helping us rebuild our Butte County community—one pint at a time.

https://www.facebook.com/events/722658004775027/

A three part pop-up series featuring local artists, this event is both a great opportunity to grab something unique for the folks you love (and yourself!) and a fundraiser for the Firestorm Community Sustainers Program. A portion of each sale will help to underwrite social movement space and grassroots community programming at our co-op.

Different artists will be featured on each date, so plan to attend all three! Hours will be 11am to 4pm.

Saturday, Dec. 15th
Including Talia Scarpelli, MKR Fiber Arts, and Retool

Sunday, Dec. 16th
Including Bear Dog Designs, Sticks & Stones Craft Collective, and Madeline Owen

Saturday, Dec. 22nd
Including Abacus Corvus Artwork, HTV Jewelry, Ceramic Song, and Emily Eagan Art

https://www.facebook.com/events/1203847526432598/

Come support TAAG at our Christmas bake sale! This will be our last fundraiser of the year! We will have last-minute stocking stuffers for your loved ones!

https://www.facebook.com/events/364001831041991/

We are excited to announce “The Garage on 25” is hosting an Online Playhouse Auction to Benefit Veterans Healing Farm! To view the playhouses or bid on them please visit:
https://bit.ly/2QxPbs9

There are 6 Handcrafted Children’s Playhouses to choose from and bid on – as well as a plethora of vintage, new and handmade items available.

Shipping for all items can be arranged at Winning Bidder’s Expense, or items may be picked up locally at The Garage on 25 in Fletcher, NC.

If you are financially able to provide the winning bid on a playhouse but have no use for one…you may choose to make the bid to benefit VHF itself for use at our farm.

Additionally, local visitors are encouraged to vote for their favorite playhouse by dropping one dollar ($1) for each vote in the containers provided near each house.

The playhouses are on display outside of The Garage on 25 for your viewing pleasure. Stop by and take pictures of your kids or yourself in front of them and share the pics on your Social Media site(s), or The Garages or VHF FB Page. Keep an eye out for Santa Visits to the playhouses as well.

Celebrity Officials will be judging the playhouses to choose which playhouse builders will receive Trophy Prizes. All vote-generated funds go directly to the VHF.

Last, but certainly not least, we want to thank all of the individuals and organizations who have donated time, supplies, energy and effort to help make this wonderful fundraiser possible.

https://www.facebook.com/events/273245946721437/