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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- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
Tired of Thanksgiving left overs? Head over to Moe’s on airport Rd and enjoy a meal with friends and family. No need to tell them you are there for the fundraiser. They donate a % of sales from the designated time!
https://www.facebook.com/events/274321716762843/
Please join us for a fundraiser benefitting Karen “Skippy” Shuart.
Assistant Fire Marshal Karen Shuart was diagnosed with Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer in May of this year. Please join us in supporting her on her journey of healing and recovery.
~A percentage of sales during the event will go directly to help Karen offset expenses related to her treatment.
~RAFFLE: $5 per ticket, $20 for 5, Great Prizes!!!
~DATE AUCTION: Bid on an eligible human and receive a gift certificate to a local restaurant for an evening of fun and conversation.
~GAMES: Giant Jenga and Cornhole
https://www.facebook.com/events/529790900829169/
Baile at The Bywater is back with another Tuesday night of FREE vending, flow art, fire spinning and musical celebration open to the community! Fully equipped with an all-star cast of DJs on Tuesdays, we invite you to join us by the river for the Asheville Baile?
◊ Vendors & Traders Welcome (no fee)
◊ Host hangouts, seminars, yoga sessions, outreach events, meet ups, fundraisers, music performances, gatherings & celebrations, etc!
◊ Art / Flow space
◊ Paint, draw, craft, poi, hoop, fire, etc
9pm – 2am
PRODUCER/DJ SHOWCASE
This week’s featured musical guests:
KirbyBright
+ Special Guest
https://www.facebook.com/events/2229510147318448/
- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
The Retrocade is hosting a benefit for Our VOICE, Buncombe County’s sexual assault prevention and crisis intervention center.
Come play classic arcade games, drink a beer, and support an amazing cause! Half of your entry wristband will be donated to Our VOICE. There will also be a raffle for two super cool paintings by local artists. We look forward to seeing you there!
*21 And up after 9*
Join FSI at Juicy Lucys for lunch or dinner or take out on November 29 and they will donate 15% of the sales to our school. PLEASE MENTION FSI when you order. If we raise between $500 and $1,000 for our school, they will donate more!
They not only have the best burgers in town but they have awesome apps, the best milkshakes in town, pork, chicken, salads and seafood!
https://www.facebook.com/events/280070505955266/
Come jump with your kids, invite your friends, neighbors, and family! Jumping is for all ages. Help HSA raise money that will go towards upgrading security measures at school (i.e. access to campus, changing locks on doors, etc). Launch has agreed to give us 25% of proceeds from paying customers.
*When purchasing your tickets, please mention “Captain Gilmer Christian School”.
https://www.facebook.com/events/251470478857222/
- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
On November 29th 8pm-10pm there will be a scheduled Artist Meet and Greet/ Fundraiser for LEAF ONEmic Studio. Suggested donation starts at five dollars and the funds collected will be used to repair ONEmic instruments, purchase software updates, mend equipment that had been damage or lost during this past LEAF Festival.
Nex Millen will be in attendance to share inspiration on the creation of the exhibit along with performances by multi talented Hip Hop Artist Damon Snowden, vegan catering will be provided by Wadadli Dessert Oasis and an international dance party with DJ Red Iyah
If you can not attend the event on Nov 29th please feel free to visit The Block Off Biltmore any day during the month of November to experience the story of “Modern Ancestors”
Modern Ancestors is an Art Collection created by Hip Hop Scholor and Cultural Curator Nex Millen. It is “A celebration of Modern African American Hero’s through Canvas Art”
Combining Photography, Graphic Design and Graffiti Art. Nex creates colorful expression on 16×20 canvas that delivers a unique visual story.
Nex Millen is also a lead Teaching Artist for “LEAF ONEmic Studio U.S.” and their Electronic Music Experience program “EMErgence”
https://www.facebook.com/events/444448939421610/
Come “blaze a trail” to breakfast with us at Blaze Pizza! A percentage of food purchases on November 30th will go to LOT. You have to tell them that you are there to support Least of These or we don’t get credit for your purchase. We would love to see you there! Post of pic of you eating at Blaze!
https://www.facebook.com/events/554519948329772/
Middle School Movie Night sponsored by the FSI Community Council at the Bent Creek Baptist Church, 1554 Brevard Road-
Middle School movie is 4:30-6:30- “Home Alone”
$5 Tickets and pizza/snacks/drinks will be sold at the door!
This is a fundraiser for the Athletic Department!
https://www.facebook.com/events/290912594873138/
Join us and share the love as we celebrate the season by supporting local non-profits that concentrate on the homeless population and those in crisis throughout our Asheville and WNC community. *Admission is by donation at the door, you choose what you want to give!* Your gift will go a long way to help members of our community have a place to call HOME.
We have chosen 5 local non-profits to help support this year: Homeward Bound of WNC, Helpmate, BeLoved Asheville, Eliada, & Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry’s Steadfast House!
We have set our goal to raise $20,000 and we will be matching all donations up to $10,000!
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We are thrilled to have kids’ activities, visiting with Smokey Mountain Santa & Mrs. Claus, LIVE LOCAL music, ShutterBooth Asheville’s photo booth, LOCAL drinks, incredible silent auction & raffle with amazing finds donated from generous local businesses + more!
Schedule:
5pm – 6:30pm – Kids’ activities including photos with Smokey Mountain Santa & Mrs. Claus, games, face painting with The Page for Gyspy face & body art and more!
7pm – Dinner with amazing LOCAL food donated from all over Asheville & Western NC – PLUS Catering By Corey, LLC & MORE!
7:15pm – 10pm – Live Local Music from Leeda Lyric Jones & Swing Step!
FOR MORE INFO VISIT:
https://www.townandmountain.com/ashevillefundraiser/
Thanks so much to our sponsors so far: Lancaster Law Firm, PLLC, Goosmann, Rose, Colvard & Cramer Law Firm, Prestige Subaru, Diane Bauknight – State Farm Agent, Asheville-NC, Personal Touch Movers, Homes & Land of Asheville, Phillip C Price, Attorney at Law, United Federal Credit Union, The Hands of Sean Perry Co., ALCOVA Mortgage – Asheville, The Juengel Agency, Acopia Home Loans, PrimeLending – Asheville, Blue Mountain Pizza, L’optique, Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group, Chestnut, OysterHouse Brewing Company, Quality Home Consultants, Blue Sky Cafe, Doc Brown’s BBQ & Blue Dream Curry House!
https://www.facebook.com/events/260693891232998/
- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
Objective:
Create a new greenway where the approved path will run alongside NC 280 through the heart of Mills River, connecting the town to the French Broad River at Westfeldt Park, near the Asheville Airport.
Beer Release:
MRVT Oatmeal Stout — 5.3% ABV, 29 IBUs. Lots of flaked oats, chocolate and roasted barely went into this classic recipe.
Fundraiser:
$1 of every pint sold will be donated to the greenway project. The Town of Mills River successfully applied for grant funding to pay for 80% of the cost of the engineering phase of this project. But to receive this funding, a match of 20% of the cost must come from the local community. That means that every $1 given results in $5 of funding. So have a MRVT Oatmeal Stout and do your part!
Food:
The Hungry Ghost will be open from 4-9PM
Music:
Derek McCoy Trio will take the stage from 7-9PM
More info:
https://conservingcarolina.org/280-path/
https://www.facebook.com/events/259638288044671/
Biltmore Park Town Square will celebrate the magic of the holidays on Saturday, December 1st, 2018. Festivities begin at 2:30 p.m. throughout Town Square and will conclude with the tree lighting at 6:00 p.m.
Enjoy a full day of family fun including horse-drawn carriage rides, craft activities, face painting, music, stilt-walkers, strolling entertainment, balloon artists, caricatures, magicians, refreshments and much more!
Schedule of Events:
2:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. – Take the family for a stroll along Town Square to enjoy all the acitivities. Visit the many stores for special sales, in-store samplings, giveaways and much more!
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. – Enjoy a carriage ride through Town Square.
3:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. – Bring the kids for a visit with Santa near the Christmas Tree. Be sure to bring you camera to capture the magical moment.
6:00 p.m. – Help us countdown the for the first lighting of the Christmas Tree to kick off the holidays at Biltmore Park Town Square.
For more information about this free event, please call 828.210.1660.
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- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
Mountain Shag Clubs Christmas Party and Toys for Tots fundraiser is always a good time.
We hope you will join us!
RSVP’s needed soon.
https://www.facebook.com/events/310610423111982/
NC PAWS Rescue Fundraiser
25% of the proceeds to to helping kittys in our community
**PAINT YOUR PET**
CLASS- SUNDAY, December 2nd (2-5pm)
PHOTOS/PAYMENT ARE DUE- SATURDAY, November 24th
YOU CAN PAINT ANY PET!
This would also be a great gift to give to a loved one.
For More Information and to Sign Up, go to
https://www.facebook.com/events/246567926011944/
Please join us for a Family Game Night at The Capital Club 82 Patton Avenue Asheville North Carolina. There will be games such as Ping Pong, Giant Jenga, Corn Hole and Foosball. We will be showing the Falcons Patriots game on the large screen. There will be a cash bar selling wine and beer. Your admission includes appetizers and non alcoholic drinks. We look forward to seeing you then!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2225206814423739/
Come show your support for someone who has supported Jackson County for over 16 years!
Bill Bishop is a Jackson County Employee (Supervisor at Jackson County 911 Center) where he has worked for almost 17 years. He volunteered on Cullowhee Fire Department for 7 years and many people know him as “Santa” as he has volunteered in that role for many years here at county events.
On October 27th Bill had a massive stroke and was sent to Mission for Emergency Surgery, today he is still in St Josephs ICU. Bill has a very long road ahead of him and your support truly means the world to him, his wife Dee Dee and their five, four legged kids (all cats!).
Please come join us and his wife at the event, share stories, memories, laughs and enter in a raffle drawing to show support to a man who has supported his county and country his entire life. <3
BBQ Plates with sides and drink $10
Kids Hot dog plate, chips and drink $5
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Raffle Tickets $1 each or 12 for $10
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If you are unable to attend but would like a bag of BBQ or Raffle Tickets, please contact this page OR Jessica Buchanan, Connie Farmer, Danna Owen, Tracy Payne or Megan Nicholson
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Thank you and God Bless
https://www.facebook.com/events/983334391850631/
- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
One stop holiday shopping featuring over 15 local artists and small business owners. Food samples provided by the Creperie & Cafe
- Nearly one million twinkling lights
- Countless decorative images
- Holly Jolly Christmas Parade
- Animated Story Tree
- Animal Characters
- Nightly visits with Santa (start at 6:00PM through December 23)
- Warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire
- Hot cocoa, s’mores and other festive foods available for purchase
While you may spot a few night owls during Lights, most of our residents will be off-exhibit to catch some zzz’s.
Come enjoy a delectable French bistro buffet with complementary drinks and dessert by Chef/Owner Michel Baudouin at La Fête, a new private party place on the Bouchon block in downtown Asheville.
The festive evening is a fundraiser for The Roots Foundation, a local nonprofit connecting curriculum to the outdoors and empowering teachers to engage students in relevant problem solving. TRF currently works at Vance Elementary, Verner Early Learning Center and Montford North Star Academy and is the non-profit arm of Roots Hummus
This evening’s event will go directly towards student designed grade-level projects and teacher support for their implementation.
Tickets are going fast, so get yours now!
Can’t make it, but want to support? Buy a ticket for a teacher or make a donation online at www.rootsfound.org/donate
We are deeply grateful to Chef Michel for underwriting the food and staffing for this event.
https://www.facebook.com/events/301297740722779/
This Thursday, December 6th, you are cordially invited to the Astronomy Club of Asheville’s 7th annual club holiday social and fundraiser auction! The event begins at 6:30 p.m., giving you time to look over our selection of nice silent and live auction items (many of them make wonderful holiday gifts) as well as time to enjoy an appetizing spread of tasty food and refreshments!
The event is open to the general public and you need not be a member to attend.
While we are thrilled that our meeting attendance is typically astronomical (pun intended), we seldom have enough time to socialize and get to know our like-minded friends better. We’re a strange breed – we often meet in dark locations, craning our necks upwards and chatting for hours with folks we won’t recognize in the light of day. But Thursday you’ll have a chance to prove you’re not THAT strange (well…. myself excepted)! Please join us and partake in some esprit de corps, get to know each other better, bid on an item or two and contribute your company to make our holiday event a success.
AND… if you do attend, we promise you will LAUGH heartily at our guest auctioneer, Randy Latta. We haven’t a clue what character he will conjure (that’s part of the fun!) but we guarantee it will be entertaining. Do yourself a favor and come along – if not for the food, drink, good company or the chance to bid and possibly win any number of great items, then come for the LAUGHS!!!!
Those who attend and register for an auction paddle will automatically be entered to win one of three special door prizes.While you will need to be present to win, you need not bid on any item to be eligible. And if you have an item that might be suitable for our auction, please bring it along.
Food, drink, friends, prizes, a chance to show your support for our club, AND LAUGHTER. What’s not to like???
We hope to see you Thursday at the Manheimer Room at UNCA’s Reuter Center. The festivities start at 6:30 p.m.
Dominic
https://www.facebook.com/events/2227397277541401/
Give Mom the night off and let the kids jump, jump, jump away from 3-7 p.m. on Friday, December 7 at Asheville’s SKY ZONE trampoline park! Sponsored by FES Dad’s Club, 30% of all proceeds go to benefit this awesome group! Make sure to MENTION FES DAD’S CLUB AT THE REGISTER!
https://www.facebook.com/events/348361909062712/