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.
Looking for ways to optimize coziness this winter? Check out the Library’s Winter Reading Challenge! Starting Dec. 1, pick up a Winter Reading Activity Sheet from any Buncombe County Public Library during public service hours or download a PDF below. The activity sheet includes multiple ways kids and their families can enjoy the winter season together in a screen-free, socially distanced way. This free activity sheet is designed with kids in mind, but all are invited to participate. The focal challenge is to Build A Blizzard, in which kids are invited to make paper snowflakes to help decorate their local branch. Libraries will be offering the craft supplies needed to Build a Blizzard while supplies last, so plan to stop by your library soon!
We’ve made it dearest one’s! The rebirth of our soul is now complete. The Great Ma holds this new life at her breast and prepares for the beginning of a New Age and Paradigm! Please join in circle as we celebrate the end of a very long, hard, well won journey, and the beginning of a new one! Let us hold space for this beautiful, intimate moment together 
Looking for ways to optimize coziness this winter? Check out the Library’s Winter Reading Challenge! Starting Dec. 1, pick up a Winter Reading Activity Sheet from any Buncombe County Public Library during public service hours or download a PDF below. The activity sheet includes multiple ways kids and their families can enjoy the winter season together in a screen-free, socially distanced way. This free activity sheet is designed with kids in mind, but all are invited to participate. The focal challenge is to Build A Blizzard, in which kids are invited to make paper snowflakes to help decorate their local branch. Libraries will be offering the craft supplies needed to Build a Blizzard while supplies last, so plan to stop by your library soon!
DEEP DIVE is a 5Rhythms movement exploration of deep listening with Barbara Marlowe. How can our bodies trust us if we don’t listen? This internal oriented dance is great for all ranges of movement including limited and chair bound. Move at your own speed.
Bring dancing shoes and water. Arrive on time. Doors close at 10:45.
The SOMA Energized Meditation is designed to give you energy, clarity, and improve fitness and endurance in a fun and exciting way. This 75 min breathwork class combines music, dance, chanting, a sequence of pranayama techniques, and meditation to release tension, boost your mood, and train the body to become more efficient at using oxygen. Bring a yoga mat, water, and wear comfortable yoga-style clothing. All breathwork techniques should ideally be done on an empty stomach, or at least 1-2 hrs after eating a full meal.
Sliding Scale: $7 – $20
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purchases. (You can join the Friends at the bookstore). Anyone can donate books, CDs,
and DVDs at the store, but only during the hours it is open.
As with the book sales, everything at the bookstore is in excellent condition. Books are
shelved by author or subject so they are easy to find, and books are restocked
throughout the week. The store also sells CDs and DVDs.
The bookstore follows health guidelines. Anyone entering must wear a mask and
practice social distancing. Hand sanitizers are available. When the store is busy,
shopping is limited to 30 minutes.
a need for more volunteers to help at the bookstore. It is a great way to meet people
who love reading while also helping to support our library system.
purchases. (You can join the Friends at the bookstore). Anyone can donate books, CDs,
and DVDs at the store, but only during the hours it is open.
As with the book sales, everything at the bookstore is in excellent condition. Books are
shelved by author or subject so they are easy to find, and books are restocked
throughout the week. The store also sells CDs and DVDs.
The bookstore follows health guidelines. Anyone entering must wear a mask and
practice social distancing. Hand sanitizers are available. When the store is busy,
shopping is limited to 30 minutes.
a need for more volunteers to help at the bookstore. It is a great way to meet people
who love reading while also helping to support our library system.
purchases. (You can join the Friends at the bookstore). Anyone can donate books, CDs,
and DVDs at the store, but only during the hours it is open.
As with the book sales, everything at the bookstore is in excellent condition. Books are
shelved by author or subject so they are easy to find, and books are restocked
throughout the week. The store also sells CDs and DVDs.
The bookstore follows health guidelines. Anyone entering must wear a mask and
practice social distancing. Hand sanitizers are available. When the store is busy,
shopping is limited to 30 minutes.
a need for more volunteers to help at the bookstore. It is a great way to meet people
who love reading while also helping to support our library system.
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
Join us as we discuss, Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein via ZOOM. Registration is necessary. Newcomers are welcome!
Check the WILD book club’s Facebook page for COVID-19 related updates. Please RSVP the moderator at [email protected] for the Zoom meeting passcode for the meetings.
Join former Malaprop’s General Manager Linda-Marie Barrett for this woman-only book club that seeks to have fun by reading books (fiction & non) by women writers. Click here to see a full schedule of what the club is reading. Club attendees get 10% off the book at Malaprop’s!
The club meets at 6:30 P.M. on the first Tuesday of the month at the Battery Park Book Exchange. It will be held virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chat with other book lovers about this month’s book selection, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson.
To reserve your copy of the book, visit buncombe.nccardinal.org.
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
Law of Attraction (LOA) is a powerful guideline that can be utilized within our lives, and impacts ourselves as well as the collective consciousness. Let’s discuss practical, everyday ways we use and apply these tools in 2020! This session’s discussion will be, “Visualization exercises in LOA.” No advance prep, reading or knowledge required. Come with an open mind and heart, free of judgement, and let’s learn together! This is an inclusive, informal, interactive discussion for people will all levels of LOA understanding.
Some other topics we will cover in future discussions include:
– How to utilize LOA to manifest best case scenarios
– Gratitude practices as a tool in manifestation
– Honoring your own feelings, emotions and well being (and others) as a form of self care while manifesting
– Staying grounded, avoiding toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing when manifesting
– Visualization exercises in LOA
– Manifesting on specific themes (love, money, good health, etc.)
Discussions will be held by Kathryn Brahaney, myself. I’ve utilized Law of Attraction in having a significantly better recovery than anticipated from two major car accidents, in receiving a job offer that allowed me to relocate to Asheville, NC (where I live now) and in finding my favorite apartment to date in a city I wasn’t sure would be in my budget. I started these discussions to share my experience using Law of Attraction and to provide opportunities to learn more that are accessible and affordable. Looking forward to sharing more with you all and chatting about how we can use LOA in navigating the rest of 2020 and beyond!
Like most of our events, this event is free. If you decide to attend and to purchase the authors’ books, we ask that you purchase from Malaprop’s. When you do this you make it possible for us to continue hosting author events and you keep more dollars in our community. You may also support us by purchasing a gift card or making a donation of any amount below. Thank you!
By turns wrenching, transcendent, and haunting, the rich stories in Minus One follow characters whose lives are upended by death, estrangement, and loss-and the ways they must negotiate loneliness and absence to rebuild their new realities. In intimate portraits, a psychiatrist analyzes the missed signs of her stepson’s dangerous addiction, a resentful boy seeks revenge against his stepmother, a surgeon confronts his failed marriages, an artist searches for a new identity in widowhood, and a young dancer plots to escape a manipulative older partner. Woven through this slim and powerful volume are astute observations on how pain and grief can be inherited from one generation to the next. With tenderness and honesty, Doris Iarovici explores the plunging depths of the human experience, lingering on moments of familial warmth and joy but never shying away from conflict and tension. These stories reveal glimmers of hope and possibility, even in our darkest times.
Doris Iarovici is the author of American Dreaming and Other Stories. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian, and Crab Orchard Review. She works as a psychiatrist at Harvard University.
Elizabeth Kadetsky’s The Memory Eaters, winner of the Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction (U Mass Press, 2020), was named among “great books from small presses to read now” by Buzzfeed during the COVID pandemic, and was featured in the Boston Globe, The Rumpus, She Reads, and elsewhere. She is the author of the memoir FIRST THERE IS A MOUNTAIN (Dzanc Books rEprint series, 2019; and Little Brown, 2004), the novella ON THE ISLAND AT THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF THE WORLD (Nouvella, 2015), and the short story collection THE POISON THAT PURIFIES YOU (C&R Press, 2014). She is an associate professor of fiction and nonfiction at Penn State University and a nonfiction editor at New England Review.
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
purchases. (You can join the Friends at the bookstore). Anyone can donate books, CDs,
and DVDs at the store, but only during the hours it is open.
As with the book sales, everything at the bookstore is in excellent condition. Books are
shelved by author or subject so they are easy to find, and books are restocked
throughout the week. The store also sells CDs and DVDs.
The bookstore follows health guidelines. Anyone entering must wear a mask and
practice social distancing. Hand sanitizers are available. When the store is busy,
shopping is limited to 30 minutes.
a need for more volunteers to help at the bookstore. It is a great way to meet people
who love reading while also helping to support our library system.
Join us as we discuss Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney via ZOOM. Registration is necessary. Newcomers are welcome.
Join other literature lovers to discuss your favorite books over Zoom. This month’s pick is Year of Yes, by Shonda Rhimes. For the link to this month’s meeting, click “Sign Up.”
The Crime and Politics Book Club will be held virtually during the Covid-19 pandemic. Please email [email protected] for info and instructions to attend.
Join host and Malaprop’s Bookseller Patricia Furnish to discuss a range of books across true crime and public affairs. The club meets the first Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. Click here to learn more about the club, view important news, and find the pick for this month.
We’re pleased to be part of the Reader Meet Writer series of online events hosted by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. This event is presented by Ingram and sponsored by HarperCollins.
This event is free but registration is required. RSVP here to receive the Zoom registration link.
When you attend our events and decide to purchase the books featured, please purchase them from Malaprop’s. When you do this, you make it possible for us to conitnue bringing authors and readers together and keep more dollars in our community. If you would like to support us without purchasing a book, you may also purchase a gift card or make a donation of any amount below. Thank you!
Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates–a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name. But her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddie–not only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she’s always yearned for. Yet as Jane and Eddie fall for each other, Jane is increasingly haunted by the legend of Bea, an ambitious beauty with a rags-to-riches origin story, who launched a wildly successful southern lifestyle brand. How can she, plain Jane, ever measure up? And can she win Eddie’s heart before her past–or his–catches up to her? With delicious suspense, incisive wit, and a fresh, feminist sensibility, The Wife Upstairs flips the script on a timeless tale of forbidden romance, ill-advised attraction, and a wife who just won’t stay buried. In this vivid reimagining of one of literature’s most twisted love triangles, which Mrs. Rochester will get her happy ending?
Rachel Hawkins is the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books for young readers, and her work has been translated in over a dozen countries. She studied gender and sexuality in Victorian literature at Auburn University and currently lives in Alabama. The Wife Upstairs is her first adult novel.
Join me for this 4-week intensive program where you will dive into intuitive drawings, aura drawings and auragraphs.
Intuitive Art
Doodling your Feelings. Intuitive drawings can begin as simple doodle that will become more eloquent as you practice. You can use ballpoint pens, markers, gel pens or pastels. Draw for the surprise and joy of the process, without knowing in advance how each drawing will turn out.
Aura Drawings
Your energy field contains massive information about your life. The oval field surrounding you can reveal the energetic memory of your life before conception and to present day.
Auragraphs
An auragraph is a beautiful way of giving a psychic reading. It is a representation of a person’s life story, their past, present and potential future. A Psychic or Medium will tune into the auric field and draw a symbolic representation.
Each week we will discuss a different type of soul work. Each student will draw, read another student and receive a reading. Each reading is unique and contains information that your sitter is ready to hear, and the information Spirit wants you to have.
Be sure to bring paper and colored pencils or crayons (or anything that you would like to use to draw with).
This workshop will take place Thursday evenings at 7:30PM – for 4 weeks and 2 hours each. January 7 – 28, 2021
$90/person payable via paypal.me/mediumrobyn or Venmo (@Robyn-Wolf-11).
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
purchases. (You can join the Friends at the bookstore). Anyone can donate books, CDs,
and DVDs at the store, but only during the hours it is open.
As with the book sales, everything at the bookstore is in excellent condition. Books are
shelved by author or subject so they are easy to find, and books are restocked
throughout the week. The store also sells CDs and DVDs.
The bookstore follows health guidelines. Anyone entering must wear a mask and
practice social distancing. Hand sanitizers are available. When the store is busy,
shopping is limited to 30 minutes.
a need for more volunteers to help at the bookstore. It is a great way to meet people
who love reading while also helping to support our library system.
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
purchases. (You can join the Friends at the bookstore). Anyone can donate books, CDs,
and DVDs at the store, but only during the hours it is open.
As with the book sales, everything at the bookstore is in excellent condition. Books are
shelved by author or subject so they are easy to find, and books are restocked
throughout the week. The store also sells CDs and DVDs.
The bookstore follows health guidelines. Anyone entering must wear a mask and
practice social distancing. Hand sanitizers are available. When the store is busy,
shopping is limited to 30 minutes.
a need for more volunteers to help at the bookstore. It is a great way to meet people
who love reading while also helping to support our library system.
Activate your Rainbow Heart amidst the stunning red rock formations of Sedona with the Christed Light, Star Nations, Inner Earth Crystal Beings and the Aboriginal Elders of Uluru. Come into ALIGNMENT with the Ascended Gaia, your Inner Divinity and the Rainbow Serpent Vibration of the New Earth☀️🌈 2021 Bring it on! Amazing opportunities to EMBODY our Divine Birthright of Sovereignty and Freedom!
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.