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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The premier of “Racist Roots,” a 25-minute film created by the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, exposes the death penalty’s deep entanglement with slavery, lynching and racism. The film features several stories of Black men, including an Asheville man, who were unjustly convicted and sentenced to death. Panel discussion will follow.
This event is presented by the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, as part of “Just Sentencing: How North Carolina’s Death Penalty Grew from Racist Roots.”
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Join Buncombe County Special Collections and the Asheville City Schools Foundation on Thursday evenings throughout the summer to enjoy screenings of football game review films from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. We especially invite AHS athletes past and present to enjoy these highlights of vintage games. Screenings will begin at 6 pm in the Lord Auditorium at Pack Memorial Library. |
Join Foundy Street, Wedge Brewing, and Grail Moviehouse for an outdoor screening of Xanadu, performances by Drag Queen Ganymede, DJ Set by Jaze Uries, exclusive limited seating from Sunnyside Trading Company, a Gospel Ice Cream Pop-Up, and lots of fun all benefitting Cat Fly Film Festival!
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which a team makes a movie – writes, shoots, and edits – in just 48 hours. Phew! The Awards Night will include a “Best of” screening of the TOP TEN short films, followed by an Intermission and the Awards, including the award for BEST FILM! Bring your family and friends to this fun, annual celebration of our creative local film community.
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Benefit for The Hope Chest For Women
Join us after hours to watch Luca (PG) in August. Films take place in the library community room after the library has closed. Popcorn will be served. Chairs will be out, but you’re welcome to bring blankets, sleeping bags, or pillows to sit on the floor.
Food and beverage welcome, but beverages must contain lids. No alcoholic beverages on library property and no child can be left unattended. Masks are not required in libraries but we ask you to respect other people’s space and wear a mask if you prefer.
Elf The Musical
MUSICAL
Book by Thomas Meehan & Bob Martin; Music by Matthew Sklar; Lyrics by Chad Beguelin
Directed by: Jeff Catanese
AUDITION DATES: AUDITION DATES HAVE BEEN CHANGED. NEW AUDITION DATES ARE: Saturday, August 27 5:30-8:30pm and Sunday, August 28 1:00-4:00pm with callbacks Tuesday, Aug 30th 6:30-9:30pm.
AUDITION FORM: Please fill out the Audition Form and sign up for an open time slot. Walk-ups are welcome (just be aware you may have to wait for an open slot). You can fill out the Audition Form at the audition, or save time and fill it out now!
CALLBACK DATE: Tuesday, August 30, 2022; 6:30-9:30 pm
PRODUCTION DATES: December 2-December 18, 2022; Performances: Fridays December 2, 9, 16 and Saturdays December 3, 10, and 17 at 7:30pm and Sundays December 4, 11, and 18 at 2:30pm. Extra Performance Added for Thursday, December 15 at 7:30pm. Student Matinee: Tuesday December 6th, 2022 at 10am. Cast must plan to arrive at least 1 hour prior to show time.
REHEARSALS: Production Calendar. Rehearsals will be held Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 6:30PM – 9:30PM beginning September 18th. A printed rehearsal calendar will be available at auditions – you are able to list any conflicts you have with the rehearsal schedule at this time.
DIRECTOR SEEKS: A cast of 9 principal roles and 10+ ensemble roles. Actors of all ages, gender identities, races, ethnicities, and disabilities will be considered for any desired role indicated on their audition sheet.
AUDITION MATERIAL:
Singing: Please prepare 16 bars of music and bring your sheet music to the audition in the key in which you will be singing. We will provide an accompanist. Acapella is fine if you don’t have sheet music. The music director will also have you sing scales.
Dance: All those auditioning will learn a short routine with choreographer Rose Pillmore. Dances will be modified as needed to ensure accessibility of choreographic content. No need to prepare in advance, just wear something you can move in.
Elf The Musical
MUSICAL
Book by Thomas Meehan & Bob Martin; Music by Matthew Sklar; Lyrics by Chad Beguelin
Directed by: Jeff Catanese
AUDITION DATES: AUDITION DATES HAVE BEEN CHANGED. NEW AUDITION DATES ARE: Saturday, August 27 5:30-8:30pm and Sunday, August 28 1:00-4:00pm with callbacks Tuesday, Aug 30th 6:30-9:30pm.
AUDITION FORM: Please fill out the Audition Form and sign up for an open time slot. Walk-ups are welcome (just be aware you may have to wait for an open slot). You can fill out the Audition Form at the audition, or save time and fill it out now!
CALLBACK DATE: Tuesday, August 30, 2022; 6:30-9:30 pm
PRODUCTION DATES: December 2-December 18, 2022; Performances: Fridays December 2, 9, 16 and Saturdays December 3, 10, and 17 at 7:30pm and Sundays December 4, 11, and 18 at 2:30pm. Extra Performance Added for Thursday, December 15 at 7:30pm. Student Matinee: Tuesday December 6th, 2022 at 10am. Cast must plan to arrive at least 1 hour prior to show time.
REHEARSALS: Production Calendar. Rehearsals will be held Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 6:30PM – 9:30PM beginning September 18th. A printed rehearsal calendar will be available at auditions – you are able to list any conflicts you have with the rehearsal schedule at this time.
DIRECTOR SEEKS: A cast of 9 principal roles and 10+ ensemble roles. Actors of all ages, gender identities, races, ethnicities, and disabilities will be considered for any desired role indicated on their audition sheet.
AUDITION MATERIAL:
Singing: Please prepare 16 bars of music and bring your sheet music to the audition in the key in which you will be singing. We will provide an accompanist. Acapella is fine if you don’t have sheet music. The music director will also have you sing scales.
Dance: All those auditioning will learn a short routine with choreographer Rose Pillmore. Dances will be modified as needed to ensure accessibility of choreographic content. No need to prepare in advance, just wear something you can move in.
Asheville Sister Cities celebrates our sister city in Nigeria with a screening of the PBS film Sacred Journeys. The film follows the Festival of Osun-Osogbo, an annual pilgrimage from Osun to Osogbo, Nigeria. It celebrates the goddess of fertility, Osun, and renews the contract between humans and the divine.
This ceremony is part of the Yoruba religion, which has upwards of 100 million practitioners, and is one of the world’s 10 largest religions. Door open at 6:00 pm for Refreshments and followed by film viewing and discussion FREE to Attend! Donations accepted. The Collider, Downtown Asheville
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. Theremins, synthesizers and feedback machines abound in this glorious ode to the women who helped shape, not just electronic music but the contemporary soundscape as we know it.
Avant-garde composer Laurie Anderson narration accompanies fascinating archival footage to trace the history of the technological experimentation of sound, the deconstruction of its parts and the manipulation into something altogether other. While traversing a range of musical approaches and personalities, from academia to outsider art to television commercials, we meet Clara Rockmore, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Laurie Spiegel and Eliane Radigue, among many other fascinating and enigmatic musical geniuses and their peculiar way of hearing the world.
Announcing youth auditions for Flat Rock Playhouse and Studio 52’s upcoming holiday productions of
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS, an adaptation of the 1965 animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, and A FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE CHRISTMAS.
All cast members must be fully vaccinated, along with the production team and all Flat Rock Playhouse staff. Proof of vaccination will be required upon being cast.
Auditions will be held by appointment on Wednesday, September 14, and Thursday, September 15, between 5 – 8 PM with invited callbacks on Saturday, September 17 from 10AM – 1PM. Actors who are invited to callbacks will receive an email invitation on Friday, September 16.
Auditioning young actors will be asked to sing a minute (16 – 32 bars) of a Broadway song or their favorite holiday song. Actors can sing a cappella or bring sheet music. An accompanist will be provided. We also ask that actors bring a recent photo of themselves and a resume or list of experience, if possible. Please be prepared to list any conflicts at your audition. (Again, Studio 52 classes will not be considered a conflict for casting.)
Flat Rock Playhouse seeks a small Youth Ensemble ages 10-18 for A FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE CHRISTMAS, with rehearsals beginning November 13 and the production running November 25 through December 22.
Studio 52 seeks a diverse company of young actors and singers, ages 10 – 18, for the following roles in A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS:
CHARLIE BROWN
SNOOPY
LUCY VAN PELT
LINUS VAN PELT
PIG PEN
FRIEDA
SCHROEDER
VIOLET
SALLY BROWN
PATTY
SHERMY
WOODSTOCK
ENSEMBLE (will also understudy named roles)
Phantom Thread
2017 ‧ 2h 11m ‧ R
September’s Craft Cinema screening is the 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson film, “Phantom Thread.” The film is set in a 1950’s London haute couture dressmaking atelier and follows the exacting fashion designer, Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis), who embroiders secret messages into his garments. The film depicts the laborious, hand-executed sewing, tailoring, and drapery techniques of couture garment-making and won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
Phantom Thread is rated R by the MPAA for language.
Complimentary beverages and popcorn courtesy of Bhramari Brewing Co. and Poppy Handcrafted popcorn are provided. Thank you to our Craft Cinema series sponsor, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Join Grail Moviehouse in partnership with the Magnetic Theatre for a presentation of the original 1931 FRANKENSTEIN. This classic sci-fi / horror tells the story of Henry Frankenstein, who digs up corpses in order to assemble a living being from different body parts, resulting in the famed monster, played by the legendary Boris Karloff.
A percentage of the proceeds will benefit The Magnetic Theatre and their production of THE FRANKENSTEIN RUBRICS, by local playwright David Hopes.
More about THE FRANKENSTEIN RUBRICS:
The Magnetic Theatre presents The Frankenstein Rubrics
Written by local playwright David Hopes
Directed by Doug Savitt
October 7-22 with shows Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm and 4pm on Sundays
The Hunt For Planet B, the story about the building of the world’s most powerful telescope will screen at the Collider in Asheville on October 1, 2022 at 2pm. Admission is free. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space telescope allowing scientists for the first time to see the very first stars and galaxies in the universe 13 billion light years into outer space.
| Screening Sponsored by ASRC Federal, Asheville Museum of Science and CASE Consultants International ASHEVILLE, N.C., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Hunt For Planet B, the story about the building of the world’s most powerful telescope will screen at the Collider in Asheville on October 1, 2022 at 2pm. Admission is free. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space telescope allowing scientists for the first time to see the very first stars and galaxies in the universe 13 billion light years into outer space.   The screening is sponsored by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC Federal) in collaboration with the Asheville Museum of Science and CASE Consultants International, a climate sustainability and solutions company. ASRC Federal was instrumental in the construction of the James Webb Space Telescope. Prior to the film’s screening ASRC Federal JWST Photographer Chris Gunn and ASRC Federal JWST Outreach Lead Peter Sooy will relate personal stories and answer questions. |
Event Details
Event Details
Join Grail Moviehouse in partnership with the Magnetic Theatre for a presentation of the original 1931 FRANKENSTEIN. This classic sci-fi / horror tells the story of Henry Frankenstein, who digs up corpses in order to assemble a living being from different body parts, resulting in the famed monster, played by the legendary Boris Karloff.
A percentage of the proceeds will benefit The Magnetic Theatre and their production of THE FRANKENSTEIN RUBRICS, by local playwright David Hopes.
More about THE FRANKENSTEIN RUBRICS:
The Magnetic Theatre presents The Frankenstein Rubrics
Written by local playwright David Hopes
Directed by Doug Savitt
October 7-22 with shows Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm and 4pm on Sundays
Join Grail Moviehouse in partnership with the Magnetic Theatre for a presentation of the original 1931 FRANKENSTEIN. This classic sci-fi / horror tells the story of Henry Frankenstein, who digs up corpses in order to assemble a living being from different body parts, resulting in the famed monster, played by the legendary Boris Karloff.
A percentage of the proceeds will benefit The Magnetic Theatre and their production of THE FRANKENSTEIN RUBRICS, by local playwright David Hopes.
More about THE FRANKENSTEIN RUBRICS:
The Magnetic Theatre presents The Frankenstein Rubrics
Written by local playwright David Hopes
Directed by Doug Savitt
October 7-22 with shows Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm and 4pm on Sundays
Director Wendy Strauss seeks 2 Men and 2 Women for this witty and heartfelt drama that showcases the tension between a father and son and the romance between an introverted dreamer and the woman who wants him! The story is set against the backdrop of a prolonged land dispute between two neighboring Irish farmers. Come on out and audition for this Readers Theatre Showcase show!
This pass includes access to the Gala reception and screening on Friday, two days of live films, seven days of virtual fim access, workshops, hospitality parties, and VIP Lounge.
This pass includes the screening to take place at the Historic Tryon Theatre with a gala and reception to take place at the Upstairs Artspace & McCowen St.
Asheville Children Audition for
NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet
Saturday, October 8
Local youth are invited to audition and perform in children’s roles in NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet alongside an international cast of world class artists from Ukraine, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan and more.
NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet is performing in Asheville on Dec. 20, at Harrah’s Cherokee at 4 and 8 p.m. with auditions hosted by local ballet school Center Stage Dance Studio, located at 38 Rosscraggon Road in Asheville on Oct. 8 at 9:30 a.m. The company invites local ballet students to fill children’s roles. In this opportunity of a lifetime, the students are coached by the classically trained Ukrainian soloists who teach them not only the choreography but the beautiful artistry of ballet in a bold and unique rendition of Tchaikovksy’s timeless holiday masterpiece.
Local youth ages six to 17 can audition for the roles of party children, mice, snowflakes, snow maidens, and variations through the “Dance-with-Us ” community engagement program. Auditions will be held in each performance city this fall. The “Dance-with-Us” program has brought more than 100,000 aspiring ballet dancers on stage with the professionals over the past 30 years.
Ukrainian audition director Anna Trafimova will lead the selection process. In this moment of international conflict, these soloists from leading opera houses in Ukraine bring a timely message of peace and harmony to American students.
Children in the cast rehearse for weeks at the local studio, preparing for the performance(s) that will take place under the bright lights of the Harrah’s Cherokee. On the performance day, the youth cast starts early with costume fittings having been assigned classical hand-sewn costumes designed by the highly acclaimed Arthur Oliver. A dress rehearsal will be held on stage with the professional company led by Ukrainian Artistic Director, Nobuhiro Terada, (artistic director of the National School in Kyiv.)
Tickets are available at www.nutcracker.com
Auditions www.nutcracker.com/dance.
See NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet Tues., Dec. 20 at 4 and 8 p.m. at Harrah’s Cherokee. Buy Tickets.
Center Stage Dance Studio / Center Stage offers classes in a variety of dance styles for children age three to 18 in Western North Carolina’s top rated dance facility since 1979. Unique among dance studios in the area, all members of our faculty hold degrees in dance or early childhood education, have danced with a professional company or maintain membership in Dance Masters of America. Our founder Michele Lee has remained committed to offering the highest quality dance education to students in western North Carolina for over thirty years. The success of Center Stage lies in maintaining positive relationships with our students and forming a life-long love of dance.
This pass includes access to all Saturday film screenings, workshops and hospitality parties during the live festival.
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This pass includes access to all film screenings for Saturday & Sunday, workshops, hospitality parties and Award Ceremony during the live festival.