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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Parade will kick off at 11am from County Square and end at 1pm. The festival will be in NOMA Square from 12 pm to 6pm.
Please join us and this year’s honorees:
Former U.S. Sec. of Education and S.C. Governor, Dick Riley-Grand Marshall
City of Greenville, Chief of Police, Ken Miller-Parade Commander
President of WYFF, John Humphries-Irish Businessman of the Year
Owner of Connolly’s, Suzanne Coe-Irishwoman of the Year
Founder of Greenville Ancient Order of Hibernians, Tom Bryan-Irishman of the Year
https://www.facebook.com/events/347221122675329/
A participant in the Internationalist Commune, a self-organized collective in Northern Syria, will join us for a video chat about the revolutionary movement to transform Kurdish territory into a stateless society.
The Internationalist commune of Rojava is one of the 3,000+ communes that have been created in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. They work closely with the Y.C.R (Yekitiya Ciwanen Rojava), the youth movement of Northern Syria, and they base themselves on the principles of democratic autonomy. Currently they are building the region’s first permanent non-military academy for internationalists. This academy will provide the basic education for internationalists who want to learn, work and organize there. They are also supporting the communal effort to reforest Rojava.
Less than a week later, don’t miss the Blue Ridge to Zagros Dessert Benefit!
https://www.facebook.com/events/308830383167725/
We are so luck of the Irish, and you will be too! Both Ginny McAfee, and Rory Kelly will bring their signature sounds to our vineyard stage. Don’t miss this special event celebrating St. Patrick’s Weekend!
And since we think everyone is a little bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve got a Luck of the Irish Deal too! Show your Irish side by wearing green and we’ll give you 2 for 1 tastings in the South Creek Tasting Room to the wearer’s of the GREEN! ‘Sláinte!’
Feast Eats will be open, Irish Stew & Irish Brown Bread on the menu!
https://www.facebook.com/events/352910865541194/
Who’s ready to celebrate the first anniversary of downtown Marion’s very first pub crawl?! This year will be bigger and better with the addition of new businesses.
Start rounding up all the green in your closet, practice your Irish accent, and start hydrating!
Participating Businesses
McDowell Local 11am-9pm
Burrito Bros. 11am-9pm
The Six Pack Factory 11am-11pm
Mountain Marquee 11am-12am
Mica Town Brewing 12pm-11pm
The Spillway Bridge & Co. 12pm-12am
Refinery 13 2pm-10pm
Crabby Abby’s Bar & Grill 12pm-10pm
Mulligan Mack’s After5 Pub & Grill 12pm-12am
Coley’s Graphics and More has designed and printed super fun tee shirts! They will be setup outside the Possibilities Day Program building at 81 S Main Street starting at 12:30pm and will sell them until they’re gone.
https://www.facebook.com/events/352601301996334/
Crawl with us during the St. Patrick’s Day FAB Crawl (Food, Art & Brew) in downtown Morganton.
Retailers, Restaurants, Breweries, Pubs, and Art Studios are signing up to participate in the ALL DAY FAB Crawl on Saturday, March 16th. This St. Patrick’s Day FAB Crawl will include some Irish favorites: chef’s specials, GREEN beer, music and more await all FAB Crawlers. Also, the Ridgeline Trolley will be available from 5:00-8:00pm that evening to help you get from spot to spot in downtown. And perhaps you’ll spy a leprechaun or two during your visit!
How do you participate? Each business will provide “crawlers” a punch card to get “punched” at each business visited (full list of businesses coming soon). Visit participating businesses and enter for a chance to win some great prizes!! Three lucky winners will receive some awesome prize packages! There is no cost to participate.
List of Businesses in the FAB Crawl:
•Adventure Bound Books – Open 11am-4pm followed by Poetry Night at The Grind Cafe from 5:30-7:00pm.
•Art and Soul
•Breathe Yoga & Wellness – Offering 6 class packages for first-time customers for $36. AND 3 private yoga or pilates sessions for $150 (can be split between 2 people).
•Brown Mountain Bottleworks – Irish Beers and special tap lineup. LIVE music from Sorella Jack from 7:30-10pm.
•Burke Arts Council
•Catawba Brewing Co. – Enjoy Green Beer, White Wine & Cider. Releasing Irish Red Beer. Have fun with jenga, corn hole and other patio games. LIVE music with Gotcha Groove from 8-11pm ($5 cover starting at 8pm).
•Fonta Flora Brewery – Irish Table Beer release.
•Green Eggs and Jam
•Gregory Jewelers – Featuring Celtic Designer Jewelry.
•Hamilton Williams Gallery
•Hot Box Vintage
•Main Street Jams
•Mindful Touch Massage & Wellness – $10 off coupons to crawlers that stop by between 11am-4:30pm.
•Morganton General Store – Shop with 8 local craft vendors and enjoy a Key Lime Scone from Swede’s Cafe.
•Overmountain Cycles – Join in for a 5:00pm bicycle ride around town. Best dressed rider and bike wins a prize!
•Reece Winery
•She’s Gone Country
•SideTracked
•Sketch Art Space – Artisan Market open from 10am-2pm. Handmade jewelry, oil paintings, and handmade paper flowers!
•The Grind Cafe – Featuring Poetry Night with Adventure Bound Books from 5:30-7pm.
•The Natural Olive – Enjoy their drink special: Green Sangria! With live music by The Michael Hefner Experience.
•The Nook – Guinness in Nitro Cans + music.
•Toasted and Rolled – Green cake pops, clover shaped green cookies, lucky charms ice-cream and mint chocolate chip ice-cream.
•Treat – Menu offering Fish & Chips. Featuring a cocktail special called the Four Leaf Clover.
•West Union Art Studio
•Yianni’s Restaurant
For a map of the F.A.B. Crawl, click here http://downtownmorganton.com/images/events/FAB_Map-ShoppingDining.pdf!
https://www.facebook.com/events/598251273949974/
As part of the Child and Adult Care Food Program, the YMCA of WNC Nutrition Department hosts free meals for anyone under the age of 18 at the Corpening Memorial YMCA every Saturday!
We serve lunches from 11am -1pm in the Corpening Y’s Multipurpose Room, and your family does not have to be a member of the Y to participate.
Please consider joining us for healthy food and enriching activities: arts & crafts, book club, rock climbing, and more!
For more information on accessing food and/or volunteering with the program visit: www.ymcawnc.org/nutritionprograms
https://www.facebook.com/events/2198750976848785/?event_time_id=2198750996848783
As part of the Child and Adult Care Food Program, the YMCA of WNC Nutrition Department hosts free meals for anyone under the age of 18 at the Ferguson Family YMCA every Saturday!
We serve lunches from 11am -1pm in the Ferguson Y’s Multipurpose Room, and your family does not have to be a member of the Y to participate.
Please consider joining us for healthy food and enriching activities: kids yoga, art, ping pong, and more!
For more information on accessing food and/or volunteering with the program visit: www.ymcawnc.org/nutritionprograms
https://www.facebook.com/events/492101114625413/?event_time_id=492101221292069
Saturday, March 16th starting at 11:30am
Location: Animal Hospital of North Asheville Education Room
Presented by Tristan Rehner-Fleurant, MS, CPDT-KA, CBCC-KA, CBATI of Pet Behavior Aid
People Only.
No Registration required. No fee to attend. Everyone welcome!
Does your dog growl, bark, lunge, and just get all into a tizzy when he sees other dogs or people? If so this class is for you. Learn body language so that you can better know what to expect, what steps you can take to prevent your dog from going into this state of mind, and lots more.
A little about our Free Help Sessions:
Our goal is to teach you what you need to know to help your pet. As much as we wish we could include your pet in this class, it is for humans only, so please leave all those sweet and wonderful pets at home.
These Help Sessions are free to the public on a first come, first seated basis. Please be aware that Animal Hospital of North Asheville will be seeing patients while the Help Session is in progress so some of our parking will be reserved for the families of patients needing care. Thank you for understanding.
In case of inclement weather, the class will be canceled. If you have any doubt about whether the class will be held, check our Facebook page or call Animal Hospital of North Asheville at 828-253-3393.
https://www.facebook.com/events/338032003456817/
Two day record swap and sale!
Saturday March 16th and Sunday March 17th
$10 to vend (per table) free to spend
12pm-6pm
Real live DJ’s spinning vinyl!
Food, beer, and cool vintage onsite all day too!
Asheville FM is our media sponsor and will have a table set-up
https://www.facebook.com/events/964204343777450/?event_time_id=964204350444116
It’s Pilates, with your POLE as a prop!
Join us for this mixed level Pilates mat class, taught by instructor Alexis Miller. The pole is a surprisingly versatile tool that will assist us in finding our alignment, posture, and core strength! This is a perfect cross-training for your pole dance or regular dance classes for building stability and strength in your upper body, abs, butt, and hips! No fancy pole trick skills required..we’ll be staying connected to the floor and finding fun ways to enhance our Pilates mat practice with the Pole as our prop and guide!
$15 – Reserve your spot here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=330572&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0
Alexis is a certified Classical Pilates instructor and dancer. After completely her Pilates certification in Seattle and San Francisco in 2010, she moved to Asheville and opened her studio Cisco Pilates in 2011. You may have seen her dancing alongside Kathleen with Lindsey Kelley Dance in Asheville. More info at www.ciscopilates.com.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2271080729603088/
Gathering an interest in the tarot at the ripe age of 13, Edward stored a wealth of knowledge and a balanced style to reading the cards. The cards he reads with are the Thoth deck, Hermetic deck or the beautiful Golden Thread tarot.
He also provides basic yes/no answers or more elaborate pendulum readings as well ask about cost.
Ed can SCRY with his BLACK MIRROR on request cost varies
He can also create custom sigils for varying needs ask about cost!
Come and experience a wizards glance into your questions and destiny.
Each Tarot reading is $2.00 per min and cash only.
15 minute minimum.
Contact: [email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/events/2366267193404836/?event_time_id=2366267210071501
Please join us for this awesome fair to benefit the work of Woof Meow Rescue + Pinups for Pitbulls!
* Local Vendors
* Vegan Friendly
* Adoptable Pets
* Raffle Prizes
* Live Music
… and more!
[[ More details coming SOON! ]]
For information on how to become a vendor, please contact [email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/events/270314336998186/
Every Saturday, we’ll have the Premier League late game (12:30pm) on the BIG screen with sound. Come grab a pint and settle in for the game.
https://www.facebook.com/events/970081263177114/?event_time_id=970081323177108
Join Stacy Fiano, Saturday March 16th from 12:30-2pm for a hip opening workshop. Many of us live with locked up hips. Sitting, standing, driving, reading and other activities contribute to low back pain and poor posture. Improve circulation, agility and flexibility, while releasing stress with this special hip opening class.
$20 per person
Sign up now!
https://www.facebook.com/events/359395854647198/
Oyster Roast Beer Launch Party!
Join us for our Brewery of the Month, SweetWater Brewing Company’s Peach Berliner Weiss Launch Party!
Oyster Roast on the patio, live music, raffles and prizes.
Proceeds will go to Riverlink
$5 Suggested Donation
https://www.facebook.com/events/629993230776645/
Once students complete this eight week series they will be in Pole Level 3 – which is a whole new and exciting world of Pole Fitness! Pole Level 3 is considered “Intermediate” in our curriculum.
Pole Fitness 2 is a 60 minute beginning-intermediate level class focusing on the sporty side of Pole Art tricks and combos. Students will start with a thorough full body instructor led floor based warm up. The warm up will then continue onto the poles with different conditioning exercises to help you build strength and stamina. Afterwards, students will learn and practice more challenging spins, poses, tricks, and transitions than in the previous Intro level. Students will be introduced to climbing, sitting, and inverting in this level.
$100 for the 8 week series ($12.50 per class)
https://www.facebook.com/events/379656812836226/?event_time_id=379656829502891
Come out and join us with @DJTwan on Saturday from 1-4 pm at the @Stephens-Lee Recreation Center! Enjoy FREE BBQ lunch from @Green Opportunities Southside Kitchen Catering. There will be art activities for kids and adults, a nature walk in the edible garden, chair yoga, and more. Meet folks from Pathways to Parks, and learn about their guided group hikes and outdoor activities. Dance while DJ Twan spins tunes, or just chill and have lunch with us!
Menu:
Pulled pork barbeque or vegan jackfruit barbeque (gf)
Potato Salad (vegan & gf)
Baked beans (vegan & gf)
Southside Cole Slaw (vegetarian)
Rolls (vegan) (gf options available)
Southside Classic Peach Cobbler
https://www.facebook.com/events/562725980875048/
Donate $25 and our Aquatics Staff swim a 50 freestyle. Donate a $100 and we’ll do a cannon ball, followed by a 25 of butterfly. For the full list of activities see our poster in the lobby by the pool entrance.
All proceeds will benefit the YMCA Annual Campaign. For every $50 donated, two children in our community will learn life-saving water skills through our Safety Around Water (SAW) program.
Donate at the Membership Desk or contact Laura Guthrie to learn more. [email protected], 828-209-9610
https://www.facebook.com/events/980045605519150/
Using Art, Movement, Voice, and Storytelling to Connect a Community Practicing Joyful Intention;
Adventures in Art and Play
Saturday, March 16, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
$55 per person registration
“What a fun and exciting experience – getting to practice freedom of expression, co-creating, letting go of outcome – and offering a gift of art to another person. I experienced myself truly as an artistic expression.”
Using InterPlay forms, we begin with a warm-up to bring our body-spirits fully present into the studio space. With light hearts we practice movement forms, shape, stillness, babbling, following, leading. Noticing. Witnessing.
The simplicity of the forms allow freshness and aliveness. The InterPlay forms provide structure and simplicity, allowing for a whole lot of freedom and creativity. We take this creativity to the art tables supplied with materials to move, shape, swing, and hang, with pencil, watercolor, oil pastels, and inks, flowing solo and in partnerships.
” Co-creating with each other … art conversation.”
“Absolute fun using art and InterPlay for self exploration and delightful community experience.”
This artful playshop is facilitated by Nancy Moore, Certified InterPlay Leader and local watercolor artist.
Registration and Questions: 828-279-8977
Visit artspiritmedicine.com or instagram nancymoore_art
https://www.facebook.com/events/573289593082931/
Creative Drama, for students ages 5-7, is a theatrically based workshop where students will use their imaginations to act out stories, play games and create original performances in the moment. This workshop will focus on teamwork, confidence and moving from play into performance.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2263837330350439/
Join us Saturday, March 16th for the release of Zephyrus (cider) and Boudica (mead).
Zephyrus is cider infused with candied orange peel and fresh ginger. Bright yet warm, this cider embodies what we love about spring.
Boudica is mead spontaneously co-fermented with Irish Breakfast Tea and wildflower honey; it’s inviting maltiness gives way to soft tannin and restrained sweetness.
We’ll have a pot of strew to share, plus the usual camaraderie. Cheers!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1341609152647873/
Join Asheville on Bikes for our annual Bike of the Irish at Wedge at Foundation on Saturday, March 16. AoB offers several route options for our participants. Keep it flat, take on a climb, ride the city, and / or climb Beaucatcher. Select the route that works best for you and yours. Route options will be posted shortly.
1:30pm – Gather at Wedge at Foundation
2:00pm – Ride Rolls
4:00pm – Bike of Irish Celebration
https://www.facebook.com/events/1099482073576075/
A beautiful setting in Chimney Rock for live acoustic music and incredible wines, plus bistro dining!
https://www.facebook.com/events/388338321938569/
Ciao Y’all Food Truck will be at the winery on Saturdays serving up a delicious custom menu.
https://www.facebook.com/events/527568454393618/?event_time_id=535712113579252
It’s time to jazz up your weekend!
Grab your friends and order a glass of your favorite bubbly while our finely curated selection of talented Jazz musicians direct the entertainment for your perfect Saturday.
Brunch, Lunch and Beyond with our special weekend menu.
Includes bakery quiche, frittata, paninis, etc. along with a finely curated combination of Gypsy jazz, folk jazz, and traditional swing jazz.
BRUNCH, LUNCH, AND BEYOND!
All items served with fruit salad with sweet cream and today’s rotating side salad.
*Individual Quiche from Rhu Bakery. $12
A delicious savory quiche from Rhu. Bakery with egg, cheese and vegetables in homemade pastry. Ask server for today’s quiche selections
*Gourmet Grilled Cheese Panini. Choice of:
Triple Grilled Cheese with Muenster, White Cheddar and Swiss. $12
Grilled White Cheddar with tomato and bacon: $14
Grilled Brie with Ham and side of fig jam: $14
Grilled White Cheddar and Apple: $12
Soup of the Day; Bowl: $5 / Cup: $3
https://www.facebook.com/events/483174712173987/?event_time_id=483174745507317
Live Music Indoors!
https://www.facebook.com/events/558842027952074/
Humans have looked to the stars understanding seeking guidance long before written records can account. Most of our ancestors lived astrological knowledge; turning to the sky for pilgrimages and plantings, tracking & tides. We’ve been coevolving with the heavens since the beginning, it only makes sense an entire school of body-mind-spirit medicine was crafted around its presence. Tracing the exact origins of medical astrology is difficult because it transformed as cultures merged, however, there are references to this system before the turn of the millennium. Countless traditional cultures have evidence highlighting the importance of events taking place in the night above. Astrology was once second nature to healing practices in many areas of Europe. It informed everything from a persons disposition and cause of disease, to cure and to treatment dates. Most of the western medical astrology we know today was a vital part of health and healing from the Hellenistic period until it’s decline during the scientific revolution.
Much like other traditional systems of herbal medicine astrology is a complex practice that can be studied indefinitely. Unfortunately, it’s gained a bit of bad rap, becoming taboo in medicine, appearing as a weekly entertainment column for a chuckle. However, its assessment tools are not much different than other widely accepted schools of traditional medicine. Each component contains a piece of the puzzle, and there are components within components. Western astrology is a true piece of hermetic knowledge – As above so below.
Western astrology may be based on the twinkling heavens above but is actually grounded in Earth energy, in our planet’s relation to the life-giving sun, in seasonal knowledge, in the ways this is reflected in our being as it develops consciousness, manages mental and physical states. When we look at it through this lens it becomes much more intuitive and easy to grasp.
For many with European ancestors medical astrology provides a constitutional system that has been in our blood for centuries to practice herbal medicine and other empowering wellness modalities. There are many medical astrology concepts that parallel those found in Ayurveda, TMC, vitalism, Unani-Tibb and other humoral approaches. The astrological system provides 3 modes, 4 humors, 12 temperaments; language for energetically discussing plants, actions and tissue states; and blueprint of the specific mind-body-soul constitution. As I said, it’s complex, and get can very specific and individualized for clinical assessment.
This class is an introduction to western medical astrology using the Placidus house system. While providing a general understanding of the basics of Astrology, we will spend time exploring what each element represents, how it in the body and how all the pieces combined inform this system of medicine.
This series is a foundational step in western medical astrology using the Placidus house system. History will briefly be discussed then we’ll dive into the core of this system over the course of 4 classes, looking at each piece individually and how it layers in our chart to create our astrological make-up. While providing a rooted understanding of Astrology in general, we will spend time exploring how each piece informs physical, spiritual and global health, as these cannot be separated.
March 9, 2-5pm
Day 1 – History, overview, elements, modes & two luminaries
March 16, 2-5pm
Day 2 – The planets & plants
March 23, 2-5PM
Day 3 – The houses, ascendant & the intrapersonal zodiac signs
March 30, 2-6pm
Day 4 – the extrapersonal zodiac signs & piecing the chart interpretation together.
Classes are held at Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine located in Marshall, NC at Marshall High Studios. https://terrasylvaschool.com/
This is a basic outline of the class flow and is subject to change as we explore. You do not need previous astrology knowledge, this series is tailored to meet people where they are at and will have plenty of takeaways for every experience of the participant. Also, you do not need to attend every class, however much of the information builds and weaves together and there will not be time for review of the previous class. If you plan to attend a selected class please be in contact with me for homework to get you caught up to where you’ll jump in.
https://www.facebook.com/events/253977788873152/?event_time_id=253977795539818
We celebrate International Women’s Day a week late with our yearly free concert performed by the Sahara Peace Choir singing songs for peace around the world.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1121594288026859/
Join us to discuss the ideas in the essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power” by feminist poet and activist Audre Lorde. Essay can be found online and in the book Sister Outsider. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1963813120403059/
Saturday, March 16, 2-4pm
A community clothing swap & Fierce Flix/Girls Rock hang out!
Let your old clothes spark joy in someone new! Or come see your friends from camp last year and get excited about camp this June!
You do not have to bring clothes to participate (and you do not have to take clothes with you if you bring some)!
Any clothes remaining at the end of the day will be donated to a clothing closet in town!
Free and open to the public! This is an LGBTQIA+ inclusive and affirming event. All ages and genders welcome.
https://www.facebook.com/events/410505999515358/