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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Garden & Gun’s Mint Julep Month is underway, and MG Road is joining the party! From April 5 to May 5, the Asheville lounge is whipping up their own version of the classic cocktail – dubbed the MG Julep – composed of Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, coriander, ginger and lime zest syrup, all served over crushed ice and garnished with fresh cilantro. Bottoms up!
MG Road is is gearing up for a week-long Spring Break celebration, including some of the hottest tunes and coolest drinks in Asheville! The lounge is throwing down from Sunday, April 8 to Sunday, April 15 with night after night of special events and tiki-themed cocktails – all to give you those Spring Break vibes.
Sunday 4/8 – The Return of Freaky Tiki ft. The Krektones & Food by Rick Shaw
Monday 4/9 – The Living Room Series “Special Island Edition”
Tuesday 4/10 – Classic “Tiki” Tuesday
Wednesday 4/11 – Panama City Beach Pool Party w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow
Thursday 4/12 – Early 2000s Karaoke – MTV Spring Break Edition
Friday 4/13 – Euro Trash Party w/ DJ No Respecto
Saturday 4/14 – Hip Hop w/ DJ Warf
Sunday 4/15 – Spring Break Blowout and Drag Show
Check out www.mgroadlounge.com or follow @mgroadlounge on Instagram for more details!
Adult Education tutors are invited to attend the Adult Ed Reunion, where participants will have an opportunity to share their experiences tutoring over the last few months, learn new activities to incorporate into sessions, and find out about other resources available.
When: Tuesday, April 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Where: The Collider, Downtown Asheville
Worldwide, the conservation community is grappling with the challenge of ensuring that natural systems – and the species that depend on them – have the ability to adapt to climate change and will continue to thrive. Fortunately, we know that land protection can strategically increase the resiliency of natural systems. SAHC has partnered with the Conservation Trust for NC, Open Space Institute, Wildlands Network, NEMAC, EcoForesters and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to develop sophisticated frameworks to assess vulnerability and identify priorities for climate resilience.
Our own Southern Appalachians have been identified as critical to the path of migration for species from the southeast. SAHC continues to use new data and new modeling to build upon our strategic land protection planning. By prioritizing areas adjacent to large protected tracts and creating contiguous networks of conservation lands for wildlife corridors we continue to create more resilient landscapes.
Join us as we discuss how we are working together with new climate data to create a network of resilient protected lands and why our efforts matter now more than ever.
Panel discussion moderated by Jay Leutze, SAHC Board President and author.
Panel members:
Jess Laggis, Farmland Program Director, SAHC
Megan Sutton, Program Director, The Nature Conservancy
Ian Johnson, Geospatial Science Communications Associate, NEAMAC
Maria Whitehead, Senior Project Manager, Open Space Institute
RSVP to Pauline Heyne at [email protected] or 828.253.0095 ext. 216
Free and open to the public.
Join Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) and partners at The Collider for a panel discussion about how climate data and modeling technology can help create a network of resilient protected lands.
Panel discussion moderated by SAHC Board President and author Jay Leutze, with representatives from SAHC, The Nature Conservancy, NEMAC, and the Open Space Institute. Free and open to the public.
Worldwide, the conservation community is grappling with the challenge of ensuring that natural systems – and the species that depend on them – have the ability to adapt to climate change and will continue to thrive. Fortunately, we know that land protection can strategically increase the resiliency of natural systems. SAHC has partnered with the Conservation Trust for NC, Open Space Institute, Wildlands Network, NEMAC, EcoForesters and The Nature Conservancy to develop sophisticated frameworks to assess vulnerability and identify priorities for climate resilience.
Our own Southern Appalachians have been identified as critical to the path of migration for species from the southeast. SAHC continues to use new data and new modeling to build upon our strategic land protection planning. By prioritizing areas adjacent to large protected tracts and creating contiguous networks of conservation lands for wildlife corridors, we continue to create more resilient landscapes.
Join us as we discuss how we are working together with new climate data to create a network of resilient protected lands and why our efforts matter now more than ever.
RSVP requested (but not required) to Pauline Heyne at [email protected] or 828.253.0095 ext 216.
Reception at 5:30, program begins at 6 pm.
Phone: (828) 250-6488
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Author Event
Age Group: Adult
Library: Skyland / South Buncombe
Location: 260 Overlook Rd. – Asheville
Local author Ben Anderson spent a year hiking through the distinct seasons of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Come listen to him share stories from his book and get ideas for great hikes of your own. This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the South Buncombe Library.
Ben Anderson spent a year hiking through the distinct seasons of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Come listen to him share stories from his book and get ideas for great hikes of your own.
Phone: (828) 250-4718
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Classes
Age Group: Teen – (grades 6-12),Adult
Library: Pack Memorial
Location: 67 Haywood St. – Asheville
Every Tuesday at 6 PM, we’ll be having basic computer skills classes in our computer lab downstairs. Each week we will have a new topic to focus on.
The Topic for Tuesday, April 10: MICROSOFT WORD BASICS
Contact Sam at [email protected] for more information or call 250-4718.
Come and improve your email skills in a patient and understanding environment.
All library events are free. No registration is required for the class, all are
welcome. Computers may be limited based on capacity.
The Craft of Abstraction and the Abstract Power of Realism
Tuesdays, March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17 + 24 — 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Cost: $220 Museum Members, $240 non-members (includes some materials)
This painting and mixed-media class explores the “craft” of painting as it applies to abstract (non-objective or non-representational) imagery, as well as to the abstract qualities that also enhance the power of representational approaches.
Come cheer on the Bulldogs!
Roots + Wings School of Art and Design presents connecting the ANDs / Talk With Our Hands / Social Justice collaborations
March 13: LGBTQ Equality @ Firestorm Books, 7-9pm
April 10: Racial Equity @ Habitat Tavern 7-9pm
May 15: Interfaith Connections @ R+W Creative Campus 7-9pm
June 12: Immigration Reform @ Venue TBA 7-9pm
Each session will contain:
An open conversation with a community leader actively involved in each session’s topic.
An assemblage-based art project involving different mediums and processes will be offered following the guest speaker’s talk. At this time the floor will be open for anyone and everyone to discuss their thoughts, inspirations, hopes, goals pertaining to the topic that month. Both the art activity and the discussion will be open-ended, and there are no right/wrong comments or ways of making.
Every session (guest speaker + art activity) will be free for ages 18+. Donations appreciated for guest speaker’s time
Phone: (828) 250-6484
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Informational,Other
Age Group: Adult
Library: Fairview
Location: 1 Taylor Rd. – Fairview
The Friends of Fairview Library will be meeting on Tuesday, April 10th at 7pm. All dues paying members are welcome to attend.
Phone: (828) 250-4718
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Book Club
Age Group: Adult
Library: Pack Memorial
Like beer and books? Come join our non-fiction book club! The club meets every second Wednesday of the month at the Wedge at Foundation.
This month we’re reading, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” by Roz Chast. Books are available at Pack Library, come to the front desk and we can grab you a copy, you can also reserve a copy at your nearest library branch.
Everyone over 21 is welcome to participate. We vote on the next book at the end of meeting. See you there!
Film
Phone: (828) 250-6482
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Informational
Age Group: Adult
Library: Weaverville
Location: 41 N. Main St. – Weaverville
An illustrated and animated talk by naturalist and biologist Scott Dean, known not only for his photography of local wildflowers and his knowledge of their cultural history, but also for his highly entertaining presentations. For more information call the Library at 250-6482.
The 51st Annual UNC Asheville Juried Student Exhibition will be held in the Thom Robinson and Ray Griffin Exhibition Space. This year, UNCA’s Art Guild will be sponsoring the exhibit. Art Guild, is a campus – wide student arts organization that is open to all forms of art visual art, music, theatre. Entry in the Juried Exhibition is open to any registered student on campus.
This year’s juror will be Robert Tynes. Robert Tynes was born in Chicago and spent his formative years in Birmingham, Alabama, with regular summer retreats to the mountains of North Carolina. He received a BA degree in Art from Rhodes College and a MFA degree in Painting from East Carolina University.
Tynes has held over twenty-five solo exhibitions of his work and has participated in more than a hundred and fifty group shows across the country. He is the recipient of several artist-in-residence grants including two from the Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico and one from the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. In addition, he has completed several large-scale commissions for The Doubletree Hotel in Kansas City, IBM Corporation in Atlanta, and the city of Charlotte’s Convention Center.
Currently Professor of Art in Painting at UNCA, Tynes has also taught at the University of Hawaii, Humboldt State University in California, and East Carolina University. He was the first Chairman of the Board for the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, and has served as a member of the Boards of Directors for both the Asheville Area Arts Council and the Black Mountain Center for the Arts.
An opening reception will be Friday, April 6, 2018 from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm. The exhibit will be open to the public Monday – Friday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. The closing reception will be Friday, May 4, 2018.
The AAAC is excited to announce Zander Stefani’s upcoming exhibition: “I Am, Are U?” in the Front Gallery of the Refinery Creator Space. An exhibition that ponders the phrase: ‘I am’, Stefani exemplifies the constant moral battle between self and other. The way all past experiences blend to become a reflection of the present moment. Life is a monumental journey and we are mere human beings facing the infinite universe. He explores the questions of identity that we are all forced to face each day, contemplating the boundaries society embeds on us from the moment we are born. While this new body of work has a more developed sense of style, Stefani’s figures continue to portray the same sense of entrapment; plagued by the illusions presented in this world, yet realizing the infinite depths of reality. Intertwining tones of spirituality and street style fill the visual plane in Stefani’s work, bringing to light the palpable connection between the pure expression of graffiti and the intense meditation of spirituality. He tends to work autonomously, allowing the painting to reveal itself through many transparent layers of acrylic paint.
Zander Stefani (b. 1994, Toronto) is a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, in Savannah, GA with a BFA in painting. He currently lives in Asheville and has exhibited along the eastern United States. His work can be seen in the homes of collectors throughout North America.
Stefani on his latest body of work:
“Our world these days is so reliant on labels and beliefs in order to be properly delineated and judged. It is hard to have a conversation with a young adult that doesn’t end up revolving around social media, orientation, goals for the future, the steps you will take to get there, etc. We place so much importance on how we identify ourselves that our true spirit gets lost in the mix.
The confusion that comes after asking the first question, “who am I?” only leads to more questions: “what am I doing here?”, “what is my purpose?” “what can I accomplish in this lifetime?” “Do I stand up to those that have come before me?”. Growing up in a society that is so focused on the end result and the next step, it is all too easy to lose sight of ourselves and our connection to the universe. I try to create work that visually represents the melancholy attuned to human existence, an attempt at divulging the questions with no answers.”
The exhibition will be open to the public in the Front Gallery from Friday, April 6 – Friday, May 25, 2018 with an opening reception Friday, April 6th from 5-8 pm. The first 50 attendees to arrive will receive a free signed and editioned poster!
Join Hands On! Children’s Museum in downtown Hendersonville, as we explore and learn about inch worms. Does an inch worm really measure an inch? Come make your own and explore measuring with your new friend. This activity, sponsored by NC Printing, takes place in the party room April 10 through April 13 and is free with $5 admission/free for members.
The mission of Hands On! is to provide “hands on” educational experiences and science programs that stimulate the imagination and motivate learning in a fun, safe environment. For additional information about their educational programs and facility, please visit their website at www.handsonwnc.org or call 828-697-8333.
Local printmaker Bill Hall makes his Asheville gallery debut in a show that plays his graphic works off those of the late Maltby Sykes (1911-1992), while landscape paintings on found metal by Drew Galloway are presented with works by renowned wood sculptor Christian Burchard. These two shows run March 4 through April 28, 2018 at Momentum Gallery, 24 N. Lexington Ave, Asheville, NC.
It’s hard not to crack a smile while enjoying amazing views of Lake Lure and the Hickory Nut Gorge from on top of the Chimney. Capture photos of your family and friends enjoying the Park and enter them into our spring photo contest for a chance to win fabulous prizes. We’ll use the winning entries on our website and Facebook album, and you’ll win some fun prizes. Photos must be taken within the Chimney Rock section of the Park.
GREAT PRIZES FOR THE WINNERS:
First Place – An overnight getaway to Hickory Nut Gorge with a stay at the historic 1927 Lake Lure Inn & Spa, two passes to Chimney Rock, brunch for two at the 1927 Lake Lure Inn & Spa, and two tickets for a tour with Lake Lure Boat Tours
Second Place – A Chimney Rock prize package including two passes to Chimney Rock, lunch for two at the Old Rock Café and two tickets for a tour with Lake Lure Boat Tours.
People’s Choice – Selected by our Facebook fans, the winning photo will be featured as the cover photo of our Facebook page for two weeks and the cover of our Pinterest board of winning photos. Prize includes two Park admission tickets, lunch for two at the Old Rock Café and a $20 gift certificate for Old Time Photo in Chimney Rock Village.
CONTEST RULES:
There is no fee to enter the contest. All photographs must be taken inside Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park only in areas accessible to guests between March 20, 2018- June 20, 2018. The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers.
Up to three photos per person can be submitted via any of the following ways to be eligible to win:
Facebook: First, like the Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park page and share our photo contest post on your wall. Then post your photo to our wall with the photographer’s name and a brief caption (25-75 words) through your personal Facebook account. Next, send us a private message including your contact information specified in rule #3.
Pinterest: First, re-pin our photo contest pin to one of your boards and follow our 2017 The Different Seasons of Chimney Rock Spring Photo Contest Board so we can easily contact you. Then pin your photo with the hashtags #chimneyrock AND #photocontest with your personal account, and include the photographer’s name and a brief caption (25-75 words).
Twitter: First, follow Chimney Rock Park and retweet our tweet about the photo contest. Then tweet your photo to @ChimneyRockPark with the photographer’s name and the hashtag #photocontest. Next, send us private messages with your brief photo caption.
E-mail: If you don’t have access to any social media sites listed above, you may email your digital photo with your contact information specified in rule #3 to [email protected].
Snail Mail: Send your print photo with the clearly marked photographer’s name, city & state, a brief typed photo caption and a phone number to: Photo Contest, Chimney Rock Management LLC, PO Box 39, Chimney Rock, NC 28720.
Every entry should be clearly labeled with the photographer’s name, city & state, a brief photo caption your photo of the Seasons of Chimney Rock, an email address and the best phone number to reach you.
Photos should be available at a minimum resolution of 1200 x 1600 pixels (1 MB minimum) to be eligible to win. Photos taken via smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices are welcome if they meet minimum requirements.
For entries showing human faces, you must list their name(s) and have written permission from any photographed person(s) to use their image.
Entries should reflect the photographer’s interpretation of a face of Chimney Rock. Emphasis will be placed on quality, composition and creativity. All entries may be used in promotions of Chimney Rock and park-related activities.
Digital images can be optimized but not dramatically altered with photo editing software. Black and white photographs are welcome.
Decisions of the judges are final.
Winners will be notified and announced at chimneyrockpark.com and on Chimney Rock’s social media channels.
For more information, call 1-800-277-9611 or email us at [email protected].
Garden Helpline Open for Calls
Extension Master GardenerSM Volunteers of Buncombe County are ready to answer your
gardening questions.
Beginning March 1, the Garden Helpline is open Monday through
Thursday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., during the gardening season—March through September. Our
Master Gardener volunteers are available for phone calls, walk-ins, and emails.
Call 828-255-5522 or visit the Extension office at the location shown below. If you bring a plant
sample to the office, please be sure it is large enough for plant identification. You can also email
your questions and plant photos to [email protected].
Each year, Extension Master Gardener volunteers answer hundreds of gardening questions.
From October through February when the Helpline is not open, your questions will be
answered by Alison Arnold, Extension Agent, Consumer Horticulture. The Extension office and
our Helpline are closed on N.C. state holidays.
LINING: SHEATHING
Exhibition: January 16 – May 4
Reception: Thursday, April 19 from 5-7pm
Lining: Sheathing is a large-scale installation about the tactile and protective qualities of textiles by collaborators Denise Bookwalter and Lee Running. The artists have been working together for five years, creating installations and artist books that include printed fabric, handmade paper, woodblock prints, custom garments and embroidery. This installation has been developed in residencies at Penland School of Crafts, Penland NC, Constellation Studios, Lincoln NE, and Small Craft Advisory Press, Tallahassee FL. The focal point of the installation is a room-size tent suspended beneath a skylight. The tent is made from large printed and dyed textile panels which create a space that viewers can enter. Viewers are invited to try on one of the handmade garments and view the series of eight queen bed sized woodblock prints on handmade paper. For the exhibition at the WCU Fine Art Museum, Bookwalter and Running will also create a three-story site-specific window installation for the atrium of the Bardo Arts Center.
MUSEUM HOURS: Tues-Fri 10am-4pm/ Th 10am-7pm
Closed weekends & University holidays
828.227.ARTS
Image Caption: Detail: Denise Bookwalter, Lee Emma Running, “LINING:SHEATHING”, 2011
Phone: (828) 250-4754
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Preschool – (ages 3-5)
Library: Oakley / South Asheville
Location: 749 Fairview Rd. – Asheville
Preschool story times are geared towards 3-5 year-olds and include singing, stretchers, and creative activities.
To mark the 10th Anniversary of the Windgate Fellowship, the Center for Craft awarded a total of ten, $10,000 Project Grants. This exhibition showcases how the next generation of craft artists used their funds to explore scale, installation, and community practice.
Artists: Andrea Donnelly (Richmond, VA), Josh Copus (Marshall, NC), Dustin Farnsworth (Montreal, QC), Brian Fleetwood (La Mesilla, NM), Ani Geragosian (Salem, MA), Adam Ledford (Philadelphia, PA), Rebecca Manson (Bedford Hills, NY), Rachel Mauser (Louisville, KY), Aaron McIntosh (Richmond, VA), and Mark Reigelman II (Brooklyn, NY).
School of Art & Design Alumni Invitational Exhibition
Exhibition: February 13 – May 4, 2018
Reception: February 15, 2018
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the College of Fine & Performing Arts, the WCU Fine Art Museum invites 12 accomplished alumni of the School of Art & Design back to campus for this exhibition. Exhibiting artists include Amy M. Anderson, Connie Bostic, Mary Charles Griffin, Luzene Hill, Sally Jacobs, Cole Johnson, Dakota Ling, Jeff Marley, Olivia Mears, Tom Pazderka, Byron Tenesaca, and Preston Tolbert.
Image Caption: Tom Pazderka, Angels of the New Light, 2017, ash, charcoal, and oil on burned panel, 43 x 43 in
Phone: (828) 250-4700
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Tax Help
Age Group: Adult
Library: Pack Memorial
Location: 67 Haywood St. – Asheville
AARP Foundation Tax-Aide in cooperation with the IRS, NC Department of Revenue, Buncombe County Library System and Council on Aging, Inc. will offer free tax preparations for taxpayers of low and moderate income, with special attention to those 60 and older.
This service will be available from February 1 through April 17 at sites listed below. Both Federal and NC tax returns will be electronically filed. (Saturday tax assistance is provided by UNCA and ends on April 7.)
Questions and requests for assistance for homebound individuals can be directed to the Buncombe County Council on Aging at 828-277-8288.
Taxpayers should bring the following documents:
• Photo I.D. for taxpayer and spouse
• Social Security cards or equivalent for ALL taxpayers and dependents
• Proof of health insurance coverage: Medicare A or C, Medicaid, CHIP, government, employer, individual, or Marketplace (Form 1095-A, B, C, Exemption Certificate)
• Previous year’s (2015) income tax return
• W-2 forms from each employer
• 1099 forms for income from Social Security, Pension, Interest, Dividends, Brokers/Mutual Funds, Miscellaneous
• Income, Gambling Winnings (Form W-2G) and any other income
• Detailed list and receipts for Medical Expenses, Charitable Contributions, Real Estate Taxes and Mortgage Interest
• Form 1098 if you are claiming itemized expenses
• Any other tax forms or information for both income and expenses
• A voided check for direct deposit of any refund to your checking or savings account
LOCATIONS AND HOURS:
Pack Library on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10am-4pm, and Saturdays from 10:30am-3pm
West Asheville Library on Tuesdays from 10am-4pm
Weaverville Library on Thursdays from 10am-4pm
Black Mountain Library on Thursdays from 10am-4pm
Phone: (828) 250-4752
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Toddler – (ages 18 mos.-2 yrs.)
Library: North Asheville
Location: 1030 Merrimon Ave. – Asheville
Toddler Times are interactive story times for children ages 18 months to 3 years.
Willie Cole: Soles and Boards
Exhibition: January 16 – May 4, 2018
Since 1989, Willie Cole has employed the image of the clothes iron in his work. Cole morphs this utilitarian object to represent and reference a range of associations from African masks to scarification to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. This exhibition presents prints from Cole’s time working at Highpoint Editions in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 2011-2012.
Image Caption: Image Courtesy of Highpoint Editions and Willie Cole
Phone: (828) 250-6480
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Preschool – (ages 3-5)
Library: Leicester
Location: 1561 Alexander Rd. – Leicester
Preschool story times are geared towards 3-5 year-olds and include singing, stretchers, and creative activities.
Phone: (828) 250-4758
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Story Time for Kids
Age Group: Preschool – (ages 3-5)
Library: Enka-Candler
Location: 1404 Sandhill Rd. – Candler
Preschool story times are geared towards 3-5 year-olds and include singing, stretchers, and creative activities.