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.
Get ready to move to the beat with Hip Hop at Highland! Instructor Illysa Hamlin will lead you through an hour-long workout routine that will burn those calories and prepare you for your next music video audition. No previous dance experience is necessary and all are welcome. And, of course, stay around afterward for a cold pint of Highland beer. You’ll have earned it!
$8 per person
https://www.facebook.com/events/775568816122638/?event_time_id=775568836122636
Since his childhood, Leo’s world has been dominated by one beautiful woman’s obsession with him. Raised in a small Texas town, educated at a large university, and devastated after his first “normal” relationship fails, the young scholar is no match for his aunt’s desire to use him for her own gratification.
With little hope for normalcy, Leo resigns himself to a life of pretense and lies. His charade increasingly leads him to professional failures, withdrawal from normal relationships, and spiraling emotional dependence on his aunt, with whom he lives in exile from the rest of his family. Together they act out a quiet tragedy in small rental apartments, doing temp jobs in a succession of obscure towns. Then, already in his late thirties, he meets Janet, a grade school teacher in the tiny North Carolina town of Cannon Shoals, and what had seemed impossible happens. He falls in love.
Contributor Bio: Stubblefield, Jerry
Jerry Stubblefield received a BFA in playwriting from The University of Texas. His stage plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, and in regional theaters and university settings. He has published short fiction and poetry in various literary journals and has taught creative writing workshops and classes as well as guest lectured at various colleges. His novel, Homunculus, was published in 2009.
We ask that you purchase the books you want to be signed at our events from Malaprop’s. When you do this you are not only supporting the work it takes to run an events program, you are also telling the publishers that they should keep sending authors here. Can’t make it to the store for the event? Call us or order the book on our website in advance, and we’ll get it signed for you. Make sure you write your preferences in the comments if you purchase online.
https://www.facebook.com/events/559322831200473/
Start your week off right with a donation-based pilates session and follow it up with a celebratory post-exercise pint!
Learn to focus on your breath and isolate muscle groups to build and strengthen your body while increasing your confidence and bodily awareness. Classes will happen under the thoughtful and fun guidance of Courtney, our resident pilates instructor who has been practicing and teaching in the Black Mountain area for 3 years. Courtney will lead a series of exercises, with variations for each to include folks of all fitness and ability levels!
Classes will take place in the event space at the end of our building.
Please plan to arrive 5-10 minutes early to set up your mat and settle in before class begins! Bring your own mat and plan to grab a drink afterwards with the group! All ages and abilities welcome!
https://www.facebook.com/events/948380552036149/?event_time_id=948380625369475
Are you ready to show off your meticulous knowledge of useless facts? Well, this is your chance! Nerdy Talk Trivia will be hosting our weekly trivia night with $3 Gaelic pints.
Gift card prizes will be awarded weekly to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
Every weekly winner will be put into a drawing for a pair of tickets to Lord Huron concert in the Meadow on April 19. The drawing will take place on April 1.
https://www.facebook.com/events/711040849291752/?event_time_id=711040879291749
Open Mic Night at The Grey Eagle
https://www.facebook.com/events/2292708547408380/
Join us for a poignant film about how Medicare informed the Civil Rights Revolution. This documentary will be followed by a discussion with community leaders who are working hard to create a more equitable society.
Before Medicare was introduced in 1965, disparities in access to hospital care were dramatic. Fewer than 50% of the nation’s hospitals served black and white patients equally. The South was especially challenged, as one in three hospitals would not admit African-Americans even for emergencies. But by using the carrot of Medicare dollars, the federal government virtually ended the practice of racially segregated health care. The powerful book and documentary THE POWER TO HEAL illustrates how Movement leaders and grass-roots volunteers pressed and worked with the federal government to achieve justice and fairness for African-Americans. The documentary will be followed with a community discussion with local leaders to explore these historical issues and reflect upon current day challenges.
This event is free and heavy appetizers will be provided.
This event is presented by AARP North Carolina and co-sponsored by YWCA of Asheville and Asheville Buncombe Institute of Parity Achievement (ABIPA).
https://www.facebook.com/events/510204139502989/
Transition From Figurative To Abstract Sculpture
Leonid Siveriver
Mondays 6-9pm
January 7- February 25
The objective of this course is to develop a basic understanding of the human form in three-dimensions based on work with a live model, and then utilize that knowledge for abstraction. By combining the human figure with geometric forms you will expand your palette of techniques, and create some truly dynamic, inspired work.
Level: All Levels
Tuition: $350 + $75 Lab and Live Model Fee
Have a terrible case of the Mondays? Got a sick a twisted sense of humor? Come play Cards Against Humanity with us! We have 3 box sets with every expansion. We’re pushing tables together, making new friends, and having laughs every Monday!
https://www.facebook.com/events/371611523634185/?event_time_id=371611536967517
It Takes All Kinds Open Mic Night at Sanctuary Brewing Company!
Calling all singers, songwriters, stand ups, poets and prophets! Come one, come all.
Host Josh Dunkin and Steven Durose of The Gathering Dark want to hear all of your stuff!
No Mimes!
https://www.facebook.com/events/611678232614775/
This is a FREE ping pong tournament occurring weekly at Hi-Wire Brewing at Golden Belt in Durham, NC. Sign-up on site every Tuesday at 7pm. Weekly prizes will be awarded to the winners.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2279054425684696/?event_time_id=2304833066440165
Come on out every week to really drill that technique into your body. After all, good technique is the foundation to great dance!
Haven’t danced before? No worries! Sarah Joy will get you started off right.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2207664732782541/?event_time_id=2207664759449205
During the series, you will learn technique and the intricate syncopated sounds that tap creates. You will an entire tap routine by the end of the series.
Tap 1 with Amanda
7pm Mondays
Tap 2 with Amanda
8pm Mondays
https://www.facebook.com/events/365751420909081/
During the series, you will learn technique and the intricate syncopated sounds that tap creates. You will an entire tap routine by the end of the series.
Tap 1 with Amanda
7pm Mondays
Tap 2 with Amanda
8pm Mondays
https://www.facebook.com/events/365751420909081/?event_time_id=365751430909080
One World Brewing Open Mic & Free Jam Night
Join us this Monday, for an incredible night of creation and expression.
Sign up at 7:30 PM
(First Come Sign-Up Platform)
Please Have Instruments Tuned Before Set Time
We encourage musicians of all types and styles and wish to provide a welcoming container for great musicians and artists to showcase their talent and to develop their craft with other likeminded musicians and craft beer enthusiasts. Our intention is to bring people together for a wonderful night of music, poetry, laughter, and great beer. Please Join Us for something beautiful.
At One World Brewing, our goal is to provide the highest quality craft ales and a comfortable space where all are welcome to relax, enjoy their time, and experience Asheville culture any night of the week. We only have one world. We must learn to share it and care for it for the sake of future generations and all life. We are honored and proud to be a part of the global craft Beer Revolution, and the thriving Asheville brewing community.
https://www.facebook.com/events/402634213840150/
Free Movie Monday
Bridesmaids
Show: 8pm
Rated R
https://www.facebook.com/events/330480947571828/
Cotton Kandy, purveyor of deep, infectious dance music and a feel-good vibes. Has played at Full Moon Gatherings, The Happenings, Zodiac Parties, regional and non-regional burns like Ignite, Alchemy, and Love Burn. Genres including melodic ,deep ,dirty house.
Check her music out here:
The Bearded Dragons Inn hosts their weekly West Marches game. This is a drop in game for all to join. If you have never played before come and join us. Our amazing community will teach you all you need to know. If you have years, or even decades of experience stop on by as well as you’ll experience a whole new style of play. For more information check out our website:
https://sites.google.com/outlook.com/westmarchesattriskelion/home
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Combining choreography and tricks on the pole… and we’ll add a chair this time! This introductory series will concentrate on learning and adding on to one routine throughout 4 weeks, allowing time to master the moves! Putting together choreography and tricks from Intro & Beginner 1 levels, Beginner Poleography is perfect for anyone who’s taken a couple pole classes and is interested in seeing progress from having something to practice!
$68 for series – Reserve your spot here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=330572&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0
https://www.facebook.com/events/2259202190959661/?event_time_id=2259202204292993
Combining choreography and tricks on the pole… and we’ll add a chair this time! This introductory series will concentrate on learning and adding on to one routine throughout 4 weeks, allowing time to master the moves! Putting together choreography and tricks from Intro & Beginner 1 levels, Beginner Poleography is perfect for anyone who’s taken a couple pole classes and is interested in seeing progress from having something to practice!
$68 for series – Reserve your spot here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=330572&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0
https://www.facebook.com/events/2259202190959661/
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Come get cozy at the Sly Grog on a Monday night as bands both local & touring play feely sets that will (hopefully) make you feel things too!
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Sleepy Poetry
https://sleepypoetry.bandcamp.com
Hello Shark
https://helloshark.bandcamp.com
Tall Stars
https://tallstars.bandcamp.com
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https://www.facebook.com/events/2217230698538908/
Adding a Southeast destination for designer toy makers and collectors, *Assembly Required brings designer, bootleg and art toy artists from around the country, to present and sell their work.
Asheville’s premiere designer toy expo, *Assembly Required, is presented by Unboxing Asheville, Morgan’s Comic’s, 103.3 Asheville FM and Appalachian Pinball Museum. Focusing on this artistic movement, designer toys are a form of lowbrow pop art. These toy makers pull inspiration from a variety of subversive segments of culture, as well as subcultural elements, including (but not limited to) comics, tattooing, street art, and everything related to toys of the 60’s through the 80’s.
Echoing production methods of traditional toy manufacturers, designer toys are usually intended to be displayed as collectibles, rather than to be played with. Toy makers mediums range from resin to vinyl, from plastic to plush; with molding, and production techniques such as kitbash, sofubi and bootleg (recently coined ‘Artisanal Action Figure’, by New York Times writer, Rich Juzwiak [11/23/18]). (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/style/bootleg-toys-action-figures.html).
Juzwiak interviews such artists as the Sucklord and Killer Bootlegs, both of whom will be present at *Assembly Required.
Join us for a special Pancake Day 2019!
FREE to ANY & ALL!
For 63 years our community has supported Pancake Day at FUMC Waynesville. It’s our turn to say THANK YOU! We want to give away tickets, not sell them.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
6:30am-7:30pm
Gym/Christian Growth Center
Contact the church office at 828-456-9475 with any questions.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2152408421485387/
Our iconic RiverWalk Trail in Chimney Rock Village doesn’t stay this inviting on its own. We have to maintain it regularly with limited financial and human resources.
So, if you love this trail as much as we do, and you can spare an hour or two, grab your gloves, shovels, rakes, and wheelbarrows. We’ll meet at the entrance to the RiverWalk Trail in Chimney Rock Village (next to the entrance of Bubba O’Leary’s) this Tuesday, Feb. 26th at 9 am to buff up this beautiful, but fragile recreation spot. We realize short notice, but several things fell together very recently where we’ll be able to use some of the equipment from the Chimney Rock Volunteer Fire Department. So, if you can make it, please consider helping us work on the trail for an hour or two – whatever time you can spare is genuinely appreciated!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2196772330362156/
5Rhythms is a movement journey of unraveling, unwinding and embodying the thread that connects us all. Soften as your soul borrows your head, hands, feet, hips… giving you an internal shower and sending you back out in this unpredictably magical world with a renewed lightness of being; knowing more clearly what you’ve always known….but perhaps, temporarily, forgot. ♥ $10-20 Energy Exchange. ***Please do not Park in the French Broad Food Co-Op lots!! Park in the small lot across from the Orange Peel, the LaZoom Lot to the left of the FBFC or the ALoft Parking Lot (all the lots have a small parking fee).
https://www.facebook.com/events/518151585260172/?event_time_id=518151611926836
The calendar says winter, but did you know that spring is just a few months away? There’s no time like the present to get prepared for the future – a future in bright colors, shorts and dresses, and blouses and short-sleeved shirts. It’s even better when you can save A LOT.
Head out to the Little Red Schoolhouse, located behind the Original Mast Store in Valle Crucis, to stock up on shorts, shirts, and more for Spring Break and all the other warmer days to come.
Here’s the full scoop:
• Salesman Samples are 70% OFF (limited sizes)
• Other apparel is an Additional 20% OFF the last red-lined price
• Shoes are priced as marked
**Size runs may not be available in all merchandise. Selection includes items for men and women.**
The Schoolhouse is open Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. and Sunday noon until 6 p.m.
https://www.facebook.com/events/495934130936987/?event_time_id=495934174270316
We are supporting Bounty & Soul’s work providing healthy food for our local community by providing them with metal silverware for their food sampling events. These wiill prevent the wastage and expense of disposable spoons and forks.
Bounty & Soul provide samples of delicious plant based foods and education for those members of the community who are receiving donated healthy food. Rather than use plastic spoons and forks for the demonstrations and sampling, Bounty & Sould are finding ways to be more green and sustainable, and we want to help.
We are aiming to collect 80 sets of metal or durable bamboo small spoons and forks through the month of February. Please bring washed used or new silverware to our store and enjoy our thanks and a browse and a cup of fair trade coffee.
https://www.facebook.com/events/618459661957593/?event_time_id=618459748624251
Description: Winter can be the most beautiful time of the year at Chimney Rock. Leafless trees make for expansive views of Lake Lure and the Hickory Nut Gorge. The sky is clear; you’re likely to find a quiet spot to sit and enjoy the peacefulness. You may even see a critter scamper by you in the forest. Capture that special moment or scene on your camera, enter it in our Winter Wonders Photo Contest and tell us about it. 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.
Cost: No additional cost to enter.
https://www.facebook.com/events/267246603967105/?event_time_id=267246613967104
Experience one of history’s bravest figures in this performance featuring music and dance of the past. Join Harriet Tubman on her heroic journey through the American South, guiding more than 300 slaves to freedom through swamps, up creek beds and over hills in the dark of night. Part of the Matinee Series for students and families. Recommended for grades 3-9.
For reservations, call 828-257-4530 or email [email protected]
More info about the Matinee Series: https://www.dwtheatre.com/online/article/matineeseries
Information about the Y.E.S. (Youth Education Scholarship) Fund: https://www.dwtheatre.com/online/article/yesfund
https://www.facebook.com/events/325288438272819/?event_time_id=325288451606151
Post Firing Sculpture Repair
Molly Morning-glory & Mac McCusker
Tuesdays 10:30am-1pm
January 8- February 26
Have broken projects piling up in your studio? Perhaps the piece you worked on for ages didn’t come out how you wanted? Join Molly Morning-glory and Mac McCusker to learn about cold finishing techniques and materials. Bring in your duds and we’ll help you make them beautiful! Sand blasting, epoxies, acrylic paint, spray enamel and more will be covered in this 8-week class. We will also create a sculpture or vessel to be bisque fired and finished without glazing, using shoe polish, patina, or furniture wax.
Level: Intermediate and Advanced
Tuition: $310 + $50 Lab Fee
ATS® Level 1 – Dance Fundamentals
This is an on-going class series. You’ll learn the basic system of ATS® in a fun and supportive environment. Dance Fundamentals will have you dancing ATS® in your very first class! Each one hour class is divided into two sections.
1. Drill it – Learn the basic movements of ATS® with minimal verbal instruction and lots of following along, committing the steps to muscle memory with a fun workout-style drills.
2. Dance it – Experience the magic of ATS® and learn how to use the basic steps to dance with partners in a duet, trio, and quartet formations.
You can start this on-going class series at anytime and drop-in for drills and review.
ATS® (American Tribal Style) Belly Dance is an improv tribal style belly dance that is universal worldwide with every move having a certain cue with a leader and followers in a duet, trio, or quartet formation that is always changing leads. The beauty of ATS® is a strong Flamenco influence, along with India and North Africa dance, combined into tribal style belly dance. If you know ATS® you can dance with anyone in the world that also knows ATS®, even just meeting for the first time!
Bio
Michelle has been dancing ATS® (American Tribal Style) since 2006. She has taken countless ATS® workshop classes around the United States to further her education, knowledge, and skill of ATS®. Michelle received her ATS® Teaching Certification in 2015, and had her own troupe, Mystique Mountain Tribal Belly Dance, in Charlotte before moving to the Black Mountain area.
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