:>>>>> 7pm Intermediate level Zouk <<<<<:

This class is specifically designed for students who already have a good understanding of the basics of Zouk. We ask that students refrain from attending this until they have had at least one full 8 week series in Beginner Zouk or have had other previous Zouk training.

:>>>>> 8pm Beginner level Zouk <<<<<:

A great class for Beginners and more advanced students alike. This class provides the essential techniques for a great foundation in Zouk so is perfect for any level student. We break down some of the basic steps and key principles of Zouk to help students become mindful and graceful partner dancers.

:>>>>> 9pm Zouk Social for ALL Levels <<<<<:

This is an opportunity to practice the skills learned in class and begin to play with musicality and connection. Open for anyone who has attended either class and free of charge.

Taught by Brad Meccia, of Knoxville’s Armada Zouk and Michele Rosa Gee.

**Anyone can lead or follow and you do NOT need to bring a partner to class.

**Please bring dance shoes or socks to wear for class. Barefoot is not ideal for this style of dance.

**Drop-in’s are welcome, but please do keep in mind that this is a progressive series, so students gain the most from committing to the entire 8 weeks.

$10 per class or $15 for both. Packages through Veda Studios also available for even bigger discounts.

We LOVE new dancers and our community is very welcoming, so bring a friend :)

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Each month, Karma Cleaners will provide cleaning services, without charge, for a number of households within the Asheville community who might not otherwise be able to use our services. They may be the elderly, disabled, someone caring for them, or a single mom or dad working multiple jobs, trying to make the ends meet. If you think you know someone who qualifies for this service, or are yourself looking for opportunities to serve, please send an email explaining why, to: [email protected].

Yours in Service,
Karma Cleaners

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Come connect with other homebrew enthusiasts at our monthly Homebrew Club meeting!

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Come connect with other homebrew enthusiasts at our monthly Homebrew Club meeting!

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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!

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Following some technical difficulties at the 12th Annual Music Video Asheville, we feel every video should be shown at their best! Please join us for a FREE showing of the Music Video Asheville Official selections at Salvage Station on May 13. Drink specials will be offered and videos will be shown on the big screen from 8pm-9:30pm. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

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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!

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DanceLab will transition from April to May with the PELVIS facilitated by Idelle Packer, a lover of dance, choreography, contact improvisation, somatic movement practices and an Alexander Technique extraordinaire.

How does motion translate through the pelvis in rolling and spirals and how do the limbs reach away from the pelvis as a point of contact to create lightness, readiness and surprise in contact dancing? Learn through observation, palpation, somatic exercises, visualization, solo exploration and partnering in guided contact improvisation scores. Explore the boney anatomical structures that make up the male and female pelvis and its function in relationship to sacrum and coccyx, lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine, head and shoulder girdle/upper limbs and the lower limbs and feet. Through the lens of the pelvis, discover a new perspective of the body as a whole.

Each session is independent, yet knowledge from one will build understanding and movement skills for each subsequent lab. Highly recommended to attend all 3!

$5+ drop-in donation cash/check
located in the BeBe Theatre
20 Commerce St.

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DanceLab will transition from April to May with the PELVIS facilitated by Idelle Packer, a lover of dance, choreography, contact improvisation, somatic movement practices and an Alexander Technique extraordinaire.

How does motion translate through the pelvis in rolling and spirals and how do the limbs reach away from the pelvis as a point of contact to create lightness, readiness and surprise in contact dancing? Learn through observation, palpation, somatic exercises, visualization, solo exploration and partnering in guided contact improvisation scores. Explore the boney anatomical structures that make up the male and female pelvis and its function in relationship to sacrum and coccyx, lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine, head and shoulder girdle/upper limbs and the lower limbs and feet. Through the lens of the pelvis, discover a new perspective of the body as a whole.

Each session is independent, yet knowledge from one will build understanding and movement skills for each subsequent lab. Highly recommended to attend all 3!

$5+ drop-in donation cash/check
located in the BeBe Theatre
20 Commerce St.

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Pub Theology meets on the second Monday of the month from 7:00-9:00.

Pub Theology is a group of spiritual and intellectual seekers—searchers. In the relaxed, comfortable setting of a pub (or café, or living room), we discuss God, the church, the history and politics of religion, and all that falls within the embrace of the quest for truth. Our goal is non-judgmental inquiry; safe, fair, and open discussion of ideas that have puzzled and tested humans from the beginning of civilization. Pub Theology is a “great ideas” group that welcomes people of all faiths, or none.

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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

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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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From Thursday, May 2nd until Saturday, June 22nd, Momentum Gallery hosts a two-person, mixed media exhibition called Dissolution. The collection features individually created and collaborative works by two artists, Seth Clark and Jason Forck. Original collages mounted to panels play off architectonic sculptures in glass and wood culminating in a cohesive body of work that explores the notion of deteriorating architecture. This event is free and open to the public.

Serve Your Community & Strengthen Our Voice,
Lead Your Co+op & Help Shape Our Future,
Improve Access to Healthy, Local Foods,
Create a More Just, Equitable Food System
Expand Your Impact, Apply Today!

Pick up an application at the Co+op or go to our website, frenchbroadfood.coop for more information.

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Wildflowers springing from the ground are a sign that spring and warmer weather are right around the corner. Capture photos of your family and friends enjoying the Park and enter them into our Shades of 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.

Cost: No additional cost to enter.

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What might be possible if community of organization members were fully engaged and using their strengths to collectively achieve shared visions?

WHAT IS APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY?
Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative, strengths-based approach to both personal and organizational development that is proving to be highly effective in thousands of organizations and communities in hundred of countries around the world. It is a way of bringing about change that shares leadership and learning, fully engaging everyone in the organization.

WHAT IS APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY FACILITATOR TRAINING©?
Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training© (AIFT) engages participants to learn about the foundations of Appreciative Inquiry as well as the skills to facilitate inquiry sessions. At the end of this intensive Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT), participants will understand how to guide organizations, groups, and communities to consciously and deliberately shift their collective way of being and seeing to an appreciative approach, that will help them focus on what’s right in their organization, group or community, rather than on what’s wrong.

This Appreciative Inquiry foundations course includes mini-lectures, and experiential learning (individual, pairs, trios, small group, and large group) as well as auditory and visual materials to enhance the learning experience. Each day has a morning and afternoon session; a morning and afternoon break; and one hour for lunch.

TRAINING IS DESIGNED FOR:
Leaders in businesses and corporations, community development, educational organizations governmental organizations, and nonprofit organizations–in short, anyone who wants to learn how to facilitate Appreciative Inquiry.

REGISTRATION INCLUDES:
Pre-workshop reading, four full days of instruction, lunch, instructional materials (binder and book), supervised practicum for AI Facilitator certification, and support/mentoring for one year.

Please note: Your trainers are available as mentor to you during your practicum – at no extra cost. They will also be part of the panel that reviews your practicum once it has been submitted. It is standard practice for the panel to engage you in a conversation about your work once you have submitted your practicum. Typically, they will respond with questions, to deepen their and your mutual understanding of and learning about AI. The practicum review is therefore a dialogical and interactive process.

Important: Participants that earn their certification through The Center for Appreciative Inquiry (CAI) are eligible to be included in the Center for Appreciative Inquiry’s Directory for FREE for the duration for their certification. Directory profiles are easy to create and update and will make you locatable by our worldwide audience.

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A new temporary exhibit titled “Dressing for the Occasion: Mid-Century Sandburg as Celebrity and Family Man” opens on May 13, 2019. The exhibit, which runs through October, is part of the Sandburg Home tour and features clothing and accessories from both the park’s permanent collection and loaned items from the Sandburg family.

“Dressing for the Occasion” offers visitors a window into the style, culture, and feel of mid-century America. The family’s clothing and accessories weave together the roles of Carl Sandburg as a prominent writer, celebrity, father, and husband. This temporary exhibit offers an exciting opportunity for the public to view objects that are normally in storage or in the possession of Sandburg family members. Tours of the Sandburg Home are offered daily from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Tickets are available first come, first served, each day from the visitor information area in the ground level of the Sandburg Home.

Nearly every room in the historically furnished house museum will be included in the exhibit. Visitors will see the characteristic scarves Carl Sandburg wore as he played his guitar and sang folk songs to entertain his family and guests, the dress Lilian Sandburg wore to meet President Lyndon B. Johnson, and many other mid-century pieces worn by the Sandburgs and their daughters. Historic photographs, paired with the clothing, will provide context.

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An exhibition of youth art titled “Let a Joy Keep You,” is on display from April 1 to May 31, 2019. The inspiration for the art comes from the first line of Carl Sandburg’s poem “Joy.” Each of the 70 canvases reflects how the young artists chose to interpret what joy means to them. Visitors can see the installation at the Sandburg Home when they visit. Young artists are represented from across the country and locally, including students from Sugarloaf Elementary School in Hendersonville, NC.

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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).

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Seniors looking to workout more regularly are welcome to participate in video-led fitness classes! Most of the exercises will be performed seated in a chair and you will not have to get on the floor. Classes will be once a week on Tuesdays. No registration required, come when you can.

You will need to bring your own set of 2 or 3-pound dumbbell weights and a stretch band. (The library has some stretch bands if you need one.) You will be exercising to a Geri-Fit® DVD and several different levels of Geri-Fit® video workouts will be shown. Everyone is encouraged to work out at their own pace.

Please come join us and have some fun working out!

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$1 per Pint sold of Painted Fortune will be donated to the Friends of the Mountain to Sea Trail from now through May 14th! Thanks to Bhramari Brewing for the support and to volunteer Kim Elkins for coordinating!

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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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GOTR is raising funds and accepting donations for their annual service project to support the community. They will have plant starts, crafts, and baked goods for sale and would love you to bring a pet supply item (like food, litter, or gently used leashes/collars) to donate to a local animal shelter in need.

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come give out hugs and smiles to the people who really really need it!
it feels SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD! win win

no experience required. if you’re not into hugging, just come spread love and smiles and share conversation

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Marion Tailgate Market will have a variety local produce and crafts. We will continue to offer the best of McDowell farmer’s produce and artisans.
The Market will double up to $20.00 for EBT users!
During the season, we are planning cooking demos with items from the Market Vendors, local music, smoothies and children activities.
Make plans to come and support the Farmers and Artisans on Tuesdays 3PM-6.00PM and Saturdays starting July 6th- August 31st, 9.00AM-12.00PM.

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8 Jumbo Smoked Wings with your choice of side for $10! Choose from our Dry Rub, Buffalo, or our weekly special!

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** Meeting agenda and materials will be posted when they’re available.

LINK: https://www.ashevillenc.gov/council/committees/boards_n_commissions_committee/default.htm

“The Boards & Commissions Committee was established to review citizen’s applications to boards and commissions and recommend appointments to City Council. The Committee also provides guidance on establishing new boards and commissions and develops “

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Come and help these Black Mountain Adopt-A-Trail partners work on one of Pisgah’s Iconic trails (and the one that sees some of the heaviest traffic!)
Tuesday Nights (2nd and 4th of the Month) join Cognative MTB and Crankjoy for a couple hours of trail work on Black Mountain.
If you HEART Black Mountain come out and show your love!
FS PPE is required (hard hats, long pants, closed toe shoes, gloves and eye protection.)
Give back and show your love to Black on Tuesdays.
5-7pm, social to follow.
#wedigpisgah

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Come and help these Black Mountain Adopt-A-Trail partners work on one of Pisgah’s Iconic trails (and the one that sees some of the heaviest traffic!)
Tuesday Nights (2nd and 4th of the Month) join Cognative MTB and Crankjoy for a couple hours of trail work on Black Mountain.
If you HEART Black Mountain come out and show your love!
FS PPE is required (hard hats, long pants, closed toe shoes, gloves and eye protection.)
Give back and show your love to Black on Tuesdays.
5-7pm, social to follow.
#wedigpisgah

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