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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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.
The Organic Growers School’s Spring Conference offers practical, regionally-appropriate workshops on organic growing, permaculture, homesteading, urban farming, and rural living plus a trade show, seed exchange, raffle, special guests, and pre-conference, on-farm events. More than 150 workshops over the three days including Community Food, Cooking, Earth Skills, Beginning Farmers, Advanced Farmers, Gardening, Herbs, Homesteading, Livestock, Mushrooms, Permaculture, Pollinators, Poultry, Soil, Sustainable Forestry, and Sustainable Living.
The Organic Growers School Spring Conference is a one-of-a-kind event that brings people of all walks of life together for a weekend of learning and networking. Since 1993 the OGS Spring Conference has been the best way to kick-off the season. As the largest grassroots conferences of its kind in the region, Organic Growers School has served to reinforce Southern Appalachian’s role as a regional leader in sustainable food and farming. Attendees come from 18 states and Canada, and have described the event as a kick start to the growing season.
A sampling of classes includes: Community Gardens for Good; Foundations of Indian Cooking; Wild Edibles; Introduction to Flower Farming; Integrated Pest Management; Holistic Gardening; Ginger & Tumeric; Happy Healthy Homesteading 101; Animal Breeding; Medicinal Mushrooms; Appalachian Permaculture Plants; Eat, Prey, Bug; Indigenous Soil Solutions; Horse Powered Logging; Solar for Home & Farm; Restoring Planetary Waters; Cultivating Medicinal Herbs (Half Day); Beginning Cheese Making (Half Day); Grow Your Own Mushrooms (Half Day); Equipment Operation & Maintenance for Women (Half Day).
Pre-Conference Workshops on March 8, 2019 from 9:30 to 4:30. Cost: $55 with any weekend registration $70 without. Pre-Registration is required. Four options:
Finding, Buying, & Loving the Land— Site Assessment & Land Design for Farmers, Homesteaders, and Land Seekers with Peter Bane
Year-Round Growing on the Farm & Garden with Pam Dawling & Ira Wallace
Integrated Animal Agriculture—Incorporating livestock into Your Farm & Homestead with Meredith Leigh
Water and Agriculture—Critical Consciousness for Healing the Planet with John & Jonathan Tod
This is a pre-conference day long workshop of the Organic Growers School’s 26th Spring Conference. Pre-conference registration is discounted with full conference registration, but weekend attendance is not required to attend/register.
How do you read the potential of a piece of property? Learn what the realtors, developers, and sellers won’t tell you. In this all-day workshop, we will develop land literacy through a permaculture lens, learning a sophisticated set of tools for assessment and design. Invaluable whether you are planning to you buy land or want to assess and learn how to work land you already own. We come at this from three directions:
Finding the Land: What’s valuable now and over the long-term? What factors are immutable and what can you change, and with how much effort? What’s on the site and what’s not but still matters? We’ll look at slope, aspect, sun, altitude, climate (rain, temps, wind, frost dates, microclimates), tree cover and other vegetation, wildlife, water, market value, location, road access, neighbors, ease of development, soil, and structures.
Buying the Land: How much land do you need and how much can you actually manage? What things are important to know and what’s hidden in land contracts? We’ll discuss your highest intentions for the land and your financial situation, ownership options such as fee simple or collective title, and development potential. We will explore other creative land access choices including leasing and sharing, and the steps in buying.
Loving Your Land: What are the observation skills you must have as you approach and learn to live on your land? We will discuss how to engage with what you find while moving toward your goals. No matter how well you evaluate land in advance of purchase, some things can only be discerned after you spend time working on the site. Specifically you’ll learn to create a list of priorities, discern existing patterns and set others that will help you live and work harmoniously, decide on housing options and temporary structures, make the most efficient steps first, and discover the must-start soil fertility and forest management strategies for getting earliest returns.
Stewarding land is like a marriage: there is only so much you will be able to change about your land partner. It will have its own values and ideas! Learn the myriad considerations that go into meeting your land-based goals. As we move towards regenerative management, this skillset is the foundation of all our future endeavors.
This is a Pre-conference day long workshop of the Organic Growers School’s 26th Spring Conference. Pre-conference registration is discounted with full conference registration, but weekend attendance is not required to attend/register.
Two of the drastic results, over the last 50 years, of taking the animals off the farm are confinement animal feeding operations (CAFO’s) and massive use of chemical fertilizer (for plants), both of which produce environmental disasters and unsatisfactory conditions for all involved. Livestock production was historically integrated on the same farms that grew vegetable crops. These elegant systems provided a closed loop for animal, plant, and human nutrients that cannot be replicated in any other way.
The solution to environmental and economic disasters? Bring the animals back to the farm and homestead! Join author, farmer, butcher, and activist Meredith Leigh and learn to re-integrate plant and animal agriculture, on the homestead or the commercial farm. The day-long workshop consists of these components:
Designing your Integrated System: Discover pastured animal systems including rotational grazing, silvopasture and others; animals and breeds to choose for health, vitality, and smooth integration into your current system; rising consumer demand for grass-fed animal products; and other production techniques and tips.
Building Soil: As farmers we are primarily soil builders. Learn to assess the many tools we have for remineralizing soil, from no-till to compost teas to animal impact. All while keeping in mind how to keep the balance of saving our backs and our bank accounts.
Tools & Skills: Walk away with tools for managing land with animals using systems thinking and practical information about cutting edge production techniques. Most importantly, growers will be provided with support and tools to juggle the real world implications, and power, of raising both plants and animals in a world that needs them now more than ever.
Integration of animals not only supports the production of local, healthy, humane, and grass fed meats and milk but also promotes healthy soil and better nutrient cycling at every stage of the growing life cycle, including human nutrition. Get started with animals now!
This is a pre-conference day long workshop of the Organic Growers School’s 26th Spring Conference. Pre-conference registration is discounted with full conference registration, but weekend attendance is not required to attend/register.
The availability, quality, and integration of water in food production is an overlooked yet central feature of food systems. Leaders in the work of water interfaces are John Todd and his son Jonathan, who combine cutting edge research with dynamic design to restore waterways all over the world as functional, living components of natural and built environments. In this full day, immersive class, witness them at work as they consider a farm pond as a case study. In the morning portion of the workshop, participants will learn the personality of water features, from chemistry to plant and animal life, and the meaning of their interactions. In the afternoon, the Todds will take years of experience and deep scientific knowledge to develop a design plan that takes advantage of the farm’s pond, while also caring for its well being. Participants will learn the application of methods the Todd’s have used worldwide – from rehabilitating city sewage treatment to creating resiliency on entire islands – living machines, polycultures, restorative riparian and aquatic native plants, beneficial fungi, and animal life. This full day workshop offers a unique opportunity to sit with both the hope and the complexity of the future facing our planet, and walk away with tangible examples for healing ecosystems, either at the farm scale, or much larger.
Join experienced vegetable, herb, and seed growers Pam Dawling & Ira Wallace for a step-by-step approach to growing year-round. Learn the tools to manage space effectively, grow the quantities of crops when you want them, and efficiently meet your growing goals. The workshop will cover:
Defining your Market: Are you growing for yourself or for others? When and how much do you need to harvest? Learn about yields of common crops and begin to create a growing plan.
Season Extension: From transplants and row cover in the spring, to hoop houses in the winter, learn to keep crops alive through the seasons. Calculate the last worthwhile planting date in your area, and choose a suitable combination of warm weather crops, cool weather crops, storage crops and cold-hardy crops appropriate for your scale.
Temperature Resilience: Discover tips to deal with extreme hot and cold temperature ranges including getting seeds germinated, identifying crops that do well in both extremes, and the importance of crop diversification. Climate change necessitates adaptive growing practices. We will incorporate soil building and water management, as well as the importance of seed saving and variety trials.
Crop Rotation: Keep roots in the ground at all times! Learn the art of crop rotation using planting calendars, observation, and garden planning. Discover relay planting, cover cropping, isolation distances, plants to attract pollinators, as well as tricks for fitting minor crops into available spaces.
For healthy eaters, home growers, and farmers—Join us for our 26th Year!
Date: March 8-10, 2019
We’re thrilled to be at a New Venue – Mars Hill University
20 minutes North of Downtown Asheville
Exit 11 off of Highway 26 West
Free & Easy Parking
Larger, More Accessible & Connect Indoor Spaces
Cost: Early Registration Discount until January 31:
$59 for Saturday, $49 for Sunday, $99 for both.
Pre-conference workshops are $70 without conference registration, $55 with conference registration.
After January 31:
$74 for Saturday, $64 for Sunday, and $129 for Saturday and Sunday.
Learn More: https://organicgrowersschool.org/conferences/spring/
We’re offering a Kid’s Program this year! Read more here: https://organicgrowersschool.org/conferences/spring/2019-kids-program/
The Spring Conference offers practical, regionally specific workshops on organic growing, permaculture, homesteading, urban farming, and rural living plus a trade show, seed exchange, silent auction, children’s program, and pre-conference, on-farm events. More than 70 sessions per day in 17 educational tracks:
Community Food
Cooking
Earth Skills
Farming: Beginning
Farming: Advanced
Gardening
Herbs
Homesteading
Livestock
Mushrooms
Permaculture
Pollinators
Poultry
Soils
Sustainable Forestry
Sustainable Living
Thinking Big
The Organic Growers School Spring Conference is a one-of-a-kind event that brings people of all walks of life together for a weekend of learning and networking. Since 1993, the Spring Conference has been the best way to kick-off the season.
As the largest grassroots conferences of its kind in the region, Organic Growers School has served to reinforce Western North Carolina’s role as a regional leader in sustainable food and farming. Attendees come from 18 states and Canada, and have described the event as a kick start to the growing season.
https://www.facebook.com/events/424536731414226/
Finding, Buying, & Loving the Land— Site Assessment & Land Design for Farmers, Homesteaders, and Land Seekers
WITH PETER BANE
How do you read the potential of a piece of property? Learn what the realtors, developers, and sellers won’t tell you. In this all-day workshop, we will develop land literacy through a permaculture lens, learning a sophisticated set of tools for assessment and design. Invaluable whether you are planning to you buy land or want to assess and learn how to work land you already own. We come at this from three directions:
Finding the Land: What’s valuable now and over the long-term? What factors are immutable and what can you change, and with how much effort? What’s on the site and what’s not but still matters? We’ll look at slope, aspect, sun, altitude, climate (rain, temps, wind, frost dates, microclimates), tree cover and other vegetation, wildlife, water, market value, location, road access, neighbors, ease of development, soil, and structures.
Buying the Land: How much land do you need and how much can you actually manage? What things are important to know and what’s hidden in land contracts? We’ll discuss your highest intentions for the land and your financial situation, ownership options such as fee simple or collective title, and development potential. We will explore other creative land access choices including leasing and sharing, and the steps in buying.
Loving Your Land: What are the observation skills you must have as you approach and learn to live on your land? We will discuss how to engage with what you find while moving toward your goals. No matter how well you evaluate land in advance of purchase, some things can only be discerned after you spend time working on the site. Specifically you’ll learn to create a list of priorities, discern existing patterns and set others that will help you live and work harmoniously, decide on housing options and temporary structures, make the most efficient steps first, and discover the must-start soil fertility and forest management strategies for getting earliest returns.
Stewarding land is like a marriage: there is only so much you will be able to change about your land partner. It will have its own values and ideas! Learn the myriad considerations that go into meeting your land-based goals. As we move towards regenerative management, this skillset is the foundation of all our future endeavors.
Peter Bane
Peter Bane is the author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country, a distillation of more than 25 years’ experience in the art and science of land management, and published Permaculture Activist magazine from 1990-2015. Familiar with tropical and temperate systems in North America, Hawaii, and the Caribbean, Peter has taught more than 1500 students in 100 courses spread widely across the US, Canada, and as far afield as Chile, Argentina and Trinidad-Tobago, for more than 25 years. In 2009, Peter co-authored a report, “Redefining Prosperity” on prospects and policy recommendations for the city of Bloomington, IN in an energy-constrained future. Its recommendations were adopted by Bloomington Common Council. He holds the Diploma of Permaculture Design variously for teaching, media, site design, trusteeship, and community development from the Permaculture Institute – USA (2014), the British Academy Worknet (2005) and the Permaculture Institute of North America (2016). He helped create Earthaven Ecovillage in Western North Carolina, pioneered suburban farming in Bloomington, Indiana, and is now living in rural Michigan.
https://www.facebook.com/events/266915880673452/
Integrated Animal Agriculture—Incorporating Livestock into your Farm & Homestead
with MEREDITH LEIGH
Two of the drastic results, over the last 50 years, of taking the animals off the farm are confinement animal feeding operations (CAFO’s) and massive use of chemical fertilizer (for plants), both of which produce environmental disasters and unsatisfactory conditions for all involved. Livestock production was historically integrated on the same farms that grew vegetable crops. These elegant systems provided a closed loop for animal, plant, and human nutrients that cannot be replicated in any other way.
The solution to environmental and economic disasters? Bring the animals back to the farm and homestead! Join author, farmer, butcher, and activist Meredith Leigh and learn to re-integrate plant and animal agriculture, on the homestead or the commercial farm. The day-long workshop consists of these components:
Designing your Integrated System: Discover pastured animal systems including rotational grazing, silvopasture and others; animals and breeds to choose for health, vitality, and smooth integration into your current system; rising consumer demand for grass-fed animal products; and other production techniques and tips.
Building Soil: As farmers we are primarily soil builders. Learn to assess the many tools we have for remineralizing soil, from no-till to compost teas to animal impact. All while keeping in mind how to keep the balance of saving our backs and our bank accounts.
Tools & Skills: Walk away with tools for managing land with animals using systems thinking and practical information about cutting edge production techniques. Most importantly, growers will be provided with support and tools to juggle the real world implications, and power, of raising both plants and animals in a world that needs them now more than ever.
Integration of animals not only supports the production of local, healthy, humane, and grass fed meats and milk but also promotes healthy soil and better nutrient cycling at every stage of the growing life cycle, including human nutrition. Get started with animals now!
Meredith Leigh has, over the past 17 years, worked as a farmer, butcher, author, cook, and educator, all in pursuit of sustainable food. She focuses on supply chain dynamics and systems thinking geared towards the entire food life cycle. She is the author of The Ethical Meat Handbook: Complete Home Butchery Charcuterie and Cooking for the Conscious Omnivore (2015 3rd place winner, M.F.K Fisher award) and Pure Charcuterie: The Craft & Poetry of Curing Meat at Home (2017) both of which explore the roles of meat and meat eaters in the food system, both present and future. Her current project focuses on the relative health of the narrative surrounding the future of food, by applying the perspectives of the people behind our food to the business and other structures that define it.
https://www.facebook.com/events/511880145961019/
Water and Agriculture—Critical Consciousness for Healing the Planet with John and Jonathan Todd, Ocean Arks International & Todd Ecological Design
The availability, quality, and integration of water in food production is an overlooked yet central feature of food systems. Leaders in the work of water interfaces are John Todd and his son Jonathan, who combine cutting edge research with dynamic design to restore waterways all over the world as functional, living components of natural and built environments. In this full day, immersive class, witness them at work as they consider a farm pond as a case study. In the morning portion of the workshop, participants will learn the personality of water features, from chemistry to plant and animal life, and the meaning of their interactions. In the afternoon, the Todds will take years of experience and deep scientific knowledge to develop a design plan that takes advantage of the farm’s pond, while also caring for its well being. Participants will learn the application of methods the Todd’s have used worldwide – from rehabilitating city sewage treatment to creating resiliency on entire islands – living machines, polycultures, restorative riparian and aquatic native plants, beneficial fungi, and animal life. This full day workshop offers a unique opportunity to sit with both the hope and the complexity of the future facing our planet, and walk away with tangible examples for healing ecosystems, either at the farm scale, or much larger.
Dr. John Todd has been a pioneer in the field of ecological design and engineering for nearly five decades. He is the founder and president of John Todd Ecological Design. Dr. Todd has degrees in agriculture, parasitology and tropical medicine from McGill University, Montreal, and a doctorate in fisheries and ethology from the University of Michigan. His numerous honors include the 2008 Buckminster Fuller Award for the best idea/concept to help save the planet/humanity; the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chico Mendes Award and Environment Merit Award; a lifetime achievement award from the New York Open Center; Global Visionary Award from the City of Chicago; and many others. In 2007 he was named one of top 100 visionaries of the 20th century by “Resurgence & Ecologist” magazine.
Jonathan Todd is the ecological designer and driving force behind John Todd Ecological Design and was the driving force. For 19 years he oversaw the development and design of many of JTED’s most successful projects. Today Jonathan is located on the west coast and is focused on addressing the most pressing water issues in that region.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2208305589420560/
Year-Round Growing on the Farm & Garden
WITH IRA WALLACE & PAM DAWLING
Join experienced vegetable, herb, and seed growers Pam Dawling & Ira Wallace for a step-by-step approach to growing year-round. Learn the tools to manage space effectively, grow the quantities of crops when you want them, and efficiently meet your growing goals. The workshop will cover:
Defining your Market: Are you growing for yourself or for others? When and how much do you need to harvest? Learn about yields of common crops and begin to create a growing plan.
Season Extension: From transplants and row cover in the spring, to hoop houses in the winter, learn to keep crops alive through the seasons. Calculate the last worthwhile planting date in your area, and choose a suitable combination of warm weather crops, cool weather crops, storage crops and cold-hardy crops appropriate for your scale.
Temperature Resilience: Discover tips to deal with extreme hot and cold temperature ranges including getting seeds germinated, identifying crops that do well in both extremes, and the importance of crop diversification. Climate change necessitates adaptive growing practices. We will incorporate soil building and water management, as well as the importance of seed saving and variety trials.
Crop Rotation: Keep roots in the ground at all times! Learn the art of crop rotation using planting calendars, observation, and garden planning. Discover relay planting, cover cropping, isolation distances, plants to attract pollinators, as well as tricks for fitting minor crops into available spaces.
Pam Dawling
Pam Dawling is the author of the book Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres, published in February 2013 by New Society Publishers. She also writes for Growing for Market magazine. Pam manages the crew who grow vegetables at Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, where the gardens feed 100 people on 3.5 acres. She blogs at www.sustainablemarketfarming.com.
Ira Wallace
Ira Wallace is a worker/owner of the cooperatively managed Southern Exposure Seed Exchange which offers over 700 varieties of open-pollinated heirloom and organic seeds selected for flavor and regional adaptability. Southern Exposure helps people keep control of their food supply by supporting sustainable home and market gardening, seed saving, and preserving heirloom varieties. Ira serves on the boards of the Organic Seed Alliance, the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and the Virginia Association for Biological Farming (VABF). In addition, Ira is a member of Acorn Community which farms over 60 acres of certified organic land in Central Virginia, growing seeds, alliums, hay, and conducting variety trials for Southern Exposure. She is an organizer of the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, a fun, family-friendly event featuring an old-time seed swap, local food, hands-on workshops and demos, and more. She presents at events throughout the southeast. She currently writes about heirloom vegetable varieties for magazines and blogs including Mother Earth News, Fine Gardening and Southern Exposure. She also conducts variety trials for Southern Exposure Seed Exchange as well as researching and documenting the history of varieties offered in the annual catalog. Her book, The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, is available online and at booksellers everywhere.
https://www.facebook.com/events/577436729344371/
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=267246660633766
Come when you can, we are no longer taking sign-ups but walk-ins are welcome!
Seniors looking to workout more regularly are welcome to participate in a three month video-led fitness class and study conducted by Geri-fit! Most of the exercises will be performed seated in a chair and you will not have to get on the floor. Classes will be twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays for 45 minutes. There are 24 classes over a 3 month period.
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.
Classes will be held twice-a-week for 45-minutes each. Upon completion of the 12 week study, each participant will fill out a survey to help evaluate the effectiveness of the video-led classes to determine if your strength, stamina, balance and range of motion has improved.
Please come join us and have some fun working out!
https://www.facebook.com/events/289832488265375/?event_time_id=289832541598703
Join us in Greenville March 6-10 for the 2019 #SECWBB Tournament!
Championship details: http://www.secsports.com/championship/womens-basketball
Security information: http://www.secsports.com/security
Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/search?q=2019+Sec+Women%27s+Basketball
https://www.facebook.com/events/395304844607171/?event_time_id=395304854607170
Sale Dates and Times:
Public Onsale : Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 10:00 AM
https://www.facebook.com/events/740773246273459/
Thinking about applying for the $5,000 Asheville Impact Micro Grant? Have questions about the application process? We’ve raised $25,000 to put into 5 local early stage startups.
Join Venture Asheville Director Jeff Kaplan on Friday at the Asheville Chamber Board Room on the second floor for a 30 minute presentation/30 minute Q&A on the requirements, eligibility, and what the committee will be looking for in Micro Grant recipients. The rest of the time will be available for questions. This event is free and open to the public.
If you can’t make it on Friday, there will be another session next week taking place at Green Opportunities. The date is TBD.
You can also learn more about the Micro Grant at http://ventureasheville.com/microgrant/
https://www.facebook.com/events/289087721758152/
Compassion, love, kindness and understanding are the keys to communicating in spirit, enabling us to receive the messages that help us to heal and go on with our lives. As an Intuitive Psychic Medium and Spiritual Energy Practitioner, it is my honor and life’s work to use my abilities to communicate with the spirits of your loved ones; letting you know that they have never left you and that they are still with you. My work lets me not only heal those here, but also those who have passed on.
I am offering Private Readings at Asheville Raven & Crone!
Come make meaningful connections with me!
Phone: 978-618-5972
or Email: [email protected]
Rates:
$2.00 per min.
$30 for 15 min.
$60 for 30 min.
$120 for 1 hr.
https://www.facebook.com/events/550490838797846/
***At a private residence. Message for address and directions!
***With advanced notice, we can organize rides. Just let us know
As Asheville Showing Up for Racial Justice has a goal of mobilizing thousands of White people in Asheville to dismantle White Supremacy, on Friday, March 8th, we are centering class and holding our first week afternoon meeting of the Poor and Working Class Caucus. We will be focusing on ways to mobilize ourselves and other poor and working class residents of Western North Carolina. The onramps to racial justice work MUST have lanes for the poor and the working class!
This meeting will also provide space for extended check-ins, as many of us have concerns for our own ability to show up consistently due to work and difficulty meeting basic needs in a capitalist society.
Agenda:
1. Introductions, Group Norms, and Check-ins: 45 minutes
2. Core Values and ASURJ Updates, including Core opportunities: 10 minutes
3. Caucus Input on Middle and Owning Class interest meeting being planned for late March: 15 minutes
4. What helps us show up/ what do we need of a Middle Class and Owning Class Caucus (in the process of being formed) and what can we give each other: 5 minutes
5. Future caucus planning/ promotion/ potential roles within the group: 5 minutes
6. Upcoming events/ how do we get involved/ announcements/ and goodbyes: 10 minutes
If you can’t make it this time, we are in the process of planning an evening meeting during the third week of March. Afternoon meetings are during the first week. Let us know your schedule! We hope to be pick regular days on which to have our caucuses soon. We hope you’ll keep in touch! (-Matilda)
https://www.facebook.com/events/358918598292284/
Hey, it’s our birthday! To kick off our month-long celebration of service projects and specialty bottle releases, we are joining forces with our friends at Asheville GreenWorks, Asheville Mardi Gras, and the South Slope Neighborhood Association to organize a South Slope Neighborhood Cleanup. Please join us in our efforts to better our community, starting right here in our own neighborhood.
Follow the link under “Tickets URL” if you are interested in volunteering with us!
A Volunteer Appreciation After-Party in Twin Leaf’s taproom will follow the cleanup, with complimentary drinks provided by us and heavy snacks from the lovely ladies at Verbena Cakes and Catering.
Our Neighborhood Cleanup is just the beginning of our service efforts. To celebrate our 5 year milestone, Team Twin Leaf is teaming up with five local, nonprofits for a variety of service initiatives including volunteer projects with the staff, charity pint nights, and more. Please visit our website for more information.
https://www.facebook.com/events/573054459829012/
In honor of our 5 Year Anniversary Celebration, we are releasing a series of specialty bottles throughout the month of March.
We are kicking things off with the return of our delicious Bourbon-Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, Mass Extinction.
This dark, rich, and nutty imperial stout is layered with notes of dark chocolate, toffee, and vanilla imparted by the bourbon. A year in the making, this barrel-aged imperial stout was inspired by our owner and head brewers love of science and, of course, DINOSOURS!
This limited release will be available in 500 ml bottles and on tap starting March 8, until supplies last.
https://www.facebook.com/events/832281527111321/
We’re releasing three new wines Friday, March 8! Enjoy the new wines throughout Second Saturday weekend along with shopping and food in the River Arts District.
https://www.facebook.com/events/946351448892740/?event_time_id=946351455559406
Join us each Friday starting at 3:59pm – or whenever you can get here! We gather together to share stories, laugh and get to know one another. All are welcome! We donate 10% of the sales from 359 Club to a local and regional non-profits. If your non-profit is interested in participating contact Merit.
Snacks are put out for all to enjoy and you can bring your own if you like. Outside food is welcome. We are also dog friendly!
https://www.facebook.com/events/482181682313633/?event_time_id=482181708980297
PromZilla 2019 is a 2-day Consign/Buy Event featuring Prom, Formal and Gala dresses of all sizes and styles.
The event will be held Friday, March 8 from 4-8pm and Saturday, March 9 from 9am-1pm.
Cash, Checks and Cards accepted.
For consignment or additional information call 828-645-8053
https://www.facebook.com/events/2063137050429007/
This Friday we welcome D9 Brewing Company for their first ever Tap Takeover in Marion, NC! We will have a great variety lined up for you to try, including a few of the delicious sours they are well known for!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2271696226226633/
FREE DEAD FRIDAYS @ The One Stop
– feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic
Join us at The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall every Friday at 5:30PM for our FREE Acoustic Grateful Dead series Featuring members of Phuncle Sam and great drink and food specials.
https://www.facebook.com/events/244820139590703/?event_time_id=244820172924033
Enjoy a delicious slow roasted Prime Rib dinner served with shallot and garlic mashed potatoes, house vegetables, au jus, and horseradish cream. Price $23pp. Featured each Friday night at Legends on the Lake along with our regular dinner menu.
https://www.facebook.com/events/359957811225905/?event_time_id=359957847892568
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.
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Sale Dates and Times:
Public Onsale : Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
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Join us every Friday night for some of Asheville’s greatest Jazz musicians. Music kicks off at 5 pm!
Enjoy our special Weekend Menu. Available only on Friday-Sunday.
All items served with fruit salad with sweet cream and today’s rotating side salad.
*Individual Quiche from Rhu Bakery. A delicious savory quiche from Rhu. Bakery with egg, cheese and vegetables in homemade pastry $12
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
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Sale Dates and Times:
Public Onsale : Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 10:00 AM
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