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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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.
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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.
https://www.facebook.com/events/267786327235081/?event_time_id=267786370568410
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.
https://www.facebook.com/events/239571740063340/
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.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1282810215200932/?event_time_id=1282810221867598
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.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2304444942927531/?event_time_id=2304444989594193
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!
https://www.facebook.com/events/354160471881890/
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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Photos Day or Night is an intimate look at the life and work of early 20th-century American photographer Hugh Mangum. Mangum was born in 1877 at the end of Reconstruction, and died in 1922, three years after World War I and two years after women gained the right to vote. During his lifetime, the final battles of the Indian Wars were waged, and the first law limiting the number of immigrants allowed in the U.S. was passed. The personalities in Mangum’s images collectively, and often majestically, symbolize the triumphs and struggles of this pivotal era. An itinerant photographer primarily working in his home state of North Carolina and the Virginias, he cultivated clientele from across racial and economic divides. Though the American South of his era was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation, and inequality, he portrayed all his sitters with candor and heart. Above all, he showed them as individuals. A century after their making, his photographs allow us a penetrating gaze into faces of the past; and in a larger sense, they offer an unusually insightful glimpse of the South at the turn of the 20th century.
Moderated by author Sarah Stacke.
DISCUSSION BOUND
Meeting each second Tuesday at 12pm, this monthly discussion is a place to exchange ideas about readings that relate to artworks and the art world, and to learn from and about each other. Pick up some tasty local fare at the Malaprop’s Café to make the most of your midday break! Books are available at Malaprop’s for a 10% discount. To add your name to our Discussion Bound mailing list, email Kristi McMillan, adult programs manager, or call 828.253.3227 x122.
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.
https://www.facebook.com/events/655482281563114/
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
https://www.facebook.com/events/301145170594441/
Our family is sending a young Haitian woman through nursing school and we’d love to have your support.
Free live music, silent auction including Haitian artwork fresh from Haiti, Raffle, video of Rose and more!
Our Goal: $12000. That’s the total cost for room and board, english lessons and four years of nursing school.
We’ve raised over $1000 already. Rose is half-way through school and getting ready to assist with the Consider Haiti Clinic in April. CH volunteers will be bringing back video interviews and Haitian art for the auction.
If you can’t attend, please consider donating:
https://www.gofundme.com/rose-goes-to-nursing-school
https://www.facebook.com/events/1100599296790241/
Sake pop up the second Tuesday of every month! We will be offering a selection of sake & Asian inspired cocktails and dishes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2118665824857308/?event_time_id=2118665844857306
***Registration has closed. If you are interested in joining a team, please email [email protected].***
This league always sells out, so make sure to sign up as a team or free agent soon! Staggered games will be played from 5:30-8:30 on Tuesday evenings, April 2-May 28. Sponsorship opportunities are also available, see below.
Teams are:
? Co-ed
? Consist of 10-16 players (age 18+) with at least three female or three male players on the field at any time
? Not required to have any previous adult kickball experience
? Required to have fun and a “good sport” attitude
Do you still remember the sound of your foot meeting the red rubber ball on the schoolyard? Kick up your fun and fitness with your team’s quest for the season trophy during this popular sports league.
/// SPONSORSHIP ///
Presenting Sponsor
? Prominent logo placement on every player’s t-shirt (required to be worn at each match)
? Logo incorporated on the Facebook page, Eventbrite registration, and BCRS website
? Social media posts on the BCRS Instagram and Facebook accounts including teams in their shirts featuring your logo
? Ability to extend an offer to the players such as 1/2 off an appetizer on game night while wearing team t-shirt
? Complementary team registration that could be donated or used to build teamwork among your staff
For an affordable way to support the league and promote your business, email [email protected] for a custom sponsorship.
https://www.facebook.com/events/541855509626786/?event_time_id=541855529626784
Dance Practice Party – Tuesday May 14th, 2019 – 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Homewood Event Center 19 Zillicoa St. Asheville NC
$5.00 per person cover charge
Missy Lindsey will be the DJ.
Come prepared to practice your dance moves, and have lots of fun…
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Get in on this HOT new class that is a combination of:
Buti Bands; a HIIT-based resistance training workout targeted to LIFT + SHAPE your BOOTY while toning + strengthening the hips.
Buti Flow; focuses on releasing your hips and connecting with your primal warrior, so that energy flows more freely throughout your body.
This class combines 30 minutes of Buti Bands, with Ebonie Morris followed by 30 minutes of Buti Flow, with Cynthia Sims!
Buti® Bands is a HIIT-based resistance training workout targeted to LIFT + SHAPE your BOOTY while toning + strengthening the hips. Bands are utilized during high-intensity intervals to challenge the body through all planes of motion while targeting the hips and booty through lateral engagement. During low-intensity intervals, students move through static yoga poses to release the muscle group targeted during the high-intensity interval.
Buti Flow
Buti Flow concentrates on dynamic power yoga and deep abdominal toning, keeping the tribal dance of a typical Buti Yoga class at a lower energy level. Class focuses on the core and hips and uses the Spiral Structure Technique to strengthen the body and mind from the inside out. This class focuses on releasing your hips and connecting with your primal warrior, so that energy flows more freely throughout your body.
✨ ✨ ✨ ALL LEVELS welcome to connect & thrive!
➳ 60 minutes of movement
➳ $12 drop in/ Pre-register on Mindbody app- Primal Studios to reserve your space + speed up the sign in process!
➳ Bring your yoga mat OR ?
We have Buti Yoga B-aligned mats for your use.
➳ Our Studio is in the same building as Tribe Dance & Pole at 457 N. Louisiana Ave. in West Asheville
✨ Primal Studios is a Yoga/Buti Yoga/Movement studio that inspires you to move outside your comfort zone, and connect & thrive in the community as we evolve together! Visit us at 457 N. Louisiana Ave. in West Asheville, right inside the TRIBE Dance & Pole building! www.primalstudiosasheville.com ✨
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Anyone in need is welcome to stop by the Leicester Baptist Church Fellowship Hall between 5:30-7pm on the second Tuesday of each month for a food distribution.
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In partnership with The Educational Garden Project, YWCA of Asheville Early Learning Program is hosting several upcoming Pollinator Garden Workdays!
We need your help to complete items to finish up our playground design, weed our existing garden, separate and replant existing plants, and install a pollinator garden. Everyone is invited. Bring gardening tools if you have any, and please RSVP so we can bring tools for those who need them.
Tasks we hope to accomplish during these workdays:
*Move Materials from Parking Lot to Garden
*Refine Garden Plan
*Choose Rock Bed Walls
*Choose Pavers / Paths
*Choose Plants From List
*Discuss Bird Feeder Station
*Move Garden Beds + Soils
*Install Bed Walls, Paths, Plants, Mulches
*Tinker in the Garden
*Install:
Bird Feed Station
Worms + Soils Station
Bee Hotel Station
*Install Educational Materials and Signs
*Clean Sidewalks, Walls, Windows and Fence Lines
https://www.facebook.com/events/394489391405494/?event_time_id=394489394738827
All Levels Welcome
$80 for entire series
No drop-ins
Please join us for six consecutive sessions focusing on fundamentals for a sustainable yoga practice. We will start with a brief background of Hatha Yoga, working to understand how the practice of asanas (postures) can enhance your life and inform you to be happier and healthier. Joe will teach principles of alignment to refine your yoga practice and optimize its effects. This isn’t just for beginners! Students with a regular yoga practice would benefit greatly from deeper anatomy, alignment and overall fine-tuning. There will be plenty of time for Q&A during and after every class.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2541455689218434/?event_time_id=2541455692551767
Beginner Bellydance 8 Week Series starts next Tuesday!
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Lisa Zahiya is the owner of studios here, multi award-winning belly dancer and touring teacher.
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Learn Bellydance from the beginning, and tap into a fun supportive community. Start your Bellydance adventure!
https://www.facebook.com/events/396088694310580/?event_time_id=396088707643912
Want to get in the mix to support learning and growth at Claxton?
Join us for the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) meeting on the first Tuesday of every month from 6:00 pm-7:00 pm in the Claxton Media Center.
The Claxton PTO is a great way to stay informed, get involved and meet other families. The PTO provides support in the classroom and to our CLX staff, helping to promote an involved and inspired support system around our children. All are welcome!
Meeting agendas will be posted prior to meetings, if you would like to be added to the agenda, please contact PTO Co-Presidents Molly Russell ([email protected]) or Southard Nowak ([email protected]).
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It’s time for our final GMM of 2019! We are excited to host this event at Celine and Company Catering “On Broadway” on May 14th at 6pm. A social will take place from 6:00 to 6:45 pm, followed by a brief formal meeting. We will conclude with dinner and celebrations at 7:00 pm. The cost for dinner is $30 (optional).
Please register online, even if you are not having dinner using the link below. All members, including sustainers, are encouraged to attend.
Please register and pre-pay online using the link below. Once you complete registration, you will be directed to the optional payment form. You can also mail a check to Junior League of Asheville, PO Box 7315, Asheville, NC 28802. Cash, check or credit card will also be accepted at the door. If you have any concerns or questions, please email [email protected].
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejEyxCI7mZoKP_Gatpdnvw0GeFSQmCvker0o9B90wIRXZlmQ/viewform
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Join us, UpCountry Brewing Company, Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Friends of DuPont Forest for a great night of beer & fundraising! 10% of all sales during the event will go directly to this great cause!
UpCountry Brewing presents Pints for Pines, a local nature conservation fundraiser benefiting Friends of the Smokies and Friends of Dupont Forest. Now through Memorial Day, UpCountry and Budweiser of AVL Distribution will donate a portion of all case sales. Additionally, guests of local sponsoring restaurants and bars are encouraged to make a donation in person, or online! The public also has the opportunity to win some sweet prizes, including t-shirts, hammocks, and a grand prize of a weekend getaway with sCAMPer Van Camping Van!
Cheers everyone!
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