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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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Thursday, March
4, 2021
Leading Through Crisis Seminar Series Part 3: Character in a Crisis
New PPP Rules Change Briefing for Asian-American + Pacific Islander, Native American + Tribal Small Business Owners
Join us for a virtual, via Zoom, four part series; March 2, 3, 4, 5 from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon each day.
Part 1: Defining a Crisis
Part 2: Battling Distractions During a Crisis
Part 3: Character in a Crisis
Part 4: Real Leadership in Crisis
Based on the teaching of John C. Maxwell participants will learn via a series of videos and discussion. Each lesson is designed to prompt questions from the reading, draw out key values and encourage discussion. John Maxwell is a leadership expert, speaker and author. His books have sold millions of copies, with some on the New York Times Best Seller List. For more information: https://www.johnmaxwell.com/
Participants will learn:
1. Learn practical ways to maneuver through times of difficulty and adversity
2. Adopt successful thinking habits to think your way through any crisis
3. Effectively battle distractions during times of crisis and stress
Timothy Polis, owner of You Lead Unlimited will facilitate the seminar series. Tim is a Certified John Maxwell Speaker, Coach, and Trainer. As a leadership and personal growth teacher and keynote speaker, Timothy works with individuals and organizations that understand the value of personal growth, who want to sharpen their current leadership skills and want to develop a larger pool of emerging leaders in their organization.
For more information on the John Maxwell Masterminding program please visit Timothy’s website:
https://youleadunlimited.com/
Participants will have access to a 17 page Participant Guide that will be emailed prior to the event and each participant who completes the course will be mailed a Certificate of Completion.
Event Sponsors:
2021 Seminar Series Presented by:
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Friday, March
5, 2021
Professional Networking Group for Veterans
Southeastern Student Sustainability Conference
WitchCon Online 2021: A Livestream Magical Conference
YPA March Professional Development
Free Counseling and Business Support at Blue Ridge Community College
Nominations for the 14th Annual ATHENA Leadership Award Now Open
Leading Through Crisis Seminar Series Part 4: Real Leadership in Crisis
New PPP Rules Change Briefing for Black + African-American Small Business Owners
New PPP Rules Change Briefing for Hispanic Small Business Owners
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This annual conference brings together student EcoReps, sustainability interns, and faculty and staff advisers from around the region for a weekend of peer leadership training and collaboration. This conference is a great opportunity to learn from your peers, share your successes (and get constructive feedback), and get inspiration you can bring back to your own campus.
Key topics in 2021 will include:
• Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in our work
• Effective Student Leadership/ Peer 2 Peer education
• Zero Waste initiatives
• Educational initiatives & events
• Adapting to COVID-19
• Translating student visions into institutional action
This conference will be held VIRTUALLY due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.
Register
There is no fee to attend, however, you must register to participate in the virtual sessions. The registration deadline is Friday, March 19 at midnight.
Hosted by WitchCon
Join the largest online magical conference in the world, devoted to Witchcraft, Conjure, and Rootwork.
About this Event
March 5th to 7th, 2021, Brian Cain, Christian Day and the HEX Education Network present WitchCon Online, featuring over a hundred classes by over a hundred Witches and Conjurers from across the globe ready to share their time-honored wisdom and witchery.
WitchCon Online presenters are the preeminent masters of the magical arts and hail from across a rainbow spectrum of occult and spiritual practices. Their classes are personally designed to help beginners, novices, and experts alike draw upon the power of magic!
WitchCon Online 2021 registration includes admittance to all livestream video classes, rituals, and performances, each personally designed to help beginners, novices, and experts alike draw upon the power of magic. It also grants access to watch every class after the event has ended via our on-demand library so you don’t have to miss a magical moment!
The conference is livestreamed by the Hex Education Network on Crowdcast, a web-based platform with no need to download an app!
WitchCon Online attendees will love shopping live with our magical presenters, each showcasing powerful ritual tools, signed books, exquisite jewelry, and spellcrafts handmade by true practitioners in half-hour Live Sales. You don’t have to travel to the ends of the Earth to scour the witch markets: you can buy from enchanting artisans and score amazing tools and talismans from the comfort of your own home. Our Virtual Vendors’ Hall is free to the public as well!
The WitchCon Online Virtual Meet and Greet lets you meet and interact live on Zoom with WitchCon presenters and its hosts Brian Cain and Christian Day. This is a great way to get to know your favorite teachers and what’s even better is that it’s free and open to the public!
Its that time again- join us for our First Friday Professional Development this Friday, March 5th at 8:30am on Zoom!
We will be featuring Jeffery Kaplan, Director of Venture Asheville, who will be presenting on Developing Your Entrepreneurial Skillset.
The skills an individual requires to act entrepreneurially can be taught and developed and this philosophy serves as the foundation of Venture Asheville’s mentorship programs. Venture Asheville builds entrepreneurs and gets startups funded through three core initiatives: mentorship, financing, and programs. Join YPA as we learn how Venture Asheville serves our community and how we can all develop our entrepreneurial skills.
What we’re about
Young Professionals of Asheville (YPA) (http://www.ypasheville.org/) connects young adults in order to better lead and serve the greater Asheville community. YPA welcomes young professionals (ages 21 – 40) living in WNC to join us for events focused on professional development, fostering connection and serving our community.
LINK IS NOW LIVE TO TO BECOME A YPA MEMBER FOR THE 2020-2021 YEAR
https://ashevillenccoc.wliinc24.com/events/2020-2021-Young-Professionals-of-Asheville-Membership-7026/details?fbclid=IwAR3-T31Ak_qIeATULaM1p-YmTnB6TcASvK8GEdhGZc2wEDNVYrtK-9ZN27w
We are happy to announce we will offering YPA membership for the 2020-2021 year for HALF OFF! For the entire month of June, if you sign up to be a YPA member, it will only cost $25! We recognize the membership experience has been a little different lately and we’re happy to still have the ability to connect and provide value to our members through our virtual experiences. We hope we will be back to safe, in-person events soon and hope the reduced cost of membership helps those that may have been negatively affected in these tough times.
If you have any questions or would like more information, don’t hesitate to reach out to me!
Mackenzie HeslerYPA Co-Membership Chair
The Henderson County Chamber of Commerce and Pardee UNC Health Care, along with Morris Broadband and Judy Stroud – State Farm Insurance, are pleased to announce the 14th Annual ATHENA Award of Henderson County in memory of Vanessa, Y. Mintz. Nominations are now open for the 2021 ATHENA award, which will be presented at the Professional Women’s Luncheon, tentatively scheduled for May, to an exemplary leader who has achieved excellence in their business or profession, served the community in a meaningful way, and, most importantly, actively assisted women to achieve their full leadership potential.
ATHENA International is a women’s leadership organization that supports, develops, and honors women leaders through the programs it administers. Vanessa Y. Mintz brought the ATHENA award to Henderson County in 2008 and she embodied the values underlying ATHENA International’s philosophy of incorporating the talent and expertise of women into the leadership of our businesses, our communities, and our government. This program is facilitated locally by the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce as a licensed ATHENA host organization.
Nominations are sought throughout the community. Recipients are selected by a diverse group of out-of-town professional judges, based on ATHENA leadership criteria. Those interested in nominating should plan to tell their compelling story as if to a stranger. The deadline for nomination is Friday, April 2 at 5:00 pm. For more information, contact the Chamber at 828-692-1413
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Join us for a virtual, via Zoom, four part series; March 2, 3, 4, 5 from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon each day.
Part 1: Defining a Crisis
Part 2: Battling Distractions During a Crisis
Part 3: Character in a Crisis
Part 4: Real Leadership in Crisis
Based on the teaching of John C. Maxwell participants will learn via a series of videos and discussion. Each lesson is designed to prompt questions from the reading, draw out key values and encourage discussion. John Maxwell is a leadership expert, speaker and author. His books have sold millions of copies, with some on the New York Times Best Seller List. For more information: https://www.johnmaxwell.com/
Participants will learn:
1. Learn practical ways to maneuver through times of difficulty and adversity
2. Adopt successful thinking habits to think your way through any crisis
3. Effectively battle distractions during times of crisis and stress
Timothy Polis, owner of You Lead Unlimited will facilitate the seminar series. Tim is a Certified John Maxwell Speaker, Coach, and Trainer. As a leadership and personal growth teacher and keynote speaker, Timothy works with individuals and organizations that understand the value of personal growth, who want to sharpen their current leadership skills and want to develop a larger pool of emerging leaders in their organization.
For more information on the John Maxwell Masterminding program please visit Timothy’s website:
https://youleadunlimited.com/
Participants will have access to a 17 page Participant Guide that will be emailed prior to the event and each participant who completes the course will be mailed a Certificate of Completion.
Event Sponsors:
2021 Seminar Series Presented by:
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Saturday, March
6, 2021
Professional Networking Group for Veterans
Southeastern Student Sustainability Conference
WitchCon Online 2021: A Livestream Magical Conference
New PPP Rules Change Briefing for Veterans, Self-Employed Business Owners, Independent Contractors, Sole Proprietors
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This annual conference brings together student EcoReps, sustainability interns, and faculty and staff advisers from around the region for a weekend of peer leadership training and collaboration. This conference is a great opportunity to learn from your peers, share your successes (and get constructive feedback), and get inspiration you can bring back to your own campus.
Key topics in 2021 will include:
• Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in our work
• Effective Student Leadership/ Peer 2 Peer education
• Zero Waste initiatives
• Educational initiatives & events
• Adapting to COVID-19
• Translating student visions into institutional action
This conference will be held VIRTUALLY due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.
Register
There is no fee to attend, however, you must register to participate in the virtual sessions. The registration deadline is Friday, March 19 at midnight.
Hosted by WitchCon
Join the largest online magical conference in the world, devoted to Witchcraft, Conjure, and Rootwork.
About this Event
March 5th to 7th, 2021, Brian Cain, Christian Day and the HEX Education Network present WitchCon Online, featuring over a hundred classes by over a hundred Witches and Conjurers from across the globe ready to share their time-honored wisdom and witchery.
WitchCon Online presenters are the preeminent masters of the magical arts and hail from across a rainbow spectrum of occult and spiritual practices. Their classes are personally designed to help beginners, novices, and experts alike draw upon the power of magic!
WitchCon Online 2021 registration includes admittance to all livestream video classes, rituals, and performances, each personally designed to help beginners, novices, and experts alike draw upon the power of magic. It also grants access to watch every class after the event has ended via our on-demand library so you don’t have to miss a magical moment!
The conference is livestreamed by the Hex Education Network on Crowdcast, a web-based platform with no need to download an app!
WitchCon Online attendees will love shopping live with our magical presenters, each showcasing powerful ritual tools, signed books, exquisite jewelry, and spellcrafts handmade by true practitioners in half-hour Live Sales. You don’t have to travel to the ends of the Earth to scour the witch markets: you can buy from enchanting artisans and score amazing tools and talismans from the comfort of your own home. Our Virtual Vendors’ Hall is free to the public as well!
The WitchCon Online Virtual Meet and Greet lets you meet and interact live on Zoom with WitchCon presenters and its hosts Brian Cain and Christian Day. This is a great way to get to know your favorite teachers and what’s even better is that it’s free and open to the public!
Join us for an exclusive conversation with leaders at the Small Business Administration on new changes to the Paycheck Protection Program, and what tools and resources are available to help America’s small businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis. Note: Due to high demand, we encourage you to sign onto the webinar early. If you have technical problems, or are having trouble accessing the webinar, please know that a full recording of the webinar will be sent to ALL registrants following the event.
Sunday, March
7, 2021
Southeastern Student Sustainability Conference
WitchCon Online 2021: A Livestream Magical Conference
The Eminent Way: Fireside Chat
This annual conference brings together student EcoReps, sustainability interns, and faculty and staff advisers from around the region for a weekend of peer leadership training and collaboration. This conference is a great opportunity to learn from your peers, share your successes (and get constructive feedback), and get inspiration you can bring back to your own campus.
Key topics in 2021 will include:
• Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in our work
• Effective Student Leadership/ Peer 2 Peer education
• Zero Waste initiatives
• Educational initiatives & events
• Adapting to COVID-19
• Translating student visions into institutional action
This conference will be held VIRTUALLY due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.
Register
There is no fee to attend, however, you must register to participate in the virtual sessions. The registration deadline is Friday, March 19 at midnight.
Hosted by WitchCon
Join the largest online magical conference in the world, devoted to Witchcraft, Conjure, and Rootwork.
About this Event
March 5th to 7th, 2021, Brian Cain, Christian Day and the HEX Education Network present WitchCon Online, featuring over a hundred classes by over a hundred Witches and Conjurers from across the globe ready to share their time-honored wisdom and witchery.
WitchCon Online presenters are the preeminent masters of the magical arts and hail from across a rainbow spectrum of occult and spiritual practices. Their classes are personally designed to help beginners, novices, and experts alike draw upon the power of magic!
WitchCon Online 2021 registration includes admittance to all livestream video classes, rituals, and performances, each personally designed to help beginners, novices, and experts alike draw upon the power of magic. It also grants access to watch every class after the event has ended via our on-demand library so you don’t have to miss a magical moment!
The conference is livestreamed by the Hex Education Network on Crowdcast, a web-based platform with no need to download an app!
WitchCon Online attendees will love shopping live with our magical presenters, each showcasing powerful ritual tools, signed books, exquisite jewelry, and spellcrafts handmade by true practitioners in half-hour Live Sales. You don’t have to travel to the ends of the Earth to scour the witch markets: you can buy from enchanting artisans and score amazing tools and talismans from the comfort of your own home. Our Virtual Vendors’ Hall is free to the public as well!
The WitchCon Online Virtual Meet and Greet lets you meet and interact live on Zoom with WitchCon presenters and its hosts Brian Cain and Christian Day. This is a great way to get to know your favorite teachers and what’s even better is that it’s free and open to the public!
Join us for a magical journey of exploration and wonder. Each week we discuss a variety of topics that will not only inspire and inform but also transform and enlighten.
What we’re about
Welcome to The Eminent Way. We meet weekly to discuss all manner of things related to cultural, occult, religious, and esoteric subjects – as they pertain to one’s personal development journey.
Your life in the Universe is made possible by the fact of Creation itself. This planet we call home, this grand theater of expression, is the crucible in which the unseen becomes seen; the unmanifest is made plain; the unknown becomes known.
For seventy or more years, this is your home, in which each moment is extended to you the permission to be, to know, and to do.
You condensed from the unseen realms of force and power according to definite, inescapable laws that govern and make this theater possible. The very laws that created the Universe made you possible too. You are a microcosm of the whole – everything that exists outside of you also exists within, for, in reality, there is no difference; it is simply a matter of scale.
The ancients knew well that to study the Universe is to study oneself, and to study oneself is to explore the Universe. And yet, without exact knowledge of the fundamental laws of force, power, matter, and consciousness, one’s journey becomes a detour of idle speculation.
And yet, there is a Way that originates outside of life but must be practiced within it; a Way that does not arise from the mind of man, yet directly involves it; a Way that helps one connect with the evolutionary signal of creation that informs human purpose.
This is The Eminent Way.
Monday, March
8, 2021
Free Counseling and Business Support at Blue Ridge Community College
Nominations for the 14th Annual ATHENA Leadership Award Now Open
Orientation Session Mountain BizWorks
The Henderson County Chamber of Commerce and Pardee UNC Health Care, along with Morris Broadband and Judy Stroud – State Farm Insurance, are pleased to announce the 14th Annual ATHENA Award of Henderson County in memory of Vanessa, Y. Mintz. Nominations are now open for the 2021 ATHENA award, which will be presented at the Professional Women’s Luncheon, tentatively scheduled for May, to an exemplary leader who has achieved excellence in their business or profession, served the community in a meaningful way, and, most importantly, actively assisted women to achieve their full leadership potential.
ATHENA International is a women’s leadership organization that supports, develops, and honors women leaders through the programs it administers. Vanessa Y. Mintz brought the ATHENA award to Henderson County in 2008 and she embodied the values underlying ATHENA International’s philosophy of incorporating the talent and expertise of women into the leadership of our businesses, our communities, and our government. This program is facilitated locally by the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce as a licensed ATHENA host organization.
Nominations are sought throughout the community. Recipients are selected by a diverse group of out-of-town professional judges, based on ATHENA leadership criteria. Those interested in nominating should plan to tell their compelling story as if to a stranger. The deadline for nomination is Friday, April 2 at 5:00 pm. For more information, contact the Chamber at 828-692-1413
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Tuesday, March
9, 2021
Free Counseling and Business Support at Blue Ridge Community College
Nominations for the 14th Annual ATHENA Leadership Award Now Open
How to Write a Business Plan – Virtual Seminar
Virtual Legal Workshop: Contracts for Small Business
Asheville Women in Tech
irtual Tuesday Night Shamanic Practices by Rising Fire Shamanism
The Henderson County Chamber of Commerce and Pardee UNC Health Care, along with Morris Broadband and Judy Stroud – State Farm Insurance, are pleased to announce the 14th Annual ATHENA Award of Henderson County in memory of Vanessa, Y. Mintz. Nominations are now open for the 2021 ATHENA award, which will be presented at the Professional Women’s Luncheon, tentatively scheduled for May, to an exemplary leader who has achieved excellence in their business or profession, served the community in a meaningful way, and, most importantly, actively assisted women to achieve their full leadership potential.
ATHENA International is a women’s leadership organization that supports, develops, and honors women leaders through the programs it administers. Vanessa Y. Mintz brought the ATHENA award to Henderson County in 2008 and she embodied the values underlying ATHENA International’s philosophy of incorporating the talent and expertise of women into the leadership of our businesses, our communities, and our government. This program is facilitated locally by the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce as a licensed ATHENA host organization.
Nominations are sought throughout the community. Recipients are selected by a diverse group of out-of-town professional judges, based on ATHENA leadership criteria. Those interested in nominating should plan to tell their compelling story as if to a stranger. The deadline for nomination is Friday, April 2 at 5:00 pm. For more information, contact the Chamber at 828-692-1413
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A good business plan will provide the platform to take your business to the next level and optimize your results. A plan identifies the strategy, resources and actions needed to achieve improved success.
The seminar will cover the key result areas of a business such as:
- legal entity structure alternatives
- the critical importance of having a competitive edge
- how to effectively perform market analysis
- how to plan and manage cash flow
- how to more effectively manage your human resources and much more
The seminar will be conducted by business consultant Bob Papes and the legal structure perspective will be presented by Anderson Ellis, Attorney with Van Winkle Law. Through Bob’s extensive operational and financial corporate management experience, he has helped more than seventy businesses improve their results. This is an exceptional opportunity to re-energize your business. Also, Bob will give you information about the upcoming Chamber’s Business Plan Contest that you will want to consider entering.
Contracts: Why the Heck do I Need them for My Small Business?
This beginner-level seminar offers participants an opportunity to learn about small business contracts, why they are needed, and how to read them. Small business attorney, Kristy Cook of Mod Law Firm, brings her near decade experience in contract law and management to this session with the goal of teaching attendees to:
- Understand the basics of contract law and the legal basics of a contract;
- Understand the different types of contracts common to small businesses, including the difference between an independent contractor and an employee;
- Identify important elements of contracts and understand what they mean;
- Identify the roles, responsibilities, and opportunities contracting provides to build relationships, set expectations, and balance conflicting priorities;
- Identify when a contract is in breach and what to do about it; and
- Apply negotiation strategies to vendor agreements.
Hey Asheville women! Are you a coder, a developer, a designer, an architect of information? This is a group for Asheville women in tech who want a collaborative and supportive space to bring projects to workshops, participate in tutorials facilitated by other members, spark new ideas, write practice code, and develop cool stuff. Maybe (like me) you’re just getting started, and you wish you could bounce ideas off someone, or just ask them how to center that block of text on the page? You should come! We’ll work it out together. Or maybe you’re a veteran web developer who thinks rookies are brave (possibly foolish) souls with no idea what they’re getting into? Please come tell us all the things you wish someone had told you! Let’s skill-share, meet other women in the biz, learn new things, and give each other a leg up!
We’re on Slack!
Hosted by Rising Fire Shamanism
Cultivate presence in your life through direct experience. Join us to learn and use an ancient healing technique during each class.
About this Event
*** JOIN US FOR POWERFUL PRACTICES FROM WHEREVER YOU ARE!***
In response to the economic difficulties brought on by COVID, Rising Fire Shamanism is offering our Tuesday Night Shamanic Practice class for free beginning in February 2021 going through December 2021.
Tuesday Night Shamanic Practice class helps cultivate presence in your life through shamanic practices, sacred play, meditation, and centering techniques.
Learn how to transform and release dense energy from your body, mind and energy field. We do this while strengthening our refined energy, or “sami.” The idea is to build our living energy, our “kausay,” with mindfulness. We focus on different methods of experiencing directly each week to build or to enhance the foundation of your personal work.
This class is for the curious and those who would like to refine their personal practices. You will have the opportunity do something different each week; shamanic breathwork, journeying, meditation and more.
Learn more and register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tuesday-night-shamanic-practices-tickets-112043045766?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Wednesday, March
10, 2021
Southeastern Student Sustainability Conference
Business Morning Update
Free Counseling and Business Support at Blue Ridge Community College
This annual conference brings together student EcoReps, sustainability interns, and faculty and staff advisers from around the region for a weekend of peer leadership training and collaboration. This conference is a great opportunity to learn from your peers, share your successes (and get constructive feedback), and get inspiration you can bring back to your own campus.
Key topics in 2021 will include:
• Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in our work
• Effective Student Leadership/ Peer 2 Peer education
• Zero Waste initiatives
• Educational initiatives & events
• Adapting to COVID-19
• Translating student visions into institutional action
This conference will be held VIRTUALLY due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.
Register
There is no fee to attend, however, you must register to participate in the virtual sessions. The registration deadline is Friday, March 19 at midnight.
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