Calendar of Events

Join us upstairs in the Mezzanine and take home a unique piece of home decor! Choose one of three beautiful paintings. We’ll have our own, private bartender and use of the entire upstairs. Email [email protected] to receive your invoice & secure your reservation. Cheers!

$25 Per Painter

Price includes:
16×20 Canvas
Painting supplies
Artist instruction

https://www.facebook.com/events/336756463836684/

Puzzled Pint is a casual, social puzzle solving event which happens on the second Tuesday of every month in multiple cities around the world. It’s non-competitive – hints are free and unlimited. The main objective is to have fun! Bring a team of friends or join a team of friendly strangers.

This month’s theme is ART HEIST!

www.puzzledpint.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/404356243634894/

Join us upstairs in the Mezzanine and take home a unique piece of home decor! We’ll have our own, private bartender and use of the entire upstairs. Email [email protected] to receive your invoice & secure your reservation. Cheers!

$40 Per Painter

“Happy St. Patrick’s/Patty’s Day” or “Happy Easter,” “Happy Spring” etc. customizable vinyl letters available for the bottom of the hat in black or white letters for an additional $5.

Price includes:
Hand-cut, wood sign
Painting supplies
Artist instruction

Kid Friendly

https://www.facebook.com/events/1014893212051620/

Come out and see what the fuss is all about! Team Trivia Tuesday at Sanctuary Brewing Company with host Josh Dunkin!

Team Trivia Western NC & The Upstate of SC is every Tuesday at 7 PM at Sanctuary Brewing Company on 1st Avenue in Downtown Hendersonville! There is no limit to how many people can participate on each team. You can have 1 or 20!

The game is free to play and the top two teams each week receive a gift card of $40 (1st place) and $20 (2nd place).

https://www.facebook.com/events/281414405828018/?event_time_id=281414425828016

Grab your loved ones and join us and Three Eggs Cakery for a romantic 4-course beer and cupcake pairing underneath the crystal chandeliers of our private event space!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/290528631848857/

This week Swing Asheville will be celebrating love with Sparrow & Her Wingmen! There will be swingin’ music, and great classes for beginners! Stay late for our post-band blues DJ! Plus the venue is not only gorgeous, but they have a fabulous bar!

~~~Schedule (short version- see below for details)~~~
7 pm: Swing Dance Foundations w/ Trevor and Rachel
8 pm: Beginning Balboa w/ Deb and Mark
9-11pm: Valentine’s Swing AVL Dance w/ Sparrow & Her Wingmen
11pm – close: Blues Dance w/ DJ
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PRICING: Dance/Band is $5 (includes blues) and classes are $10/$8 for Swing Asheville members. Blues Dance is $2 suggested donation for those who didn’t pay for Band admission.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Interested in free dances or half priced lessons? Want to help promote the swing scene? Consider volunteering for Swing Asheville! To see what sort of opportunities are available and to sign up, please head over to http://signup.com/go/LMqYCSz

MUSIC
With a wide repertoire ranging from gypsy jazz to early ragtime pop to New Orleans blues, they play gems from every era of early jazz. Featuring Sparrow Pants on vocals and accordion, Keith J. Smith on guitar, and the marvelous Je Widenhouse on cornet, this new band on the block is ready to move your feet.

BLUES
Band finished and you’re not done dancing? You’re in luck… stick around for our blues after party! Continue dancing to DJ’d music until the bar kicks us out. $2 suggested donation for those coming just in time for the blues.

FOOD: Feeling peckish? The bar has a small selection of vegan goodies to help keep your stamina up! Ask a bartender for more details. Buncombe Botanicals and Sowing Ceeds will also be out their with their rotating selection of freshly made, allergy friendly, plant medicine infused goodies including banana based “Nicecream”, baked goods, and savory bites!

CLASSES
7pm: Continuing Class: Swing Dance Foundations w/ Trevor & Rachel

Become a better leader and/or follower by improving on some of the foundational skills used in the swing family of dances. In this four-week continuing series, you will learn:
*Momentum (2/5): How to give and receive momentum to make your dances flow better.
*Musicality (2/12): How to match your dance to the music, and create a more enriching dance with fewer moves.
*Technique (2/19): How to improve your posture, frame, pulse, connection and pacing so you can communicate better with your partner.
*Dips & Leans (2/26): How to dip and be dipped safely, how to avoid being dipped, and alternatives to dips that make great endings.

PREREQUISITES: This is a continuing education class suitable for beginner to intermediate swing dancers. It is expected that you have either taken one full swing beginner course or you can demonstrate the basic swing steps.

“Continuing” classes are for those dancers who have cemented the basics of the dance being featured that specific month. This includes knowing (and being able to execute cleanly and consistently) basic footwork and lead/follow skills for that dance. Some continuing classes may require no advance knowledge of a dance. This will be noted in the the class description.
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8 pm: Core Class: Beginning Balboa w/ Deb & Mark

Balboa is a close-embrace swing dance that originated in the 1920s on the crowded dance floors of Southern California. In this 4 week series, you’ll learn the fundamentals of this versatile dance… a must-have in your swing dance repertoire!. We’ll work on partner connection, lead/follow skills, basic footwork patterns, and the rhythmic pulse that will get you dancing to faster tempos. No partner or previous dance experience required. Bring shoes that allow you to slide and spin on the floor (no sticky soles).

“Core” lessons stress the fundamentals of swing dancing for beginning dancers. Lessons rotate monthly to focus on a different kind of swing dance (6 Count Lindy, 8 Count Lindy, Charleston, Balboa, etc.). Because good fundamentals are hard to develop in one month, we recommend repeating Core lessons (on the same topic) to help develop the solid foundation you’ll need in continuing classes. Core lessons are also great for intermediate and advanced dancers who want to “get back to basics” or learn a different dancing role (lead vs. follow).
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GIFT CERTIFICATES
Do you want to buy a gift certificate for our classes as a gift, or to pre-pay for a block of classes for yourself? You can purchase gift certificates at the door at our weekly dance! They are $40 for a block of 4, and a great way to dive into the fun world of dance.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Feb 19: Queen Bee & the Honeylovers
Feb 26: Gravyhouse Storytellers
March 5: Mardi Gras Community Jazz Jam
March 12: The French Broads

https://www.facebook.com/events/824291704603597/

?WINE WILL BE $5 FOR THIS EVENT? ?Anyone who signs up for this event and shares the event on social media can get $2 off apperizers?Come join us for this fun and creative Wine Glass Painting Class, open to the public! Februarys design is ❤? be mine?❤ and will be held on February 12th @ 7:00 pm. In this 1.5 hour class, you will hand paint a design on a wine glass guided by an instructor from Le Painted Grape. All painting supplies and wine glass included. We teach you STEP BY STEP! Sign up with your friends at www.lepaintedgrape.com! — We’re looking forward to the upcoming class!

https://www.facebook.com/events/530414267453090/

Ready to start having fun working out? Begin your pole dancing journey with our 8 Week Intro to Pole Series: All ages, body types, and fitness levels welcome!
Start from the beginning and learn the fundamentals of spins, climbs, and sexy dance moves on the static and spin pole. This concentrated eight week series is great for building strength and a quicker understanding of the mechanics, timing, and grace that is helpful for pole dancing.
We will focus on the static pole for the first 6 weeks and move to an introduction of the beauty of spin pole for the last two.
Pole dancing is fun, an amazing workout, and sensually expressive. Enjoy learning with the same group of students each week who are all brand new to pole.

Bring heels because they are fun to dance in and a lot less intimidating than they seem! Wear shorts that come at least 2 inches above the knee. Do not wear lotion.

https://www.facebook.com/events/211441276398436/?event_time_id=211441289731768

The only Gypsy Jazz Jam in Asheville! This Django Reinhardt style evening of music is hosted by Steve Karla of & Phil Alley,joined by many of Asheville’s gypsy jazz musicians.

Asheville Guitar Bar features the only Gypsy Jazz Jam in Asheville! This Django Reinhardt style evening of music is hosted by Steve Karla of “Hot Point Trio”, & Phil Alley. Joining them are many of Asheville’s local musicians, re-creating the Hot Club Sound of Paris in the 20’s, 30’s & 40’s. It’s a great date night that takes you back in time, reminiscent of Woody Allen’s film “Midnight In Paris”. $5 at the door.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2038624189556477/?event_time_id=2038624192889810

Do you love the 80’s? Show how much at our 80’s trivia! We will have prizes for the winners as well as Best Costume so bring your A-game.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2123137594667430/

Matt Sellars Album Release Show at The Grey Eagle

https://www.facebook.com/events/2162705957107402/

Its week six of the Take Home the Belt Tournament. Only three weeks left to earn points and climb to first. As always there is mind melting trivia, delicious beer and weekly prizes to win.

https://www.facebook.com/events/613988899054201/

As a follow-up to the Introduction to Partner Dance Series, join us as we build on the basics and explore more challenging patterns of the beginner West Coast Swing series.

$50

https://www.facebook.com/events/361365697990258/?event_time_id=361365704656924

Come down to ONE WORLD BREWING DOWNTOWN!!! for PIZZA KARAOKE!!! Every TUESDAY!! COME GET YOUR SANG ON before FUNK JAM!!! Free FRESH PIZZA when YOU SING!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2088188291270135/?event_time_id=2088188317936799

W00dy w/ Pamela_ and her sons, 3 Cherries, Nostalgianoid
at The Mothlight
Tuesday Feb. 12th
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
$5

w00dy – relentless deconstructed polyrhythmic techno on tour from pennsylvania
https://w00dy.bandcamp.com/

Pamela_ and her sons – surreal textural bliss on tour from NYC
https://pamelaandhersons.bandcamp.com/

3 Cherries – local electronic alien cartoon band ft members of Space Heater & Gabor Bonzo
https://terrytapes.bandcamp.com/

Nostalgianoid – local producer/drummer/photographer/sweetheart
https://soundcloud.com/mikeholmes

https://www.facebook.com/events/865829890446772/

Join When Particles Collide for a night of rock n roll when they return to Asheville and Sly Grog Lounge with Her Pilots and Tan Universe.

FREE but please bring some cash monies for DONATIONS to the touring band. Or your Venmo info, or PayPal, or a card. <3

When Particles Collide – https://whenparticlescollide.bandcamp.com/

Her Pilots –
https://herpilots.bandcamp.com/releases

Tan Universe – https://tanuniverse.bandcamp.com/album/sundaze-ep

https://www.facebook.com/events/527596800982435/

10pm
21+
Donation$
One Stop

Join us downstairs during Funk Jam for an all-star local cast of rotating DJ’s spinnin’ vinyl and scratchin’ like there’s no tomorrow!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2261496624135396/?event_time_id=2261496644135394

Tuesday Night Funk Jam – 11PM – Ca$h Donation$ – 21+

EVERY Tuesday at Asheville Music Hall!

Tuesday Night Funk Jam has been a huge part of Asheville’s vibrant music scene since 2008 and is #Asheville’s hottest weekly concert.

Tuesday Night Funk Jam is programmed and orchestrated by an evolved Legendary House Band with trombonist Derrick Lee Johnson at the helm.

At 11PM sharp, the Legendary House Band kicks off the night followed by opening up the stage to jam to our local community of musicians for an ‘Open Jam’.

While this is an amazing opportunity for musicians to network and refine their musical chops it is ALSO an event for the people who support our music scene and need a night to shake their hips to the best funk around town!

Regularly, nationally touring musicians, TONIGHT funk jam is going to be off the chain. We have Lee Allen (of Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band) jumping back in with The Legendary House Band. Come out to the Asheville Music Hall tonight and help us kick off the first funk jam of 2019. We start at 11pm. #asheville #noplacelikehome #makemusiceveryday #mftnfj

https://www.facebook.com/events/786766998382570/?event_time_id=786767021715901

The Cooperative Extension of Polk County is hosting our annual berry plant sale. This year, the Cooperative Extension director has chosen four varieties of blueberries, two varieties of raspberries, two varieties of strawberries, and one blackberry variety that have proven to specifically thrive in the North Carolina Foothills.

Orders will be accepted for plants now through February 22 and will be available for pickup in mid-March. Proceeds from this fundraiser go to support the activities, classes, and research that make the Cooperative Extension such a vital part of the Polk County community. For more information or to place an order, visit the Extension’s website at https://polk.ces.ncsu.edu or give us a call at 894-8218.

Download the Order Form HERE: https://polk.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-Berry-Plant-Order-Form-Writeable.pdf?fwd=no

https://www.facebook.com/events/393022604782447/?event_time_id=393022674782440

Menninger’s Susan Nelson, MS, will attend.
For more information, visit: www.schoolconnections.org.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2301086410131941/?event_time_id=2301086416798607

Details coming soon…..

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Awarded Entrepreneurial Resource Program of the Year at the 2018 Venture Asheville Honors.

1 Million Cups Asheville is our city’s longest running startup event!
Roughly 200 local startups have taken the stage over the past four years to share their stories, triumphs, and challenges in front of a highly engaged and supportive audience. Time and again, the founders behind these companies cite the connections, feedback, and advice received as instrumental in their success.

“Based on the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and network over a million cups of coffee, the Kauffman Foundation developed 1 Million Cups – a free program designed to educate, engage, and connect entrepreneurs with their communities.”

For more information & to apply to present, visit http://www.1millioncups.com/asheville.

Deepest Gratitude to Our Sponsors:
Mountain BizWorks
SCORE Mentors
Izzys Coffee
RISC Networks
Asheville Social Hall
Melody Isis Herman – Pop Benefits
Crunchy Bananas
Woodforest National Bank

Deepest Gratitude to Our Partners:
Venture Asheville
Hatch AVL

If you’d like to become a 2019 sponsor or volunteer organizer email us at [email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/events/313265762634806/

?The Love Bus?
is making its FIRST fur-filled tour around Brevard & Asheville February 13th & 14th from 9am-5pm to homes, schools & businesses to deliver PUPPY GRAMS
For a $10 donation ($14 includes a tshirt)
Each PUPPY GRAM includes
* A PAW-sonilized hand written card
* Event t-shirt (w/ the $14 PUPPY GRAM)
* Doggie bag full of Hershey kisses & cookies
* 15-20 minute puppy love timeout
* Photos
* and Puppy breath!
You can send our pack to 1 person OR you can send us to your workplace/school to put smiles (and slobber) on the faces of your co-workers/friends or students!
We have group packages available for up to 50 people
Each person will get
* A PAW-sonilized hand written card
* Event t-shirt
* A doggie bag full of Hershey kisses & cookies
* A 15-20 minute puppy love timeout
* Photos
* and Puppy breath!

We have a limited amount of time slots, get your paws on them NOW!

https://www.facebook.com/events/287635105253831/

FREE WORKSHOP! No tickets necessary, Call NC Works Career Center – Asheville to reserve your spot today!

(828)-251-6200

W.I.O.A. Financial Assistance
Are you interested in going back to school? Do you need financial assistance for training? The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act provides funding to assist eligible individuals obtain vocational training. This workshop covers training programs, eligibility guidelines and the registration process.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2150290035053495/

The calendar says winter, but did you know that spring is just a few months away? There’s no time like the present to get prepared for the future – a future in bright colors, shorts and dresses, and blouses and short-sleeved shirts. It’s even better when you can save A LOT.

Head out to the Little Red Schoolhouse, located behind the Original Mast Store in Valle Crucis, to stock up on shorts, shirts, and more for Spring Break and all the other warmer days to come.

Here’s the full scoop:

• Salesman Samples are 70% OFF (limited sizes)
• Other apparel is an Additional 20% OFF the last red-lined price
• Shoes are priced as marked

**Size runs may not be available in all merchandise. Selection includes items for men and women.**

The Schoolhouse is open Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. and Sunday noon until 6 p.m.

https://www.facebook.com/events/495934130936987/?event_time_id=495934137603653

We are supporting Bounty & Soul’s work providing healthy food for our local community by providing them with metal silverware for their food sampling events. These wiill prevent the wastage and expense of disposable spoons and forks.
Bounty & Soul provide samples of delicious plant based foods and education for those members of the community who are receiving donated healthy food. Rather than use plastic spoons and forks for the demonstrations and sampling, Bounty & Sould are finding ways to be more green and sustainable, and we want to help.
We are aiming to collect 80 sets of metal or durable bamboo small spoons and forks through the month of February. Please bring washed used or new silverware to our store and enjoy our thanks and a browse and a cup of fair trade coffee.

https://www.facebook.com/events/618459661957593/?event_time_id=618459698624256

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/789533238046693/?event_time_id=789533384713345

For the first time in a long time, Maggie Valley will be hosting a skating rink at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds! Open dates are tentative to change. Due to variable temperature changes during the season, the surface will be synthetic and available to enjoy in even warm days.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1217442365076320/?event_time_id=1217442418409648

Join us January 15th-February 14th
For every pint of Lorelai IPA bought, we’ll donate $1 to Claxton Elementary School’s 4th Grade Raleigh Field Trip Fund.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1422139054587321/?event_time_id=1422139151253978