Calendar of Events

Get some one-of-a-kind gifts for your loved ones and support our local crafters. Hot apple cider, donuts will also be available.

Head over to the CommuniToy event happening in the lunchroom where you can pick out a donated, gently used toy or two! This is not an exchange – it is just an opportunity recycle the toys no longer being loved in your home and possibly get a gift. Toys are being collected near the office from November 26th through November 30th.

https://www.facebook.com/events/309649173221343/

FREE Santa Photos will be available at the center through December 24 at the The North Carolina Arboretum sponsored Santa Set. Every family who visits Santa at Asheville Outlets will receive two FREE 4” x 6” Santa photo prints and a digital download of a single image. Free Santa Photos is hosted by Great Beginnings Lead To Great Smiles.

(Additional photos and Christmas merchandise are available for purchase. One giveaway per family, per Christmas season. Some restrictions may apply. Valid only through December 24, 2018.)

https://www.facebook.com/events/337462147058287/?event_time_id=337462247058277

FREE Santa Photos are back at Asheville Outlets (ShopAshevilleOutlets.com)! From November 17th through December 24th, every family who visits Santa will receive two FREE 4”x6” Santa photo prints and a digital download of a single image. Additional photos and Christmas merchandise are available for purchase. FREE Santa photo is sponsored by Great Beginnings Great Smiles; the FREE Santa photo set is sponsored by North Carolina Arboretum Winter Lights.

Santa’s Photo Hours are:
11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday – Saturday, Sundays, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. and Christmas Eve, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Santa takes a break to feed his reindeer weekdays and Saturdays: 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. + 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sundays, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Located at food court. One giveaway per family, per Christmas season. Some restrictions may apply, valid only through December 24, 2018.

Saturday, December 1st 11-1:30
Stop by with a new, unwrapped toy to donate to children in need this holiday season! We will have a cozy fire going on the patio with free mini hot chocolates for the kiddos! This is a River Ridge event with tons of fun in store! Next door, a bootcamp challenge with U.S. Marines will be taking place at Ladies Workout! There will be free food, a bouncy house, and a chance to meet Santa!!
We are gratefully accepting toys from now until the event!

https://www.facebook.com/events/264868217508033/

Everyone mark their calendars for the Holiday Market at JFF every Saturday in December from 11-2!! Get some great holiday gifts and support local crafter and businesses!!

We are still accepting vendors for our Holiday market! Private message us if you are interested!! Spots are filling up!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1161140830715490/

This will be the first time for The Jeep Crew to be in a NC Christmas parade. Meeting at Tractor Supple in Weaverville On Dec. 1st at 10:30 am to line up. Pull out by 11 am. Parade starts 1:00 pm. This will give everyone time to decorated your jeep. Get creative. And bring candy. Must be decorate to join event.

https://www.facebook.com/events/482749145547085/

We are excited to welcome Zach of Porch Pottery into the shop for a clay workshop! For $25, you will get a slab of clay and lessons on how to hand build a mug. Follow along or use your clay to create your own ornaments or gifts!

After you make your masterpiece, choose your glaze and Zach will fire them! Pottery pickup day will be announced within a week of the class date. Bring in your hand-made mug for 20% off drinks at Pisgah Coffee Roasters every time!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1910350372419061/

Come enjoy LLCA students performing live holiday music while Santa Repels down the Rock! It’s a great opportunity to use your Raptor Passes!

There’s no way Santa could make it down so many chimneys without practice. What better place to prepare for his Christmas deliveries and stay in shape than on one of the world’s largest chimneys at Chimney Rock State Park? Make your list and bring it to Santa and Mrs. Claus, enjoy live holiday music, hot cocoa, cookies and kids’ activities, meet live Park animal educators and more.

Win a Free Climb with Santa’s elves! Each day, one lucky guest will win free two-hour rock climbing lessons for two with Santa’s professional helpers, Fox Mountain Guides.

Cost: Included with Park Admission or Raptor Pass

Event Schedule
11 – 11:30 am – Santa photos/Family activities/Wish List Making with Eddie Cabbage

11:30 am-12 pm – Santa rappels down the Chimney/ Family activities/Live Music from Lake Lure Classical Academy

12 – 12:30 pm – Santa photos/Family activities/ Live Music from Lake Lure Classical Academy/Wish List Making with Eddie Cabbage

12:30 – 1 pm – Santa rappels down the Chimney/ Family activities

1 – 1:30 pm – Santa photos/Family Activities/Wish List Making with Eddie Cabbage

1:30 -2 pm – Santa rappels down the Chimney/Family activities/Wish List Making with Eddie Cabbage

2 pm – Guided hike with Santa’s Christmas Elf on the Great Woodland Adventure

https://www.facebook.com/events/269975790365597/

Join us for a coffee tasting with three of the region’s most popular roasters!

Co-hosted by Rhubarb and Edible Asheville, the latest event in the FED Talk series will explore the wonderfully caffeinated world of coffee.

● Sample a variety of coffee blends, learn how to identify flavors and aromas, and engage in a thoughtful discussion about farming and sourcing.

● Featuring Dynamite Roasting Co, PennyCup Coffee Co, and The Dripolator Coffeehouse! A tasting will be followed by a Q&A.

● Includes a selection of brunch bites from the amazing chefs at Rhubarb. Early afternoon cocktails available for purchase.

Many thanks to Whole Foods Market for sponsoring this event!

Seating is limited. Purchase your tickets today to reserve a spot!

Now in its third year, the FED Talk lectures (Food. Education. Discussion.) aim to connect consumers with the farmers, chefs, brewers, and food artisans they love.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1970122829749415/

Join us for our first ever Tipsy Stitchers Holiday Market!

The Tipsy Stitchers is a local group of over 150 knitters and crocheters that are not just artists by hobby, but by trade as well! We will be filling the barn with new vendors and new artists, so I hope you will come and join us! Be on the lookout for vendor spotlights the sooner we get to the event! This holiday market is one not to miss! We hope to see you here!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1372927629509035/

Meet the talented Gayle Haynie, glass artist at The Jeweler’s Workbench. Gayle will be demonstrating making stained glass ornaments. 20% off all glass clocks! Come by, meet Gayle and pick out some great gifts.
Along with working with stained glass, fused glass, mosaics in tile and glass, she offers “one-on-one” or “group classes” in her North Carolina studio.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2009269922519021/

December 1st, 2018
River Ridge Business Center, multiple facilities in one center that specialize in different styles of health and wellness for all age groups, join forces to raise awareness in health and wellbeing while bringing the public together to give back at this special time of year from 11:00 am -1:30 pm.

This event will have the U.S. Marines onsite collecting toys, present wellness information, showcase women’s fitness with a Marine Lead Bootcamp, host a children’s fitness scavenger hunt, all while raising money and toy donations for children throughout the United States.

This event is free and open to the general public. Come support our mission to give back to children in need. The U.S.M.C. will be on location to lead and motivate the women and children through two courses of fitness and shake the hands of all who support for Toys for Tots. Enjoy a family day of fitness and fun. Free food and free give-aways will also be available! Bring the kids to have fun in the holiday themed bouncy house, meet Santa, the U.S.Marines and trained wellness providers, have fun together in a family fitness scavenger hunt, participate in yoga and dance, watch a women’s bootcamp, all while sipping on hot chocolate and listening to holiday tunes. River Ridge Business Center invite you to enjoy the enthusiasm and give back!

The event is “All About Giving” to benefit Toys for Tots! Join us and The United States Marine Corps in giving back to the children of the United States of America. Our ladies, who compete in our Family Scavenger Hunt and USMC Ladies Workout Asheville Course, as well as our members and guests, will be donating toys to make the season more special.

Come out December 1st!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1964641356960912/

Hey kids, you have several opportunities to share your wish list with Santa at the Original Mast Store in Valle Crucis. He will be there form 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturdays in December. Santa will also be taking last minute requests on Christmas Eve before he heads out for his ’round the world tour. He’ll be there from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Make sure your parents bring a camera to capture Christmas memories.

https://www.facebook.com/events/273669383292462/?event_time_id=273669403292460

As part of the Child and Adult Care Food Program, the YMCA of WNC Nutrition Department hosts free meals for anyone under the age of 18 at the Ferguson Family YMCA every Saturday!

We serve lunches from 11am -1pm in the Ferguson Y’s Multipurpose Room, and your family does not have to be a member of the Y to participate.

Please consider joining us for healthy food and enriching activities: kids yoga, art, ping pong, and more!

For more information on accessing food and/or volunteering with the program visit: www.ymcawnc.org/nutritionprograms

https://www.facebook.com/events/492101114625413/

As Virginia Woolf said, “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Food and water are essential for survival, but mankind’s relationship to food has transformed over time from one of sustenance to one laden with personal and cultural significance.

A Matter of Taste explores depictions of food and drink in art and reveals how images of fruits and vegetables can function as complex metaphors for excess, status, memory, and politics. Drawn from southern museums and private collections, this exhibition showcases over 35 paintings, decorative arts, and works on paper by artists such as Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Claes Oldenburg.

This show spans 400 years and multiple continents, revealing the evolving role of food and drink in various media and cultural contexts. While depictions of fruit and vegetables appeared in ancient times, still life painting as an independent genre dates to 16th-century Holland.

In 19th-century America, still life paintings remained popular but evolved in terms of subject matter, media, and message. Painters such as Thomas Wightman, George Forster, and De Scott Evans embraced Dutch still lifes and used food as commentary on the current political climate and the transient state of the human condition.

Illustrated newspapers led to an increase of cartoons by artists such as Winslow Homer and William Hogarth, who utilized food and drink as social satire. The 20th-century modern art movement further changed the perception of food. The culture of mass production enabled Pop artists to elevate seemingly mundane foodstuffs to high art. Yet, other contemporary artists explored the symbolic and nostalgic role of food seen in works by Tim Tate, Linda Armstrong, and Laquita Thomson.

Visitors will also experience an elaborately set dining table fit for a sumptuous feast. Dining became its own art form over time and communicated one’s social standing and wealth. Each of the table’s six place settings represent a different culture and offer a glimpse into global dining customs. Selective drinkware will accompany this section revealing how tea sets and even punch bowls reflected an owner’s prestige.

The Bob Moog Foundation is sharing a facet of the inventor’s personal legacy by inviting local musicians to play his piano in its Pop-up Store at its new location at 56 Broadway Street in downtown Asheville. The piano, an unusual Yamaha teak upright baby grand has been part of the Moog family since the early 1970s. A Song For Bob’s Piano will include musicians from across genres, who will play the instrument in half-hour or one hour segments. These sessions are free and open to the public.

A Song For Bob’s Piano is sponsored by Piano Emporium.

Schedule (we will be adding to this list over time):

Saturday December 1st:

11:30-12:00pm – Aaron LaFalce
2:00-2:30pm – Dave Hamilton

Saturday December 8th:

1pm – Josh Troop
4pm – Chris Stack

Saturday December 15th:

Noon – Richard Shulman
3pm – Sally Sparks

Saturday December 22nd:

1:30pm – Chuck Lichtenberger

Saturday, December 29th:
Noon: Wil

See posts below for more details on each session!

https://www.facebook.com/events/706207029766612/?event_time_id=706207046433277

Burning Sage Yoga Studio for an Open House and Yogathon benefitting Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective. This is a free event! Donations accepted.
Join us December 1st from 12pm to 4pm:

– Win free stuff-
– Drink and eat yummy things
– live music
– Qouya dancing
– Hold Pose competition

All donations go to benefit Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective. A local theatre doing great work for social change.

1011 Tunnel Road, Ste 120 (inside Precision Pilates) East Asheville

#ayurveda #yogastudios #romanticasheville #eastasheville #828isgreat #yoga #party #socialchangemakers #dosha #dogood

https://www.facebook.com/events/254205861910922/

Visual Dialogue will be there with all sorts of gifts! We will also have winter greens, squash, potatoes, salad mixes, kohlrabi, cabbage, microgreens, baked goodies, wreaths, and more!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/341734506405069/

Stop by this Saturday we will be wrapping presents for a donation and we also will have adoptable dogs with us.

https://www.facebook.com/events/513119665838222/

We’ve been holding on to some delicious beers for you and we figured no better time then during the holidays to share them with you all.

We plan to release a variety of our specialty bottles, some from this year and some vintage.

More information coming soon, regarding beers, limits, pricing, and more!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2160934560583395/

Come celebrate Craft Centric’s first full year around the sun!

We will have some rad Rare Kegs on Draft including:
Burial: Seasoned Skillet
Revision: Citra City NE Style DIPA
Founders: CBS
Highland: Cold Mountain Winter Ale
Highland : Imperial Cold Mountain
2017 Ballast Point: High West Victory at Sea
Fermented Nonsense/UpCountry Collab: 4 Non Blondes
Wicked Weed: Bramble Barrel
Oskar Blues: BA Ten Fidy

Beer writer Anne Fitten Glenn will be here selling and signing copies of her book, “Western North Carolina Beer – A Mountain Brew History” from 5-7.

Gypsy Queen Food Truck will be here from 3-8!

https://www.facebook.com/events/321544325276509/

Jonathan is a traditional southern Rootworker, as well as a practitioner of Santeria and Quimbanda. He has been reading tarot cards for more than a decade and has training in a wide variety of traditional folk magics. He is a graduate of the Lucky Mojo Correspondence Course and as a Rootworker he not only foretells your future but focuses on remediating any problems that may show up in the clients reading. Cost is 2 dollars a minute with 15 minute minimum, PayPal and cash accepted. He also offers donation based hands on cleansing work for those in need.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1817330841707811/?event_time_id=1817330865041142

Voted Western NC’s favorite art event for nearly a decade (❤ Mountain Xpress), The Big Crafty celebrates the beauty of a human-scale economy and community-building, soul-enriching creative work.
SHOP INDIE. SHOP HANDMADE. SHOP FUN.

Preview Party on Saturday December 1 is ticketed
Sunday December 2 is free to the public

https://www.facebook.com/events/298439254103317/

It’s the art party that’s a decade in the making!

Join us for a 10th Year Holiday Preview Party ($5 + free for kids) on Saturday, or come out on Sunday for a free-and-fun-for-all day!

Featuring 170 carefully-selected artists, crafters and makers + sweet mugs + big hugs.

The Big Crafty is proud to have been voted WNC’s favorite art event for 10 straight years. We support the creative community in all its go-for-broke, full-of-heart, boundary-pushing, human-scale, all-in, full-tilt glory. MAKE the world you need.

The Big Crafty is produced with generous support from the Asheville Area Arts Council and the City of Asheville.

https://www.facebook.com/events/540578446354883/?event_time_id=540578449688216

It’s The Big Crafty’s 10th Hand to Heart Holiday hosted by The Big Crafty and HORSE + HERO!

Join us for a 10th Year Holiday Preview Party ($5 + free for kids) on Saturday, or come out on Sunday for a free-and-fun-for-all day!

Featuring 170 carefully-selected artists, crafters and makers + sweet mugs + big hugs.

The Big Crafty is proud to have been voted WNC’s favorite art event for 10 straight years. We support the creative community in all its go-for-broke, full-of-heart, boundary-pushing, human-scale, all-in, full-tilt glory. MAKE the world you need.

https://www.facebook.com/events/184221102440930/?event_time_id=184221122440928

cash & credit cards accepted
Lots of parking (in rear behind building)
Dance music…DJ Citron on Sunday
bloody mary bar

The Booth Fairy’s Traveling Trunk Show is probably the most fun you can have while thrift shopping.
What to expect:
Racks upon racks of pre loved clothing. Some really cool pieces that have all been hand picked by Elle Erickson, who you can usually find seated behind her Shitty Advice Booth giving out free hugs and engaged in some infectious conversation. The scene feels fantastic, and puts a smile on your face and some fabulous new pieces in your wardrobe.
Most items are like $8 and there are random give-aways and dancing discounts! There’s usually a great mix of vintage, boho, 80’s, casual and one-of-kind items in the collection.
Expect to move your booty a bit while shopping, it’s called ‘shancing’ (shopping & dancing simultaneously) and make some new friends. It’s more than just shopping. Local artists join in to offer wonderful experiences like tarot readings and henna art.

Come out & bring your friends
Credit card & cash accepted

Discounts given if you arrive in a tutu and for watching the following documentaries on Netflix : True Cost & What the Health
Instagram: @travelingtrunkshow

https://www.facebook.com/events/365465930880216/?event_time_id=365465950880214

Come eat, drink, pose & be merry for a good cause!
*win prizes & free sessions
*Ayurveda Foot Treatments
*products made for your dosha
*learn your dosha
*Live music
*food & drinks
*hold that pose competition plus Q & A sash over Ayurveda and yoga open to attend
FREE: All donations will go to support Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective as they are opening a new theater in 2019! Learn more about Different Strokes here: https://www.differentstrokespac.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/314354762496393/

Join us for a bit of Blue Ghost history as we release 22 oz. bottles for the first time ever! This hand-bottled labor of love has a finite quantity, so don’t miss out when we open the doors at 1PM Saturday, 12/1.

Beer: I’m Dreaming of a White Stout Christmas — 7.2% ABV, 25 IBUs. A Christmas ale brewed with toasted coconut, cacao nibs, almonds, and joyous holiday cheer!

This beer welcomes in the Christmas season and is a perfect accompaniment to any holiday party. It also makes a great gift for the craft beer lover in your group of family or friends!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1907226832731157/

Join Brenda as she talks and demonstrates how to make beautiful outside container arrangements to add cheer to your home & holiday. After the seminar, make & take tables will be available for you to assemble your personal design to take home (tables will be available until Christmas). Empty containers will be available for purchase or feel free to bring your own. Live Evergreen cuttings, Red Twig Branches, Berries, Wreaths, Garland & Trees will be available. There are two time options for the talk, 11am & 2pm, please sign up by emailing [email protected] and don’t forget to include the time slot you desire. We look forward to seeing you.

https://www.facebook.com/events/257552978290456/

Join Scoop, Cookie, and Santa’s Elf as we read a Christmas favorite at sweetFrog! While you are here you can treat yourself to a yummy sweet treat of your favorite FROYO or Ice Cream!

https://www.facebook.com/events/730927360614091/