Calendar of Events

Christmas at Biltmore Daytime Celebration*
Saturday, November 3, 2018 – Sunday, January 6, 2019 (daily)

*Included with estate admission.
*Does not include “Candlelight Christmas Evenings”

Experience the holidays wreathed with the wonder of Biltmore. Our celebration presents Christmas on a grand scale with more than 55 trees decorated by our talented staff, accented with miles of ribbon, garlands, and lights. Festive menus in our restaurants and holiday wine tastings make for a memorable visit.

Learn more about #ChristmasAtBiltmore or plan your visit: biltmore.com/Christmas

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Donate Coats, Hats, Gloves, Mittens, Scarves, Sweaters, Hand Warmers, Socks Blankets- Anything Warm (New or Gently Used – All sizes needed) We are collecting for Three amazing organizations: Homeward Bound of WNC, Irene Wortham Center, Inc. and Children First/Communities In Schools – Children First CIS of Buncombe County We need your help. Drop off your items at 862 Haywood Road, 28806. See dates and times listed. With your help, we can share the warmth! Our GOAL is to collect 862 items! Contact Teona for more information at [email protected] or call 828-515-1398.

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Learn proper alignment, improve strength & flexibility, & enjoy deep, guided relaxation with Lynn Edgar, an experienced yoga therapist at the 500hr level.

Contact the Mills River Library at 890-1850 for more information.

Wake up + WIN THE DAY with Instructor Heather Miller ૐ for Vinyasa Flow + Yin, Tuesday mornings at 9:15am.?

This class will combine a vinyasa flow through traditional asanas via sun salutations, warrior variations, and pranayama techniques, then we will slow down our movements and engage and lengthen through targeted muscle groups and fascia by using Yin Yoga techniques.

Yin Yoga:
-uses your breath to engage and open targeted structures within the body with longer holds within poses
-helps you release stress + tension

Truly all levels. ALL are welcome to practice and FEEL GOOD NOW + explore this positive mind/body/soul game changer we call yoga! ?‍♀️?

➳ 60 minute class

➳ $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. Lousiana Ave. in West Asheville

? Instructor Heather Miller is a certified Yoga Instructor, Buti Yoga Instructor, and massage therapist who found healing and growth in yoga time and time again, first after an injury on the Appalachian Trail, and then after giving birth to her children.
In her own words “I am truly blessed to have this community welcome me and see my light that I have to offer. I can’t wait to meet you on the mat and expand your hearts with me.”

✨ 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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Demovember Presents:

TERRAFORMING MARS!

In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. In Terraforming Mars, you play a corporation and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things.

Come join us every Tuesday in November to learn more of our popular high-strategy games!

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Your Holiday “to do” list got you feeling
crunched for time? No more excuses!!
In this 30 minute express bootcamp
you’ll experience a full body, intense
workout with the same results as
a 60 minute routine. Great for all levels!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2242850725950770/?event_time_id=2242850739284102

When reflecting on the current state of the environment, it seems that we have entered into times of seismic sorrows. Carbon emissions, water pollution, fracking, and changing climate patterns all point to a troubling reality with serious consequences for human and non-human populations. Through weavings, installations, sculpture, and print, artists Rena Detrixhe and Tali Weinberg (Tulsa, OK) explore the complex relationship between humans and the planet, offering insights, expressing grief, and creating space for resilience and change.

In Time of Seismic Sorrows is curated by Marilyn Zapf and organized by the Center for Craft. The Center for Craft is supported in part by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Join us to learn about invasive species in Western North Carolina and remove them from one of our conservation easements in Madison County, the Dalton Property. We will include a brief lesson on the most common invasive species and how to identify them. We will be primarily concerned with Oriental Bittersweet, Stilt Grass, Spirea, Japanese Honeysuckle & Multi Flora Rose removal.

The Dalton property is located in Madison County, NC and was protected by SAHC in 2003. This 83-acre property was farmland before becoming the home of the Big Red Tomato Packing Company through 1987. The tract is now owned by the Dalton family and protected through a conservation easement with SAHC. The disturbance of the natural ecosystem on this property has opened it up to invasion from pioneer species. We hope to remove invasive plants in order to preserve natural ecosystem processes and provide a space for native plants to grow.

Volunteer activities will include invasive removal and site beautification. Work gloves, safety eye wear, hand tools, and first aid kits will be available on site. Feel free to bring personal gloves or tools. Please dress in layers and bring a rain jacket as we will be working at high elevations and the weather is unpredictable.

What will we be doing?

– Invasive species management – we will use loppers and shears to remove invasive plants.
– General clean-up– Collecting debris on the property.
– More volunteer tasks will be available on the work day.

VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and can be done at the event page on the SAHC website: https://appalachian.org/event/invasive-plant-removal-volunteer-work-day/

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infants through pre-school
educational play dates

EXHIBITION
“From Sea to Shining Sea: The Decay of America” includes works from four photographers who capture varying aspects of the decay and destruction of the American landscape; from aerial views of invasive construction sites to images documenting the broader humanitarian impact on the Sioux Nation at Standing Rock.

ARTISTS: Peter Essick, Carl Galie, Christine Hinz Lenzen, Sarah Stacke

OPENING RECEPTION to be held Sunday, Nov 11 at 3PM at Blue Spiral 1

This exhibition is held in conjunction with photo+sphere (www.photoplusavl.com), a city-wide exploration of photography and photo media from November 7-11, 2018. This show will be on display in our upstairs gallery from November 7th – December 7th, 2018.

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FILM: The Devil We Know
a 2018 Sundance Film Festival premiere documentary, is an exposé of the DuPont corporation, whose decades-long effort to deny the adverse effects of chemicals used in Teflon has resulted in birth defects, cancer, and death.

Sunday, November 11th, 2018 @ 1pm in the Fine Arts Theatre.
Ticket fee: $5 at the box office

Q+A SESSION
immediately after with the film with award-winning filmmaker and co-director of The Devil We Know, Jeremy Seifert

RECEPTION for the film and exhibition
at 3pm at Blue Spiral 1

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*Dates are subject to change, due to weather. Please contact your FSA to confirm.

Head Start Parents! Join us for our Parent Meetings, where we will discuss the following topics:

11/20/18 – Your Family’s Well-Being; Child Growth & Development; Focus on Goal Setting; Building Resilience
1/18/19 – Healthy Families, Safety & Injury Prevention; Transition to Kindergarten (City Schools)
3/12/19 – Transition to Kindergarten (County Schools); Family/Financial Literacy, Fatherhood Engagement

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The fish and reptiles at the Aquarium and Shark Lab will be on vacation Nov 20-24 for the thanksgiving Holiday! They will be resting, visiting friends and family, and watching parades on TV! We send you the best of wishes for a great holiday with your families and friends. Thank you for your continued support of our drop of the sea in the mountains.

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CREATE. RELEASE. INTEND. SPIRAL IT OUT. ????
Join Jenny Roberts for Buti Yoga Lite Tuesday mornings at 10:30am at Primal Studios!

This a great introductory class or for anyone practicing Buti who wants to commit to focusing on alignment, deep core engagement, and yoga postures in a toned down, slower paced class with lower intensity cardio plyometrics.

?‍♀️? What is Buti Yoga?
Buti utilizes the Spiral Structure Technique + deep core engagement in this empowering class, activating shakti – the divine feminine energy that AWAKENS power + sustainable confidence. Music drives the movements! ♫ ♫ ♫

➳ 60 minute class – ALL LEVELS welcome & celebrated.

➳ $12 per class drop in. Sign up on our Mindbody app- Primal Studios. Space is limited.

➳ 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. Lousiana Ave. in West Asheville

? Instructor Jenny Roberts is a Yoga Alliance certified 200 hr RYT Yoga Instructor and Buti Yoga Instructor. Jenny’s passion for movement manifested through sports, as well as capturing motion and emotion as a filmmaker. Jenny is our Creative Director/Photographer & Videographer at Primal Studios.

✨ 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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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.)

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For the month of November ,local artists Patricia Cotterill and Darryl Maleike will be featured in the F.W. Gallery at Woolworth Walk.

Patricia is an oil painter living in Asheville and working out of her studio at Riverside Studios in the River Arts District. Patricia was born in Scotland and now resides in Asheville, NC. After graduating from Art College in Lincoln England with a graphic design degree, she worked designing branding for major companies. She later managed retail displays for a chain of department stores throughout the south of England. After several years living in Europe, the middle East, and Asia, her husband’s work brought the family to the US. She paints animal life, figures, and still life. As a child, aged eight, she remembers her first paint by numbers kit for oils. Pure joy! Patricia work has appeared on the NBC set of Parenthood and HGTV’s Urban Oasis for the West Asheville house. The color scheme for the whole house was based on one of her cow paintings. Patricia works quickly covering a black toned canvas, first sketching the subject onto the canvas. She then blocks in the shapes and applies color to the canvas. Trying to capture the feeling she wants to express with a few brush strokes, because she doesn’t want to get lost in the details until the end. Believing that working in this way causes the viewer to have some emotional response as she does, and she thinks they also get the sense of her journey when they view her paintings. Patricia decided to have a little fun with her favorite subject, animals, for this body of work, ANCESTRAL PORTRAITS. The animals she has painted must have had ancestors somewhere, so why not have them dressed in the style of yesteryear. It was fun for her to research clothing from previous centuries, then to decide which style would work with which animal. She worked quickly and loosely to capture the look of a bygone period and expressions on their faces! Lord Sly, stands in his stately library thinking about the days hunt for rabbits! Marie Antoinette Opossum may be dreaming of her love, Louis XVI. Patricia invites you to come and see these animal characters, and a few others, hopefully to make you think about your own ancestors!

Maleike has been living and making books in Asheville NC since 2003. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Illinois University, he spent many years travelling and photographing the country. In 1998 Darryl landed at Penland School of Crafts in Penland NC. This is where he took his first bookmaking class. “It is such a different way of working with my hands,” is the reason he gives for switching from photography to bookmaking. In 2000 Darryl became a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Crafts, where he began to concentrate on bookmaking. After two years there, he moved to Gatlinburg TN to be an Artist-in-Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Darryl is a member of the Southern Highlands Craft Guild and continues to make one of a kind functional journals and what he calls “The Original Beer Carton Book.”

Come meet Patricia and Darryl and enjoy the opening reception on Friday, November 2nd from 5-7 p.m.

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Join us for a workshop on building business groups on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other websites! Find out how to deliver crushworthy content and build community. Participants will walk away understanding the best type of group for their business goals, how to enroll community-members into your group, and how to create authentic engagement with their community.

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Network and have lunch with new and old friends while you promote your business products and services in South Asheville at Post 25 Kitchen & Lounge. Bring a big stack of business cards and a friend if you like. ALL are invited, no cost to attend the meeting, we just ask that you support our host restaurant and buy your lunch (the food is exceptional!)
Thanks to our Sponsors!
– Lone Bird Studio Asheville Web Design
– Big Frog Custom T-Shirts & More
– Radius Chiropractic
– Rainbow International of Asheville
– Montreat College School of Adult and Graduate Studies
– CBIZ, Inc. Flex-Pay
– Coach Bill Gilliland
Join our MeetUp Group: https://www.meetup.com/Asheville-Business-Networking/events/jdvgkqyxpbbc/

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The Haen Gallery, located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, is proud to present their 12th Annual Lynn Boggess Exhibition. The exhibit will run through November.

Lynn Boggess is one of the most unique and noteworthy American landscape painters of the 21st Century. He resides in West Virginia, a state whose diverse mountains, forests, and rivers provide abundant inspiration for the artist’s plein air paintings. In place of brushes he uses palette knives and trowels to thickly layer the broad sweeping strokes and exquisite fine detail that capture all the colors of the seasons in rushing rivers, snow covered hillsides, and thick forest vegetation. Mr. Boggess’ work is recognized internationally for its incredible three-dimensional texture, rendered solely in oils. These remarkable paintings combine elements of Abstract Expressionism and Photorealism to create a style that is totally unique and original.

The Haen Gallery in Asheville is located at 52 Biltmore Avenue between City Bakery and Chestnut. There is a parking garage at the Aloft hotel across the street, another garage just up the hill, as well as street parking.

The gallery is open Monday through Saturday 11am-6pm & Sunday 12-5pm. For more information: 828-254-8577 or www.thehaengallery.com. Gallery contacts: Chris Foley, Director; Leslie Logemann, Gallery Manager.

With locations in Asheville and Brevard, The Haen Gallery offers the work of established artists whose distinctive and unique style sets it apart from ordinary and imitative efforts. Visit the website at thehaengallery.com.

Overview

Ever wonder why interested prospects are not converting to customers? Or why you aren’t retaining as many of your current customers as you expected? And whether something about your product or service is causing these issues and impacting revenue? What can you do about it when budgets are limited and deadlines are tight? This presentation will attemp to answer these questions as Dave steers you through how to gather the best feedback to help build your product.

Key Takeaways

Get actionable feedback directly from customers to your product or service.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone who delivering a product or service to another human.

Presenter Bio

Dave Michelson is an Applied Research Software Designer at UNC Asheville’s National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC). His 25 year career in the Geospatial and Technology field has enabled him to gain unique insights from work across numerous companies and industries including an engineering firm, a consultancy firm, a county government, a public school system, and, of course, a startup, Dave’s expertise is in designing and building web-based Geospatial tools with an emphasis on incorporating user needs. Dave enables customers and clients to better understand their business issues. He views technologies as a means to remove some of the uncertainty we all face in the world.

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What does it mean to be present? What does it mean to be strong? You define your practice. Come unite Mind + Body with Mystical Yoga! ?✨ ? Join Hanna Christine Mathis every Tuesday at 12pm at Primal Studios!

A mixture of a vinyasa flow and indigenous shamanic practices, Mystical Yoga focuses on the meaningful union of mind and body, bringing yoga to a personal level. Based on training from the Mystical Yoga Farm in Guatemala, Hanna’s approach leads you to draw inward in this strong spiritual practice.

➳ 60 minute class

➳ $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 that provide the perfect balance of sticky + cushiony for your practice!

➳ Our Studio is in the same building as Tribe Dance & Pole at 457 N. Louisiana Ave. in West Asheville

We can’t wait to see you! ✨ All levels welcome!

? Instructor Hanna Mathis is a certified yoga instructor receiving her training at the Mystical Yoga Farm on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, where she spent 22 blissful, life-changing days.

✨ 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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Creating highly detailed illustrations, her semeiotic work explores nature’s unintentional influence on humanity’s past civilizations and the subsequent creation of mythologies, beliefs, and lore. From this grows her quiet soliloquy that evokes a natural empathy by virtue of viewing the juxtaposition between humanity’s past fears with modern angst.

“The pieces I create echo beliefs and lore and explore their human connections to nature. A new human connection is formed by tying past and present within a gathering of feather, fur, fins, symbolism, and feminine beauty.” – Carolina Lebar

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Yoga Nidra is a guided relaxation done laying down allowing you to achieve a deep state of restoration, where the body and mind do their healing. Ten minutes of Yoga Nidra is said to be equivalent to one hour of deep REM cycle sleep.

We will begin class with 20 minutes of gentle movement before settling into relaxation. This class is ideal for individuals coping with chronic stress or pain, insomnia, and disrupted sleep.

$5 – $20 suggested donation, walk-in’s welcome

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This week’s tasty line up is:
Monday: El Querubin
Tuesday: Appalachian Chic Food Truck
Wednesday: Tin Can Pizzeria
Thursday: Closed for Thanksgiving. Gobble Gobble!
Friday: Mountain View BBQ & Deli, El Querubin, & Amazing Pizza Co.
Saturday: Mountain View BBQ & Deli & El Querubin
Sunday: Cecilia’s Kitchen /Cecis’ Culinary TOUR

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Tuesdays 3-5:30pm
October 23- December 11

A good casserole bakes and presents your food beautifully and certainly impresses at potlucks. But casseroles are complex forms to create and get just right. Join Cayce as he demystifies the process step-by-step, with plenty of one-on-one instruction. Techniques demonstrated will include throwing hollow, making a tight fitting lid, and plenty of variations for knobs and handles. Soon you will be creating beautiful, functional casseroles to use and enjoy for years to come.

Level: Intermediate and Advanced
Tuition: $310 + $50 Lab Fee

Please join us for our free adoption information meeting. Interact with Bethany adoption specialists who will share their expertise and answer your questions. Learn how to make adoption more affordable with grants, loans, and many other programs. Register on our website to reserve your spot.

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We’ll be having basic computer skills classes in our computer lab downstairs. Come and improve your skills in a patient and understanding environment.

All library events are free. No registration is required for the class and everyone is welcome.
Computers may be limited based on capacity.
For more information or call 250-4717.

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We’ll be having basic computer skills classes in our computer lab downstairs. Come and improve your skills in a patient and understanding environment.

All library events are free. No registration is required for the class and everyone is welcome.
Computers may be limited based on capacity.
For more information or call 250-4717.

https://www.facebook.com/events/258781628169908/?event_time_id=258781634836574

Tap into your essential vitality with strength-building vinyasa, followed by a therapeutic deep stretch! ?‍♀️??
Join Mauni Tomlo Tuesdays for Vital Flow Yoga at Primal Studios!

Embark on a short mindfulness meditation to identify the intention you wish to cultivate, then move through an alignment-based, steady-paced, and strength-building vinyasa practice that challenges your body and encourages the embodiment of your vital essence to to emerge in a peaceful yet powerful way.

Next, enjoy a gentle and therapeutic deep stretching flow that will open the heart, lengthen the muscles and ease the hamstrings, hips and lower back.

End your practice with an essential oil infused savasana that will encourage the sweetness of surrender to envelop you, leaving you feeling both renewed, worn out, and ready for a restorative nights rest, followed by an inspirational morning.

➳ 60 minute class

➳ $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

We can’t wait to see you! ✨ All are welcome!

? Instructor Mauni Tomlo is an experienced 200 hr RYT Yoga Instructor trained in a classic Baptiste style of yoga. Her dynamic classes hit the sweet spot between peace and power.

✨ 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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Join a team of Unity members and friends as we work in the MANNA Foodbank warehouse to help sort food for distribution. There are two different days, with different times and lengths of shifts. Please sign up if you plan to attend so we can give you all the information you need. MANNA Foodbank serves over 200 partner agencies (food pantries, shelters, soup kitchens) in 16 counties in WNC. One in four children in WNC are food insecure.

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Share a meal, plant a seed, and remember those who came before us.

In the spirit of TDoR, Beloved Community Center and IgniteNC will host a trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary autonomous space for community to uphold Resilience, Resistance, and Remembrance of Transgender People. We will share a meal, watch Free Cee-Cee, decorate flower pots, sow seeds and letter write to incarcerated trans folx.

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