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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Experience Asheville’s brightest holiday tradition at Winter Lights at The North Carolina Arboretum. Walk through an outdoor winter wonderland and see the Arboretum’s gardens dressed in more than half-a-million holiday lights. Roast s’mores by the fire, listen to your favorite holiday tunes or enjoy a cup of hot cocoa, cider or beer. Proceeds from the event will support the Arboretum’s educational programs, exhibit and facilities year-round.
Tickets range from $8-18 and must be purchased in advance online at www.ncwinterlights.com.
https://www.facebook.com/events/183329605927836/?event_time_id=183329759261154
Tour Gatlinburg’s most dazzling light displays by hopping aboard the Gatlinburg Trolley Ride of Lights! This popular winter tradition is the perfect way to see our mountain town in all its Winter Magic splendor. Get your tickets today!
https://www.facebook.com/events/726348577700947/?event_time_id=726348677700937
Head full of useless knowledge? Now’s your time to shine! Join us every Wednesday at 6:30pm for a night of interactive trivia perfect for all skill levels.
Live scoring, music rounds, photo rounds and even themed categories!
Prizes awarded each week for the 1st place team!
https://www.facebook.com/events/277072849778679/?event_time_id=277072896445341
[$35++ per person, reservations required]
Enjoy an exclusive wine flight in our Private Cellar with our Sommelier & learn all about wine– tasting notes, food pairings, & more! Finish the mingling with your favorite glass of wine then join us for 10% off your dinner. For October, Fall Back in Love with Wine! This month, we will taste outside of the Napa box and try a 95 point Merlot, an Australian Cabernet, and more!
Call 828.398.6200 for Reservations
https://www.facebook.com/events/161686534471099/?event_time_id=161686541137765
Family in town? Trying to figure a way to impress them and enjoy a delicious beverage? Come on down to Bearwaters Brainy trivia. Prizes, bragging rights, and topics of conversation for the holiday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/643185869412795/
CREATE. RELEASE. INTEND. SPIRAL IT OUT. ????
Join Jenny Roberts for Buti Yoga Lite Wednesday evenings at 6:45pm 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 ✨
https://www.facebook.com/events/959149674271079/?event_time_id=959149687604411
Have questions? Join Susan Marie Vinci and Lillian Alexandria Pederson to receive answers. This is an evening of messages and information readily available from your Akashic records & Source. We will access this information from spirit. All are welcome! A Love offering will be receive.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1081969461980883/?event_time_id=1081969475314215
Have questions? Join Susan Marie Vinci and Lillian Alexandria Pederson to receive answers. This is an evening of messages and information readily available from your Akashic records & Source. We will access this information from spirit. All are welcome! A Love offering will be receive.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1081969461980883/
Desirée Christa Ricker, Originally from Hendersonville, is back in town and will be at The Poe House Wednesday night 7 to 10 p.m.
This is also a Pint Night with Upcountry Brewing.
https://www.facebook.com/events/346467592600037/
Mike Martinez Front man of Natural Born Leaders graces Ben’s new indoor stage for an up close and personal show!
https://www.facebook.com/events/275307796523242/
Mike Martinez Front man of Natural Born Leaders graces Ben’s new indoor stage for an up close and personal show!
https://www.facebook.com/events/275307796523242/?event_time_id=275307809856574
Come show us what you’ve got!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2181452001876782/?event_time_id=2181452028543446
OUR THANKSGIVING WEEK TRADITION! Fill up on laughs before Thanksgiving.
It is the best Thanksgiving movie ever, and last year we easily sold out 2 screenings.
This is another hilarious and heart-warming classic movie from writer/director John Hughes. Steve Martin and especially John Candy give one of the best performances of their careers.
TICKET INFO:
THIS WILL SELL OUT! $3.00 tickets are now on sale at our 675 Merrimon Avenue location and also online at our website:
https://www.ashevillebrewing.com/movies/
SYNOPSIS:
Easily excitable Neal Page (Steve Martin) is somewhat of a control freak. While trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife and kids, his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm, and his sanity begins to fray. Worse yet, he is forced to bunk up with talkative Del Griffith (John Candy), an extremely annoying shower curtain ring salesman. Together they must overcome the insanity of holiday travel to reach their intended destination.
CONTENT GUIDE:
Rated R for language and a brief sexual image.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2333807546865866/
OUR THANKSGIVING WEEK TRADITION! Fill up on laughs before Thanksgiving.
It is the best Thanksgiving movie ever, and last year we easily sold out 2 screenings.
This is another hilarious and heart-warming classic movie from writer/director John Hughes. Steve Martin and especially John Candy give one of the best performances of their careers.
TICKET INFO:
THIS WILL SELL OUT! $3.00 tickets are now on sale at our 675 Merrimon Avenue location and also online at our website:
https://www.ashevillebrewing.com/movies/
SYNOPSIS:
Easily excitable Neal Page (Steve Martin) is somewhat of a control freak. While trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife and kids, his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm, and his sanity begins to fray. Worse yet, he is forced to bunk up with talkative Del Griffith (John Candy), an extremely annoying shower curtain ring salesman. Together they must overcome the insanity of holiday travel to reach their intended destination.
CONTENT GUIDE:
Rated R for language and a brief sexual image.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2333807546865866/?event_time_id=2333807563532531
Do you know your Pop Culture? Enjoy delicious food and craft beer? Like winning prizes? If so then you should be in West Asheville every Wednesday for Totally Rad Trivia w/ Robert at 7:00 PM. Free to Play, Teams of Up to 6 Players, and gifts cards going to the top teams!
https://www.facebook.com/events/521734221631531/
Join us for The Office trivia and 75 cent wings.
https://www.facebook.com/events/192227268355240/
¡Triskatrivia!
Wednesday nights are for Themed Trivia! Every Wednesday will be a new themed trivia night.
Teams can be up to six people, no phones, no yelling out of answers. There will be several rounds of questions, each a different category based on the night’s theme. There will also be a “Very Hard Questions” round, in which the players on the winning team will all get a free beer.
Glorious prizes will be awarded to the first and second place teams.
Come on out and show off your Brainz!!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/293449921508936/?event_time_id=293449938175601
Comedy legends Steve Martin and John Candy team up for the most hilarious of road trips! Get into the holiday spirit and join us for a night of laughs as we screen Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. This does have a R rating for so may not be suitable for kids.
https://www.facebook.com/events/117633565811428/
Paul Hooper is back in AVL!!!
An only child with OCD, Paul Hooper channels his dysfunction into a cathartic harangue. That’s a real flowery and obnoxious way of saying he complains in a funny way. Anyway, this native of Charlotte, North Carolina, now residing in New York City, has been featured on Gotham Comedy Live on AXS TV, Red Eye with Tom Shillue, at the HBO Comedy Festival in Vegas, Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon, the Boston Comedy Festival, Michael Moore and Jeff Garlin’s Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival, the Vancouver Comedy Fest and was a finalist in the 30th Annual Seattle International Comedy Competition. A seasoned headliner, Paul has performed in forty two states and ten countries, including two armed forces tours. HIs debut solo album, “Tense and Uncomfortable” is available on Stand Up! Records, and iTunes.
Featuring Becca Steinhoff and Cody Daniel Hughes
18+
Tickets $7 advance, $10 door
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/comedy-at-fleetwoods-paul-hooper-tickets-50030322040
https://www.facebook.com/events/2119619501699359/
Come get your pregame on for the big Turkey Day. Starts at 8pm and lasts until…
$5 for a PBR Draft and a shot of house whiskey, tequila, gin, rum, or vodka.
$1.50 PBR Draft
$2.00 Miller Lite/Dos Equis Draft
We will also have beer pong available if you feel like playing!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2153874944657033/
Join us each week on Wednesdays for Music Bingo!
We feature four rounds of music bingo, each with a different theme. Hear snippets of songs and mark your card. Win bingo, win prizes! No cover charge to play.
https://www.facebook.com/events/589456254841794/
The incredibly talented Nikki Talley returns to Sanctuary Brewing Company the day before Thanksgiving! Bring your family and friends to 1st Ave. and celebrate!
As 295,000 miles click over, Nikki Talley just smiles.
After 5 1/2 years of hard touring, 150-200 shows annually, Nikki continues traveling on, bringing her gorgeous voice & thoughtful songs all across the nation. Hailing from the mountains of western North Carolina, it’s only fitting that her songs are as eclectic as the state that boasts the mountains and the sea. Along with her guitar & clawhammer style banjo, her musical partner & husband Jason Sharp adds resonant lush guitar tones as well as harmonies to round out the duo’s sound.
Out From The Harbor is a collection of 10 songs recorded at Asheville’s Echo Mountain Studio. With only a few other additions to the record, including Michael Ashworth (Steep Canyon Rangers) on bass & tasteful percussion, the stage is set for Nikki’s soulful vocal and storied lyrics while Jason Sharp’s guitar soars alongside.
As expected Out From The Harbor often travels through the element of water be it the sea, rivers, rain or tears. Nikki’s silken voice is on full display. The album opens with “Rainy Day”, a song about how sometimes you need a rainy day and that ‘all the sunshine in California couldn’t make this go away’. “Let’s Go Out On The Water” recalls a day of fishing with friends, a pastime Nikki & Jason enjoy while making musical tracks throughout the U.S. Whether it’s from the hills of haunted Appalachia, the seashores of the Gulf or the dry dusty heat of the desert, each song takes the listener along on the journeys that sometimes mirror the everyday adventures of the musical couple especially on the track “Travelin On” with lyrics “Travelin on just like we were kids on a merry go round and round / We’re somewhere in the middle of chasing our tails and chasing our dreams down”.
“Nikki Talley has traveled a lot of miles these past few years and called numerous places home, but we in Western NC still want to claim her as one of the area’s finest singer-songwriters. Always genuine and down to earth, she and her partner Jason Sharp deliver her latest songs on Out From the Harbor in a beautiful, laid-back style — just in time for a beautiful, laid-back summer. “
– Martin Anderson
WNCW Music Director & Host
You can find Nikki & Jason chasing their dreams down in their van, Blue Bell all across the country playing festivals, venues & house concerts.
https://www.facebook.com/events/508353439665586/
SPIRALS IN CONTACT
An All-Levels Series
with Aaron Birk
Three Wednesdays
11/21, 11/28, 12/5
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Thanksgiving Jam!
Wednesday Nov 21
7:30 – 9:30pm — Open Contact Jam (with a ‘Spiraling’ warmup)
Location: Homewood
19 Zilicoa St. Asheville, NC 28801
Cost: $10
(No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds)
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Spirals in Contact, Part I, All Levels
Wednesday November 28th
7:30 – 8:30pm — Class
8:30 – 9:30pm — Open Jam
Location: Homewood
19 Zilicoa St. Asheville, NC 28801
Cost: $10
(No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds)
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Spirals in Contact Part II, All Levels
Wednesday December 5th
7:30 – 8:30pm — Class
8:30 – 9:30pm — Open Jam
Location: Homewood
19 Zilicoa St. Asheville, NC 28801
Cost: $10
(No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds)
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About Spirals in Contact:
After studying and training with The Axis Syllabus for the couple years, Aaron has begun to grasp that there is not a straight line to be found in the human body, nor in the ways that the body moves. We are twisting, spiraling beings, and our movement pathways can resemble that of a fish, or a tornado, or a falling leaf… Finding spirals in contact improv duets opens doors to ease, safety, and the harnessing and recycling of momentum. Come take your spine for a drive. Beginners welcome!
Please wear loose, comfortable clothing, natural fibers preferred. Avoid earrings and jewelry, and out of respect for those with sensitivity, no scents please.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1133335000173245/
Showers on Mars has a great set list ranging from Third Eye Blind to 90’s rap. They will for sure rock your face!
https://www.facebook.com/events/254079082133520/
Join us every Wednesday for your favorite 90’s jams, movies and other 90’s surprises! 9pm-2am, 21+
It’s totally rad!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2150682581629903/
Latin Dance Party ft. DJ Oscar Jimenez & Dance Instructor
(Salsa, Bachata, Merengue & More)
We have Parking directly behind One World Brewing West off of Allen Street. Please do not park in our next door neighbor’s parking lot (they will tow).
https://www.facebook.com/events/188125392090566/
GET BEAST BEFORE THE FEAST! Roll up Thanksgiving morning for Buti Yoga at 6:30am- your body will thank you later!!
Instructor Sherry Fields is serving up dynamic yoga, with a side of tribal dance + deep core engagement, plus a yummy essential oil infused savasana for dessert!!!
✨ ✨ ✨ ALL LEVELS welcome + celebrated AS YOU ARE to connect & thrive!
➳ 60 minutes of movement
➳ $12 drop in/ Pre-register on Mindbody app- Primal Studios to reserve your space + speed up the sign in process!
➳ Bring your yoga mat OR ?
We have Buti Yoga B-aligned mats for your use.
➳ Our Studio is in the same building as Tribe Dance & Pole at 457 N. Louisiana Ave. in West Asheville
✨ Primal Studios is a Yoga/Buti Yoga/Movement studio that inspires you to move outside your comfort zone, and connect & thrive in the community as we evolve together! Visit us at 457 N. Louisiana Ave. in West Asheville, right inside the TRIBE Dance & Pole building! www.primalstudiosasheville.com ✨
https://www.facebook.com/events/2176866805869608/
Reclaimed Creations is a unique sculpture exhibit created by renowned artist Sayaka Ganz. Utilizing reclaimed plastic objects, such as discarded utensils, Ganz creates amazing sculptures that visually appear unified at a distance, but are in fact separated when examined up close. Described as using a “3D impressionistic” style, Ganz’s exhibit includes installations of animals in motion, which are in rich in color and energy, to create an illusion of form.
About the Artist
Born in Yokohama, Japan, Sayaka Ganz grew up living in Japan, Brazil and Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. A lecturer and teacher, Ganz’s work has been displayed at various institutions around the globe, including the Hermann Geiger Foundation in Cecina, Italy, the Isle Gallery in Isle of Man, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.
My work is about perceiving harmony, even in situations that appear chaotic from the inside. When observing my sculptures up close, one might see gaps, holes and items being held on only by small points; step away, however, and the sculptures reveal the harmony created when the objects are aligned to the same general (but not identical) direction. Similarly, it is important to gain perspective by stepping back from current problems and look at the larger picture. Then one can perceive the beauty and patterns that exist.”
Join us this Thanksgiving for a fundraiser benefitting students in need at Asheville High.
Start your Thanksgiving Holiday with a 45 minute ride, Well.Fit style! After, enjoy free coffee from Trade and Lore Coffee and a chance to win and in-store experience at lululemon Asheville (guaranteed to surprise and delight!)
Minimum suggested donation is $20.00; for every additional $10 you donate you will get another entry in the raffle!
Asheville High and SILSA have over 50 identified homeless students. This time of year donations are especially important due to the 2 week Christmas break when some students will not have regular meals until the new year.
The Student Assistance Fund helps keep these kids get fed over the holiday break and throughout the year helps students go on school trips, buy supplies for their school and home, buy food, and participate in educational opportunities.
Join us for a good sweat and make a difference this holiday season in theses kid’s lives!!
It’s free to register, please bring check or cash donation. Please make checks out to ‘Asheville City Schools Homeless Education Program’.
Sign up online to reserve your seat, space is limited : https://bit.ly/2yTWvU9
https://www.facebook.com/events/2217325215147513/
Annual Turkey Day Ride!!
Sweat that shit out before you eat your heart out AND do it for a good cause…
Donation based, all proceeds will go to the Student Assistance Fund at Asheville High.
More details coming soon
https://www.facebook.com/events/241199033388079/