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.
Interested in adding an event to our calendar? Please click the green “Post Your Event” button below.
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
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Celebrate the launch of Dream Big! How to Reach for Your Stars with Abigail “Astronaut Abby” Harrison and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, author of Goodnight Astronaut.
RSVP here to attend. On the day of the event, you will receive an email with the link required to join us online.
Like most of our events, this event is free. If you decide to attend and to purchase the authors’ books, we ask that you purchase from Malaprop’s. When you do this you make it possible for us to continue hosting author events and you keep more dollars in our community. You may also support our work by purchasing a gift card or making a donation of any amount below. Thank you!
From Astronaut Abby, the dynamic founder of The Mars Generation, comes a book about dreaming big, reaching for the stars, and making a plan for success!
From the age of four, Abigail Harrison knew she wanted to go to space. At age eleven, she sat down and wrote out a plan–not just for how to become an astronaut, but how to be the first astronaut to set foot on Mars. With a degree in biology, internships at NASA, and a national organization founded to help kids reach for the stars themselves, Astronaut Abby is well on her way to achieving her dreams–and she wants to help others do the same!
In this book, readers will find helpful advice and practical tips that can help set them on the path toward finding, reaching for, and achieving their goals. With examples from Abby’s own life, interactive activities to get readers going, and plenty of fun illustrations along the way, this is the perfect guide for anyone–of any age–with big dreams and plenty of determination. It’s time to reach for the stars!
Praise for Dream Big!:
“With friendly encouragement . . . the content and approach are general enough to appeal both to STEM-oriented fans of the author as well as those whose interests lie in other areas . . . Fun and helpful.” —Kirkus Reviews
Abigail “Astronaut Abby” Harrison (astronautabby.com) is an aspiring astronaut and the co-founder of the international nonprofit organization The Mars Generation. A rising star in her field, she holds a degree in biology from Wellesley College, has interned at a NASA-funded astrobiology lab, and has been featured in TIME, Forbes, Seventeen, Marie Claire, Glamour, Teen Vogue, the BBC, USA Today, CNN, and more. Abby believes that no one is ever too young to pursue their dreams–she herself is living proof of that notion–and she’s determined to help as many young people as possible start reaching for their very own stars. All proceeds earned by Abby from the sale of this book will be donated to The Mars Generation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Abby is from Minneapolis. Follow her on Twitter @AstronautAbby, on Facebook at Facebook.com/AstronautAbby, and on Instagram @AstronautAbbyOfficial.
Scott Kelly is a NASA astronaut best known for spending a record-breaking year in space. He is a former US Navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and veteran of four spaceflights. Kelly commanded the space shuttle Endeavour in 2007 and twice commanded the International Space Station. He lives in Houston, Texas. You can follow him on Facebook at NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, and on Instagram and Twitter at @StationCDRKelly. Visit him at scottkelly.com.
The conference will offer more than a dozen workshops led by farmers and regional professionals, including several that address the continued effects of COVID-19 on the industry, such as Direct Marketing in the Time of COVID, Optimizing Your Online Store, and Planning for Meat Sales in 2021. The conference also includes a business planning track in collaboration with Mountain BizWorks. The popular Grower-Buyer Meeting will return in a virtual format, giving farmers the chance to meet individually with grocers, distributors, and chefs. Farmers can receive one-on-one support on legal, recordkeeping, marketing, and production planning issues.
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
Ribbon Cutting at 10amThe first 25 people in line will get a $25 Style Encore gift card and a Style Encore Shopping Tote with coupons from Local partners*Pre owned* Tory Burch Giveaway announced Live on FB @ 12pm$100 SE Gift Card for in-store raffle announced live on FB @ 2pmRaffle: COACH crossbody (NEW)Enter Raffle for $200 SE Shopping Spree – Announced Live on FB at 5pm SundayThe first 25 people in line will get a Style Encore Shopping Tote with coupons from Local partnersFairy Kim will be here to give complimentary Fairy Hair to all customers 2pm – 5pmRaffle: KATE SPADE shoulder bag (NEW)Enter Raffle for $200 SE Shopping Spree – Announced Live on FB at 5pm SundayThe first 25 people in line will get a Style Encore Shopping Tote with coupons from Local partnersFairy Kim will be here to give complimentary Fairy Hair to all customers 2pm – 5pmRaffle: COACH satchel (NEW)Enter Raffle for $200 SE Shopping Spree – Announced Live on FB at 5pm SundayDouble Point Sunday – Earn Double Points in your Customer Loyalty account for every $10 you buy from or sell to us.The first 25 people in line will get a Style Encore Shopping Tote with coupons from Local partnersRaffle: MICHAEL KORS shoulder bag (NEW)Enter Raffle for $200 SE Shopping Spree – Announced Live on FB at 5pm
We will begin a new book, so if you plan to do the reading, please order ASAP Naomi Quenk’s Beside Ourselves: Our Hidden Personality in Everyday Life. It’s also available in a different edition (which has different pagination): Was That Really Me? How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personality.
Psychotherapist Dr. Katherine Best will help lead our discussions.
What we’re about
We are Myers-Briggs introverted personality types: INTJ/INFJ, INFP/INTP, ISTJ/ISFJ, ISFP/ISTP. Since we’re introverts, it can be a little more difficult for us to be social and meet new people, so this group will break through those internal barriers. We’ll get together for casual social interaction and informally share our stories about how we relate to the world differently than the extroverted MBTI types (who are the majority of the population). We’ll meet over food and drink, board games, etc. — and please give me your suggestions so we can consider them as we plan together! ~Todd
Update on our group’s name: Since we’re not only introverts who gather to socialize but also to socialize in a distinctively introverted way, we are now the AVL Social Introverts Group.
The conference will offer more than a dozen workshops led by farmers and regional professionals, including several that address the continued effects of COVID-19 on the industry, such as Direct Marketing in the Time of COVID, Optimizing Your Online Store, and Planning for Meat Sales in 2021. The conference also includes a business planning track in collaboration with Mountain BizWorks. The popular Grower-Buyer Meeting will return in a virtual format, giving farmers the chance to meet individually with grocers, distributors, and chefs. Farmers can receive one-on-one support on legal, recordkeeping, marketing, and production planning issues.
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
Ribbon Cutting at 10amThe first 25 people in line will get a $25 Style Encore gift card and a Style Encore Shopping Tote with coupons from Local partners*Pre owned* Tory Burch Giveaway announced Live on FB @ 12pm$100 SE Gift Card for in-store raffle announced live on FB @ 2pmRaffle: COACH crossbody (NEW)Enter Raffle for $200 SE Shopping Spree – Announced Live on FB at 5pm SundayThe first 25 people in line will get a Style Encore Shopping Tote with coupons from Local partnersFairy Kim will be here to give complimentary Fairy Hair to all customers 2pm – 5pmRaffle: KATE SPADE shoulder bag (NEW)Enter Raffle for $200 SE Shopping Spree – Announced Live on FB at 5pm SundayThe first 25 people in line will get a Style Encore Shopping Tote with coupons from Local partnersFairy Kim will be here to give complimentary Fairy Hair to all customers 2pm – 5pmRaffle: COACH satchel (NEW)Enter Raffle for $200 SE Shopping Spree – Announced Live on FB at 5pm SundayDouble Point Sunday – Earn Double Points in your Customer Loyalty account for every $10 you buy from or sell to us.The first 25 people in line will get a Style Encore Shopping Tote with coupons from Local partnersRaffle: MICHAEL KORS shoulder bag (NEW)Enter Raffle for $200 SE Shopping Spree – Announced Live on FB at 5pmThis club will meet virtually via zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Please email [email protected] for the link to join!
Join host and Malaprop’s Bookseller Allison Beatty to dive into the wreck of the wily and wonderful world of sci-fi, weird fiction, speculative fiction, literary horror, and disturbing fiction with a healthy mix of underappreciated classic and contemporary books. The club normally meets at Malaprop’s on the last Monday of every month at 7:00pm.
Click here to see a full schedule of what the club is reading. Club attendees get 10% off the book at Malaprop’s!
No cost due to sponsor support
With the e-commerce world in a full court press, online marketplaces like Amazon and Etsy could be the perfect place to offer your products. In this session we will explore the basics of each platform, the pros and cons, basics of setup, costs, and requirements. And finally we will look at what steps to take to get started.
This webinar may be converted into an in-person seminar, pursuant to state recommendations. Attendees will be notified by email if the class type is changed.
Speaker(s): Aaron Wesley Means
Co-Sponsor(s): Henderson County Chamber of Commerce, Brevard/Transylvania Chamber of Commerce
Webinar info will be emailed after registration.
No cost due to sponsor support
Learn key factors that will influence your business concept. As part of the environmental scan, attendees will discover how to analyze social, industry, market, and firm level trends. Perform simple SWOT, TOWS, and break-even analysis.
Welcome to the Small Business Center (SBC) located at Blue Ridge Community College, part of the Small Business Center Network (SBCN). Blue Ridge Community College Campuses and the SBC are located in Flat Rock and Brevard, North Carolina.
SBCN is comprised of 58 Small Business Centers throughout North Carolina, that supports the development of new businesses and the growth of existing businesses by being a community-based provider of local training, counseling, and resource information.
Local SBC training, confidential counseling, and resource information is offered at no cost due to funding from the State of North Carolina.
Services provided by the Small Business Center can be customized to suit your specific business needs.
Each week we offer a program on starting and growing a business to answer all your question about requirements and resources offered through the federal, state, region, county, and local cities.
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No cost due to sponsor support
Market research isn’t just for startups; it’s an important ongoing process for every small business. Developing a focused and effective marketing plan requires up-to-date market analysis. Discover the variety of market research tools that will give you critical information about your industry and customers. Get the data you need to test the feasibility of a new business, find the competition and potential customers interested in your proposed product or service.
This webinar may be converted into an in-person seminar, pursuant to state recommendations. Attendees will be notified by email if the class type is changed.
Speaker(s): Gary Heisey
Co-Sponsor(s): Henderson County Chamber of Commerce, Brevard/Transylvania Chamber of Commerce
Webinar info will be emailed after registration
Brittney Cooper, associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers, will deliver the keynote talk – online only this year – for UNC Asheville’s annual commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. The talk, titled Reimagining Black Liberation, will be free and open to everyone, will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 26. Check back closer to the date for Zoom access information. Cooper also will teach an online master class for UNC Asheville students at noon the same day.
Cooper is the author of the memoir Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, and Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, winner of the 2018 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American Historians.
A cultural commentator, Cooper has written for media outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, and The Root. She is active on Twitter @ProfessorCrunk and is co-founder of The Crunk Feminist Collective where she blogs as “crunktastic”; she is co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection – Essays on hip-hop feminism.
The conference will offer more than a dozen workshops led by farmers and regional professionals, including several that address the continued effects of COVID-19 on the industry, such as Direct Marketing in the Time of COVID, Optimizing Your Online Store, and Planning for Meat Sales in 2021. The conference also includes a business planning track in collaboration with Mountain BizWorks. The popular Grower-Buyer Meeting will return in a virtual format, giving farmers the chance to meet individually with grocers, distributors, and chefs. Farmers can receive one-on-one support on legal, recordkeeping, marketing, and production planning issues.
The 2021 Winter Buzz Breakfast series, hosted by Leadership Asheville and the Asheville Area Arts Council, focuses on Equity in Creative Placemaking. This approach uses arts strategies to involve those that live, work, and play in a community a role in the urban design process.
Presenting Sponsor for the 2021 Winter Buzz Breakfast series is The Van Winkle Law Firm. Additional funding for this series was provided by Explore Asheville and the North Carolina Arts Council.
Note: Make sure to fill out your profile when registering! The event room opens at 8:30 am for networking before each presentation.
MITCH LANDRIEU
January 27 | 8:30 am
The series begins with a look at the removal of Confederate Monuments with special guest Mitch Landrieu, former Mayor of New Orleans, and author of In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History. The presentation concludes with a Q&A period moderated by Darin Waters of the Waters & Harvey Show and Aisha Adams of The Asheville View.
Create, share, and discover with Buncombe County Public Library’s newest resource, Biblioboard.
BiblioBoard Library is an easy-to-use platform of high-quality digital content. Biblioboard offers books, articles, documents, images, audios, and videos. BiblioBoard Library is host to content from traditional publishers, indie authors, cultural institutions, and local thought leaders. Users can access BiblioBoard Library through the library’s website or on the device of their choice.
Some features of Biblioboard:
- No waitlists or holds
- Streaming audio and video are available on a wide variety of topics
- Check out curated collections of the best indie authors.
- Available for desktop, iOS, and Android devices
Local authors can submit their work for inclusion in the library catalog or publish books with Press Books. You can submit and share your work locally or nationally.
Interested? Check it out, and access Biblioboard today by clicking here.
No cost due to sponsor support
Facebook is the largest and most prolific social media channel out there with over 2 billion users. So, how to best leverage it for your business or nonprofit? In this session we will cover all the most important basics for 2020 and beyond:
- How to position your brand on Facebook
- Best practices for a successful Facebook business page
- What type of content to post/share to get the most engagement
- What type of content Facebook favors which increases your visibility
- When to post, how often, and how to tag for more engagement
- How to leverage Reviews
- A quick starting look into boosting/paid ads
- Live Q&A
Speaker(s): Aaron Wesley Means
Co-Sponsor(s): Henderson County Chamber of Commerce, Brevard/Transylvania Chamber of Commerce
Webinar info will be emailed after registration
What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood (Dottir Press, JAN 26, 2021), is Higginbotham’s latest book about being young. It illustrates how families, teachers, counselors, and other “stars” are already beaming love at queer, gender nonconforming, and trans children, to protect and bless them as they are. The Roller-skating Party Collage Workshop lets kids put their community in the rink with them—real life people they know and trust, as well as strangers or historical figures whose radiant and genuine presence (even in spirit) is liberation.
RSVP here to receive a PDF of the roller rink back drop and the link to attend the event by email.
Like most of our events, this event is free. If you decide to attend and to purchase books we ask that you purchase from Malaprop’s. When you do this you make it possible for us to continue hosting author events and you keep more dollars in our community. You may also support our work by making a donation or purchasing a gift card below. Thank you!
When you purchase What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood from Malaprop’s below, you will also recieve a pre-printed roller rink backdrop.
SUPPLIES for the Workshop:
• Pens and pencils
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Squares or rectangles of plain brown grocery bag (or flattened out packing paper or construction paper) for creating faces, bodies, and hands
• Images from magazines and catalogs to make clothes, hair, jewelry, hats, shoes, skates, wheelchairs, and assistive devices. Nothing has to be like it is in real life. Your people can have wings and tails, dress in actual flowers, have hair made of fire! Animals can skate!
• IMPORTANT—There are no rules about the materials! A pencil or pen and paper is enough! The back of an envelope or some newspaper is enough! Stick figures are enough! You can write “my rebel auntie” and “my gay uncle” on a couple of popsicle sticks and skate them all over the rink.
Come join us for a fun afternoon sampling some wine(s) and talking about books. As always, the book can be fiction or non-fiction ….. whatever……just so that it somehow involves whatever topic we’ve chosen for the month. And if you just want to join us to hear about the books we’ve read but haven’t read any yet yourself, come along anyhow. You’ll have a chance then to suggest a topic for us to read books on for future times. For now during these COVID times, we will be meeting via Zoom. When COVID is more under control, we will talk about starting to meet at Metro Wines again.
What we’re about
A non-committal Book Club! No pressure to finish a book or host a meeting. Just show up, Sip and swap! Bring books you’ve read. Sip wine (beer or cider) and swap books and conversation. There will be a monthly topic-specified event on the 2nd Thursday from 2-4 with other meetings thrown in from periodically.