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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#Giving Tuesday with Dogwood Alliance

Oct 29 all-day

online

Save the Date for GivingTuesday: November 30th

GivingTuesday is a global movement unleashing the power of radical generosity to transform communities and the world. We invite you to consider all the ways you can express generosity for your community and the environment. Whether it’s participating in a neighborhood cleanup, sharing Forests and Justice news with friends, signing a petition, or giving to Dogwood Alliance—everyone has something to give. And every act of generosity counts. GivingTuesday is on November 30th, but you can get a jump start today!

Categories: Donations

Cooper River Bridge Run Registration Open

Oct 29 all-day

Cooper River Bridge

Categories: Sports

Every dollar you give will be matched by a generous donor up to $5000! for LITERACY TOGETHER

Oct 29 all-day

online

Help reach our matching gift challenge. We are halfway to our goal.

Categories: Community Donations Education

Help Our Summer Fundraiser Meet Its Goal!

Oct 29 all-day

online w/ Western North Carolina Historical Association

Despite the pandemic, we’ve continued to find new and innovative ways to fulfill our mission of preserving and promoting the history and legacy of western North Carolina through interpretation, education, collection, and collaboration.
We’re only a few hundred dollars short of our goal!
Donate today to help us continue to offer outstanding adult programs, engaging exhibits, and educational activities for youth by making a donation to our annual fund today!

Categories: Community Donations

Matching Gift Challenge! for Asheville Community Theatre

Oct 29 all-day

online

Amazing!

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all donations given through Sunday, November 21 will be matched up to $8,500 – turning each donation into a SUPER DONATION! When you donate to ACT, you are assisting with scholarships, helping to keep ticket prices affordable, and so much more!

Help us reach this goal with a gift of any size!

Categories: Donations Theatre

Nantahala River Rafting Fully Guided

Oct 29 all-day

Nantahala Outdoor Center

guests rafting on the Nantahala River Raft & Duck Rentals in North Carolina trip

A guided whitewater rafting trip is one of the best ways to experience the Nantahala Gorge. The crystal-clear Nantahala River is the perfect family-friendly river where experienced river guides will help you navigate through splashy Class II-III rapids and bouncy waves, with occasional calmer waters where you can enjoy the spectacular mountain scenery. The fully guided rafting trip the most popular adventure at NOC, with thousands of families returning year after year.

Categories: Family Fun Outdoors Sports

The wild ones need your help this fall!

Oct 29 all-day

online

Help save the wild ones this fall

The beautiful display of autumn color has begun to patchwork the mountains around us. As the leaves fall, the danger for wildlife is on the rise. Our native wildlife is out and about foraging for food to prepare for the coming winter, increasing their risk for injury.

Appalachian Wildlife Refuge needs your support to keep our doors open to orphaned and injured wildlife during this critical time!

Your financial gift will provide a much-needed resource to our community, fund life-saving medical care, and give orphaned and injured animals a second chance at life back out in the wild!

Categories: Donations Education Family Fun

WCCA Wins Grant to Save Tebeau Children’s Center more help needed

Oct 29 all-day

online

A recent grant award by the Perry N. Rudnick Endowment Fund to help renovate and save the Tebeau Children’s Center. In addition to bringing Head Start, Early Head Start and NC Pre-K education programs to Henderson County’s underprivileged children under 5 years old, the renovation project will restore a community landmark that has provided childcare since the mid-1970’s!

WCCA is trying to raise the necessary funding to renovate the old daycare center and turn it into a modern early childhood education center.

WCCA has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Perry N. Rudnick Endowment Fund of
the Community Foundation of Henderson County. The funds will be used to help
renovate and save the 70-year old Tebeau Children’s Center in Hendersonville, NC.
● The old daycare center which is located near Pardee Hospital off 9th Avenue between
Hendersonville Elementary and Middle School has been around since the mid-70’s. It
was called Stay ‘n Play, then Lovin’ & Learning, and Hendersonville School for Little
Folks. Generations of Henderson County families have relied on the center for childcare.
● After it closed in early 2020, WCCA bought the Tebeau Drive property. WCCA is in the
process of renovating and remodeling the facility to make it a modern early childhood
education center to serve nearly 100 children and families.
● David White, CEO for WCCA said “We’re grateful to partner with a group like the Perry
N. Rudnick Endowment Fund and the Henderson County Community Foundation to
save a piece of Henderson County’s past. Their support is an investment in future
generations of our children!”
● WCCA has raised just over $402,000 of the $850,000 needed to renovate the Tebeau
Center in time for its opening in April 2022. If you would like to help support this
worthwhile effort, please visit WCCA.org and donate!

Categories: Community Donations Education

Winter Tree Carnival w/ Rabbit Rabbit

Oct 29 all-day

Rabbit Rabbit

The free display of trees is sponsored + decorated by local community members, nonprofit orgs + bizzes, and a portion of the event’s proceeds will benefit Manna FoodBank.

WINTER TREE CARNIVAL

Reserve your tree today by clicking HERE

$300 = Adopt a tree to decorate. One tree allowed per business/organization.
$600 = Adopt a tree to decorate and adopt an additional tree for a non-profit organization.

Categories: Business and Networking Community Donations Holiday

MANNA FoodBank Turkey Drive Drop off 9am–noon, and 1–3pm

Oct 29 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

MANNA’s Volunteer Center

MANNA is continuing to serve more people than we were prior to the pandemic. For the enjoyment of the holiday season, it is important that those families are able to celebrate the holidays like everyone else. Since food is a centerpiece of every holiday, it is our hope that our community will come together to help fill as many plates of food over the holidays as we can throughout WNC.

MANNA hopes to collect hundreds of turkeys this year, and invites the community to join the effort by supporting the Turkey Drive. The community can give in two ways:

1. Donate a frozen turkey, ham or other holiday table entrée to MANNA. Donations will be accepted at MANNA’s Volunteer Center (627 Swannanoa River Road, in East Asheville) Monday – Friday, between the hours of 9am–noon, and 1–3pm.

2. Support our efforts to purchase additional holiday turkeys and hams through our virtual food drive option.

Categories: Community Donations Holiday

Aston Park Tennis Center

Oct 29 @ 10:00 am – 7:30 pm

Aston Park Tennis Center

Asheville Parks & Recreation is pleased to announce the opening of Aston Park Tennis Center on April 1 for the 2021 season. The tennis facility will be open seven days a week with two sessions of court availability — a morning session from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and an afternoon session from 3 to 7:30 p.m. with a one-hour break for midday cleaning.

Visitors can expect some changes to typical operations to meet current state and local health guidelines including enhanced cleaning, social distancing and mandatory mask wearing except while actively engaged in tennis activity on the court. The Pro Shop will remain closed to foot traffic, however basic tennis supplies, drinks, and racquet drop-off for restringing will be available at the window. Court fees will also be accepted at the window by credit card only and water fountains and showers will not be available.

Tennis Center prices are the same as they were in 2019, with hourly rates beginning at $6 and $7 and season passes starting at $299 and $399 for City of Asheville residents. For more information and to purchase a season pass, visit the City’s Parks & Recreation website at www.ashevillenc.gov/parks.

The Aston Park Tennis Center, 336 Hilliard Ave., is one of the finest public clay tennis court facilities in the US. The complex is open from April through November and offers 12 lighted courts for play.

The City of Asheville Parks & Recreation Department is committed to providing quality facilities and programs in a safe environment for everyone in our community. For more information about everything Asheville Parks & Recreation offers, visit the website at www.ashevillenc.gov/parks, Facebook page at www.facebook.com/APRCA or call 828-259-5800.

Categories: Outdoors Parks & Recreation Sports

Blood Drive….Muahahahaha 15th Annual Halloween Blood Drive

Oct 29 @ 10:00 am – 2:30 pm

Pack Memorial Library

Kick off Halloween weekend by giving the precious gift of blood.

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Here’s what you need to know:

Appointments are not necessary, but strongly encouraged. Email Carla Hollar or call (828) 250-4701 to schedule your appointment
Donors must wear masks and practice social distancing
Candy! Everyone that comes out will get a Halloween treat bag.
You need a driver’s license, donor card, or two other forms of ID.

Categories: Community Donations Holiday

Hops for Hunger

Oct 29 @ 4:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Hi-Wire Brewing

This October, Hi-Wire Brewing is participating in Hops for Hunger!

For every pour of their Pink Lemonade at their Asheville taprooms, they will be donating $1 to MANNA.

Be sure to visit one of their Asheville locations and enjoy a Pink Lemonade sometime this month.

Categories: Community Donations Food & Drink

Blackhawks vs. Hurricanes

Oct 29 @ 7:00 pm

PNC Arena

Blackhawks

vs.

Hurricanes

Categories: Sports

Saturday, October 30, 2021

#Giving Tuesday with Dogwood Alliance

Oct 30 all-day

online

Save the Date for GivingTuesday: November 30th

GivingTuesday is a global movement unleashing the power of radical generosity to transform communities and the world. We invite you to consider all the ways you can express generosity for your community and the environment. Whether it’s participating in a neighborhood cleanup, sharing Forests and Justice news with friends, signing a petition, or giving to Dogwood Alliance—everyone has something to give. And every act of generosity counts. GivingTuesday is on November 30th, but you can get a jump start today!

Categories: Donations

2nd Annual Turning of the Maples Virtual 5K

Oct 30 all-day

online--

One of our most beloved UNC Asheville traditions, the Turning of the Maples, is going virtual and is coming directly to you! You can bring this tradition home for our Turning of the Maples Virtual 5K. Get outside to enjoy your own changing leaves while raising vital funding for the UNC Asheville fund.

Categories: Education Fundraisers Sports

Cooper River Bridge Run Registration Open

Oct 30 all-day

Cooper River Bridge

Categories: Sports

Every dollar you give will be matched by a generous donor up to $5000! for LITERACY TOGETHER

Oct 30 all-day

online

Help reach our matching gift challenge. We are halfway to our goal.

Categories: Community Donations Education

Help Make a Child Smile this Holiday Season!

Oct 30 all-day

Eliada Homes

Eliada works hard to make the holidays a special time for the children in our care. You can help bring a smile to their face by fulfilling their holiday wishes!

Sponsor a Child:

When you sign up to sponsor a child for the holidays, you’ll receive a Wish List that a young person created. Wish Lists include their favorite things, clothing sizes, and most needed and wanted items. The value of a Wish List is around $150. You can divide that cost with friends, or even sponsor several children.

For most of Eliada’s children and youth, the gifts they receive from sponsors are the only gifts they will get during the holiday season.

Sponsor Multiple Children:

We also have Wish Lists which include items that children will need here at Eliada depending on what program they are in.

Cottage wish lists for youth living at Eliada, for example, include toiletries, bedding and towels, books, games, art supplies, suitcases and kitchen utensils. Many children come to Eliada with a few clothes in a garbage bag. Together we can provide them things that every home should have!

Other wish lists are for our Child Development programs, Foster Care program, Farm program, Summer Camp program, and Recreation programs. Our Equine Therapy program also has some needs this holiday season! We never know when we’ll get a call for a child in Foster Care who needs a home immediately. Let’s help Foster Parents provide these children everything they deserve!

Sponsor a last minute wish:

Some youth living at Eliada won’t arrive until right before the holidays! We won’t receive their wish lists until mid-late November. Can you sign up to help one of these teens at the last minute?

If you don’t have time to shop, Eliada will use your donation to purchase gifts for children who may arrive at Eliada very close to Christmas or right after Christmas. It shouldn’t matter when you arrive at Eliada–your wishes should be fulfilled! You can make a donation here. In the comment field, write “holiday wishes.”

Categories: Community Donations Holiday

Help Our Summer Fundraiser Meet Its Goal!

Oct 30 all-day

online w/ Western North Carolina Historical Association

Categories: Community Donations

Matching Gift Challenge! for Asheville Community Theatre

Oct 30 all-day

online

Amazing!

Help us reach this goal with a gift of any size!

Categories: Donations Theatre

Nantahala River Rafting Fully Guided

Oct 30 all-day

Nantahala Outdoor Center

guests rafting on the Nantahala River Raft & Duck Rentals in North Carolina trip

Categories: Family Fun Outdoors Sports

The wild ones need your help this fall!

Oct 30 all-day

online

Help save the wild ones this fall

Appalachian Wildlife Refuge needs your support to keep our doors open to orphaned and injured wildlife during this critical time!

Your financial gift will provide a much-needed resource to our community, fund life-saving medical care, and give orphaned and injured animals a second chance at life back out in the wild!

Categories: Donations Education Family Fun

WCCA Wins Grant to Save Tebeau Children’s Center more help needed

Oct 30 all-day

online

WCCA is trying to raise the necessary funding to renovate the old daycare center and turn it into a modern early childhood education center.

Categories: Community Donations Education

Winter Tree Carnival w/ Rabbit Rabbit

Oct 30 all-day

Rabbit Rabbit

The free display of trees is sponsored + decorated by local community members, nonprofit orgs + bizzes, and a portion of the event’s proceeds will benefit Manna FoodBank.

WINTER TREE CARNIVAL

Reserve your tree today by clicking HERE

$300 = Adopt a tree to decorate. One tree allowed per business/organization.
$600 = Adopt a tree to decorate and adopt an additional tree for a non-profit organization.

Categories: Business and Networking Community Donations Holiday

Vampire 5K

Oct 30 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Brevard NC

SAVE THE DATE! Join us on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Vampire 5k in Brevard, North Carolina! More details coming soon.

Categories: Holiday Outdoors Sports

2021 Catawba White Zombie 5k

Oct 30 @ 9:00 am

Catawba Brewing Company - South Slope

Catawba Brewing presents the White Zombie 5k, celebrating their White Zombie White Ale!

Registration includes:
Professionally chip timed race with custom race bib.
Commemorative Catawba Pint Glass.
Post race beer (21 & up)

$2 from each registration will be donated to Manna Food Bank.

The race will be timed and managed by Kick It Event Management.

Categories: Food & Drink Outdoors Sports

Aston Park Tennis Center

Oct 30 @ 10:00 am – 7:30 pm

Aston Park Tennis Center

Categories: Outdoors Parks & Recreation Sports

RiverRATS Adult Education Event – Macroinvertebrates

Oct 30 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bee Tree Creek at Charles D. Owen Park

This Halloween join us as we learn about all of the creepy crawlies that live in the stream. These little bugs are super important to our aquatic ecosystems and may not be as scary as you think. We’ll look for these creatures in a local stream and talk about all of the things that make them special. This is a ‘pay what you can’ event that helps support our RiverRATS program which hosts free lessons with schools throughout the watershed.

Categories: Community Donations Education

Monster Market at Highland Brewing

Oct 30 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

The Meadow at Highland Brewing Co

Hey all you ghouls and ghosts Halloween is just around the corner and we wanted to celebrate with a monstrous sized market, live music, costume contest and Blood Drive!

Not only will our meadow be filled to the brim with amazing vendors we will be on the lookout for the best costumes to win our dog, child and adult costume contest. Costume contest check in at 3pm and announced at 3:30pm in the Meadow!

Prizes include

Kids: Family Pass to the WNC Nature Center and prize pack

Dogs: Doggie treats and goodies from Botanical Bones and Highland Merch

Adults: Prize pack with items from Midnight Mountain Gems, Blue Ridge Plant Company, Citizen Bloom Botanics, Roam Collective, Silver Cascades Jewelry and Highland Merch

To keep all those vampires at bay this Halloween the Blood Connection will be set up in our parking lot from 12pm-5pm for whoever wants to lend an arm to save a life.

So get your costume ready and come shop and boogie with us on October 30th from 12pm-6pm.

Music by The Feels (1pm-4pm)