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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Mount Inspiration & One World Brewing West present: Cheers for Charity! A fundraising event hosted at One World West.
This will be BY FAR the most fun holiday fundraising event you’ve ever experienced. The event is donation based and open to the public. WEAR THE CRAZIEST HOLIDAY OUTFIT YOU HAVE! There will be a prize for the wildest costume. Details will be updated as they solidify.
The basics:
– 6 p.m.: “Doors open!”
– 6:30 p.m.: Everyone participating is split into random teams (different colored bandanas will be randomly distributed to determine teams), and each nonprofit will say a few words.
– 7 p.m.: Everyone is free to move around the bar and participate in games (giant Jenga, ring toss, trivia, etc.). Each game you win will earn you a point for your team.
– 8 p.m.: Each individual on the winning team will receive a prize pack (prizes TBD). The big time raffle will start (raffle prized TBD)! Craziest holiday costume winner is chosen (crazy costume prize TBD).
– 9 p.m.: Stick around for some AWESOME music! PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) & Center of Motion at OWBW will start to play.
This event will be a fundraiser for:
1. Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
2. Dogwood Alliance
3. Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Participants are limited (total participants TBD). This event will be first come first sign up. If you’d like to participate, RSVP “GOING” to this event so that you’ll get a reminder to be at the event before 6 p.m., and hopefully you’ll get there in time to be on one of the teams! Dec. 15th SantaCon, A Red, White and Bearded Event! participants… be here or be square!
https://www.facebook.com/events/299532280688720/
~~En Español abajo~~
Mark your calendars, call a sitter, tell all your friends… The annual Champagne and Oysters holiday formal is back for another round, bigger and better than ever!
Urban Orchard Cider Company will host us at their amazing new South Slope location.
More details to come, but look forward to great outfits, even better people, cider and beer specials, photo booth, DJ and late night dance party, and of course the titular champagne and oysters.
This event will be a fundraiser for Just Economics, a local non-profit organization that works to support living wages for WNC workers, affordable housing, effective public transit, grassroots leadership, civic engagement, and community resilience.
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¡Vuelve la fiesta formal “Champaña y Ostras” para otra ronda, más grande y mejor que nunca!
Esta vez, nuestro anfitrión será Urban Orchard Sidrería en su nueva ubicación al sur del centro de Asheville.
Habrán más detalles en las próximas semanas, pero pueden contar con trajes bonitos, muy buena gente, bebidas geniales, fotografía, música para una fiesta de baile, y por supuesto ostras y champaña.
Este evento sirve para recaudar fondos para Just Economics, una organización que trabaja para trabajadores, transporte público, vivienda asequible y desarrollo comunitario.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1399149836886579/
This will be our next meeting time rescheduled from the canceled Dec. 13th meeting.
We’ll have plenty of hot coffee waiting on you as we gather together to discuss the 2019 Tourism & Events Season for our Village. We’ll provide an update on the Dec. 7th Chili cook-off fundraiser too. It was a big success!
Your CDA Board of Directors
https://www.facebook.com/events/210244009889745/
Let us take the stress away of gift wrapping and let us take care of it! We are wrapping gifts for donations from now until Christmas Eve. The money will benefit the fur babies of Henderson County.?
https://www.facebook.com/events/374543749962026/
It’s that wonderful time of year!
Studio Zahiya Dance Spectacular
December 18th
Doors at 7pm // Show at 7:30pm
$15 pre-sale // $18 at the door
$20 VIP Front Row Seating!
Join Studio Zahiya as we celebrate the end of the year with a Dance Spectacular!
Kids, Hip Hop, Modern, Jazz, Bhangra, Bellydance and More!
School is out and we want to celebrate by having a social and fundraiser with our good friends Ben and Jerry! Come and eat ice cream from 6:30-8:30 and 20% of the profits go towards YO! What?! So come out and support your favorite local LGBT+ youth non-profit and eat your favorite ice cream!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/343699019782124/
The Fourmata quartet will be competing with 14 other (Jr Varsity quartet contest) at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in January! Enjoy an evening of singing, group-singing and fun, sponsored by Asheville a cappella groups.
#BHSOPRY
https://www.facebook.com/events/342353493016555/
Catawba Brewing is proud to participate in the Resilience IPA fundraiser project in partnership with over 1000 craft breweries across the country.
Giving back to our local communities has always been at the top of the Catawba mission statement, and we’re happy to help Sierra Nevada give back to theirs by donating 100% of our Resilience IPA sales to the Camp Fire Relief Fund.
Look for our Resilience IPA to start pouring in Catawba tasting rooms on Friday, December 21. Please come out and join us as we raise a glass to our friends and fellow craft beer lovers on the West Coast.
https://www.facebook.com/events/360380184720183/
Catawba Brewing is proud to participate in the Resilience IPA fundraiser project in partnership with over 1000 craft breweries across the country.
Giving back to our local communities has always been at the top of the Catawba mission statement, and we’re happy to help Sierra Nevada give back to theirs by donating 100% of our Resilience IPA sales to the Camp Fire Relief Fund.
Look for our Resilience IPA to start pouring in Catawba tasting rooms on Friday, December 21. Please come out and join us as we raise a glass to our friends and fellow craft beer lovers on the West Coast.
https://www.facebook.com/events/270031890362947/
We’re so excited to be part of the campaign for Sierra Nevada’s Resilience IPA.
We’ll be releasing this brew at both locations on Friday, 12/21, to support Sierra Nevada’s efforts to rebuild following the California fires.
About Resilience IPA:
ALCOHOL CONTENT 6.8% by volume
BEGINNING GRAVITY 16.0° plato
ENDING GRAVITY 4.0° plato
BITTERNESS UNITS 65
YEAST Ale yeast
BITTERING HOPS Chinook, Centennial
FINISHING HOPS Cascade, Centennial
MALTS Two-row Pale, Caramel
From Sierra Nevada:
When the Camp Fire started in the hills above our Chico brewery on November 8, 2018, it soon became the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The fire burned more than 153,000 acres, killed at least 85 people, and destroyed more than 13,000 homes. Many of our employees and community members were severely impacted by this tragic event.
In the days following the fire, we announced plans to brew Resilience Butte County Proud IPA, a fundraiser beer for Camp Fire relief. We committed to brewing the beer and donating 100% of the sales to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund, aimed at long-term community rebuilding support. And we asked every brewery in the country to do it with us.
We sent out the “bat signal” calling our friends in the industry, asking our suppliers to donate ingredients, asking other breweries (our competitors) to donate their time and labor costs, and asking our wholesalers and retailers to carry the beer for free. It was a big ask, and we never could have anticipated the response.
More than 1,400 breweries signed up to brew Resilience. Our suppliers donated ingredients to every brewery nationwide. Wholesalers and retailers agreed to carry the beer and donate every dollar they received. All of them agreed to do this for free to benefit people they had never met.
In all, Resilience Butte County Proud IPA should hit the market in mid-late December more than 17,000 barrels—or 4.2 million pints—strong. Every dollar Sierra Nevada receives will go to those impacted by the Camp Fire.
Thank you to the brewing community. Thank you to our suppliers. Thank you to our wholesalers and retailers. And thank you to every single customer who is helping us rebuild our Butte County community—one pint at a time.
https://www.facebook.com/events/722658004775027/
A three part pop-up series featuring local artists, this event is both a great opportunity to grab something unique for the folks you love (and yourself!) and a fundraiser for the Firestorm Community Sustainers Program. A portion of each sale will help to underwrite social movement space and grassroots community programming at our co-op.
Different artists will be featured on each date, so plan to attend all three! Hours will be 11am to 4pm.
Saturday, Dec. 15th
Including Talia Scarpelli, MKR Fiber Arts, and Retool
Sunday, Dec. 16th
Including Bear Dog Designs, Sticks & Stones Craft Collective, and Madeline Owen
Saturday, Dec. 22nd
Including Abacus Corvus Artwork, HTV Jewelry, Ceramic Song, and Emily Eagan Art
https://www.facebook.com/events/1203847526432598/
Come support TAAG at our Christmas bake sale! This will be our last fundraiser of the year! We will have last-minute stocking stuffers for your loved ones!
https://www.facebook.com/events/364001831041991/
We are excited to announce “The Garage on 25” is hosting an Online Playhouse Auction to Benefit Veterans Healing Farm! To view the playhouses or bid on them please visit:
https://bit.ly/2QxPbs9
There are 6 Handcrafted Children’s Playhouses to choose from and bid on – as well as a plethora of vintage, new and handmade items available.
Shipping for all items can be arranged at Winning Bidder’s Expense, or items may be picked up locally at The Garage on 25 in Fletcher, NC.
If you are financially able to provide the winning bid on a playhouse but have no use for one…you may choose to make the bid to benefit VHF itself for use at our farm.
Additionally, local visitors are encouraged to vote for their favorite playhouse by dropping one dollar ($1) for each vote in the containers provided near each house.
The playhouses are on display outside of The Garage on 25 for your viewing pleasure. Stop by and take pictures of your kids or yourself in front of them and share the pics on your Social Media site(s), or The Garages or VHF FB Page. Keep an eye out for Santa Visits to the playhouses as well.
Celebrity Officials will be judging the playhouses to choose which playhouse builders will receive Trophy Prizes. All vote-generated funds go directly to the VHF.
Last, but certainly not least, we want to thank all of the individuals and organizations who have donated time, supplies, energy and effort to help make this wonderful fundraiser possible.
https://www.facebook.com/events/273245946721437/
We are excited to announce that “The Garage on 25” is hosting an online auction to benefit Veterans Healing Farm! Items include six handcrafted children’s playhouses and other donated collectibles. (If you don’t need a playhouse, you can always bid on one and donate it to our farm for the community’s use.) The auction closes at 1pm, Saturday, Dec. 22. To view items or bid on them go to https://bit.ly/2QxPbs9
Throughout this upcoming week you can bring the whole family by “The Garage on 25” to check out the whimsical playhouses and take some fun photos. Vote for your favorite playhouse by dropping one dollar ($1) per vote in the containers next to each house.
On Saturday, December 22, 3-5pm come to The Garage on 25 for the announcement of prizes for playhouses and auction winners, a meet and greet with VHF staff and community members, a visit from Santa, and refreshments. All vote-generated funds go directly to VHF.
To all those who generously donated your time, supplies, and labor to make this fundraiser possible, please accept our deepest gratitude!
https://www.facebook.com/events/527003571100867/
Beginner’s workshop lesson at 7:30 P.M., then 8-11 P.M. Contra Dance with Country Waltzing at the break and the final dance. This is a partner dance but it’s not necessary to come with a partner. We have different live bands and callers.
~ ONE Combined EPIC NYE Bash
~ THREE Dance Floors, THREE DJ’s, THREE Balloon Drops
~ SIX Bar Tend Stations
~ EIGHT Holiday Themed Areas (‘Pirates That Stole Christmas’, ‘Forest Of Silver & Gold’, ‘Old School Christmas’, ‘Winter Wonderland’, ‘Santa Saloon’, ‘Holiday Hall’, ‘Candy Land’, ‘Ice Palace’)
~ Balloon drops over ALL THREE dance floors, stuffed with OVER $1000 in Cash & Prizes!!!
~ Complimentary party favors (hats, tiaras, noisemakers, horns, leis, etc.)
~ Complimentary heavy hors d’oeuvres and desserts
~ Legendary drag show at 12:30am on the BOILER ROOM stage
Celebrate the beginning of 2019 dancing in community and contributing to the Asheville Movement Collective Home Seed Fund. All proceeds after expenses will go to the AMC Home Seed Fund.
Facilitator Marilyn Joy Gaunt
12:30-2:30
12:30 warmup 1:00 pm circle
Price: $10-20 Sliding Scale. Additional Donations are welcome.
Children are welcome. Childcare not provided for this event.
AMC offers a shared experience and a shared place for spontaneous, free-form movement. What each of us brings to this shared place affects everyone, and we create this experience together with:
-Awareness of others and ourselves
-Permission from others and ourselves
-Participation through movement and presence
We practice moving in healthy community by:
-Arriving without strong scents (including perfumes, oils, and body scents)
-Dancing in bare feet, socks, or supportive footwear
-Maintaining a nonverbal dance space
-Encouraging a substance-free space
Children are welcome. Childcare provided for this event.
www.ashevillemovementcollective.org
AMC is a 501c3 nonprofit organization
https://www.facebook.com/events/1908279882586978/
Our 2018 intern, Gabriel Whitlock, will be embarking on a 1,500 mile bike tour from his home in Fairview to Little Rock, Arkansas to attend the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. Gabe intends to raise awareness about hunger, food insecurity, and the ways that The Lord’s Acre works towards community-based solutions. “I saw this fundraiser as a chance to give back to all that The Lord’s Acre has given to me and just make that circle complete,” says Gabe.
Join us this Monday with Gabe as he discusses his upcoming journey. If you are unable to attend but want to support, please visit this link to pledge as many dollars per mile as you are able.
https://pledgeit.org/gearing-up-for-giving-gardens
Photo by April Tarjick.
https://www.facebook.com/events/533589803785783/
Join us at Cúrate for an evening with the North Carolina Chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier as part of the Dames in the Kitchen dinner series fundraiser! Chef Katie Button will share her passion for Spanish cuisine through several courses with wine pairings.
https://www.facebook.com/events/316134828986168/
This Wednesday, we’re giving a percentage of our food sales at Black Mountain Ale House and $1 for every beer purchased from Black Mountain Brewing to Food Connection — a local nonprofit that collects surplus food from restaurants and caterers in #Asheville and delivers the food to those who will enjoy it to reduce food waste.
Stay tuned for future dates where you can help give back to our local community!
https://www.facebook.com/events/238385163740801/
Dine at Nachos & Beer from 11am-9pm to support IC Imagine’s Destination Imagination Teams! Nachos & Beer will generously donate 20% of the day’s proceeds to IC Imagine’s DI… tell all of your friends!! We appreciate your support!
https://www.facebook.com/events/594586767631301/
Join us for our monthly BCDP Officers’ meeting. All Buncombe Democrats are invited to attend.
We will discuss the January 25 kickoff fundraiser, February 9 precinct meetings, and organizing efforts for the 2019 election.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2514224372137499/
Beginner’s workshop lesson at 7:30 P.M., then 8-11 P.M. Contra Dance with Country Waltzing at the break and the final dance. This is a partner dance but it’s not necessary to come with a partner. We have different live bands and callers.
The Cooperative Extension of Polk County is hosting our annual berry plant sale. This year, the Cooperative Extension director has chosen four varieties of blueberries, two varieties of raspberries, two varieties of strawberries, and one blackberry variety that have proven to specifically thrive in the North Carolina Foothills.
Orders will be accepted for plants now through February 22 and will be available for pickup in mid-March. Proceeds from this fundraiser go to support the activities, classes, and research that make the Cooperative Extension such a vital part of the Polk County community. For more information or to place an order, visit the Extension’s website at https://polk.ces.ncsu.edu or give us a call at 894-8218.
Download the Order Form HERE: https://polk.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-Berry-Plant-Order-Form-Writeable.pdf?fwd=no
https://www.facebook.com/events/393022604782447/?event_time_id=393022611449113
In mid November in the midst of the largest wildfire in California history Sierra Nevada Brewing, based out of Chico, CA called upon breweries to help with raising funds for The Camp Fire relief effort.
Collaboration has always been a theme among craft breweries and we decided to commit to supporting this cause. In the spirit of the industry’s commradery we invited the guys from Taylor Brothers Brewing, who will soon join us as a part of Marion’s craft beer scene, to brew this special batch with us.
We’re excited for the future of craft beer in our city and grateful to represent Marion in this national craft beer industry fundraising campaign.
We’ll release Marion’s version of the Resilence Butte County Proud IPA in our taproom on January 25th. 100% of all sales will go directly to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund.
Below is a press release from Sierra Nevada.
When the Camp Fire started in the hills above our Chico brewery on November 8, 2018, it soon became the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The fire burned more than 153,000 acres, killed at least 85 people, and destroyed more than 13,000 homes. Many of our employees and community members were severely impacted by this tragic event.
In the days following the fire, we announced plans to brew Resilience Butte County Proud IPA, a fundraiser beer for Camp Fire relief. We committed to brewing the beer and donating 100% of the sales to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund, aimed at long-term community rebuilding support. And we asked every brewery in the country to do it with us.
We sent out the “bat signal” calling our friends in the industry, asking our suppliers to donate ingredients, asking other breweries (our competitors) to donate their time and labor costs, and asking our wholesalers and retailers to carry the beer for free. It was a big ask, and we never could have anticipated the response.
More than 1,400 breweries signed up to brew Resilience. Our suppliers donated ingredients to every brewery nationwide. Wholesalers and retailers agreed to carry the beer and donate every dollar they received. All of them agreed to do this for free to benefit people they had never met.
In all, Resilience Butte County Proud IPA should hit the market in mid-late December more than 17,000 barrels—or 4.2 million pints—strong. Every dollar Sierra Nevada receives will go to those impacted by the Camp Fire.
Thank you to the brewing community. Thank you to our suppliers. Thank you to our wholesalers and retailers. And thank you to every single customer who is helping us rebuild our Butte County community—one pint at a time.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2290379284571430/
Come get your Fairy Hair Sparkles!
Friday, January 25th 5:00pm-7:00pm
at
Isaac Dickson Elementary School Gym
125 Hill Street, Asheville, NC 28801
Sign up here to reserve your spot:
https://www.signupgenius.com/…/60B044BA5AB2FA1FA7-asheville4
Enjoy Asheville’s very own Hot Chocolaty races. Choose the one that fits you best.
The 5K and 10K events are chip timed by Right on Time Productions.
We’ve lowered the registration fee and allow you to choose which shirt you’d like and add it on during registration ONLY if you want a shirt.
The 1K Kids Hill Climb is limited to children 12 and under (although parents can run along side for free, of course!) The Marshmallow Dash for our 8 and under crowd! A shorter and safer event for the little ones! Choose the one that works best for your child no matter what their age.
Each runner can enjoy a steaming cup of chocolate perfection post-race thanks to French Broad Chocolate Factory.
The Cooperative Extension of Polk County is hosting our annual berry plant sale. This year, the Cooperative Extension director has chosen four varieties of blueberries, two varieties of raspberries, two varieties of strawberries, and one blackberry variety that have proven to specifically thrive in the North Carolina Foothills.
Orders will be accepted for plants now through February 22 and will be available for pickup in mid-March. Proceeds from this fundraiser go to support the activities, classes, and research that make the Cooperative Extension such a vital part of the Polk County community. For more information or to place an order, visit the Extension’s website at https://polk.ces.ncsu.edu or give us a call at 894-8218.
Download the Order Form HERE: https://polk.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-Berry-Plant-Order-Form-Writeable.pdf?fwd=no
https://www.facebook.com/events/393022604782447/?event_time_id=393022624782445
The Cooperative Extension of Polk County is hosting our annual berry plant sale. This year, the Cooperative Extension director has chosen four varieties of blueberries, two varieties of raspberries, two varieties of strawberries, and one blackberry variety that have proven to specifically thrive in the North Carolina Foothills.
Orders will be accepted for plants now through February 22 and will be available for pickup in mid-March. Proceeds from this fundraiser go to support the activities, classes, and research that make the Cooperative Extension such a vital part of the Polk County community. For more information or to place an order, visit the Extension’s website at https://polk.ces.ncsu.edu or give us a call at 894-8218.
Download the Order Form HERE: https://polk.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-Berry-Plant-Order-Form-Writeable.pdf?fwd=no
https://www.facebook.com/events/393022604782447/?event_time_id=393022628115778
Join The Collider for inspiring evening, featuring an exciting adventure-travel documentary from award-winning producer & director Garrett Martin. “Unbounded: A Journey into Patagonia” follows a young, unaided crew of four as they hike and packraft for four months into the infinite region known as Patagonia.
The event will be held at The Collider in downtown Asheville on January 31, 2019, with proceeds benefiting our Thomas R. Karl Internship Program. Doors open at 6:30pm, and the film will begin at 7:00pm. The 70 minute film follows with a panel discussion with Martin, founder of video production company VentureLife Films, an Asheville-based independent film production and environmental media company. Other panel guests will be announced soon.
Tickets are $20 per person, $15 for active Friends of The Collider*, or free with the purchase of a one-year Friends of The Collider gift. Tickets for those with a valid student ID are $10. *Active Friends of The Collider must email [email protected] or call at 214-796-1494 for an exclusive discount code.
The crew’s journey in “Unbounded” is based along the Greater Patagonian Trail, a relatively unknown route that is now the longest continual trail in South America. The film focuses on discovering the indescribable factors of the regions, learning the history and culture of people living amongst the Andes Mountains, and bringing to light the incredible beauty of the area – all in an effort to help raise awareness of the need to preserve this untamed, but delicate, environment. Despite the crew’s lack of experience and support, they manage to document awe-inspiring landscapes and people of the region, interviewing top environmentalists across Chile, and trekking across 700 km of one of the roughest and most unforgiving regions in the world.
The Thomas R. Karl Internship Program was established in honor of Tom Karl upon his retirement as Director of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. This program provides semester-long internships for undergraduates seeking to enter this growing field. All proceeds of this event directly benefit this internship program and will fund more opportunities for students to work with the climate solution providers that are members of The Collider.