Calendar of Events

On Wednesday, November 14th at 7:30pm, come watch Honey LaBronx, The Vegan Drag Queen, host of Big Fat Vegan Radio, lip sync for her life as a fundraiser for Youth OutRight WNC and Sweet Bear Rescue Farm!

Wednesday, November 14th
7:30pm

THE BLOCK off biltmore
39 South Market Street
Asheville, NC 28801

There is a $20 Suggested Donation at the door — and yeah, gurl — we mean suggested! So pay whatever you can – cash and credit cards accepted.

PLEASE NOTE: This event is OPEN TO ALL AGES. However the content of the show is for mature audiences only. Children are welcome at the discretion of their adult.

PLEASE NOTE: This show features EXPLICIT CONTENT and LOUD MUSIC!

ABOUT OUR BENEFICIARIES:

Youth OUTright WNC is the only youth advocacy and leadership non-profit organization in the region solely dedicated to empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer, intersex, asexual and allied (LGBTQIA+) youth ages 11-20 in Western North Carolina. We engage our youth to be confident, resilient, and compassionate community members. We provide information, support and resources in a safer, inclusive and affirming environment. We believe that no youth should be bullied, harassed or discriminated against because of who they are or are perceived to be.

Sweet Bear Rescue Farm is home to 40 animals with a constant revolving door of fosters and rescues including pigs, chickens, cats, dogs, goats, and turkeys. The farm is a beacon of hope for animals of all species — a place where kindness and compassion are the norm, and all individuals are treated with love and respect. Sweet Bear is dedicated to changing the world, spreading the values of veganism, and creating a safe haven for those who’ve experienced abuse and neglect. Visitors can learn about the intelligence, emotional capacity, and complexity of these wonderful animals.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1748828388560352/

Entering its 11th year, the Staff Senate Scholarship supports currently enrolled or accepted, incoming students who are children and relatives of staff members. The scholarship is awarded to two or three students each year and it is our hope to grow the scholarship fund to enable us to support more students.

Join us at Balsam Falls as we host a fundraiser event for the Staff Senate Scholarship on Thursday, November 15th from 4-12. If you want to make a difference, here’s your chance to make it count! See you there.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2059885690735540/

Come out and join us at a fundraiser at the Triskelion Brewing Company to support Helping Hand Developmental Center. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance at Helping Hand Administrative offices @ 228 Davis Street; Hendersonville, NC (Behind the Fresh Market). Or call 692-7068 for details

https://www.facebook.com/events/547887348972038/

UNC Asheville Arts & Ideas is proud to present our first ever Fall Arts Fest! We’ll be partnering with the Art Department Sale between 4-7pm but there will be amazing events going on throughout the day! Fall Arts Fest will take place in Owen Hall and will focus on performance and artwork from the UNC Asheville campus community. More details and the schedule will posted at https://arts.unca.edu/artsfest.

On November 16th 2018, MusicWorks Asheville will present our Fall Concert featuring the MusicWorks Chorus, String Orchestra and Band. Music will begin at 5:45pm and families are welcome. Admission is free. Donations will be accepted at the end of the concert so bring your checkbook or just the change in your pocket if you want to help support these amazing students.

Hey Parents!

Have you been needing a night out? How about enjoying a night out while your kids have fun AND you get to give to a great local organization? Please join us for the first ever Just Economics Kid’s Night Out Fundraiser! Just Economics mission centers on educating, advocating, and organizing for a just and sustainable local economy that works for all in Western North Carolina. We advocate for living wages, public transit, affordable housing, and a part of that is advocating for affordable childcare options in our local community. Please join us and our volunteer childcare caregivers in providing a Night Out that benefits the work we do in Western North Carolina. Like the Living Wage Certified stickers you see on local businesses around town? That’s Us! Wanna know more about our work in our community? click here: https://justeconomicswnc.org/mission—vision.html .

What will we be doing: Dinner, Games, Craft Stations, Movie Screening, Fun provided!
Who (child eligibility): Potty trained and up, limited space available on a first come first serve basis!
Donation Options: Pay the current living wage rate of $13 an hour; $39 or the Worker rate of $25 for 3 hours of childcare. Sibling discounts available.
Drop your kids off with us while you enjoy a night out at one of our living wage certified restaurants, shops and breweries! Location is near downtown and the West Side so plenty of living wage certified options to choose from!
Link here: https://justeconomicswnc.org/assets/JE%20Biz%20Directory%206.26.18%20version21.pdf
Open to all in the community, please invite your friends and share this event! You can register here; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0uEuylJByCgaCr6VT0SSzbDEj8bwTcKxmVd2JOBD2ynPr6A/viewform
(A link for payment is available to be sent to you or you can pay in person cash or card.)

https://www.facebook.com/events/509427032905491/

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Macehualiztli
Una secuencia de pasos o movimientos rítmicos que generalmente se realizan con música, por placer o como una forma de interacción social.

Este evento es para recaudar fondos con la música de gente nativa de Las Americas DJ Malinalli estara apoyando los proyectos de artes culturales de gente nativa de Las Americas a través de BeLoved, incluido el Neighborhood Fiesta Project, Proud to Be Brown y Rise Up Artists De-Colonizing Asheville Outdoor Gallery y el espacio educativo. A lo largo de la fiesta se proyectarán bailes indígenas tradicionales y los asistentes a la fiesta podrán hacer pins buttons en honor al trabajo y la creatividad de los indígenas.

Macehualiztl
A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

This fundraiser featuring DJ Malinalli spinning native people of Las Americas dance music supports native people of Las Americas cultural arts projects through BeLoved including the Neighborhood Fiesta Project, Proud to Be Brown, and Rise Up Artists De-Colonizing Asheville Outdoor Gallery and Education space. Throughout the party traditional indigenous dancing will be projected and party goers can make pins honoring the work and creativity of indigenous people.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2196376430395497/

Join us for our Annual Open House and enjoy cookies, hot cider, live music, handcrafted ornaments and unique gifts. New Morning Gallery features custom furniture, lighting, jewelry, pottery and home accessories by over 2,000 American artists housed in an amazing 2 story, 12,000 square foot gallery. Bellagio showcases clothing and accessories from acclaimed designers for your work and play wardrobe. Ten percent of sales during our annual Holiday Open House will be donated to support Asheville Habitat for Humanity locally, and in areas affected by Hurricane Florence.

https://www.facebook.com/events/501668013685108/?event_time_id=501668033685106

Join FSI at the Hop North for fun night of Ice Cream and Improv to raise money for the 10th grade greenhouses. 50 % of the proceeds that night will go to Franklin. 640 Merrimon Ave. 828.254.2224

https://www.facebook.com/events/1905402426215010/

Baile at The Bywater is back with another Tuesday night of FREE vending, flow art, fire spinning and musical celebration open to the community! Fully equipped with an all-star cast of DJs on Tuesdays, we invite you to join us by the river for the Asheville Baile?

◊ Vendors & Traders Welcome (no fee)
◊ Host hangouts, seminars, yoga sessions, outreach events, meet ups, fundraisers, music performances, gatherings & celebrations, etc!
◊ Art / Flow space
◊ Paint, draw, craft, poi, hoop, fire, etc

9pm – 2am
PSY Night, curated by Art of Brett Warniers!
Featuring:

McDubbin
Spice Rapture
Hydruzx

https://www.facebook.com/events/287595621861081/

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/

Get your holiday shopping done with a beer in hand at the Highland Holiday Market! We’ve picked our favorite local artists, craftspeople, and small businesses to set-up shop in the Event Center and sell their wares. This is the perfect opportunity to find gifts for your friends and loved ones and to take home a 6-pack or two of Black Watch for yourself!
#shopsmall on Small Business Saturday!

Check out the list of vendors below:

Maxx Hawthorn-feist
Maxx Feist is a self-taught artist from Asheville NC who spends all the days and all the times painting! Highly influenced by a regular regiment of caffeine, heavy metal, and true crime podcasts. Maxx fights to connect the cerebral with the visual..always trying to maintain a balance between the dark and the light. This generally come through by way of underworld subject matter highlighted in bright colors and fun abstract shapes, borders, rope-like imagery, and other whimsical additions.

Cotton Blossom Press
Cotton Blossom Press is a design and letterpress studio in the mountains of Western North Carolina. We are inspired by the beauty of the natural world, the rhythms of seasonal living, and efforts toward earnestness and intention. This inspiration is evident in our original hand-drawn artwork and our artisan method of printing. Our cheerful letterpress paper offerings include greeting cards, stationery packs, art prints, and calendars.

Spotted Dog Farm – Asheville, NC
Sumner Smith makes botanical resin jewelry on her family farm in Asheville, North Carolina. A former lawyer and flower farmer, she now preserves the beauty of flowers in resin and is happy to be working on the farm where she grew up.

AR Workshop Asheville
AR Workshop Asheville is a Boutique DIY Workshop that offers hands-on classes to create charming & custom decor, wood signs, canvas pillows, chunky blankets and so much more! Along with our classes, we hold family classes, birthday parties, team building events, fundraisers, wedding parties, youth classes, and speciality workshops from local vendors. Our customers come to our workshops to drink (we are byob), eat, have a BLAST, and create something for their home, office, business, or gift from scratch using raw materials and NON-TOXIC wood stains & paints! Power Tools, Cocktails, Handmade Art for your home.

C&Co.
C&Co.® was built upon the principles of simplicity. Our chemistry and plant-based approach to skincare is evident in all that we do. We are passionate about the purity of our ingredients and efficacy of our products, ensuring the highest quality and level of care through small batch production.

Clipper & Comb Barbershop
Greetings! We are Clipper & Comb Barbershop, locally owned and operated in South Asheville by a husband and wife duo. We are a group of well seasoned, licensed, barbers bringing you old school traditions complimented by current day trends. We have got you covered, starting with Haircuts & Hot shaves, to Beard trims, Bald Head Shaves & anything in between! We are dedicated to taking the time your hairs need & deserve!

Lusty Monk Mustard
Asheville’s own Lusty Monk Mustard is a family-owned company that makes spicy, coarse-ground, old-school mustards that will bring you to your knees. Perfect for your cheese board, your charcuterie plate, or your favorite sandwich, these mustards will wake up your taste buds and add some spice to whatever you’re making. Beer and pretzels? You need this. Potato salad or deviled eggs? We can help. Firing up the grill? We can add some zing to every tasty morsel.

The American Pig
The American Pig is a boutique charcuterie workshop located in Asheville, NC. We take pasture-raised pork from North Carolina farms and make real artisanal food.

Flat Rock Village Bakery
Flat Rock Bakery provides the highest quality artisan bread and pastries using the best ingredients and traditional “from scratch” methods. Its offerings include over a dozen different varieties of bread, loads of pastry including Danishes, muffins, biscotti, and croissants.

The Hop Ice Cream Cafe
The Hop Ice Cream Cafe has been proudly serving Asheville, NC since 1978 with an imaginative yet classy array of homemade 16% butterfat Dairy Ice Cream, completely from-scratch Vegan Ice Cream and Sorbet, fair-trade/organic Coffee and Espresso, unique specialty desserts, and more.

Bare Bones Brew Haus
Bare Bones…nothing kinky. Just bringing the best locally roasted coffees to the resident commuters & visitors of downtown Asheville. European cart style!

Hemp Magik
Hemp Magik is a female owned & operated small business in Western North Carolina. We strive for purity in our products! We start with an organic, non-GMO plant, use organic sugar cane ethanol for extraction, then remove all contaminants and alcohol with a multi-stage filtration process. Our extracts are high-concentration and readily bioavailable because we are passionate about health and wellness. We are regional leaders in extracting our own product that is potent and healing.

Ariel Andresen
Ariel Andresen is a visual artist currently living and working in Asheville, NC. Prior to that, she has resided in Indiana where she studied Art and Art History. She has extended her education to Italy where she studied abroad at La Romita Art School. The natural world is a consistent theme in all of her work. Her primary focus is to bring to light the complexities and mysteries of the natural world. Through the lenses of abstraction, she aims to enrich the bridge between humanity and the natural world.

Louise Genetti
Louise Genetti paints colorful abstracts and will be selling art notecards, postcards, stickers, prints and original works of art.

https://www.facebook.com/events/956055424591238/

The Solidarity Concert Series is a 100% fundraiser for local nonprofits. Enjoy live music while learning about and supporting local change-makers!

This month’s nonprofit is SOUL & SOIL PROJECT! Come learn about what we are up to for 2019 and how you can plug in.

Your host Jason DeCristofaro on vibraphones is joined on stage by Fatty on bass, and members of The Gypsyswingers (co-founder of Soul & Soil Project, Alina, and Mario Francesco Guitario). We will play some of our favorite gyspy-swing and gypsy-bossa tunes, as well as some original songs by Alina Mockingbird Music Medicine.

There will be a short discussion in between sets to learn about what our project is up to, and how we could use your support! Climate change, food insecurity and DIY resiliency is definitely on the agenda. <3 We would love love love to see you there!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1145317872300804/

We’re hosting a Fundraiser for Our Voice during regular business hours. A portion of proceeds will go to this amazing organization, that serves all individuals in Buncombe County affected by sexual assault and abuse, through counseling, advocacy, and education.

A representative will be there to offer information on who they are, how you can help, and accept direct donations.

The Build will be playing a donated set from 4-6pm in support of Our Voice. Check out their music below.
http://Www.Thebuildmusic.com

Sam Pennington will be there from 5-7, representing Wild Turkey and Aviation. We’ll have some prizes, giveaways, and special cocktails for the occasion!

Please join us for great locally sourced food and beer, unique wines, our classically based cocktails, and the best view of sunset in Asheville! Come out and have some fun, knowing you’re helping make Asheville a better, safer community, and helping a fantastic local non profit! We’ll see you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/750459518639004/

Update: #GivingTuesday is TODAY! Join us for this global day of giving by donating to one of the Facebook fundraisers listed below.

Starting at 8am ET/5am PT on Giving Tuesday, Facebook and PayPal will match up to $7 million of funds raised on Facebook for U.S. nonprofits.

Thank you to the many childhood brain tumor advocates who are fundraising for Giving Tuesday. A full list can be found at: https://fb.com/fund/curethekids/

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Pamela Greenstein in memory of Emily Greenstein: https://www.facebook.com/donate/335839357226105/

Lauren Hodges in memory of Cooper Hodges: https://www.facebook.com/donate/566707107102943/566707123769608/

Christine Butson in honor of Jaxson Bougor: https://www.facebook.com/donate/2085118658395433/

Sarah Elder Hamilton for Starry Night Knoxville: https://www.facebook.com/donate/712430939150933

Dawn Hart in honor of Matthew Hart: https://www.facebook.com/donate/202389097319960/

Cynthia Dufford in honor of Jake Kasten: https://www.facebook.com/donate/174618486826207

Victoria Lee in honor of Benjamin Lee: https://www.facebook.com/donate/334769687321819/

Sarah Muoio in honor of Anthony Muoio: https://www.facebook.com/donate/319485108876544/

Toni Danielle Tatum in honor of Abigail Tatum: https://www.facebook.com/donate/2157859861198868

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Or, start your own Giving Tuesday fundraiser at https://fb.com/fund/curethekids/ and use our Facebook Fundraising guide at http://bit.ly/pbtf-fb-fundraising-guide to make fundraising as easy as possible.

Your support of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation will not only provide life-changing support programs to kids in need, you’ll also achieve a future where families no longer have to face the unthinkable: You’ll help find a cure for the deadliest childhood cancer.

You can also donate at our website at curethekids.org/givenow or by phone at (800) 253-6530.

Thank you for partnering with us in raising awareness and funds for families facing a pediatric brain tumor diagnosis.

https://www.facebook.com/events/406402533228211/

Tired of Thanksgiving left overs? Head over to Moe’s on airport Rd and enjoy a meal with friends and family. No need to tell them you are there for the fundraiser. They donate a % of sales from the designated time!

https://www.facebook.com/events/274321716762843/

Please join us for a fundraiser benefitting Karen “Skippy” Shuart.

Assistant Fire Marshal Karen Shuart was diagnosed with Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer in May of this year. Please join us in supporting her on her journey of healing and recovery.

~A percentage of sales during the event will go directly to help Karen offset expenses related to her treatment.

~RAFFLE: $5 per ticket, $20 for 5, Great Prizes!!!

~DATE AUCTION: Bid on an eligible human and receive a gift certificate to a local restaurant for an evening of fun and conversation.

~GAMES: Giant Jenga and Cornhole

https://www.facebook.com/events/529790900829169/

Baile at The Bywater is back with another Tuesday night of FREE vending, flow art, fire spinning and musical celebration open to the community! Fully equipped with an all-star cast of DJs on Tuesdays, we invite you to join us by the river for the Asheville Baile?

◊ Vendors & Traders Welcome (no fee)
◊ Host hangouts, seminars, yoga sessions, outreach events, meet ups, fundraisers, music performances, gatherings & celebrations, etc!
◊ Art / Flow space
◊ Paint, draw, craft, poi, hoop, fire, etc

9pm – 2am
PRODUCER/DJ SHOWCASE
This week’s featured musical guests:
KirbyBright
+ Special Guest

https://www.facebook.com/events/2229510147318448/