Calendar of Events

Ready to give glass fusing a try? How do I start fusing you ask? I’ve never cut glass you say! Then this crash course workshop is just for you. Come join John and Karoline O’Rourke as you explore the ins and outs of glass fusing. In this class you will be guided through the processes of design, cutting and construction as you make 4 original 3″ x 3″ fused glass tiles. Your tiles will be fired in our kilns and are to be picked up at a later date. Designed for the absolute beginner and not so beginner.

Register Now Online Or Call 828 859 8323!

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When reflecting on the current state of the environment, it seems that we have entered into times of seismic sorrows. Carbon emissions, water pollution, fracking, and changing climate patterns all point to a troubling reality with serious consequences for human and non-human populations. Through weavings, installations, sculpture, and print, artists Rena Detrixhe and Tali Weinberg (Tulsa, OK) explore the complex relationship between humans and the planet, offering insights, expressing grief, and creating space for resilience and change.

In Time of Seismic Sorrows is curated by Marilyn Zapf and organized by the Center for Craft. The Center for Craft is supported in part by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Introduction To The Potter’s Wheel

Alyssa Ruberto and Halima Flynt

Saturdays 10am-12:30pm
January 12- March 2

Get ready to throw! This 8-week beginner’s course is designed to teach new potters the fundamentals of wheel-throwing, trimming, and glazing to make a variety of complete, food-safe and functional wares. By the end of this course, students will be able to confidently make pottery in any studio setting. Seasoned beginners are also encouraged to try new techniques to reach an intermediate level.

Level: Beginner and Seasoned Beginner
Tuition: $295 + $45 Lab Fee

Who: All ages and all families!

Theme: This month we will be exploring the theme of WINTER. We will be exploring ice and hibernation through crafts and learning activities. While this can be a brown and down time of the year in our minds nature is still alive and has a lot to teach us!

What: Family Discovery Day is an opportunity to come explore the Farmstead with family for FREE.

At each event we will provide a craft, forest exploration prompt, an engagement activity to further explore the theme of the month, educational boards on the theme to promote lifelong learning, and an item we will be raffling off. This is all in addition to opening our 25 acre school grounds for families to explore!

Where: 218 Morgan Cove Road NC 28715

When: January 12th, from 10am-12pm and BYOPicnic from 12pm-1pm. This is a RAIN or SHINE event. There is saying we believe in at the Farmstead, there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing choices!

Price: FREEE!!!! No registration required, but you can tell us your ‘going’ so we can make sure to have enough supplies!

Raffle: Each month we will be raffling off an item related to the theme to one lucky family who is in attendance. Stay tuned to the event page for the announcement of the raffle item as the Family Discovery Day approaches.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1368798606597291/

The Jackson County Farmer’s Market and the Cullowhee Community Garden announce that the 2019 Group Seed Order Day will be January 12th from 10:00-1:00 at the Community Table.
We will order seeds from Fedco and Johnny’s Selected Seeds. Onion plants will come from Dixondale Farms, organic seed potatoes from New Sprout Farms and sweet potato slips from George’s Plant Farm. Garden supplies may also be ordered from Johnny’s.
There will be people available to help you with any questions, and to choose the best varieties for our area. We will save money by purchasing as a group, and through shared shipping costs. Plus, it is a great way to connect with your gardening community. Please share

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Kid Hop Hooray!
Wintertime Indoor Dance Party
presented by The Orange Peel & The Hop Ice Cream Cafe
Nov. 24th
Dec. 15th
10am-1pm
$3 for kids 2-12, $5 for parents. Under 2 is free.

Doors and Event begin at 10:00am til 1:00pm – Open Floor Dance Party for Kids with a Live DJ Oso Rey
Drop in anytime.

Playing Child-Appropriate FUN dance music from the Jackson 5’s “ABC” to “Shake it Off” to old-school hip hop tracks, favorites from 23 Skidoo, and much more!

There will be FREE Glow accessories for your little dancers, plenty of room to run, dance, and get their sillies out while it’s cold outside, and snacks for purchase from Asheville Pizza Co and the Hop Ice Creamery! And of course, The Orange Peel bar will be open for mom and dad’s refreshments (and/or kids’ juice boxes)

Padded area available for crawlers and new walkers to play and explore.

The music will be especially chosen to appeal to kids from ages 2 to 12, but the whole family is more than welcome! 12 and under are only $3 (under 2 years old are free) and everyone else is $5.

2 private rooms available for rent for birthday parties after the dance party ends! Bring decorations and a cake and let the Orange Peel & the Hop help you create a fun and unique birthday experience for your child and their buddies after they dance their booties off! Contact [email protected] for more information and party reservations

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Nestled in the steep slopes of the Sandy Mush farming community sits SAHC’s Robinson Rough cabin. Surrounded by 248 acres of SAHC conserved land this cabin is a world apart from the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. It is in this cabin we will hold our first SAHC Knitting Party on Saturday, January 12th. Participants will be treated to a warm, cozy space to knit as well as an opportunity to learn about the history of Robinson Rough and SAHC’s role in conserving the Sandy Mush farming community. Participants are welcomed to bring their needles, yarn, and knitting projects for an afternoon of coziness and merriment. Brownies and other refreshments will be served and the aroma of mulled wine will fill the air.

This party will be B.Y.O.B and B.Y.O.Y (Bring your own yarn)

Cost: Free for members, $10 for non-members
Group Size: This outing is limited to 15 participants due to size of cabin

Registration is required to attend. Register online at: https://appalachian.org/event/knitting-party-at-robinson-rough-cabin/

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Join us any Saturday for outdoor activities at the garden. Local youth involved in programming for building life skills, improving literacy and leadership development welcome young people in the area to join them, and we are always in need of adult volunteers to help with mentoring. Involvement in the Shiloh Community Garden also includes the experience of growing produce organically, lessons in permaculture and the science of sustainability, healthy meal preparation, and entrepreneurship. Come join the fun!

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We are honored to share our passion for our Beloved Black Bears in our exhibit at the “FW Gallery” in Woolworth Walk – downtown Asheville. We are grateful to have been chosen to be their Featured Artists. We want to also thank the many lovely people who work at Woolworth Walk and have supported and assisted us with the exhibit.

The FW Gallery exhibit will end Tuesday, January 29th at 6pm. Our permanent artist booth #229 downstairs “Beloved Black Bear” has over 50 black bear canvases 11×14 at $75 each. We hope you will stop by to visit.

We are happy to say that many black bear canvases have been sold and are now adorning many homes. Our wish is for all of us to share our compassion for the black bear with our friends, family, and neighbors and create connections with the bears giving them a voice.

Love, April Johnson & Jeff Miller

https://www.facebook.com/events/300039080626478/?event_time_id=300039117293141

Come by anytime on Saturday and paint a Stormcast Eternal or Space Marine Miniature that you get to keep! We will provide brushes and paints as well. Or bring some Minis your are working on.

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As part of the Child and Adult Care Food Program, the YMCA of WNC Nutrition Department hosts free meals for anyone under the age of 18 at the Ferguson Family YMCA every Saturday!

We serve lunches from 11am -1pm in the Ferguson Y’s Multipurpose Room, and your family does not have to be a member of the Y to participate.

Please consider joining us for healthy food and enriching activities: kids yoga, art, ping pong, and more!

For more information on accessing food and/or volunteering with the program visit: www.ymcawnc.org/nutritionprograms

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Brinehaus Food Truck will be in the Beergarden!

Brinehaus Meat + Provisions is an Asheville NC based food truck and catering company serving innovative whole animal cuisine across North Carolina and beyond.

https://www.brinehausmeatandprovisions.com/

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Get your craft on at Silver River Chairs with this festive winter project. Suggested $5-$10 donation per project. We provide all materials and tools. Call 828-707-4553 or email [email protected] to sign up, or just stop by on Second Saturday!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1891838887572292/

Join us this Saturday, January 12th, as we tap our batch of Resilience IPA.

Resilience IPA is a collaborative fundraising effort for those impacted by Northern California’s Camp Fire. Sierra Nevada announced plans to brew Resilience IPA and donate 100% of the sales to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund, and invited breweries across the country to brew the beer and donate 100% of the sales to the fund as well. Ecusta Brewing is honored to be among the more than 1,400 breweries helping Butte County rebuild its community.

https://www.facebook.com/events/806268826372698/

Our annual month of classic anime returns on Friday, January 4th featuring the best movies from Studio Ghibli and animation legend Hayao Miyazaki!

THE MOVIES & DATES ARE…

Jan. 4 – 7: Spirited Away
Jan. 8 – 10: Kiki’s Delivery Service – 30th Anniversary
Jan. 11 – 14: Princess Mononoke
Jan. 15 – 17: Porco Rosso
Jan. 18 – 21: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind – 35th Anniversary
Jan. 22 – 24: Grave of the Fireflies (NOT FOR YOUNG VIEWERS)
Jan. 25 – 28: My Neighbor Totoro
Jan. 29 – 31: The Cat Returns
Feb. 1 – 4: Howl’s Moving Castle – 15th Anniversary
Feb. 5 – 7: Castle in the Sky

SHOWTIMES:
There will be two matinees and a 10:00 pm show every day for each movie. We’ll post specific showtimes for each movie here and on our website’s movie page.

SPECIAL BONUS… At the final 10:00 pm show of each movie we will show the original Japanese version with English subtitles! All other shows will be the English dubbed version.

TICKET INFO:
Tickets are only $3.00, and sales operate on our normal ticket policy of going on sale 24 hours before your desired show date.

For example, Friday movie tickets go on sale Thursday, the day before.

https://www.facebook.com/events/359072128006762/?event_time_id=359072154673426

All tips earned Friday January 11th and Saturday January 12th will be donated to The Franklin School of Innovation. Come out and support our local charter schools!

Saturday from 12-6:30 Baires Food Truck will be here! If you missed it last time they were out, their empanadas are delicious!

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Highlands Ice Rink is located at Kelsey Hutchinson Founders park in Highlands, NC 28741. The Ice rink’s open hours are:

Thursdays 1-8pm
Fridays-Saturdays 1-10pm
Sundays 1-5pm

all open hours depend on weather conditions.

https://www.facebook.com/events/478232852670311/?event_time_id=478232916003638

Join Sam for an Intro to Pole Fitness 6 week series. By the end of this series, students will be all set to attend Pole 2 classes, and may also attend any Pole Dance classes on the schedule (such as Sultry Pole). Students will learn Pole Fitness Level 1 in its entirety, and will be proficient in many beginner skills upon completion. Expect a thorough yoga-inspired full body warm up followed by pole conditioning skills to help you achieve your pole fitness goals. Students will also learn basic pole combinations in addition to skills, and will have time to experiment and play at the end of class. Class will end with a brief feel-good cool down stretch session.

$60 for the full series, occurs on Saturdays at 1pm from January 5rd to February 9th. Sign up now from your student account at circusdb.org/empyrean. We only allow for 6 sign ups for the beginner series for the comfort of new students and to allow for ample time on the poles, so be sure to sign up ASAP as these series sell out QUICK!
We offer 2 hours of open studio per missed class of a series.

https://www.facebook.com/events/198844534340932/?event_time_id=198844547674264

Quinn and Crowe are two classically-trained musicians. Versatile across the decades and genres of music, Quinn and Crowe play with palpable passion and intensity.

Regardless of era or style, the duo blends rich vocal harmonies with precise guitar rhythms and stunning instrumental solos to entertain with a style and flair befitting their natural on-stage chemistry.

The duo’s motto is “we’ll play anywhere, even in the middle of a cow pasture, as long as we can run a drop-cord to our PA system.”

We welcome them back to the Silver Fork stage!

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Local author and cooperative activist Bobby Sullivan will read from and discuss his debut, “Revolutionary Threads: Rastafari, Social Justice, and Cooperative Economics.” Join him in conversation with Orus Barker, a local farmer, activist, and former religious studies professor at the University of Oxford in Lagos, Nigeria.

“Revolutionary Threads” is an American Rasta’s retelling of episodes in American history with an anti-colonial thrust and a view toward charting a brighter future. Author Bobby Sullivan, who lives in Asheville with his family, grew up in the Washington, DC, punk scene, fueled by Rasta rockers Bad Brains and the foundational Minor Threat. His most notable band continues to be Soulside (of which he is the singer), which had multiple releases on Dischord Records. Along the way, Sullivan became an activist, working with Food Not Bombs, the Anarchist Black Cross political prisoner support network, and a Rasta prison ministry. He currently manages The French Broad Food Co-op and sits on the board of the National Co+op Grocers.

At this event, Sullivan will read from and discuss his debut work, which ties together various subjects while returning each time to the culture of Rastafari, social justice movements, and cooperative economics. Sullivan aims to dispel the oversimplification of our perceptions of Rastafari, as well as other cultures, in the age of the Internet, where the loudest voices are often the most extreme and divisive. “Revolutionary Threads” hopes to serve as a unifying agent for our all-too-connected global village, and for the resistance to the consolidation of global capital and all its excesses.

https://www.facebook.com/events/346011399289550/

Wine flights and live acoustic music!

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Are you trying to figure out what’s going on with your body? Maybe it’s time to learn to communicate with it! Come spend 2 hours with Master Healer Meade Neumann and explore the fascinating realm of body/mind manifestation health. You have the ability to be a part of your quality of life. Empower yourself with this class! Each class is a “stand alone” concept, but can also be combined to create an in depth learning experience. January’s class will start with the feet and lower legs! $20/person amd the more the merrier!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1924322357685113/

Grab your coat, and head to the Morganton Public Library for a Snowy STEM Saturday! Learn about the science of snow through indoor and outdoor experiments. Enjoy a melting marshmallow snowman in a cup of hot cocoa too! Program is for children in grades 3rd-5th. To register for this event please call
(828) 764-9274.

https://www.facebook.com/events/365141180713926/

Join Us this Saturday at Highland Brewing!
Get the best Peruvian Cuisine around WNC and enjoy with us great Food and a variety of crafted Beer

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Come date with us at AR Workshop AVL for a DIY class with your boo and create your own Framed Wood Sign or Centerpiece Box! Customize your project with your choice of (non-toxic!) stain and designer paint colors.
*BYO wine or beer to sip and enjoy during the workshop.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2192424890997225/

$20 Advance / $20 Day of Show

A program of piano quartets featuring the first published works (Opus 1) of Felix Mendelssohn (age 13) and Josef Suk (age 17) as well as a movement from a quartet by Suk’s mentor and father-in-law, Antonin Dvorak. Passionate and powerful music with top musicians from around the world!

AmiciMusic, meaning Music Among Friends, is an award-winning musical organization based in Asheville, NC that is dedicated to playing the highest quality chamber music in intimate venues and non-traditional spaces. They aim to break down barriers between performers and audience by establishing a more informal and relaxed atmosphere often including food and drinks. Dr. Weiser also presents short anecdotes before each piece is played about the composer to help put the works in socio-historical context. This is chamber music the way it was meant to be heard and seen—in a true chamber—and performed with the spirit, energy and intensity that this great music requires.

Seated Lounge Show:: Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation :: All Other Seating is First Come First Serve General Admission :: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations

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Love where you live! #yeahthatgreenville

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A Simple Space — Saturday, January 12, 2019, 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.
As a multiple award-winning performance group described by UK Express as “Cirque du Soleil with a fistful of grit,” A Simple Space pushes the limits of performance art by defying gravity as they are tossed weightlessly through the air. Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 2:00 & 7:00 p.m. at Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. Traditional Seating Tickets: Regular $45; Student $40; Child $20. Special Stage Seating Tickets: Regular $60; Student $60; Child $60. Box Office: 828-257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com.

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Abby Roach, affectionally known as Abby The Spoon Lady, is a world class spoon playing phenomenon with a You Tube video that boasts well over 1 million views. Well known Asheville buskers (street entertainers), Abby and Chris produce a unique sound of “Appalachian Blues” as they combine their talents of rhythm and tune. Abby will be telling stories of her 8 years spent riding the rails across America on her quest for a new beginning while living a hobo lifestyle. She and Chris most recently appeared at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough during the Storytellers Studio at the International Storytelling Center. The talented duo have been the subject of several television documentaries. Abby hosts a radio show in Asheville, NC. and is an extremely active advocate for street entertainers serving as a liaison between the buskers, the downtown merchants and the Asheville city government. She created the Asheville Buskers Collective and can be credited with securing better relationships between street entertainers, the merchants and the police department in Asheville, NC.

Doors open at 6pm for best seating. Beer, wine and beverages available from the bar. Parking is free and easy in the rear of the building in the Moog Music parking lots AFTER 5:30pm. Show begins promptly at 7pm and there will be an intermission. In case of incliment weather the show may be postponed to a later date and tickets can be forwarded for that show. For more information visit storytellingcalendar.com

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Tickets to this exclusive two-night event include:

A never before seen performance art creation by Candice Dickinson.

Exclusive small plates from the new menu of Jacobs Sessoms of Table upcoming restaurant venture.

Clean and sour brews on tap from Wicked Weed Brewing featuring a special onetime offering for this event.

Specialty chocolates from the award-winning chocolatier The Chocolate Fetish.

Having a home, living indoors, is a basic human right, one that 500 or more individuals do not have on any given night in the Asheville area alone.

Finding Home, a collection of songs, new and found monologues, scenes, and dance, will tell the true stories of our neighbors who have lived for years without a home and through the work of Homeward Bound have been able to feel safe and supported for the first time in their lives.

Created and Directed by Candice Dickinson, Finding Home is an immersive show staged in promenade and she asks the audience to anticipate some movement during the performance.

Come join us for two special nights of food and entertainment and help end homelessness in WNC.

Phil Mechanic Studios: Located in the R.A.D. of Asheville

The show begins at 7 pm, Doors open at 6:30 pm.

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