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.
Come when you can, we are no longer taking sign-ups but walk-ins are welcome!
Seniors looking to workout more regularly are welcome to participate in a three month video-led fitness class and study conducted by Geri-fit! Most of the exercises will be performed seated in a chair and you will not have to get on the floor. Classes will be twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays for 45 minutes. There are 24 classes over a 3 month period.
You will need to bring your own set of 2 or 3-pound dumbbell weights and a stretch band. (The library has some stretch bands if you need one.) You will be exercising to a Geri-Fit® DVD and several different levels of Geri-Fit® video workouts will be shown. Everyone is encouraged to work out at their own pace.
Classes will be held twice-a-week for 45-minutes each. Upon completion of the 12 week study, each participant will fill out a survey to help evaluate the effectiveness of the video-led classes to determine if your strength, stamina, balance and range of motion has improved.
Please come join us and have some fun working out!
https://www.facebook.com/events/289832488265375/
Come when you can, we are no longer taking sign-ups but walk-ins are welcome!
Seniors looking to workout more regularly are welcome to participate in a three month video-led fitness class and study conducted by Geri-fit! Most of the exercises will be performed seated in a chair and you will not have to get on the floor. Classes will be twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays for 45 minutes. There are 24 classes over a 3 month period.
You will need to bring your own set of 2 or 3-pound dumbbell weights and a stretch band. (The library has some stretch bands if you need one.) You will be exercising to a Geri-Fit® DVD and several different levels of Geri-Fit® video workouts will be shown. Everyone is encouraged to work out at their own pace.
Classes will be held twice-a-week for 45-minutes each. Upon completion of the 12 week study, each participant will fill out a survey to help evaluate the effectiveness of the video-led classes to determine if your strength, stamina, balance and range of motion has improved.
Please come join us and have some fun working out!
https://www.facebook.com/events/289832488265375/?event_time_id=289832508265373
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Fill out an “I Love WCU” heart, receive WCU swag, have your photo made, and enjoy hot chocolate and cookies as we celebrate I Love WCU month on the second floor of A.K. Hinds University Center!
https://www.facebook.com/events/989625201161586/
Food Truck Friday at Ocean X, Arden
get your Lunch Combo right to your Office!!
Text Us at 631-873-5041
30 min before your break and come tu us to Take Out your food.
*if weather is below cero we may be closed.
https://www.facebook.com/events/379693892607586/
ART BREAKS
Free
Drop in to one of our lunchtime Art Breaks! Taking place on selected Fridays at 12pm, these free, informal gallery talks and presentations both inform and engage you in dialogue with our curatorial and education staff, docents, or special guests.
FEBRUARY 1 – Friday, 12pm
The James Goode Collection from the Asheville Art Museum
Whitney Richardson, assistant curator
Meet at SECU (1310 Hendersonville Rd, Asheville 28803)
https://www.facebook.com/events/533909030433382/
This week’s tasty line up is:
Monday: El Querubin
Tuesday: Appalachian Chic Food Truck
Wednesday: Tin Can Pizzeria
Thursday: Doc Brown’s BBQ
Friday: Grateful Roots Food Truck & Baires Food Truck
Saturday: Grateful Roots Food Truck & Baires Food Truck
Sunday: Cecilia’s Kitchen /Cecis’ Culinary TOUR
https://www.facebook.com/events/324116931645447/?event_time_id=324116948312112
Although heart disease is sometimes thought of as a “man’s disease,” heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. In honor of American Heart Month, we’re inviting you for a special Facebook LIVE edition on Wear Red and Give Day, February 1st, to discuss how heart disease uniquely affects women. Just visit our homepage for the Facebook LIVE on 2/1 at 12:00pm to join in!
Have a question that needs answering? Drop them down in the event page below by 1/28 and we’ll get back to you by answering them LIVE! (Have a private concern? Feel free to shoot us a private message!)
Still want more heart health information? Download our printable checklist and join the #28DayChallenge with Pardee UNC Health Care for Heart Month https://www.pardeehospital.org/heartchallenge/
https://www.facebook.com/events/360893988043169/
Homeschool Skate
2019 Schedule
The First Friday of Every Other Month
12-3pm
February 1st
April 5th
June 7th
August 2nd
October 4th
December 6th
https://www.facebook.com/events/1942232259228210/
Our Single Track IPA is changing up this Friday with the release of Single Track with Zythos hops. Zythos brings a nice blend of citrus and tropical notes to our latest single hop IPA.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2346830258932618/
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
Feb. 8 – 11: Ponyo
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=359072224673419
Please join the Council for Women and Youth Involvement on Friday, February 1 for a lunch hour webinar on
work-life balance, featuring:
• Mary Williams-Stover, Executive Director of the NC Council for Women and Youth Involvement
• Beth Messersmith, Campaign Director of Moms Rising’s North Carolina Chapter
• Marjorie Williamson, Senior Vice President of Global Total Rewards & HR Operations at RTI International
Learn what steps you can take to advocate for work-life balance in your workplace and your community!
Register here: https://ncadmin.nc.gov/be-your-own-advocate
Agenda:
1. Review of The Status of Women: Employment & Earnings 2018 Report (15 minutes)
2. Policy Recommendations: Create Policies to Support Work Life Balance (10 minutes)
a. Pregnancy & Nursing Accommodations
b. Sick/Family Leave
c. Predictable schedules
3. What You Can Do to Create Work Life Balance (20 minutes)
a. Marjorie Williamson: What can you do to improve your work life?
b. Beth Messersmith: What policies can you implement in your community? How? (Beth Messersmith)
4. Q & A (15 minutes)
https://www.facebook.com/events/2637956519554927/
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=478232872670309
Join us each Friday starting at 3:59pm – or whenever you can get here! We gather together to share stories, laugh and get to know one another. All are welcome! We donate 10% of the sales from 359 Club to a local and regional non-profits. If your non-profit is interested in participating contact Merit.
Snacks are put out for all to enjoy and you can bring your own if you like. Outside food is welcome. We are also dog friendly!
https://www.facebook.com/events/482181682313633/?event_time_id=482181685646966
Children ages 5 to 18 (and their parents) are invited to help stuff Comfort Bags for our local children in need on
Friday, February 1st from 4-5 p.m. at the Little Gym of Asheville.
Sleep Tight Kids provides newly purchased items like blankets, stuffed animals, dental kits, books, flashlights to children displaced in our local community of WNC.
Please sign up here…
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b084fafae2fabf85-comfort3
https://www.facebook.com/events/2191361327784148/
El Querubin food truck will be at the winery Friday nights. Pair your favorite wine with one of their Mexican dishes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/314042052574442/
El Querubin food truck will be at the winery Friday nights. Pair your favorite wine with one of their Mexican dishes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/314042052574442/?event_time_id=314042082574439
Remember that first song you really loved? Remember those concerts that changed your life? Join 103.3 Asheville FM’s DJ Ben Herring for Feels Like the First Time for a live remote from Bhramari Brewing Company The first Friday of February 2019 come on down or tune in to hear songs that will remind you of how it felt the first time you listened to that song that became an important point on your musical journey. 103.3 Asheville FM is your community radio station and with your help continues to bring you all volunteer curated shows and amazing outreach efforts helping and advocating for our community.
https://www.facebook.com/events/560868231096540/
FREE DEAD FRIDAYS @ The One Stop
– feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic
Join us at The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall every Friday at 5:30PM for our FREE Acoustic Grateful Dead series Featuring members of Phuncle Sam and great drink and food specials.
https://www.facebook.com/events/244820139590703/?event_time_id=244820152924035
FREE DEAD FRIDAYS @ The One Stop
– feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic
Join us at The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall every Friday at 5:30PM for our FREE Acoustic Grateful Dead series Featuring members of Phuncle Sam and great drink and food specials.
https://www.facebook.com/events/244820139590703/
This week we are featuring chicken and dumplings for free food Friday. Just show up and eat. There is no catch.
https://www.facebook.com/events/232806214295262/
Hey friends! Whether you’ve been hanging out with us twice a week for the last few years or are just hearing about us for the first time, come join us as we say thank you for being a part of our lives here at Habitat!
We’ll have music, giveaways, and some light snacks – you’re welcome to contribute to the food table, potluck style, just like we used to do – and we’ll be showing off all our fave photo memories throughout the night.
See you there!
https://www.facebook.com/events/305936916721890/
A boutique food truck serving up gourmet comfort food.
www.olivecateringcompany.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/2228859570770122/
Enjoy a delicious slow roasted Prime Rib dinner served with shallot and garlic mashed potatoes, house vegetables, au jus, and horseradish cream. Price $23pp. Featured each Friday night at Legends on the Lake along with our regular dinner menu.
https://www.facebook.com/events/359957811225905/?event_time_id=359957821225904
Enjoy a delicious slow roasted Prime Rib dinner served with shallot and garlic mashed potatoes, house vegetables, au jus, and horseradish cream. Price $23pp. Featured each Friday night at Legends on the Lake along with our regular dinner menu.
https://www.facebook.com/events/359957811225905/
Project updates and social meeting time
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A great band is more than the proverbial sum of its parts, and in the pursuit of becoming something that can cut through the clutter of YouTube stars and contest show runner-ups, a great roots music band must become a way of life. Less likely to rely on production or image, they’ve got to connect with their audience only through the craftsmanship of their songs, the energy they channel on the stage and the story that brings them together.
Old Salt Union is a string band founded by a horticulturist, cultivated by classically trained musicians, and fueled by a vocalist/bass player who is also a hip-hop producer with a fondness for the Four Freshmen. It is this collision of styles and musical vocabularies that informs their fresh approach to bluegrass and gives them an electric live performance vibe that seems to pull more from Vaudeville than the front porch.
In 2015 they won the FreshGrass Band contest and found the perfect collaborator in Compass Records co-founder and GRAMMY winning banjoist and composer, Alison Brown, whose attention to detail and high standards pushed the group to develop their influences from beyond a vocabulary to pull from during improvisation and into the foundation of something truly compelling in the roots music landscape.
Violinist John Brighton mentions some names familiar to the Compass roster as key influences, musicians like Darol Anger, Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall and Mark O’Connor, all of whom have collaborated with Brown in the past. Primary vocalist and bassist, Jesse Farrar (for the indie rock heads – yes, he’s related – Son Volt front man Jay Farrar is Jesse’s uncle) brings an alternative rock spirit as well as his unique formative experiences as a hip hop producer and bass player for a national tour of The Four Freshmen. The band’s self-titled Compass debut combines these instrumental proclivities with pop melodies and harmonies into a coherent piece of work that carves out a road-less-travelled for the band in the now crowded roots music genre.
https://www.facebook.com/events/359231058187286/
Join us in celebrating the opening of two new exhibitions at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
Politics at Black Mountain College
Curated by the team of Connie Bostic, Jon Elliston, Jay Miller, and Alice Sebrell
The BMC community faced political differences, both internally and externally, throughout its 24-year history. The college was born in 1933 during the Great Depression, lived through WWII, was deeply affected by Hitler’s rise to power, and closed during the Cold War. Though often viewed today as an idyllic mountain refuge, isolated from tumultuous global politics, BMC took shape in the context of (and in response to) world events. Through a rich variety of media—artworks, images, texts, and audio—this exhibition will explore the various political dimensions of Black Mountain College, both internal and external, that shaped the trajectory of the college and its community of people.
Aaron Siskind: A Painter’s Photographer and Works on Paper by BMC Artists
Curated by James Barron
This exhibition of vintage photographs by Aaron Siskind reveals his elegant approach to abstraction through photography. Siskind taught photography at BMC during the summer of 1951 (along with Harry Callahan, Arthur Siegel, and Hazel Larsen Archer). As the only photographer accepted as an equal by the abstract expressionist painters, Siskind’s work remains as powerful today as it was in the 1950s. The exhibition also includes selected works on paper by BMC artists John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Ray Johnson, and Jack Tworkov from private collections
https://www.facebook.com/events/307302499918142/
Join award-winning actor, director and writer Kai Elijah Hamilton for a 6-week acting class focused on “scenes”.
A major asset to this class is that the instructor will work with each actor’s skill level from beginner to experienced. Actors will be paired up in scenes, which will be memorized, staged and showcased on the last night of class for an invited audience of family and friends.
Students will learn the importance of interpreting a scene for stage and/or screen and finesse character motivations. The instructor aims to encourage the student to produce a solid performance.
This class is perfect for those starting out, wanting to gain the confidence it takes for public speaking or stage/screen work. It is also perfect for experienced actors to seek deeper understanding of their craft.
Register Now online or call 828 859 8323!
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