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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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Studio 52’s Dave Hart Scholarship Fund for Spring Mini-Mester
Mar 24 all-day
Online w/ Flat Rock Playhouse/Studio 52
Grid of 8 photos with class
                names. Little girl playing by alphabet poster, Text -
                Story and Song. Little boy playing in astronaut costume,
                Text - Character Creation. Young girl dancing in living
                room, Text - Broadway Dance. Lucy opening wardrobe in
                The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, Text - Theatrical
                Design Basics. Person holding film slate, Text - acting
                for the camera. Hand holding microphone, Text - Your
                Words, Your Voice. Teen girl dancing with headphones,
                Text - Broadway Cardio. Script and Stuio 52 logo, Text -
                Directing: Stages of the Process.


Whether you’re looking to further your passion or you’re curious about the performing arts, Studio 52’s Spring Mini-Mester is a great way to dive into theatre! Virtual Theatre Classes are open to artists ages 5 through Adult with options in acting, Broadway dance, spoken-word poetry, on-camera technique, theatrical design, and directing.

Tuition ranges from $60-70 making this mini-mester affordable and educational. Classes begin the week of April 12 and run through the week of May 6.


Dave Hart Scholarship

Applications Due March 29

 

The Dave Hart Scholarship Fund was created in memory of Studio 52’s friend, artist, and educator Dave Hart. Dave believed that all students, no matter their background or resources, benefit from participating in theatre.

Scholarships are available for every tuition-based program at Studio 52. Applications for Spring Mini-Mester scholarships are due March 29. Applicants will be notified by April 1, of their award status.

Before you apply, find the Virtual Spring Mini-Mester class that works for you! Check the Studio 52 website for availability and class times.

Traveling Trunks – Bring the Museum to your Classroom!
Mar 24 all-day
Online w/ Western North Carolina Historical Association

Traveling Trunks and Kits are an economical way to bring the Museum to YOU! Rental fee is a refundable deposit of $15 per trunk. Trunks include many artifacts and a week of lessons.

Trunk deposits are always refundable, but if you choose to donate your deposit, these funds are used to assist students with economic needs to be able to come on field trips or to Living History Days.

Call 828-253-9231 or email [email protected] for information or to schedule your program.

Another way to bring the Museum to YOU is with an In-School Presentation!

A trained museum volunteer or staff person will present any of the above topics in your school. Programs may be presented to as many as 50 students per presentation (some are more hands-on and 25 students would be more appropriate).

Cost is $3 per student.

Choose a program, traveling trunk/kit, or suggest a custom program. Craft topics may include an extra supply fee.

Virtual Exhibit: Douglas Ellington
Mar 24 all-day
Online w/ Western North Carolina Historical Association

Asheville’s economic and building boom of the 1920s created a rarified atmosphere unique within Western North Carolina.  Douglas Ellington is known as the architect who changed Asheville into an Art Deco showplace. With his ability to combine architectural styles he produced a series of one of a kind buildings—buildings which changed the face of Asheville—the City Building, Asheville High School, First Baptist Church and S&W Cafeteria. Douglas Ellington: Asheville’s Boomtown Architect presents a look at his iconic Asheville creations along with other buildings he completed throughout his career in other cities.

 

 

WINNER of a 2014 Griffin Award for Excellence in Education from the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County

Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment
Mar 24 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
The Council on Aging of Buncombe County
Medicare Advantage
Open Enrollment Period
ends March 31.
Each year, if you are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage Plan, you can switch to a different Medicare Advantage Plan or switch to Original Medicare (and join a separate Medicare drug plan) once during this time.
Our Medicare counselors are available to work with you individually to provide unbiased information about your Medicare insurance options.
The Garden Helpline Is OPEN. Master Gardeners Work Remotely to Answer Your Questions
Mar 24 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Online w/ Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Buncombe County

The pandemic continues to keep many of us at home and in our gardens! Our gardens will continue to grow and we will continue to have gardening questions.

To answer those questions, Extension Master GardenerSM Volunteers of Buncombe County are working from home to keep the Garden Helpline open to the public. We are available to respond to your phone calls and emails.  Send an email or leave a voice message at any time and a Master Gardener will respond during the Helpline hours listed below.

The information we provide is consistent with NC State University horticultural research and an integrated pest management approach which includes cultural, mechanical, biological, and chemical methods.

Two ways to contact the Garden Helpline

Call 828-250-4878
Email questions and photos to [email protected]

Garden Helpline hours

Mondays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Fridays, 10 a.m. to noon

The Extension office remains closed to the public and most Master Gardener programs for the public are being held virtually. Soil test kits can be picked up at the Extension office. They are in a box outside the front door.

To learn more about Extension Master Gardener volunteers and gardening in Buncombe County, visit our website at https://www.buncombemastergardener.org/

For updates about programming and other information or to contact staff with the NC Cooperative Extension Buncombe County Center, visit https://buncombe.ces.ncsu.edu/

 

The Van Winkle Law Firm Presents “Taking Care of Business” a Facebook live series
Mar 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Online w/ The Van Winkle Law Firm

Logo | The Van Winkle Law Firm

Please join us on Facebook Live for a webinar series addressing common questions for business owners. Wednesdays at noon, Running from February 10th through March 31st. Follow us on Facebook here.

Connections with Asheville Art Museum: Darkness to Light
Mar 24 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Online w/ Asheville Art Museum

Join Sarah Reincke, master docent and Steve Bennett, touring docent, virtually for an interactive conversation about artworks in our Collection. Connections is an arts-based program serving community-dwelling adults with mild to moderate memory loss and their care partners. This program takes place via Zoom; space is limited. Generous support for this program is provided by TD Charitable Foundation. More info and register for this virtual program at ashevilleart.org/events.

Beyond Sales Funnels: How to Automate Customer Relationships to Drive Sales
Mar 24 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Online w/ Mountain BizWorks

Beyond Sales Funnels: How to Automate Customer Relationships to Drive Sales

Presenter: Julio Chavez

In this presentation we’ll be taking those ideas and skills taught in Casey’s Digital Strategies workshop and covering how to easily create long lasting customer relationships by building a sales funnel that nurtures and makes sales on autopilot.

A sales funnel is a step-by-step process that brings potential customers to your product or services, through a series of marketing actions like automated emails, videos, articles and landing pages, and converts them into actual paying customers. Sales Funnels help you pick a marketing strategy, grow your sales, help you know how to relate to your customer, give you an edge over your competition and improve on ways to grow your business.

Come learn the basics of all sales funnels, and then learn how to automate them so you spend LESS time cultivating your customers, but have more sales! This is sure to be a fun and interactive workshop helping you grow your sales without being “salesy.”

Adventures in Stage Design Virtual Adult Class w/ Studio 52
Mar 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
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Adventures in Stage Design

Unlock your imagination in this virtual Scenic Design Class for adults led by Dennis C. Maulden, the Resident Scenic Designer at Flat Rock Playhouse. Whether you’re an artist, writer, dreamer, or theatre-lover, this engaging, hands-on course invites you to envision the scenic design elements that speak to an audience. With a series of creative prompts, in-class discussions, and accessible design activities, life-long-learners will discover how design elements and principles become the poetic ‘voices’ of space, scenery, fabric, and light. No previous design or drawing experience is necessary, only an openness to explore new possibilities and perspectives. Tap into your artistic spirit, dabble in design, and learn the power of inviting audiences into a world of your own creation! 

Age: Adult (18+)
Virtual Platform: Zoom
Instructor: Dennis C. Maulden

 Supplies Needed: An internet connection. This class will use household art supplies such as paper, pencil, pens, magazines, scissors, etc. 

Broadway Dance 6th – 12th Grades w/ Studio 52
Mar 24 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Online

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Get moving in this fun, high-energy dance class focusing on Broadway-style choreography through the decades. Each live zoom class features a full-body warm up, a step-by-step breakdown of theatre dance vocabulary, and Broadway-style choreography to learn and perfect throughout the semester. Join Studio 52 to get a weekly workout, learn how to fill your movement with character, and step into your next dance audition or production feeling confident!

Virtual Broadway Dance 6th – 12th Grades w/ Studio 52
Mar 24 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Online
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Get moving in this fun, high-energy dance class focusing on Broadway-style choreography through the decades. Each live zoom class features a full-body warm up, a step-by-step breakdown of theatre dance vocabulary, and Broadway-style choreography to learn and perfect throughout the semester. Join Studio 52 to get a weekly workout, learn how to fill your movement with character, and step into your next dance audition or production feeling confident!

January 27 – March 24

Instructor: Lauren Hopkins
 Supplies Needed: Internet connection, enough space to move around safely, comfortable clothes, light sneakers, jazz, or ballet shoes. 

Thursday, March 25, 2021
Free virtual demonstration: Plein Air Painting Tips
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ The Art League

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Plein Air Painting Tips
Don Osterberg has illustrated some of his advice on plein air painting with step-by-step stages of his pastel “Looking Glass Falls in Pisgah Forest.”

Free virtual demonstration: Costanza Knight – Introduction and About the Artist
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ The Art League

The watermedia and mixed media paintings, drawings, and monotype prints of Costanza Knight, also known as Connie Knight, are contemporary expressions that explore and celebrate the human form and the landscape. Poetry and narratives are often her creative touchstone, but she also takes inspiration from the landscapes she loves. Her diverse interests are evident in her varied styles.

Free virtual demonstration: Costanza Knight – Print Making
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ The Art League

The watermedia and mixed media paintings, drawings, and monotype prints of Costanza Knight, also known as Connie Knight, are contemporary expressions that explore and celebrate the human form and the landscape. Poetry and narratives are often her creative touchstone, but she also takes inspiration from the landscapes she loves. Her diverse interests are evident in her varied styles.
Free virtual demonstration: Heavily textured acrylic painting–Diane Dean
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ The Art League

Diane Dean talks about the process of painting a commission painting

Acrylic Painter, Diane Dean teaches her technique for creating heavily textured acrylic paintings using heavy gesso for surface texture, fluid and heavy body acrylics, brushes and palette knives.

Free virtual demonstration: Pat Morgan – Design – Repetition and Alternation
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ The Art League

Pat has been teaching workshops for over 20 years and has received several local and regional awards and has had solo shows as well as  Kindred Spirit exhibits with her friend and colleague Janet Campbell.  She is a signature member of the North East Watercolor Society,   Audubon Artists, Inc.  and a former elected member of the New Jersey Water Color Society and the Salmagundi Club in NYC.

Free virtual demonstration: Textured acrylic painting–Diane Dean
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ The Art League

Diane Dean demonstrates using a palette knife to complete a dogwood painting.

Acrylic Painter, Diane Dean teaches her technique for creating heavily textured acrylic paintings using heavy gesso for surface texture, fluid and heavy body acrylics, brushes and palette knives.

Free Wildlife Activities Book for Kids
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ Appalachian Wildlife Refuge

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RESCUE

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REHAB

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RELEASE

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RELATE

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Appalachian Wildlife Refuge is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that coordinates wildlife rehabilitation efforts in Western North Carolina by providing care for injured and orphaned wildlife, supporting the wildlife rehabilitation network, and offering conservation education to the community.
Get Your Go Local Card
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ Asheville Grown

Supporting Local Schools

Half of your purchase price of the 2021 Go Local Card will go to a public school to enhance programming, purchase much-needed teacher supplies and support local kids.

Buy yours TODAY!

Each year, as we add more businesses and cardholders to the program, the local movement grows stronger.

Photo courtesy of Mountain Xpress

Growing Minds Farm to School Program Spring Garden Bingo
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ ASAP (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project)

Spring Garden Bingp

This spring garden bingo card comes from our Growing Minds Farm to School Program, but anyone can play! Get a printable version of the card here or find more spring learning resources for kids here.

Need to Appeal Your Tax Value?
Mar 25 all-day
online w/ Buncombe County Government

No matter how thorough and fair a reappraisal may be, there are still instances when only the property owner has all the information necessary for an accurate appraisal. Informal appeals for the tax year 2021 can be filed anytime between Jan. 1-April 28, 2021. Additionally, anyone receiving a change of value notice after April 1, 2021 has thirty days from that notice date to file an appeal.

Online Education Series: “The Story of a Cemetery, The Story of Asheville”
Mar 25 all-day
Online
Don’t miss our last installment of videos
on the South Asheville Cemetery:
Anne Chesky Smith, Executive Director of the Western North Carolina Historical Association, continues the story of the South Asheville cemetery. Located in the Kenilworth neighborhood, the cemetery was originally a place to bury enslaved people and following the Civil War continued as a burial site for African Americans until the 1940s. This final video in the series gives a broad overview of the site history. It covers stories from the first non-native settlers through the 20th century.
and in case you missed it…
Studio 52’s Dave Hart Scholarship Fund for Spring Mini-Mester
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ Flat Rock Playhouse/Studio 52
Grid of 8 photos with class
                names. Little girl playing by alphabet poster, Text -
                Story and Song. Little boy playing in astronaut costume,
                Text - Character Creation. Young girl dancing in living
                room, Text - Broadway Dance. Lucy opening wardrobe in
                The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, Text - Theatrical
                Design Basics. Person holding film slate, Text - acting
                for the camera. Hand holding microphone, Text - Your
                Words, Your Voice. Teen girl dancing with headphones,
                Text - Broadway Cardio. Script and Stuio 52 logo, Text -
                Directing: Stages of the Process.


Whether you’re looking to further your passion or you’re curious about the performing arts, Studio 52’s Spring Mini-Mester is a great way to dive into theatre! Virtual Theatre Classes are open to artists ages 5 through Adult with options in acting, Broadway dance, spoken-word poetry, on-camera technique, theatrical design, and directing.

Tuition ranges from $60-70 making this mini-mester affordable and educational. Classes begin the week of April 12 and run through the week of May 6.


Dave Hart Scholarship

Applications Due March 29

 

The Dave Hart Scholarship Fund was created in memory of Studio 52’s friend, artist, and educator Dave Hart. Dave believed that all students, no matter their background or resources, benefit from participating in theatre.

Scholarships are available for every tuition-based program at Studio 52. Applications for Spring Mini-Mester scholarships are due March 29. Applicants will be notified by April 1, of their award status.

Before you apply, find the Virtual Spring Mini-Mester class that works for you! Check the Studio 52 website for availability and class times.

Traveling Trunks – Bring the Museum to your Classroom!
Mar 25 all-day
Online w/ Western North Carolina Historical Association

Traveling Trunks and Kits are an economical way to bring the Museum to YOU! Rental fee is a refundable deposit of $15 per trunk. Trunks include many artifacts and a week of lessons.

Trunk deposits are always refundable, but if you choose to donate your deposit, these funds are used to assist students with economic needs to be able to come on field trips or to Living History Days.

Call 828-253-9231 or email [email protected] for information or to schedule your program.

Another way to bring the Museum to YOU is with an In-School Presentation!

A trained museum volunteer or staff person will present any of the above topics in your school. Programs may be presented to as many as 50 students per presentation (some are more hands-on and 25 students would be more appropriate).

Cost is $3 per student.

Choose a program, traveling trunk/kit, or suggest a custom program. Craft topics may include an extra supply fee.

Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment
Mar 25 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
The Council on Aging of Buncombe County
Medicare Advantage
Open Enrollment Period
ends March 31.
Each year, if you are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage Plan, you can switch to a different Medicare Advantage Plan or switch to Original Medicare (and join a separate Medicare drug plan) once during this time.
Our Medicare counselors are available to work with you individually to provide unbiased information about your Medicare insurance options.
Free “Introduction to Medicare” Webinar
Mar 25 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Online w/ The Council on Aging of Buncombe County
The Council on Aging of Buncombe County is presenting virtual classes on Medicare!
We explain how Medicare works,
the enrollment process, how to avoid penalties,
and ways to save money.
Pre-registration is required and you must provide an email address. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the class with further instructions.
“The slide presentation is excellent. Every point of contact with COA, including the information provided, emails, the webinar, follow-up links, etc., is well thought out and easy to use;
very polished and professional.”
– Medicare Webinar Participant
Upcoming Classes:
March 10, 2:00PM – 3:30PM
March 25, 2:00PM – 3:30PM
April 14, 2:00PM – 3:30PM
April 29, 2:00PM – 3:30PM
May 12, 5:30PM – 7:00PM
Growing Blueberries for the Home Garden Bullington Gardens
Mar 25 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Online w/ Bullington Gardens

Successfully grow and harvest tasty blueberries in your own home garden. Area Extension Specialized Agent Craig Mauney will share practices on getting blueberries established and growing well, how to prune, pest problems and which are the best varieties for our area. ZOOM class.

Youth Studio at Asheville Art Museum: Art After School (Grades K–2)
Mar 25 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Asheville Art Museum

Spend your afternoons creating in the bright and spacious studio at the Museum! Explore a range of artistic processes using artwork on view from the Museum’s Collection and special exhibitions for inspiration. Space is limited to small groups of up to eight students; face coverings and social distancing are required. Generous support for this program is provided by Walnut Cove Member Association. More info and register by March 10

ONLINE Lecture Series – “Bonsai at The North Carolina Arboretum: More Than Meets the Eye”
Mar 25 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Online w/ NC Arboretum

Join us for “Bonsai at The North Carolina Arboretum: More Than Meets the Eye,” a six-part series of online lectures led by Bonsai Curator Arthur Joura and special guests who will be taking an inspiring in-depth look into the ancient art of Bonsai and the creative ways in which the practice has been adapted here at the Arboretum.
The series kicks off this Thursday, January 28, at 4 p.m., and Adult Education is thrilled to present this first session FREE to Arboretum members!
Virtual Musical Theatre 3rd – 5th Grades w/ Studio 52
Mar 25 @ 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm
Online

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“Getting to know you…” Meaningfully connect and collaborate with young artists from across the country in this virtual musical theatre class featuring Broadway songs about friendship! In high-energy zoom classes combining singing, acting, and movement, students will hone their theatrical skills while developing a virtual musical revue shared with friends and family at the end of the semester.