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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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We can’t bring Carter Sickels to Malaprop’s as originally planned but we’re pleased to be part of the Reader Meet Writer Okra Pick series of online events hosted by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance.
The event is free but registration is required. Please CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. You can pre-order the book below.
If you elect to attend, we will email you on the day of the event with the link & password required to attend on Zoom.
Small-town Appalachia doesn’t have a lot going for it, but it’s where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he’s chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place, and family, he was once so desperate to escape. Set in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson’s death shifted the public consciousness of the epidemic and brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America, The Prettiest Star is part Dog Years by Mark Doty and part Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt. But it is also an urgent story now: it a novel about the politics and fragility of the body; it is a novel about sex and shame. And it is a novel that speaks to the question of what home and family means when we try to forge a life for ourselves in a world that can be harsh and unpredictable. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding, and zeroes in on the moments where those two forces reach for each other, and sometimes touch.
Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award, and has been awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, VCCA, and the MacDowell Colony. His essays and fiction have appeared in various publications, including Guernica, Bellevue Literary Review, and BuzzFeed, and he is the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity. Carter is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University, where he teaches in the Bluegrass Writers Studio Low-Residency MFA program. He lives in Lexington, KY. He will be in conversation with Wiley Cash, author of The Last Ballad.
Like most of our events, this event is free. If you decide to attend and to purchase a book by the author, we ask that you purchase it from Malalprop’s. When you do this you are supporting the work it takes to run an events program, telling publishers that they should send authors here, and keeping more dollars in our community. Thank you!
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Mr. Rogers 143 Day:
Since Free Comic Book Day has been indefinitely delayed and with the state of the world as it is it is more important than ever to remember Mr. Rogers message of “I Love You” (143).
In the meantime, we will be celebrating our own customer appreciation day by giving away hundreds of free comics, costume contest (post to follow for how to send in your entry), prizes, virtual live show performances, individually wrapped candy, games, & balloon tigers.
**This is a masked, social distanced, 3 person at a time maximum event where if you would prefer we will run your goodie swag bags out to you curbside.
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FOR MORE DETAILS:
Call- (828) 505-4003
Email- [email protected]
#wnc143 #nerdsanctuary
YOUTUBE LINK HOLIDAY PROMO:
https://youtu.be/dzSd5l94Jq8
Join us on Zoom for a conversation with authors and Pulitzer Prize winning reporters Dionne Searcey and Michael Rothfeld. Serving as moderator will be Jennifer Forsyth, Deputy Chief of Investigations at The Wall Street Journal and Searcey and Rothfeld’s former editor.
The event is free but registration is required. Please click here to register.
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Please join author Constance Lombardo for a very special virtual program presented by Buncombe County Libraries. Ms. Lombardo will read from her new book “Everybody Says Meow” and then teach you how to draw your very own kittens! Rumor has it that some silly puppets might even make an appearance. Afterwards there will be a short Q&A session where you can ask her a question!
The program will be presented via ZOOM on Saturday, May the 23rd at 4pm.
Link: https://zoom.us/j/97333483725
Password: puffball
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Join us to hear four unique women who live and work right in our community share their stories of juggling business and personal life, being challenged to lead, and learning to say “no” without feeling guilty.
- Leah Wong Ashburn, Highland Brewing Company and 2019 Woman Executive of the Year
- Jennifer Pharr Davis, Blue Ridge Hiking Company and 2019 Woman Entrepreneur, Best in Business
- Cristina Hall Ackley, Ginger’s Revenge and 2019 Rising Star award winner
- Libby Kyles, chief executive officer of YWCA Asheville
New registration process for online workshops!
Be sure to ‘like’ and ‘follow’ Songs Sealed Delivered Party Entertainment and join us LIVE on Facebook for a FREE Storytime with our very own Uni the Unicorn Princess.
You may also schedule a private chat or Zoom Party for up to 8 kids on this day for the discounted pricing listed on our virtual services menu.
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