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.
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Join us for a night of all things Shameless on Showtime! Lagunitas Brewing Co will be sampling out great beer and providing awesome prizes! Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and best team name! Cheers everyone!
https://www.facebook.com/events/768285816875998/
Come out and see what the fuss is all about! Team Trivia Tuesday at Sanctuary Brewing Company with host Josh Dunkin!
Team Trivia Western NC & The Upstate of SC is every Tuesday at 7 PM at Sanctuary Brewing Company on 1st Avenue in Downtown Hendersonville! There is no limit to how many people can participate on each team. You can have 1 or 20!
The game is free to play and the top two teams each week receive a gift card of $40 (1st place) and $20 (2nd place).
https://www.facebook.com/events/281414405828018/?event_time_id=281414442494681
Join us each Tuesday evening at 7pm for Trivia night at Refinery 13! Teams may consist of 1-6 players and prizes are awarded to first and second place teams each week!
https://www.facebook.com/events/395895714508426/?event_time_id=395895851175079
Test your Friend’s knowledge! We know you’ve binge watched it enough. Prizes for the winners and best team name!
https://www.facebook.com/events/418316678709964/
Jeff Tweedy
plus Jim Elkington
Show: 7:30pm
Doors: 6:30pm
$35 – $40
Ages 18+
Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/jeff-tweedy/
A PERSON GETS TO A CERTAIN STAGE IN LIFE — I’m there myself — no longer in the throes of child-raising (that magnificent distraction), when he starts to think of death not as some abstraction that happens to other people but as a big, indifferent train that, even at this moment, is rolling out of a station located at an unknown, but not infinite, distance away. “Isn’t it time, now, to finally be happy?” the universe starts asking, along with a second, complicating question: “But how can I be happy in a world like this?” Put another way: we seem born to love, and yet everything here is conditional (i.e., comes to an end). How should we live when the huge piano labeled “Death” is eventually going to fall, not only on us, but on everyone we love?
This album is, it seems to me, an answer. Or, more than an answer, it’s a nod to the validity of the question.
Should I be wary of life or enjoy it? the listener asks.
Yes, Jeff Tweedy says.
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After many years of asking myself what art is for, I’ve arrived at this: the role of the artist is to reach across space and time and console — to offer, not a cure or a prescription, but, rather, non-trivial consolation.
Jeff is our great, wry, American consolation-poet. I don’t mean this abstractly: to see him play is to find yourself in a crowd of people being actively consoled — being moved, reassured, validated, made to feel like part of a dynamic aural friendship. Jeff told me once that what he’s trying to communicate to his listener is: “You’re OK. You’re not alone. I’m singing to you, but I also hear you.” A testimony to the value Jeff places on this connection: after playing a number of solo acoustic shows in 2016 and 2017, he decided to make an album of those songs that seemed to speak most directly to those audiences. WARM is that album.
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Great art is really just great personhood in compressed form — a distillation of a human being that thrums with that being’s exact flavor. I’ve had this feeling meeting writers like David Foster Wallace, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison: a sense that years of hard work had refined what was personal in them into work that, though infused with particularity, has blossomed into universality. I have this feeling about Jeff and his music. The true mark of style in any art form is that, within a few seconds, you know who the artist is. Listen to five seconds of WARM and you’ll know it’s Jeff — by the sound of the guitars (the musical heart of the album is the circa-1930s Martin 0-18 that has been heard, at least a little, on every Wilco album, and is used on every track on this record) and by that magnificent voice: friendly (but formidable); tender (yet skeptical); edgy (but warm); but also by some other quality that seems, once things get going, to be present even in the pauses, some essential Jeffness that has come to be a vital component of my inner life over my many years of listening to him.
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For a long time now, it seems to me, our culture has assumed that the function of art is to warn, to blame, to critique, to scoff, to dismiss. And those are some of its functions, for sure. But an art that only does those things is destructive. Destruction already being the dominant mode of our culture, we don’t need any more of it. Anyone who advocates “burning down the house” has likely never been inside a building on fire. By what do we really live? Our lives — our real lives — are made almost wholly of attempts at tenderness. We work hard on behalf of those we love, daydream about their future happiness, go out of our way to save them even the slightest pain, comfort them when the pain arrives just the same.
Jeff is, to my mind, a warrior for kindness, who has made tenderness an acceptable rock-n-roll virtue. By “tenderness” I don’t mean that New Age thing, where someone drives a spike through your head and you place hands palm-to-palm and do a cheesy deep bow while thanking them for the new coat rack. No: Tweedy-tenderness is sophisticated and badass and funny. It proceeds from strength and good humor and does not preclude being angry or tough or peeved. It is based on the premise that you are as real as he is and as deserving of attention, and that the world is worthy of our full and fearless interest, just as it is.
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A poet is someone who lets language respond to language, trusting that meaning and sound are good friends who, given a little room, will work things out. Jeff writes by getting a musical track together and then humming / mumbling along until he finds a melody, which will start forming itself into words and phrases, while he waits patiently to see what he has been wanting to say. This is a remarkably sensitive method that lets meaning come out on its own terms, as subtly or overtly as it likes, and I am somehow put in mind of fireflies (lightning bugs, as we used to call them in Chicago), swelling into brightness and then being gone, as you ask yourself: did I just see that?
Certain lyrical flowers sprout up with regularity across the ten song-yards that are this record. A son who has lost a father sings to his wife, his sons, that father. There are apologies, and mirror-twins; threats to enemies (“I’d love to take you down / and leave you there”) and entreaties (“Let’s go rain again!”) and dreamy challenges (“I wonder how much freedom we can dream”) and ornery morphings of language that serve a simple function: they make the listener love language again.
“I leave behind / a trail of songs,” Jeff sings in “Bombs above,” “From the darkest gloom / to the brightest sun.”
What can a song do in this world? Well, you know. It can open a person right up. It can jolt you out of some bullshit state of mind, of sloth, of hubris. It can make that dead world out there suddenly come alive. It can make you (father, husband, son / mother, wife, daughter) newly aware that time is short and whatever love you have had better get spent, pronto. It can make you fond of things — and of the writer — for causing all of that newness to appear in your tired, old, habituated mind, which, under the influence of the song, is a kid again, on a summer day.
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WARM is one of the most joyful, celebratory, infectious collections of songs I’ve heard in a long time. It’s intimate and yet vast and feels lovingly made, by actual people, in some particular place, and not inside a computer. As I was listening, I kept picturing a tight little cabin in the woods somewhere (the woods of Chicago?) under a big yellow moon, with four or five Jeffs in there all playing different instruments, and Spencer on drums, and Susie and Sammy are there too, and there’s a fire going, and a feeling of love and discovery and fondness in the smoky air.
Also in there, I think, is the spirit of Jeff’s father, Bob Tweedy, who passed away in 2017. His death was, as Jeff puts it, “the death that most people would sign up for.” That is: he had what is called a “good death.” There was some concern that the family might not make it to his side on time, but they did, and he passed surrounded by love, everyone rising to that profound occasion, and apparently there may have been some singing involved. This is not the death everyone gets, but Jeff’s father got it, that strange and much-to-be-desired blessing. How must it affect one’s view of the world to see someone you love, at the end of his life, get the merciful gift of a dignified release? And so, one of the things I find coursing through this record is gratitude, even joy, that such a thing can happen, along with a sense of wonder at the realization that death, for as much as we fear it, does not actually negate anything, or anything essential.
“Oh, I don’t believe in heaven,” Jeff sings, in the title track, “I keep some heat inside. Like a red brick in the summer: warm when the sun has died.” What’s the red brick? That would be us, you and me. And Jeff too. Where does that warmth come from? What is that mysterious thing that is sustaining us, moment to moment (even in this moment), by infusing us with love and curiosity and a desire to go on?
Exactly, says Jeff.
— George Saunders
www.wilcoworld.net
https://www.facebook.com/events/574539919650976/
Another Country is progressive bluegrass. Their music is a truly unique blend of the thoughtful songwriting of country music, the infectious ear-candy of pop music and the artful beauty of acoustic bluegrass music.
Every Tuesday evening Isis presents our Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions. The sessions are hosted each week by a local bluegrass musician with friends or a band. Following the host band, Bluegrass musicians from the Asheville area gather on stage to jam in an open session. Occasionally, we feature a touring band that will perform prior to the open session and help co-host the jam. It’s always a great evening of music and community.
https://www.facebook.com/events/619586705171421/
Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 1
Mendelssohn: String Quartet, Op. 80
Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67
The New York Times recently lauded the Takács Quartet for “revealing the familiar as unfamiliar, making the most traditional of works feel radical once more”, and the Financial Times described a recent concert at the Wigmore Hall: “Even in the most fiendish repertoire these players show no fear, injecting the music with a heady sense of freedom. At the same time, though, there is an uncompromising attention to detail: neither a note nor a bow-hair is out of place.” Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess.
Classical Guitar Performances by Andy Jurik and Christopher Crecelius, accompanied by the beautiful vocals of Rachel Hansbury.
Andy (Dizzy) Jurik and Chris Crecelius present both Traditional and Modern compositions for the classical guitar, highlighting their works which include their arrangements of “Danza Paraguya” & “Estudio en Si Menor” – composer Barios, “Big Brother” – composer Stephane Wremble, “Bistro Fada” known recently from Woody Allen’s movie “Midnight in Paris”, Bach, and more. Many evenings will include a special performance by vocalist Rachel Hansbury, singing Sous le Ciel – composer Ernesto Cordero, a special Carter Family tune, and classic Edith Piaf, accompanied by Andy Jurik. $5 at the door.
A cheese plate and lite bite menu is available, including a featured “Cheese, Wine & Chocolate” special each Tuesday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/372028070041838/?event_time_id=372028083375170
Start from the beginning and learn the fundamentals of spins, climbs, and sexy dance moves on the static and spin pole! This concentrated eight week series is great for building strength and a quicker understanding of the mechanics, timing, and grace that is helpful for pole dancing.
We will focus on the static pole for the first 6 weeks and move to an introduction of the beauty of spin pole for the last two.
Pole dancing is fun, an amazing workout, and sensually expressive. Enjoy learning with the same group of students each week who are all brand new to pole.
Bring heels because they are fun to dance in and a lot less intimidating than they seem!
$128 for the series. Reserve your spot here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=330572&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0
https://www.facebook.com/events/624852267970616/?event_time_id=624852281303948
10pm
21+
Donation$
One Stop
Join us downstairs during Funk Jam for an all-star local cast of rotating DJ’s spinnin’ vinyl and scratchin’ like there’s no tomorrow!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2261496624135396/?event_time_id=2261496667468725
Tuesday Night Funk Jam – 11PM – Ca$h Donation$ – 21+
EVERY Tuesday at Asheville Music Hall!
Tuesday Night Funk Jam has been a huge part of Asheville’s vibrant music scene since 2008 and is #Asheville’s hottest weekly concert.
Tuesday Night Funk Jam is programmed and orchestrated by an evolved Legendary House Band with trombonist Derrick Lee Johnson at the helm.
At 11PM sharp, the Legendary House Band kicks off the night followed by opening up the stage to jam to our local community of musicians for an ‘Open Jam’.
While this is an amazing opportunity for musicians to network and refine their musical chops it is ALSO an event for the people who support our music scene and need a night to shake their hips to the best funk around town!
Regularly, nationally touring musicians, TONIGHT funk jam is going to be off the chain. We have Lee Allen (of Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band) jumping back in with The Legendary House Band. Come out to the Asheville Music Hall tonight and help us kick off the first funk jam of 2019. We start at 11pm. #asheville #noplacelikehome #makemusiceveryday #mftnfj
https://www.facebook.com/events/786766998382570/?event_time_id=786767035049233
Adding a Southeast destination for designer toy makers and collectors, *Assembly Required brings designer, bootleg and art toy artists from around the country, to present and sell their work.
Asheville’s premiere designer toy expo, *Assembly Required, is presented by Unboxing Asheville, Morgan’s Comic’s, 103.3 Asheville FM and Appalachian Pinball Museum. Focusing on this artistic movement, designer toys are a form of lowbrow pop art. These toy makers pull inspiration from a variety of subversive segments of culture, as well as subcultural elements, including (but not limited to) comics, tattooing, street art, and everything related to toys of the 60’s through the 80’s.
Echoing production methods of traditional toy manufacturers, designer toys are usually intended to be displayed as collectibles, rather than to be played with. Toy makers mediums range from resin to vinyl, from plastic to plush; with molding, and production techniques such as kitbash, sofubi and bootleg (recently coined ‘Artisanal Action Figure’, by New York Times writer, Rich Juzwiak [11/23/18]). (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/style/bootleg-toys-action-figures.html).
Juzwiak interviews such artists as the Sucklord and Killer Bootlegs, both of whom will be present at *Assembly Required.
Start your no-obligation free 14 day trial any day of the week (see our class schedule link below). 12 women ages 35 to 55 are invited to be part of an exclusive FREE trial of dance fitness classes at Jazzercise South Asheville Fitness Studio. Take at least 5 classes within 14 days, then offer honest feedback via survey. When complete, you will receive a $50 credit towards registration (making the JF $0 for you!).
Check out the BEFORE & AFTER photos of real results from Jazzercise! Space is limited! To be a part of the trial group, please direct message us with the class day and time you would like to begin. For a complete class schedule, visit: https://jcls.jazzercise.com/facility/jazzercise-south-asheville-fitness-center
*Must begin your trial no later than April 15. Available to new clients only. Message us while spots are still available! Please arrive 15 minutes before your 1st class and bring a clean-bottomed pair of athletic shoes you can change into for class (dirt, sand, and tiny rocks will scratch our new studio floors).
https://www.facebook.com/events/2294581184153215/?event_time_id=2294581190819881
Description: Winter can be the most beautiful time of the year at Chimney Rock. Leafless trees make for expansive views of Lake Lure and the Hickory Nut Gorge. The sky is clear; you’re likely to find a quiet spot to sit and enjoy the peacefulness. You may even see a critter scamper by you in the forest. Capture that special moment or scene on your camera, enter it in our Winter Wonders Photo Contest and tell us about it. We’ll use the winning entries on our website and Facebook album, and you’ll win some fun prizes. Photos must be taken within the Chimney Rock section of the Park.
Cost: No additional cost to enter.
https://www.facebook.com/events/267246603967105/?event_time_id=267246700633762
Description: Winter can be the most beautiful time of the year at Chimney Rock. Leafless trees make for expansive views of Lake Lure and the Hickory Nut Gorge. The sky is clear; you’re likely to find a quiet spot to sit and enjoy the peacefulness. You may even see a critter scamper by you in the forest. Capture that special moment or scene on your camera, enter it in our Winter Wonders Photo Contest and tell us about it. We’ll use the winning entries on our website and Facebook album, and you’ll win some fun prizes. Photos must be taken within the Chimney Rock section of the Park.
Cost: No additional cost to enter.
https://www.facebook.com/events/267246603967105/
STORYTIME & ART
Our programs for preschool and school-age students are back at a library near you! Storytime & Art is for preschool aged students accompanied by an adult. Come join in the fun with stories and songs, then make a hands-on art project just for the little ones!
Meet us at Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sand Hill Road, Candler 28715) on third Wednesdays at 10:30am!
https://www.facebook.com/events/395454394550983/
Join us every Wednesday for $3 Pints of Good Fight and a the perfect chilly weeknight activity. . .board games!
https://www.facebook.com/events/342227486373185/?event_time_id=342227516373182
Come help Mark celebrate his 57th Birthday! Live music thru out the day, Birthday Cake at 5:00 pm, drink specials all day and other food specials too.
https://www.facebook.com/events/304579166837796/
Season’s at Highland Lake will be hosting Wine Down Wednesday from January through April with half priced bottles of wine under $50 with the purchase of a main course lunch item or a dinner entrée!
Follow the link for our wine menu: https://hliresort.com/seasons/menu/drinks-wine/
https://www.facebook.com/events/340034079930377/?event_time_id=340034116597040
Looking to transform your audience into champions and supporters of your non-profit’s vision and mission? Tell them a story. Scientifically proven as a more effective approach, stories anchor, inspire and motivate our intended audiences into greater engagement and action.
Barrie Barton will demonstrate how to weave these stories into our presentations, ways to collect these stories and the benefits of developing a story culture within our organizations.
Barrie Barton is the founder and lead facilitator of Stand and Deliver, a presentation and communication skills coaching firm for corporate professionals and teams. Stand and Deliver Asheville combines Barton’s decades of experience as a facilitator, educator, director and performer to uniquely develop the art and skill of dynamic presentations and effective communication for all who participate.
https://www.facebook.com/events/609437272847136/
Unfortunately, this class has been canceled.
What’s Bugging My Trees, David Coyle
Bugs, fungus, and plants, oh my! There are countless things that can impact the growth and health of trees, both in a forest and in your yard. We’ll take a look at some of the most common tree pests in the Upstate, including bark & ambrosia beetles, various fungi, and some non-native plants. This Lunch & Learn will be a hands on experience, with examples to pass around to the attendees.
https://www.facebook.com/events/624761074649774/
This 2 half-days workshop (you attend both days) is a quick and intensive way to get the tools needed to write a business plan in one-week. The workshop will take place over two days in a one-week period with fast paced sessions covering the following topics: marketing, operations, financials, entrepreneur role, capital funding and business planning.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2122133104764523/
Join Stu Helm: Food Fan for the Mac N Cheese Challenge
March 20th, 1:30 – 3:00pm
The Will be 10 Area Competitors for this Challenge
(To Be Announced, So Check Back and Better Yet Get Your Favorites To Enter)
This Event Will Have a Total of 6 Judges
(3) Adults and (3) Kid Judges ~ Who Better than Kids to Judges Their Favorite Meal Mac N Cheese…
This Challenge is Sponsored by:
Dig Local
Shay Brown Events
FireWalker Hot Sauce
Stu Helm: Food Fan
Takeout Central
Asheville Masonic Temple
WPMV 103.7 FM
This event is a fundraiser for the Asheville Masonic Temple Foundation
Only Open to 40 Guest ~ So Get Your Tickets Now!
All attendees will receive a sample of each 10 competitors Mac N Cheese for $20.00 in order to eat and sample all the Mac N Cheese. Y’all that is 20 oz of Mac N Cheese…
This donation goes toward the restoration and preservation of the Asheville Masonic Temple Historical Hand Painted Theater Back Drops…
The event is Open to 40 General Public Attendees with Registration and Presentation of Event Brite Ticket and Donation of $ 20.00 to sample all Mac N Cheese!
This event will be live Streamed by Dig Local for the Public to Watch ~ Only the First 40 Attendees will get a Golden Ticket to Eat Mac N Cheese.
You must register and present your ticket for an accurate headcount for this event!
There will be NO DAY OF TICKETS Sold for Food ~ you must register and present ticket!
Stay Tuned for Judges to Be Announced and Competitors..
We look forward to feeding Asheville Again…
https://www.facebook.com/events/305502856833317/
This yoga therapy class series will offer yoga for all levels (no experience necessary), and include supportive techniques for stress management and healing while in the grief process and a safe space to deeply relax. 4 students maximum. Continuing Education credits available from Yoga Alliance
https://www.facebook.com/events/354023548779193/?event_time_id=354023568779191
For 4th-6th graders
Through improv and movement games, students will explore story structure focusing on how the beginning, middle, and end work together to introduce characters that develop through crisis and lead to resolution. We will discover how protagonists interact with an antagonist to change through a story. Students will learn to develop and then act out a story as a group.
8 Sessions for only $120
https://www.facebook.com/events/526963791116441/?event_time_id=526963804449773
This new class in our Fitness Center will incorporate Qigong, strengthening, mediation and yoga. This class is geared to all ages and gender, especially male golfers.
Qigong is a practice that typically involves moving meditation, slow flowing movement and deep rhythmic breathing that provides a calm meditative state of mind.
Classes are $10.00/person.
This class will be lead by instructor Dr. John Akers. Dr. Akers is a recently retired Wofford language professor and classical guitarist who has taught wellness classes at Wofford, the Spartanburg YMCA, and Zen Garden. Dr. Akers played and coached collegiate soccer, has practiced meditation over 40 years, and teaches a daily routine of yoga and core strengthening enhanced by Qigong energy play. Dr. Akers is also an avid golfer committed to carrying his own clubs, without a cart.
https://www.facebook.com/events/407581593350375/?event_time_id=407581623350372
On select Wednesdays, we’re giving 10% of our food sales at Black Mountain Ale House and $1 for every beer purchased from Black Mountain Brewing to Bounty & Soul — a nonprofit creating healthier communities by providing fresh healthy food, nutrition literacy and health & wellness resources.
Let’s give back to our local community!
https://www.facebook.com/events/340921139966891/?event_time_id=344955762896762
Select a wine on draft and fill a plēb urban winery 500mL or 1L growler for a reduced price (see menu for availability and pricing). Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.
https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/?event_time_id=859748754386258
Grades 6-12 are invited to learn a new tabletop game every month on the 3rd Wednesday.
Jan 16: Kingdomino
Feb 20: Guillotine
March 20: Exploding Kittens
*April 24: Codenames
May 15: King of Tokyo
*4th Wednesday due to spring break.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2005089296252730/?event_time_id=2005089312919395
The Full Moon offers us the ability & invitation to see with the fullest light of truth. We feel a readiness, a completion, a fullness, a release (real-ease). This time of ‘fullest illumination’ supports the deepened inner work because we have the most energy and possibility to serve an amplified and lasting transformation. We gather in this space to let. it. all. go. and create space for what we deeply desire. This smaller group allows for the big inner alchemy… similar to a one-on-one deep healing session while being held in an intimate ceremonial container and circle of sisters.
~ Step into the alchemy of sacred ceremonial space
~ Journey with soul-level experiential energy medicine & breathwork
~ Receive guidance, healing, and support from the seen and unseen
~ Re-Presence into & Re-Member the infinite inner wellspring of Wisdom
~ Expand your relationship with yourself as Healer, Healed, and Whole
~ Attune to the frequency of your deepest yes
~ Clear out anything keeping you from feeling free, wild, limitless, expansive, & true
This is the space to dive in to what is needing attention, healing, fortifying, purifying, clearing, activating, alchemizing, actualizing. We will work with all that needs to be seen, felt, held, and honored to support your forward movement.
The Breathwork system we use takes us on journey through an altered state of consciousness accessed by the breath. This Breathwork supports a deep REmembering of who we really are. Through this shifted state and increased awareness, we can experience wholeness, crystal clarity, deeply therapeutic transformation, rapid healing, personal empowerment, and boundless self-exploration. This is not similar to breathing techniques used in yoga or meditation that bring upon calm and relax the mind. This is an activated state that shifts the brain chemistry to “get the mind out of the way” and truly experience your infinite self. Connect with guides, ancestors, your inner medicine keeper, and clear insights that are soul-inspired, tangibly accessed, and deeply felt.
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This is a space for aligning with our own unique brilliance, cultivating easeful connections with the divine within, and remembering that we are infinitely supported both in the seen and the unseen. We create a sacred container for seeding transformation, attuning to the frequency of our desires, nourishing our hearts with the heart of circle, and receiving energy medicine to support the ever-unfoldment of our journeys.
Sometimes we are cosmically called in to radical transformation, and sometimes we need to soften in to a space where we are held in the loving power of sisterhood… any expression of your divine self is honored here.
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This circle is held in South Asheville.
Address and information sent via email after registration.
Space is limited. Pre-registration required & spaces fill quickly.
Energetic exchange $40
Register at http://www.jessicaricchetti.com/sacred-circle
https://www.facebook.com/events/2283166418561586/