Calendar of Events

NC Songsmiths is an organization that produces tour series for songwriters from or based out of NC. Brian Hill’s unmistakable voice, memorable songs and lyrical bass stylings have been the sonic backbone of his internationally touring rock-reggae band Regatta 69.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1000389803488940/

Continue celebrating the Grateful Dead concert experience!

Stream and download high-quality mastered soundboards: nugs.net/browse/artists/291/Dark-Star-Orchestra-mp3-flac-downloads/shows/

Full live performance from Red Rocks here: youtube.com/watch?v=S32MvSp4zHQ

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Looking ahead to our annual three day music festival, Dark Star Jubilee!
More info and tickets at DarkStarJubilee.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/588150704972669/

El Dub returns to the Pisgah Brewing taproom stage on Thursday April 11th. Free show, starting at 8PM.
MORE INFO: http://www.pisgahbrewing.com/shows/el-dub/
FOOD TRUCK: TBA
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One Man, Reggae, Funk, Hip Hop, Soul band with a high energy, and intricate “looping” style mixed with a positive uplifting message creating a laid back, “no worries”, feel good type of vibe! El Dub plays all instruments live in real time, including, beat boxing, guitar, bass, keys and harmonizing vocals and loops them into layers that end up sounding like a full band with just one man!

https://www.facebook.com/events/376119333154188/

A Fundraiser for Amazon Conservation Team and Survival International featuring music by

Black Sea Beat Society
Tashi Dorji
House and Land
Mountain Bitters
Lunar Creature

At least 11,200 years ago, humans began living in the Amazon. This heritage, which includes over 400 different tribes, is under new attack from Brazil’s recently elected president, Jair Bolsonaro. Within hours of taking office, he issued executive orders that target indigenous people, the LGBT community and descendants of slaves. Illegal logging and mining pose mortal threats to indigenous people, through the spread of disease and mercury poisoning as well as social issues including prostitution and displacement. By slashing government funds that monitor and seek justice for illegal activity on indigenous land, comparing indigenous people living on protected lands to zoo animals and swearing to halt demarcation of indigenous land, deforestation rose 13.7% as he gained traction in the election, the highest increase in a decade . One in ten species in our world lives in the Amazon rainforest and 60% of the Amazon is in Brazil, giving this ancient forest unparalleled biodiversity. Rainforests are non-renewable resources. When logged and mined, erosion washes away necessary minerals for regrowth. The new threats unleashed by Bolsonaro is of concern to us all. These are some of the reasons we are raising money for Amazon Conservation Team and Survival International. Leading to millions of acres or protected forest, both of these organizations partner with indigenous people to protect their ancestral lands and ways of life.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2616430638387791/

P-I-N-G! Paddle on down and have a ball! Ping pong starts at 8 pm! 1st place gets you a FIFTY DOLLAR bar tab. Every second Thursday at Noble Kava! Meet us in the back room!

The Subdudes w/ Kerri Powers at The Grey Eagle

https://www.facebook.com/events/2229332180688446/

Super duper ecstatic to be coming back to Asheville! I love you all so much and can’t wait to play the new tunes and show you all the new art I’ve been making!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2015692905390994/

$20 Advance / $20 Day of Show

Laugh, cry, clap along with Amy Steinberg once again in our main hall. Amy is a bluesy, folky rock singer songwriter like none other, uplifting and thought provoking. For a night of joyful mayhem, come out to play.

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

https://www.facebook.com/events/340083183258802/

come out for a night of amazing tunes! such a fun a stacked bill.

anywhere from here- asheville emo

https://fieldayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/if-it-meant-that-you-could-stay

convalescent- local twinkle folk

feelings club- bedroom pop but with a punch

https://feelingsclubnc.bandcamp.com/album/know-all-your-enemies

https://www.facebook.com/events/278619706371606/

Genre: Progressive Sci-Fi Middle Eastern Fusion
Tickets: adv. $10 / dos. $12
Show: 9PM (Doors: 8PM)
Ages: 21+

Consider the Source w/ LITZ

NYC trio Consider the Source defy easy description. If intergalactic beings of pure energy, after initiation into an order of whirling dervishes, built some kind of pan-dimensional booty-shaking engine, powered by psychedelics and abstract math, it’d probably just sound like a CTS tribute band. Drawing from progressive rock, fusion and jazz, with alien sounds soaked in Indian and Middle Eastern styles, CTS blends disparate parts into a striking, utterly original whole. Dubbed “Sci-Fi Middle Eastern Fusion”, the band’s music strikes a rare balance between cerebral and emotional, intellectual and primal. A relentless touring schedule has won the band a fervent following from California to Israel, with fans ranging from jam-band hippies and jazz cats to corpse-painted headbangers and prog geeks.
Formed in 2004, Consider the Source features Gabriel Marin on fretless double-neck guitar, bassist John Ferrara, and drummer/percussionist Jeff Mann. Called “the guiding light for his generation of six-stringers”, Marin channels the mystical fury of McLaughlin and Coltrane into wailing melodies, kaleidoscopic soundscapes and boneshaking riffs. With a background in classical musics both Eurpoean and Indian, and an instinct for avant-jazz and destructive metal, Marin’s hypnotic fusion of styles is ever unpredictable. Ferrara’s propulsive, percussive attack, equally suited to simple grooves and impossible chords, can ground the music or launch it into space. His madcap gumbo of slap bass, Indian rhythms, earthy minimalism and complex tapping constantly pushes into strange new worlds, whilst still dropping thick booty-clap beats. Underneath them lies Mann’s rolling thunder; dense rhythmic architecture built from pure swagger and bounce. Half double-bass prog-metal, half crackle-pop Buddy Rich swing, with African and Balkan swirls, Mann’s muscular, freewheeling polyrhythms are the engine fuel for Consider’s multiversal mischief. Even when not improvising, Consider’s music is always a conversation, a roiling stew of dynamic interplay. Each member of Consider the Source alternately leads and follows, spars and assists; in any single song, alliances are made and broken, bargains struck and divorces finalized.
Touring from coast to coast, as well as Europe and the Middle East, has not only earned the band thousands of fans, but has allowed them to perform with a wide variety of well-known artists, including Victor Wooten, Wayne Krantz, King Crimson Projekt, Kris Myers (Umphrey’s McGee), Wyclef Jean, Andy Statman, Matt Darriau (Paradox Trio), Oteil Burbridge, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Dumpstaphunk, Keller Williams, George Porter, Jr., Jeff Sipe, Panzerballet (Germany), Eatliz (Israel), Freak Kitchen (Sweden), Morglbl (France), and many others. They have performed at numerous festivals and events, including Burning Man, Gathering of the Vibes, the NYC Fretless Guitar Festival, Catskill Chill, Sun Seekers Ball (Canada), Aura Music & Arts Festival (Florida), Jazz Fest (New Orleans), Head For The Hills Festival & SXSW (Texas), Rootwire (Ohio), and the NYC Gypsy Festival. The band’s latest release, “World War Trio (Part 1)” (2014) is available at considerthesourcemusic.bandcamp.com.

vid: https://youtu.be/ZgPxonn-iew
web: http://www.considerthesourcemusic.com

LITZ

LITZ brings together a wide array of musical influences ranging from funk, jam, go-go, soul, electronica and just about everywhere inbetween to amalgamate a new sound for the ears of the world. Their sound strides to sonically transport it’s listeners to another planet free of the stress, struggles, and tribulations of modern day life through the use of funky horn riffs, wah-wah keys, pounding bass, driving/progressive rhythms and melt your face guitar.

web: https://www.litzmusic.com
vid: https://youtu.be/8-hXA_WN2jg

https://www.facebook.com/events/324233754879958/

Space Tyger is hitting the road, and coming back to Asheville! Joined by locals Tin Foil Hat, and Half|State.

Space Tyger – Muscle Shoals, AL
spacetygermusic.com

Tin Foil Hat – Asheville, NC
www.tinfoilhatmusic.bandcamp.com

Half|State – Asheville, NC
http://kcnifhsoj.com/music.html

https://www.facebook.com/events/389588351894756/

Genre: Funktronica
Cover: $5 Donations @ Door
Show: 10PM
Ages: 21+

Tweed

Philadelphia’s funktronica powerhouse, Tweed, is filling dance floors with their high-energy fusion of funk, disco, progressive rock, and electronica. Just as their namesake fabric of mingling colors and textures, Tweed has interwoven a psychedelic web of high energy performance and improvisation. Their collaboration can take listeners from multi-layered visions through the psyche to sweaty, raging, disco dance parties driven by their own incessant beat. With national tours, countless festival appearances, and a uniquely cohesive sound, they have proven they can bring the fun anywhere they go.

web: https://www.tweedmusic.com/
vid: https://youtu.be/Qii4SoO_BPY

https://www.facebook.com/events/453011188850738/

Catch Lil Meow Meow Plays your favorite R&B and Rap jams every Thursday night! No cover. Party at Aux from 10pm-2am.

https://www.facebook.com/events/503021823559298/?event_time_id=503021866892627

This Friday!!!
End your week with a sunrise SUP Yoga practice! ??‍♀️

No board? No problem, @southernraftsupply has you covered, $5 board rentals available!

Strengthen core muscles and balance, improve flexibility, breathe in the fresh spring air, connect with nature and our beautiful French Broad river ! Get your FLOW on with us! ☺️

All levels welcome!!! ?

Check out our site for more details and registration!

Class space limited, sign up on our website:
https://www.solflow.yoga/

Vanessa Caruso RYT 200/ SUP Yoga Instructor
Sol Flow Yoga, Asheville NC
https://www.solflow.yoga

Follow us on social media to stay in the loop!
FB: https://www.facebook.com/solflowasheville/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solflowyogaasheville/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/events/654521868337227/

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=2294581267486540

Join Shannon Paris, Realtor of Asheville’s Dream Team – Keller Williams Biltmore Village for a morning networking event in the dining area of the Four Points by Sheraton Asheville Downtown, this is a recurring event on the 2nd Friday of each month. Breakfast is on your own either from the buffet or menu. Orders will be taken up until 8:45 and elevator speeches will begin by 9:00/9:15.

This is a laid back group open to all industries and those interested in participating in intentional networking.

Please like our page to stay up to date on future events, and if you have events you would also like to share, you can also find us over at AVL Young “At Heart” Professionals.

https://www.facebook.com/events/413878109366868/

Wildflowers springing from the ground are a sign that spring and warmer weather are right around the corner. Capture photos of your family and friends enjoying the Park and enter them into our Shades of Spring Photo Contest for a chance to win fabulous prizes. 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/2260375557328117/?event_time_id=2260375593994780

DURHAM LIVE AUTISM TRAINING FOR OTs & OTHER PROFESSIONALS:

This live continuing education training is for occupational therapists and other professionals working with kids with autism on practical, everyday skills.

https://www.learnplaythrive.com/autism-training-durham

In The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism, you’ll learn:

BEHAVIOR PROBLEM SOLVING. Never again write generic behavioral interventions that just don’t work. You’ll learn a behavior problem solving process based on an in-depth understanding of autism learning styles that will allow you to feel more confident and successful in generating relevant and specific behavioral interventions for your clients.

THERAPY PROCESS. Get past feeling “stuck” and not knowing where to start with helping your clients meet their goals. Learn how to use informal assessment, individualized structure, visual instructions, and evidence-based autism teaching strategies to guide your therapy process from assessment through goal mastery and generalization.

MAKING SCHEDULES. Stop wasting your limited time making schedules that your clients don’t understand or use. You’ll learn howto create truly individualized schedules that will reduce transition battles and increase flexibility.

VISUAL TO-DO LISTS + SELF-CARE SKILLS. Move beyond giving constant redirections and reminders that leave you feeling ineffective and make your clients frustrated and confused. You’ll learn a method for creating visual to-do-lists that even your most concrete (or youngest) clients will understand. These visual to-do lists will keep your kids at the table for learning, increase independence in self-care skills, and provide new opportunities for social engagement and play.

PLAY & LEISURE. You know play and leisure are so important, but you often feel feel stuck knowing where to start or how to really teach your clients to play. Learn a fun, effective process for assessing and teaching play and leisure skills that blends structure with naturalistic strategies.

COMMUNITY INTEGRATION. Get past your fears of moving your intervention to the community, where real life happens! Learn exactly how to bring it all together and help your clients succeed out in the community.

You’ll learn how to confidently help your clients with ASD meet their goals without ever using rewards or consequences in your practice. It’s all about understanding how people with autism think and learn and shaping our interventions in a way that will be meaningful.

This course is actionable and concrete. You’ll develop intervention plans you can apply in your practice right away.

https://www.learnplaythrive.com/autism-training-durham

TESTIMONIALS:

“This is by far the best course and professional development I have done to enhance my OT practice! Meg has taken a huge amount of research, knowledge and experience and condensed it into a course that is accessible, practical and just makes sense. I highly recommend this course to any OT working with young people with autism. You will not only walk away with explicit strategies and interventions but also a much deeper and useful understanding of autism learning styles and how this informs our practice. ” – Christine Bagnall, OT (Australia)

“If you’re looking for effective, real life strategies for working with children on the autism spectrum, you need to take this course. Meg uses her extensive experience to teach you not only what to do, but actually how to do it! Her presentation is engaging, easy to follow, and you’ll walk away with the confidence that you can put these strategies into action right away.” – The Anonymous OT Blog

“I am not unfamiliar to the world of autism. I grew up with a brother with severe autism, and have been immersed in the world of autism ever since I was born… I have a love and intense passion for this population and have always felt confused and torn about what best practice was with this population. With so many drastically different treatment models and resources out there for this population, I struggled to feel successful always in providing effective and consistent treatment with this population. I always felt like something didn’t quite “fit” with some of the approaches I was seeing being utilized in different clinics. These methods clicked for me. When I started going through the modules, her style is so concise and practical- I could take that education and apply it to my practice IMMEDIATLEY. And as I hoped, I got to see immediate changes in my patients as well! I cannot express enough how fervently I feel about practitioners starting this course and their ability to feel confident in working with individuals with autism!” – Stephanie Kovacs, OTR/L (Illinois)

” I recommend this course to any OT or teacher who is working with children diagnosed with Autism and struggling to understand social skills and routines. Meg provides many simple techniques to integrate strategies that can have an immediate impact on the effectiveness of both therapy sessions and classroom instruction.”
– Jayson Davies, OTR/L OT School House Podcast

ABOUT MEG PROCTOR, OTR/L

I started my career as an OT in early intervention with huge expectations, a serious case of perfectionism, and not enough training to really help the kids I was seeing. Have you been there? It did not feel good.

Years later, after working my way through different settings and receiving a faculty appointment for UNC Chapel Hill’s TEACCH Autism program, I underwent months and months of extensive training in autism interventions and trained teachers, psychologists, and the occasional therapist from around the world in effective autism interventions for functional life skills. I looked back on those years of practice and cataloged the things I wished so badly I had known before. At every training I wondered, “Where on earth are the OTs? WE need this training!”

​As the founder of Learn Play Thrive, I’ve continued to hone my clinical skills and find new ways to teach the therapists who want to do better work with their clients with autism. The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism is what I wished I had known all those year ago in early intervention, in school-based practice, and in the clinic. It is a synthesis of what I’ve learned from working with hundreds of kids with autism, mentoring OT students, coaching practicing therapists, and spending years studying autism learning styles.

I feel confident that it will change your practice.

https://www.facebook.com/events/359366001560872/

The Friends of the Polk County Public Libraries Spring Book Sale continues on Friday, April 12.

The sale will feature thousands of gently used items including a wide array of fiction and nonfiction titles in hardcover and paperback as well as DVDs and CDs. Items have been donated by members of the community or withdrawn from circulation at the Polk County Public Libraries. Most items at the sale will be priced at $1 or less.

The Spring Book Sale will be held:
* Wednesday, April 10, 3-7 p.m. (Special Preview Day for Friends Only)
* Thursday, April 11, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
* Friday, April 12, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (Select books free starting at 3 p.m.), and
* Saturday, April 13, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m., ($5 bag sale from 9 a.m.-noon.)

The Friends Book Sales are the primary fundraisers for the nonprofit Friends group with all proceeds going to support library projects and initiatives such as the summer reading programs, special events, professional development opportunities for library staff, appreciation events for library volunteers and free programs for adults and children. Connect with the Friends on Facebook @FriendsofPolkCountyPublicLibraries and learn more at polklibrary.org/support/friends/.

Support the Libraries by becoming a member of the nonprofit Friends of the Polk County Public Libraries. Annual memberships are $10 for individuals and $15 for families living in the same household. Individual lifetime memberships are $100. Membership forms will be at the Book Sale and also can be downloaded at polklibrary.org/support/friends.

(Photo by Katy Walters)

https://www.facebook.com/events/2146817328734406/

Silver River Center for Chair Caning is hosting a regional summit of seat weavers at the chair museum. Share tips & tricks, learn new techniques, and prove that chair caning is NOT a lost art. It’s going to get nerdy with “A Brief History of Chair Caning” presentation on Saturday. Cost/day includes lunch and space is limited to 25 chair nerds/day.

https://www.facebook.com/events/264607200901044/?event_time_id=264607204234377

Jamar Cobb-Dennard is running to become the next mayor of the City of Lawrence because he believes that we can #DoBetter.

Meet this businessman, law graduate and government leader to learn more about how his vision is #Better4Lawrence.

This event is a ‘thank you’ to our donors and volunteers for their 1st quarter contributions!

There are 30 bowling spaces available.

Please RSVP to bowl at: https://www.better4lawrence.in/bowling

There is no cost to attend.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1183298711844539/

Come spend time with Pack Memorial Library and the Astronomy Club of Asheville to learn about the moon and beyond at our Star Party! We’ll be making crafts, looking up at the sky and learning about space in the lot across from the library (68 Haywood St.). In the library auditorium the Asheville Museum of Science will be here with their indoor planetarium and we’ll also have live music.

We’ll have our telescopes available so you can gaze at the moon, hands-on activities to learn from, and print-outs to take home. Volunteers will be around to answer any questions and to give recommendations of what books to check out from the library if you want to keep exploring. If you get hungry Sweet Cheesus will be parked at 68 Haywood too!

Come gaze with us, have a snack, and celebrate the moon and beyond!

The NC Science Festival’s annual Statewide Star Party is made possible through the generous support of the NC Space Grant. www.ncspacegrant.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/354038021988839/

Time to have a little party with friends to celebrate 14 or 15 years of the ______ and ______ that is Static Age! April 12th, 13th, 14th & it’s Record Store Day Saturday as well with all the stuff and limited release records associated with THAT..
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Super-high-quality entertainment through the weekend provided by::::::::::

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CLOUDGAYZER
CROOKED GHOST
NIHILIST DAVIS
FRANK HURRICANE (athens)
KANGAROT
SPUD BROS. (ny-banana/youth/kevrs)
HOUSEFIRE
FUCKCRUSHER (ny-jd/mando)
SKIPPY SPIRAL (savannah)
SECRET SHAME

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MJ LENDERMAN
THE COSMIC TRIO (sc/tx/atl)
TONY WAIN
CHOPTOP SAWYER (dalton)
TURBO BLOOD (gastonia)
YEAH RIGHT (chattanooga)
LE TRASH CAN (Mexico City)
XAMBUCA
VIA

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IF NOT I THAN WHO THEN (brattleboro)
CHRIS HEAD & THE BROKEN FAMILY BAND
ONE TIMERS (chattannoga)
DOOM RIBBONS
SHIPS IN THE NIGHT (rva)
SNAKE PROPHECY
GOOD GRIEF
ADDERALL
RAT BROTH
AHLEUCHATISTAS

Come buy some records, drink some beers and sake’ and look at some music happening with the smart stylish peers you love.

$10 per day / starts at 3pm each day!

https://www.facebook.com/events/643773092733634/

Join Dr. Cindy Libert, M.D, Functional Medicine Doctor for Brain & Body to learn more about eating for our microbiome and gut. She will lead an in-depth explanation on how the foods we eat are affecting our gut and also our overall health—including our brains!

Food is truly our medicine. The foods we choose to nurture our mind, body, and soul will greatly impact our risk of disease, cancer, emotional well-being, and quality of life.

https://www.facebook.com/events/321951571848073/

Olive Catering Company at Dry Falls.

https://www.facebook.com/events/384765699004444/?event_time_id=384765749004439

Crow and Quill is proud to feature international singer/songwriter Emma G with accompaniment from accomplished percussionist Joey J Drums during their East Coast SUPERHERO tour! More info at: http://emmagmusic.com Watch SUPERHERO here: https://bit.ly/2LEhHTb The show is a $5 entry at the door. ABOUT EMMA G: Finding her voice as she rediscovers her American heritage from her home base in Washington DC, New Zealand-born singer/songwriter Emma G is a combination of Adele, Pink, Tracy Chapman and Alanis Morrissette. Her edgy tones and gutsy lyrics hammer home her messages of love, vulnerability, empowerment and strength with a soul-pop/rock sound that is engaging, inspiring and appealing to a hugely diverse audience. Unapologetically outspoken, flying her freak flag, and always smiling, Washingtonian Magazine dubbed Emma G as one of the “Best of DC”. One Love Massive describes her as “charismatic”, and ANR Factory describes her voice as “poignant and beautiful” with “astounding bravery to speak up” on issues that matter to her. And where did this bravery come from? A long history of health issues, brain surgeries, battles with depression and suicide, drug addiction, and sexual assault, yet still finding the inner strength to come out the other side positively: singing her truth. “Things that happen to us don’t make us who we are, but we all need to overcome struggles. The trick is to overcome them together.” Says Emma G. “My hope is that my music will not only resonate with individual people, but also ignite those flames of love, resilience and community”.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2027907100577655/

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=244820189590698

Maintaining a commitment to multicultural programming, the 11th Asheville Wordfest invites audiences and participants to venture deeply into spaces of tension and complexity in search of possibility with readings and workshops featuring poets, authors, artists, storytellers, and community facilitators.

Asheville’s Literary Festival, Asheville Wordfest, welcomes North Carolina Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green. Wordfest is delighted to host North Carolina’s Poet Laureate, particularly Jaki whose devotion to teaching and building the SisSTAR-hood runs as deep as the rivers rushing inside our mountains.

Our aim is to Heal the Soul of Appalachia with words this year, and even to Heal the Soul of the World. Sharon Oxendine, a Beloved Elder of the Lumbee Tribe and Wisdom Keeper, will lead a talk as a First Nations Woman. Byron Ballard, author and Village Witch, will lead a workshop and share lore of the land. Cara Hagan returns to Wordfest as both curator and presenter; she will be presenting a program at ReVolve on December 5 (details will be on the website) that will find its continuation in Wordfest. Cara will also engage our special guests, The Gaza Poetry Society, via Zoom. Marlisa Mills of Blue Lotus will guide us into the bravery of grief; Lisa Soledad Almaraz will guide us in a workshop; and John Evans will lead us through a transformative writing workshop. All of this plus poetry workshops and lessons in other genres facilitated by Flat Iron Writers Room–and readings and song by Michael Hettich, Afrofuturist Darrell Stover, and more.
Once again, Asheville Wordfest presents a place of poiesis – creativity and meaning.

https://www.facebook.com/events/556441628173429/

The Dynamic Duo comes to Wine Down! Bouzouki and Violin it’s different……

https://www.facebook.com/events/390138965133697/