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Thursday, July 9, 2020

Black Bear BBQ Food Truck

Jul 9 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Weirbridge Village Apartments

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Black Bear BBQ food truck is coming back to Weirbridge Village!

Categories: Food & Drink

NC Arboretum’s “Arbor Evenings”

Jul 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The North Carolina Arboretum

Relax and unwind at the Arboretum’s “ArborEvenings” after hours series. Held every Thursday, June – October, from 6 to 9 p.m., visitors will sip and stroll through the Arboretum’s beautiful gardens while enjoying live music amongst flowers and friends. Local beverages, including beer and wine, are available for purchase along with light food options.

Admission to ArborEvenings is free; however, standard parking fees apply to non-members.

Categories: Food & Drink Garden Outdoors

Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia

Jul 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

Scoop: Mitch's Totally Rad TRIVIA

Mitch Fortune brings you an irreverent and nostalgia filled night of pop culture trivia every Thursday night 7-9 pm at the One Stop in Downtown Asheville. A potpourri of movies, music, TV show trivia just for you!

Categories: Food & Drink Trivia

Friday, July 10, 2020

Celebrate Pride! Top LGBTQIA+ Owned and Operated Restaurants in America

Jul 10 all-day

Online

Illustration depicting two people celebrating Pride
month with
food

https://www.opentable.com/lists/pride-2019/usa?ref=9472&cmpid=em_Email2020&utm_campaign=Email%2BAdhoc%2BNA%253A%2BUS_104_20200629_Pride&utm_source=simon&utm_medium=email

Celebrate Pride!

Get in on global Pride by dining in or ordering from these LGBTQIA+ owned and operated restaurants around the U.S.

Categories: Community Food & Drink

Hemp Xpress Trolley: Cruisin’ Asheville

Jul 10 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Carolina Hemp Company

The Hemp X Hot Box:Roll with us Fridays from 5-10pm as we coast a route through West Asheville and Downtown. Stops at UpCountry Brewing, One World Brewing West, Foggy Mountain, and The One Stop. We’ll have smokable and edible hemp products for purchase to enjoy alongside any wine or beer you bring yourselves (closed containers only). We’re happy to provide an affordable way for locals and visitors to Roll Up, Stay Safe and Party Down! Cruisin Asheville July 10th, July 31st, August 7th, August 21st. More dates to come!

Purchase Tickets on board! One Way Pass $3 and All Night Unlimited Pass $5

Private Rentals: Spark up your next Asheville area celebration with our personalized rental platform! We offer several packages at different price tiers to best cater to your party’s needs! Our team is dedicated to working with you to create an experience that will leave your guests (and your smoke) blown away!

The Hemp Xpress is dedicated to the safety of the Asheville community; public routes and experiences are operating at half capacity within social distance guidelines. Hand sanitizer is readily available to riders, and surfaces are regularly sanitized. Buncombe County requires a face mask be worn in public places.

Categories: Food & Drink Health & Wellness Tours

Brews and Bears: WNC Nature Center CANCELLED

Jul 10 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

WNC Nature Center

It’s happy hour at the WNC Nature Center! Join us for the always popular Brews & Bears after hours event featuring beer, cider, food, music, and an up close view of an awesome bear enrichment activity with our black bears Uno and Ursa! Event will run from 5:30pm-8:00pm with food and drink available for purchase.

Tickets sell out quickly!

Children ages 2 and under get in free, all others will need a ticket to attend this event.

*Please bring valid photo ID to purchase alcoholic beverages.

This is a rain or shine event. If the weather is so bad that we are forced to cancel/reschedule, we will post that information on our Facebook event page and email everyone who has purchased tickets.

Categories: Education Family Fun Food & Drink

Free Dead Fridays

Jul 10 @ 5:30 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

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.

Categories: Food & Drink Music

Saturday, July 11, 2020

Celebrate Pride! Top LGBTQIA+ Owned and Operated Restaurants in America

Jul 11 all-day

Online

Illustration depicting two people celebrating Pride
month with
food

https://www.opentable.com/lists/pride-2019/usa?ref=9472&cmpid=em_Email2020&utm_campaign=Email%2BAdhoc%2BNA%253A%2BUS_104_20200629_Pride&utm_source=simon&utm_medium=email

Celebrate Pride!

Get in on global Pride by dining in or ordering from these LGBTQIA+ owned and operated restaurants around the U.S.

Categories: Community Food & Drink

Hemp Xpress Trolley: Exploring Botanical Extraction

Jul 11 @ 1:00 pm – 4:20 pm

Carolina Hemp Company

Exploring Botanical Extraction: What is Whole-Spectrum Hemp Extract? Our friends at Asheville Botanicals invite you into the extraction lab to learn about production, processing and how hemp nourishes the endocannabinoid system. After the tour, we’ll visit the neighbors at Cursus Keme to nourish our souls with a tasty craft brew! We’ll offer this experience periodically on Saturdays; tickets includes a ride on the Hemp Xpress Trolley, a hemp pre-roll, a 45 minute tour of Asheville Botanicals and a bubbly beverage from Cursus Keme! First Tour Date Saturday July 11th 1pm-4:20pm. Meet at Carolina Hemp Company, 290 Haywood Rd. Asheville

Private Rentals: Spark up your next Asheville area celebration with our personalized rental platform! We offer several packages at different price tiers to best cater to your party’s needs! Our team is dedicated to working with you to create an experience that will leave your guests (and your smoke) blown away!

The Hemp Xpress is dedicated to the safety of the Asheville community; public routes and experiences are operating at half capacity within social distance guidelines. Hand sanitizer is readily available to riders, and surfaces are regularly sanitized. Buncombe County requires a face mask be worn in public places.

Categories: Food & Drink Health & Wellness Tours

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Celebrate Pride! Top LGBTQIA+ Owned and Operated Restaurants in America

Jul 12 all-day

Online

Illustration depicting two people celebrating Pride
month with
food

https://www.opentable.com/lists/pride-2019/usa?ref=9472&cmpid=em_Email2020&utm_campaign=Email%2BAdhoc%2BNA%253A%2BUS_104_20200629_Pride&utm_source=simon&utm_medium=email

Celebrate Pride!

Get in on global Pride by dining in or ordering from these LGBTQIA+ owned and operated restaurants around the U.S.

Categories: Community Food & Drink

Bluegrass Brunch

Jul 12 @ 10:30 am – 3:00 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

Bluegrass Brunch
hosted by Aaron Woody Wood & The Sufi Brothers

Pickin’ on the Porch w/ Chicken Coop Willaye 1030AM
Bald Mountain Boys 11AM – 12:30PM
Sufi Brothers 12:45PM – 3PM

Be sure to check out our Bloody Mary Bar, the BEST selection of pickled products and other additions in Asheville. The MOJO Kitchen will be serving a special Brunch menu until 3PM as well.

Food & music start at 10:30am
ADULT beverages at Noon.

Categories: Food & Drink Music

Dirty Dawg Acoustic Duo At Mills River – Outdoors

Jul 12 @ 2:00 pm

Mills River Brewing Co.

Acoustic Dead with members of Dirty Dead

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Categories: Food & Drink Music Outdoors

Shakedown Sundays

Jul 12 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

Every Sunday Except First of Month.

Categories: Food & Drink Music

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Teaching of the Paqo’s with Alberto Fernandez + Victor Quispe

Jul 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Online

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Sacred Fire Gathering …. Teachings of the Andean Paqo’s. Alberto Ferandez and Victor Chura Quispe will be sharing their wisdom with us this week. Dora Fronek has helped me get these two together and will be our Translator for this event.

This is a donation only event. Sliding scale….$25….$100+. All funds will go to these two Paqo’s to assist them in taking care of their families. You can send donations to paypal or venmo. [email protected]. If you are not able to donate please contact Lea…as we do not anyone to be turned away.

Please register on this Zoom link to receive your log in.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcuCrpzkiEtQN9dOta0-tFWh44uZK0iNL

Categories: Spiritual

Tuesday Early Jam

Jul 14 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

Categories: Community Food & Drink Music

Walking Our Prayers with Alexander Kugler (virtual)

Jul 14 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Online

Awakening Asheville

Join us for weekly support, accountability and inspiration for your spiritual life in an online forum every Tuesday evening. Host/Facilitator: PMT Sanctioned Teacher Alexander Kugler Contact: [email protected] | (917) 755-3304

Categories: Spiritual

Tuesday Night Funk Jam

Jul 14 @ 10:00 pm – Jul 15 @ 6:00 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

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 10PM sharp, the Legendary House Band kicks off the night

Categories: Food & Drink Music

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Tin Can Pizzeria Food Truck

Jul 16 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Weirbridge Village Apartments

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Our favorite pizza food truck is coming back to Weirbridge! you do not want to miss out on this!

Categories: Food & Drink

NC Arboretum’s “Arbor Evenings”

Jul 16 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The North Carolina Arboretum

Relax and unwind at the Arboretum’s “ArborEvenings” after hours series. Held every Thursday, June – October, from 6 to 9 p.m., visitors will sip and stroll through the Arboretum’s beautiful gardens while enjoying live music amongst flowers and friends. Local beverages, including beer and wine, are available for purchase along with light food options.

Admission to ArborEvenings is free; however, standard parking fees apply to non-members.

Categories: Food & Drink Garden Outdoors

Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia

Jul 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

Scoop: Mitch's Totally Rad TRIVIA

Mitch Fortune brings you an irreverent and nostalgia filled night of pop culture trivia every Thursday night 7-9 pm at the One Stop in Downtown Asheville. A potpourri of movies, music, TV show trivia just for you!

Categories: Food & Drink Trivia

Online Third Thursday BYO Craft Night

Jul 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

We believe there’s nothing better than gathering with friends to work on a craft project while enjoying a nice glass of wine and good conversation. If you agree, then our next Third Thursday program is for you! Plēb Urban Winery kicks off the event with a virtual wine tasting, which you can pair with a delicious mezze platter from Perspective Café by Food Experience. Following that, work on your own craft project while Assistant Curator Whitney Richardson and our friends at Blue Spiral 1 talk with artist Carol Milne about her intricate knitted glass sculptures. Purl’s Yarn Emporium closes the program with a discussion of craftivism and yarn-bombing public spaces.

This free program will take place virtually via Zoom. Space is limited.

LEARN MORE & REGISTER

Categories: Art & Craft Food & Drink

Friday, July 17, 2020

Celebrate Pride! Top LGBTQIA+ Owned and Operated Restaurants in America

Jul 17 all-day

Online

Illustration depicting two people celebrating Pride
month with
food

https://www.opentable.com/lists/pride-2019/usa?ref=9472&cmpid=em_Email2020&utm_campaign=Email%2BAdhoc%2BNA%253A%2BUS_104_20200629_Pride&utm_source=simon&utm_medium=email

Celebrate Pride!

Get in on global Pride by dining in or ordering from these LGBTQIA+ owned and operated restaurants around the U.S.

Categories: Community Food & Drink

Cecilia’s Kitchen Food Truck

Jul 17 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Weirbridge Village Apartments

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Guess who’s back?

Cecilia’s Kitchen! Make sure to add this to your calendar!

Categories: Food & Drink

Free Dead Fridays

Jul 17 @ 5:30 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

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.

Categories: Food & Drink Music

Fontana Trestle Train ft. BBQ & Brews

Jul 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Great Smokey Mountain Railroad

Back by popular demand our BBQ & Brews now featured on the Fontana Trestle Train, will roll out this Summer! Featuring slow-cooked BBQ prepared fresh and beer tastings showcasing our local breweries! Family friendly seating will be available on this experience!

Departing from Bryson City, these trains will travel to the Fontana Trestle and beyond remaining parallel to the Fontana Lake stopping at the perfect viewing spot just around sunset for a spectacular view! A delicious BBQ meal will be served during the trip. Returning back to the Bryson City Depot at 9pm.

In the Basket

Each of you will get your own basket of Southern-style barbeque goodness with hand-pulled pork slider, a couple pork ribs, and chicken drumstick accompanied by baked beans and house-made coleslaw.

And, of course, no respectable Southern barbeque would forget to warm up some apple cobbler for dessert.

Featured Breweries

March 14 May 2 May 23(S)

June 19 and 20 July 17&18(S) August 22

Categories: Family Fun Food & Drink Outdoors

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Fontana Trestle Train ft. BBQ & Brews

Jul 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Great Smokey Mountain Railroad

Back by popular demand our BBQ & Brews now featured on the Fontana Trestle Train, will roll out this Summer! Featuring slow-cooked BBQ prepared fresh and beer tastings showcasing our local breweries! Family friendly seating will be available on this experience!

Departing from Bryson City, these trains will travel to the Fontana Trestle and beyond remaining parallel to the Fontana Lake stopping at the perfect viewing spot just around sunset for a spectacular view! A delicious BBQ meal will be served during the trip. Returning back to the Bryson City Depot at 9pm.

In the Basket

Each of you will get your own basket of Southern-style barbeque goodness with hand-pulled pork slider, a couple pork ribs, and chicken drumstick accompanied by baked beans and house-made coleslaw.

And, of course, no respectable Southern barbeque would forget to warm up some apple cobbler for dessert.

Featured Breweries

March 14 May 2 May 23(S)

June 19 and 20 July 17&18(S) August 22

Categories: Family Fun Food & Drink Outdoors

Sunday, July 19, 2020

Bluegrass Brunch

Jul 19 @ 10:30 am – 3:00 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

Bluegrass Brunch
hosted by Aaron Woody Wood & The Sufi Brothers

Pickin’ on the Porch w/ Chicken Coop Willaye 1030AM
Bald Mountain Boys 11AM – 12:30PM
Sufi Brothers 12:45PM – 3PM

Be sure to check out our Bloody Mary Bar, the BEST selection of pickled products and other additions in Asheville. The MOJO Kitchen will be serving a special Brunch menu until 3PM as well.

Food & music start at 10:30am
ADULT beverages at Noon.

Categories: Food & Drink Music

Burlesque Brunch

Jul 19 @ 12:00 pm

The Grey Eagle

Join us on the third Sunday of every month for Burlesque Brunch!

18 +
SEATED SHOW
11 AM DOORS/ 12 PM

Burlesque Brunch is a monthly burlesque and belly dance show with a classic speakeasy feel. Join us every month and relax and enjoy our dancing dames and dandies in an up close and intimate setting. It’s a Sunday afternoon to delight the senses!

Categories: Dance Food & Drink

Shakedown Sundays

Jul 19 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall

Every Sunday Except First of Month.

Categories: Food & Drink Music

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Tuesday Early Jam

Jul 21 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall