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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Saturday, June 27, 2020
Big Star Nothing Can Hurt Me-The Orange Peel
Jun 27 all-day
Online

BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME is a feature-length documentary about legendary Memphis band Big Star. While mainstream success eluded them, Big Star’s three albums have become critically lauded touchstones of the rock music canon. A seminal band in the history of alternative music, Big Star has been cited as an influence by artists including REM, The Replacements, Belle & Sebastian, Elliot Smith and Flaming Lips, to name just a few. With never-before-seen footage and photos of the band, in-depth interviews and a rousing musical tribute by the bands they inspired, BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME is a story of artistic and musical salvation.

Muscle Shoals-The Orange Peel
Jun 27 all-day
Online

Magnolia Pictures is thrilled to team up with YOU to support your favorite organization. You can help them out while watching our new releases from the safety of your home. When you buy a ticket here on your organization’s unique webpage, 30% of the net proceeds will go directly to them.

Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music.  Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River,” as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time.  At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios.  Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Hall brought black and white together in Alabama’s cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the “Muscle Shoals sound” and The Swampers, the house band at FAME that eventually left to start their own successful studio, known as Muscle Shoals Sound.  Gregg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals’ magnetism, mystery and why it remains influential today.

Three Powerful Documentaries Events happening in America today
Jun 27 all-day
Online

The Peace Center has partnered with Magnolia Pictures to offer three curated documentaries for in-home streaming designed to give a deeper understanding of the events happening in America today.

Now through June 30, these engaging and thought-provoking films are available to own separately for $6.99 each or as a bundle for $15.

Virtual Creek Tour of Smith Mill Creek!
Jun 27 all-day
Online

A Little Dose of Inspiration

Join us for another virtual creek tour, this time of Smith Mill Creek! It runs through West Asheville and faces many threats to its health. RiverLink is working hard to revitalize this important waterway in our watershed.

Grandfather Mountain
Jun 27 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Sunday, June 28, 2020
Big Star Nothing Can Hurt Me-The Orange Peel
Jun 28 all-day
Online

BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME is a feature-length documentary about legendary Memphis band Big Star. While mainstream success eluded them, Big Star’s three albums have become critically lauded touchstones of the rock music canon. A seminal band in the history of alternative music, Big Star has been cited as an influence by artists including REM, The Replacements, Belle & Sebastian, Elliot Smith and Flaming Lips, to name just a few. With never-before-seen footage and photos of the band, in-depth interviews and a rousing musical tribute by the bands they inspired, BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME is a story of artistic and musical salvation.

Muscle Shoals-The Orange Peel
Jun 28 all-day
Online

Magnolia Pictures is thrilled to team up with YOU to support your favorite organization. You can help them out while watching our new releases from the safety of your home. When you buy a ticket here on your organization’s unique webpage, 30% of the net proceeds will go directly to them.

Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music.  Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River,” as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time.  At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios.  Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Hall brought black and white together in Alabama’s cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the “Muscle Shoals sound” and The Swampers, the house band at FAME that eventually left to start their own successful studio, known as Muscle Shoals Sound.  Gregg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals’ magnetism, mystery and why it remains influential today.

Three Powerful Documentaries Events happening in America today
Jun 28 all-day
Online

The Peace Center has partnered with Magnolia Pictures to offer three curated documentaries for in-home streaming designed to give a deeper understanding of the events happening in America today.

Now through June 30, these engaging and thought-provoking films are available to own separately for $6.99 each or as a bundle for $15.

Virtual Creek Tour of Smith Mill Creek!
Jun 28 all-day
Online

A Little Dose of Inspiration

Join us for another virtual creek tour, this time of Smith Mill Creek! It runs through West Asheville and faces many threats to its health. RiverLink is working hard to revitalize this important waterway in our watershed.

Grandfather Mountain
Jun 28 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Monday, June 29, 2020
Three Powerful Documentaries Events happening in America today
Jun 29 all-day
Online

The Peace Center has partnered with Magnolia Pictures to offer three curated documentaries for in-home streaming designed to give a deeper understanding of the events happening in America today.

Now through June 30, these engaging and thought-provoking films are available to own separately for $6.99 each or as a bundle for $15.

Virtual Creek Tour of Smith Mill Creek!
Jun 29 all-day
Online

A Little Dose of Inspiration

Join us for another virtual creek tour, this time of Smith Mill Creek! It runs through West Asheville and faces many threats to its health. RiverLink is working hard to revitalize this important waterway in our watershed.

Grandfather Mountain
Jun 29 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Three Powerful Documentaries Events happening in America today
Jun 30 all-day
Online

The Peace Center has partnered with Magnolia Pictures to offer three curated documentaries for in-home streaming designed to give a deeper understanding of the events happening in America today.

Now through June 30, these engaging and thought-provoking films are available to own separately for $6.99 each or as a bundle for $15.

Virtual Creek Tour of Smith Mill Creek!
Jun 30 all-day
Online

A Little Dose of Inspiration

Join us for another virtual creek tour, this time of Smith Mill Creek! It runs through West Asheville and faces many threats to its health. RiverLink is working hard to revitalize this important waterway in our watershed.

Grandfather Mountain
Jun 30 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Virtual Creek Tour of Smith Mill Creek!
Jul 1 all-day
Online

A Little Dose of Inspiration

Join us for another virtual creek tour, this time of Smith Mill Creek! It runs through West Asheville and faces many threats to its health. RiverLink is working hard to revitalize this important waterway in our watershed.

Thursday, July 2, 2020
Virtual Creek Tour of Smith Mill Creek!
Jul 2 all-day
Online

A Little Dose of Inspiration

Join us for another virtual creek tour, this time of Smith Mill Creek! It runs through West Asheville and faces many threats to its health. RiverLink is working hard to revitalize this important waterway in our watershed.

Friday, July 3, 2020
Virtual Creek Tour of Smith Mill Creek!
Jul 3 all-day
Online

A Little Dose of Inspiration

Join us for another virtual creek tour, this time of Smith Mill Creek! It runs through West Asheville and faces many threats to its health. RiverLink is working hard to revitalize this important waterway in our watershed.

Grandfather Mountain
Jul 3 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Saturday, July 4, 2020
Grandfather Mountain
Jul 4 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Burned Virtual Film Screening: South Carolina Forests
Jul 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Online

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Enviva, the world’s largest wood pellet manufacturer, is attempting a major expansion of their polluting, forest-destroying facilities across the South. They are specifically targeting South Carolina with a proposed expansion of their Greenwood facility.

The film is approximately 30 minutes long and will be followed by a Q&A with powerful activists who are standing up to the biomass industry in their communities.

Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? tells the story of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel. The film takes a hard look at the policies, finances, and false promises of the biomass power industry. A dedicated group of forest activists, ecologists, carbon scientists, and concerned citizens fight to establish the enormous value of our forests, protect their communities, debunk this false solution to climate change, and alter energy policy in the US and abroad.

Join us on Zoom for this virtual screening and Q&A to learn about the threats to Southern forests and communities and the solutions to protect them.

In order to receive the Zoom link, you must register through Eventbrite, linked above in the tickets. Closer to the event, we will email the Zoom link to those who have registered.

Stay tuned for the activists joining the Q&A.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/burned-virtual-film-screening-for-south-carolina-tickets-108890305836?fbclid=IwAR24eGFcscyvdzZlcsStk37zGsgumNSwCXUEC5XL9UJ91EST63663L4ROP4

Friday, July 10, 2020
Grandfather Mountain
Jul 10 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Saturday, July 11, 2020
Grandfather Mountain
Jul 11 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

The Matrix Drive-In Movie
Jul 11 @ 9:00 pm
Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium Brevard Music Center

The Matrix

On sale

Tue, Jul 7, 2020 9:00 AM

What is the Matrix? Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real? What if you couldn’t awaken? How would you know the difference between dream and reality? When a beautiful stranger (Carrie Ann Moss) leads computer hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. Neo joins legendary and dangerous rebel warrior Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) in the battle to destroy the illusion enslaving humanity. Now, every move, every second, every thought becomes a fight to stay alive–to escape The Matrix. Run-time for this movie is 2 hours and 20 minutes plus previews.

Please note: Vehicles will be directed to an appropriate space upon arrival; location will be determined by vehicle size.

Limit of one ticket per account. All vehicles with a valid movie ticket for this performance will receive a free Drive-In Movie Pack upon arrival – one per vehicle. Familiarize yourself with our Drive-In Movies Instructions and Information.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Guardians of the Galaxy Drive In Movie
Jul 14 @ 9:00 pm
Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium Parking Lot



Tickets on sale July 14th

Cosmic outlaws face an interstellar villain who seeks to control the universe with a powerful orb. Together, Peter Quill, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Gamora and Drax the Destroyer may be the galaxy’s only hope for thwarting Ronan’s sinister plan. Run-time for this movie is 2 hours and 1 minute plus previews.

Friday, July 17, 2020
Grandfather Mountain
Jul 17 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Saturday, July 18, 2020
Grandfather Mountain
Jul 18 @ 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Grandfather Mountain


To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), Grandfather Mountain is only selling tickets online.

Only a select number of tickets will be sold per day for certain time-slots to limit the number of guests in the park at one time, in accordance with the state of North Carolina’s phased “reopening” plan and social gathering guidelines.

Please check back closer to your visit for ticket availability. As of now, reservations are only available through June 21.

Each guest entering the park must have a ticket, which includes a time-slot. Prices are as follows:

Adult: $22
Senior (age 60+): $20
Child (ages 4-12): $9
AAA Adult: $20 (must present valid AAA card)
AAA Child: $8 (must present valid AAA card)

Avengers: Endgame Drive-In Movie
Jul 18 @ 9:00 pm
Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium Brevard Music Center
On sale

Tue, Jul 14, 2020 9:00 AM

The remaining Avengers must gather their strength to defeat the mad titan Thanos. Run-time for this movie is 3 hours and 1 minute plus previews.

Please note: Vehicles will be directed to an appropriate space upon arrival; location will be determined by vehicle size.

Limit of one ticket per account. All vehicles with a valid movie ticket for this performance will receive a free Drive-In Movie Pack upon arrival – one per vehicle. Familiarize yourself with our Drive-In Movies Instructions and Information.

Drive-In Movie: The Princess Bride
Jul 18 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Lake Logan

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Lake Logan is excited to partner with The Strand to offer a drive-in movie at Lake Logan on Saturday, July 18. We’ll be showing The Princess Bride.

Gates open at 7 PM. Movie will start at approximately 9 PM (when it gets dark).

Concessions will be available and help support Lake Logan’s ministry, so please come hungry! Cash appreciated. Credit/debit cards can also be taken. You can also pre-purchase a combo meal at a special price.

Rain Date: TBD