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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Please join us for the next Business Advisory Council (BAC) Meeting to be held on Thursday, October 20 from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. We’ll be meeting at Western Carolina University’s Biltmore Park Campus located at 28 Schenck Pkwy, Asheville.
The BAC brings together the business and non-profit service provider communities to network and talk about how we can all partner together to help those in need of employment.
Topic: Youth in the Workplace
Location: WCU at Biltmore Park 28 Schenck Pkwy, Asheville we will be meeting on the third floor in room 336. Parking is available in the parking garage next door. To access the garage, turn left at PF Chang’s onto Thetford Street, take an immediate right onto Barnack Way, and the garage entrance will be on the left. The building entrance will be to the right.
Speakers: A panel of speakers will share their experiences with having youth in their places of business. Come share your stories during our discussion, too.
Please register at the link below. We can’t wait to see you!
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
10.13.22 Asheville Pizza & Brewing Company Theatre 2 (for 18+)
What: Stand up Comedy at Asheville Pizza & Brewing,
When: Thursday 9.8.22. 7:30p-9:30p, doors at 6:30p
Where: Asheville Pizza & Brewing Theatre 2, 675 Merrimon Ave, Asheville 28804
Tickets: $13 (available at door or Asheville Pizza website)
Cocktails, taps & menu available while you laugh the night away to some of the area’s best Stand Up Comics in a ridiculously fun adult environment!! .
Open mic comics signup at door get 3-5m. [Free entry for performing comics, free pizza at comics table]
[Music before show provided by Buzz Radio Asheville, “All Asheville Music & Comedy, All the Time.”]
Hosted by Hilliary Begley
Featuring: Jess Cooley, Niko Gonzalez & Petey Smith McDowell
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
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Michigan-based Mosaic Artist Michelle Sider is presenting a one-time workshop this October in Asheville, N.C. Titled “Michelle Sider: Engaging. Dynamic. Realism” the three-day course will apply classical art guidelines, thoughtful design and modern art principles to encourage students to create stunning, realistic and expressive mosaics.
Sider is a visiting artist invited by Linda Pannullo Mosaics to present this program. It’s ideal for intermediate artists looking to elevate their skills. And for Sider, there’s no time like October to enjoy the natural beauty of this region. Much of her work is inspired by the fiery sunsets over Michigan’s lakes and graceful wildlife.
Linda Pannullo said she is “very excited to have an artist of this caliber for the first time in Asheville, North Carolina. I am always looking for ways to take my mosaics to the next level and this 3-day immersion with Michelle Sider – with her years of experience as an art teacher and mosaicist – will accomplish that.”
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
In this 2-hour webinar, Sharon Harvey with the US Small Business Administration and Pam Racer with the SBTDC will teach you how you can grow your women owned business through procurement.
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
The US Small Business Administration and the Western Women’s Business Center will deliver a second chance workshop. The workshop is for those who have been incarcerated and want that second chance at being an entrepreneur and giving back to their community. We start by saying it’s not an easy path, but one must know their options to make changes. We will share why fixing your credit score is key and then how to hone in on what it takes to run a business, what goes into the business plan, and how to access capital. Our goal is to show you how you can turn the skills you had or the ones that you learned while incarcerated into making a better future for yourself. Find out how to turn those acquired skills gained from beauty/barber courses, culinary classes, computer classes, writing, business courses and more into a future.
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
🍂Registration is now open for October’s Cozy Up for Fall Retreat!🍂
RELAX, RECHARGE & BE INSPIRED with our 2-hour live spiritual retreat.
Wednesday, October 19th 7 pm to 9 pm ET
https://soulkyst.com/virtual-spiritual-retreats/
Opening Meditation and Closing Visualization
Facilitated by Randi Botnick
EFT Pro Tapping Workshop
Facilitated by Karen Berzanski
During this retreat, you’ll learn how to use the mind-body tool, Pro EFT™ Tapping to:
Look at the past year and identify what you want to release and let go of
Get super clear on what you want and don’t want moving into the final months of the year
Leave with inspired ideas on how to create the most luxurious and pleasurable holiday season you’ve ever experienced.
Take these 2 hours of well-deserved relaxation time to slow down and reset, and experience personal breakthroughs.
For more details and to register: https://soulkyst.com/virtual-spiritual-retreats/
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
MSC is an empirically-supported 9-session program that helps participants develop and deepen the skills of self-compassion. Activities include meditation, talks, discussion, and experiential exercises. This class will be held rain or shine outdoors in a beautiful setting over nine Saturdays, 9/17-11/19, skipping 10/15.
We will meet from 10:30AM-2PM with a 30-minute break for lunch midway through each session. Each class participant will receive a copy of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook.
Register at mindfulselfcompassionasheville.com by 8/30 for early-bird pricing.
1st Annual Asheville Comedy Halloween Beauty Pageant
A +18 Comedy Show
The Orange Peel
October 22, 2022
8p/doors at 7p
$15 online/$17 at box office
Fully seated show
The area’s best comedians will be in character (think vampire, Batman or Alice from Wonderland,a politician, a dog, a witch, a game character, cartoon character or alien …so many possibilities!) and will be playing their part in this ridiculous pageant which will test these very special contestants in “beauty,” “talent,” “swimsuit” and standup comedy!
Decided by audience participation, YOU are in charge of who wins the prizes and is crowned the Asheville Monarch of Halloween for 2022!
You don’t want to miss the funnest event of the season! Free candy & Popcorn! Come early to enjoy Buzz Radio Asheville “All Asheville Music & Comedy, All Original, All Styles, All The Time.”
Produced by Slice of Life Comedy, Buzz Radio Asheville, The Hot Seat & Disclaimer Standup Comedy
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
We will begin with a 1-hour small engine diagnostic, repair, and maintenance demonstration led by Community Farm Manager Chris Link. The workshop will be followed at 6 pm by a “Repair Cafe“, which helps folks repair household goods. This Repair Cafe session will be especially well-equipped for small engines and other farm/garden related jobs like blade sharpening, handle replacements, and power tool repair. FREE and open to the public
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
Farm Beginnings is training the next generation of farmers in the many skills required to start and expand a successful farm business: passion, clear goals, production experience, financial and marketing know-how, and more. Farm Beginnings® will help you build these skills through one year of farmer-led training, mentoring, and networking.
We support individuals in clarifying their goals and strengths, developing agricultural skills, and growing profitable, equitable, and ecologically sound farm businesses. We use a holistic management frame, farmer-led classroom sessions, on-farm tours, mentoring, and an extensive farmer network.
$100 off tuition if you apply by August 1st!
Who should apply?
This course is ideal for those who are considering full-time farming, or part-time farming while pursuing outside employment. Farm Beginnings is a great opportunity for those wanting to change careers to start farming or develop an existing agricultural hobby into a more serious business. Students do not need to currently own land, but 1 season minimum of experience doing farming or garden work in the last five years is required.
Apply today! Scholarships are available.
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
Beginner’s workshop lesson at 7:30 P.M., then 8-11 P.M. Contra Dance with Country Waltzing at the break and the final dance. This is a partner dance but it’s not necessary to come with a partner. We have different live bands and callers.
Participating businesses will receive a number of benefits:
- Recognition in our Pebbledash Newspaper, reaching 7500 homes twice a year
- Recognition in our monthly eBlast, reaching 2500 people
- Listing and link on PSABC website
- Early invitations and discounts to PSABC events
MSC is an empirically-supported 9-session program that helps participants develop and deepen the skills of self-compassion. Activities include meditation, talks, discussion, and experiential exercises. This class will be held rain or shine outdoors in a beautiful setting over nine Saturdays, 9/17-11/19, skipping 10/15.
We will meet from 10:30AM-2PM with a 30-minute break for lunch midway through each session. Each class participant will receive a copy of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook.
Register at mindfulselfcompassionasheville.com by 8/30 for early-bird pricing.
Halloween can be just as much fun for adults as it is for children—especially if you find creepy things fun to play with! Indulge your dark side this Halloween weekend by creating a creepy curiosity cabinet!
Curiosity cabinets were pieces of furniture or entire rooms where 19th century people displayed items they had collected in their travels or scientific investigations. These Victorians also had a fascination with the morbid and peculiar juxtapositions of people, animals, and things.
In this frighteningly fun workshop, mixed media artist Kate Corcoran will show you how to create a miniature curiosity cabinet that you can pull out each October or display all year round. In the process, you’ll learn how to compose, layer, and adhere mixed media materials: skills that you can apply to all mixed media projects!
With climate change, automobile dependency, and rising costs for housing and transportation, America needs to reverse suburban sprawl and focus again on our cities and small towns now more than ever. This won’t happen to any meaningful extent without small scale development, and lots of it. Zoning reform and incremental development education will be key to making it happen.
In this session, you’ll learn about how Buffalo’s 2017 zoning overhaul made a walkable, transit friendly development legal again. We will talk about how it is helping enable small scale projects, create wealth for working people, and rebuild a legacy Great Lakes city that despite losing half of its population from 1950 to 2010, is now America’s fastest growing Rust Belt city.
Doors open at 5:30pm and the session begins at 6pm.
Building Our City is presented by The Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation with support from Kimpton Hotel Arras. The series is produced by the Asheville Downtown Association Foundaiton and Urban3
The WomanUP celebration on Nov. 3rd is the event of the year for women in business.
Connect with hundreds of Asheville/Buncombe women in business.
Celebrate outstanding women in our business community. Over 50 women have been nominated for this year’s WomanUP awards. Together, we’ll honor these amazing WomanUP award nominees and celebrate this year’s winners.
Be inspired by Caroline Wanga’s keynote. You’ll see why her witty “real-talk” style and insights make her a highly sought-after keynote speaker, equity strategist, thought leader, and community influencer.
Wanga is the Chief Executive Officer of ESSENCE, the number one media, technology and commerce company dedicated to Black women and communities. She joined ESSENCE after serving as former Chief Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Target.
Her keynote promises to inspire us to live into our authentic selves and create work environments that embrace the authenticity of all.