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.
Interested in adding an event to our calendar? Please click the green “Post Your Event” button below.
Join Namaste in Nature for a reflective meditation walk. De-stress on this hike focused on connection with yourself and the natural world. This fall mindfulness experience will center on the season of gratitude as the holidays approach.
The NC Farmers of the Foothills, initiated in 2020, is an alliance of farmers looking to pool resources and market their goods to the community. There are opportunities to sell with an online marketplace, multi-farm Community Supported Agriculture, and other local food purchasing programs. The alliance also looks to share in costs of production and other expenses.
Join us to learn and have input on this alliance for 2023.
Dinner will be served.
Join WNC Medicinal Herb Growers for an afternoon of networking with fellow growers, wholesale buyers and other professionals working with medicinal herbs. Highlights include:
- Buyer presentations and “most wanted” lists
- Opportunities for growers to share product samples of available herbs and planting stock
- Small group roundtables with local and domestic buyers
- Networking and celebrating medicinal herbs grown in North Carolina
The Venture 15 recognizes the 15 fastest-growing Asheville-area startups and businesses can apply to be considered until Monday, November 21!
This event, held Thursday, December 15 at The Orange Peel, recognizes the area’s outstanding entrepreneurs & serves as an elite setting where they can share their talent and wisdom as well as offer inspiration to other fledgling companies to be part of this exclusive group.
We also celebrate the Asheville Honors Awards & recognize the Best Startup to Work For at this event! The nomination deadline for those is Nov. 27.
You’ve got the vision, and Canva is here to bring it to life. Turn imagination into a finished design in minutes with this step-by-step tutorial for designing from scratch in Canva. In this 1 hour training, you will learn: How to choose the dimensions for your design, how to create a background for your design, how to add text and images, and creating/using your own brand kit.
Speaker(s): Vanessa Garcia
The French Broad River is an economic driver for our region supplying drinking water, providing recreational opportunities, and ecology diversity as recently highlighted by an economic impact study commissioned by the French Broad River Partnership.
Join us for Policy on Tap to hear from business and nonprofit leaders working to ensure that the French Broad River will continue to be an asset for us all and how you can get involved.
Policy on Tap is the Chamber’s quarterly discussion series highlighting topics that matter to our business community with insights shared by key leaders and experts.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
The Venture 15 recognizes the 15 fastest-growing Asheville-area startups and businesses can apply to be considered until Monday, November 21!
This event, held Thursday, December 15 at The Orange Peel, recognizes the area’s outstanding entrepreneurs & serves as an elite setting where they can share their talent and wisdom as well as offer inspiration to other fledgling companies to be part of this exclusive group.
We also celebrate the Asheville Honors Awards & recognize the Best Startup to Work For at this event! The nomination deadline for those is Nov. 27.

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Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
The Venture 15 recognizes the 15 fastest-growing Asheville-area startups and businesses can apply to be considered until Monday, November 21!
This event, held Thursday, December 15 at The Orange Peel, recognizes the area’s outstanding entrepreneurs & serves as an elite setting where they can share their talent and wisdom as well as offer inspiration to other fledgling companies to be part of this exclusive group.
We also celebrate the Asheville Honors Awards & recognize the Best Startup to Work For at this event! The nomination deadline for those is Nov. 27.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
The Venture 15 recognizes the 15 fastest-growing Asheville-area startups and businesses can apply to be considered until Monday, November 21!
This event, held Thursday, December 15 at The Orange Peel, recognizes the area’s outstanding entrepreneurs & serves as an elite setting where they can share their talent and wisdom as well as offer inspiration to other fledgling companies to be part of this exclusive group.
We also celebrate the Asheville Honors Awards & recognize the Best Startup to Work For at this event! The nomination deadline for those is Nov. 27.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
The Venture 15 recognizes the 15 fastest-growing Asheville-area startups and businesses can apply to be considered until Monday, November 21!
This event, held Thursday, December 15 at The Orange Peel, recognizes the area’s outstanding entrepreneurs & serves as an elite setting where they can share their talent and wisdom as well as offer inspiration to other fledgling companies to be part of this exclusive group.
We also celebrate the Asheville Honors Awards & recognize the Best Startup to Work For at this event! The nomination deadline for those is Nov. 27.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.
Get first-hand insights into the state legislature and its impacts on the business community at our Legislative Update.
We are excited to host a live taping of the Do Politics Better podcast with Brian Lewis and Skye David of New Frame, a bipartisan and creative lobbying and communications firm serving North Carolina nonprofits and small businesses.
The New Frame team will discuss the November elections, preview the 2023 long session of the NC General Assembly, and answer questions from the audience along with special guest Chris Cooper from Western Carolina University.
About the speakers:
As one of three lobbyists for New Frame’s clients at the General Assembly, Brian Lewis leads the firm’s work on strategy, messaging and engaging clients to move legislators. Brian has worked in state politics and policy since 1996 and holds a master’s degree in public affairs and bachelor’s in political science from UNC Greensboro. He is a veteran lobbyist at the General Assembly and has been involved in some of the state’s most high profile political discussions over the last decade. Brian is also a frequent guest on Capital Tonight, a nightly public affairs show on Spectrum News, where he gives political communications analysis for viewers.
Skye David attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she served on the Student Council as well as the Educational Policy Committee for the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences. Skye’s academic work on domestic violence led to an Orville Bentley Undergraduate Research Award for her work and served as the foundation of her future work at the North Carolina General Assembly. At New Frame, Skye works on policy, legal and regulatory issues affecting all the firm’s clients, with a focus on the policy, lobbying, and legal needs of New Frame’s clients. During her tenure at New Frame, Skye has built a reputation of trustworthiness and coalition building.The effects of her work have been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, and NBCNews, among other outlets.
Chris Cooper is a professor and Director of the Public policy Institute at Western Carolina University. Cooper’s published academic research features over 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters on NC politics, state politics, southern politics, political behavior, and behavioral public administration. He is also co-author of The Resilience of Southern Identity: Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of its People and co-editor of The New Politics of North Carolina. Cooper is a frequent source for news stories about North Carolina politics and has been quoted in a variety of media including the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Herald, Al Jazeera, Charlotte Observer, Asheville-Citizen Times, The Hill, National Journal, Raleigh News and Observer, North Carolina Insider National Public Radio, USA Today, CNN, FOX News, WUNC, Blue Ridge Public Radio, WFAE (Charlotte) ABC News, and ESPN.com.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.

Join us for our annual Holiday BAC event, where we’ll share a hot meal and some fun activities that will help us get to know one another. Please feel free to bring fliers, brochures, and business cards to share.
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.
Decorating Your Windows for the Holiday Season? Join the Holiday Windows Walking Tour. Plus Share Holiday Happenings
Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.
Also, are you have a holiday sale, event or promotion? We’re happy to share through our social media, newsletters and press releases.


Downtown businesses: Are you decorating your windows for the Holiday Season? Be sure to let us know and we will include you on our Holiday Windows Walking Tour. This is a self-guided tour for people to follow as the stroll Downtown Asheville throughout the holidays.