Calendar of Events

On Thursday, November 15th, from 6-9pm, Momentum Gallery hosts a special reception to celebrate the opening of its highly-anticipated new space located at 52 Broadway Street in downtown Asheville, Momentum on Broadway. A number of Momentum’s Artist Partners plan to be in attendance. The reception is free and open to the public.

This event marks the official unveiling of the first phase of renovation, for a 4000 square foot space on the ground floor of the historic, three-story building Momentum acquired earlier this year. Clean lines and a brighter, more open venue await visitors who were familiar with the space previously occupied by Stuf Antiques. Momentum Gallery intends to continue upfitting additional square footage in the building over the coming months while maintaining locations on both North Lexington Avenue and Broadway Street.

Select works by Momentum Gallery artists occupy the new space along with two exhibitions which also open November 15th, Small Works, Big Impact and Casey Roberts – Cyanotype Paintings.

Please join the Directors of CANVAS ArtSpace at the Opening Reception for ‘Small Works / Big Heart’ an exhibition of animal-themed artwork to benefit Brother Wolf Animal Rescue.

Featured Artists:
Al Junek / Alec Hall / Alta Davis / Anne Allen / Barbara Moerk
Becky LedBetter / Char Snyder / Cheri A. Novak / Clare Sahling / Clark Walker / David Adler / Elena Levine / Ellen Gennaro / Helene Lund Den Boer / Herb Falk / Jan Onan / Jill Hseih / John Newcomer / Kathy Amspacher / Laura Boggs / Linda Hendricks / Liz Wiesel / Marcy Jackson / Marie Lemmond / Marilyn Edie / Maxine Tatreau / Miriam Hughes / Natalie Bennett / Norie Sanchez / Patrick Cain / Patty McClung / Sandi Price / Sarah French / Susan Goodman / Susanne Thomas / Tenley Horne / Vickie Robertson

Exhibition will be on view from Nov 15 – Dec 22; Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm.

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The Asheville Marathon and Half Training Group will have weekly technique and Hill Training on Thursday evenings at 6pm at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Parking Lot – OLLI – UNCA.

Each workout will last one hour. During these workout sessions we will be doing some hill interval training (everyone’s favorite) to improve your hill technique as well as your conditioning.

If you haven’t already registered for the marathon or half marathon training group, you can sign up online and attend these technique and hill trainings and our weekeng long runs. Find out more here –> http://ashevillemarathon.com/community/training/

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Join us for a stroll down Memory Lane, as we sing some of our favorite songs from days gone by – we’ll be singing some of YOUR favorites, too!

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Tour Gatlinburg’s most dazzling light displays by hopping aboard the Gatlinburg Trolley Ride of Lights! This popular winter tradition is the perfect way to see our mountain town in all its Winter Magic splendor. Get your tickets today!

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DECEMBER 6th
Join Adora for a fun and creative evening of making holiday gifts while sipping on warm, herbal teas. Each attendee will make 2 aphrodisiac formulas and 2 magical perfumes to bring home and gift for the holidays.
Optional add on to make more products including a his and her crystal infused massage oils while leaning the basics of Aromatherapy with master formulator Adora Winquist.

Adora Winquist is a transformative healer, an inspired teacher and nationally recognized award winning essential oil formulator. Her upcoming book will focus on healing the whole body one system at a time. She is the founder of ADORAtherapy Mood Boosts and co-founder of Zenergy Medicinals, a line of expertly formulated plant based products and education to advance optimal health and wellness in conjunction with her first book launch.

Adora is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and has practiced her healing arts for over 2 decades years using several modalities based on the client’s needs. A pioneer in the field of aromatherapy and energy medicine, Adora is the founder and formulae originator for ADORAtherapy, a national award winning brand of blended essential oils termed Mood Boosts to create empowered and intentional life practices. Adora continues to be sought out her unique nose and ability to formulae aromatic products for individual and corporate clients.

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Join Katie Moore with the WNC Cheese Trail and learn all about pairing wines and local cheeses! We will taste through 4 wine and cheese pairings. Perfect for planning your next holiday party or just wowing your guests at gathering! Cost is $20 and advance ticket purchase is required.

https://www.facebook.com/events/322414268571150/

Mellowdrome track season workouts. Every Thursday evening 6:30-8pm October-February. Emphasis on track bikes but well-behaved geared bikes wellcome. Youngblood Bicycle’s Shop Team has volunteered to lead us for the workouts. We start with a 30 lap paceline warm up. Please refer to “our story” section of Mellowdrome Asheville Facebook page for general riding guidelines. No riding if track is WET or if Temp below 40. Join in and lets turn left fast with friends. Most of us willing to mentor new riders to track… so, come on and join us.

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$12 Advance / $12 Day of Show

“Blending folk and country with a blues edge, the brothers Meadows pack a powerful punch for being just two dudes armed with only a couple acoustic guitars and a harmonica. But their harmonies are the type of stuff only siblings can usually muster and their songs smack of souls much older than their earthly years would let on.”

Ian and Dustin Meadows are the Meadows Brothers. They share that essential brother-band DNA: a telepathic tightness, the ability to stop and start vocal phrases in lockstep, to fall effortlessly into close harmonies, trade off phrases and navigate together the fresh expression of American roots music they create.

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

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You are not going to miss this! It’s the 3rd Thursday of the month and that can only mean one thing at Sanctuary! Billy Litz is back for his solo Thursday show!

Billy Litz…
is an Asheville, NC based multi-instrumentalist (trumpet, keys, guitar, harmonica, foot percussion) and singer with a lust for song-writing. He has been called “…. A prolific tunesmith…Blessed with a distinctive lead voice — high, thick, suitably retro” – Bold Life Magazine He tours the East Coast as the front man of the feel-good 4-piece, soul band, Hustle Souls, and as a dynamic one-man-band solo artist where New Orleans trumpet, honky-tonk piano, and foot stomping percussion meet the acoustic guitar and whining harmonica.

http://www.billylitz.com/

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Thursday, November 15, 7pm

Conversation with Barbara Earl Thomas.

Exhibition co-curator and art historian Julie Levin Caro leads a conversation with Barbara Earl Thomas, granddaughter of southern sharecroppers, artist, and former student of Jacob Lawrence. From 2008-2013 Thomas served as executive director of the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle, WA.

FREE for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $8 non-members

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An introduction to the fun & exciting Brazilian street dance. Samba owes its rhythm and moves to African dances. The traditional African circle dance with a lone central performer relied on weight shifts, rapid steps, and slides to a 2/4 percussive beat, and a fairly still upper body with arms and hands responding to the hip and leg movements. samba is irresistible, its gyrations richly colored by regional and international influences. Today, it would be impossible to imagine carnival without samba.

4 week series/$50

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Join us Thursday, November 15th, for a special John Candy edition of Taproom Trivia! Questions will focus on John Candy films with a particular emphasis on Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (aka the greatest Thanksgiving movie of all time). Mo & Joe’s BBQ will be serving up dinner, too, so come test your knowledge of the late, great John Candy!

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Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness will be hosting an open mic night! Come join us as we celebrate recovery through sharing our stories, music, art and writing. Donations are appreciated but not required.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1770764693022527/

Silent Auction

Many fabulous items will be available including – Wine Lovers Basket, Golf Foursome at Hendersonville Country Club, Hand-made Quilts, and much more.

Cash Bar and Complementary Snacks

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Loving the pure joy of winter is something we have in common with the late, great Warren Miller—who helped create and capture the magic of skiing. This year, “Face of Winter,” the 69th installment from Warren Miller Entertainment presented by Volkswagen, will bring new and veteran athletes alike together to pay tribute to the man who started it all.

Watch as the world’s best skiers and riders cover ground in some of the most legendary destinations to honor a face that launched a thousand quips and got us all started on this long, crazy ride. Visit some of Warren’s favorite locations from Switzerland to Chamonix, British Columbia to Alaska, Chile, Iceland, New Zealand and more.

Come along to far off regions, meet the locals, carve faces of remote mountain ranges, and celebrate the thrills of a life lived in high places.

Join in the tribute and continue the legacy. We are all the “Face of Winter.”

Tickets: https://9850.formovietickets.com:2235/

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Join the Wild Asheville Community Chorus for an evening of singing and dancing! Led by director Suzannah Park, we’ll be celebrating music from across the globe with a selection of traditional and contemporary songs from South Africa, Georgia, Croatia, and America.

Sliding scale donations: $5-$10. Kids free! No one turned away for lack of funds.

A raffle for various prizes will be available. See you there!

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Founded in 1952 by dancer and choreographer Amalia Hernández, Ballet Folklórico de México brings together the festive music, stomping celebrations, swirling dance, and vibrant costumes of Mexican folklore from pre-Colombian civilizations through the modern era.

With its permanent home at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, one of Mexico City’s most historic venues, the company has developed choreography for 40 ballets and is composed of 76 folk dancers. They have thrilled audiences all over the world with the nation’s diverse, folkloric dance styles and rich, colorful culture for over six decades.

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Award winning New York City director and actor Reginald Wilson will be the guest director of “Dearly Departed,” the next play presented by Mars Hill University’s theatre arts department. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday through Saturday, November 15-17, 2018, with a 2:30 p.m. matinee on Sunday, November 18. The production will feature director talkbacks after each performance; an opening night reception before the production on Thursday, November 15; and a diversity improv workshop at 12 p.m. on Sunday, November 18. Extra events are included with ticket purchases for that day’s performance.

Dearly Departed, written by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones, is a fast moving play that takes place in the backwoods of the Bible Belt. The beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpins’ other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion. Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students with student identification, free for Mars Hill University students and staff. For more information, contact the Owen Theatre box office at (828) 689-1389.

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Emmalee Hunnicutt explores the subtleties of sound with her inventive cello playing. Classically trained from a young age, she brings an intimate understanding of the cello to her compositions and improvisations. Working in the realms of texture and emotion, her work acknowledges the mysterious nature of art and life. In addition to writing and performing as a solo artist, she is also part of a number of collaborative projects including Mountain Bitters and Library of Babel. Find her music at https://soundcloud.com/mooniris0 and emmaleehunnicutt.bandcamp.com

Mountain Bitters is an acoustic folk trio based out of Asheville, NC. The band consists of Emmalee Hunnicutt on Cello, guitar & vocals, Gretchen Caverly on 5-string viola, fiddle & vocals, and Megan Drollinger on fiddle, mandolin & vocals. Performing an assortment of styles including Celtic, Cajun and Appalachian Folk, their instrumental arrangements, informed by their early Classical training, are original and compelling. Often setting down their instruments to sing a capella, their intuitive harmonies could be described as intoxicating and more than a little haunting. But, as soon as you’ve wiped your tear-dimmed eye, they’ll have you up and dancing again! https://www.facebook.com/mountainbitters/

Join OM Sanctuary this fall for an intimate Sanctuary Concert Series. Music to uplift the spirit and warm the soul will be presented Thursday evenings, from 7:30-9:00pm, on the Sanctuary Pavilion stage located in the Multipurpose room. Experience an intriguing array of local Asheville talent offering an assortment of musical approaches, from atmospheric electronica to Appalachian folk to singer-songwriter to Kirtan. Musical groups have been hand selected to blend with the beauty and harmony of the Sanctuary nestled next to the Serenity Garden and Waterfall, creating a seamless environment conducive to relaxation and evocative of mystery.

OM Sanctuary is a non profit educational center with a mission to introduce healthy lifestyle practices through holistic education and connection to nature. The 54-acre eco-friendly campus, is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains above the French Broad River just off Riverside Drive at 87 Richmond Hill Dr in Asheville, NC 28806. The center also offers daily classes, programs, retreat lodging, healthy cuisine, wellness treatments & private sessions, a labyrinth garden and a Tranquility Trail in the 42 acre conservation forest.

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“Metamorphoses” condenses Ovid’s epic and selects the most powerful myths to illustrate the theme of change. The gods, though “not altogether unkind,” exert their influence on the mortal world by dramatically interfering with the lives of humans.
From Midas to Orpheus, and from Alcyone to Baucis, mortals undergo various metamorphoses, or physical changes, which reflect their internal traits. Hubris is punished, while charity and love are rewarded. To stress the timeless nature of these myths, some take place in antiquity, while others have anachronistic references to better tie their stories to today. These myths, however, offer more than just simple morals like the importance of humility and piety. “Metamorphoses” also shows why myths themselves retain importance and relevance.

Dorrance Dance — Thursday & Friday, November 15 & 16, 2018, 8:00 p.m.
Award-winning choreographer, dancer and director Michelle Dorrance is one of the most sought-after tap dancers of this generation. Praised by The New York Times as “a brilliant conductor,” Dorrance Dance’s riveting performances “push the boundaries of tap,” exposing its true form as music through motion. Thursday & Friday, November 15 & 16, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. at Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. Tickets: Regular $48; Student $43; Child $20; Student Rush Day-of-Show (with valid I.D.) $10. Box Office: 828-257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2528780784057314/?event_time_id=2528780794057313

JT Habbersat live comedy at The Nook!! $5.00

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***Tickets become available one week before the show, at 3pm ET.

BEGINNINGS Prepare a five-minute story about a beginning. Dawn, step one, day one, birth or re-birth. Initiations and inaugurations. Tabula rasa. A new leaf, a new loft, a puppy, a job, parole. New car smell. A makeover so magical your own mama don’t know you! Quantum hops, burning and building bridges, cleaning house, pulling up roots or a fresh coat of paint. Your nouveau reach. A blank sheet of paper…

https://themoth.org/events/beginnings-asheville

For more details on preparing a Moth story if you’d like to participate, follow the link above.

It is brilliant and quietly addictive” – The London Guardian

“New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket” – The Wall Street Journal

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. It is a celebration of both the raconteur, who breathes fire into true tales of ordinary life, and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. At the center of each performance is, of course, the story – and The Moth’s directors work with each storyteller to find, shape and present it.

Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide.

Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore it, often in unexpected ways. Since each story is true and every voice authentic, the shows dance between documentary and theater, creating a unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience.

Moth stories dissolve socio-economic barriers, expose vulnerabilities, and quietly suggest ways to overcome challenges and see with new eyes.

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Hot Club of Cullowhee comes to The Paper Mill Lounge and Theatre to spice up the venue with energized gypsy jazz so we can burn up the dance floor! A musically magical night of warm vibes and awesome libations!

https://www.facebook.com/events/480658535673250/

Cello Art Rock!

https://www.lungtheband.com
https://lunglunglung.bandcamp.com

https://www.okapiduo.com
https://okapiband.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/user-485793944

Polly Panic
https://pollypanic.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR1qH-S5PFSYsMaFBPcZRVETmKHJYZBmu1LPvwU8XTCyntlcRJazy-LFYmQ

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GAME Grateful Asheville Music Experience – a tribute to the Grateful Dead & beyond:

Hosted by Spiro Nicolopoulos of the Paper Crowns.

WHERE: Ambrose West, 312 Haywood Road, Asheville
WHEN: Thursday 11/15/18
DOORS: 8pm | SHOW: 9pm
GENRE: The Grateful Dead + their various side projects
AGES: 21+
SEATS: standing room with a few scattered seats
TICKETS: no cover – donation$ accepted

A series of events featuring members of Asheville’s Deadhead community of musicians. G.A.M.E. is a celebration of community in the spirit of cooperation and musical kinship – focusing on music of the Grateful Dead, JGB, Old & In the Way, Grateful Dawg and many other manifestations of music connected to the unique Deadhead experience.

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A beautiful evening featuring some of the finest and most talented genre-bending cellists in music today.

https://www.lungtheband.com
https://lunglunglung.bandcamp.com

A few shows in the SE to support the new album, “Losing Form” You can listen at pollypanic.net or pollypanic.bandcamp.com

https://www.okapiduo.com
https://okapiband.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/user-485793944

Cover: $5
Doors: 8pm
Show: 9pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/272585176927921/

Toro y Moi
Show: 9pm
Doors: 8pm
$22 – $25
Ages 16+

Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/toro-y-moi/

Born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, Chaz Bear (formerly Bundick) has been actively involved in music going back to his early teenage years playing in punk and indie rock bands. Bear unveiled his Toro y Moi guise in 2001, in which he began incorporating electronics and channeling a wider swath of stylistic influences — from indie rock and ’60s baroque pop to ’80s R&B, French house, and underground hip-hop — into his own solo music. By the time he graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2009 with a BA in graphic design, Bear had refined Toro y Moi into a truly unique, captivating project, with numerous music magazines and blogs touting his hazy recordings as the sound of summer. His Carpark-released debut album, Causers of This, would follow in early 2010 and garnered high praise in many publications including NME and Pitchfork.

With each subsequent record, Bear revealed himself to be as prolific as diverse. From the space-age funk of 2011’s Underneath the Pine to the introspective, house-tinged pop and soul of 2013’s Anything in Return, to the ’70s radio gold influences percolating throughout 2015’s What For?, Bear consistently steered Toro y Moi in new directions while never sacrificing his melodic sensibility or keen ear for arrangements and texture. Although his most recent excursions — last year’s stunning concert film/album, Live from Trona (featuring an expanded line-up of Toro y Moi’s touring group performing in the California desert), and his Star Stuff collaboration with jazz duo the Mattson 2 (just released in late March on Carpark sister label Company Records, which Bear runs) — were full-band affairs, his latest Toro y Moi album is a much more personal outing.

Recorded and produced by Bear in Portland, Oregon, between March 2016 and March 2017, the spacious arrangements mirror the intimate, soft-hued pop of Boo Boo. Eschewing the traditional rock instrumentation of What For?, slow-pulsing neon synths and electronics are once again far more prevalent, with subtle ’80s influences finespun through his song craft. Throughout, Bear plays all of the instruments, with the exception of guest spots from Anthony Ferraro (a/k/a Astronauts, etc. and also Toro y Moi’s live keyboardist) and Madeline Kenney (Company Records recording artist). Toro y Moi’s most reflective album to date, the woozy contemplations and daydreams of Boo Boo point toward an idyllic path of catharsis for not only the listener, but for Chaz Bear himself.

www.toroymoi.com

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