Calendar of Events

Join Amber and Luna for a week long retreat on one of Costa Rica’s most pristine beaches!

This is a fundraiser for Asheville Community Yoga!

For generations, women have gathered together on retreat to CONNECT, AWAKEN, and EXPLORE their essential nature of LOVE and COMPASSION. This retreat will take place at a beachfront eco-conscious resort located on the Nicoya Peninsula in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica.

In addition to local adventures, the beautiful landscape of Costa Rica and community service, the retreat will include daily Hatha and Bhakti yoga practices, earth-based rituals, music, wholesome food, and more.

Together we will:

“UN-DO” and LET GO of the busy-ness in our lives.
Tune into the HEALING qualities of NATURE.
EXPLORE the FEMININE POWER in CONNECTION, AUTHENTICITY and TRUTH.
CO-CREATE an EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE!
AWAKEN LOVE.

THIS IS A FUNDRAISER FOR ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY YOGA!!!

Dates:
March 24th-30th, 2019

Price:
Early Bird – $1895 (Register before June 15th, 2018)
Full Price Shared Room – $2195
Full Price Private Room – $2795

https://www.facebook.com/events/224995381599810/

Start your no-obligation free 14 day trial any day of the week (see our class schedule link below). 12 women ages 35 to 55 are invited to be part of an exclusive FREE trial of dance fitness classes at Jazzercise South Asheville Fitness Studio. Take at least 5 classes within 14 days, then offer honest feedback via survey. When complete, you will receive a $50 credit towards registration (making the JF $0 for you!).

Check out the BEFORE & AFTER photos of real results from Jazzercise! Space is limited! To be a part of the trial group, please direct message us with the class day and time you would like to begin. For a complete class schedule, visit: https://jcls.jazzercise.com/facility/jazzercise-south-asheville-fitness-center

*Must begin your trial no later than April 15. Available to new clients only. Message us while spots are still available! Please arrive 15 minutes before your 1st class and bring a clean-bottomed pair of athletic shoes you can change into for class (dirt, sand, and tiny rocks will scratch our new studio floors).

https://www.facebook.com/events/2294581184153215/?event_time_id=2294581217486545

Wildflowers springing from the ground are a sign that spring and warmer weather are right around the corner. Capture photos of your family and friends enjoying the Park and enter them into our Shades of Spring Photo Contest for a chance to win fabulous prizes. We’ll use the winning entries on our website and Facebook album, and you’ll win some fun prizes. Photos must be taken within the Chimney Rock section of the Park.

Cost: No additional cost to enter.

https://www.facebook.com/events/513276815831866/?event_time_id=513276829165198

Sanctuary Brewing Company, Lis once again teaming up Michael Cohen of Saluda Hair Garage to offer free haircuts, a hot meal, and clothing & toiletry drive, and more! The event starts at 10 AM on Monday March 25th and goes until 1 PM. Clothing and toiletries will be out and available for anyone that needs them all day Monday and Tuesday.

Donations can be made any time at Sanctuary Brewing Company for the following: reusable shopping bags, makeup (new), clothing (business), non-perishable food, hygiene items, and basic office supplies (pens, notebooks, etc.)

All Donations are appreciated, however items most in need are outerwear, pants, sweaters, etc.

We are also always looking for volunteers, assistance, new services, and monetary donations, please email [email protected] if you are interested in helping out or sponsoring an event.

https://www.facebook.com/events/630613554027973/

Meet Park Ranger John Wilkerson to discuss the latest park news including a tot lot update. A Q&A session with follow with Wilkerson and other town officials. Attendees will also hear from the Park Foundation.

Pick a day and time that’s best for you:
• Monday, March 25, 10:00 – 11:00 am
• Saturday, March 30, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
• Wednesday, April 3, 7:00 – 8:00 pm

Location: The Rudnick Community Room located inside the Park’s Welcome Center

Questions? Contact the Park Ranger
John Wilkerson
(828)435-0397
[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/events/410876309660558/?event_time_id=410876312993891

Come out for a pint or two to support Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity!! Hillman Beer pint day with specifically go to the Women’s Build House since it is Women’s History Month!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2016051205158439/

Industry Appreciation Monday is your new favorite night of the week! Join us each and every Monday so you can tell everyone – IAM At Battery Park Book Exchange.

Bring your friends and enjoy half off glasses of wine and bubbles, ALL DAY, Every Monday.

Cheers! ??

https://www.facebook.com/events/1963478467295080/?event_time_id=1963478493961744

Every Monday and Tuesday we feature oysters on the half shell, raw or roasted and $3 pints. Pints all day and Oysters starting at 5:00pm.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2255390748073704/?event_time_id=2255390778073701

FREE 8-Week Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Program

Registration Required – Spaces are Limited

Many older adults experience a fear of falling. People who develop this fear often limit their activities, which can result in physical weakness, making the risk of falling even greater. A Matter of Balance is a program designed to reduce the fear of falling and increase activity levels among older adults. It includes 8 two-hour sessions for a small group of 8-12 participants led by a trained facilitator. This nationally recognized program was developed at the Roybal Center at Boston University.

Who should attend?

The program is designed to benefit older adults who:

Are concerned about falls

Have sustained falls in the past

Restrict activities because of concerns about falling

Are interested in improving flexibility, balance and strength

Are age 60 or older, community-dwelling and able to problem solve

What do participants learn?

The program enables participants to achieve significant goals. They gain confidence by learning to:

View falls as controllable

Set goals for increasing activity

Make changes to reduce fall risk at home

Exercise to increase strength and balance

https://www.facebook.com/events/391841454714697/?event_time_id=391841468048029

“Hola, Asheville” is a group for bilingual / bicultural families (English / Spanish) to get together and play, read and socialize in Spanish. Our goal is to create a fun environment for our kids to cultivate their other language. We’ll be playing games, sharing stories about our countries, and talking about books we’ve read.

No registration necessary. Group is welcome to anyone. We will meet every other Monday downstairs in the activity room.

https://www.facebook.com/events/302598390609920/?event_time_id=302598397276586

Banjo Mitch McConnell hosts Old Time Jam every Monday here at the taproom. Whether you’re a musician ready to play, or just a fan of live music and craft beer this is the weekly event for you!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2070421216569841/?event_time_id=2244950309116930

Wing Wing Cafe is giving a % of all food sales to Kaylas scholarship!! Also there will be a silent auction to take part in all the money for it will be sent to scholarship. All you need to do is come fill your bellies and place your receipt in the pink vase at door!! Dont forget to bid on your favorite item. I will contact all the winners the following day!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2402783089755638/

As if you needed another reason to come see us, we will have 75 cent wings every Monday from 5pm-close.
We have all of our wonderful flavors of wings available, plus a special sauce of the week.

We also have $4 draft beers on special, so stop in and get your Tiger Wing on!

(This special is dine-in only, not available for takeout).

https://www.facebook.com/events/155915711920833/?event_time_id=155915731920831

We are pleased to invite you to the meet the artists and view their presentations for art on the Beaumont Street wall of 55 South Market Street Condominiums on Monday, March 25 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at The Block Off Biltmore, 39 South Market Street. Five artists will present their ideas to the community. Food, drink and live music will be provided. Attire: come as you are. It should be a fun evening for all!

Artistes Presenting: Cleaster Cotton • Ian Wilkenson • Stephen Chilingirian • Tarah Singh • Joseph Pearson

No RSVP needed.

Hope to see you there!

Chris Pearce
Development Partner
55 South Market, LLC

https://www.facebook.com/events/378107949691856/

On a regular basis we hear how much you wish you could create fun braids or even just a basic braid. If you have ever wanted to learn, then this class is for you! We will be covering braids from basic to Pinterest worthy. Reserve your ticket today!

https://www.facebook.com/events/294160991469731/

“Circling” is a new spiritual practice, transformational modality and way of relating that is growing all over the world. It is a dynamic group process that is part-art-form, part-skillful facilitation and part-relational yoga. It is also a unique modality that can be practiced one-on-one. During this 6 week course, you will learn some of the fundamentals of this practice which will ultimately help you to develop richer and more extraordinary connections in your life. Each class will include some teaching but mostly experiential learning where you will get to practice these relating skills with others in the class.

The facilitators; Cathy Courtenay (trainer and partner at the Circling Institute) and Brett McCall (coach, consultant, entrepreneur and recent grad of Art of Circling training) will send you home with exercises to practice in your day to day life. This class is only right for you if you want your presence, connection skills, your ability to see your own blind spots, all to be improved Course is sliding scale $120 and $150 for the entire 6 week series but no one turned away for lack of funds. Every other Monday from starting Feb 11 – April 26 at 6-8pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/380435785837722/

An exploration of mindful and contemplative life practices to bring joy and peace to your life. Includes a 25-minute guided meditation.

Led by Ronya Banks, founder and lead teacher at Asheville Insight Meditation. Program is free and held in our auditorium downstairs.

No registration is required.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2035305753386185/?event_time_id=2035305760052851

Start your week off right with a donation-based pilates session and follow it up with a celebratory post-exercise pint!

Learn to focus on your breath and isolate muscle groups to build and strengthen your body while increasing your confidence and bodily awareness. Classes will happen under the thoughtful and fun guidance of Courtney, our resident pilates instructor who has been practicing and teaching in the Black Mountain area for 3 years. Courtney will lead a series of exercises, with variations for each to include folks of all fitness and ability levels!

Classes will take place in the event space at the end of our building.
Please plan to arrive 5-10 minutes early to set up your mat and settle in before class begins! Bring your own mat and plan to grab a drink afterwards with the group! All ages and abilities welcome!

https://www.facebook.com/events/948380552036149/?event_time_id=948380605369477

Are you ready to show off your meticulous knowledge of useless facts? Well, this is your chance! Nerdy Talk Trivia will be hosting our weekly trivia night with $3 Gaelic pints.

Gift card prizes will be awarded weekly to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

Every weekly winner will be put into a drawing for a pair of tickets to Lord Huron concert in the Meadow on April 19. The drawing will take place on April 1.

https://www.facebook.com/events/711040849291752/?event_time_id=711040885958415

Fly Tying and beer has come to Weaverville. Starts Monday at 6:30pm and running until 9pm. Bring your vice and materials and grab a beverage and tie away. If your new to tying flies, or have no exposure to it, we want you to come too. We will have vices and materials to help show you the ropes. We will have raffle prizes and plenty of stories to be shared. Now you finally have something to make you look forward to Monday’s!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1838414896270037/?event_time_id=1838414909603369

Fly Tying and beer has come to Weaverville. Starts Monday at 6:30pm and running until 9pm. Bring your vice and materials and grab a beverage and tie away. If your new to tying flies, or have no exposure to it, we want you to come too. We will have vices and materials to help show you the ropes. We will have raffle prizes and plenty of stories to be shared. Now you finally have something to make you look forward to Monday’s!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1838414896270037/

What are you really longing for? What do you want to call in? What do you want to create in your life?

In this 75 minute “Come Home To Your Soul” workshop, Moriah will guide you through a meditation and practice that will help you access the innate wisdom of your body + the soul, while also allowing you time to journal and reflect on what you really and + desire in your life. In this workshop we will reconnect with your deep self, align more fully with you intuition, and give your body support and guidance. All you have to bring is yourself! This is a powerful opportunity to tap back in to who you really are, what you really want, and listen to your heart’s desire.

Moriah Norris-Hale is a life coach, writer, and somatic healing practitioner In her practice, she helps people reconnect to their dreams, their wildness, their bodies, and their wisdom. You can discover her work at www.theskyinside.net

Upcoming Dates:
Monday, February 25th @ 7pm – 8:15pm
Monday, March 25th @ 7pm – 8:15pm

Pricing: $10 – 20 sliding scale
Please RSVP Via email [email protected]
Online tickets

Mar 25:
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=630417&sclassid=664&sDate=3/25/2019&sLoc=1&sTG=24&sType=1

https://www.facebook.com/events/1600001383434158/?event_time_id=1661034947330801

Have a terrible case of the Mondays? Got a sick a twisted sense of humor? Come play Cards Against Humanity with us! We have 3 box sets with every expansion. We’re pushing tables together, making new friends, and having laughs every Monday!

https://www.facebook.com/events/371611523634185/?event_time_id=371611546967516

This is a FREE ping pong tournament occurring weekly at Hi-Wire Brewing at Golden Belt in Durham, NC. Sign-up on site every Tuesday at 7pm. Weekly prizes will be awarded to the winners.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2279054425684696/?event_time_id=2304833076440164

Open Mic Night at Sanctuary Brewing Company SCI-FI Edition

Join the The Gathering Dark For an Open Mic Night like no other. Gaze into another dimension with us and seek parallel universes unexplored by the known Human psyche! Enter a Zone of twilight as we seek what has not been sought!

Come sing, play, recite, rejoice, enact, create, and just have fun!

We’ll…be…right…here.

https://www.facebook.com/events/414630285975785/

Come on out every week to really drill that technique into your body. After all, good technique is the foundation to great dance!

Haven’t danced before? No worries! Sarah Joy will get you started off right.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2207664732782541/?event_time_id=2207664776115870

An Evening With The Dillards at The Grey Eagle

https://www.facebook.com/events/637666450021310/

Punch Brothers
plus Gabriel Kahane
Show: 8pm
Doors: 7pm
$35 – $159
Ages 18+

Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/punch-brothers/

All Ashore, Punch Brothers’ fifth album and the first to be self-produced by the quintet, is both ambitious and easygoing, a lot like the “ridiculously eclectic” combo, as London’s Guardian once called the band. The work has the feel of a nine-song suite, one that invites you to unravel the threads of its connected themes and stories over repeated listening. Each track segues seamlessly, even a little sneakily, into the next. Before you know it, “The Angel of Doubt,” a dark-night-of-the-soul drama featuring a vocal from singer-mandolinist Chris Thile, has glided into “Three Dots and a Dash,” an instrumental that veers from ruminative to rave up, named in tribute to a classic Tiki cocktail, Thile’s latest recreational obsession.

Thile calls All Ashore “a meditation on committed relationships in the present day, particularly in light of the current unsettled political climate — certainly the most unsettled one that anyone in the band has ever experienced.” He continues, “We were hoping we could create a thing that would be convincing as a complete thought, sort of a nine-movement or a nine-song thought, even though it’s rangy in terms of what it’s talking about and in the characters doing the talking.”

When Punch Brothers released its last album, Phosphorescent Blues, in 2015, Rolling Stone noted, “The genius of Thile and bandmates guitar player Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjo player Noam Pikelny, and fiddler Gabe Witcher is the artistry with which they mix bluegrass, roots, rock, pop, jazz, and classical to create a unique, contemporary sound.” All Ashore also has an appealingly relaxed virtuosity to it, self-assured but never showy.

In a more pronounced way than on prior discs, All Ashore comes across as a glimpse into Punch Brothers’ current real life, as these artists who have spent more than a dozen years playing together grapple with marriage, family, and their ever-accelerating individual careers as producers, composers, arrangers, and front men. On the album’s early tracks, it candidly addresses the state of their own world. In smart and satirical later songs like “Jumbo” and “All Part of The Plan,” it tackles the state of our collective one. Understated ballad “The Gardener” poignantly combines the personal and political in its evocation of a dedicated tradesman who brings beauty to a family’s garden but remains a stranger, a mysterious other, to them, only glimpsed occasionally from a window.

The five band members took time from their families to once again come together United Sound in Los Angeles (formerly Ocean Way), where they’d previously recorded Phosphorescent Blues with T Bone Burnett as well as their 2010 album, Antifogmatic. Pikelny says. “When we first got together as a band, we were mostly single guys in our mid to late twenties. We shared a musical vision but there was this sense of fraternity, of brotherhood, that really sealed the deal and laid the groundwork for a long lasting collaboration.”

He adds, “We had so much more free time than we have now, with fewer family and professional commitments. Our time together early on would happen spontaneously, casually, and often included stumbling home from cocktail bars at 3am in New York. We now have to be much more organized with our time to make sure we have opportunities to be together and make music. We’re no longer all living in the same city, three of us are married, and there are three Punch Brothers kids running around.”

Pikelny continues “On top of that, the current political and cultural situation in this country really contrasts with anything the five of us have experienced in our lifetimes. All our previous albums were made in times of relative calm, compared to the present time. But who better than your closest musical family to help navigate and makes sense of these increasingly foreign and challenging times? This album seemed like a momentous re-gathering of the band, an opportunity to really get to the core of what Punch Brothers represents. ”

Additionally, the band’s individual projects influenced them on All Ashore. “We were hearing new things out of everyone,” says violinist Witcher, “and that’s what going off and doing something else does for you. We had this whole collection of influences, new experiences, a broadening of scope.”

Thile has always juggled multiple projects throughout his career with Punch Brothers and as a member of Grammy Award-winning trio Nickel Creek. He currently hosts the public radio show, Live from Here, often abetted on stage by one or more Punch Brother. In 2017 alone, he released a duo album with jazz pianist and Nonesuch labelmate Brad Mehldau; a set of Bach trios with the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his longtime mentor and friend, double bassist Edgar Meyer; and Thanks for Listening, a studio set of “Song of the Week” tunes he’d composed for Live from Here.

Witcher produced albums for Nickel Creek’s Sara Watkins (2016’s Young in All the Wrong Ways), Pikelny (his 2017 solo disc, Universal Favorite), and the acoustic guitar duo of Punch Brother Chris Eldridge and Julian Lage (2017’s Mount Royal). Nonesuch label mate Rhiannon Giddens recently engaged Witcher to create orchestral arrangements of her repertoire for concert appearances with symphony orchestras.

Kowert just released Unless, the debut disc with his Nashville-based quartet Hawktail produced by bandmate Eldridge and featuring frequent Live from Hereguest star violinist Brittany Haas. Eldridge also recorded and toured with Julian Lage, a prodigious guitarist who melds his jazz background with folk, rock and bluegrass. In early 2017, Pikelny released a purely solo album, Universal Favorite, and toured the country extensively with his one-man show. He produced Motel Bouquet for singer-songwriter Caitlin Canty, with whom he also performs. In fall of 2017, he was again awarded Banjo Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association.

For All Ashore, instead of recording a stack of tunes out of which they would assemble an album, Witcher explains, “We decided we would write and record this album in sequence. In doing so we were really able to construct the narrative, musically and lyrically, throughout the whole process. That was a new way of doing things for us that helped the cohesiveness and narrative.”

Eldridge adds, “These songs hadn’t been played live before. They were played for the first time in the studio. When you’re doing that, you capture something, that moment of discovery — what the tune is, how it goes, ‘this is how I have to relax into this section of the tune,’ all these things that are subtle but palpable to the listener and even to your fellow bandmates as you are discovering them together. I think we captured that on tape.”

The blend of concentration and cooperation that Thile had to muster for the arduous “Song of the Week” segment of Live from Here markedly informed the making of All Ashore, notes Kowert: “Chris’s compositional chops are in peak form, having worked under constant pressure for the radio show. And it was a similar experience for all of us, in our own ways, this openness to incorporate other people’s instincts — combined with a kind of last-minute element. Thile was always walking to the writing sessions, to the rehearsals, and to the actual recording — and along the way he would be working on lyrics for the next week or even the following day. Some lyrics were written right before takes. He would present his thought from his walk to the band and we would work on it together. There was a spontaneity to the results.”

Thile agrees: “They had the confidence and the ability to articulate what might be bothering them about a particular lyric. Maybe my increased confidence as lyricist — from the radio show, which is like a compositional boot camp both musically and lyrically — gives me a level of comfort. It’s a motivating force. When I would go back to the drawing board, I’d invariably return with lyrics I was more excited about. That aspect of Punch Brothers has hit a new level. Whatever we are working on, it’s gotten deeper and resulted in greater change.”

As Eldridge says, “It feels to me that we are a better band. The irony is that we have done way less together in the last two years than we’ve ever done. There is a beautiful familiarity to having this long-term relationship, and Punch Brothers are a thing that I expect will be a part of our lives for a long, long time. It’s a lifer band. To have that ongoing relationship, to have had a decade together, with it comes this sense that we don’t need to prove anything. We are comfortable enough with what we are, what we do, to celebrate the things that are cool and unique and creative about the band. Looking at it from that angle, our only goal was to make a record that was honest and beautiful.”

“This record is a distillation the things that only we can do,” echoes Witcher. “We wanted to focus on the things that make us unique, and I think we did. And we have a more cohesive and successful record. We’ve been around for twelve years now; we know who we are.”

www.punchbrothers.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA4H7_d9q20

https://www.facebook.com/events/1447923268643999/

The Bearded Dragons Inn hosts their weekly West Marches game. This is a drop in game for all to join. If you have never played before come and join us. Our amazing community will teach you all you need to know. If you have years, or even decades of experience stop on by as well as you’ll experience a whole new style of play. For more information check out our website:
https://sites.google.com/outlook.com/westmarchesattriskelion/home

https://www.facebook.com/events/377998122745064/?event_time_id=377998166078393

Combining choreography and tricks on the pole! This introductory series will concentrate on learning and adding on to one routine throughout 4 weeks, allowing time to master the moves! Putting together choreography and tricks from Intro & Beginner 1 levels, Beginner Poleography is perfect for anyone interested in seeing progress through having something to practice!

$68 for the series – Reserve your spot here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/301080430590240/