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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Monday, October 2, 2023
Community Reparations Summit Free Film: Black in Asheville
Oct 2 @ 5:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Mullen & James Humanities Hall

Join the Community Reparations Commission, the City of Asheville, Buncombe County Government, and UNC Asheville’s Department of Education and Africana Studies program for a Community Reparations Summit.

Monday, October 2nd: Screening of Black in Asheville, followed by a Q&A with the Filmmaker, Todd Gragg. Hosted at the Mullen & James Humanities Hall, UNC Asheville from 5:00 – 8:30 pm. Locally black-owned food trucks will be available to attendees from 5:00-6:15 pm. Not all food trucks accept card payments, so please remember to bring some cash if you’re interested in food at this event. Doors open at 5:45 pm. Parking is available at no charge.

Thursday, October 5th: Screening of The Big Payback. Hosted at the Mullen & James Humanities Hall, UNC Asheville from 5:00 – 8:15 pm. Locally black-owned food trucks will be available to attendees from 5:00-6:15 pm. Not all food trucks accept card payments, so please remember to bring some cash if you’re interested in food at this event. Doors open at 5:45 pm. Parking is available at no charge.

Saturday, October 7th: The Community Reparations Summit program features attorney George Fatheree who helped return Bruce’s Beach, a property in Manhattan Beach (California), to the Black family who owned and lost it in the 1920s. Summit attendees will hear updates from the Community Reparations Commission’s Impact Focus Areas and in turn, provide feedback on their proposed recommendations. Attendance is limited, and registration is required. Breakfast and lunch will be provided to attendees, and parking is available at no charge. The Summit will be hosted at the Sherrill Center and Kimmel Arena, UNC Asheville Campus from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. Doors open at 9:00 am.

Thursday, October 5, 2023
Community Reparations Summit Free Film: “The Big Payback”
Oct 5 @ 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Mullen & James Humanities Hall

Join the Community Reparations Commission, the City of Asheville, Buncombe County Government, and UNC Asheville’s Department of Education and Africana Studies program for a Community Reparations Summit.

Monday, October 2nd: Screening of Black in Asheville, followed by a Q&A with the Filmmaker, Todd Gragg. Hosted at the Mullen & James Humanities Hall, UNC Asheville from 5:00 – 8:30 pm. Locally black-owned food trucks will be available to attendees from 5:00-6:15 pm. Not all food trucks accept card payments, so please remember to bring some cash if you’re interested in food at this event. Doors open at 5:45 pm. Parking is available at no charge.

Thursday, October 5th: Screening of The Big Payback. Hosted at the Mullen & James Humanities Hall, UNC Asheville from 5:00 – 8:15 pm. Locally black-owned food trucks will be available to attendees from 5:00-6:15 pm. Not all food trucks accept card payments, so please remember to bring some cash if you’re interested in food at this event. Doors open at 5:45 pm. Parking is available at no charge.

Saturday, October 7th: The Community Reparations Summit program features attorney George Fatheree who helped return Bruce’s Beach, a property in Manhattan Beach (California), to the Black family who owned and lost it in the 1920s. Summit attendees will hear updates from the Community Reparations Commission’s Impact Focus Areas and in turn, provide feedback on their proposed recommendations. Attendance is limited, and registration is required. Breakfast and lunch will be provided to attendees, and parking is available at no charge. The Summit will be hosted at the Sherrill Center and Kimmel Arena, UNC Asheville Campus from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. Doors open at 9:00 am.

International Fly Fishing Film Festival
Oct 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Asheville Community Theatre

The International Fly Fishing Film Festival (IF4), the world’s leading fly-fishing film event, is a curated collection of stories showcasing the pursuit of wild spaces and peaceful places where fish seem most willing, the water appears in its purest form and our community connects. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit Trout Unlimited

Friday, October 6, 2023
Tryon International Film Festival
Oct 6 – Oct 8 all-day
Tryon Theatre

Tryon International Film Festival (TRIFF) is in its 9th year of offering an amazing array of film screenings of productions from around the globe, education offerings and events in Tryon, NC. This year TRIFF will also offer passes to its first Media Arts & Education Day on October 6 for middle and high school-age youth and has expanded its Education Institute on October 7 & 8.

Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Oct 6 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, October 13, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Oct 13 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Thursday, October 19, 2023
Lecture and Film Screening: Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus Dances with Debra McCall
Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center

            

Still from McCall’s Bauhaus Dances, Formentanz (Form Dance), photo by Debra McCall.

The Lecture and Film: Bauhaus Dances

As Master of the Theater Workshop at the Dessau Bauhaus in the 1920s, Oskar Schlemmer delivered a series of avant-garde lecture dances on the body in space, his lifelong opus. Schlemmer’s revolutionary ideas for a humanistic theater in the new technology age were transported to the US  with the arrival of Bauhauslers Josef and Anni Albers and Xanti Schawinsky, a Theater Workshop performer, to Black Mountain. Their ideas impacted the work of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham at Black Mountain, who in turn disseminated Schlemmer’s emphasis on  pedestrian movement and “chance composition” to shape work of the Judson Dance Theater and New York’s downtown performance scene.

Believing Schlemmer’s Bauhaus lecture dances to be the tabula rosa of avant-garde performance art and dance of the late 1960s-70s, Debra McCall set out to East and West Germany in 1981 in search  of Schlemmer’s original notes and sketches for the dances, and to walk the stage of the then recently restored Bauhaus. She was challenged to complete these two tasks by the only surviving performer of Schlemmer’s pieces at the time, Andreas Weininger, and by Ise Gropius, Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius’s widow, who insisted McCall could only understand the architectonic nature of Schlemmer’s work by walking the stage Gropius designed for him. A series of fortuitous and occasionally harrowing events led to the premiere of her reconstructions, “Oskar Schlemmer’s 1920s  Bauhaus Dances,” at The Kitchen in New York in 1982. With the addition of more reconstructions, a second premiere occurred at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in conjunction with  the exhibition, “Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years 1915-1933.” Critical acclaim and sold-out houses led to tours of major museums and venues in the US, Europe, and Japan, including the first International Biennale de la Dance in Lyon, France, and a return to the original Dessau Bauhaus stage in 1994.

A narrative within a narrative, McCall will present the story of her reconstruction followed by a screening of a film of the reconstructions, premiered at New York’s Goethe House in 1987, featured  in American Dance Festival’s First International Festival of Film and Video Dance, and presently  residing at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

 


 

 

Debra McCall is a dance historian, choreographer, Certified Movement Analyst, and performer best  known for her reconstructions of Oskar Schlemmer’s 1920s Bauhaus Dances. Recipient of  fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the  Humanities, she also received the Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome and a Fulbright-Nehru Professional and Academic Excellence Award for her documentation of medieval  reliefs of sacred dancers at the Thillai Nataraja Temple in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. McCall served  on the graduate faculties of New York University and Pratt Institute where she was Mellon Lecturer. Her Bauhaus work has been presented in a variety of venues including Performa 09, Artissima 17  Torino, and Harvard University’s “The Bauhaus and Harvard: 100 years.” She also directs  Performing Matters (www.performingmaters.org), an organization dedicated to the preservation of  endangered dance and dancers’ rights.

Watch a recording: vimeo.com/142663982

https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/film_screening/bauhaus_dances/

World Trails Film Festival
Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
UNC Asheville Lipinsky Hall

The World Trails Film Festival is a unique event showcasing the best short and feature films centering the stories of trails from around the globe. Join us as we bring it to UNC Asheville (premiering for the first time on the East Coast of the United States) to celebrate why trails matter.

This community-building event will support trails locally and globally by fundraising equally for two leading trail organizations, the first of which is the Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards, a local nonprofit equipping people to steward our wild landscapes, and the World Trails Ambassadors, a program of the World Trails Network.

Doors open at 6 pm, Program begins at 7pm and entry will be limited after 7:15 pm, during the screening. Program will include an intermission and ends at 9:30 pm.

Friday, October 20, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Oct 20 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, October 27, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Oct 27 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, November 3, 2023
Trade In + Trade Up @ SpartanPhotoCenter
Nov 3 – Nov 4 all-day
SpartanPhotoCenter

Once a year Buy, Sell or Trade in your unwanted and un needed camera gear. Find special prices on new and used gear. PhotoLab printing and scanning specials as well. We stock a wide selection of analog film and new film cameras by Instax and Polaroid. Find camera bags, backpacks and tripods amongst other items.

Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Nov 3 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, November 10, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Nov 10 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, November 17, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Nov 17 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, November 24, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Nov 24 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, December 1, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Dec 1 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, December 8, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Dec 8 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, December 15, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Dec 15 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, December 22, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Dec 22 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, December 29, 2023
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Dec 29 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, January 5, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Jan 5 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, January 12, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Jan 12 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, January 19, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Jan 19 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, January 26, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Jan 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, February 2, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Feb 2 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, February 9, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Feb 9 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, February 16, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Feb 16 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, February 23, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Feb 23 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, March 1, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Mar 1 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation. 

Friday, March 8, 2024
Classic World Cinema at Flood Gallery
Mar 8 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Flood Gallery

Open donation.