ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS – Love where you live – Events and Volunteer Opportunities
Asheville GreenWorks is a volunteer based 501(c)(3) working to enhance the environment and quality of life for the citizens of Asheville and Buncombe County through awareness building, community activities and partnership.
ZERO WASTE LIVING – 6 Ways to Quit Single Use Plastic in Your Grocery Shopping Routine
Offered by Va Boyle from Green Living Ideas
We all know that plastic waste is becoming an acute problem on land and in our oceans. While many people aspire to a zero-waste lifestyle, suddenly removing every morsel of single use plastic from your daily routine isn’t easy!
AMICI MUSIC – Music Among Friends in Asheville, Baltimore, Boston/Cape Cod & Florida
AmiciMusic is a chamber music organization based in Asheville, NC and Baltimore, MD, dedicated to performing the highest quality chamber music in intimate venues and non-traditional spaces. We are committed to breaking down barriers between performers and audiences by setting up a more relaxed and informal atmosphere at concerts and through informative talks about each composer’s life before each piece is played.
2019 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS AND TRASHION SHOW
Join Asheville GreenWorks on Saturday, April 27 @ 6-9PM at the Doubletree by Hilton Asheville-Biltmore for an evening of fashion, performing arts, and community celebration with a focus on environmental sustainability. Helen Chickering (BPR) and Blake Butler (adapt PR) will MC this very special fundraising event.
A NEW PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT VIDEO
Jesse Beecher’s short film exploring the focus, exhilaration, beauty, and joy of creating in the studio. It speaks to the special character of workshop education at places like Penland.
Shot on the Penland campus during the summer of 2018.
ASHEVILLE & WNC YOUTH PROGRAMS
Learning, Leadership, Fun and Friendship for Western North Carolina Youth.
Please contact info@sheville.org if you have a program you’d like included.
Click here for Girls on the Run Website
8th Annual ASHEVILLE PERCUSSION FESTIVAL – Mark Your Calendars ! June 24 – 30, 2019
Welcome Letter & Things You Need to Know
Hello Percussionists & Rhythm Lovers,
We are excited that you have chosen to attend our 8th Annual Asheville Percussion Festival 2019! Our world-class faculty creates a unique and inspiring musical experience for everyone involved. The mission of Asheville Rhythm is to provide a creative environment where percussionists of all traditions gather to explore, create and innovate.
All Workshops will be held at Odyssey Community School (90 Zillicoa St, Asheville, NC 28801)
**MALAPROP’S Bookstore/Café – March & April Events
Malaprop’s Café has evolved into the meeting place in our town. Our café boasts a literary menu, with treats from local bakeries and organic, fair-trade, shade-
Featured Book & CD: TOWARD the CLEARING by Jean Cassidy
We’ve done a re-run of Toward the Clearing, more copies available!
Jean describes her poetry as “a choreography of words” as she joins her poetry with musical accompaniment. Her poetry book includes a CD of the poems accompanied by oboe, english horn, flute, piano, fretless banjo, violin, and balafon in the final product that is a beautiful collaboration with regional musicians and readers. Jean’s work has previously been published in the Great Smokies Review, the Online Publication of the Great Smokies Writing Program in Asheville, North Carolina.
In Ordinary Time Click to hear Susan Shinn read “In Ordinary Times” with piano accompaniment by Lytingale
NORTH CAROLINA STATE POLICY WATCH – Supreme Court weighs its role in limiting partisan gerrymandering
WASHINGTON – U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared willing Tuesday to rein in partisan gerrymandering — desperate even, for attorneys to give them some sort of manageable numeric standard by which they could determine how much politics is too much when it comes to redistricting.
It wasn’t that simple, though, and after considering three challenges to congressional maps — two to the 2016 GOP-drawn map in North Carolina and one to a Democratic-drawn map in Maryland — at least two conservative justices seemed unconvinced to expend any more judicial energy on the issue. Continue reading
Energy Innovation Task Force Announces Cancellation of Duke’s Peaker Plant, Honors Community Partners
The Energy Innovation Task Force (EITF) is excited to announce that through community collaboration, the gas-fired peaker plant, originally planned for 2023, has been pushed out beyond 2032. “Delaying the need for any additional natural gas-fired generation in Buncombe County beyond 2032 is a big deal. The facility would have cost residential and business ratepayers more than $100 million paid for through higher electricity bills,” notes EITF member and Chair of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Brownie Newman. The peaker plant would have been used to ensure electricity production during peak demand times such as the coldest winter days. Click here to read more
Asheville Art Museum SUMMER ART CAMP K-12 (Registration is limited)
Join us for Summer Art Camp! Offered to rising K–12th grade students, all classes are age appropriate. Sessions may include drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and more.
**PAN HARMONIA 2019 World-Class Chamber Music • Authentic • Local
Now in its 19th season, Pan Harmonia offers a mosaic of concerts, community outreach and educational residencies and enjoys taking its music out of the concert hall and into spaces all around the community — from art galleries and historic churches to prisons and homeless shelters. Its musicians believe in social justice through arts access and enjoy bringing high-quality performances to audiences of all ages and socioeconomic strata. Directed by flutist Kate Steinbeck, Asheville, NC’s award-winning chamber music repertory company has been nationally recognized for its artistic excellence and creative vision.
What is ‘Medicare for all’? A look at 4 of the different possibilities
by Paige Minemyer and offered in the Western Carolina Medical Society Community Pulse, March 2019
Progressive Democrats made headlines this week after unveiling a new “Medicare for all” plan. But what exactly does that moniker mean?
Well, it depends on who you ask.
THE WARP & THE WEFT at The Magnetic Theatre
A troupe of actors share songs and experiences from their childhood then vie for the opportunity to act out their favorite story for (and with!) the audience.
This world premiere was created by Asheville Creative Arts and features text and video from 8th grade students from Hanger Hall and participants of the Latino youth group MANOS (Mentoring And Nurturing Our Students), a Buncombe County Schools and WWC collaboration. Inspired by images of children in NC’s textile industry at the turn of the century, this performance will encourage the young (and young at heart) to tell their own stories on their own terms.
How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism
by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. in Time and offered by History News Network
Henry Lewis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher university professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
During an interview with Chris Rock for my PBS series African American Lives 2, we traced the ancestry of several well-known African Americans. When I told Rock that his great-great-grandfather Julius Caesar Tingman had served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War — enrolling on March 7, 1865, a little more than a month after the Confederates evacuated from Charleston, S.C. — he was brought to tears.
CRAFT CITY WALKING TOURS April 6 thru October 19
We’re thrilled to launch year three of our Craft City Food & Art Tour, a walking tour of downtown Asheville that pairs local food and drinks with the vibrant craft history of the area.
UNCA Great Smokies Writing Program 2019
GSWP Class Schedule Summer 2019
The mission of the Office of Graduate Studies, Professional Education, and Sponsored Programs is to offer high quality distance, professional, and graduate education in Western North Carolina that addresses the needs of our region through a continuum of learning. The Center identifies and develops collaborative learning opportunities with the university community, the UNC system, the region, and the state to expand access for traditional students, non-traditional students, and life-long learners.
The Top-Secret Feminist History of Tea Rooms
By: Cara Strickland in JSTOR Daily
When you hear the words “tea room,” it’s likely that you immediately think of a Victorian-inspired establishment best suited to special occasions, a place for women in pearls. If you’d lived at the turn of the 20th century in Scotland, or the early 1900s in America, however, it’s likely that you would have a different picture entirely.
THE NEW COLUSSUS by Emma Lazarus (followed by Readers’ Poems for 2017)
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”