Welcome to the GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM
The Great Smokies Writing Program is a joint effort between the UNC Asheville departments of English, Creative Writing, and the Asheville Graduate Center. The program offers opportunities for writers of all levels to join a supportive learning community in which their skills and talents can be explored, practiced, and forged under the careful eye of professional writers. CLICK HERE FOR CLASS SCHEDULES
How Technology is Making the Travel Experience More Sustainable
TravelTech is changing the way that we explore the world around us. As the goal of frictionless and sustainable travel gets closer to realization, travel companies are using revolutionary ways to ensure that travelers get to where they want to be with as few barriers as possible. From mobile phones that let you check into hotels to biometrics at airports, easier and more seamless travel is becoming an increasingly achievable goal.
How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History
In the summer of 2017, before her senior year of high school, Isabelle Doerre-Torres met Carlos,* a Salvadoran immigrant on the verge of deportation. Doerre-Torres was an intern at a legal rights organization. She soon learned that Carlos came to Boston nearly two decades ago after he fled gang violence. He’d put down roots in a working class community, where his two daughters were born. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
SIMPLE MONEY PRO – Business & Personal Finance Management with Dawn Starks
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The Surprising Science of Alpha Males (Ahem!) – Just remember: don’t call them bullies
by January 3, 2020 in MEDPAGE TODAY
In this video, Frans de Waal, PhD, a primatologist and ethologist at Emory University in Atlanta, explores the ways that human behavior around community, solidarity, and leadership link directly to primates’ behavior, adding context to our understanding of what it means to be a human “alpha” female or male.
WNC LEGACY: VISUAL ART Norma Bradley and The Earth Quilt Project 1986-2008
Quilts tell the stories of our lives through their shapes, colors and textures. They hold a history of their makers as well as the people who care for them. They become sacred treasures.
Video Recording of CLIMATE CHANGE AND ASHEVILLE’S URBAN FOREST SYMPOSIUM
These Trees photos and book by Ruthie Rosauer
Now Available! Video Recording of Climate Change & Asheville’s Urban Forest Symposium November 14, 2019
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ASHEVILLE SALT CAVE
Asheville’s only salt cave that is sustainable and growing! The air in our therapeutic salt cave is intensely saturated with negative ions, while the salt rock crystals in the cave release 84 trace elements and minerals which are essential to the homeostasis of our bodies.
A Viral List of Hundreds of Opportunities for Artists, Compiled by One Person to Encourage Community
By Sarah Rose Sharp in Hyperallergic
Everest Pipkin has made public their “Big Artist Opportunities List” — a collection of over 400 opportunities for artists across the globe.
With the overwhelming reality that artists are expected to somehow maintain a practice, store and ship work, support their scene, self-promote, manage open accounts with galleries — all generally on spec, at least starting out — plus do whatever it takes to pay their bills, who has the time or bandwidth to keep track of opportunities to further one’s practice?
5 Phrases Your Black Friend Wishes You’d Stop Saying
By Ajah Hales in M/ZORA
Statistically speaking, about 75% of White people don’t even have a Black friend, but on the off chance that you are one of the White people who do, I have a message for you from your (one) Black friend: Do better.
In her New York Times bestselling book White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, author Robin DiAngelo writes, “White progressives … so often — despite our conscious intentions — make life so difficult for people of color. I believe that white progressives cause the most daily damage to people of color.” CLICK TO CONTINUE
VICKY BLANCHÉ – Broker, Realtor® Keller Williams Elite Realty
”Personal, Positive, Professional, Prepared!”
I love and appreciate the beauty and uniqueness of WNC and take great delight in sharing that with you. Because my business is built on relationships, your friends and family will be treated in a caring and professional way with every attempt to help them find the property they are looking for. !Hablo Español!
A LIBERAL EXPLANATION OF SOME SIMPLE BELIEFS – I just want to be understood…
by Larry Allen
An open letter to friends and family who are shocked to discover I’m a liberal… I’ve always been a liberal, but that doesn’t mean what a lot of you apparently think it does. Let’s break it down, shall we? Because quite frankly, I’m getting a little tired of being told what I believe and what I stand for. Spoiler alert: Not every liberal is the same, though the majority of liberals I know think along roughly these same lines:
The Lost Words
The Lost Words – in Daily Good News that Inspires
by Jackie Morris, syndicated from dumbofeather.com in the Daily Good
It has been described as a ‘cultural phenomenon’ by The Guardian, but really it is just a book of spell-poems and paintings. Created as a response to the realisation that we humans were losing sight of the common species, the everyday names of wild things that share our earth, the book’s aim was to re-connect, re-focus, revitalise. As Robert said ‘we do not love what we cannot name, and what we do not love we will not save’. CONTINUE
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THE LIGHTER LIVING GUIDE – Simplicity, Sustainability & Sensibility
SIMPLE & SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR HOME & WORK – Elevate Your Space & Change Your Life
One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Future School Shootings—and It’s Not About Guns
WNC LEGACY: FINE ART &CRAFT- On a Personal Note: John Cram
By Jim Murphy in The Laurel of Asheville 2016
In the early 1970s, John Cram visited Asheville and says, “I fell in love with the place.” He moved here and found that Asheville was sitting squarely between the mountains and the doldrums. Beyond the town’s natural attractions, there was not a lot to love. And there was not a lot of demand for a 25-year-old holding a communications degree with a concentration in film. (John calls it “a bachelor’s degree in nothing.”) But just beneath that liberal arts background lurked the soul of an entrepreneur.
METRO WINES – Charlotte St. in Asheville
Located at 169 Charlotte Street in Asheville, Metro Wines is on the way to The Grove Park Inn, just down the street from Gan Shan Station, City Bakery and The Chop Shop. And there is plenty of free, close and easy parking!
Under the Mercy Trees on Audiobook
Heather Newton’s novel Under the Mercy Trees, winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, is now available on audiobook from Dreamscape Media. Download it today on Libro.fm, Audible or your favorite audiobook platform.
THE HOMINY CREEK TRASH TROUT NEEDS YOU!
Hi there – it’s me, your Hominy Creek Trash Trout. Some people call me TT for short. My job is to sit in the Hominy Creek and patrol for litter before it can reach the French Broad River. Did you know that I collected over 500 pounds or trash in the first 6 months of my life?