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100 Voices in Pritchard Park
Over 100 voices filled Pritchard Park Monday evening.
Truth & Salvage Co. shoot a video in Asheville’s Pritchard Park
The L.A.-based band stopped through WNC on its current tour, shooting video in Fairview and, this afternoon, downtown Asheville.
Splat! at Pritchard Park
photos by Jonathan Welch
It’s a fact of participatory art: Kids participate, adults photograph. On Sunday, July 11, with music for a never-made David Lynch film, a blank canvas, a performance artist painted in white (at least at the beginning), lots of tempera paints and kids with helping hands, “Splat” began.
Free downtown events in Pritchard Park!
From hula-hooping jams to free music at lunch time to a new Saturday market, the Asheville Downtown Association and Arts2People aim to keep it lively.
This spud’s for you
S.P.U.D. Patrol returns to Pritchard Park this weekend, giving away baked potatoes to the hungry.
Demonstration at Pritchard Park tonight to protest education cuts
Children First of Buncombe County will become the latest to host an event protesting state education budget cuts that would eliminate teachers and support personnel jobs statewide.
Downtown Association donates drums at tonight’s Pritchard Park circle
The Pritchard Park drum circle is well underway this season, but tonight’s Friday-night thundering will get an extra boost from the Asheville Downtown Association.
Pritchard Park’s public art unveiled
It was an event that begged for a sunny day, and the official unveiling of a sculpture by Asheville’s first Public Artist of the Year came at just the right time. On March 10, a small crowd gathered at the western corner of downtown’s Pritchard Park, a hulking mass wrapped in white sheets before them. […]
Askville: On guard
Last December, the city of Asheville announced that it had hired a ranger for Pritchard Park. The strategically sited downtown park has been the focus of disputes concerning everything from homelessness and free breakfasts to drum circles (not to mention the occasional protest-sign-wielding polar bear), and the news traveled fast. Some in the community saw […]