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    Arts

    Around Town: Historic Asheville inn invites writers to interpret history

    Posted on August 9, 2022August 11, 2022 by Flora Konz

    The Gray Rock Inn Writers Project calls on local authors to contribute fiction and nonfiction pieces. Also: Dark City Poets Society celebrates one-year anniversary of Poetry Night; LEAF Down By the River celebrates youth performers; and more!

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    Burnsville poet Pat Riviere-Seel discusses poetry, voice and gardening

    Posted on August 5, 2022August 1, 2022 by Thomas Calder

    Award-winning poet and Burnsville resident Pat Riviere-Seel speaks with Xpress about her life as a poet and the unique perspectives all writers bring to the page.

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    Asheville Comedy Festival returns after two-year hiatus

    Posted on August 4, 2022July 28, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Performers and organizers discuss the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on comedy and how shared laughter is more powerful now than ever.

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    Around Town: New children’s book spotlights famous and lesser-known Black historical figures

    Posted on August 2, 2022August 4, 2022 by Flora Konz

    A local attorney pens a new children’s book. Plus, UNCA hosts the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, a new art exhibit highlights creatures of the Serengeti and the Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair returns to Burnsville’s town square.

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    Documentar­y short immortaliz­es 1972 HHS basketball team

    Posted on July 29, 2022July 28, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Director Keith Dunnavant discusses making his latest documentary sports film.

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    Local bands discuss touring amid inflation

    Posted on July 29, 2022July 25, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Rising costs have brought an already wrought situation to the brink, but Asheville-area artists continue to make it work.

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    Terry Roberts explores jazz and economic ruin in his latest novel

    Posted on July 28, 2022July 21, 2022 by Thomas Calder

    “I wanted to somehow capture both the ’20s, with its jazz influence, while at the same time explore the decade’s demise — that pivotal point when things start to go south,” says author Terry Roberts, in discussing his latest novel.

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    Around Town: Asheville Jewish Community Center celebrates Israeli fine art

    Posted on July 27, 2022July 29, 2022 by Flora Konz

    J Art Show explores work of prominent Jewish artists, BMCM+AC reimagines 1951 dance and music performance, Anything Fiber Yard Sale features leftover studio finds, and more!

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    Three local bands celebrate landmark anniversar­ies

    Posted on July 21, 2022July 19, 2022 by Bill Kopp

    Local bands Andrew Scotchie and the River Rats and Empire Strikes Brass celebrate 10 years; meanwhile, fellow Asheville act, River Deep, turns 30.

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    Around Town: Folkmoot’s Summerfest returns to Waynesvill­e

    Posted on July 19, 2022July 27, 2022 by Flora Konz

    Folkmoot’s Summerfest will bring local and international dance and music to Haywood County. Plus, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian will highlight Native American filmmakers, a local author looks back at her life, and the summer edition of the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands returns.

    2.7 K views+Arts

    Local couple collaborat­e on comprehens­ive Appalachia­n Trail book

    Posted on July 14, 2022July 11, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Amber and Joshua Niven discuss working together on their new book, “Discovering the Appalachian Trail: A Guide to the Trail’s Greatest Hikes.”

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    Exhibit spotlights LGBTQIA+ photograph­ers

    Posted on July 14, 2022July 11, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    “This Skin I’m In: A Visual Narrative” runs through Aug. 29 at Revolve gallery.

    1.7 K views+ArtsVisual Art

    Around Town: Story Parlor residency program debuts with ‘Dirty Laundry’

    Posted on July 12, 2022July 12, 2022 by Justin McGuire

    Story Parlor residency debuts with multidisciplinary immersive show. Plus, local sculptor’s work is focus of new show, Slavic folk concert raises money for Ukraine, and Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center exhibit looks at area’s flood history.

    2.2 K views+Arts

    Local poet Anne Maren-Hogan discusses the influence of community on her writing

    Posted on July 7, 2022June 30, 2022 by Thomas Calder

    Xpress speaks with the award-winning poet, Anne Maren-Hogan, about the people and places that inspired the poems in her latest collection, “Vernacular.”

    1.6 K views+ArtsLiterature

    Local veterans find healing through the arts

    Posted on July 7, 2022July 7, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Photography, music and writing have helped area military servicemen work through combat trauma.

    2.8 K views1ArtsLiteratureMusicVisual Art

    Around Town: Exhibit highlights Jewish experience in North Carolina

    Posted on July 5, 2022July 12, 2022 by Justin McGuire

    A traveling Jewish history museum exhibit comes to Asheville’s Congregation Beth Israel. Plus, The Snozzberries bring back Psychedelic Circus, a local author pens his life story, and Art in Bloom returns to Black Mountain.

    2.5 K views+Arts

    Seth Walker, Valorie Miller and Erika Lewis release new albums

    Posted on July 1, 2022June 27, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Two recent transplants and an Asheville mainstay discuss their latest LPs.

    2.5 K views+ArtsMusic

    Appalachia­n short-story collection blends comedy and tragedy

    Posted on June 30, 2022June 23, 2022 by Thomas Calder

    Local author Melanie McGee Bianchi discusses her recently published debut collection, The Ballad of Cherrystoke and Other Stories.

    2.1 K views+ArtsLiterature

    Around Town: Buncombe County Special Collection­s blog opens to community posts

    Posted on June 28, 2022June 29, 2022 by Justin McGuire

    The Buncombe County Special Collections blog opens up to community submissions. Plus, local multimedia artist puts on augmented reality show, author chronicles history of the Toe River Valley, and photographers express experiences of queerness through visual autobiographies.

    2.2 K views+ArtsHistoryLiteratureSportsVisual Art

    Local record-shop entreprene­urs discuss the wild world of vinyl

    Posted on June 23, 2022June 20, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    This roundtable discussion hits on vinyl trends, keeping up with new music and counteracting record-store stereotypes.

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    Around Town: Asheville artist opens studio space at Roots + Wings Creative Campus

    Posted on June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 by Justin McGuire

    Asheville artist Ginger Huebner opens new studio and workshop space at her Roots + Wings Creative Campus. Plus, A Different Myth announces inaugural cohort of playwrights, Asheville grandmother publishes novel, and Hendersonville honors historic guesthouse.

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