PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CCCD: On August 11 from 7-10 pm, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) celebrates 20 years of service to emerging artists, researchers, scholars, and the public with its 20th Anniversary Celebration & Benefit. Guests will convene at CCCD’s historic 67 Broadway Street building in downtown Asheville, to explore four […]
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Indie 500 Flash Fiction Contest winners announced
The winning stories will be published in the August 24 and 31 issues of Xpress.
Toys for Tots Christmas in July
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Crimes of the Heart will be onstage at Asheville Community Theatre Aug. 12-28
PRESS RELEASE FROM ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE: Lenny, Meg and Babe Magrath are three Southern sisters with very different personalities and lives who have just reunited due to unfortunate circumstances: Babe is out on bail after shooting her husband in the stomach. Crimes of the Heart is warm-hearted, irreverent, zany and brilliantly imaginative comedy – and […]
Equal releases new Asheville-based collaboration
Heller’s latest effort, the single “Postcards,” featuring singer Sam Island (an Asheville native, now based in LA), just came out this week.
Jeff Arnal appointed Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
PRESS RELEASE FROM BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER: Jeff Arnal has been appointed Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) it was announced today by BMCM+AC Co-Chairs Brian Butler, PhD, and Don Carson effective August 1, 2016. In his position at BMCM + AC, he will be responsible for […]
Bernstein Family preview party fundraiser at Magnetic Theatre, Sept. 14
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE MAGNETIC THEATRE: It’s Christmas in July! Every year, The Magnetic Theatre’s Bernstein Family Christmas Spectacular sells out its entire run, often before the show even opens. If you’ve ever felt frustrated because you missed your chance to get tickets to the show the Asheville Citizen-Times calls “the Christmas show to see […]
Wood Day at the Folk Art Center, Aug. 6
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE FOLK ART CENTER: As one of the first mediums in craft, the skill and mastery of wood has evolved into a celebrated material that members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild will showcase on Saturday, August 6. From 10 am to 4 pm, makers will demonstrate and share their working processes […]
The 2016 NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competiton is open to submissions
PRESS RELEASE FROM NEWSONG: Submit your songs today for your chance to be selected as one of ten finalists to perform and compete at the esteemed Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City this December. There, one grand prize winner will be chosen to receive recording and performance prizes, assembled to provide […]
Asheville Art Museum receives a grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation
PRESS RELEASE FROM ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM: The William Randolph Hearst Foundation recently awarded the Asheville Art Museum a prestigious grant of $250,000 as part of the Museum’s Art WORKS for Asheville Capital Campaign to support expanded curatorial and collections storage, research and study facilities as part of the major renovation and expansion project underway to […]
Folkmoot expands programs, adds Asheville events
Folkmoot USA — an annual cultural festival, now in its 33rd year — brings about 200 folk dancers and musicians from around the world. The chock-full schedule, which includes the Many Cultures Kids Carnival, a global issues forum and a number of Asheville-based happenings (a parade, a theater performance and a dance party) runs from Friday, July 22 to Sunday, July 21.
Sourwood Festival takes place August 13 and 14 in Black Mountain
PRESS RELEASE FROM EVENT ORGANIZERS: The Black Mountain-Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce announces its 39th Sourwood Festival in downtown Black Mountain, Saturday August 13 and Sunday 14. The family-oriented, non-alcoholic street festival has over 200 booths of original arts and crafts, a large variety of food booths, a music tent with acts throughout each day, a […]
Summer Fringe Nights at the Crow & Quill continues July 27
PRESS RELEASE FROM ASHEVILLE FRINGE ARTS FESTIVAL: Fringe Night at the Crow & Quill – Butoh Edition July 27 marks the next installment of the Summer Fringe Nights at the Crow & Quill. This event will feature three performances by local Butoh masters. These short pieces, each about 15 – 20 minutes in length, represent […]
Andy Buckner and Levi Lowrey perform at White Horse Black Mountain, July 30
PRESS RELEASE FROM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN: The South gave birth to the bedrock sounds of virtually all of today’s popular music. Field hollers, blues and spirituals still echo in R&B and its descendants, while the storytelling tradition of mountain ballads, old-time fiddle tunes and church harmonies underpin bluegrass and country. African-American traditions have intertwined […]
Listen to This stories on stage at The Orange Peel, July 21
PRESS RELEASE FROM EVENT ORGANIZERS: Listen to This stories on stage presents at The Orange Peel Dog Days of Summer human tales of canine companions featuring stories by Jim Julien Grayson Morris Betsy Puckett Sarah Spooner Plus a song and video short by Rod Murphy Hosted by Tom Chalmers, with music set and support from […]
WNC photographer Lori Kincaid will judge national landscape photography competition
PRESS RELEASE FROM EVENT ORGANIZERS: WNC photographer Lori Kincaid is one of fifteen photographers selected for the judging panel of a major, annual competition to find the USA’s landscape photographer of the year. She is the only judge based in the Southern Appalachians. Now in its third year, the USA Landscape Photographer of the Year […]
Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons return to Jack of the Wood, July 23
PRESS RELEASE FROM EVENT ORGANIZERS: Columbus, Ohio based rock and roll band Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons will be playing at Jack of the Wood in Asheville, NC on July 23rd. 9pm show w/$5 cover. Armed with electric guitars, swooning vocals, and songs that split the difference between rock & roll and dreamy psychedelia, […]
Registration opens for RiverLink’s 2016 Anything That Floats Parade
PRESS RELEASE FROM RIVERLINK: Registration is open for RiverLink’s Anything That Floats Parade to be held on Saturday, August 13, 2016 on the French Broad River in Asheville. Join RiverLink for the wildest, wackiest event of the summer. Creating and building a raft, float or flotilla with fun-loving friends, family or co-workers is not only […]
Sound track: Twenty Sixteens by C. Shreve
Local hip-hop artist C. Shreve the Professor is prolific. He’s constantly turning out new work as well as performing onstage and contributing to efforts like Cypher Univercity. His latest release, Twenty Sixteens is almost a double album, weighing in at 18 tracks.
Sparklehorse documentary screens locally, July 21 and 28
The Sad & Beautiful World of Sparklehorse screens locally at The Good Stuff on Thursday, July 21and at the Jackson County Library on Thursday, July 28.
Teatro del Gusto — Burlesque and Circus Cabaret at The Orange Peel, July 24
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE ORANGE PEEL: At 8pm on Thursday, July 24th and Sunday August 25th, the series the Orange Peel and Absfest introduced in 2014, called Teatro del Gusto, debuts a brand new season of Burlesque and Circus Cabaret, local restaurant partners and live music. These events are a collaboration between the always zesty […]