PRESS RELEASE: Lakeshore Records will release the SYNCHRONICITY – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on January 22 and on CD in February. The album features the film’s original score by Ben Lovett (THE SIGNAL) – his sixth collaboration with writer/director Jacob Gentry. “Jacob and I were both raised on 80’s movies and the music of […]
PRESS RELEASE: Clyde Edgerton, Margaret Maron, and Carl Sandburg will join the fifty-seven inductees currently enshrined, in a ceremony at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines. The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame celebrates and promotes the state’s rich literary heritage by commemorating its leading authors and encouraging the continued […]
PRESS RELEASE: AmiciMusic presents “TRANSCENDENT TRIOS” in January AmiciMusic begins 2016 with another intimate chamber music concert featuring two of the most passionate and powerful piano trios in the literature— Mendelssohn’s C Minor and Brahms’ B Major Trios. AmiciMusic, now in its 5th year, is dedicated to breaking down barriers between performers and audience by […]
From City of Asheville Parks and Recreation: ASHEVILLE, NC – The City of Asheville Parks and Recreation Department will host the second public meeting in a series of participation opportunities to gain public feedback in the development of the Linwood Crump Shiloh Center Master Plan, located at 121 Shiloh Road, Asheville, NC 28803. At a […]
From the campaign: Asheville, N.C. (January 12, 2016) – Buncombe County Commissioner Ellen Frost has announced she is supporting Jasmine Beach-Ferrara in the District 1 race for County Commission. Frost is a small business owner, a mother, and a grandmother who has represented District 2 since 2013. She won election to her seat in 2012 […]
From a press release: The N.C. Council of Community Programs has recognized Smoky Mountain LME/MCO and the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) for working together to integrate and expand physical and behavioral healthcare services in western North Carolina. Smoky CEO Brian Ingraham and Elizabeth Flemming, MAHEC’s continuing education planner, accepted the Programs of […]
From a press release: Mission Health has been named a Best and Brightest in Wellness® company for 2015 by the National Association for Business Resources. This distinction honors companies and organizations nationwide that celebrate excellence and quality in employee and worksite health. “We are thrilled to receive this recognition,” said Kathy Bumgarner, Vice President, Total […]
From a press release: Quantum Wisdom, a workshop with Whapio Diane Bartlett, comes to Earthaven Ecovillage January 29 and 30 for an evening and a day of profound exploration in the realms of birth, sex and death. These transformational rites of passage, accompanied by changes in identity, relationships and states of consciousness, can be held […]
Press release from Warren Wilson College: Warren Wilson College celebrated the accomplishments of MFA Program for Writers faculty members Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh, proclaiming them “Giants of the Mind” at an event Friday for special guests. Having both received the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowships – McHugh in 2009 and Bryant Voigt in 2015 – the renowned […]
Press release: Raleigh, N.C. – Governor Pat McCrory announced today that a high-quality tract of land, formerly owned by Crescent Communities, has been added to Lake James State Park with the help of The Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina and grants from two conservation trust funds. “This acquisition will allow us to preserve the natural beauty of […]
From a press release from the First Congregational United Church of Christ (FCUCC) of Laurel Park and Sugar Hollow Solar, of Fairview: First Congregational United Church of Christ (FCUCC), of Laurel Park, and Sugar Hollow Solar, of Fairview, have announced that they are kicking off a project to install 60 solar panels on the church […]
In conjunction with the opening of its latest art show, ZaPow gallery has put out a first-ever call to artists wishing to contribute artwork to a memorial shrine honoring the late artist David Bowie. ZaPow invites artists to contribute pieces following these guidelines: Bring or ship your art to ZaPow from noon to 7 p.m. on January […]
Press release from Mission Health: Mission Health has been named a Best and Brightest in Wellness company for 2015 by the National Association for Business Resources. This distinction honors companies and organizations nationwide that celebrate excellence and quality in employee and worksite health. “We are thrilled to receive this recognition,” said Kathy Bumgarner, Vice President, Total Rewards, […]
PRESS RELEASE: Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter Exhibition: January 22, 2016 – May 21, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, January 22 from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m., FREE Admission Curated by Dr. Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Curator of American Art, Emeritus, Harvard Art Museums Gallery talk by the curator at 6:45 p.m., January 22, […]
PRESS RELEASE: January 13, 2016 @ Cork & Keg AMP Tax Workshop 5-7pm Join us for a FREE workshop on taxes and accounting for musicians, presented by Brian C. Hunter, CPA. Free refreshments provided by Asheville Music Professionals! Topics will include: Income Tax Preparation and forms, getting all the available Deductions, Record Keeping, dealing with […]
Press release from the City of Asheville and the Asheville Police Department: Asheville, NC (January 11, 2016): On November 30, 2015 the City of Asheville concluded the Watch for Me NC campaign. The campaign, which ran from September to November, demonstrated a citywide reduction of 27% in pedestrian and bicycle related crashes in comparison to […]
Press release from the Museum of the Cherokee Indian: On Thursday January 7, at the first Tribal Council meeting of 2016, Marie Junaluska, representative from Painttown, gave a presentation about the Warriors of AniKituhwa. “Over the past ten years, they have inspired Cherokee people with their image of strength and pride, bringing back the Welcome […]
Press release: Literary Lunch with mystery author Jamie Mason The Literary Lunch special for January 14 at 12 p.m. at the Henderson County Public Library is mystery author Jamie Mason of Flat Rock, N.C. Her début novel Three Graves Full was a Library Journal Best Book of 2013 and a Booklist Best Crime Novel of […]
Downtown Books and News hosts an evening of experimental music on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p.m. The lineup includes Oggetto (Frank Meadows, Michael Flannery and Carmelo), Jake Meginsky (electronic musician and installation artist) and Bill Nace and Ed Yazijian playing as a duo Suggested donation is $7-12 for bands. dbnbooks.com FROM A PRESS RELEASE: […]
From UNC Asheville: UNC Asheville and The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) have partnered to launch the Center for Creative Entrepreneurship. The new center will create an all-in-one ecosystem to coalesce business resources and training programs to support student and community innovations and craft products. This initiative is supported by the Windgate Charitable Foundation, with […]
Press release: A Glimpse “Behind the Scenes” at the Asheville Art Museum Exhibition opens January 16, 2016; on view through late Spring 2016 ASHEVILLE—Visitors to the Asheville Art Museum will soon get a peek into the day-to-day activities of the Museum’s curatorial department in a new exhibition opening January 16 titled Vault Visible: Behind the […]
