PRESS RELEASE: Who: Warren Wilson Theatre presents Fuddy Meers What: A Theatrical Performance Where: Kittredge Theatre at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Rd, Swannanoa, NC 28778 When: April 28-30 @ 7:30 pm and May 1 @ 2:30 pm Tickets: Free to WWC faculty, staff, high school and college students with I.D. Alumni, WWC spouses, […]
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“The Man Who Came to Dinner” opens April 8 at Asheville Community Theatre
PRESS RELEASE: “You have the touch of a love-starved cobra.” So says Sheridan Whiteside, the worst guest in the history of guests. From referring to a room in the family’s home as a “drafty sewer” to practically forcing his caregiver to leave the nursing profession and instead open a munitions factory, Mr. Whiteside is a […]
Farmers graduate from Organic Growers School
Asheville, NC—On March 5th, Organic Growers School’s Farm Beginnings® Farmer Training program graduated its first “crop” of aspiring farmers! The graduation was hosted at the Organic Growers School offices and classroom located at the AB Tech Small Business Center on the Enka/Candler Campus. The Farm Beginnings® program, launched in October of 2015, consisted of 12 farm units and 24 individual farmers.
Three Billboards movie seeks paid extras
PRESS RELEASE: We are looking for paid Extras ( all types,sizes and shapes, all ethnicities, men, women and children, ages 0 to 70s) to work in the feature film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI which begins filming in late April. THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE, EBBING, MISSOURI tells the story of Mildred Hayes, a woman in her […]
A-B Tech, YWCA holding Ban the Box event
A-B Tech Community College and the YWCA of Asheville are partnering to bring a community-wide Stand Against Racism event to the college from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 7 in Ferguson Auditorium on the A-B Tech Asheville campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Government agency hosts IRS feedback forum April 4
National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson and Rep. Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, will hold a public forum to discuss what taxpayers want and need from the IRS to comply with their tax obligations.
HART Theatre opens its main stage season April 8 with The Red Velvet Cake War
PRESS RELEASE: HART Theatre will kick off its 2016 main stage season on April 8 with the Southern comedy “The Red Velvet Cake War.” This uproarious work is by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, the team that created “Dearly Departed” and a string of other hits all set in the small town of […]
Author David Joy will read at Brevard College, April 5
PRESS RELEASE: Brevard College’s Grace Creech West Lecture Series is pleased to bring local author David Joy to campus to read from his acclaimed fiction on Tuesday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in McLarty-Goodson (MG) Room 125. A Q&A session will precede the reading at 4:00 p.m. in MG 138. Both events are free and […]
UNC Asheville hosts National Conference on Undergrad Research
The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), first held in 1987 at UNC Asheville, will return to its founding campus April 7-9 when more than 4,000 students and faculty from across the U.S. will present their research and share ideas. This 30th renewal of NCUR will mark the fifth time UNC Asheville has hosted the national conference, which has grown tenfold in size since its founding.
Two Sisters Farmstead School hosts May Day event
Two Sisters Farmstead School is hosting an open house and May Day celebration on Sunday, May 1 from 1pm to 5pm. This free event will introduce children of all ages to the learning opportunities available at the new non-profit farm and nature school.