Press release: The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design Announces 2017 Windgate Fellows $150,000 awarded to undergraduate students in the U.S. ASHEVILLE, NC – Now in it’s twelfth year, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s (CCCD) Windgate Fellowship marks $1.8 million awarded to 120 emerging craft artists nationwide. Nominated from a national network of […]
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Applicants sought for vacancies on Asheville citizen boards
Announcement from the office of the Asheville City Clerk: The boards listed below currently have vacancies. The deadline for receiving applications for these openings is Wednesday, May 3 at 5 p.m. Please visit the City’s Boards and Commissions webpage or contact the City Clerk’s Office at 259-5839 or by e-mail at sterwilliger@ashevillenc.gov for an electronic […]
Hands On has Screen Free Week offerings
Press release from Hands On!-A Child’s Gallery: Join Hands On!, the children’s museum in downtown Hendersonville, as we celebrate Screen Free Week. Ditch those screens and get in touch with your family & friends! Hands On! has special activities all week to invite learning into play! Come join us for crafts, games, and more. Screen […]
AARP hosts political advocacy workshop Wednesday, April 19
Press release: FREE MOUNTAIN REGION WORKSHOP ADVOCATE EFFECTIVELY — MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD ASHEVILLE — Want to help change the word? Then join like-minded others at a two-hour workshop (sponsored by AARP and UNC Asheville OLLI) for an opportunity to learn how to make your voice heard by federal, state and local officials. A panel […]
Bird identification workshop offered by Living Web Farms on April 22
Announcement from Living Web Farms: In today’s disorienting world we are often looking for ways to get back to basics, back to center, and relax. As it turns out, songbirds, with their vantage points and their niche in nature, can give us clues to more equalized living, and bring us closer to the natural world. […]
UNCA Student Government Association delegation receives top honor
Press release from UNC Asheville: UNC Asheville’s Student Government Association delegation to the UNC Association of Student Governments (ASG) has been awarded the organization’s Delegation of the Year Award for 2016-17. The award is to be bestowed annually on one institution’s delegation for exemplary service to the ASG, to recognize those whose contributions have been […]
Historic Rugby Writer’s Series will feature Howard Ray Duncan on April 22
Press release: Historic Rugby continues its year-long series of writer visits on Saturday, April 22, with a reading by Howard Ray Duncan. The reading is free and will be at the Harrow Road Café in Rugby at 7pm. The café will open for dinner at 5pm. All times are Eastern. In 2015, Howard Ray Duncan […]
Call for submissions to “Barns of Madison County” exhibit
Press release: “Barns of Madison County” Exhibit at the Arts Council in May Invitation to Artists to submit work for the Exhibit As part of May Barn Month, Madison County Arts Center will be hosting a second annual exhibit of “The Barns of Madison County” — paintings, photographs and drawings and any other type of […]
Poet and essayist Thomas Rain Crowe will speak at UNC Asheville on April 20
Press release: Thomas Rain Crowe, known for his poetry, anthologies, essays and his award-winning memoir on four years of self-sufficient living in the woods of his native Western North Carolina, will read from his works and discuss his life as a writer from 5-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel […]
Park Ridge Health announces community events in April
Press release: Please join Park Ridge Health in supporting these important community events: The Fifth Annual Celebration of Courage Luncheon, benefitting Safelight Wednesday, April 19, Noon- 2 p.m. Kenmure Country Club 100 Kenmure Drive, Flat Rock Join us for the 2017 Celebration of Courage to hear stories of triumph from survivors of domestic violence, […]
Kona Ice to give away free shaved ice for Tax Day, April 18
PRESS RELEASE: With Tax Day right around the corner, many of us are reaching into our pockets to pay-off Uncle Sam. To relieve taxpayers of the stress associated with meeting the federal deadline, Kona Ice will be hosting its fourth annual National “Chill Out” Day. The island-inspired truck will be parked at the Reuter Family YMCA in Asheville […]
Jeremy Goldstein announces Asheville City Council run
Press release from Jeremy Goldstein: Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am pleased to announce my candidacy for Asheville City Council and to ask for your support. I believe a local business owner with a common sense, moderate voice is needed on City Council as we continue to cultivate an Asheville for Everyone. For eighteen years I […]
Creation Care Alliance to host Earth Day Vigil on April 23 in Pritchard Park
Press release from Mountain True and the Creation Care Alliance of WNC: Asheville — The Creation Care Alliance of WNC welcomes people of all faiths to an Earth Day Vigil on Sunday, April 23 at 5 p.m. at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville. This event is a celebration of God’s wondrous creation, and a call to […]
Mountain Scenery: Discovering WNC from the 1850s at the Lord Auditorium at Pack Memorial Library
Press release from the the North Carolina Room: Title: “‘Mountain Scenery’–Discovering WNC from the 1850s, Asheville, Ancestors, and Immortality” Speaker: Elizabeth “Liz” Colton Date: Wednesday, April 26th Time: 6:00 to 7:00 PM Pack Memorial Library, Lord Auditorium, lower level Free and open to the public Sponsored by the Friends of the North Carolina Room Elizabeth […]
Developer to hold town hall on Gerber Road self-storage project in South Asheville
Announcement from Vijay Kapoor on behalf of the South Asheville Resident & Business Community Organization (SARBCO): I was recently contacted by James Wilson of Pulliam Properties who is looking to place a self-storage unit with a retail/office component on the land for sale on Gerber Road between Hendersonville and Sweeten Creek Roads. This development would require […]
Dobson Knob Fire operations ramping down through weekend, rain in forecast
Press release from National Forests in North Carolina: Fire Managers report that burning operations have been successfully completed and a black line has been established around the entire fire. Future growth is anticipated to be minimal and fire officials do not expect the fire to grow much beyond its present 1,760-acre footprint. Fire containment has […]
Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center to hold professional craft artist summit “Crafting Your Success” April 26
Press release from Haywood Community College: Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will hold a Professional Craft Artist Summit, “Crafting Your Success,” Wednesday, April 26, from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. in the Creative Arts Building on the College campus. Experience a one-day conference specifically designed to address needs and challenges faced by current and prospective craft […]
Comic Envy host Free Comic Book Day festivities
Press release from Comic Envy: Asheville Geeks and Nerds, it’s time to turn on the bat-signal and get ready for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! Once again, COMIC ENVY will be celebrating in style with contests, special guests, prizes and as always, FREE COMICS! For the past 15 years, the first saturday in May has been the […]
Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair offers community building, networking, presentations, workshops, live music, and dance parties in May
Press release from event organizers: From May 5-7, 2017, community members will host Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair, a weekend of free events that will bring visitors from all over the South East & Appalachians to discuss, share, and celebrate anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist ideas. The name, among other things, is a nod to friends in Carrboro […]
Sylva Commissioners pass climate solutions resolution
Press release from the Canary Coalition: At their meeting on Thursday, April 13, the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Sylva became the latest local government in North Carolina to pass the resolution being circulated by the NC Climate Solutions Coalition that includes The Canary Coalition, a local environmental organization based in Jackson County. […]
Monarchs visit Painters Greenhouse on their journey North from Mexico
Press release from Painters Greenhouse: A female monarch (the first seen by us this season) made her way to Painters Greenhouse Tuesday, April 11, to lay eggs on our native milkweed plants. Every spring millions of monarchs make their annual journey North from their overwintering grounds in the mountainous pine forests of Mexico across the […]