Press release from the Blood Connection: Greenville, SC (July 18, 2018) – Classic Rock 101.1, 93.3 The Planet, and The Blood Connection are coming together again for the 14th Annual Rock ‘N Roll Up Your Sleeve Blood Drive, the Upstate’s largest blood drive. To keep summer blood supply levels up, WROQ-FM Classic Rock 101.1 and WTPT-FM […]
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New summer program offers teens workplace experience
Press release from The Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County: The Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club is operating an internship program for its teenagers this summer that sends them out into the community to work alongside grownups doing real jobs. “The whole idea is to give them an experiential learning opportunity,” […]
Blue Ridge Community College adds dog grooming courses
Press release from Blue Ridge Community College: Blue Ridge Community College has added two job training courses in dog grooming through its Continuing Education program. The first course, Dog Grooming 101, begins August 20 and runs through October 1. Class participants will learn the basics of dog anatomy, health and safety, recognizing normal and abnormal […]
Haywood County Sheriff’s Office celebrates graduation of its inaugural summer camp class
Press release from the Haywood County Sheriff’s Office: The first Haywood County Sheriff’s Office summer camp for Haywood County kids ages 10-13 years old, concluded Friday with a graduation ceremony at the National Guard Armory in Clyde, which served as the home base for the camp. Haywood County Sheriff Greg Christopher, camper families, several deputies […]
Celebrate Prince with the Asheville Symphony
Press release from Asheville Symphony Orchestra: On Friday, September 14, experience 4U – A Symphonic Celebration of Prince with the Asheville Symphony at the U.S. Cellular Center. The first and only estate-approved Prince celebration, 4U presents the music of Prince like never before, with the Asheville Symphony. Throughout the course of the evening, Prince’s extensive […]
Submit your nominations for NCCDD’s Advocacy and Leadership Awards
Press release from NC Council on Developmental Disabilities: Only two weeks left to submit your nominations for NCCDD’s Advocacy and Leadership Awards! The awards honor individuals who passionately work to build a better North Carolina for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The awards include: Jack B. Hefner Memorial Award, recognizing an outstanding […]
Michael Franti to hold yoga meet up, July 27
Press release from Asheville Yoga Festival: Asheville Yoga Festival is pleased to announce Michael Franti will be holding a Soulrocker Yoga Meet Up during the Festival and prior to his show Friday evening at The Salvage Station. The Yoga Meet Up is free to the community and includes a yoga practice led by renowned instructor […]
Bender Gallery re-opens at 29 Biltmore with new exhibitions and programs
Press release from Bender Gallery: Bender Gallery, an established contemporary fine art and sculpture gallery is opening its doors after moving from its old location on Lexington Avenue. The new space doubles the gallery’s size which allows for an expanding artist roster and the exploration of additional mediums beyond the gallery’s specialty which is glass sculpture. […]
Pisgah Press-published ‘Gabriel’s Songbook’ is a Wolfe Literary Award nominee
Press release from Pisgah Press: Pisgah Press, Asheville-based publisher of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and memoirs, has learned that its most recent release, Gabriel’s Songbook, a novel by Michael Amos Cody of Jonesborough, TN, has been nominated for this year’s Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Cody will appear at Blue Ridge Books at 3 p.m. on […]
Summer of Glass Southern Highland Craft Guild event, July 22
Press release from Southern Highland Craft Guild: The gallery of Southern Highland Craft Guild in Biltmore Village invites craft enthusiasts and members of the public to meet nearly a dozen of glass artists this Sunday, July 22nd from 10am to 12pm. With the Biltmore Estate’s current Chihuly installantion, the Guild is proud to support Asheville’s […]
BRCC hosts Showcase of Healthcare training programs July 23
Press release from Blue Ridge Community College: Blue Ridge Community College will host a Healthcare Careers Showcase at the Health Sciences Center on Monday, July 23 from 5 to 7 p.m. During the event, participants will learn about the programs offered, admission and registration procedures, and financial aid. Tours of BRCC training facilities at at the […]
Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival announces July 21-23 programming
Press release from Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival: The Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, hosted for 49 years at Warren Wilson College, and now with performances in Waynesville, NC, and Greenville, SC, offers the following program for the third weekend in July, featuring the Tesla String Quartet, Lenore Fishman Davis, piano, and Inessa Zaretsky, piano (SCMF artistic director): […]
Casting call for television show, “Trading Spaces”
The television show “Trading Spaces,” is currently casting for homeowners and renters within a three-hour radius of Charlotte, N.C. If you or someone you know is in need of a room makeover and is willing to trade places with a neighbor, apply at tradingspacescasting.com.
Asheville Chamber launches “State of Our Workforce: Western NC” analysis
Press release from Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce: Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce has launched a regional analysis to study workforce and employment challenges in Madison, Yancey, Haywood, Buncombe, McDowell, Jackson, Transylvania, Henderson, Polk and Rutherford counties. The State of Our Workforce: Western NC is part of a statewide initiative organized by the North Carolina Chamber Foundation, […]
Multimedia exhibitions open at Momentum Gallery, Aug. 30
Press release from Momentum Gallery: On Thursday, August 30th, from 5-8pm, Momentum Gallery hosts an Opening Reception for the group exhibition, Transformation: Earth, Water & Wood along with a collection of new paintings and textile works by Samantha Bates. The reception takes place at the gallery’s Lexington Avenue location and is free and open to the public. The exhibitions continue through […]
Voices in the Laurel hosts SummerVoice Music Camp July 23-27
Press release from Voices in the Laurel: Voices in the Laurel will host its 10th annual SummerVoice Music Camp, A Million Dreams, on July 23-27 at First Baptist Church in Waynesville. The camp is open to young people who will be entering 1st–12th grades this fall. Rising 1st through 5th graders have camp from 8:45 […]
The Center for Participatory Change launches language justice podcast, “Se Ve Se Escucha”
Press release from the Center for Participatory Change: Broadcasting from Asheville, North Carolina, Se Ve Se Escucha (Seen and Heard) is a new English language podcast about language justice and what it means to be an interpreter, an organizer and bilingual in the US South. Launched on July 12th, SVSE will release new episodes every week […]
Pardee UNC Health Care hosts cancer conversations webinar on July 27
Press release from Pardee UNC Health Care: Pardee UNC Health Care will host “Cancer Conversations,” a monthly educational webinar series in partnership with UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, on Friday, July 27, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in Pardee’s videoconference room, located at 800 N. Justice Street in Hendersonville. This month’s webinar topic is […]
Grand Bohemian Gallery debuts Color Stories on July 21
Press release from the Grand Bohemian Gallery: Grand Bohemian Gallery debuts pastels and acrylics by Atlanta artist R. John Ichter in an exhibition titled Color Stories. The opening reception takes place, Saturday, July 21, 5:30-8:30 p.m. The artist will be present. R. John Ichter is best known for his brilliantly colored, stylized landscapes. He uses […]
Asheville’s Blake Butler new executive director of N.C. Industrial Hemp Association
Press release from the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association: The Board of the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association (NCIHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Blake Butler as Executive Director. Butler, a partner in Adapt Public Relations in Asheville, will fill the duties on a part-time basis until the end of the year and […]
Comedy showcase benefits family of Michael Roach on July 20
Press release from Funny Business Agency: On Friday, July 20, the Asheville comedy community comes together to raise funds for the family of the late local comedian Michael Roach. The benefit will feature Asheville’s best comedians, with shows at 7:00 and 9:30 p.m. The Asheville comedy community comes together for a benefit of the family […]