Local live event and entertainment professionals lit up their businesses in red to bring awareness to a struggling industry.

Local live event and entertainment professionals lit up their businesses in red to bring awareness to a struggling industry.
The Asheville native is hard at work on her next major project, plus other recent news from the local arts scene.
The limited-seating, outdoor series opens the weekend of July 17 with performances by The Moon and You, Chuck Lichtenberger and his Trio and Becky Stone.
The Peruvian-born, Asheville-based artist plays an EP release show Feb. 29 at the Tina McGuire Theater.
The weekend-long gathering focuses on seven films’ potential for social change.
The popular contest, now in its 12th year, returns to the Diana Wortham Theatre stage, at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, on Saturday, Nov. 2.
Combining dance, speaking and singing (to pre-recorded music), the one-woman show is “designed to push the edge of personal and collective freedom,” performer Elle Swan explains.
The Philly contemporary ballet company performs Oct. 11-12 at the Wortham Center.
The diversity of Western North Carolina’s business community comes through in this week’s business roundup. From a new luxury campground to equitable business contracting opportunities, check out what’s new.
Different Strokes is the first resident theater company at The Wortham Center (formerly known as The Diana Wortham Theatre). That partnership and the Tina McGuire Theatre debut with the premiere of Different Strokes’ production, ‘The Education of Ted Harris,’ on Thursday, Sept. 12.