News & Events
Biltmore Industries Homespun Shops Factory Is Subject of UNC Asheville Photo Exhibit
October 27, 2011
“Artifacts,” an exhibition of photographs of a piece of Asheville history – the Biltmore Industries Homespun Shops factory – will be on display from October 28-November 8, in UNC Asheville’s Owen Hall Second Floor Gallery. “Artifacts” is the Bachelor of Arts in Photography Senior Exhibition by Charles Johnson of Black Mountain.
Fall Issue of The Great Smokies Review Now Online
October 26, 2011
The Fall 2011 issue of The Great Smokies Review, a Web-based literary magazine published by UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program (GSWP), is now available online at thegreatsmokiesreview.org.
UNC Asheville Sociologist to Speak on “The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form”
October 26, 2011
Sociologist and writer Karin Peterson will deliver the final lecture in the Fall 2011 “Meet the Maker” series at UNC Asheville, titled “How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form.” Peterson, associate professor of Sociology at UNC Asheville, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in Owen Hall room 302 on the campus.
November “Writers at Home” Showcases North Carolina Writers
October 24, 2011
Marjorie Hudson and Kevin McIlvoy will read from their current works at the next installment of the Writers at Home series, sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing program. The reading begins at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20, at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Café, 55 Haywood St., Asheville. It is free and open to the public.
Sunday Concert Features University Singers, University Chamber Symphony and Reuter Center Singers
October 24, 2011
An afternoon of choral and orchestral music is in store when UNC Asheville’s University Singers and University Chamber Symphony perform with the Reuter Center Singers from 4-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. Admission to this concert is $5 at the door, and free to children and students with ID.
UNC Asheville to Host Lecture, “Stealing the Past: Collectors and Museums of the 21st Century”
October 24, 2011
Anthropologist Richard Leventhal will present a lecture titled, “Stealing the Past: Collectors and Museums of the 21st Century,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library. The talk is free and open to the public.
UNC Asheville Blacksmithing Events to Highlight Region's Heritage; Metal Craftsmen to Speak at "Meet the Makers" Series
October 17, 2011
The UNC Asheville Art Department and the Craft Studies "Meet the Maker" lecture series have teamed up with the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership to give students the opportunity for hands-on blacksmithing on campus. Two top craftspeople, blacksmith Zack Noble of Bakersville and metalworker Andrew Hayes of Asheville, will be on campus for a weeklong residency.
Radiohead Gets Jazz Treatment at UNC Asheville as Part of International Musical Collaboration
October 14, 2011
UNC Asheville’s Jazz Big Band will perform five pieces by Radiohead, and the Studio 18 Vocal Jazz Ensemble will sing a mix of jazz, pop, and Broadway tunes, in a joint concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, in Lipinsky Auditorium on the campus.
Theatre UNCA to Perform Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town”
October 13, 2011
Theatre UNCA will stage Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Our Town,” with seven performances from October 20-29. This family-friendly 1938 drama uses the daily life of a mythical small New England town to present a vision of love and marriage, death and eternity. All productions by Theatre UNCA are open to the public.
Soumitra Lahiri to Perform Indian Classical Music at UNC Asheville
October 5, 2011
Award-winning sitar player Soumitra Lahiri and tabla player Samir Chatterjee will perform together in concert, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. The concert offers a rare opportunity in Western North Carolina to hear top-level Indian musicians. The duo will perform Indian classical music blended with modern influences.
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