Participants are invited to bring two to 10 clean items of clothing in good condition to Belk Theatre, room 118 between Monday, Sept.18 and the event opening on Friday, Sept. 22 at noon. Late donations will also be accepted.
UNC Asheville will celebrate its bi-annual 2023 Fall Greenfest from September 24-30. There will be daily events throughout the week-long festival hosted on UNC Asheville’s campus, many are free and open to the public.
UNC Asheville music students will treat audiences to free, weekly performances throughout the fall semester at noon on Thursdays on the Quad, outside of Lipinsky Auditorium.
A Career and Internship Fair will take place from noon to 2 p.m. on Thursday, September 28 in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Union, Blue Ridge Room. UNC Asheville students, alumni, and community members are invited to learn about opportunities with employers, service experiences, and internships, with organizations looking for talent.
UNC Asheville will host a screening of the documentary, “Black in Asheville,” with filmmaker Todd Gragg, at 5 p.m. on Monday, October 2, in the Mullen & James Humanities Hall.
A panel discussion on book banning and its consequences will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, October 2 in UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center, Manheimer Room.
UNC Asheville music students will treat audiences to free, weekly performances throughout the fall semester at noon on Thursdays on the Quad, outside of Lipinsky Auditorium.
UNC Asheville will host a screening of the documentary, “The Big Payback,” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, in the Mullen & James Humanities Hall.
UNC Asheville student performers will present choral selections reflecting the theme, “Finding Our Way,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 5 in Lipinsky Auditorium.
The Community Reparations Summit will be held from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 7 at the UNC Asheville Sherrill Center and Kimmel Arena.
Digital artist Qualeasha Wood will present an artist talk on the Digital Weaving, Textile Design, and Production exhibition at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11 in UNC Asheville's Owen Hall, room 305.
UNC Asheville music students will treat audiences to free, weekly performances throughout the fall semester at noon on Thursdays on the Quad, outside of Lipinsky Auditorium.
Erick Cedeno, aka Bicycle Nomad, will share about his journey retracing the steps of the 1897 expedition of the Buffalo Soldiers’ 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps on October 12 at 6 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Mullen & James Humanities Hall.
UNC Asheville and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will co-host the 14th Annual ReVIEWING Black Mountain College International Conference from October 13-15 in UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center.
Come see where it all starts with an in-person visit to campus.
A closing reception for the Digital Weaving, Textile Design & Production exhibition will take place at 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 14 in UNC Asheville's Owen Hall, New Media Gallery.
Students in the UNC Asheville Percussion Ensemble and Wind Ensemble will perform in a concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 15 in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public, with donations accepted at the door.
UNC Asheville will host Turning of the Maples, a favorite fall tradition, on Tuesday, October 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.on the Quad.
Award-winning author and former Kentucky poet laureate Crystal Wilkinson will discuss the role food plays in her writing on October 18 at 6 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union, Blue Ridge Room.
TheatreUNCA and the Drama Department of UNC Asheville will be hosting the first play of the fall season: “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.” Showings are on October 19 through 21 at 7:30 p.m. and on October 22 at 2:00 p.m in the Carol Belk Theatre. Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for […]
UNC Asheville music students will treat audiences to free, weekly performances throughout the fall semester at noon on Thursdays on the Quad, outside of Lipinsky Auditorium.
Accomplished songwriter and poet Alice Osborn will host a songwriting workshop on October 25 at 6 p.m. via Zoom. Registration costs $20 and is open to the public.
Columnist Jerry Sternberg will present a lecture, "Tales of Asheville from an ol' Jewish Country Boy," at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 25 at UNC Asheville's Reuter Center.
UNC Asheville music students will treat audiences to free, weekly performances throughout the fall semester at noon on Thursdays on the Quad, outside of Lipinsky Auditorium.
Lina-Maria Murillo will present a lecture, “Abortion in the Borderlands before Roe v. Wade,” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 26 via Zoom. Link to join is here. Journalists, activists, and the public at large have been transfixed by the idea that people are fleeing across the United States-Mexico border for greater access to abortion […]
Adam Rothman, professor of History at Georgetown University, will be speaking on Georgetown’s history of enslavement and his current research on Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m. at the UNC Asheville Reuter Center, Manheimer Room.
UNC Asheville Department of Music welcomes Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang to the Lipinsky Hall Auditorium on October 26 at 7 p.m.
The Reuter Center Singers will present a concert, "In the Autumn of Our Lives," at 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 29 in the Reuter Center at UNC Asheville.
Poet Eric Tran will present a reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 2 in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Union, Blue Ridge Room.
Tran is a queer Vietnamese poet and the author of “Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke.”
Featuring four mental health practitioners with Asian heritage – Tracy Hopkins, Eric Tran, An Truong, and Tai Kulenic – who will address the unique experiences of AAPI people who are still largely portrayed as a “model minority” and a monolithic group.
Author Lauren Yero will host a worldbuilding in speculative fiction class on November 4 at 10 a.m. in the Laurel Forum in Karpen Hall. Registration is $20 and open to the public.
Come see where it all starts with an in-person visit to campus.
"Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual," an exhibition showcasing varied examples of both traditional and modern styles of Cherokee art and historical photos, will be on view through December 8 in UNC Asheville's Blowers Gallery. The Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual is the oldest Native American artists’ cooperative in the U.S. and was founded in 1946 […]
Michael Fowler, art historian and archaeologist, will look at the visual and anthropological evidence for human sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, focusing on topics related to material religion, iconography, gender, and violence (and their intersections).
Writer Jasmin Pittman Morrell will host a class on constructing personal narratives November 11 at 10 a.m. in the Laurel Forum in Karpen Hall. Registration is $20 and open to the public.
On November 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Wedge Brewing at Foundation, Blue Ridge Pride LGBTQIA+ Archive and UNC Asheville's Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies program invite those who knew CLOSER and those who want to learn more about local LGBTQ+ history to a public storytelling event.
Join us on Wednesday, November 15 at 11 a.m. for a special Craft Research Talks: Community, Tradition, and Culture. This is a UNC Asheville Humanities Common Lecture, it is free and open to the public. The lecture will be held in the Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville and will be live-streamed and recorded.
Join Wiley Cash for a conversation with NBA All Star Eric “Sleepy” Floyd on Thursday, November 16 at 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center in the Manheimer Room.
TheatreUNCA will present “Nacho Mama's Comedy Improv Show: It Might Get a Little Cheesy,” Nov. 16 and 17 at 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Carol Belk Theatre.
On November 19 at 5 p.m., Malaprop’s Bookstore in downtown Asheville will host an open-mic night featuring current and prior Great Smokies Writing Program students! This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required by Malaprop's: In-Person | Writers at Home | Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
The Fall 2023 Symposium on Undergraduate Research, Creativity and Community Engagement will take place across campus on Tuesday, November 28, and will feature hundreds of undergraduate research and creative project presentations by UNC Asheville students and presentations about their service-learning experiences.
A wide variety of functional and decorative pottery, prints and other artwork created by UNC Asheville students will be on sale in Owen Hall.
The Great Smokies Writing Program presents “Writers at Home” celebrating the fall 2023 issue of “The Great Smokies Review” with live readings at the Story Parlor at 7:00 p.m. on December 10, 2023. The event is free and open to the public.
The Reuter Center Singers will perform a holiday concert at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 11 in the Reuter Center on UNC Asheville's campus.
Please join us for this community-wide tradition as we celebrate the accomplishments of our graduates. Commencement will take place on Friday, December 15. The ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. in Kimmel Arena.
UNC Asheville will host its annual juried international exhibition, Drawing Discourse, from January 19 through February 16 in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Owen Hall. The exhibition features 49 works of contemporary drawing selected from 1358 submissions by 407 artists in 6 nations.
On February 4th, 2024, at 3:00 p.m in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville’s Music Department celebrates the 100th anniversary of the debut of George Gershwin’s American classic, “Rhapsody in Blue,” with a concert recreating the milestone moment in music.
On February 7, UNC Asheville will present an exhibition of work from Cherokee artist Tara McCoy and of UNC Asheville students who learned handbuilding and pit firing techniques from McCoy.
On February 9, UNC Asheville will host the opening reception for “The River Arts District / UNC Asheville Artist Alumni Show” in Ramsey Library’s Blowers Gallery from 4-6 p.m. As part of Homecoming Week events, this exhibition, curated by Karen Keil Brown ’81, showcases the artistic careers of 12 talented alumni and celebrates the exceptional education and training they received at UNC Asheville.
Roger Zare, an award winning composer and U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s 2023 guest composer, will present “The Music of Physics” at 5 p.m. on Friday, February 9 in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. Zare’s intersectional work translates concepts of higher-energy physics into the language of music while still remaining accessible to the audience.