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The 3 Pigs and the Red Line

UNC Asheville will present The 3 Pigs and the Red Line on April 16 at 7 p.m. and April 18 at 2 p.m. The 3 Pigs and the Red Line is a family-friendly adaptation of the classic fable, The 3 Pigs, inspired by the history of redlining and urban renewal in Asheville’s black community. Told through the magic of Toy Theatre, combining shadow puppetry, paper puppetry and crankies, the show aims to spark a conversation around our city’s complicated history and how it continues to affect us all today.

UNC Asheville Day of Giving

UNC Asheville will hold its first-ever UNC Asheville Day of Giving from noon on April 21 to noon on April 22. 

UNC Asheville Student Ceramics and Art Sale

838 Riverside Drive

The UNC Asheville Student Ceramics and Art Sale will be held on Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the front parking lot at 838 Riverside Drive, the intersection with Broadway right off Rt 26 at exit 25.

student on campus

Junior Preview Day, April 24, 2021

Kick off your college search at Junior Preview Day, an open house experience designed just for high school juniors.

Aerial photo of 2021 spelled out with people

Spring 2021 Commencement

University Quad

UNC Asheville will celebrate the Class of 2021 spring graduates on Saturday, May 8 with two ceremonies.

CANCELED: Movies in the Parking Lot: Jumanji

The free movie, "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," begins at dusk on a giant outdoor screen in the parking lot on Campus Drive nearest the Broadway Street entrance to campus.

2021 Rockypalooza

UNC Asheville will host its 2021 Rockypalooza on Friday, Aug. 13. Note: This event is not open to the public. It is only open to the campus community. 

UNC Asheville Live at Five – Almost Owen

University Quad

This year's Live at 5 concert features Almost Owen (Isaac Haselkorn), who will be performing on the University Quad on Sunday, August 15 from 5:30 - 7 p.m.

Retrospective: Robert Tynes Art Exhibit

Owen Hall, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery

Retrospective: Robert Tynes will be exhibited at UNC Asheville's S. Tucker Cooke Gallery from August 20th to September 8th, 2021. This will be a celebratory retrospective of Robert Tynes' career, marked by his recent retirement after over thirty years of teaching and painting professionally. The artist kindly requests that all visitors are fully vaccinated and masked upon entering the exhibit due to being immunocompromised.

Concert on the Quad featuring Joe Lasher presented by Ingles

University Quad

Ingles Markets and Pepsi are proud to bring the 2021 Downhome concert Series with Joe Lasher, Kaitlyn Baker, Commodore Fox and Lyric to the UNC Asheville Quad, Saturday, August 21st. Music starts at 6 p.m. Admission is free but please bring canned food items to donate to Manna Food Bank.

Visiting Writers Series: A Literary Reading by Poet Diamond Forde, the English Department’s University Fellow for Faculty Diversity

Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum

The English Department's University Fellow for Faculty Diversity, Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, is the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. She has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and CLA's Margaret Walker Memorial Prize, and placed in the Frontier Poetry's New Poets Award. She is a Callaloo and Tin House fellow, whose work has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, NELLE, Tupelo Quarterly and more.

Greenfest Keynote – Speaker Marc Williams presents “Field to Fork: You Are What You Eat”

Greenfest's Keynote event welcomes ethnobiologist Marc Williams. Join us for his one-hour talk from 7-8 p.m. in the Blue Ridge Room to hear about many of the positive interconnections between people, plants, mushrooms, and microbes while learning to employ botanicals and other life forms sustainably for food, medicine, and beauty. Come early to enjoy educational tables, local snacks, and live music from the UNC Asheville Bluegrass Ensemble.

NextFest Fall 2021 at UNC Asheville

Join more than 60 local and regional organizations at UNC Asheville at NextFest, an opportunity to connect with employers offering full and part time opportunities, internships, seasonal opportunities, and years of service!

Greenfest On-Campus Work Day

Reed Plaza 1 University Heights, Asheville

Greenfest's longest-running event is an effort to continue the beautification of UNC Asheville's unique campus as an urban forest. Our campus community will roll up our sleeves for a variety of campus beautification projects.

Greenfest Electrify Your Ride Sustainable Transportation Showcase

Parking Lot P19 1 University Heights, Asheville

Greenfest welcomes you to learn about electric cars, bicycles, and other personal electric transportation devices. The Blue Ridge EV club will host an electric car showcase with owners present to answer questions. The Flying Bike will have electric bikes available for demo. We will also have educational tables to highlight sustainable transportation initiatives on campus.

NC Firefighters and Paramedics Benefit Concert featuring Craig Campbell and Mikele Buck

Sherrill Center, Kimmel Arena

The Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics Association of North Carolina will host a benefit concert to raise funds for fire education and safety efforts, victim relief support, local programs, and educational opportunities. The concert will feature singer-songwriter Craig Campbell and Mikele Buck, a 2018 contestant on The Voice.

UNC Asheville Pride Speaker Event

Highsmith Student Union, Alumni Hall (114)

Join UNC Asheville's Young Activist Club (YAC) in welcoming local LGBTQ+ activists and community members for an afternoon of LGBTQ+ culture, story, activism, and open discussion.

Common Word Community Read Dr. Ellen Holmes Pearson, Professor of History and Roy Carroll Professor of Arts & Sciences “‘…a degraded caste:’ Color and Legal Status in the Early American Republic”

The Common Word Community Read, curated by Wiley Cash '00, brings the UNC Asheville community together to engage in a collective educational experience. Each semester, one book will serve as the focus of numerous virtual and in-person lectures and discussions that will allow participants to delve deeper into the text. Join the Facebook Group to learn more and pick up your copy of the first community read: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.

Leadership Asheville Buzz Breakfast Series presents Evolving Asheville – Resilience for All: Public Safety

Crowne Plaza Resort Expo Center 1 Resort Drive, Asheville

The Leadership Asheville Buzz Breakfast Series returns this fall with a three-part in-person community event and conversation series. The fall 2021 series will focus on how we as a community evolve from this crisis and how we do that so everyone benefits. Conversations include the topics of Public Safety, The Economy, and Shelter.

$25 – $1000

Providing Support for Latinx Students: Unique Needs, Challenges and Opportunities

In this virtual seminar, Bárbara Cruz will discuss some of the unique educational needs and circumstances facing Latinx students at all levels of schooling. Weaving together research findings, experiential knowledge, and student stories, Cruz invites participants to reflect on their own practice and consider opportunities and recommendations for improving educational equity for all students.

Mullens and Jameses Honor Lecture Featuring Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Harding presenting “Family, Fugitivity and the Black Freedom Movement: Reflections on the Life and Work of Vincent and Rosemarie Freeney Harding”

Zoom / Virtual

Guest speaker Rachel Elizabeth Harding will lead a lecture on the life and work of her parents, Vincent and Rosemarie Harding. Her talk, "Family, Fugitivity and the Black Freedom Movement: Reflections on the Life and Work of Vincent and Rosemarie Freeney Harding," is presented in recognition of UNC Asheville's Mullens & Jameses Honor Lecture.

UNC Asheville’s TheatreUNCA Presents Everyone

Reynolds Green (Mini-Quad) 1 University Heights, Asheville

UNC Asheville’s TheatreUNCA returns to the stage in front of a live, in-person audience with "Everyone," a modern retelling of the 15th-century morality play, "Everyman." "Everyone" explores the age-old story of facing death, taking account, experiencing isolation and resentment, making amends, and reemerging into the world with a joyous rebirth.

Admission Open House

Sherrill Center, Kimmel Arena

UNC Asheville’s Open House gives students and families a chance to see what makes the UNC Asheville experience unique. Through distinctive academic and student life showcases, students can meet one-on-one with faculty, learn about life inside and outside the classroom, hear from current students, tour campus, and get to know Asheville, one of the coolest cities in the Southeast.

College Application Week and National Transfer Student Week

As part of October’s NC Countdown to College and National Transfer Student Week, UNC Asheville will waive application fees for first-year and transfer students from North Carolina, Oct. 18-22, 2021. The application fee typically costs $75. Students may choose to apply for regular decision or for Early Decision, which gives priority consideration to students who are certain that UNC Asheville is their first-choice university. The deadline for Early Decision is Nov. 1.

Common Word Community Read: Fabrice Julien, Assistant Professor of Health and Wellness “Race Towards An Early Grave: How the American System of Ranking Human Value Drives {consequential} Health Outcomes”

Highsmith Student Union, Lookout Mountain Room (229)

Join from 12 - 1 p.m in Highsmith Union 229 or watch the livestream on UNC Asheville's YouTube as Dr. Fabrice Julien presents The Common Word Community Reads second faculty lecture of the semester, "Race Towards An Early Grave: How the American System of Ranking Human Value Drives {consequential} Health Outcomes."

Ustad Shafaat Khan, noted sitar and tabla player

Highsmith Student Union, Grotto (108)

UNC Asheville welcomes multi-instrumentalist (sitar and tabla) and vocalist Ustad Shafaat Khan accompanied by Farhaj Aziz (keyboards) and Coco Bastien (Percussion) for a performance on October 20. Khan is a world-renowned Indian Classical musician. He debuted at age 11 at the King's Lynn Festival in England, has played alongside legends such as Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, and has performed at prestigious concert halls, music festivals, and universities around the globe, including India, the US, Europe, China, Russia, and Japan.

Celebration on the Court

Sherrill Center, Kimmel Arena

The UNC Asheville Athletics Department will host its inaugural "Celebration on the Court" presented by Kimmel & Associates on Thursday, October 21, with ESPN College Basketball Analyst Jay Bilas serving as the keynote speaker. Proceeds from the Celebration on the Court will support UNC Asheville student-athletes.

$150

The Great Smoky Mountains African American Experience – A Townhall Event

UNC Asheville’s Africana Studies Program & Department of History invites you to listen, learn, and participate in a unique community project. On Oct. 22, The National Park Service’s Antoine Fletcher will lead a 20-minute presentation followed by a Q&A about the untold stories of African Americans in and around the Smokies. You are invited—and encouraged—to share information about this event, especially with elders, leaders, storytellers, activists, and the bon vivant in your local African American community. The African American Experience project is seeking their knowledge and yours!

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