Right after Convocation, the Campus Picnic and Rockypalooza - UNC Asheville's celebration to start the new school year, begins. Rockypalooza is a carnival of activities, including a ferris wheel, rock climbing wall, extreme air trampoline, obstacle course, and much more.
The Decisive Dream, featuring the photographs of Cuban-American artist Gory (Rogelio López Marín), has been extended through Oct. 11 in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in UNC Asheville’s Owen Hall.
The Decisive Dream, featuring the photographs of Cuban-American artist Gory (Rogelio López Marín), will be on view Aug. 24-Oct. 5 in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in UNC Asheville’s Owen Hall. An opening reception with curator Cynthia Canejo, UNC Asheville associate professor of art history, will be held in the gallery from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 24.
This soccer doubleheader of features the UNC Asheville Bulldog women's team taking on Delaware State at 4 p.m. followed by a 6 p.m. match-up of the Bulldog men versus USC Upstate.
The Bulldogs face The Citadel 2 p.m. at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
The Bulldogs face VMl 6 p.m. at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
From planting to mulching to tending the bee hotel, the Greenfest Campus Work day provides a chance to roll up your sleeves and make the UNC Asheville campus that much more green and beautiful.
Russell Crandall, Davidson College professor of Latin American studies will analyze affairs in Venezuela. The author of four books, Crandall also has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff, and been a consultant for the World Bank, Andean Development Bank and the United Nations.
Sponsored by the Carolina Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers (CACRAO), the Western North Carolina College Fair features representation from both public and private universities and colleges.
Clarinetist, composer and vocalist Beth Fleenor describes herself as a "sensory artist," and she will be in residency, teaching and performing at UNC Asheville Sept. 19-21. In addition to leading classes for UNC Asheville music students, Fleenor will perform with students in a free concert at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 in Lipinsky Auditorium.
Wes Moore will give a free public lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20 in Lipinsky Auditorium. Moore is author of "The Other Wes Moore," which the Baltimore Sun called “startling and revelatory...a rocketing real-life narrative,” which tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.
Family weekend features special events and gatherings for UNC Asheville students and their families, including the Chancellor's Welcome Reception on Friday, back-to-class sessions and a picnic on the Quad on Saturday, and more. Families can check in and purchase tickets from 3:30-5 p.m. on Friday, Sept.21 on the first floor of Highsmith Union.
The Bulldogs face Radford at 6 p.m. at the Justice Center on the UNC Asheville campus.
This event is free and open to everyone at 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 24 in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum, and is sponsored by UNC Asheville's Key Center for Community-Engaged Learning. It will feature panelists who work with teenagers in both school and community settings, who will share their knowledge and experience of sexual health education.
Christopher Arris Oakley will discuss his newly published book, "New South Indians Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century," in a free public talk at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25 in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Room 038.
This first music faculty lecture for 2018-19 will be presented by Assistant Professor of Music Jonathan T. King at at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25 in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. These lectures are free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville's Visting Writer Series presents authors reading from and discussing their works and their writing process. These events are free and open to everyone. Frank X Walker begins the fall series at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25, in UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, in the Manheimer Room.
Registration for this annual conference held at the UNC Asheville Reuter Center and other area locations, is available at the door. Daily passes and tickets for the keynote and keynote panel are available with special prices for students and OLLI members.
In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds – Orson Welles’ dramatization of the H.G. Wells novel – TheatreUNCA will bring the drama to the stage, with shows Sept. 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m., and a special midnight show on Sept. 29, all in Belk Theatre.
UNC Asheville swimming and diving meets are held at the Justice Center Pool and admission is free. This meet begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29.
In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds – Orson Welles’ dramatization of the H.G. Wells novel – TheatreUNCA will bring the drama to the stage, with shows Sept. 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m., and a special midnight show on Sept. 29, all in Belk Theatre.
NOTE - This special show takes place Saturday night/wee hours on Sunday!! In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds – Orson Welles’ dramatization of the H.G. Wells novel – TheatreUNCA will bring the drama to the stage, with shows Sept. 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m., and a special midnight show on Sept. 29, all in Belk Theatre.
Dana Boyd Barr
Dana Boyd Barr, research professor of environmental health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, will deliver the 21st Annual S. Dexter Squibb Lecture at UNC Asheville, Oct. 1, 2018. The evening lecture will be livestreamed at 7:30 p.m. in Rhoades Robinson Hall Room 125 and the livestream viewing is free and open to everyone
Remedios Gómez Arnau, Mexico’s consul general serving in Raleigh, N.C., will provide an update on economic ties between her nation and the U.S. Prior to her consular service, Arnau was the academic secretary and associate researcher at the Center for Research on North America of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The Bulldogs face Gardner-Webb at 6 p.m. at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
UNC Asheville’s Career Center will host “NextFest,” an event showcasing 70 local, regional and national careers, internships, service opportunities and graduate schools from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 4, in UNC Asheville Sherrill Center Concourse. NextFest is free and open to area students, alumni and community members, who will find opportunities to find the next steps which will allow them utilize their talents and advance their goals.
Public interest attorney Steven M. Druker, founder of the Alliance for Bio-Integrity, will speak at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9 in UNC Asheville’s Rhoades Robinson Hall, Room 125, in an event co-sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Department of Environmental Studies and Living Web Farms. This event is free and open to everyone.
The STEM Lecture Series at OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, is free and open to OLLI members and non-members alike. The talks take place at 4:30 p.m. in Reuter Center Room 206.
This panel discussion will cover ethical business practices, living wages, ethically sourced products and the story of fair trade. It takes place off campus, at The Block off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St., Asheville. This event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville swimming and diving meets are held at the Justice Center Pool and admission is free. This meet begins at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13.
The Bulldogs face Winthrop at 6 p.m. at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
Timed with the October 17 start of early voting, UNC Asheville's Political Science Club, a student organization, will present a non-partisan information session from 6:30-8 p.m. in Highsmith Student Union, Alumni Hall, led by alumna JaNesha Slaughter '17 of Democracy NC. This event is free and open to everyone.
Tina Barr will read from her latest book, Green Target, when the Writers at Home series resumes at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., in downtown Asheville. This event, presented by UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and hosted by the program’s director, Tommy Hays, is free and open to everyone.
The monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to UNC Asheville Oct.22-26 for a residency that includes creating a sand mandala, lectures on Tibetan culture, traditions and beliefs, and a sacred music and dance performance.
Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association of WNC this series of lectures will offer insight into dementia, free and open to everyone at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22.
This event presented as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s (AIA) 123rd Lecture Program that will bring leading scholars to audiences across the U.S. during the 2018-19 academic year. It is free and open to everyone at 7:30 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Rhoades Robinson Hall, Room 125.
The STEM Lecture Series at OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, is free and open to OLLI members and non-members alike. The talks take place at 4:30 p.m. in Reuter Center Room 206.
This special storytelling event is free and open to everyone at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26 at the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville.
Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association of WNC, this lecture, free and open to everyone at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29 in the Reuter Center, will offer insight into dementia.
This screening of the documentary Connected by Coffee is hosted by UNC Asheville's Fair Trade Committee. Free and open to everyone at 6 p.m. in Karpen Hall room 038.
UNC Asheville Director of Instrumental Studies Fletcher Peacock will present Talkin' Trombone, a combination lecture/recital at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30 in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. This event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville's Visiting Writer Series presents Therese Anne Fowler and Denise Kiernan at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct.30 in the Sherrill Center, Ingles Mountain View Room. This event is free and open to everyone.
photo+sphere is a project of Asheville's MAP (Media Arts Project) that explores the environment through photography and photo-media, and UNC Asheville people and facilities are involved in some of the events.
The Turning of the Maples, UNC Asheville's annual fall celebration, with food, music and fun, will take place from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 1, on the Quad.
UNC Asheville swimming and diving meets are held at the Justice Center Pool and admission is free. This meet begins at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2.
From 7-8:30 p.m. on Election Night, Nov. 6, UNC Asheville faculty members Ashley Moraguez and Patrick Bahls will discuss "the paradox of voting in the United States" when the Pint with a Professor series resumes at Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway St. in Asheville. This event is open to everyone and admission is free; food and beverages are not.
Lina Benabdallah, Wake Forest University assistant professor of politics and international affairs, will share her observations. Her research has been quoted in The Washington Post and The New York Times, and she is a contributing editor to Africa is a Country. She is an executive board member of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China network.
Retired civil rights attorney Frank Goldsmith, co-chair of the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture (NCCIT), will give a free public talk at noon on Thursday, Nov. 8, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.
Marcus Harvey, UNC Asheville assistant professor of religious studies, will present The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat, a lecture about Malidoma Somé and the future of Africana religious studies, at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., in the McKee Building, room 214.
UNC Asheville's Visiting Writer Series presents Cris Beam at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8 in UNC Asheville's Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. This event is free and open to everyone.