UNC Asheville's student ECM Ensemble, led by Associate Professor William Bares on piano, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, at the White Horse Black Mountain, 105c Montreat Rd., Black Mountain, N.C. Admission is $10 in advance, $12 at the door; $6 for students.
UNC Asheville will host a community meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, in the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room to provide an update on the Edgewood Road parking lot project in collaboration with Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church. This meeting is open to all. Representatives from both the university and the church will be present to share an updated parking lot design incorporating feedback from the community.
The Isaiah Rice Photo Collection, which provides a window into Asheville's African American history through vivid images of life in the city's black community from the 1950s through the 1970s, will be on view May 24-Aug. 24 at the new Eagle Market Place Community Exhibition Space, 19 Eagle Street, Asheville, An opening reception will be held at the exhibition space from 5:30-8 p.m. on Friday, May 24. The reception and exhibit are free and open to everyone.
This forum will be held from 8:45 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on May 24 hosted by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, in the Reuter Center's Manheimer Room. The forum is free and open to the public. NOTE - This event is now sold out!!
ContinuuCon 2019, the fourth annual international Haken Continuum conference, will place at UNC Asheville from May 30 through June 1. The participating electronic musicians will perform in a concert, free and open to everyone at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 1 in Lipinsky Auditorium on campus. Multi-instrumentalists Rob Schwimmer, Sally Sparks, and UNC Asheville Padisson Distinguished Professor Wayne Kirby will be among the performers.
This workshop takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room. It is free and open to everyone; pre-registration is encouraged.
This three-day gathering for users of WordPress will take place June 7-9 at UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union. Registration is now closed.
The Great Smokies Review, the online literary magazine published by UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program, has just completed 20 issues and 10 years of publication and to celebrate, some of the magazine’s contributing writers will offer a reading of their works. The reading, part of the Writers at Home series, is free and open to everyone at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 9 at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville.
The Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society will hold a meeting and presentation by Cherie Pittillo, Jaguars and Birds of the Pantanal, at 7 pm. on Tuesday, June 18, in UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, in the Manheimer Room. This event is free and open to everyone.
This four-day program from UNC Asheville's Office of Professional Education is for high school teachers with a a desire to learn more about their content areas, pedagogy, and methodology while becoming certified to teach Advanced Placement credit courses.
UPDATED Monday, June 24, at 9 a.m. - TONIGHT'S CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO EXPECTED BAD WEATHER.
The 2019 season of Concerts on the Quad – UNC Asheville’s free, outdoor Monday evening concert series – will feature concerts beginning at 7 p.m. each night with music that spans many genres, Concerts on the Quad are family-friendly and informal, with lawn chairs, blankets and picnics welcome.
UNC Asheville and the Astronomy Club of Asheville will present a special commemoration, and weather permitting, a lunar viewing. At 7:30 p.m. in the Reuter Center, Dominic Lesnar, president of the Astronomy Club of Asheville, will give a talk titled "To the Moon! Reflections on Apollo after 50 Years." This event is free and open to everyone.
To celebrate the festival's presence on campus this summer, UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library Special Collections is hosting a special exhibit featuring photos and materials from the university's Mountain Dance and Folk Festival Collection as well as materials from the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection at Mars Hill University. The exhibition, on the library’s third floor, is open during regular library hours through Aug. 31. Free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville athletics will hold its second annual Bulldog Block Party at Biltmore Park Town Square from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, July 13.
The 2019 season of Concerts on the Quad – UNC Asheville’s free, outdoor Monday evening concert series – wraps up with a 7 p.m. show on July 15 by Che Apalache, Concerts on the Quad are family-friendly and informal, with lawn chairs, blankets and picnics welcome.
This annual event for PE teachers and coaches will take place July 22-24 in UNC Asheville's Sherrill Center. The institute is presented by Great Activities Publishing and is co-sponsored by UNC Asheville's Department of Health and Wellness, and the N.C. Center for Health and Wellness.
This four-day program from UNC Asheville’s Office of Professional Education is for high school teachers with a a desire to learn more about their content areas, pedagogy, and methodology while becoming certified to teach Advanced Placement credit courses.
The 92nd Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival ® comes to Lipinsky Auditorium with three different shows, each at 6:30 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, August 1-3, featuring traditional and
old-time musicians, ballad singers, mountain dance groups and cloggers. These are ticketed performances.
The Astronomy Club of Asheville will hold a meeting, free and open to everyone, featuring a presentation, "Beyond Pluto: The New Horizons Mission to Ultima Thule," from 7-9 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, Manheimer Room.
The Employer Summit, hosted by UNC Asheville's Career Center, is for Asheville-area businesses and will take place from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6, in the Highsmith Student Union French Broad Room.
UNC Asheville is excited to welcome the Class of 2023 to campus on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019!
Convocation is the special ceremony that formally kicks off the 2019-2020 academic year and officially welcomes new students to UNC Asheville. At Convocation, students take their first good-luck walk past Rocky the Bulldog, a ritual that is repeated at graduation. All students, families, faculty and staff are invited to attend.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's soccer team begins the season with the split-squad Blue/White exhibition match at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17 at Greenwood Field. Admission is free to exhibition matches.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs face ETSU in an exhibition match at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 19, at Greenwood Field. Admission is free to exhibition matches.
The Paths to Creative Retirement (Paths) workshop is designed to help participants create a meaningful retirement that matches their values and priorities. The workshop takes place Aug. 23-25 in the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville. Advance registration is required.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs will play a Friday afternoon/evening doubleheader, with the men taking on Marshall University in a 3:30 p.m. exhibition match, and the Bulldog women kicking off their season with a match against American University at 6 p.m., at Greenwood Field on campus.
This free oral history training workshop will teach participants interviewing and related skills as part of an effort to build a regional LGBTQ+ oral history archive. The workshop takes place from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24.
UNC Asheville Dining Services is excited to host Hickory Nut Gap, Mountain Foods and United Natural Foods on Monday, August 26th for a Taste of Dining experience.
This event, presented by AARP and hosted by OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, will take place from 10 a.m.-noon on Thursday, Aug. 29, in UNC Asheville's Reuter Center. Free. Advance registration is requested.
Jacqueline Osherow, author of eight collections of poetry, will read from her works at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3, in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum, in the first event of the fall semester presented by the university’s Center for Jewish Studies and its Department of Religious Studies. This event is free and open to everyone.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs have their first home match of the regular season, facing VMI of the Southern Conference at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4 at Greenwood Field.
The Bulldogs open their home season by hosting the UNC Asheville Invitational at the Justice Center Sept. 6-7. UNC Asheville will face Eastern Kentucky at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, North Carolina A-and-T at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, and Dartmouth at 6:30 p.m. also on Saturday.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs face ECU at 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
The Bulldogs face Georgia State at 6 p.m. at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
This rehearsed reading is the first of three weekly performances about Abraham Lincoln written by David Brendan Hopes, with direction and live music by John Crutchfield, both members of UNC Asheville's faculty. It takes place at 7 p.m. at The Block off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St., Asheville.
The Bulldogs face South Carolina State at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10 in the Justice Center on the UNC Asheville campus.
Kevin Timpe, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, will give a free public talk, Disability Advocacy and the Demands of Justice, at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in Karpen Hall, in the Laurel Forum.
This lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. Admission is $10 for the public; free to members of the World Affairs Council and UNC Asheville students.
UNC Asheville will host the Wa le La "The Hummingbird" team in a traditional Cherokee stickball game at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the intramural fields behind the Sherrill Center. Free and open to everyone.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs face Mars Hill at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
UNC Asheville’s Department of History, the Vance Birthplace State Historic Site, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site, and the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library will present a two-day symposium, "You Have to Start a Thing": North Carolina Women Breaking Barriers, Sept. 12-13.
This special ticketed event, part of Asheville's Chow Chow Festival, takes place from 3-4:30 p.m. at the University's Bee Hotel, which is located in the main pollinator garden on University Heights, just across from Parking Lot P28.
Jacqueline Battalora, author of Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today, will give a free public lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12 in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union, in the Blue Ridge Room.
This free workshop takes place from 2-4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26 at the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville.
NOTE -- THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL TO CAPACITY WITH NO MORE REGISTRATIONS BEING ACCEPTED. This symposium is presented by Expanding Equity in Our Schools and UNC Asheville's Africana Studies Program, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Pl., Asheville.
This rehearsed reading is the second of three weekly performances about Abraham Lincoln written by David Brendan Hopes, with direction and live music by John Crutchfield, both members of UNC Asheville’s faculty. It takes place at 7 p.m. at The Block off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St., Asheville.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs face Davidson at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
The all-female mariachi fusion band Flor de Toloache, will be in residency at UNC Asheville offering afternoon master classes and an evening concert, all free and open to everyone.
The Department of Mass Communication is pleased to present a campus talk by Sally Kestin on Wednesday, September 18 from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. in Highsmith Student Union room 225/226. Sally Kestin is a former investigative reporter at the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.
The Bulldog women's soccer team takes on mountain rival Western Carolina at 3:30 p.m. in the first match of a doubleheader. Then at 6 p.m., it's UNCA vs. UNCG when the Bulldogs take on the Spartans in men's soccer at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.