The role of immigration and political shifts will be explored in the World Affairs Council’s The Rise of Populism lecture at UNC Asheville, which begins at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 19, in the university’s Reuter Center, in the Manheimer Room. This talk had originally been scheduled in February.
UNC Asheville will host its ninth Human Rights Film Festival presenting three award-winning films, March 20-22. The films are free and open to everyone, beginning at 7 p.m. with post-screening discussions.
UNC Asheville's Creative Writing Program presents a reading by three local authors - poets Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs, and novelist Kevin McIlvoy - at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum, free and open to everyone.
The 2019 Parson Lecture by Ronald D. Taylor, The Patterns of Play: A Recreational View of Mathematics, takes place at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 21, in Lipinsky Auditorium. This talk is free and open to everyone.
Scholars in philosophy from around the U.S. as well as Canada, England and Russia, will gather at UNC Asheville to explore Philosophical Engagements with Trauma at a March 22-23 conference.
"The Frame Will Walk: Understanding Inheritance and Transition," the BFA Exhibition of sculpture by UNC Asheville senior Jeb Hedgecock, opens with a reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, March 22, and will remain on view in the RAMP Gallery through April 2. Free and open to everyone.
This special open house experience for high school juniors starts at 9:30 a.m. and finishes with lunch and a campus tour in early afternoon. Please pre-register.
High-school students from across North Carolina will have the opportunity to showcase their hard work after an intense six weeks of designing and building an original robot in the FIRST ® Robotics Competition
The UNC Asheville Bulldog men’s tennis team will take on Radford at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 23 at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown, 27 Resort Drive, Asheville. Admission is free.
The Bulldog women's golf team will host the UNC Asheville French Broad Invitational Monday and Tuesday, March 25-26, at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, 40 Club Village Way, Arden, N.C.
The keynote lecture for UNC Asheville's 2018-19 Music Faculty Lecture Series will be presented by Jennifer Iverson, assistant professor of music at the University of Chicago. Her talk will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum, and is free and open to everyone.
Janine Jones, associate professor of philosophy at UNC Greensboro, will give a free public talk titled Much Ado about Blackness: Beauvoir Was Just Playing in the Dark, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26 in UNC Asheville's Sherrill Center, Ingles Mountain View Room.
The UNC Asheville Bulldog men's tennis team will take on USC Upstate at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27 at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown, 27 Resort Drive, Asheville. Admission is free.
Bryant Simon, professor of history at Temple University, will give a talk, Politics, Tragedy, and Chicken Tenders, at noon on Thursday, March 28, in Karpen Hall Room 038. Free and open to everyone.
Roger May, whose photographic portraits of Appalachia and its people have been featured in national and international media, will display some of his work and discuss the issues involved in depicting Appalachia, at 5:30 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum; free and open to everyone.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs face Furman at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 28, at Greenwood Field.
The Bulldogs will take on Big South rival Longwood, with games at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 29, 3 p.m. on Saturday, and 1 p.m. on Sunday, at Greenwood Field on campus.
Spring Greenfest 2019 will feature a week of activities March 30-April 6. Greenfest is a semiannual series held on the campus of UNC Asheville in March and September that celebrates sustainability, students and community.
The Autumn Players of Asheville Community Theatre will present Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets and directed by Arnold Sgan, readers theatre style, at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 31 in the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville.
The documentary film, With All Deliberate Speed, about the Brown v Board of Education school desegregation and the resistance to it, will be screened at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union Grotto. The screening is free and open to everyone, and will be followed by a short Q-and-A.
Country Music, Ken Burns's new PBS documentary series, won't premiere nationally until September, but Burns's co-producers Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey will host a special preview screening and discussion at UNC Asheville at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, in the Highsmith Student Union's beautiful new Blue Ridge Room.
The UNC Asheville Bulldog men's tennis team will take on Presbyterian College at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3 at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown, 27 Resort Drive, Asheville. Admission is free.
UNC Asheville will be part of a statewide star viewing party and host a solar observing event, a science pub, and a “Mini Maker Faire” as part of the North Carolina Science Festival in April.
As part of UNC Asheville commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Education decision that struck down school segregation laws, the exhibition, In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality: Kansas and the African-American Public School Experience, 1855-1955, will be on view April 4-30 in Ramsey Library, first floor. An opening reception will be held from 5-6 p.m. in Ramsey Library, free and open to everyone.
Fletcher Peacock, UNC Asheville director of instrumental studies, will perform a faculty recital that will explore standard, lesser-known, and reimagined pieces for trombone. This concert is free and open to everyone at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, in Lipinsky Audiotorium.
The UNC Asheville Bulldog women’s tennis team will take on Hampton University at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 6 at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown, 27 Resort Drive, Asheville. Admission is free.
The UNC Asheville Bulldog men's tennis team will take on Hampton University at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown, 27 Resort Drive, Asheville. Admission is free.
The Asheville Mini Maker Faire will take place on and around the UNC Asheville Quad from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6. The faire is free and open to everyone.
Civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez will be the keynote speaker for UNC Asheville's activities commemorating the 65th anniversary of the historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down school segregation laws. Her talk, free and open to everyone, takes place at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 8, in Lipinsky Auditorium.
The UNC Asheville Bulldog women’s tennis team will take on USC Upstate at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9 at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown, 27 Resort Drive, Asheville. Admission is free.
As part of UNC Asheville commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Education decision that struck down school segregation laws, a segment of the documentary, America to Me, will be screened at 5 p.m. in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto. This event is free and open to everyone.
English faculty members David Hopes and Evan Gurney will read from their works at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. This reading is free and open to everyone.
The Bulldogs host mountain rival Appalachian State at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10 at Greenwood Field on campus.
As part of UNC Asheville commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Education decision that struck down school segregation laws, a panel of longtime Asheville area residents will provide a timeline of the desegregation effort locally, share personal memories, and reflect upon the past events and current realities. This event takes place at 6:30 p.m. in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto, and is free and open to everyone.
Languages and Cultures in Action - an afternoon festival of music, food, poetry, prose, dance and performance celebrating the languages and cultures on the UNC Asheville campus - will take place from noon-4 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, in Mills Plaza on campus. This event, free and open to everyone, is sponsored by the Department of Languages and Literatures.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs will take on Big South rival Winthrop, with games at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 12, 3 p.m. on Saturday, and 1 p.m. on Sunday, at Greenwood Field on campus.
UNC Asheville students Devin Carr, They McCutchen and Holt Mettee will read their poems as part of the Asheville Wordfest 2019 Poetry Reading, 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 120 College St., Asheville. Admission is $8; free for students with ID and for BMCM+AC members.
As part of UNC Asheville commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Education decision that struck down school segregation laws, Assistant Professor Trey Adcock, director of UNC Asheville’s Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, will share the history of the Snowbird Day School. This event, free and open to everyone, takes place at 6 p.m. in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto.
Patrick Elliot Alexander will present a Visiting Writers Critical Perspectives talk at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 15, in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union rooms 225/226. This event is free and open to everyone.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs will host Furman for a game at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16 at Greenwood Field on campus.
The documentary Yemanja, about the Candomblé spiritual culture in Bahia, Brazil, and narrated by Alice Walker, will be screened at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union Grotto. The screening, free and open to everyone, will be followed by a short Q-and-A.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FALL SEMESTER. Courtney Lewis, author of "Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small Business Ownership and the Making of Economic Sovereignty," will speak at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, at UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union, in the French Broad Room (room 125). This event is free and open to everyone.
ThreatreUNCA will stage performances of an original play, created by students in collaboration with guest director Leon Ingulsrud of New York City's SITI Company and based on John Cage's Lecture on Nothing, April 18-20, in Belk Theatre on campus.
The 16th Annual New Media Student Show, a juried exhibition featuring innovative work by UNC Asheville students, will be on view April 19-29 in Zeis Hall, in the second floor lobby. The exhibit opens with a reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on April 19. The exhibition and reception are both free and open to everyone. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-9 p.m. weekdays and noon-6 p.m. on the weekend.
"Mystic Images," an exhibit of works by UNC Asheville BFA student Jason Rafferty, opens with a reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, April 19, at the Highsmith Student Union Intercultural Gallery. The exhibition will remain on view through April 30. The exhibit and reception are free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville’s Spring 2019 Arts Fest, a full day and evening of arts-related exhibitions, performances, demonstrations and activities, will take place on April 19, beginning at 11 a.m. with many events clustered in and around Lipinsky Hall on campus. All Arts Fest events are free and open to everyone except where noted.
Sara Sanders, director of UNC Asheville's STEAM Studio, will provide a public presentation about Wake, the giant animatronic sculpture created by students and faculty with renowned artist Mel Chin and its installation in New York City's Times Square. This free event takes place at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 19, at The Collider, 1 Haywood St., Asheville, and is part of the AMOS (Asheville Museum of Science) Science Pub series.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs will take on Big South rival Charleston Southern in the final game of a three-game series at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Greenwood Field.
Cas Mudde, the Stanley Wade Shelton Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, will give a free public talk on right-wing extremism and populism in the U.S., from 4-5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 22, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.
To celebrate Earth Day, the documentary film, Naboba, will be screened at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 22, in Highsmith Student Union Room 114. The film will be followed by a cross-cultural discussion featuring Mamo Enemía Izquierdo and Teirungumu Torres from the Ikü Nation, Colombia, starting at 7:30 at the Mullen Park Fire Pit on campus. These events are free and open to everyone.