The Unafraid, a documentary about three undocumented immigrant students in Georgia, will be screened at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union Grotto. This event is free and open to everyone.
U.S. and Middle Eastern relations will be explored in the World Affairs Council’s "The Middle East: Regional Disorder?" lecture at UNC Asheville, which begins at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 26, in the university’s Reuter Center, in the Manheimer Room.
This talk is free and open to everyone at 7:30 p.m. in Karpen Hall, room 038.
TheatreUNCA will stage two back-to-back absurdist one-act plays, The Room, and The Bald Soprano, with four performances opening Feb. 28 in UNC Asheville’s Carol Belk Theater. Evening performances will take place Thursday-Saturday Feb. 28-March 2 with curtain at 7:30 p.m. One matinee will be offered at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 3.
Alvis Dunn, assistant professor of history, will facilitate a book talk with Michael Roberto, author of The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940. The discussion is free and open to everyone at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood St., Asheville.
Darin Waters, UNC Asheville associate professor of history and executive director of community engagement, will give a talk titled, Whose Story? Democratizing America's Collective Memory, at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, at the Lenoir-Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave. (second floor), in Asheville. This event is free and open to everyone but RSVP is required.
The dynamic voices of Asheville youth will be presented in the Listening Project Live: Youth Voices on Race, Gentrification and Home, a benefit event hosted by the Asheville City Schools Foundation (ACSF) and UNC Asheville, in Lipinsky Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Feb. 28. This is a ticketed event with proceeds benefitting ACSF.
The sixth annual Celebrate Middle School Success Through the Arts exhibit will be displayed on UNC Asheville's Sherrill Center Concourse throughout the month of March 2019.
This exhibition of works, hosted by Art Guild, UNC Asheville's student art club, opens with a reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, March 1, and continues through March 16. This free exhibition is at the RAMP Gallery, 821 Riverside Dr., Asheville.
The UNC Asheville Bulldog women’s tennis team will take on Appalachian State University at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 1 at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown, 27 Resort Drive, Asheville. Admission is free.
It's the final home game of the regular season for the Bulldog women's and men's basketball teams, brought together in a doubleheader with special honors for the seniors on both teams. The action begins with the women taking on Charleston Southern at 2 p.m., and then the men will tip off against High Point at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 2 in Kimmel Arena.
Gina Chavez, a 10-time Austin Music Award-winner who has topped the Latin iTunes and Amazon charts, will lead a master class, free and open to everyone, from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.
UNC Asheville's Visiting Writer Series presents Will Johnson In Conversation with Wiley Cash at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. This event is free and open to everyone.
Nuclear negotiations will be explored in the World Affairs Council’s “Nuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future?” lecture at UNC Asheville, which begins at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Mar. 5, in the university’s Reuter Center, in the Manheimer Room.
Multi-ethnic Latin pop songstress and 10-time Austin Music Award-winner Gina Chavez will perform at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6 in Lipinsky Auditorium as part of UNC Asheville's Cultural Events Series. Tickets are available online and at the door.
U.S.-China trade relations will be explored in the World Affairs Council’s Decoding U.S.-China Trade lecture at UNC Asheville, which begins at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Mar. 12, in the university’s Reuter Center, in the Manheimer Room.
The UNC Asheville Bulldog women’s tennis team will take on Charleston Southern University at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13 at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown, 27 Resort Drive, Asheville. Admission is free.
The conference takes place March 14-17, with special events featuring authors Lee Smith, Ron Rash and Wiley Cash - free and open to everyone - on Saturday, March 16.
The Bulldogs will take on Big South rival USC Upstate, with games at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 15, 3 p.m. on Saturday, and 1 p.m. on Sunday, at Greenwood Field on campus.
UNC Asheville's Ramsey Library Blowers Gallery will host an exhibition of the winning photos in the International Photo Contest, sponsored by the university's Study Abroad Office, from April 1-16. A reception with the photographers will take place from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, in the gallery.
Get Out, the satirical horror film about American race relations, written and directed by Jordan Peele, will be screened at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19 in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union Grotto. This rated-R film is free and open to the public. A short Q-and-A will follow the screening.
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.