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.
"Tell Tale," an exhibition of ceramics by UNC Asheville senior Amelia Rosenberg, will be on view from Nov. 9-20 in Owen Hall, in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. An opening reception will take place from 6-8 p.m. in the gallery on Friday, Nov. 9. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays. 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.
The McIntosh County Shouters will bring the “ring shout” – probably the oldest surviving African-American performance tradition in North America – to UNC Asheville for an afternoon master class. The master class is free and open to everyone, and will take place from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15 in Lipinsky Auditorium.
Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr., author of "Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years," will give a free public lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. This event is free and open to everyone.
The McIntosh County Shouters will bring the "ring shout" - probably the oldest surviving African-American performance tradition in North America - to UNC Asheville for a rousing evening concert, and an afternoon master class.
The TheatreUNCA Fall Mainstage Season will continue in November with Metamorphoses, based on the ancient Roman myths of Ovid. Curtain for Metamorphoses will be 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 15-17, with a Sunday 2 p.m. matinee on Nov. 18.
The top six teams in the Big South Conference face each other in a single-elimination tournament Nov. 16-18 in UNC Asheville's Justice Center to determine the conference champion.
Arts Fest features art, presentations and more by students and faculty, 12:30-6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 16 in Owen Hall. All Arts Fest events are free and open to everyone.
In preparation for the 2018-19 season, the UNC Asheville track and field team will hold its annual Blue vs. White Intrasquad meet, starting at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018, at the Karl Straus Track on campus.
The TheatreUNCA Fall Mainstage Season will continue in November with Metamorphoses, based on the ancient Roman myths of Ovid. This special Sunday matinee performance begins at 2:30 p.m. in Belk Theatre.
Works by students in the Advanced Drawing and Painting courses will be on view Nov. 19-Dec. 3 in Ramsey Library's Blowers Gallery during regular library hours. The exhibit is free and open to everyone.
"Delicious," an exhibit of ceramic works by BFA student Sara Burton will be on view Nov. 26-Dec. 4 in Owen Hall's S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. A reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 30 in the gallery. Free and open to everyone.
This last music faculty lecture of the fall 2018 semester will feature UNC Asheville Assistant Professor of Music and vocalist Christine Boone. Her talk takes place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27 in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.
UNC Asheville's German Club presents its fourth annual Weihnachtsmarkt, from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29, in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto. The Weihnachtsmarkt is open to everyone.
UNC Asheville's "X-tet" student ensemble, directed by Jacob Rodriguez, offers a jazz concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29, in Lipinsky Auditorium. The show is free and open to everyone.
The tailgate market features fresh local produce, meat and eggs, baked goods, cheese, crafts and more, with winter hours 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturdays, through Dec. 15, in parking lot P28.
UNC Asheville Writer-in-Residence Wiley Cash will read at Stories from the Issue, part of the Oxford American's 2018 North Carolina Music Issue statewide celebration, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, at Malaprop's Bookstore and Café, 55 Haywood St., Asheville. This event is free and open to everyone.
Two student ensembles - percussionists directed by Matthew Richmond, and wind players directed by Fletcher Peacock - will perform in a free concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2 in UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium.
This all-day event is free and open to everyone and takes place in many campus locations. The symposium features hundreds of undergraduate research and creative project presentations by UNC Asheville students, and presentations about their service-learning experiences. Classes are suspended for the day so students can not only present, but attend the presentations.
UNC Asheville's University Chorale - a large chorus directed by Chuck Taft - will perform at noon on Tuesday, Dec. 4 in the Lipinsky Hall Lobby. This concert is free and open to everyone.
This monthly series features UNC Asheville faculty discussing issues in their field at Habitat Tavern, 174 Broadway St., Asheville. English Lecturer Jessica Pisano and community writer/activist DeWayne Barton will together present Write Here: Place-Based Writing and Community Activism at 7 p.m. This event is open to everyone and admission is free; beer is not.
Stan Dotson and Kim Christman, local pastors who have served as chaplains and leaders of two churches in Matanzas, Cuba, will provide an on-the-ground view of Cuban life. Dotson is the author of Cuba: A Day In the Life; he and his wife Christman have visited Cuba more than 25 times through the Alliance of Baptists’ partnership with the Fraternity of Baptist Churches of Cuba.
Alli Marshall, arts and entertainment editor for Mountain Xpress and UNC Asheville's 2018 Ramsey Library Community Author, will give a free public reading and take part in a reception, on Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the library's Whitman Room. Refreshments will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the reading beginning shortly after 6 p.m.
Works by seniors in the BA program will be on view Dec. 7-15 in two campus galleries: the Owen Hall Second Floor Gallery and Ramsey Library's Blowers Gallery. An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7 in both galleries. Free and open to everyone.
The Asheville Singers - UNC Asheville's premiere vocal ensemble directed by Melodie Galloway, present present a candlelight concert at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7 in the Lipinsky Hall Lobby. This concert is free and open to everyone.
The tailgate market features fresh local produce, meat and eggs, baked goods, cheese, crafts and more, with winter hours 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturdays, through Dec. 15, in parking lot P28.
UNC Asheville's student jazz and contemporary music ensembles present the final performance of the fall semester, from 3-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec.11 at Lipinsky Hall room 018.
The Bulldogs take on Winthrop at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 5, in Kimmel Arena.
"Ad Lucem: Masking and the Resilience of a Human Spirit," Shawn Winebrenner's BFA exhibition of photographs, is now on view in Ramsey Library's Blowers Gallery through Jan. 30 during regular library hours. Free and open to everyone.
The Blue Ridge Orchestra will present its rescheduled BRO Revels! 2018 concert, featuring Joe Newberry and April Verch, at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019 at UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium. Tickets are $25 general admission, and $15 for friends of the BRO.
The UNC Asheville Bulldog women’s tennis team will take on Lenoir-Rhyne University at 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 18 at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown, 27 Resort Drive, Asheville. Admission is free.