In the first event of UNC Asheville's 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration, a panel of community and local government leaders will discuss pathways to Black liberation in the contexts of electoral politics and grassroots/community organizing and activism. This online event is free and open to everyone at 6 p.m. via Zoom.
Dr. Brittney Cooper, associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers, will deliver the keynote talk - online only this year - of UNC Asheville's annual commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. The talk, free and open to everyone, will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 26.
The 2021 Winter Buzz Breakfast series, hosted by Leadership Asheville and the Asheville Area Arts Council, begins at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27, with a look at the removal of Confederate monuments from special guest Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans, and author of In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History. This online event is free and open to everyone.
Whitney Pirtle, assistant professor of sociology and McArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at the University of California, Merced, will present a webinar, COVID-19 Death Gaps: Understanding How Race and Class Inequities Shape Pandemic Health Outcomes, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28. This event, part of UNC Asheville's annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration, is free and open to everyone. Check back closer to the event date for Zoom access information.
Fab Fridays at OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, are free, virtual and open to non-members as well as members. This session, The Crucial Role of Pollinators – Amazing Facts, features Bryan Tompkins, fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Asheville, and takes place from 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Charlotte-based visual artists Marcus Kiser and Jason Woodberry and Durham-based performance artist Quentin Talley, will present and discuss Intergalactic Soul, their multimedia Afrofuturistic exhibition, during a virtual "residency" Feb. 1-5.
UNC Asheville and the WNC chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) present this talk free and open to everyone via Zoom, beginning at 7:30 p.m., as part of the AIA’s 125th Lecture Program.
Kevin Vallier, associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, and author of Trust in a Polarized Age, will present at 7 p.m. via Zoom, free and open to everyone.
Join Blue Ridge Public Radio and UNC Asheville faculty members Darin Waters and Marcus Harvey for a live show and conversation on civic engagement, and get a chance to ask your questions. Join UNC Asheville faculty members Darin Waters and Marcus Harvey, hosts of BPR’s The Waters & Harvey Show, and special guests William H. Turner, Chris […]
Kirk Swenson, UNC Asheville's Vice Chancellor for Advancement, relays how his experience coaching an elite ice hockey team led him to completely rethink his approach to organizational leadership. Kirk will share how he translated this powerful experience and the lessons he learned to leading successful organizations. Register here.
The 2021 Winter Buzz Breakfast series, hosted by Leadership Asheville and the Asheville Area Arts Council, continues at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18, with a discussion of issues involved in selecting public art and monuments, featuring Paul Farber, artistic director and co-founder of Monument Lab, and senior research scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania. This online event is free and open to everyone.
Kick off your college search at Junior Preview Day, an open house experience designed just for high school juniors.
Acclaimed poet and essayist Claudia Rankine will begin UNC Asheville’s Visiting Writer Series with a reading and talk via Zoom at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24, presented by the Department of English.
David Rakestraw, who is coordinating Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's COVID-19 technical response, will be the presenter in this online seminar from UNC Asheville's Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. This talk is free and to everyone via Zoom at 2:30 p.m.
Kick off your college search at Junior Preview Day, an open house experience designed just for high school juniors.
UNC Asheville and the WNC chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) offer this lecture, free and open to everyone via Zoom, beginning at 7:30 p.m., as part of the AIA’s 125th Lecture Program.
UNC Asheville will host the Future Teacher Conference on Thursday, March 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will be held virtually.
UNC Asheville will welcome visual arts curator and writer Sarah Tanguy as part of its Visiting Scholar Lecture series on Thursday, March 4 from noon to 1:30 p.m. The event will be held virtually.
The Philosophy Department will host a series of Zoom events focusing on the use of philosophical skills for tackling contemporary issues.
UNC Asheville's Drama Department will put on two virtual performances of Hindsight 2020 on Friday, March 5 and Saturday March 6, both at 7 p.m.
UNC Asheville will host three virtual talks with indigenous activists and writers in March as part of its “Worlds ~ Words” multilingual indigenous speaker series.
Center for Craft, in partnership with UNC Asheville, will host Crafting Resilience, a virtual program series exploring how craft can cultivate strength and sustainability in individuals, spaces, and communities in the face of adverse conditions from March 11 to April 20. The program will bring together interdisciplinary and intersectional voices, and will animate dialogue and reflections on collective memory, healing, and social justice in the study and practice of craft.
UNC Asheville will host an intergenerational and intercommunity conversation titled The African Before Black History Month: Indigenous African Political Thought, Systems, and Institutions on Thursday, March 11 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
UNC Asheville & The Marvelous Math Club are hosting a virtual fun-run from March 12 to March 14. Proceeds benefit the Asheville Initiative for Math!
On March 15, 2021, 3:30 – 5:10 pm, Firestorm Books and Amanda Wray (UNC Asheville, English Department) will host a virtual discussion with Maggie Werner, author of Stripped: Reading the Erotic Body published by Penn State UP in 2020.
UNC Asheville’s Visiting Writer Series will continue with a reading and discussion on Zoom by novelist and essayist CJ Hauser on Tuesday, March 16, beginning at 7 p.m. This event is free and open to everyone, by UNC Asheville’s Department of English.
UNC Asheville will present Women in Asheville History: Histories of Local Women Presented by UNC Asheville Alumni and Students on Wednesday, March 17 at 6 p.m. This presentation is sponsored by the Department of History and the Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
The 2021 Winter Buzz Breakfast series, hosted by Leadership Asheville and the Asheville Area Arts Council, continues at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 18, with a discussion of equitable creative placemaking with Maria R. Jackson, institute professor at the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. This online event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville will host a virtual panel discussion on the film Coded Bias titled Exposing Systematic Racism and Gender Bias in the Tech World at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 18. Panelists include Bill Barrs, Marietta Cameron, Sarah Judson, Susan Reiser and Anne Slatton.
UNC Asheville Classics Professor Sophie Mills will host three separate community conversations exploring the power of ecstatic experience as a sacred vehicle for transcendence. The three events will be on Thursday, March 18 at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 14 at 7 p.m., and Monday, April 26 at 7 p.m. The April 14 event will be in person at Sunflower Diner in West Asheville.
The Philosophy Department at UNC Asheville will be presenting, as part of their "Philosophy for Hard Times" series, is Ethics for Hard Times: Why Do (Other) People Make Bad Decisions? The presentation will be given by Melissa Burchard on Friday, March 19 at 3:30 pm via Zoom.
UNC Asheville will host the Critical Perspectives Series in March and April with two virtual events. The first lecture, with scholar Kirstin Squint, will consider the recently published novel, Even As We Breathe in preparation for author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle's visit the following week.
UNC Asheville’s biennial Queer Studies Conference, co-sponsored this year by Davidson College, will bring together scholars, artists and activists March 26-28 for virtual workshops and presentations. With keynote presentations by Wriply Bennet and Kay Ulanday Barrett, the conference will be based around the theme, Fitting In and Sticking Out – Queer Visibilities and the Perils of Inclusion.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host author Daniel S. Pierce for his discussion T he RAIL Project: Incarcerated Labor Remembered on Friday, March 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. as part of its Fab Fridays Lunch & Learn.
UNC Asheville will hold its Spring Greenfest 2021 from Monday, March 27 to Saturday, April 3.
Kick off your college search at Junior Preview Day, an open house experience designed just for high school juniors.
Join us March 29, 2021, 3:30 – 5 PM for Drag as Art and Activism. Four Performances + Audience Discussion with Western North Carolina drag artists.
Author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle will discuss her novel, Even As We Breathe, at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31.
UNC Asheville will present Philosophy for Hard Times: "On Zozobra" with Carlos Sanchez on Thursday, April 1 at noon as part of the philosophy department's Philosophy for Hard Times series. […]
The UNC Asheville Arts & Ideas program will present a multi-exhibit and performance celebration titled Art For Our Times from April 2 to April 10.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host Jacie Volkman to discuss COVID-19 as part of its Fab Friday series on Friday, April 2.
The Center for Jewish Studies at UNC Asheville will host two events in remembrance of the millions of lives extinguished in the Holocaust.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host Marsha Gordon to discuss "Screening Race" as part of its Fab Friday series on Friday, April 9.
UNC Asheville will host a public art exhibit from April 12 to April 23 with the work from Skillset over the last three years. The exhibit will be on display […]
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host Bob Roth on Monday, April 12 at 4:30 p.m. as he presents "Bringing Meditation To Everyone - And Why Science Says It's A Great Idea."
The UNC Asheville athletics department will host Muffet McGraw (ACC Network/Notre Dame) and Josh Pastner (Georgia Tech) as guests on the next edition of "Noontime with the Bulldogs," sponsored by Mako Medical. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, April 14 and will be hosted by Director of Athletics Janet R. Cone.
The 2021 Winter Buzz Breakfast series, hosted by Leadership Asheville and the Asheville Area Arts Council, will have its fourth and final session starting at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 15, with a panel discussion of local public art initiatives and exploring what equitable creative placemaking could look like in our community. The panel features government and student leaders. This online event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville’s 36th annual Joseph M. Sulock Memorial Economic Crystal Ball Seminar will be held online at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 15. Noted economist David W. Berson will make forecasts on the business and financial outlook for the coming year, taking account of new federal tax policies and Federal Reserve decisions about interest rates.
UNC Asheville’s Visiting Writer Series will present its final reading and discussion of the spring semester, featuring poet, essayist, and literary critic Artress Bethany White on Thursday, April 15, beginning at 7 p.m. on Zoom. This event is free and open to everyone, by UNC Asheville’s Department of English.
UNC Asheville will present The 3 Pigs and the Red Line on April 16 at 7 p.m. and April 18 at 2 p.m. The 3 Pigs and the Red Line is a family-friendly adaptation of the classic fable, The 3 Pigs, inspired by the history of redlining and urban renewal in Asheville’s black community. Told through the magic of Toy Theatre, combining shadow puppetry, paper puppetry and crankies, the show aims to spark a conversation around our city’s complicated history and how it continues to affect us all today.