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.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host Dr. Ryan Terlecki to discuss 'Men’s Health and Urology' as part of its Fab Friday series on Friday, April 16.
UNC Asheville will host Sean A. Wempe, assistant professor of Modern European History, California State University – Bakersfield to give talk, “Pandemic Racism: Historical Patterns of Disease Burden” on Friday, April 16 at 3:30 p.m.
UNC Asheville will hold its first-ever UNC Asheville Day of Giving from noon on April 21 to noon on April 22.
UNC Asheville will welcome adrienne maree brown to campus to present Social Justice as Science Fiction: The Queerness of Liberation on April 22 at 7 p.m.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host Jonathan Tetzlaff to discuss 'China, Surveillance Technology & Human Rights' as part of its Fab Friday series on Friday, April 23.
The UNC Asheville Student Ceramics and Art Sale will be held on Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the front parking lot at 838 Riverside Drive, the intersection with Broadway right off Rt 26 at exit 25.
Kick off your college search at Junior Preview Day, an open house experience designed just for high school juniors.
TheaterUNCA will present its spring dance performance "Changes: A Night of Dance and Media Performance" virtually on April 24 at 6 p.m.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host Fred Travis on Monday, April 26 at 4:30 p.m. as he presents "The Neuroscience of Meditation and Higher States of Consciousness."
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host Dr. Christine Lehman to discuss "Non-Surgical Options for Treating Joint Pain and Improving Function" as part of its Fab Friday series on Friday, April 30.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host Tonia Plummet to discuss the Young Men's Institute as part of its Fab Fridays series on Friday, May 7 at 11:30 a.m.
UNC Asheville will celebrate the Class of 2021 spring graduates on Saturday, May 8 with two ceremonies.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host a panel to discuss Diabetes on May 14 at 11:30 a.m. as part of its Fab Friday series.
UNC Asheville and the Center for Craft will host ceramic artist Roberto Lugo and curator Michelle Millar Fisher for their lecture Activism and Overcoming Obstacles on Friday, May 14 at […]
The free movie, "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," begins at dusk on a giant outdoor screen in the parking lot on Campus Drive nearest the Broadway Street entrance to campus.
The North Asheville Tailgate Market features local produce direct from area farmers, local baked goods, crafts, music and more, Saturdays from 8 a.m.-noon.
UNC Asheville will host the 94th Mountain Dance and Folk Festival from Aug. 5 through Aug. 7.
UNC Asheville's Ramsey Library will host "Women of Distinction: If you can see it, you can be it!" featuring portraits by WNC artist Joseph Anthony Pearson from Aug. 9 to Sept. 30.
UNC Asheville will host its 2021 Rockypalooza on Friday, Aug. 13. Note: This event is not open to the public. It is only open to the campus community.
UNC Asheville's men's and women's soccer teams will be back in action this fall.
This year's Live at 5 concert features Almost Owen (Isaac Haselkorn), who will be performing on the University Quad on Sunday, August 15 from 5:30 - 7 p.m.
UNC Asheville will host Experience UNC Asheville from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the University Quad. NOTE: This event is not open to the public. It is only open to the UNC Asheville community.
Retrospective: Robert Tynes will be exhibited at UNC Asheville's S. Tucker Cooke Gallery from August 20th to September 8th, 2021. This will be a celebratory retrospective of Robert Tynes' career, marked by his recent retirement after over thirty years of teaching and painting professionally. The artist kindly requests that all visitors are fully vaccinated and masked upon entering the exhibit due to being immunocompromised.
Ingles Markets and Pepsi are proud to bring the 2021 Downhome concert Series with Joe Lasher, Kaitlyn Baker, Commodore Fox and Lyric to the UNC Asheville Quad, Saturday, August 21st. Music starts at 6 p.m. Admission is free but please bring canned food items to donate to Manna Food Bank.
UNC Asheville will host the 2021 Bulldog Athletics Fund Scholarship Golf Classic from August 23-24 at The Country Club of Asheville.
UNC Asheville's women's volleyball will be back in action this season.
UNC Asheville's men's and women's cross country will be back in action this season.
Black in Black on Black: Making the Invisible Visible is an exhibition about the lives and contributions of Black/African American communities in Western North Carolina (WNC). Presenting works of art alongside oral histories and research data, Black in Black on Black is a visual conversation about an often invisible history of our region.
An evening Humanities keynote lecture open to the public for anyone interested in learning more about Islam and Islamophobia, and receiving context to bridge divides.
The English Department's University Fellow for Faculty Diversity, Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, is the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. She has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and CLA's Margaret Walker Memorial Prize, and placed in the Frontier Poetry's New Poets Award. She is a Callaloo and Tin House fellow, whose work has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, NELLE, Tupelo Quarterly and more.
UNC Asheville’s Chemistry department proudly presents an evening with the 23rd S. Dexter Squibb Distinguished Lecturer, America Chemical Society fellow Dr. Benny Chan of the College of New Jersey.
UNC Asheville’s renovated Owen Hall re-opened at the start of the fall 2021 semester with faculty exhibits from the Department of Art and Art History and Department of New Media.
Exhibits from the Department of Art and Art History and Department of New Media will be on display, guided building tours will be available, gallery spaces will be open, and refreshments will be served outdoors with room for social distancing during Owen Hall's Open House.
Greenfest's Keynote event welcomes ethnobiologist Marc Williams. Join us for his one-hour talk from 7-8 p.m. in the Blue Ridge Room to hear about many of the positive interconnections between people, plants, mushrooms, and microbes while learning to employ botanicals and other life forms sustainably for food, medicine, and beauty. Come early to enjoy educational tables, local snacks, and live music from the UNC Asheville Bluegrass Ensemble.
Join more than 60 local and regional organizations at UNC Asheville at NextFest, an opportunity to connect with employers offering full and part time opportunities, internships, seasonal opportunities, and years of service!
New York Times bestselling author and UNC Asheville Alumni Author-in-Residence Wiley Cash will celebrate the publication of his newest novel, "When Ghosts Come Home," on Tuesday, September 21 at 7 p.m.
In partnership with UNC Asheville's Art & Art History, and Classics Departments, the Archaeological Institute of America presents a lecture by local archaeologist Dylan Clark of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
Greenfest's longest-running event is an effort to continue the beautification of UNC Asheville's unique campus as an urban forest. Our campus community will roll up our sleeves for a variety of campus beautification projects.
Greenfest welcomes you to learn about electric cars, bicycles, and other personal electric transportation devices. The Blue Ridge EV club will host an electric car showcase with owners present to answer questions. The Flying Bike will have electric bikes available for demo. We will also have educational tables to highlight sustainable transportation initiatives on campus.
The Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics Association of North Carolina will host a benefit concert to raise funds for fire education and safety efforts, victim relief support, local programs, and educational opportunities. The concert will feature singer-songwriter Craig Campbell and Mikele Buck, a 2018 contestant on The Voice.
Join UNC Asheville's Young Activist Club (YAC) in welcoming local LGBTQ+ activists and community members for an afternoon of LGBTQ+ culture, story, activism, and open discussion.
The Common Word Community Read, curated by Wiley Cash '00, brings the UNC Asheville community together to engage in a collective educational experience. Each semester, one book will serve as the focus of numerous virtual and in-person lectures and discussions that will allow participants to delve deeper into the text. Join the Facebook Group to learn more and pick up your copy of the first community read: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.
UNC Asheville's Ramsey Library presents EVANESCENT! featuring photography by Leigh Svenson. The collection of black and white photographs feature fleeting images captured during vacations at the Golden Isles of Georgia including images of driftwood cathedrals being taken by the sea and mercurial dune grass etchings and ebb tide carvings.
The Leadership Asheville Buzz Breakfast Series returns this fall with a three-part in-person community event and conversation series. The fall 2021 series will focus on how we as a community evolve from this crisis and how we do that so everyone benefits. Conversations include the topics of Public Safety, The Economy, and Shelter.
In this virtual seminar, Bárbara Cruz will discuss some of the unique educational needs and circumstances facing Latinx students at all levels of schooling. Weaving together research findings, experiential knowledge, and student stories, Cruz invites participants to reflect on their own practice and consider opportunities and recommendations for improving educational equity for all students.
UNC Asheville Alumnus Mason Currey '02 is the author of Daily Rituals, and Daily Rituals: Women at Work (both published by Knopf) featuring brief profiles of the day-to-day working lives of more than 300 great creative minds.