UNC Asheville's Lookout Observatory, operated in partnership with the Astronomy Club of Asheville, will host a guided public stargazing session in celebration of the observatory's fifth anniversary, beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22. Pre-registration is required for this free event.
UNC Asheville advanced German students will present a staged reading, in German, of "Berlin: Ein Gruselkabinett," a drama they have written, for one performance only. This event takes place at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto, free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville's student Percussion Ensemble and African Drum Ensemble will perform at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 24, in Lipinsky Auditorium. The concert is free and open to everyone.
The 2019 Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, featuring hundreds of undergraduate research and creative project presentations over the course of the day by UNC Asheville students, will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 26, in classrooms and public spaces across campus, and is free and open to everyone.
The Bulldogs take on UNC Greensboro at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 29, in Kimmel Arena.
The Bulldogs take on Montreat in a special weekday Education Day game with thousands of area elementary school students in attendance. The game begins at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 2, in Kimmel Arena.
Photographs by UNC Asheville BFA student Celine Guilbaud will be featured in a new exhibition, "Entropic Reverie: Dreams of More Natural Surroundings," which opens with a reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6 Ramp Studio Gallery, 821 Riverside Dr., Asheville.
An exhibition featuring works by 13 graduating seniors in many different media, spread into two galleries, will open with receptions from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6 in the Blowers Gallery in Ramsey Library and the Highsmith Student Union Gallery. The exhibition and receptions are free and open to everyone and will remain on view through Dec. 13.
The Bulldogs take on South Carolina State at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8 in Kimmel Arena.
UNC Asheville's student jazz and contemporary music ensembles will perform the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 8 at The Mothlight, 70 Haywood Rd., West Asheville. Performances begin at 3 p.m. Admission is $6; $4 for students.
The Reuter Center Singers, the community choir of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, will present their annual holiday concert at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9, at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. Admission is free; donations are welcome.
The Bulldogs take on UT Martin at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14, in Kimmel Arena.
The Bulldogs take on Stetson at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 17, in Kimmel Arena.
The Bulldogs take on Chattanooga at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21, in Kimmel Arena.
The Bulldogs take on Presbyterian in the first Big South Conference match-up of the season, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 28, in Kimmel Arena.
The Bulldogs take on Big South rival Campbell in their first game of the new year at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 4, in Kimmel Arena.
The Bulldog men's team takes on Big South rival Campbell at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 8, in Kimmel Arena.
The Bulldogs face Big South Conference rival High Point at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9, in Kimmel Arena.
The Bulldogs take on Big South rival Charleston Southern at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14, in Kimmel Arena.
UNC Asheville’s juried international exhibition, Drawing Discourse, will open with special events on Jan. 17-18 featuring renowned artists including juror William Beckman.
The next Death Café will be held from 5-6:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan 17, at UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Center. This event is free and open to everyone.
The Bulldogs face Big South Conference rival Hampton at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18, at Kimmel Arena.
Annie Frazier, Luke Hankins, Tommy Hays, Vicki Lane, and Sebastian Matthews, all spring 2020 faculty members in UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program, will read from their works when the monthly Writers at Home series returns at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., in downtown Asheville. This event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville’s annual commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. will feature a keynote address by the award-winning journalist, author and civil rights pioneer Charlayne Hunter-Gault, free and open to everyone, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in the Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room on campus. She also will lead a master class at 4 p.m. the same day, in Highsmith Room 228.
The Bulldogs face Big South Rival Gardner-Webb at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Kimmel Arena.
This public hearing will take place beginning at 6 p.m. in the Highsmith Student Union Beaucatcher Mountain Room (225), with speaker registration beginning at 5:30 p.m. This event is free and open to everyone.
The documentary film focusing on lynching, "Always in Season," will be screened at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22 in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto. This screening, free and open to everyone, is part of the University's 2020 Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.
The next event in the OLLI Authors series features readings by OLLI members Marie Thomas and Wallace Bohanan, and takes place at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23, in the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville. Free and open to OLLI members and non-members alike.
Cortina Caldwell will lead a workshop, Why We March. How We March: The Culture of Organizing and Community Building, at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23, in Highsmith Student Union Mountain Suites. This free event, open to everyone, is part of UNC Asheville's 2020 Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Bulldogs face Big South rival Radford at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23, at Kimmel Arena.
Intergalactic Soul, a multimedia Afrofuturistic exhibition, will be on view Jan. 27-March 15 in the Highsmith Student Union Art Gallery. A master class with the artists will take place at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 4 in Highsmith Student Union Room 223 (the 1927 Room), and a reception will be held at 6 p.m. that same day, also in Highsmith, in the Blue Ridge Room foyer. All these events are free and open to everyone.
Leadership Asheville, a program of UNC Asheville, will host its 2020 Winter Buzz Breakfast series with the theme, “How Resilient Are We as a Community?” Breakfast begins at 8 a.m. and the program begins at 8:30 a.m., at the Expo Center of the Crowne Plaza, 1 Resort Dr., Asheville.
UNC Asheville presents a master class, free and open to everyone, Shared Poetics Across Disciplines: Cultivating Global Citizenship, at 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28 in Lipinsky Hall, Room 018. This event is part of the University's 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration.
UNC Asheville Chair and Associate Professor of Music Brian Felix will give a free public lecture, Beethoven the Improviser, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.
Memphis-born blues-based poet, novelist, essayist Arthur Flowers will present a combination performance and lecture, "Literary Blues and the Hoodoo Way - In the Footsteps of MLK," at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room. To set the stage for Flowers' performance, UNC Asheville's Afro Music and Dance Ensemble will perform as the opening act. This free event is part of the University's 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration.
The theme for OLLI’s 2019-20 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer and Math) Lecture Series is “Science vs. Science Denial.” This series is free and open to everyone at 4:30 p.m. in the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room.
The Bulldogs face defending Big South champion Gardner-Webb at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30, in Kimmel Arena.
The next edition of Behind the Scenes at NC Stage takes place at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31, at UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, and offers a look at the company's upcoming production of "Jeeves at Sea," adapted by Margaret Raether and based on the stories of P.G. Wodehouse. Presented at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, this event is free and open to OLLI members and non-members alike.
This exhibition by UNC Asheville students about urban renewal in Asheville's East End and Valley St. neighborhoods, is on view in Ramsey Library's Blowers Gallery through Feb. 27, during regular library hours, free and open to everyone.
The Bulldogs take on Big South rival Hampton at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1, in Kimmel Arena.
This film screening begins UNC Asheville's 10th Human Rights Film Festival, with movies nightly Feb. 3-7 at 7 p.m. in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto, free and open to everyone. The films will be followed by discussions joining together faculty, student and community viewers.
Patrick Foo, UNC Asheville associate professor of psychology and former director of the University's Neuroscience Program, will give a free talk, "The Neuroscience of Meditative Practices," at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in the Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room.
The Bulldogs take on Big South rival Longwood at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in Kimmel Arena.
Members of UNC Asheville's music faculty and special guests will perform a varied program of music, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4 in the Lipinsky Hall lobby. Admission is free, donations to support the music program are welcome.
This second film in UNC Asheville’s 10th Human Rights Film Festival, a documentary probing poverty wages, dangerous working conditions and environmental degradation that are part of the clothing industry, will be screened at 7 p.m., preceded by a free clothing swap from 6-7 p.m. Fair Trade snacks will be provided and the post-film discussion will be led by the university's Fair Trade Committee. Free and open to everyone in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto.
This first community dialogue in the The Odyssey Project: The Journey Home series will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5 in the Sherrill Center on campus, in the Ingles Mountain View Room. The series is free and open to everyone.
This film screening, part of UNC Asheville’s 10th Human Rights Film Festival, with movies nightly Feb. 3-7 at 7 p.m. in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto, is free and open to everyone. The films will be followed by discussions joining together faculty, student and community viewers.
This panel discussion features UNC Asheville Professor of History Samer Traboulsi and Elizabeth Overton Colton, retired U.S. State Department press attaché, and takes place at noon on Thursday, Feb. 6, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum, free and open to everyone.
The Bulldogs take on Big South rival USC Upstate at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6, in Kimmel Arena.
This film screening, part of UNC Asheville’s 10th Human Rights Film Festival, with movies nightly Feb. 3-7 at 7 p.m. in the Highsmith Student Union Grotto, is free and open to everyone. The films will be followed by discussions joining together faculty, student and community viewers.