UNC Asheville has announced the inaugural Turning of the Maples Virtual 5K. Complete your 3.1 mile run/walk the weekend of October 23-25, 2020, to take in the colorful fall leaves wherever you are. Registration is now open at unca.edu/Virtual5K and the $10 fee includes an exclusive Turning of the Maples 5K beanie hat, a Turning of the Maples 5K sticker, and a downloadable race bib to print off at home.
Meghan McGreal, a 2015 UNC Asheville graduate student, now part of the Goodpaster Group at the Chemical Theory Center at the University of Minnesota, will discuss electronic structure theories and graduate school experiences at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23 in a webinar presented by UNC Asheville's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. This webinar is free and open to everyone.
Discovery Day is the UNC Asheville Open House that gives students and families a chance to see what makes the UNC Asheville experience unique. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s Discovery Day events will be held virtually.
UNC Asheville’s Fall 2020 Visiting Writer Series will continue at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27 with a reading by Melissa Range. This Zoom event is presented by UNC Asheville’s Department of English and is free and open to everyone with pre-registration required.
Benjamin L. Schmitt of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will present a free webinar, Moving Science from a ‘Nice-to-Have’ to a ‘Must-Have’ in U.S. Foreign Policy: Stories from a Physicist on the Front Lines of Transatlantic Security Policy, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28. Pre-registration is required.
UNC Asheville's Departments of Biology and Environmental Studies are hosting a webinar presented by Jim Chapman, senior geologist for oil and gas regulation at N.C. Geological Survey, part of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality.
This online event is free and open to everyone, beginning at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22.
Pete Kekenes-Huskey, associate professor of cell and molecular physiology at Loyola University Chicago, and a 2001 UNC Asheville graduate, will discuss computational modeling of Ca2+-binding proteins, at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30.
UNC Asheville's Arts & Ideas Program presents Art For Our Times, Nov. 2-7, 2020 to engage with visual, digital, performing, and contemplative art forms that offer us a moment of pause, reflection, and meditation. Some of the showcased works directly address the events of our times, others offer experiences that invite the audience to observe, reflect, and respond in their own way. Many of these events, exhibitions and experiences will not be open to the public due to COVID-19; some will be available to all via livestream or asynchronously.
UNC Asheville’s student Funk-Fusion Ensemble, directed by Mike Barnes, and the Afromusics Ensemble, directed by Jonathan King, will perform live at noon on Thursday, Nov. 5 on the UNC Asheville Quad, with the performances blending with the Tuning Meditation event also on the Quad as part of Arts for Our Times week. The show will be livestreamed on the Department of Music Facebook page – in-person attendance is free, but limited to UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff, with limited numbers and physical distancing to conform with COVID-19 safety protocols.
UPDATED NOV. 4: This event is canceled.
Mildred Barya, UNC Asheville assistant professor of English and winner of the North Carolina Humanities Council's 2020 Linda Flowers Award, with be featured in a reading at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5. This online event, which also features writers Carol Scott-Conner and Susan Wilson, is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Education Tiece Ruffin will lead a virtual community gathering exploring best practices and solutions that support positive academic outcomes for Black youth, from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Nov. 7. This event is hosted by the Asheville City Schools Foundation and is free and open to everyone with registration here.
UNC Asheville's student Contemporary Guitar Ensemble, directed by Tim Doyle of the music faculty, will perform in a free livestream concert at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, on the Department of Music Facebook page.
Leisa Rundquist, UNC Asheville professor of art and art history, will discuss her forthcoming book, The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry Darger’s Art, as part of the weeklong Intersect Chicago art festival, which is digital this year. Rundquist's conversation with Debra Kerr, president and CEO of Intuit (The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art), will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, with registration required for the livestream.
UNC Asheville's student Bluegrass Ensemble, directed by Jonathan King, will perform on the Quad outside of Lipinsky Hall on campus at noon on Thursday, Nov. 12. The performance will be streamed live on the Department of Music Facebook page. In-person attendance is restricted to UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff, with social distancing and face coverings.
UNC Asheville’s student ensemble, the Xtet, directed by Justin Ray of the music faculty, will perform modern jazz compositions, including originals, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12. The concert will be livestreamed for free on the Department of Music Facebook page.
Wiley Cash, UNC Asheville's writer-in-residence, will host the next Reader Meet Writer event from SIBA, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, talking with Julia Fowler about her new book, Embrace Your Southern, Sugar! This online event is accessible via free livestream at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12.
UNC Asheville's student quartet, directed by Ben Smith of the music faculty, will perform music of Hadyn, Handel, Frank and Mozart at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, with free livestream on the Department of Music Facebook page.
UNC Asheville's student ensembles will offer online performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, Nov. 19-21, at 7:15 p.m., streaming on the Department of Music Facebook page.
The UNC Asheville Fall Graduates of the Class of 2021 Commencement celebration video will premiere on the UNC Asheville Commencement webpage at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21, and will also be available on the UNC Asheville YouTube channel for viewing at any time.
UNC Asheville's men's and women's basketball teams will be in action with livestream broadcasts available on ESPN+. For the full schedule and details, visit uncabulldogs.com.
The holiday bazaar fearures fresh local produce, meat and eggs, baked goods, cheese, crafts and more, with winter hours 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday mornings in parking lot P28.
Rollin Groseclose and Mickey Dale of Johnson Price Sprinkle, certified public accountants, offer their year-end tax presentation, Tax Talk 2020, in the next free public virtual event from UNC Asheville's Family Business Forum at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 11.
OLLI - the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville - presents its first virtual Fab Friday of 2021, featuring Carolyn Ward, CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, from 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 15. This online event is free and open to all with pre-registration required.
UNC Asheville researchers Evelyn Chiang, Keith Cox and Kevin Riordan will present and discuss via Zoom their recent research on PTSD symptoms in professional firefighters. This online event is free and open to everyone, from 3-4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21.
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, Avoiding Hip Fractures, features Dr. Adam Kaufman, orthopedic trauma surgeon at Mission Health, and takes place from 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Drawing Discourse, UNC Asheville's annual juried international exhibition of contemporary drawing, will have its 12th renewal online and in paper this year, opening virtually at 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22 with a lecture by juror Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, and a special edition of the "Suggested Donation" podcast featuring Peter Van Dyke. These events and online exhibition will be free and open to everyone.
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.