This roundtable talk will be led by Dr. Eboo Patel, author, Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core, and Rhodes Scholar whose most recent text is "Interfaith Leaders."
Deputy Director and Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Max Holmes will lead this roundtable.
Chancellor Cable will be formally installed as UNC Asheville's Eighth Chancellor in a special ceremony in Kimmel Arena.
UNC Asheville Dance Program's Spring 2019 Dance Sharing will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 26, in Belk Theatre. The performance is free and open to everyone.
The annual spring UNC Asheville Student Ceramics and Art Sale will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at 838 Riverside Drive, at the intersection with Broadway Street.
UNC Asheville's Creative Writing Program presents a reading of works created in the university's Senior Seminar in Creative Writing. Free and open to everyone, this reading takes place at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs will host ETSU for a game at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30 at Greenwood Field on campus.
The "Our Turn to Play Scholarship Luncheon" presented by Wells Fargo will be held on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, from 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Kimmel Arena in the Wilma M. Sherrill Center on campus. Sports broadcasting legend Lesley Visser will be the featured speaker. This event is free and open to everyone, but you must pre-register to attend.
The Reading of Names – commemorating victims of the Holocaust, will take place on the Quad on Thursday, May 2.
Murry Sidlin discusses his multimedia concert/drama that commemorates the Jewish concentration camp prisoners who, with one smuggled score, performed Verdi's celebrated oratorio 16 times. Sidlin's talk takes place at 2 p.m. in the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Center at UNC Asheville. Free and open to everyone.
The Blue Ridge Orchestra, directed by Milton Crotts, with clarinet soloist Gary Spaulding, will perform music by Copland and Brahms at 3 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday, May 4-5 in Lipinsky Auditorium. General admission tickets are $15; $5 for students.
This celebration of Building Bridges' 25 years in pursuit of social justice is an all-day event on Saturday, May 4, in the Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room on campus. This is a ticketed event; $35 per person; $25 for students; lunch included.
OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, will host a World Affairs Council talk on Brexit by Andrew S. Terrell, head of the UK Government Office in Raleigh, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, in the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. Admission is $10; students free.
SCHEDULE UPDATE - Due to expected inclement weather on the weekend, the UNC Asheville Bulldog baseball series against Big South rival Radford will now have one game at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, and a doubleheader on Friday, May 10, with start time TBA, at Greenwood Field on campus.
OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, will host a public forum featuring local African American Entrepreneurs, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, in the Reuter Center's Manheimer Room. This event is free and open to everyone.
Parking will be available in Lot P28 on the morning of Friday, May 17 for the rally by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the off-campus venue, the Salvage Station, 446 Riverside Dr., Asheville. The Sanders campaign event will provide shuttle service between campus and the Salvage Station.
The AARP will present a showing of the documentary film, "Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution," with a post-screening discussion, at OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, from 1-4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22 in the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. This event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville's student ECM Ensemble, led by Associate Professor William Bares on piano, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, at the White Horse Black Mountain, 105c Montreat Rd., Black Mountain, N.C. Admission is $10 in advance, $12 at the door; $6 for students.
UNC Asheville will host a community meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, in the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room to provide an update on the Edgewood Road parking lot project in collaboration with Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church. This meeting is open to all. Representatives from both the university and the church will be present to share an updated parking lot design incorporating feedback from the community.
The Isaiah Rice Photo Collection, which provides a window into Asheville's African American history through vivid images of life in the city's black community from the 1950s through the 1970s, will be on view May 24-Aug. 24 at the new Eagle Market Place Community Exhibition Space, 19 Eagle Street, Asheville, An opening reception will be held at the exhibition space from 5:30-8 p.m. on Friday, May 24. The reception and exhibit are free and open to everyone.
This forum will be held from 8:45 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on May 24 hosted by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, in the Reuter Center's Manheimer Room. The forum is free and open to the public. NOTE - This event is now sold out!!
ContinuuCon 2019, the fourth annual international Haken Continuum conference, will place at UNC Asheville from May 30 through June 1. The participating electronic musicians will perform in a concert, free and open to everyone at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 1 in Lipinsky Auditorium on campus. Multi-instrumentalists Rob Schwimmer, Sally Sparks, and UNC Asheville Padisson Distinguished Professor Wayne Kirby will be among the performers.
This workshop takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room. It is free and open to everyone; pre-registration is encouraged.
This three-day gathering for users of WordPress will take place June 7-9 at UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union. Registration is now closed.
The Great Smokies Review, the online literary magazine published by UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program, has just completed 20 issues and 10 years of publication and to celebrate, some of the magazine’s contributing writers will offer a reading of their works. The reading, part of the Writers at Home series, is free and open to everyone at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 9 at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville.
The Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society will hold a meeting and presentation by Cherie Pittillo, Jaguars and Birds of the Pantanal, at 7 pm. on Tuesday, June 18, in UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, in the Manheimer Room. This event is free and open to everyone.
This four-day program from UNC Asheville's Office of Professional Education is for high school teachers with a a desire to learn more about their content areas, pedagogy, and methodology while becoming certified to teach Advanced Placement credit courses.
UPDATED Monday, June 24, at 9 a.m. - TONIGHT'S CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO EXPECTED BAD WEATHER.
The 2019 season of Concerts on the Quad – UNC Asheville’s free, outdoor Monday evening concert series – will feature concerts beginning at 7 p.m. each night with music that spans many genres, Concerts on the Quad are family-friendly and informal, with lawn chairs, blankets and picnics welcome.
UNC Asheville and the Astronomy Club of Asheville will present a special commemoration, and weather permitting, a lunar viewing. At 7:30 p.m. in the Reuter Center, Dominic Lesnar, president of the Astronomy Club of Asheville, will give a talk titled "To the Moon! Reflections on Apollo after 50 Years." This event is free and open to everyone.
To celebrate the festival's presence on campus this summer, UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library Special Collections is hosting a special exhibit featuring photos and materials from the university's Mountain Dance and Folk Festival Collection as well as materials from the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection at Mars Hill University. The exhibition, on the library’s third floor, is open during regular library hours through Aug. 31. Free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville athletics will hold its second annual Bulldog Block Party at Biltmore Park Town Square from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, July 13.
The 2019 season of Concerts on the Quad – UNC Asheville’s free, outdoor Monday evening concert series – wraps up with a 7 p.m. show on July 15 by Che Apalache, Concerts on the Quad are family-friendly and informal, with lawn chairs, blankets and picnics welcome.
This annual event for PE teachers and coaches will take place July 22-24 in UNC Asheville's Sherrill Center. The institute is presented by Great Activities Publishing and is co-sponsored by UNC Asheville's Department of Health and Wellness, and the N.C. Center for Health and Wellness.
This four-day program from UNC Asheville’s Office of Professional Education is for high school teachers with a a desire to learn more about their content areas, pedagogy, and methodology while becoming certified to teach Advanced Placement credit courses.
The 92nd Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival ® comes to Lipinsky Auditorium with three different shows, each at 6:30 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, August 1-3, featuring traditional and
old-time musicians, ballad singers, mountain dance groups and cloggers. These are ticketed performances.
The Astronomy Club of Asheville will hold a meeting, free and open to everyone, featuring a presentation, "Beyond Pluto: The New Horizons Mission to Ultima Thule," from 7-9 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, Manheimer Room.
The Employer Summit, hosted by UNC Asheville's Career Center, is for Asheville-area businesses and will take place from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6, in the Highsmith Student Union French Broad Room.
UNC Asheville is excited to welcome the Class of 2023 to campus on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019!
Convocation is the special ceremony that formally kicks off the 2019-2020 academic year and officially welcomes new students to UNC Asheville. At Convocation, students take their first good-luck walk past Rocky the Bulldog, a ritual that is repeated at graduation. All students, families, faculty and staff are invited to attend.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's soccer team begins the season with the split-squad Blue/White exhibition match at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17 at Greenwood Field. Admission is free to exhibition matches.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs face ETSU in an exhibition match at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 19, at Greenwood Field. Admission is free to exhibition matches.
The Paths to Creative Retirement (Paths) workshop is designed to help participants create a meaningful retirement that matches their values and priorities. The workshop takes place Aug. 23-25 in the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville. Advance registration is required.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs will play a Friday afternoon/evening doubleheader, with the men taking on Marshall University in a 3:30 p.m. exhibition match, and the Bulldog women kicking off their season with a match against American University at 6 p.m., at Greenwood Field on campus.
This free oral history training workshop will teach participants interviewing and related skills as part of an effort to build a regional LGBTQ+ oral history archive. The workshop takes place from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24.
UNC Asheville Dining Services is excited to host Hickory Nut Gap, Mountain Foods and United Natural Foods on Monday, August 26th for a Taste of Dining experience.
This event, presented by AARP and hosted by OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, will take place from 10 a.m.-noon on Thursday, Aug. 29, in UNC Asheville's Reuter Center. Free. Advance registration is requested.
Jacqueline Osherow, author of eight collections of poetry, will read from her works at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3, in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum, in the first event of the fall semester presented by the university’s Center for Jewish Studies and its Department of Religious Studies. This event is free and open to everyone.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs have their first home match of the regular season, facing VMI of the Southern Conference at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4 at Greenwood Field.
The Bulldogs open their home season by hosting the UNC Asheville Invitational at the Justice Center Sept. 6-7. UNC Asheville will face Eastern Kentucky at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, North Carolina A-and-T at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, and Dartmouth at 6:30 p.m. also on Saturday.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs face ECU at 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.