The Decisive Dream, featuring the photographs of Cuban-American artist Gory (Rogelio López Marín), has been extended through Oct. 11 in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in UNC Asheville’s Owen Hall.
Dana Boyd Barr
Dana Boyd Barr, research professor of environmental health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, will deliver the 21st Annual S. Dexter Squibb Lecture at UNC Asheville, Oct. 1, 2018. The evening lecture will be livestreamed at 7:30 p.m. in Rhoades Robinson Hall Room 125 and the livestream viewing is free and open to everyone
Remedios Gómez Arnau, Mexico’s consul general serving in Raleigh, N.C., will provide an update on economic ties between her nation and the U.S. Prior to her consular service, Arnau was the academic secretary and associate researcher at the Center for Research on North America of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The Bulldogs face Gardner-Webb at 6 p.m. at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
UNC Asheville’s Career Center will host “NextFest,” an event showcasing 70 local, regional and national careers, internships, service opportunities and graduate schools from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 4, in UNC Asheville Sherrill Center Concourse. NextFest is free and open to area students, alumni and community members, who will find opportunities to find the next steps which will allow them utilize their talents and advance their goals.
Public interest attorney Steven M. Druker, founder of the Alliance for Bio-Integrity, will speak at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9 in UNC Asheville’s Rhoades Robinson Hall, Room 125, in an event co-sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Department of Environmental Studies and Living Web Farms. This event is free and open to everyone.
The STEM Lecture Series at OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, is free and open to OLLI members and non-members alike. The talks take place at 4:30 p.m. in Reuter Center Room 206.
This panel discussion will cover ethical business practices, living wages, ethically sourced products and the story of fair trade. It takes place off campus, at The Block off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St., Asheville. This event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville swimming and diving meets are held at the Justice Center Pool and admission is free. This meet begins at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13.
The Bulldogs face Winthrop at 6 p.m. at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
Timed with the October 17 start of early voting, UNC Asheville's Political Science Club, a student organization, will present a non-partisan information session from 6:30-8 p.m. in Highsmith Student Union, Alumni Hall, led by alumna JaNesha Slaughter '17 of Democracy NC. This event is free and open to everyone.
Tina Barr will read from her latest book, Green Target, when the Writers at Home series resumes at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., in downtown Asheville. This event, presented by UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and hosted by the program’s director, Tommy Hays, is free and open to everyone.
The monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to UNC Asheville Oct.22-26 for a residency that includes creating a sand mandala, lectures on Tibetan culture, traditions and beliefs, and a sacred music and dance performance.
Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association of WNC this series of lectures will offer insight into dementia, free and open to everyone at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22.
This event presented as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s (AIA) 123rd Lecture Program that will bring leading scholars to audiences across the U.S. during the 2018-19 academic year. It is free and open to everyone at 7:30 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Rhoades Robinson Hall, Room 125.
The STEM Lecture Series at OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, is free and open to OLLI members and non-members alike. The talks take place at 4:30 p.m. in Reuter Center Room 206.
This special storytelling event is free and open to everyone at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26 at the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville.
Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association of WNC, this lecture, free and open to everyone at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29 in the Reuter Center, will offer insight into dementia.
This screening of the documentary Connected by Coffee is hosted by UNC Asheville's Fair Trade Committee. Free and open to everyone at 6 p.m. in Karpen Hall room 038.
UNC Asheville Director of Instrumental Studies Fletcher Peacock will present Talkin' Trombone, a combination lecture/recital at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30 in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. This event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville's Visiting Writer Series presents Therese Anne Fowler and Denise Kiernan at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct.30 in the Sherrill Center, Ingles Mountain View Room. This event is free and open to everyone.
photo+sphere is a project of Asheville's MAP (Media Arts Project) that explores the environment through photography and photo-media, and UNC Asheville people and facilities are involved in some of the events.
The Turning of the Maples, UNC Asheville's annual fall celebration, with food, music and fun, will take place from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 1, on the Quad.
UNC Asheville swimming and diving meets are held at the Justice Center Pool and admission is free. This meet begins at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2.