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 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.
The Bulldogs face Georgia State at 6 p.m. at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
This rehearsed reading is the first of three weekly performances about Abraham Lincoln written by David Brendan Hopes, with direction and live music by John Crutchfield, both members of UNC Asheville's faculty. It takes place at 7 p.m. at The Block off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St., Asheville.
The Bulldogs face South Carolina State at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10 in the Justice Center on the UNC Asheville campus.
Kevin Timpe, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, will give a free public talk, Disability Advocacy and the Demands of Justice, at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in Karpen Hall, in the Laurel Forum.
This lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. Admission is $10 for the public; free to members of the World Affairs Council and UNC Asheville students.
UNC Asheville will host the Wa le La "The Hummingbird" team in a traditional Cherokee stickball game at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the intramural fields behind the Sherrill Center. Free and open to everyone.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs face Mars Hill at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
UNC Asheville’s Department of History, the Vance Birthplace State Historic Site, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site, and the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library will present a two-day symposium, "You Have to Start a Thing": North Carolina Women Breaking Barriers, Sept. 12-13.
This special ticketed event, part of Asheville's Chow Chow Festival, takes place from 3-4:30 p.m. at the University's Bee Hotel, which is located in the main pollinator garden on University Heights, just across from Parking Lot P28.
Jacqueline Battalora, author of Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today, will give a free public lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12 in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union, in the Blue Ridge Room.
This free workshop takes place from 2-4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26 at the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville.
NOTE -- THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL TO CAPACITY WITH NO MORE REGISTRATIONS BEING ACCEPTED. This symposium is presented by Expanding Equity in Our Schools and UNC Asheville's Africana Studies Program, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Pl., Asheville.
This rehearsed reading is the second of three weekly performances about Abraham Lincoln written by David Brendan Hopes, with direction and live music by John Crutchfield, both members of UNC Asheville’s faculty. It takes place at 7 p.m. at The Block off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St., Asheville.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs face Davidson at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
The all-female mariachi fusion band Flor de Toloache, will be in residency at UNC Asheville offering afternoon master classes and an evening concert, all free and open to everyone.
The Department of Mass Communication is pleased to present a campus talk by Sally Kestin on Wednesday, September 18 from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. in Highsmith Student Union room 225/226. Sally Kestin is a former investigative reporter at the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.
The Bulldog women's soccer team takes on mountain rival Western Carolina at 3:30 p.m. in the first match of a doubleheader. Then at 6 p.m., it's UNCA vs. UNCG when the Bulldogs take on the Spartans in men's soccer at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
Flor de Toloache – the New York City-based all-female quartet whose latest album features John Legend – will bring their boundary-breaking update on mariachi music to UNC Asheville for a 7 p.m. concert at Lipinsky Auditorium on Wednesday, Sept. 18. This concert is free with no tickets required.
Dispatches from the Borderland, a video conference with activists in South Texas, will take place from noon-1:15 p.m. in the Highsmith Student Union, Alumni Hall. This event is free and open to everyone.
Textile-focused conceptual artist Erika Diamond will give a free public lecture on her artwork and career on Thursday, Sept. 19 from 4-5 p.m. at UNC Asheville's STEAM Studio, 821 Riverside Dr., Asheville, with a reception to follow.
Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps and author of five books, will give a free public talk at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, In Lipinsky Auditorium. No tickets are required.
UNC Asheville's Family Weekend brings together Bulldogs of all ages for a weekend filled with fun and UNC Asheville spirit.
UNC Asheville Greenfest, Sept. 20-29, celebrates and educates about sustainability and builds community. This year's theme is "home sweet home."
The 11th Annual ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference takes place Sept. 20-22 in UNC Asheville's Reuter Center. Registration is required.
The Bulldogs face the Terriers at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21 at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
This rehearsed reading is the third of three weekly performances about Abraham Lincoln written by David Brendan Hopes, with direction and live music by John Crutchfield, both members of UNC Asheville’s faculty. It takes place at 7 p.m. at The Block off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St., Asheville.
Sold out!! UNC Asheville's fifth annual Farm-to-Table Dinner will be guest-hosted by Mko'Mosé (Andrew Judge), with the theme of Home Sweet Home, and a menu featuring wild and indigenous foods, complemented by our annual array of campus-grown produce and locally produced delicacies. The dinner takes place at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 23 on the UNC Asheville Quad.
Mko'Mosé (Andrew Judge), professor and coordinator of Indigenous Studies at Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Ontario, Canada, will deliver UNC Asheville’s Fall 2019 Greenfest Keynote Lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24. in the Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room. Free and open to everyone.
This workshop presented by photographer Nicole McConville will take place from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, in the Highsmith Student Union in Alumni Hall. Admission is $30 ; UNC Asheville students are admitted free.
The Bulldogs face USC Upstate at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
UNC Asheville will present its first archaeology lecture of the fall 2019 semester on Sept. 25, focusing on how archaeologists and other scientists can and must engage more successfully with the public in the current political and mass media climate. This talk is free and open to everyone at 7:30 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Sherrill Center, Ingles Mountain View Room.
OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, will host a Law Enforcement Forum featuring Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller, Asheville Deputy Police Chief Wade Wood, and UNC Asheville Chief of Police Eric Boyce, from 4-6 p.m. on Friday, Sept 27, at the Reuter Center on campus, in the Manheimer Room. This event is free and open to everyone.
The 2019 North Carolina State Dinner of the Mathematical Association of America will take place Friday, Sept. 27, at the UNC Asheville Sherrill Center. The evening will feature poster presentations from selected undergraduate students from North Carolina universities and a talk by Jane Hawkins, professor emerita at UNC-Chapel Hill and treasurer of the American Mathematical Society.
Discovery Day: The UNC Asheville Open House takes place on Saturday, Sept. 28, giving college-bound students and their families a chance to talk with current students, meet one-on-one with faculty and staff, tour campus and discuss academic programs, financial aid, scholarships and the application process.
The Bulldogs face USC Upstate at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28 in the Justice Center on the UNC Asheville campus.
This workshop presented by digital marketers and UNC Asheville alumni Jesse Michel and Patrick Conant will take place from 2-6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, in the Highsmith Student Union in Alumni Hall. Admission is $25; UNC Asheville students are admitted free.
This lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. Admission is $10 for the public; free to members of the World Affairs Council and UNC Asheville students.
The UNC Asheville Bulldogs will face Big South rival High Point in a soccer doubleheader, with the women's match beginning at 3:30 p.m. followed by the men's match at 6 p.m. at Greenwood Field on the UNC Asheville campus.
UNC Asheville's 22nd Annual S. Dexter Squibb Lecture Series in Chemistry will take place October 3, 2019 with the theme “Understanding Air Quality and Climate Change.” Visiting scholar Kerri Pratt will lecture at 11:45 a.m. and at 7 p.m. on two related topics. Both take place in Highsmith Student Union, free and open to all.
Nationally noted author and attorney Kenneth S. Stern, who for 25 years was the American Jewish Committee’s expert on antisemitism, will give a free public lecture, "Antisemitism through a Hate Studies Lens," at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union, Blue Ridge Room.
The Bulldogs face Winthrop at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4 in the Justice Center on the UNC Asheville campus.
The Blue Ridge Orchestra, Asheville's community orchestra, will perform two concerts, 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday, in Lipinsky Auditorium. General admission seating is $15; $5 for students.
The Bulldogs face Gardner-Webb at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5 in the Justice Center on the UNC Asheville campus.
Mildred Barya, UNC Asheville assistant professor of English, now coordinates the monthly Poetrio series and will read from her works, along with poets Ryan Walsh and Annie Woodford, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood St., Asheville. Free and open to everyone.
This reading by two UNC Asheville graduates with acclaimed new books, is a part of UNC Asheville's Visiting Writers Series, free and open to everyone at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6 in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.