The family-friendly event celebrating and promoting the goodness of an organic lifestyle and healthy, organic foods includes the Bee Organic Parade at 1 p.m. welcoming kids of all ages in the celebration of pollinators and organic gardening.
The Latest Stories
NC Arboretum Partners with State Parks to Expand ecoEXPLORE
“By partnering with the parks, we enable families that already explore them to dive deeper into investigating and observing the plants and animals that call these places home.”
Spreading Beauty: The Story of the Lupine Lady
There is a vicarious pleasure in lingering over Cooney’s illustrations of an eccentric, middle-aged heroine, Miss Rumphius, hiking with her cat along fields brimming with spires of the pink, purple and blue lupine flowers whose seeds she has sown.
Legendary Music from South Turkey Creek
Asheville was booming in 1928 when Bascom Lamar Lunsford gathered up a passel of pickers, fiddlers and dancers on Pack Square for the city’s first Mountain Dance and Folk Festival now in its 92nd year.
Young Musician Embraces Old-Time Tones
Weaverville resident Lillian Chase has a fiddle under her chin and a whole lot of performances under her belt—and she’s just 14 years old.
Flat Rock Playhouse: Bee Gees Gold! and Rounding Third
“I’ve been told by audience members that they appreciate the emotion and passionate performance of our show,” says Bee Gees Gold! band leader John Acosta. “My proudest moments are when fans admit they can close their eyes during parts of our songs and swear they could be listening to the Bee Gees.”
Sonic Art at WCU
The WCU Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center will open a new exhibition, Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment, with a reception on Thursday, August 22, from 5-7 p.m.
Come to the 14th Leicester Studio Tour
Studio artists in Leicester will open their doors on Saturday and Sunday, August 17 and 18, for the 14th annual Come to Leicester Studio Tour. The free, self-guided tour will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on each day. “This year’s tour has more artists than ever,” says Nirado Sloan, lead chairperson of the tour. “We all participate with a desire to succeed, to share our beautiful countryside...
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Get Off the Grid Fest
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