Modelface Comedy Presents: Comedy For Community Locals supporting locals is the heart of Asheville. Comedy for Community brings all your favorite local comedians together each week at Catawba Brewing to support the town we love through a variety of local charities and organizations. This month we are partnering with WNCAP (Western North Carolina Aids Project)! […]

On weekdays from December 2 through 20, Historic Johnson Farm will host daytime Christmas tours. Tour the decorated historic house, visit the Heritage Weavers & Fiber Artists, and enjoy hot cocoa and cookies. Guided tours are at 10:30 AM each day. While drop-ins are allowed, those with reservations take priority, so please consider making a […]

Dreams Wave In your dreams you can take on so many roles! You can shapeshift into so many different scenarios! Do you have multiple, fragments, parts, series or even fun adventurous dreams. Join us to move your experience of your dreams! We move to the maps created by Gabrielle Roth! Homewood, 19 Zillicoa St. Asheville, […]

The Institute for Psychedelics & Death presents The World's First Town Hall on the Future of End of Life Psychedelic Care at Citizen Vinyl on Wednesday, December 4, 7-9 p.m. Free. The event will be led by Diana McCall, founder if Artemesis Facilitation. Special guests include Michael Mithoefer & Annie Mithoefer, MDMA-assisted therapy researchers; Aditi […]

Enjoy a uniquely elevated holiday experience created by the partnership of Greenville Convention Center’s Annual Holiday Fair and Rotary Club of Greenville’s Kringle Holiday Village. Holiday Fair & Kringle Village will delight locals and draw visitors to the Upstate for three days of holiday fun December 5-7, 2024, at the Greenville Convention Center. Greenville Convention […]

Frank Capra’s beloved American holiday classic film is reimagined as a live 1940s radio broadcast. Set in Studio A at WBFR in Manhattan on Christmas Eve 1946, this hilarious re-enactment, with the help of a live Foley and a talented small ensemble, brings the entire town of Bedford Falls to life on stage. Small-town everyman […]

Come see us Dec. 6-8 at our Holiday Gem Show! You’ll find everything from affordable treasures to the finest gems, minerals, and jewelry in the Southeast. Admission is free and this is a fun family friendly event. Food and drink are available daily. There’s something for everyone, from seasoned rockhounds to new collectors and jewelry […]

“Oh Tidings of Comfort and Joy: Christmas Crèches from Around the World” First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St, downtown Asheville Free Admission Over 250 Nativity sets from more than seventy countries will be on display December 6-15, 2024 Weekdays: 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Saturdays: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Sundays: 12:00 p.m. […]

"For the Record," a new exhibition by Jeremy Phillips opens at Citizen Vinyl on Friday, December 6, 6-9 p.m. Jupiter, experimental music from Jeff Arnal, Kris Gruda, and John English, will also perform in celebration of their new, eponymous album. Jeremy Phillips is an Asheville based artist and educator. He paints out of his River […]

Join us for Under the Stars 2024, a fundraiser for AMOS and the communities in our orbit! The Asheville Museum of Science invites you to join us for a night at the museum on December 6th, 2024 from 6:30pm – 9:30pm with a VIP reception from 5:30pm – 6:30pm. This year’s Under the Stars fundraiser, […]

Join Bardo Arts Center for a magically festive, full-length version of The Nutcracker featuring professional classical dancers and the Ballet Conservatory of Asheville’s celebrated pre-professional company. Having crept downstairs at midnight on Christmas Eve to play with her new Nutcracker doll, a young girl is swept up in a fantasy of toy soldiers, giant rats, […]

The nation’s largest comedy club network is back! After a popular run in Tina McGuire Theatre the past two seasons, this hilarious collective returns, bringing top-notch comedians for four weekends of laughter. Some of the hottest stand-up comedians of today — seen in specials on Comedy Central, HBO Comedy, Netflix, Hulu and more — deliver […]

Join us for a wonderful time learning about the magnificent trees of our region and their incredible uses and folklore. Beyond being beautiful and inspiring, trees are foundational to the life and ecology of our forests and the wellbeing of our planet. As leaf mass and bramble fall into dormancy, we are offered a clear […]

Join R2S, Christine W. Avery Learning Center, and area friends and families at the 3rd Annual Community Holiday Extravaganza! Bring the whole family for a day of holiday carnival games, prizes, music, performances, cotton candy, cocoa, and free lunch from Blessed Soul Food and Cooking With Comedy. PLUS, celebrated children’s book authors Jaha Avery and […]

The Big Crafty — a hand-to-heart celebration of creative exuberance — returns on Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and 8, noon-6 p.m. daily at the ExploreAsheville.com Arena in downtown Asheville. $10 entry on Saturday, free to enter on Sunday. Now, perhaps more than ever, The Big Crafty believes in supporting creative venturers. As Western North […]

Join Bardo Arts Center for a magically festive, full-length version of The Nutcracker featuring professional classical dancers and the Ballet Conservatory of Asheville’s celebrated pre-professional company. Having crept downstairs at midnight on Christmas Eve to play with her new Nutcracker doll, a young girl is swept up in a fantasy of toy soldiers, giant rats, […]

The Blue Ridge Orchestra introduces its 25th Anniversary Season with two performances of “Finding Home.” This series debuts new Music Director, Dr. Emily Mariko Eng. The Blue Ridge Orchestra had originally planned to perform “Finding Home” for the season opening in October. In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, we have rescheduled our “Finding Home” performances […]

LEAF Global Arts hosts an Artist ReLEAF Concert series on Saturdays through December 14. The events will both benefit the artists who perform (through the LEAF Local Artist Relief Fund) AND help to raise money for the fund. Kelle Jolly performs on November 30, 4-6 p.m. Kelle is an "Affrilachian-Georgia-lina-Peach," embracing a rich blend of […]

The nation’s largest comedy club network is back! After a popular run in Tina McGuire Theatre the past two seasons, this hilarious collective returns, bringing top-notch comedians for four weekends of laughter. Some of the hottest stand-up comedians of today — seen in specials on Comedy Central, HBO Comedy, Netflix, Hulu and more — deliver […]

The Big Crafty — a hand-to-heart celebration of creative exuberance — returns on Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and 8, noon-6 p.m. daily at the ExploreAsheville.com Arena in downtown Asheville. $10 entry on Saturday, free to enter on Sunday. Now, perhaps more than ever, The Big Crafty believes in supporting creative venturers. As Western North […]

Join Robert Beatty, the #1 best-selling author of the Serafina Series, for a book-signing event, 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at Barnes & Noble-Asheville Mall. Rescheduled from October due to Hurricane Helene, this free, open house-style event is the first and only opportunity to meet Robert and get signed and personalized copies of his new […]

Re.Imagine Gallery and 310Art invite you to join us on Sunday, December 8, for a unique exhibit and sale. Juried works will evoke one of three themes: Color, Mood, or Music Genre. As usual, there will be plenty of delicious nibbles (maybe some of them blue?) and an open bar with wine, beer, and soft […]

The Blue Ridge Orchestra introduces its 25th Anniversary Season with two performances of “Finding Home.” This series debuts new Music Director, Dr. Emily Mariko Eng. The Blue Ridge Orchestra had originally planned to perform “Finding Home” for the season opening in October. In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, we have rescheduled our “Finding Home” performances […]

The Hemlock Restoration Initiative is hosting a Hemlock Treatment Volunteer Workday on Tuesday, December 10th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Violet Hill Cemetery in Asheville, NC. Hemlock trees in western North Carolina are an important and irreplaceable component of our forests. These trees have been suffering for over two decades from hemlock […]

Winterizing Wave! Preparing you and your body for the Cool and Cold Weather! Winter time brings on all kinds of weather and our bodies respond to all of the types of weather! In Winter, we tend to want to hibernate more. Do you take time out of your busy week to spend time with yourself? […]

Join us for a healing journey into altered states of consciousness as we flow through brain wave states with soundscapes & energy work! The Innerdance is a music-based, meditative, healing journey. It involves the use of special soundscapes that mimic circadian rhythms and enable people to move effortlessly between different brain wave states. As a result, […]

Please join us on Thursday, December 12th at 1:00 pm for an educational hemlock hike with the Hemlock Restoration Initiative at DuPont State Recreational Forest near Cedar Mountain, NC. The hike is about 3.5 miles total round-trip, and is considered easy to moderate terrain. We will walk along Pitch Pine Trail, Three Lakes Trail, and […]

Join Eireann's Call as they whisk audiences away to Celtic lands far and near to celebrate holiday traditions with passionate and stirring arrangements of seasonal music. Racing fiddle tunes, powerful bagpipe melodies, soaring vocals, rocked up tribal drumming and wicked grooves combined with dancers and a dramatic narrative create a magical holiday experience. It has played to sell-out […]

Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, here come the Holidays breathing down our necks. Sure, it starts out nice, pretty decorations, warm feelings, but all that slowly starts to crumble as we stress ourselves to the brink searching for the perfect gift, or not being able to escape our weird family, or […]

Bill Viola’s Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier, 1979 on loan from Art Bridges is an immersive experience that explores the ideas of death and regeneration in nature. In a darkened room, sounds from nature envelop the viewer, as a placid pool of water reflects a projected image of Mount Rainier onto a screen. The water is […]

Join PARI for a night all about meteors and meteorites. Enjoy our dark skies and mountain peaks for breathtaking views of the night sky. Our astronomers will guide your experience as you watch for blazing meteors and peek at distant celestial objects through big telescopes. You can choose from three ways to attend this event. […]

Every Friday Modelface Comedy brings you the best comedians from all over the country, and this week we have Peter Wong from NYC! "Hello. I’m Peter Wong, a New York City based comedian whose work has been featured on Comedy Central and FunnyOrDie. Besides my stand-up sets, I also post original comedy sketches to YouTube. […]