The Laurel of Asheville‘s Community Events Calendar

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The Laurel of Asheville is a lifestyle magazine focused on the arts, culture, and communities of Western North Carolina, and submitted events should fall within this context. If your event occurs over several days, please submit multiple events. Events extending beyond a month will not be accepted. All submissions are subject to editorial approval and edits for clarity and style before being published online. If you are going to include a photograph, please be certain that you have the rights to utilize that image. If there is a question about image rights, we may remove the image. Also, images should be no larger than 2000 pixels wide. Large images will prevent the event from being submitted. Please allow up to 5 days for your even to be posted. If you encounter difficulties submitting an event, please email [email protected].

Improv Workshop: Make It Real

Be Be Theatre 20 Commerce Street, Asheville

A deep dive into spacework to make your physical choices feel more realistic and immersive. This workshop goes beyond learning how to mimic objects—you’ll explore how to actively relate to your environment, letting spacework inform your emotions, choices, and point of view. Just as you build connection with your scene partners, you’ll learn to build […]

$35

FREE Ross Farm Spring Fling Plant Festival

Ross Farm (Formerly Jack Young Greenhouse) 91 Holbrook Road, Candler

The Spring Festival of the season!!! Local craft fair, HIGHLAND Cows and ALL the plant shopping you could ever want!⬇️ Ross Farm and Appalachian Standard's 5th Annual Spring Fling Plant Festival is happening Saturday, April 25th, 12-4 p.m! ⬇️ Here's what's in store... 🌸22 greenhouses filled with a spectacular variety of plants for every gardening […]

Free

Asheville Farmstead Schools 10 year Celebration and Fundraiser

Asheville Farmstead School 218 Morgan Cove Road, Candler

Join us as we celebrate a decade of outdoor learning and help us plant the seeds for the next 10 years! Your sponsorship supports campus improvements, outdoor classrooms, family gear access, and hands-on learning materials—all while keeping tuition focused on paying our dedicated educators. We will have kid activities, vendors, food and beverages, a silent […]

Free

{Re}HAPPENING 14

Camp Rockmont - Lake Eden 375 Lake Eden Road, Black Mountain, NC

Since 2010, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) has hosted the {Re}HAPPENING inspired by John Cage’s 1952 Theatre Piece No. 1, an unscripted performance at Black Mountain College considered by many to be the first Happening. The annual {Re}HAPPENING brings together dozens of contemporary artists whose work responds to and extends the legacy […]

$15.00 – $37.00

The Fruit of Hibernation: Spring Exhibition + Artist Reception

Bottinelli Fine Art 146 Roberts Street #106, Asheville, NC, NC, United States

Bottinelli Fine Art invites the public to The Fruit of Hibernation, a spring exhibition and artist reception on Saturday, April 25th from 5:30–8:00 PM. This exhibition marks a re-hang of the gallery, featuring new work developed over the winter by the gallery’s five resident working artists, alongside a curated selection from three satellite artists. During […]

Free

Hot & Horny Comedy: MTV Spring Break Edition

The River Arts District Brewing Company 13 Mystery Street, Asheville

Modelface Comedy presents Hot & Horny Comedy Showcase Celebrate the hottest/ funniest time of the year with some of the horniest comics around! And what is sexier than a sense of humor? Jokes, stories and more about dating, love, lust and everything else. Singles, couples, throuples and all are welcome! Pop off that top and […]

$18

Asheville Vaudeville Brunch

The Grey Eagle Music Hall and Pub 185 Clingman Ave, Asheville, NC, United States

– AGES 18+ – SEATED SHOW Asheville Vaudeville – Asheville’s LARGEST vaudeville show featuring WNC’s best comedy, juggling, magic, burlesque, acrobatics, aerial arts, short plays, puppetry, sideshow, music, and more!

$27.39

Weekly Sunday Scrabble

Stephens Lee Recreation Center 30 George Washington Carver Avenue, Asheville, NC, United States

Your favorite word game! Maybe you enjoy Wordle, or Boggle, or Words with Friends, or online Scrabble! Or maybe you remember enjoying Scrabble in the past! We have all the equipment, so just stroll in and let's play a few games every Sunday afternoon! It's fine to drop by, be late, leave early, but soon […]

Free

Ordinary Elephant | Sundays by the River

Olivette Riverside Pavilion 1069 Olivette Rd, Asheville

Mesmering folk duo Ordinary Elephant play an intimate Sunday afternoon concert by the French Broad River in Olivette. BYOB, BYOC (chair) - Kids are free! Folk duo Ordinary Elephant has spent the better part of the last decade on a never-ending tour thats earned married couple Crystal and Pete Damore widespread critical acclaim and made […]

$25

PATIO SHOW: Abe Reid

The Grey Eagle Music Hall and Pub 185 Clingman Ave, Asheville, NC, United States

Abe Reid is a North Carolina musician and one of the modern keepers of the Piedmont roots music tradition. Born in Forsyth County and raised in Statesville, Reid began playing guitar at a young age, developing a deep connection to the region’s historic finger-style traditions. His musical education came directly from the source. As a […]

$10.70

Double Feature Puppet Show: Phantasmagoria and Unraveling Puppet Pants & Shadow Girls Cult

sly grog 271 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC, United States

Join us for a one-night double feature of thoughtful, mind-bending, and whimsical marionettes and shadow puppetry: PHANTASMAGORIA, by one-man marionette-building extraordinaire Puppet Pants, and UNRAVELING, by Henson Grant-awarded duo Shadow Girls Cult. ‍ Clowns, monsters, and mysteries amuse and interact with the audience in PHANTASMAGORIA. This marionette variety show features whimsical acts ranging from endearing […]

$15 – $25

Blue Country Line Dance’s Giddy-Up Hoedown

The Grey Eagle Music Hall and Pub 185 Clingman Ave, Asheville, NC, United States

ALL AGES EVENT: 6PM-9:30PM Blue Country Line Dance’s Giddy-Up Hoedown Learn some of the hottest country & hip hop line dances with the Blue Country Line Dancers and dance all evening! Country Swing & Two-Steppers are welcome to join as they’ll be opportunities to strut your stuff. This is your weekday opportunity to dance your […]

$12.56

Sacred Activism – Trusting the Dark–Finding Faith When the Path is Unclear

Virtual

Learn to find faith when the path is unclear and navigate the unknown as a fertile ground for new beginnings How can our spiritual work serve the transformation of the world we live in? How do we navigate grief, anger, and hope in times of division? Join Beth Hedquist and Cibele Salviatto for a new […]

Free

5Rhythms Sweat Your Prayers® on Weds Nights hosted by Karen

Homewood 19 Zillicoa St., Asheville, NC

BEGINNING, MIDDLE AND END! Beginnings are always exciting! Beginnings to a new relationship always brings on perkiness. Beginnings of becoming a parent for the first time. Beginnings to a new job may bring on nervousness. Enter training that enhances your personal growth is helpful. Middle: you are comfortable in what you are doing at the […]

$15 – $25

Free Screening of “A Life Reimagined: The George Masa Story”

FINE ARTS THEATRE 34 BILTMORE AVE,, ASHEVILLE , NC

"A Life Reimagined: The George Masa Story" is a new documentary about George Masa, a Japanese immigrant photographer whose images helped build public support for what would become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Drawing on newly uncovered research, including previously unknown letters, the film reveals new dimensions of Masa’s life and legacy. This free […]

Free

Boogarins w/ DOOM GONG + Silver Doors

The Grey Eagle Music Hall and Pub 185 Clingman Ave, Asheville, NC, United States

ALL AGES STANDING ROOM ONLY BOOGARINS Formed in 2013 by Fernando de Almeida Filho (vocals and guitar), Benke Ferraz (guitar), Raphael Vaz (bass and keyboards), and Ynaiã Benthroldo (drums), Brazilian psychedelic rock band Boogarins announces a commemorative tour celebrating the ten-year anniversary of “Manual, ou Guia Livre de Dissolução dos Sonhos.” With concerts in Brazil […]

$26.32

Dwelling In Color

Open Hearts Art Center 217 Coxe Ave #4006, Asheville

Please join us on Thursday, April 30th at the Open Hearts Art Center gallery (217 Coxe Ave) for our next showcase, “Dwelling In Color.” Our artists and staff have been hard at work in the studio creating a vibrant collection of one-of-a-kind, handmade pieces, all centered around the theme of “home” and what it means […]

Free

NOW That’s What I Call Music BINGO!

The Grey Eagle Music Hall and Pub 185 Clingman Ave, Asheville, NC, United States

Grey Eagle Events and our Brewery of the Month, Hi-Wire, are hosting NOW That’s What I Call Music BINGO! Thursday April 30th 6pm-9pm This is a FREE event! We take your three favorite things and combine them into one. Beer, Music, & Bingo! Bring your charged cell phone, listed to music, mark off squares until […]

Free

Antidote Comedy featuring Zlata Cass

antidote 151 Coxe Avenue, Asheville, NC, United States

Every Thursday Modelface Comedy brings the best local and touring comedians to Asheville! This week we have local favorite Zlata Cass on the rooftop at Antidote! Zlata Cass moved to the US when she was 3 years old, where she immediately began working on her tight five. Since 2016, she has performed across the Carolinas […]

$15

Asheville Rockestra: Celebrating 1976

The Orange Peel 101 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC, United States

It’s been 50 years since 1976, a year of music that celebrated huge records from Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Queen, ABBA, The Ramones, Heart, and so many more. Each year for their annual benefit concert, Sound Effects, Asheville Music School selects a musical focus. For 2026, students and teachers alike have spent months studying and […]

$25

AyurPrana Listening Room Presents: Prana Mela – 3 Days of Music, Community, and Yoga

AyurPrana Listening Room 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC

Join us for Prana Mela, a three-day gathering devoted to music, wellness, and community at AyurPrana Listening Room. Experience live music, yoga, meditation, healing arts, and nourishing food in an intimate setting designed for connection and renewal. Throughout the weekend, we’ll host three ticketed evening concerts: Friday, May 1st, Simrit Acoustic Ensemble - 6PM Friday, […]

Creation Care Alliance 2026 Symposium: “Building Resilience: Congregations in a Climate-Changed World”

Montreat Conference Center-Anderson Auditorium 303 Lookout Rd., Montreat

Creation Care Alliance WNC Presents Symposium 2026 “Building Resilience: Congregations in a Climate-Changed World” Friday, May 1 – Saturday, May 2 at Montreat Conference Center Hurricane Helene gave the people of WNC a common experience of the unpredictable and devastating effects of climate change, even on places once considered “climate havens.” In its aftermath, faith […]

$30 – $50

Buncombe County Law Day 2026

The principles of the rule of law, including independent courts, judicial authority, due process, and equal protection, are foundational to our system of justice. As we celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, the Buncombe County Bar is proud to sponsor Law Day on May 1, 2026. Please join us at noon on Pack Square’s main stage for […]

Turtle Island Pottery Retrospective

Arrowhead Gallery and Studios 77 Catawba Ave.,, Old Fort

This is a retrospective celebrating and spanning 55 years of ceramic work by Maggie Jones of Turtle Island Pottery in Old Fort, NC. This exhibition is brought to you in partnership with NANU Gallery (78E Catawba Ave) and Arrowhead Artisans' League and Studios (77 Catawba Ave), curated by Katie McWeeney and Molly Morningglory. Exhibition dates: […]

GALLERY WALK – ABILENE SKY, METALSMITH AND JEWELRY ARTIST

Lucy Clark Gallery & Studio 51 West Main Street, Brevard, NC, United States

(FREE) The first Gallery Walk of the season will feature Abilene Sky, metalsmith and jewelry artist. Abilene Sky (Jessie Kastner) is of Chiricahua Apache decent and a reiki healer; living a life full of magic and creativity has always been her purpose. She is a graduate of the prestigious Moore College of Art & Design […]

Free

Exhibit Opening: Watercolor From Regional Artists

Art Place Gallery 730 Locust Street, Hendersonville

The Art League of Henderson County is excited to host the Western North Carolina Watercolor Society in featuring beautiful works from talented watercolor artists across the region. The opening reception will showcase the watercolor works, plus a variety of 2D and 3D work from our member artists.

Free

PATIO SHOW: Morgan Bevis of Shed Bugs

The Grey Eagle Music Hall and Pub 185 Clingman Ave, Asheville, NC, United States

MORGAN BEVIS OF SHED BUGS Morgan Bevis is a guitarist and songwriter based in Asheville, NC. Having established himself locally with his jam band ‘Shed Bugs,’ Morgan’s solo repertoire takes a step back from the sonic intensity of psychedelic rock to create a raw & stripped down acoustic experience. Listeners to his live performances can […]

$12.09

Stewart/Owen Dance + Guests

Diana Wortham Theatre 2 S. Pack Square, Asheville, NC, United States

Fri & Sat, May 1 & 2 • 7 pm After a sold-out run in 2024, this curated evening showcases the ensemble alongside guest choreographers, each bringing a distinct voice. Spanning from elegant to electric, the program includes Stewart/Owen’s Asheville premiere of The Front—a sharply charged satire commissioned by the American Dance Festival. The Front […]

An Evening With Chris Smither

The Grey Eagle Music Hall and Pub 185 Clingman Ave, Asheville, NC, United States

ALL AGES FULLY SEATED SHOW LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE CHRIS SMITHER The sound and imagery of the 20th release by Chris Smither, All About the Bones, (release date: May 3, 2024 on Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert, distributed by Redeye) is as elemental as the inky black shadows cast by a shockingly bright moon. […]

$32.37

Modelface Comedy Presents Carmen Lagala

Green Man Brewery 27 Buxton Ave, Asheville, NC, United States

Modelface Comedy brings you the best comedians from all over the country. This week we have Carmen Lagala from NYC in Asheville! Carmen Lagala masterfully blends silly and confessional humor with an approach that makes you feel like you’re pulling an all-nighter with a best friend. Carmen’s journey from a shy Vermont collegiate hall-of-fame athlete […]

$18

Mother’s Day Watercolor Workshop | Flower Card Making Class | May 2

Black Mountain Center for the Arts 225 W. State Street, Black Mountain, NC, United States

A creative bonding experience for all ages and skill levels. All supplies included! Celebrate Mother’s Day with creativity at this intimate watercolor workshop on Saturday, May 2nd, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Led by artist Melanie, this beginner-friendly session guides you through essential techniques to capture the beauty of a live floral still life. […]

$30

COLD WAX ALCHEMY WORKSHOP WITH GINA LOUTHIAN-STANLEY – DAY 1

Lucy Clark Gallery & Studio 51 West Main Street, Brevard, NC, United States

Discover the beautiful layers, textures, and marks that only oil and cold wax can achieve finding inspiration within your own marks, compositions and intuition during this three-day workshop with artist Gina Louthian-Stanley. We will explore various techniques such as working methods, substrates, drying times, opaque and transparent color, pigments and powders, blending, color schemes, glazing, […]

$425.00

Blue Ridge Orchestra’s “Boom-De-Ay” May 2nd, ACRHS

A.C. Reynolds High School 1 Rocket Drive, Asheville

Ta-Ra-Ra, “BOOM-DE-AY”− The Blue Ridge Orchestra echoes its previous program (Ta-Ra-Ra), while celebrating the spirited 26th season finale under the leadership of Music Director Dr. Emily Mariko Eng. The BRO ‘Booms’ with percussive explosions in Natalie Williams’s Sonic Boom, Chaminade’s Callirhoë Suite, Stravinsky’s “Berceuse” and “Finale” from the 1919 version of the Suite from The […]

$20