A brief overview of the theory, equipment, and methods of lighting films for meaning, mood and emotion. Learn tricks and techniques used by top cinematographers and gaffers that can be adapted to low budget indie filmmaking. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Brad first caught the filmmaking bug during high school in 1974 while working as a production […]

Gather Art Market will take place at Hearth Glass & Gallery in Burnsville on Saturday, August 22nd, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors are invited to explore a wide range of handmade work, including ceramics, jewelry, textiles, woodwork, and more. The market offers a relaxed setting to meet the artists, sip some tea, learn […]

Love short films and documentaries? Want to support local and regional filmmakers? The Asheville Film Festival has film blocks and feature screenings that you don't want to miss! Tickets are $10/ person, drinks and snacks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit. Films to […]

EVENT: 11AM Blue Country Line Dance’s Giddy Up Brunch

(FREE) Ann Watcher will be on hand to share her techniques and experience in oil paintings. Ann’s inspiration is creating a visual experience. She describes herself as a painter of color and expression. It is not only subject matter that intrigues her, but the play of shapes and colors and light against one another whether […]

Love short films and documentaries? Want to support local and regional filmmakers? The Asheville Film Festival has film blocks and feature screenings that you don't want to miss! Tickets are $10/ person, drinks and snacks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit. Films to […]

Join us Saturday, August 22 from 1–3 PM for The Art of Letting Go with Alcohol Inks, a creative workshop with Angela Modzelewski, MA, ATR-P, LPC-A of Wild Arts Creative Counseling Are you holding onto a situation, an expectation, or a feeling that you’re ready to release? Through guided meditation and a unique art process […]

An empty page is a lot like an empty stage. Many people who want to draw are stopped by self-consciousness and comparison. Even working artists and performers can become rigid, disconnected from spontaneity. In this 2-day workshop, we'll employ the values of improvisation to increase creative confidence and encourage play. We'll cover things like: - […]

You've got your script together, your producer on board, and you're assembling a great team to shoot your film, but how do you communicate your vision? Where do you begin when analyzing a script in order to discuss symbolism, look/feel, and motif and how do you tell your team what you need? Where is your […]

Love short films and documentaries? Want to support local and regional filmmakers? The Asheville Film Festival has film blocks and feature screenings that you don't want to miss! Tickets are $12/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit. Films to be Screened: […]

It's almost time for back-to-school, but we're going to celebrate summer one more time! Come sing and dance with us at The Mule (inside, in the air conditioning) on Saturday, August 22. 3-4:30 p.m.
 Special guest Elaine Scott! Live music, dance party, drum jam, singalongs, poems, and more! Delicious cool beverages from Devil’s Foot. Mountain […]

Love short films and documentaries? Want to support local and regional filmmakers? The Asheville Film Festival has film blocks and feature screenings that you don't want to miss! Tickets are $12/ person, drinks and snacks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit. Films to […]

APLR Presents: Soumya Chakraverty & Mallar Goswami with Blake Hornsby Saturday, August 22nd, 2026 AyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806 Doors 6PM || Show 7PM Soumya Chakraverty Soumya was born into a family of music lovers. His mother received some early training in the Sitar and vocal music. However, both his […]

Asheville’s top improvisers perform long-form improv—full stories and characters sparked by a single audience suggestion. Each Misfit team brings its own style, creating sharp, surprising worlds in real time.

The 2026 Asheville Film Festival will be held August 21st-23rd, 2026 at the Asheville Masonic Temple in beautiful downtown Asheville, North Carolina. Asheville Film Festival, Co. is a North Carolina 501(c)3 non-profit whose vision is to create and grow a platform for regional and local innovative filmmakers with stories to tell. The Awards Night Gala […]

Show Details This show will be at an indoor location. No Outside Food or Drinks permitted.. Drinks will be available for purchase. Food is available for purchase. Small snacks available for purchase. Non-alcoholic drinks will be available. This show will have chairs provided. ♿︎ This show is wheelchair accessible. 21+ show. About Don't Tell Comedy […]

Show Details This show will be at an indoor location. No Outside Drinks permitted.. Drinks will be available for purchase. Pizza and snacks available for purchase Non-alcoholic drinks will be available. This show will have chairs provided. ♿︎ This show is wheelchair accessible. 21+ show. About Don't Tell Comedy Secret Locations. Shhh...it's a surprise. As […]

ALL AGES STANDING ROOM ONLY 54 BICYCLES The current version of Widespread Panic is fantastic, but the tone and energy of a Mikey / Todd show was different. 54 Bicycles plays set lists and plays with an intention of sound and energy closer to the original band. They see the work as preservation and archiving […]

Modelface Comedy Club brings you the best comedians from all over the country. This week we have an extra messy beer themed show! Crushing It comedy showcase is a throwback to our first years of drinking beer. As each comic takes the stage they will chug or shotgun a beer* before telling jokes! It's going […]

Love short films and documentaries? Want to support local and regional filmmakers? The Asheville Film Festival has film blocks and feature screenings that you don't want to miss! Tickets are $10/ person, drinks and snacks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit. Films to […]

Love short films and documentaries? Want to support local and regional filmmakers? The Asheville Film Festival has film blocks and feature screenings that you don't want to miss! Tickets are $10/ person, drinks and snacks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit. Films to […]

JOHN SINGER SARGENT Directed by David Bickerstaff John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s […]

Love short films and documentaries? Want to support local and regional filmmakers? The Asheville Film Festival has film blocks and feature screenings that you don't want to miss! Tickets are $10/ person, drinks and snacks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit. "Greensboro Massacre" […]

Love short films and documentaries? Want to support local and regional filmmakers? The Asheville Film Festival has film blocks and feature screenings that you don't want to miss! Tickets are $12/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit. Films to be Screened: […]

– LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE OLIVER SAYANI Appalachian honky tonk, bluegrass and backwoods blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Oliver Sayani paints raw pictures with original songs, introspective stories and old time melodies with a dark and heavy twist forged deep in the mountains and polished on vast highways touring across the country. […]

Modelface Comedy Club brings the best comedians from all over the country to Asheville, NC. This week we are sending off AVL favorite Worth Osborne to bigger and better things! Worth Osborne is a comedian based in Asheville by way of Philadelphia. Worth was told that headliners need a bio. Worth has no real achievements […]

SEATED SHOW Writers Round Julie Odell Quinn Bee AC Saphire Claire Whall Jackie Kelsh Meschiya Lake

Standing Room Only Asheville’s own Very Jerry Band. This favorite Jerry Garcia Band tribute act includes Spiro Nicolopoulos on guitar, Lenny Pettinelli on keyboards, Michael Filippone on bass, and Lee Kram on drums.

Rising Stars Concert is a collaboration between the Asheville Chamber Music Series and the Asheville Art Museum, featuring North Carolina musicians embarking on a major concert career. The event is sponsored and made possible by Heidi DuBose. Violinist: Anant Malpani Pianist: Christopher Tavernier

SEATED SHOW SONGWRITERS ROLLER DERBY SHOWCASE The Songwriters Roller Derby Showcase, presented by the Asheville Songwriters Association, is a quarterly music show with no roller skates included – just four performers “rollin’ out the songs, elbows-n-all.” Curated and hosted by Thomas Kozak and Jodi John Pippin, each “Derby Night” at The Grey Eagle will showcase […]

Stop the Bleed: Control Bleeding in an Emergency Learn to stop the bleed with Appalachian Medical Solidarity! Through instruction, demonstration, and hands on practice you will walk away with the skills to recognize and control severe bleeding in an emergency. Participants will review basic bleed control and introduce recognition of when basic techniques are not […]

SEATED SHOW JASON CURTIS AND THE BLACKSHEEP Jason Curtis and the Black Sheep are a rising pure-country and roots-rock band based in Asheville, North Carolina. Led by Louisiana native Jason Curtis, the band is celebrated for their authentic, classic sound, poignant songwriting, and high-energy honky-tonk. Originally from the Deep South and raised as a “preacher’s […]

with Miriam Hughes, AUG 27 (1PM-4PM) 2026 $145.00 Thursday Aug 27th - 1pm to 4pm - $145 - All materials included! Discover how Gouache differs from traditional transparent watercolor, and what makes it such a vibrant and illustrative medium! In this workshop, students will choose a favorite animal, beloved pet, or even something as small […]

Elizabeth Holden Gallery’s exhibition Mapping Home will be on view at Warren Wilson College from August 27th to October 3rd, 2026. The notion of home takes on a whole new meaning after a climate disaster like Hurricane Helene. Home is a place of reflection, home is near and far, home provides shelter, home is lost […]

THE GREY EAGLE AND WORTHWHILE SOUNDS PRESENT PATIO SHOW: WIDLEY GROWN THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 5:30PM-7PM ALL AGES – LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE Widely Grown is an Americana/AltFolk band from Jersey City, New Jersey. Widely Grown released their debut album in the summer of 2022 and toured 9 states to follow. The […]