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"Healthier Ever After" at The Health Adventure

  • May 14, 2012 - September 6, 2012
  • Location: The Health Adventure
  • Address: 800 Brevard Rd., Suite 620, Asheville, NC 28806
  • Venue:  The Health Adventure
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

Join us in a fairytale forest and embark on an adventure in health! "Healthier Ever After" is an interactive fairytale forest with costumes, a 2-story castle, and more, all ready to teach you how to live a healthy life! Get your body moving in the Move & Groove Meadow, test your balance at the Crocodile Crossing, and see if you can raise the flag at the end of the castle challenges! While exploring "Healthier Ever After", please join us for one of our weekly hands-on pro...

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12th Annual Mountain Sports Festival

  • May 25, 2012 - May 27, 2012
  • Location: Carrier Park
  • Address: Amboy Road and Michigan Avenue, Asheville, NC 28806

Experience Springtime in Asheville, NC at the 2012 Mountain Sports Festival. Bring your family and friends and join us at Carrier Park for the outdoor music & sports event of the year!

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9th Annual White Squirrel Festival

  • May 26, 2012 - May 27, 2012
  • Location: Downtown Brevard
  • Address: Downtown Brevard, Brevard, NC

Go Nuts at the 9th Annual White Squirrel Festival! Voted "Best Spring Music Festival in Western North Carolina" by Asheville Citizen Times News Poll 2008.  Thousands of fan go nuts in Downtown Brevard on Memorial Day weekend, in Brevard, North Carolina! You don't want to miss our 14 free, live concerts. Headliners this year: Firecracker Jazz Band and Jeff Sipe Group. We will kick off the 9th Annual White Squirrel Festival with our 5th Annual Memorial Day Parade, which is organize...

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Asheville Beer Week

  • May 24, 2012 - June 3, 2012
  • Location: Various Breweries Around Asheville
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

The first ever Asheville Beer Week will take place May 24 through June 3, 2012. The ten days celebrating beer and Beer City, USA, will culminate at Asheville's third Beer City Festival on June 2. The mission is to celebrate that nectar known as beer-to taste many different styles of beer and variations on those styles; to pair beer with a smorgasbord of delicious foods; to learn about and explore beer in all its delectable complexity; and, most of all, to have fun drinking beer in the brew...

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Asheville Tourists Baseball

  • April 15, 2012 - August 30, 2012
  • Location: McCormick Field
  • Address: 30 Buchanan Place, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  McCormick Field

Batter up! Bring your family and friends out to McCormick field throughout the summer to experience Asheville's own minor league baseball team! The Tourists are a Class A team in the South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Colorado Rockies since 1994. See website for home game dates and start times.  The mission of the Tourists is to provide the families and residents of Western North Carolina a special and affordable place to make memories together experiencing Ameri...

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Australian Alt-Rocker Chris Pickering

  • May 21, 2012 - May 22, 2012
  • Location: Good Stuff
  • Address: 68 North Main Street, Marshall, NC

Award-winning Australian singer songwriter Chris Pickering takes the stage at Good Stuff two consecutive days this month performing songs from his critically acclaimed album, Work of Fiction. Pickering will debut songs from his upcoming album releasing later this year.  Now a Tennessee resident, Pickering has toured heavily throughout Australia, earning multiple music awards and nominations and releasing two full albums before turning his sights to the States. He has since immersed himse...

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Blue Ridge Roller Girls Roller Derby

  • May 26, 2012
  • Location: WNC Agricultural Center
  • Address: 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher, NC 28732
  • Venue:  WNC Agricultural Center

Double Header: BRRG All Stars vs Atlanta Sake Tuyas and BRRG French Broads vs Little City Rollergirls B Team. Asheville, NC's first all female, flat track roller derby league! Yes, roller derby is back! And yes, roller derby is a fast-paced, aggressive, REAL SPORT! Founded in June of 2006, the Blue Ridge Rollergirls make up Asheville, NC's first all-female, flat track roller derby league. The league's mission is to actively create, promote, and sustain an environment that fosters strength, ...

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In The Next Room

  • May 9, 2012 - June 10, 2012
  • Location: North Carolina Stage Company
  • Address: 15 Stage Lane, Asheville, NC 28801-2835
  • Venue:  North Carolina Stage Company
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Stylish comedy by Sarah Ruhl about marriage, medicine and the dawn of the age of electricity. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Dr. Givings is a successful Victorian doctor who operates a clinic for "hysterical" women in his home office - in the next room over from his wife and newborn baby. This insightful comedy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Kenilworth Art Studio Tour

  • May 26, 2012 - May 27, 2012
  • Location: Kenilworth Neighborhood
  • Address: Asheville, Asheville, NC

Twenty-two artists invite you into eleven neighborhood studios & galleries. Come prepared to love the artwork (and take some of it home!). Kenilworth Artists Association is a community of artists in Asheville, North Carolina. Kenilworth is one of Asheville's oldest neighborhoods with a lovely mix of grand homes, modest bungalows and mature gardens. Over forty aspiring and professional artists live in the five square mile neighborhood just minutes from downtown Asheville. Each year, some of...

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Love Among the Frankensteins (A Monstrous Comedy)

  • May 5, 2012 - June 9, 2012
  • Location: The Magnetic Field Cafe & Bar
  • Address: 372 Depot Street, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  The Magnetic Field Cafe & Bar

Love Among the Frankensteins (A Monstrous Comedy) tells the story of Henry Victor Frankenstein Whale, a wealthy filmmaking descendant of both the lost line of the Frankensteins and James Whale, director of Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein. At a crucial moment in his career, Henry moves to the real Castle Frankenstein in Germany, only to discover that the original Frankenstein monster and his Bride are not only alive and kicking but presently occupy Castle Frankenstein, embarked upon a...

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Michael Franti & Spearhead

The Sound Of Sunshine - the inspired and inspiring new album by Michael Franti & Spearhead - is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners a sense of hope during rough and rainy times for so many in our world. "Music is sunshine," says Michael Franti, one of the most positive and conscious artists in music today. "Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change...

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Mixed Media Mamas at Desert Moon Designs

  • May 11, 2012 - June 4, 2012
  • Location: Desert Moon Designs Studios & Gallery
  • Address: 372 Depot Street, Suite 44, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

The Mixed Media Mamas exhibit brings together a diverse group of mixed media work from Cynthia Lee, Peggy DeBell, Kathryn Nidy-Cukier and Ginger Huebner who celebrate the inspiration that motherhood brings to both art and life. While all the Mixed Media Mamas are from Western North Carolina, the artists come from different cultural traditions and backgrounds making the art they produce an eclectic array of voices from quiet contemplation, natural elements, inner/outer landscapes and religious tr...

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Riverdance

  • May 23, 2012
  • Location: Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
  • Address: US Cellular Center, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

Based on Irish folk dancing styles, Riverdance was originally devised as a 20-minute intermission entertainment for the Eurovision Song Contest. There, its phenomenal reception inspired composer Bill Whelan to expand the piece into a full-length stage show, still centered around Irish music, but now telling a loose story of many different peoples who in the 20th century have found themselves émigrés. The paradoxically formal yet expressive, sensual, and exhilarating energy of tradi...

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The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (abridged): Apocalypse Now!

  • May 10, 2012 - May 26, 2012
  • Location: Montford Park Players
  • Address: 100 Gay St, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Montford Park Players
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Can three guys really cover thirty-seven Shakespeare plays in less than two hours? Fresh and updated every year, this fast-firing comedy does just that as it parodies all of the Shakespeare plays (plus the sonnets!) with only three performers in two acts. This play is full of energy as the characters run across the stage and keep you guessing how they will pull off the next play. “This irreverent deconstruction of Shakepeare's work makes a dilly of poor Willy. A fantasia of zany energy tha...

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The Teetotallers featuring John Doyle, Martin Hayes & Kevin Crawford

Marvel at the sound of three world class musicians when The Teetotallers Featuring John Doyle, Martin Hayes and Kevin Crawford delight Asheville with a rare triple threat evening of their combined talents.

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Wicked Plants: The Exhibit

  • May 5, 2012 - September 1, 2012
  • Location: North Carolina Arboretum
  • Address: 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC 28806
  • Venue:  North Carolina Arboretum

According to author Amy Stewart, "A botanical garden is so much more than pretty scenery-it's a living museum that can help tell the story of our relationship to the plant kingdom." Surely Frederick Law Olmsted, the ‘Father of American Landscape Architecture,' felt the same when he envisioned a public garden near Asheville as part of his legacy to the famed Biltmore Estate. His sentiments were likely not so sweet when he was nearly blinded by poison sumac (Toxicodendron ver...

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The Vanderbilts at Home and Abroad

  • April 7, 2012
  • Location: Biltmore
  • Address: One Lodge Street, Asheville, NC 28803
  • Venue:  Biltmore
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

Opening April 7, The Vanderbilts at Home and Abroad, a new display focusing on the lives and personalities of George, Edith and Cornelia Vanderbilt, takes center stage in Antler Hill Village’s Legacy building. The exhibit offers a close-up look at exotic and rare items they collected throughout their lives, including an extraordinary collection of Samurai armor and an intricate Cartier vanity and lipstick case encrusted with diamonds and jade. An early Harley-Davidson motorcycle represent...

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Weaverville Roots Festival

  • May 26, 2012
  • Address: Downtown Weaverville, 2 S. Main St., NC 28787

The Weaverville Roots Festival is a three-day celebration of the culture and heritage of Weaverville, NC. On Saturday, May 26, Heritage Day will fill the downtown and park areas with music, demonstrations, food and other entertainment. On Sunday May 27th we will celebrate our Tree City USA status with Arbor Day activities and ceremonies in the nature park, plus entertain our visitors with gospel music and other sacred music. On Memorial Day, May 28th, our roots will be celebrated by honoring tho...

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WNC Chefs Challenge

  • March 20, 2012 - May 22, 2012
  • Location: Pack's Tavern
  • Address: 20 South Spruce Street, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Pack's Tavern
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Tuesday

Food and sport combine for the ultimate food fight! The WNC Chefs Challenge brings together 14 leading chefs from the region in weekly battles built around a secret ingredient. Diners enjoy six plated culinary creations (three from each team) that incorporate a secret ingredient and score each dish. The votes from the audience and a panel of professional chefs, journalists, and culinary experts are tallied. A winner will be announced at the end of the night and continues to the next round of com...

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Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011

  • January 27, 2012 - May 27, 2012
  • Location: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
  • Address: 56 Broadway Street, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011 focusing on the work of painter Pat Passlof, an accomplished Black Mountain College alumna, member of the New York School and under-recognized figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition will open at the museum in downtown Asheville on January 27, 2012 with a reception from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. A companion show will open at Western Carolina Univers...

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