Nourish yourself through the power of community, connection, and creativity in this monthly drop-in group that invites you to reflect, share, and engage with what it means to live a whole creative life.

Enjoy an evening of mind blowing entertainment that will leave your jaw on the floor. It’s 70 minutes of highly interactive experiences that you won’t believe. Limited seating. 18+ please.

Friday, December 19 | Come gather round the Campfire(ball) for an end-of-the-year Winter Soiree featuring live performances from Old Man Toddler, The Campfireball, and music from Kelly Jolly. We’ll toast to the year gone by, look forward to new things on the horizon, and revel in music, story, comedy, and most importantly, each other’s company. After the performances, stick around for some mixing, mingling, and more winter cheer.

Join us for this gathering of stories of seasons and holidays past. Renowned local storyteller Chuck Fink will host a cozy winter evening of stories with humor, pathos, and joy, taking you from New England to The Appalachian Mountains, and places in between.

Held on First Sundays, join this all-arts open mic. Prepare a five minute original piece in whatever medium you so choose — storytelling, music, poetry, literature, comedy, dance — or simply come to enjoy and support the local arts community.

Saturday, December 6 | Join Speakeasy Improv for a monthly comedy show that will keep you laughing till you cry. Think "Whose Line is it Anyway" but with R rated shenanigans and plenty of good vibes to go around. The talented cast of WITB brings off the wall energy and fun to every show and it is ALL made up! So put on your best set of overalls and grab some friends to come out to party and find out "What's in the Box?"

Long-running reading series, Juniper Bends, presents an evening of poetry and music featuring local and visiting artists. This quarter’s theme: Metamorphosis and Transformation.

Story Parlor veteran Mica Sun brings unfolding mythology with performance, music, poetry, and oral storytelling tradition together in a shared journey exploring purpose, place, and the mythic in the modern moment. Expect to sing some, be captivated, challenged, moved to tears and laughter and sit back and enjoy a good show. 

The anthology collects work by Appalachian poets responding to the devastating flood Helene brought to the High Country. 

Enjoy an evening of mind blowing entertainment that will leave your jaw on the floor. It’s 70 minutes of highly interactive experiences that you won’t believe. Limited seating. 18+ please.

The evening will be a celebration of poetry. Bruce Spang will read from his latest book, Twist. Marie Harris and Maggie Anderson will read from their poems. The instrumentalist Lee R. Horsman will play his gongs, inviting us into a world of sound refractions.

Held on First Sundays, join this all-arts open mic. Prepare a five minute original piece in whatever medium you so choose — storytelling, music, poetry, literature, comedy, dance — or simply come to enjoy and support the local arts community.

Saturday, November 1 | Join Speakeasy Improv for a monthly comedy show that will keep you laughing till you cry. Think "Whose Line is it Anyway" but with R rated shenanigans and plenty of good vibes to go around. The talented cast of WITB brings off the wall energy and fun to every show and it is ALL made up! So put on your best set of overalls and grab some friends to come out to party and find out "What's in the Box?"

Palimpsest Productions’ Second Annual Gothic Cabaret will feature gruesome delights for the eyes and ears. Don’t miss this Halloween extravaganza! 

Spotlight is a regular event hosted by AVL Film and Venus Rising Media, celebrating Asheville’s growing film community. This event goes strange featuring original weird/experimental/horror short films from local creators followed by an engaging Q&A.

Join this gathering of stories describing personal journey's from Stormy to Calm featuring four local storytelling favorites: Nancy Reeder, Jo Mangum, Chuck Fink, and David Sharpe.

Enjoy an evening of mind blowing entertainment that will leave your jaw on the floor. It’s 70 minutes of highly interactive experiences that you won’t believe. Limited seating. 18+ please.

Held on First Sundays, join this all-arts open mic. Prepare a five minute original piece in whatever medium you so choose — storytelling, music, poetry, literature, comedy, dance — or simply come to enjoy and support the local arts community.

SOLD OUT! | Join Story Parlor for an evening of stories, music, and performance featuring local artists paying tribute to their international homelands.

Join us for an evening of offerings from new and familiar writers and storytellers from throughout Western North Carolina as we reflect and grieve, honor and celebrate, bear witness, and find our way together one year after the storm.

(Postponed!) | Join us for an intimate evening of connection and creativity as former Story Parlor Artist-in-Residence Shunyu Huang hosts a roundtable conversation and collaborative performance with guests from Asheville’s BIPOC community, celebrating the “five flavors of life” and the shared threads of humanity.

Poetry and music are perhaps the two art forms that draw most deeply from this inner silence as they transform it into song. Tonight we will hear examples of these transformations in the poetry of Michael Hettich (A Sharper Silence), Eric Nelson (Horse Not Zebra), Mildred Barya (The Animals of My Earth School) and in the haunting, unique, and beautiful music of Elysian Studios.

Long-running reading series, Juniper Bends, presents an evening of poetry and music featuring local and visiting artists. This quarter’s theme: Autumn Equinox

Join writers and storytellers from Western North Carolina to celebrate, cry, and connect through stories that center the essential nature of bodily autonomy to our humanity.

SOLD OUT! | “Sonic Shadows” brings to life the timeless romance between Emperor Wu of Han (Liu Che, 141 BC–87 BC) and his beloved concubine, Lady Li. After Lady Li’s passing, a courtier’s shadow puppet play comforted the grieving emperor, becoming his favorite pastime. Witness masterful puppetry from Hobey Ford’s masterful, evocative music composed and performed by Min Xiao-Fen, and captivating soundscapes from Zack Page.

Held on First Sundays, join this all-arts open mic. Prepare a five minute original piece in whatever medium you so choose — storytelling, music, poetry, literature, comedy, dance — or simply come to enjoy and support the local arts community.

Enjoy an evening of mind blowing entertainment that will leave your jaw on the floor. It’s 70 minutes of highly interactive experiences that you won’t believe. Limited seating. 18+ please.

What if grade-school Show & Tell grew up, got a little weirder, and added a creative twist?  Join us for Story Parlor's most low-stakes storytelling-meets-creativity session designed for people who have cool stuff they want to talk about.

Friday, August 22 | MULTI-VITAMIN : Story, Songs & Improv  is a multi-genre bill of storytellers, songwriters and comedians who enjoy absurd and moving social commentary, making work in response to the beauty and despair all around us.