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A showcase of Asheville’s dynamic art groups and collectives brought together for a celebration of both community and storytelling through art.
This month’s theme: “FESTIVAL NIGHT,” featuring some of Asheville’s arts-based festivals and annual events. We invite the organization, and they invite the participating artist!
Friday, November 18
AVL Revue: “Festival Night”
Story Parlor | 227 Haywood Road
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Parking & Policies
Participating Festivals include…
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The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival moves to March in 2023! Festival dates are March 20-26, with ticketed shows March 23-36.
The Asheville Fringe Society is dedicated to cultivating strange and wonderful work that lies outside the mainstream. The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival provides artists with opportunities to explore the edges of their work, to collaborate across genres and to bring new and innovative performances to culturally adventurous audiences. Our continual goal is to curate experiences that expand the minds and hearts of our audiences and to be inclusive of artists who work within a myriad of genres, styles, and forms to create truly unique and original pieces in our community.
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This past October 5th, Music Video Asheville celebrated it's 14th year! After a two year hiatus (2020 was a virtual event and in 2021 we did not host the event) we were so excited to bring the event back to life and in person at the Salvage Station. Complete with the Red Carpet, Paparazzi, Popcorn and The Awards Show, the event was produced by IamAVL.com and Buzz Radio Asheville. Music Video Asheville focuses on bringing the area's music and film making community together for a night of celebration of local talent in what has become one of Asheville’s premier events. Keep your eyes peeled for the next event Fall of 2023! You can follow Music Video Asheville on Instagram and Facebook to stay up to date!
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The Porch Gathering: March 9-12, 2021
The Porch Gathering builds a better world through telling better stories. We gather around art and activism - those who desire to heal our personal and cultural wounds as a diverse community, laugh and cry around the “campfire experience” of great movies, and gain tools for constructive, respectful, and thoughtful dialogue across boundaries.
We're opening a space for significant interaction around ideas of grounded hope, individual and communal purpose, provocative and meaningful storytelling, and - frankly - enjoying life together. We truly believe that we are here not just to save the world, but to be changed. Our vision is that the Porch Gathering would be a place where a couple hundred people could come together to take life seriously without taking ourselves too seriously; meet brilliant people from all kinds of places; and better understand ourselves, our place in the world, what we can do for the good, and the ways in which we can authentically give ourselves a break.
The event runs from Thursday evening March 9th through Saturday night March 11th (there's an optional workshop during the day on Thursday March 9th, and folk are welcome to stay over through breakfast on Sunday March 12th), with a range of storytelling, music, cinema, breakout sessions, talks, and opportunities for quiet or just hanging out with friends. We'll have a dozen or more speakers/musicians/facilitators distinguished in their fields, and lots of options for engaging a better story and way of being, including deepening a sense of community together, and practical tools for the journey of living with courage and creativity.
Details & registration at https://www.eventcreate.com/e/porchgathering
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Jasmin Pittman Morrell is a writer and editor who deeply believes in radical hospitality and the power of the imagination. She holds an MFA in narrative nonfiction writing from the University of Georgia, and her writing is featured in The Bitter Southerner, Oxford American, Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community, and Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic (forthcoming, 2022). Jasmin has taught creative nonfiction at Lenoir Rhyne University and also supports Family Voices--a creative writing mentorship program for BIPOC children in Asheville.
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Dani Cox is the co-founder of (WTF) Women to the Front. She has a degree in Acting for the stage and has been a professional singer for 15 years.
She currently performs with the local band Secret Agent 23 Skidoo. As well as performing around Asheville with local acts in varying genres she is a songwriter who enjoys collaboration with experienced/ inexperienced musicians of all kinds.
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Linda Shew Wolf has played saxophone and electric violin in original bands from New York to Chicago for many years. Now an Asheville resident, she has supported several local original bands with her contributions as a soloist and arranger. She is excited about the future of Women to the Front and is an active participant in its growth and vision.
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Jason DeCristofaro is a multi-instrumentalist, music educator, composer and arranger based out of Asheville NC. He is music faculty at Warren Wilson College, and holds a Doctorate in Music Education from Boston University.