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Asheville Community Square Dance

Jam starts at 6 pm. Food trucks 6-9 pm. Dance 7-10 pm.

The evening will start at 6 p.m. with an outdoor old-time jam and food truck. The dance starts at 7:00pm. Beginners and all ages welcome! Come dance, play, or just enjoy the fireside jam!

Dance Baby Parent & Baby Dance Class

Classes are every Tuesday from 10-10:45am

A dance class for parents and caregivers and their babies ages 0m-2 years. Baby wearing or holding encouraged. Have fun moving and grooving with your baby to today’s top hits, no baby music here. This class is for you to have fun, find joy through movement, and build community.

Follow them on Instagram @thecreatiffany for class updates and posts.

Kids Book Reading and Sing-along

Children’s authors Fred Small and Shannon Hitchcock will read—or sing!—their books for kids ages three and up, with special guest Deborah Silverstein.

Fred’s Everything Possible is a joyfully illustrated lullaby about love, acceptance, and following your heart. Shannon’s She Sang for the Mountains is a lyrical picture book biography of songwriter and activist Jean Ritchie-Singer.

FREE Community Day: The New Salon

The Asheville Art Museum invites you to visit for free on Saturday, April 6 between noon–5pm! Come celebrate our exhibition The New Salon: A Contemporary View with an afternoon of creativity and community engagement.

COMMUNITY DAY SCHEDULE:

12:00pm–5:00pm
• Free Museum Admission

• Chalk Walk … Can you recall your dreams? Inspired by Pop-Surrealism works on view in The New Salon: A Contemporary View, join us on the Museum’s Plaza and unleash your imagination with chalk! Whether it’s fantastical creatures, surreal landscapes, or whimsical narratives, you’re invited to share your unique dreams with us.

12:00pm–4:00pm
• Makerspace: Nail Salon … Led by talented local nail artist Rachael Ghazarian step into the world of nail art and design your own set of press-on nails. Inspired by Kim Ha’s photograph Ladies and Lowrider on view in The New Salon exhibition, this drop-in activity invites participants to transform their nails into painted canvases. All ages and abilities are welcome (children must be accompanied by an adult).

• Film: Auto-Morphosis … What if you could morph your car into a mobile work of art and drive it down the road for all to see? What would it look like? What would the world think of you? Join us for a screening of the delightful documentary Automorphosis. This film explores the minds and hearts of an inspiring collection of eccentrics, visionaries, and just plain folks who have transformed their autos into artworks. On a humorous and touching journey, we learn that an art car has the power to change us, to alter our view of our increasingly homogeneous world.

1:00pm–3:00pm
• Live Music: DJ Lil Meow Meow … Enjoy an afternoon of live music on the Museum’s Plaza featuring DJ Lil Meow Meow. DJ Lil Meow Meow is an Asheville- based DJ and music curator with an affinity for infectious dance cuts.

• Psychic Medium & Tarot Readings … Drawing inspiration from This Darkness by Daniel Martin Diaz on view in The New Salon , join us for Tarot readings with Krysta Beth Heidman. Krysta will offer a variety of ways to break your blocks and bring you one step closer to achieving your highest purpose.

1:00pm–1:30pm
• Express Tour: The New Salon … Discover new featured artworks and artists on view in The New Salon during this 30-minute Express Tour.

1:45pm–2:00pm
• Spotlight Talk: The New Salon … Learn more about an artist or two featured in The New Salon during these bite-sized conversations with our volunteer educators.

2:00pm–2:45pm
• Artist-Led Tour: Brian Mashburn … Join us for a tour of The New Salon: A Contemporary View with local artist Brian Mashburn to learn about his work and other works on view included in the exhibition. Brian’s work depicts urban and industrial landscapes close to the natural world.

3:00pm–3:30pm
• Express Tour: The New Salon … Discover new featured artworks and artists on view in The New Salon during this 30-minute Express Tour.

3:45pm–4:00pm
• Spotlight Talk: The New Salon … Learn more about an artist or two featured in The New Salon during these bite-sized conversations with our volunteer educators.

Glass, Metal, & Clay Day

For over 20 years, the Asheville community has celebrated the oldest craft mediums on the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Folk Art Center with members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. For the first time, the Guild will combine Glass & Metal Day with Clay Day this year to host Glass, Metal, and Clay Day on April 6th! Showcasing the elements, Guild members will demonstrate a range of techniques, and have hands-on activities for children and adults.

Demonstrations include:
blacksmithing, glass blowing, piercing and soldering metals, knife making, bezeling, repoussé, copper etching, assembling stained glass, forging, wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics, and surface design on clay, among other techniques.

While at the Folk Art Center, visitors have the opportunity to visit America’s oldest craft shop Allanstand (est. 1893), the Eastern National bookstore and Blue Ridge Parkway information desk, as well as three exhibition galleries, and a craft library.
Outside the Folk Art Center, there are hiking trails, picnic tables, grassy areas for a picnic, and free parking.

Bring the whole family and enjoy a day to remember!

Admission is free.

Baby & Toddler Family River Gathering

Grab a beer & tasty food truck dinner & build community! Find us by the river!

Bring bubbles, lawn toys, & river shoes! Older sibs & all family constellations welcome!

Save the dates! Gathering 2nd Fridays, June-Sept.

Billy Jonas Band “Welcome Spring” Family Concert (ALL AGES)

Fun for All Ages! Bring the family, and welcome spring at an afternoon show.

The Billy Jonas Band loves to engage and delight both young and adult audiences. Whether performing for adults, families, school groups, faith communities, or a mix, they strive for a musical excellence that inspires, entertains, and moves people literally and figuratively. With “wild-winded word magic” (Dirty Linen Magazine), homemade “industrial re-percussion” instruments, exquisite 3 and 4-part vocal harmonies, plus guitar and bass, they love to create community through song and story. Their specialty: finding and pushing your “wonder” button.

In 2010, the Billy Jonas Band was honored with a performance at the White House!

Robert Beatty Book Event & Serafina Dark Forest Ice Cream Release

Join Serafina author Robert Beatty and his family to celebrate the return of Serafina Dark Forest Ice Cream at The Hop (640 Merrimon Ave) Sunday, April 14th from 1-3pm. In addition to eating lots of ice cream and drinking bubble tea from The Pop, Robert will be signing Serafina and Willa books, answering questions, and talking to fans about his upcoming book SYLVIA DOE AND THE 100-YEAR FLOOD! Malaprops Bookstore will be on hand, selling copies of all his books, and taking special preorders of SYLVIA DOE.

Serafina Dark Forest Ice Cream also returns to all locations of The Hop Ice Cream on 4/14! Serafina Dark Forest is a dark cherry ice cream swirled with Hop-made cherry preserves, flecked chocolate, and whipped cream. This flavor was created for the four books in the Serafina Series. It’s modeled after a black forest cake. Serafina spends a great deal of time in the dark forests surrounding the Biltmore Estate in the books.

This flavor will remain on the menu through the month of April. To learn more about all of the amazing books by Robert Beatty visit
https://robertbeattybooks.com/

Earth Day Family Fair + Pollinator Garden Planting

Buncombe County Parks & Recreation is offering a wonderful way to celebrate Earth Day. They will be launching the first phase of creating a vibrant pollinator garden in partnership with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, where community members, students, schools, clubs, organizations, and businesses can volunteer. There will also be an Earth Day Fair that will feature educational family-friendly workshops, eco-crafts (bird feeders, birdhouses, and more), and activities.

Pollinator gardens play a crucial role in supporting local ecosystems by providing habitats and food sources for essential pollinators like bees and butterflies. Creating this garden under the expert guidance of a biologist from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will help enhance local biodiversity and promote sustainable land management practices.

Additional landscaping opportunities will be available at Lake Julian Park (37 Lake Julian Road).

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