Friday, September 3–Best of MVA at Wedge Brewery, 8:30ish

Best of Music Video Asheville showing for FREE at the Wedge Brewery.  That’s right some of your favorite local bands also have videos made by local filmmakers.  MVA screens them annually (for the last three years) at MVA in February.  The Wedge screens the “Best of” MVA this Friday at dusk.  Best to get your lawn chairs set up by 8:15 ish.

Saturday, September 4–DEL Yeah Weekend at Pisgah Brewing, 3:00 p.m.

Buy Tickets $20 for advance, $25 at the door (if there are any left)

Emmitt-Nershi Band, Del McCoury Band and others TBA play at Pisgah Brewing in Black Mountain.  Um, Del Yeah.

and…Outdoor Cinema at Wedge Brewing Co. Saturday is Paris Texas.  Starting at dusk.  Good eats from Bandido’s Burritos.

Sunday, September 5–Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival

Monday, September 6–float the French Broad

Just for fun, grab a tube or boat or air mattress and jump in.  The water’s fine.

How about that for a concept?  Well, LEAF in Schools & Streets and Asheville City Schools Foundation along with UNC-Asheville are working not only to train artists as teaching artists, but raising money to support residencies in the schools.

Tonight from 5-8 p.m. at Sante Wine Bar in the Grove Arcade, they are having a wine tasting, selling cheese boards, and offering free entertainment from some of the teaching artists, including bellydancer, Lisa Zahiya.  There’s a $10 suggested donation at the door (cash only), and cheese trays for $10.  I’m so there.

Roots + Wings School of Art Studio Session

Have friends or family coming to town?  Are you looking for a very “Asheville” activity to do with them?  How about making art with them in a River Arts District studio with a professional visual artist of your choosing?  In other words: an Asheville Art Retreat at Roots + Wings School of Art studio in the River Arts District.

Roots + Wings School of Art Studio in the River Arts District is offering an entrance point to engage with the River Arts District in a hands-on, accessible way.  You can choose from a number of artists and spend an afternoon making visual art in a hip studio on Depot Street.

AND,  if your family or friends need a place to stay, they can choose to book an entire Asheville Art Retreat Package which includes overnights at the historic Biltmore Village Inn and dinner at The Corner Kitchen restaurant after the studio sessions.

Alli Marshall, AE writer for the Mountain Xpress tells us more.

Book a Session or Find Out More

Hosting a visitor that wants a unique Asheville experience?  Or, have you and your friends and family ever wanted to work one-on-one in a River Arts District studio with a professional visual artist?  Here’s your chance.

Roots + Wings School of Art (RWSA) supports studio sessions with their rostered visual artists in their new River Arts District studio on Depot Street at Pink Dog Creative .  Unlike group art classes, with Custom Art Studio Sessions (CASS), participants work collaboratively with a RWSA visual artist exploring tools and techniques, making color and material choices, and sharing in the process of art-making together.  CASS are open to any age, families and groups of friends are welcome, and individualized sessions are also common.

For More Information or to Book Your Custom Art Studio Session, Call 828.545.4827.  See more images of the sessions.

First off, Community Porter is back on tap AND Vollie and Hank are releasing a “Songs from the Wedge” CD on Sunday evening.  More information below.

And, the Wedge Brewery has a new website!  It’s in progress, so be patient.  Take a look!

Friday Night

Outdoor Cinema, The Original Pink Panther, starts at dusk.  Bring a chair and enjoy seafood and BBQ from Kyte’s Catering.  Movie this Friday night:

Saturday Night

Outdoor Cinema: Steel Yard Blues, starts at dusk.  Bring a chair and enjoy a NEW CATERER: Burritos and Tamales with a Vegetarian Option

Sunday Night

Another NEW CATERER: Crepes and Spring Rolls!!!

Vollie and Hank CD Release: Songs from the Wedge at 5 p.m.

What do sunsets, train whistles and good music have in common?

People in Asheville , NC , will say it’s the Wedge Brewery, where the ‘Lead-Foot Vipers‘ (Hank Bones and Vollie McKenzie) play every Sunday evening.   Here the duo offers up a sampling of favorites from their Wedge patio playlist:

12th Street Rag
Jitterbug Waltz
Train of Life
Deep Purple
Rhythm of the Rain
She’s a Woman
Misirlou
I’ll See You in My Dreams
Maria Elena
Lady Madonna
The Gypsy
Sleep Walk
The Melody Lingers On
Love
Sermonette

and NEW CATERER Crepes

Danceability:  Experiencing Ourselves, Each Other, and the Room

A Workshop presented by Artist/Activist Tom Kilby

DATE:  Thursday, July 1, 2010

TIME:  6:30-8:30

PLACE:  Jubilee Community Downstairs Room (Enter from Patton Avenue next to Jack of the Wood)

COST:  Free    (Suggested Donation to the Presenter of up to $20.00 per person)

AUDIENCE:  Adults and Children of any ability

Please bring with you whatever support you need to participate in our community

Agenda

1)  6:30-6:45- welcome circle and description of Danceability

2)  6:45-7:00- warm up

3)  7:00-7:10- warm up space

4)  7:10-7:30- initial partnering work

5)  7:30-7:35- feedback

6)  7:35-7:50- larger group design work

7)  7:50-8:00- showing larger group work

8)  8:00-8:15- full group improv

9)  8:15-8:30- fulfillment, feedback, closing      

Workshop Overview Attention, imagination, sensation, intention are all basic components to danceability and I would add to that curiosity.  These will be the basic fundamentals for the exercises which we will employ.  Our warm up will have us inhabiting our body and exploring it through some initial movements which will be imaginal and then will proceed to the almost perceivable.  Gravity and sensation of bodily release will be the path and the air of our breath will be the mechanism. Warming up the space will have us inhabiting the room we find ourselves in and the cognition of the different elements of room, including other persons.  Initial partnering work will have us engage in some witnessing and some touch work, between 2-3 exercises, sculptural and call and response in the body.  Feedback is in place to allow for challenges which participants may be experiencing and adaptation as necessary.  Larger group design work will divide us into 2 or three groups, depending on the number of participants, utilizing the principles which have been introduced in the workshop, and showing will be our opportunity to see ourselves.  Full group improv will enable us to experience the fullness of our group and the gestalt which we will have become in this evening and feedback will give us the opportunity to reflect and consider where we may wish to go from here.

About Tom Kilby The early work which I did relative to art was associated with my BA obtained from Columbia College, Columbia Missouri,  in 1983, where I received a degree in English, specializing in Poetry with a minor in Photography.  The greater significance to me relative to art making was the following 4 years when I participated in a open ended collaborative group of about 50 artists; who made work together, an art zine, poetry readings and performance art events and supported a rich local music scene. I have been doing mixed abilities performance work since 1987, when I began doing care provision for Bob Kilby, my brother.  Bob and I lived together until 1996 and during this time we used our time creatively doing dance, video, photography, instillation, performance art, poetry and using our life together as a point of departure in these mediums.  While I was living with Bob and doing care provision I also attended California Institute of the Arts and The University of South Florida in Tampa where I achieved a degree of MFA in Fine Arts.   The work which Bob and I were creating as the foundation and substance for my thesis. During this time Bob and I became acquainted and influenced by Alternate Roots, where we continue to maintain membership and which in the recent past years have been venue and advocate for the work which Bob has continued to do, in which I’ve participated. In 1996 after Bob and I ceased living together and after I’d finished my degree program I attended a teachers training program in Eugene Oregon in danceability.  This was a mixed abilities program which emphasized improvisation and contact improvisation, both of which I’d studied in my degree program and by which I’ve continued to be influenced. in 1997 I moved to Asheville NC.  Here I did work with a senior improv group for a year and a half through the new studio of dance, conducted a weekly dance class at Liberty Corners, again for a year and a half, collaborated on numerous performance art pieces, some dance based, some mixed abilities based, performed at the fringe festival four times; once with my family, once solo, once with Bob and once with Julia Taylor doing a contact improv piece.  I’ve participated in performance pieces at Roots annual meetings with Bob during the last two years, being responsible for video components last year and dance and video the previous year. Much of my creative energy over the last ten years has gone into my family.  We have done several performances together as a family; dance, performance art, and singing;  my son and I have collaborated on a show on URTV for a year and a half which was biweekly and was called Ian’s World, then of course there is the path of life as art which I feel I have been engaged in all of these many years, changing diapers and attending Ian’s school included.

Mountain Housing Opportunities (MHO) invites artists to participate in the 7th Annual Doors of Asheville Auction, an opportunity for artists to stretch their boundaries and create artwork to help MHO open doors to affordable home ownership and strengthen our community. This year’s Doors of Asheville is a juried event and your artwork must fall into the description listed below. The artist application deadline is Tuesday, July 6th. Chosen artists will be notified by July 20th. If chosen, your artwork will need to be submitted by September 20th. The Doors of Asheville event will take place on Friday, November 5, at The Venue in Asheville.

What are the entry requirements?

• Artwork Inspired by Houses or Homes
• Any media that portrays houses or homes, including art that supports the mission and work of Mountain Housing Opportunities

All selected artists receive a $100 honorarium along with $300 for any piece that sells for more than $1500 at the Auction on November 5th. Twenty-five artists will be selected by a jury of art professionals. Artists should submit a small proposal indicating their preliminary design concepts, a biography, one to three images of their work and a website address (if applicable). You can download an application form here.

You may email the application to Lisa Keeter lisa@mtnhousing.org, fax the form to 828-254-0124 or mail to 2010 Doors of Asheville, Mountain Housing Opportunities, 64 Clingman Avenue, Suite 101, Asheville, NC 28801. Please call 828-254-4030, ext. 116, if you have any questions.

Visit 130 working artist studios and galleries in Asheville’s River Arts District. Painters, potters, sculptors, weavers, photographers, jewelers, woodworkers, great food & more……all in revitalized old factories and warehouses along the French Broad River, just minutes from downtown.  Download the Studio Guide before you go.

Open from 10am to 6 PM both Saturday & Sunday.

Demos and Activities are listed here.

Outdoor Cinema at the Wedge Brewery

Also, Saturday evening, 10 minutes after sunset, Wedge Brewery will be showing “Dead Again” for their outdoor cinema.  Bring your lawn chair, and grab a pint.