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30 Artists – 15 Dollars
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That’s 50 cents an artist! The MAP and Black Mountain College Museum are throwing a fete you don’t want to miss. This is an outstanding collection of all kinds of great artists:
“On Saturday, March 20th (the first day of spring), the original grounds of Black Mountain College host an event showcasing over 30 artists from multiple disciplines.
{Re}HAPPENING: a feast for the senses is a joint fundraiser for the Media Arts Project and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. It’s the first in a series of events celebrating innovations and collaboration in the arts.
The evening includes drinks, dinner, appetizers, dancing and appearances by local artists and creators. Here’s the lineup:
New media work from Scott Furr, Mark Koven, Megan McKissack, Gene Felice, Mark Hanf, Marnie Muller, Lorraine Walsh, Lei Han & Wray Bowling will be on display.
Participating dancers include Claire Elizabeth Barrett, Julie Becton Gillum & Sara Baird.
Sculpture and ceramics will be shown from Jinx (Sean Pace) & Mellissa Terreza.
Performance artists incude Graham Hackett, Queen Mae & the Bells, and puppeteer Madison J. Cripps.Sound installation and performance will be created by Wayne Kirby, Dave Hamilton, Salvatore D’Angio, Ross Gentry & Chris Ballard.
Guest chef Mark Rosenstein represents the culinary arts.
The night’s entertainment consists of two halves: The first begins at 6 p.m. with a cocktail social, leading into a seated “family style” dinner served at 7. Various art and performance events take place throughout the cocktail hour and dinner. The second half begins at 9 p.m. and includes drinks, light appetizers and an extended evening of art, performance & dancing…”
Click here to find out more and get your tickets!
Mountain Xpress adds:
There are two tiers of admission. The early evening portion of the program is $40 and features a dinner, with food from Chai Pani, Vinnie’s Italian, Ultimate Ice Cream, Early Girl Eatery, Nona Mia, Filo Bakery, French Broad Chocolate Lounge, Short Street Cakes and more. 7 p.m. at the Dining Hall.
Then, from 8:30 to 11 p.m., the action gets going with myriad performances, installations, creations and more. It’s what they used to call a happening, and it likely will be. It may even evolve into a later-night dance party. Tickets for that part of the program are $15.
The LaZoom bus will run a $5 shuttle from Asheville to Black Mountain…
Any Way You Google It
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Friday Open Thread: Great Googly Moogly
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Fill out a Community Application (seriously – it’ll take you five minutes).
Come out to Asheville’s Google Fiber Initiative Town Hall meeting on March 18th at 6pm at the Asheville Civic Center Banquet Room.
While some may argue the virtue of diminutive pipes and the value of Charter, this is also a thread for everything else under your suns. Illuminate. Reflect.
All Ears #9
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s Thursday, Asheville, and that means it’s time for a fresh installment of All Ears. In an effort to create ease of access to government, I’m opening this thread for all of your Asheville concerns. Whether it’s Larchmont or Richmond Hill, leave your observations, visions, rants, and gushy love letters here. Tell your friends that there’s a new way to interact with your City Council.
Live chat for Asheville City Council 03/09/2010
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It’s everybody’s* favorite bi-monthly event: Asheville City Council! As usual, ScrutinyHooligans will feature a LiveChat for the session. Join us for real-time observation, policy discussion, and pithy comments.
As I’ll be busy teaching a class on web-marketing, tonight’s moderator will be Lindsey “Too Awesome For Adjectives” Simerly. Because she has one of those job-things, Live chat will start sometime between 5:30pm and 6pm.
Don’t worry, Lindsey will rule the chat-room with the same heavy-handedness you’ve come to expect from me. 
The agenda and supporting documentation can be found here. For the complete multimedia experience, be sure to turn on your TV to Charter Cable Channel 11. (As of this post, there is no web-streaming of council meetings.)
Newcomers and first-time chatters should follow this link to get up-to-date with the guidelines for LiveChat.
Please, please, PLEASE follow that last link and read the entire post before you complain “chat doesn’t work for me.”
Remember: Councilman Smith has absolutely NO control (editorial or otherwise) over this liveblogging event. Any observations, opinions, humor, etc. are solely the responsibility of the person making them.
Below is the chat-box. Simply click “start” once Lindsey turns it on sometime between 5:30pm and 6pm.
Have fun everyone.
- pvh
* Everybody defined as: “People who love civics and local politics.”
Google AVL – A Business Perspective
Posted by: | CommentsThis post is ripped directly and whole-heartedly from googleavl.com – Kudos to author Clark Mackey of Sparkdog for putting virtual pen to paper.
You are who you hang out with.
The first time I heard that line, I was in junior high. It was a warning from an adult and sure, it’s a cliche, but I think this idea – that the quality of your peers rubs off on you – has a corollary for doing business:
The city you live in can accelerate, or limit, your potential.
Consider this quote from a Business Insider article:
“Does the city you live in really matter?
While you have a lot of good choices for where to build your company, don’t let anybody fool you into thinking that location doesn’t matter; in fact, it does. Here’s why:
- Different locations have different entrepreneurial support communities...
- Talent pools around location…
- In-person meetings are just as important as they were five years ago…”
Here’s how it matters for Asheville:
- Asheville’s got talent. We’d like bandwidth to match. By selecting Asheville, Google will be partnering with a town full of kindred spirits who would like to push the technology envelope and make the world a better place.
- As a business owner, fiber for Asheville means our city will be attracting more technology talent in the future. Already I can bump into local business owners, web designers, network security experts, PHP programmers, and starry eyed dreamers while waiting for a lunch table at Early Girl. Let’s kick that up a notch.
I’d like you to do two things.
- If you own or work at a business that depends on Internet access, programming talent, or entrepreneurial spirit, please leave a comment below. Consider mentioning how Asheville, as a community, is related to your success.
If you haven’t nominated Asheville yet, please do so. When the fiber network is built, you’ll benefit directly with better, faster Internet access and indirectly with even better talent to hire as your business grows.
Seems Like…
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Asheville City Council Agenda 3.9.10
Posted by: | CommentsAfter the jump you’ll find a rundown of what’s on tap for Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Click here to go to the City’s website and see the agenda with supporting documentation.
Have Faith
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Cross-posted from Jon Elliston’s report today in the Mountain XPress:
At a press conference this morning, an interfaith group of more than two dozen local religious leaders issued a “statement of appreciation” backing Asheville City Council’s recent vote in support of establishing same-sex domestic-partner benefits for city employees.
Standing on the steps outside First Congregational United Church of Christ, the church’s senior pastor, the Rev. Joe Hoffman, opened the conference. “This is an important step towards being a more just city for all of our people,” he said in reference to the Council vote. “And we want the City Council to know that we are grateful, and that we stand with them in this action.
“We are not here today to debate anyone’s religious views; rather, we see this as an issue of civil rights,” he continued. “Equal compensation for same-gender couples is a just measure [for] city workers and for Asheville. … We hope more people will become comfortable with this decision as they come to learn about it, and as they reflect on the fairness it promotes.”
Hoffman then read the group’s prepared statement:
“We, the leaders of a number of faith communities in Asheville, express our personal appreciation for the leadership and foresight of the Asheville City Council in proposing and moving toward a positive vote for domestic-partner benefits for city employees who are in same-gender relationships. As faith leaders, we are aware that the passage of this measure is significant to many members of our congregations, regardless of sexual orientation.
“We conclude that despite varying religious views about homosexuality, a civil society should work toward fairness and equitable compensation for everyone in the community, including public workers. Providing domestic-partner benefits for city employees who are in same-gender committed relationships contributes toward this goal and creates a stronger, family-supporting community, of which we are proud to be a part.”
Hoffman was followed by the Rev. Todd Donatelli from the Cathedral of All Souls, who started by noting how various city departments have aided his church and how committed city staff are to enhancing life in Asheville. “As citizens who benefit from the quality of life that these folks work to serve and protect, it is also our obligation to provide them with benefits as citizens and to serve and protect those benefits for all persons.”
Rabbi Rob Cabelli from Beth Israel Synagogue also spoke in support of the Council vote, as did the Ethical Society of Asheville’s Jackie Simms, the Rev. Byron Ballard, High Priestess Mother of Grove Goddess Temple, and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville’s Rev. Mark Ward (see below for a list of the statement’s signatories.)
The press conference came on the heels of another conference called Feb. 10, where
severala few local ministers blasted Council for its vote. (click here to see Xpress’ report and video from that conference.)
Here’s the list of the statement of appreciation signatories, as of March 13:
- The Rev. Jim Abbott, Rector, St. Matthias Episcopal Church
- Rev. Byron Ballard, High Priestess Mother Grove Goddess Temple
- Rev. Bill Buchanan, Associate Minister, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church
- Rabbi Rob Cabelli, Beth Israel Synagogue
- The Rev. Brian Cole, Cathedral of All Souls Episcopal
- The Very Rev. Todd Donatelli, Cathedral of All Souls Episcopal
- Rev. David Eck, Pastor, Abiding Savior Lutheran Church
- Rev. Dr. Paul Hamilton Fuller, IV, Episcopal, The Church of the Advocate
- Rev. Howard Hanger, Minister of Ritual, JUBILEE! Community
- Rev. Amanda Hendler-Voss, Co Pastor, Land of the Sky United Church of Christ
- Rev. Joe Hoffman, Senior Minister, First Congregational United Church of Christ
- Rev. Joyce Hollyday, Co-Pastor, Circle of Mercy
- The Rev. Deacon Bill Jamieson, The Micah Institute
- Katherine Kowal, Clerk, Asheville Friend’s Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
- Rabbi Batsheva Meiri, Congregation Beth Ha-Tephila
- Rev. Gabrielle Michel, Minister, Unity Church, West Asheville
- Rev. Anne Morgan, New Hope Presbyterian Church
- The Rev. Brent Norris, Rector, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
- Rev. Michael Poulos, Associate Pastor, First Presbyterian Church
- Rev. Mark Ramsey, Senior Minister, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church
- The Rev. Canon Austin K. Rios, La Capilla de Santa Maria, Episcopal Church
- Rev. Steve Runholt, Minister, Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church
- Rev. Ken Sehested, Circle of Mercy
- Jackie Simms, Ethical Society of Asheville
- Rev. Shannon Spencer, Associate Minister, First Congregational United Church of Christ
- Rev. Margaret LaMotte Torrence, Associate Pastor, First Presbyterian Church
- Rev. Mark Ward, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville
- Rev. Sara Wilcox, Co-Pastor, Land of the Sky United Church of Christ
All Ears #8
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s Thursday, Asheville, and that means it’s time for a fresh installment of All Ears. In an effort to create ease of access to government, I’m opening this thread for all of your Asheville concerns. Whether it’s budget deficits or a better mousetrap, leave your observations, visions, rants, and gushy love letters here. Tell your friends that there’s a new way to interact with your City Council.
