January
2007 WNC Family Monthly Event
Calendar
Asheville and surrounding
areas events calendar
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Event / Festival:
Storytime at Spellbound
Dates:
Every Friday
Time: 11:30
Spellbound Children’s Bookshop, 866 Haywood Road, West
Asheville.
Contact:
232-2228.Cost:
Description:
Event / Festival:
Teddy Bear Picnic
Dates: Jan 5
Time:
Location: The Health Adventure 2 South Pack Square,
Asheville, NC
Contact:
www.thehealthadventure.org
254-6373, Ext.
329
Cost:
Description:
Treat
your bear to a picnic at our place for a fun day of play at
the Health Adventure! Our little friends can lend a hand
while we make “Beary cool” ornaments and crafts to take
home. Should the little guy need a break, bring him over to
our tea party table for a “spot of something nice” and
everyone will go home happy!
Event / Festival:
Victorian Christmas Celebration
Dates: Through Jan. 5th
Time: Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Location:
Contact: 253-9231.
Cost: Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for children ages
5-18.
Description:
Enjoy the Smith-McDowell House Museum with
authentically decorated period rooms from the 1840s-1900s,
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Event / Festival:
Chili Cook-Off
Dates: Jan 6
Time:
Location:
Contact: To register and to request a copy of the Chili
Cook-Off rules and entry form, visit www.fletcherparksorg, call Cristin
Corder at 687-0751 or e-mail
c.corder@fletchernc.org.
Cost:
Description:
Fletcher is looking for participants for
their sixth annual Chili Cook-Off. The event will be held in
the cafeteria at Veritas Christian Academy. Individual cooks
and businesses can enter their chili into a competition in
the following categories: Best Overall, Best Individual,
Best Business, Honorable Mention, People’s Choice and Best
Table Decoration. Prizes and ribbons will be awarded.
Event / Festival:
“Having a
Wonderful Time: Postcards of Asheville
Dates: November
3 thru March 4
Time:
Location:
Contact:
Cost:
Description:
Before email,
before television, before the telephone, there was the
picture postcard. Postcards combine personal communication,
advertising and entertainment in a package that is easily
affordable for local attractions to create and within the
means of the average individual to purchase and mail to
friends and family. The Asheville Art Museum is open 10:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday and 1:00 p.m. to
5:00 p.m. on Sunday. The Museum is open every Friday until
8:00 p.m. Special docent-guided tour packages are available
for groups and students. The Museum is located in the Pack
Place Education, Arts and Science Center, 2 South Pack
Square, in downtown Asheville. Admission to the Museum is
$6.00 for adults and $5.00 for seniors, students with ID and
for children 4-15 (children age three and younger are
admitted free). Members are admitted free to the Museum
Event / Festival:
The Health Adventure
Dates:
Time:
Location: The Health Adventure 2 South Pack Square,
Asheville, NC
Contact:
254-6373, Ext.
329
Cost: $5.00 members / $7.00 non-members
Description:
Event / Festival:
Asheville Arts Center Classes
- Enroll
Dates: Jan. 8
Time:
Location:
308 Merrimon
Ave.
Contact:
www.ashevilleartscenter.com. For a full listing of
classes, call 253-4000.
Cost:
Description:
The Asheville Arts Center is enrolling
children and adults for its Spring 2007 season, which begins
Jan. 8. Students may chose from a variety of classes in
drama, dance and art as well as the Children’s Theatre
Workshop productions. Private music and voice lessons are
also available.
Event / Festival:
Little Builders
- The Health Adventure
Dates:
January 19 thru
May 6
Time:
Location:
Contact:
Cost:
Description:
- - The youngest visitors
to The Health Adventure will become movers and shakers in
the upcoming Little Builders traveling exhibit, which will
be on display from January 19 through May 6, 2007. Donning
little hard hats and construction vests, children ages 2
through 7 will create, play and learn as they explore the
concepts of construction, motion and simple machines. The
Health Adventure, founded in 1968, is a nonprofit family
health and science museum for today’s families with a
mission to improve health awareness, promote wellness
lifestyles, and increase science literacy through programs
and exhibits. For more information, visit
www.thehealthadventure.org or call (828) 254-6373.
Event / Festival:
American
Kennel Club (AKC) Dog Agility Trial
Dates:
January 27 thru January 28
Time:
8:00AM-3:00PM both days
Location:
WNC Agricultural
Center McGough Arena
Contact:
828-697-2118
Cost:
free admission & spectators are welcome, spectators
please leave your dogs comfortably at home
Description:
American
Kennel Club (AKC) Dog Agility Trial - WNC Agricultural
Center McGough Arena (dogs jump hurdles, race through
tunnels and climb over A-frames at high speed) ,
Sponsored by Blue Ridge Agility Club, Fletcher, NC .
Event / Festival:
Asheville
Arts Center Parents Night Out
Dates:
2nd & 4th
FRIDAYS, 6:30-9:30pm
Time:
Location:
308 Merrimon
Ave., Asheville, NC.
Contact:
Info: 253-4000
or visit www.ashevilleartscenter.com. Reservations required
by the Wed.
Cost:
$15.
Description:
This center at
308 Merrimon Ave. offers adult and children's classes in
music, drama and dance.
Parents' Night Out/Stars Night Out.
Children sing, dance and do a variety of other activities.
Ages 2-10. Reservations required by the Wed. prior to each
Parents' Night Out.
Event / Festival:
Colburn Museum Programs - Geologist on site
Dates: Wednesdays
Time: 3-4 pm
Location:
Info: 254-7162
or www.colburnmuseum.org.
Contact:
Cost:
$4/$3 admission
cost. Many events are free or discounted to museum
members.
Description:
Geologist will
be on site to identify any rock or mineral you bring in.
Free.
Ongoing - The Hall of Gems and
Minerals: A permanent collection of
gem and mineral samples from around
the world.
Ongoing - The Grove Stone Earth
Center: Explore our planet with
hands-on materials.
Ongoing - A Richness of
Resources: History of Mining in WNC.
Ongoing - Weather, Climate and
You.
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