June 2018 Community Calendar

"Trouble" Screening

sub.Media offers Trouble, a brand-new monthly show offering an in-depth anarchist analysis of current struggles, tactics, and movement dynamics

WNC-Between The Covers BDSM Book Group

WNC-Between The Covers, a BDSM and fetish book group, will be reading books and meeting each month to discuss them.

Flat Rock Mini-Vegfest

We'll be participating in the inaugural vegfest at Sweet Bear Rescue Farm near Hendersonville. Organized by The Asheville Vegan Society, this is a ticketed event.

Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night!

Letters save lives! Join Blue Ridge ABC each month for an evening of solidarity with incarcerated comrades. Celebrate their birthdays by sending words of encouragement and support.

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Original Recovery

A new approach to recovery ideology founded in the truth that there are multiple successful paths to varied, authentic lifestyles.

Asheville Vegan Fest Day #1

We're joining a celebration of compassionate living hosted by the largest no-kill animal rescue organization in North Carolina, Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. This event takes place in downtown Asheville at The Orange Peel.

"Loving The Whole Package" Author Presentation

Best-selling author from NY Junie Moon shares the secret to quieting your inner critic.

Asheville Vegan Fest Day #2

We're joining a celebration of compassionate living hosted by the largest no-kill animal rescue organization in North Carolina, Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. This event takes place in downtown Asheville at The Orange Peel.

Asheville Bitcoin Meetup

Discussion on what Bitcoin is and it’s power to transform the world as we know it!

Asheville IWW General Organizing Meeting

Monthly meeting to discuss current organizing efforts.

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Original Recovery

A new approach to recovery ideology founded in the truth that there are multiple successful paths to varied, authentic lifestyles.

Radical Honesty: An Introductory Evening

Joseph Tavormina will provide a brief history to the origins and on-going practice of Radical Honesty.

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Discussion

This meetup will explore societal and ethical implications of cryptocurrencies and the underlying technologies.

EDS Support Group

Zebras unite! Talk, listen, and connect with other folks who have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and related disorders. 

Introducing Chaga Mushroom

Learn about the healing powers of a largely unknown medicinal mushroom.

Asheville Prison Books Volunteer Orientation

Learn about how to get involved with a local books-to-prisons project!

Monthly Analytics in Asheville Meetup

*April 21st event is cancelled. Meetings will resume in May*
Meeting for any folks interested in analytics.

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Juneteenth Film Screening: "13TH"

This Juneteenth we will screen Ava Duvernay's award winning documentary 13th and discuss the movement to #EndPrisonSlavery.

Original Recovery

A new approach to recovery ideology founded in the truth that there are multiple successful paths to varied, authentic lifestyles.

Millennials, Social Change & Critical Mass Conversion

Alison Sher explains how holistic systems, transpersonal psychology, and generational theory can inspire millennials to step into their destiny.

ACAB Welcoming Table

Hosts of the bookfair will be set up at Firestorm to pass out schedules, answer questions, and orient out-of-towners to the city of Asheville!

ACAB: Intro to Language Justice

A popular education space led by the Center for Participatory Change (CPC) to explore language justice in our lives, communities and movements.

Wild Words Writing Group

Let your words be wildly free to express your heart's desire.

ACAB: Syringe Access to Prison Abolition

ACAB: Jerusalem Is Palestine

A discussion of anti-zionism, cycles of war, and the occupation.

ACAB: Eros Beyond Compliance

A discussion of the parallels between the consent discourse of the state and policing and the consent discourse around sex

ACAB: Report from Strippers Organizing in NOLA

This presentation is a report from strippers organizing in New Orleans against police raids, criminalization, and gentrification on Bourbon Street.

ACAB: "Who Needs Conflict Resolution When You Can Call the Cops?"

Hosted by the Callisto Collective, this workshop explores the importance and the practice of de-escalation and conflict resolution within an anarchist context.

ACAB: "Hebron" Film Screening

Hebron is a documentary that examines to what extent human rights are realized in a Palestinian community under Israeli occupation.

Asheville Vegan Runners Monthly Meeting

Old and new vegans and runners meet to inspire and be inspired!

ACAB: Muffin Social and Letter Writing

Asheville FM Station Meeting

Asheville FM is a volunteer-based, grassroots community radio station broadcasting at 103.3 on the FM dial in Asheville, NC. Created by Friends of Community Radio, a 501(c)3 non-profit entity.

ACAB: Imagining Utopia

ACAB: Is Anarchism White?

This APOC-facilitated discussion delves into the racialized history of far left politics in the US and seeks to confront the perceived whiteness of American anarchism.

ACAB: Armed Community Self-defense

Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense has formulated basic arms classes based around decentering the toxic masculinity typically inherent in most weapons training environments.

Queer & Poly Meetup

ACAB: Pipeline Resistance in the South

Presenters will talk about how the fight against fossil fuel infrastructure has grown over the past four years in Virginia and also speak on the deeper implications of pipeline resistance.

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Original Recovery

A new approach to recovery ideology founded in the truth that there are multiple successful paths to varied, authentic lifestyles.

ASWOP Plan and Meet

Join Asheville Sex Workers Outreach Project to develop their plan to advocate for sex workers in the Asheville area.

Tranzmission Prison Project Packaging Party

An open, monthly volunteer event to help prepare books and zines for mailing to prisons across the United States.

"Malak" Author Reading and Signing

Jenny Sadre-Orafai reads and signs from her newest poetry collection, Malak.