Christmas Corner​
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November & December
in the BMCA Lobby
Get your holiday shopping done and support our local artists at the same time! Visit BMCA during the months of November and December to check out the "Christmas Corner" in our lobby. This area will feature holiday themed ceramics made by the potters and students in the BMCA Clay Studio!
Handmade Ornament Sale​
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November & December
in the BMCA Lobby
What better to adorn your tree with than an ornament made right here in your community? BMCA will have a beautiful tree set up in our lobby through December 22nd featuring handmade ornaments made by local artists. Grab one for you and a friend, and support local this holiday season!
Handmade Holidays!​
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Local Pottery & Art Market
December 2-9
in the BMCA Theater
Look no further for that perfect one-of-a-kind gift. BMCA’s Handmade Holidays has everything you need, and some things you just want for the holidays. Come by 225 W. State Street any weekday from 10:00-5:00 December 2nd through 9th to buy these incredible locally-made items. Or stop by during Black Mountain’s Holly Jolly celebration on December 6th until 7:30pm for some extra sweet treats. The BMCA Ceramic Student & Instructor Exhibit will also open in our gallery on the 6th, so come by for the market and stay for the reception!
An Artful Journey:
A morning of art, conversation, and gourmet treats
Exploring the Best Art Exhibitions of 2024 with Art Historian Julianna Caro
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Wednesdays 10:30am-12pm
September 25 (Paris—Impressionism)
October 16 (New York—The Harlem Renaissance
November 13 (London—Sargent and Fashion)
December 11 (Venice—The 2024 Biennale)
$25 per lecture, refreshments included
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Join us for an artful journey to the world’s most exciting art centers: Paris, New York, London, and Venice to virtually tour this year’s best museum exhibitions. Each artful journey will begin with a delightful morning drink and pastry followed by an inspiring lecture and discussion with art historian and curator Julianna Caro. Together we will enjoy time to visit and connect and to learn about the birth of Impressionism, the African American artists of the Harlem Renaissance, John Singer Sargent’s use of fashion in his portraiture, and the oldest and most important contemporary art exhibition, the Venice Biennale.
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Julianna Caro is an art historian and curator based in Asheville. Formerly professor of Art History and chair of the Art department at Warren Wilson College, she has curated exhibitions for the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Center for Craft. Recently, Caro started The Artisan Tour by Julianna, which offers art, culture, and food tours in downtown Black Mountain and Asheville and week-long cultural and restorative experiences in Italy.
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Kellin Watson
and Friends
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December 14th • 7pm
Tickets $20​
​Ring in the holiday season with a myriad of musicians! Kellin Watson and some talented friends will be taking the BMCA stage. Featured musicians are Aaron Price, Stephanie Morgan, Rebekah Todd, and Seth Walker, Kevin Patrick Murphy, The Walker Family Band, & more!.
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Kellin Watson is an internationally-touring singer-songwriter, whose award-winning sound blends elements of blues, pop, folk, and soul. Hailing from Black Mountain, NC, Kellin draws on her Appalachian roots to bring both power and rawness to her music. She has worked with/opened for a wide range of notable artists such as: Amos Lee, Little Feat, Susan Tedeschi, The Duhks, Crash Test Dummies, The Wood Brothers, Seth Walker, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Walter Wolfman Washington, Gordie Sampson, members of Band of Horses, and several others. Kellin's songs have been featured on film, tv and commercials such as, CBS’s The Good Wife, Degrassi: The Next Generation, GMC’s Trinity Goodheart, several independent films, in addition to sync commercial work, globally. In 2017, Kellin began to take a step back from touring and making records to focus on having children. She is slowly making her way back into live performances again, and is excited to have one of her first full live shows back out, at BMCA!
December Gathering of
Harp and Story
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SOLD OUT - December 15th • 2pm
BONUS SHOW - Dec 15th • 7pm
Tickets $15​
Sit back and get ready for an afternoon of Classy and Sassy as Martha Geouge Hill, Celtic harper, and Cynthia Geouge Davis, author and storyteller, combine their sisterly stylings of music making and humor in a holiday performance!​
Martha Geouge Hill is an award-winning Celtic harper, composer, and arranger who has performed regionally, nationally and internationally. She is a founding member of the Celtic trio Stone’s Throw as well as a founding member of Banrigh, a Celtic harp ensemble. Her musical selections will include both traditional and original Celtic compositions, all beautifully arranged and performed by this gifted artist.
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Cynthia Geouge Davis, author of Catfish Corner, a collection of humorous Southern short stories, revisits Catfish Corner for the holidays. Christmas in Catfish Corner will share the secrets of how Vera’s veneers got into the fruitcake batter, and don’t forget those Three Wise Men who learned the hazards of not wearing long pants underneath their bathrobes when they placed their gifts at the manger. And, speaking of the manger, who stole Da Baby Jesus out of the Baptist’s nativity scene?
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So, come! Join The Sisters for a delightful December afternoon of music and merry. Their blend of sisterly love, award-winning musical talent, and Southern humor will leave you wishing you hung on their family tree.
Reasonably Priced Babies
Improv Comedy
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December 20th • 7pm
Tickets $20​
RPB is a formidable improv comedy group consisting of Tom Chalmers, Mondy Carter, Karen Stobbe, Kim Richardson and Josh Batenhorst.
This is how it works: RPBs will ask the audience for suggestions and then they make that come to technicolor life. Get ready to be a part of the experience because this show will push the envelope of ridiculous fun.
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
December 21st @ 7pm
December 22nd @ 2pm
Tickets $22, youth (up to 17) $15
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A special holiday addition to our 24/25 season! You may think you know Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” by heart. But we promise you’ve never seen anything quite like Mark Cabus’ acclaimed solo performance of this beloved holiday classic.
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In his ingenious adaptation of the 1843 novella, Cabus takes on more than 18 characters, engaging audiences with his quick wit and capturing the true spirit of the season. An accomplished actor, writer, director and producer, Cabus has performed this particular show for an estimated 22,000 people throughout the Southeast.
BMCA Instructors Concert
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January 18th • 7pm
Tickets $15
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The BMCA instructors are back for another performance! The Black Mountain Center for the Arts rings in the new year with our annual Instructors Concert on Saturday, January 18 at 7pm. BMCA is blessed to work with many wonderful professional musicians through our Junior Appalachian Musicians program and private lessons. We love to highlight their great talent with a yearly concert. You’ll experience a variety of music from several different genres as instructors perform individual and collaborative pieces. Join us in celebrating the wonderful musicianship that lives here at BMCA. Grab some friends and get your tickets now!
A portion of the proceeds from this concert will help support the Swannanoa Community Chorus at BMCA.
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Featured musicians:
Travis Stuart (JAM)
Ryan Furstenberg (guitar instructor)
Maddy Mullany (JAM)
Clarke Williams (JAM)
Kelsey Crabtree (violin instructor)
Ryan Crabtree (bass instructor)
Cary Fridley (JAM)
Rachel Waterhouse (piano instructor)
Alison Adams (vocal instructor)
A Turnpike Sunset
by Tom Godleski
January 31-February 2
Fri & Sat 7pm, Sun 2pm
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Tom Godleski has written local legends into songs and turned family stories into scripts. Turnpike Sunset is about a group of 19th century drovers who are sitting around a campfire, telling stories, singing, and talking about trials and tribulation of life on the drover’s road. The road itself was called The Buncombe Turnpike, and was crucial to the economy of Asheville and surrounding areas of Western North Carolina. The show is filled with funny anecdotes, history, and music. The music in
the show is performed by members of the Asheville bluegrass group, Buncombe Turnpike. The show is set in 1861, so Godleski was sure that the musical instruments used in the show are authentic to the time period. “My grandfather meant for these stories to be shared and I am happy to share them,” explains Tom.
Zoe & Cloyd
Valentine's concert
February 15 • 7pm
Tickets $25
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2025 marks the 10-year anniversary of Zoe & Cloyd, which grew out of the partnership of fiddler/vocalist Natalya Zoe Weinstein and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist John Cloyd Miller. The duo has been performing at the BMCA in various incarnations since 2005 and they are excited to celebrate this important milestone of Zoe & Cloyd at their annual show in February. This show will be a special retrospective and celebration of their music over the past ten years.
I Hate Hamlet
by Paul Rudnick
February 21-March 2
Fri & Sat 7pm, Sun 2pm
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I Hate Hamlet is a dramatic comedy written in 1991 by Paul Rudnick. Set in John Barrymore's old apartment in New York City - at the time, the author's real-life home - the play follows successful television actor Andrew Rally as he struggles with taking on the dream role of Hamlet, dealing with a girlfriend who is keeping a firm grip on her chastity, and playing host to the ghost of John Barrymore, who, clothed as Hamlet, has come back to earth for the sole purpose of convincing Rally to play the part. Andrew must then face the ultimate question: whether to be or not to be.
Groupo los Santos​
Concert
March 9th • 7pm
Tickets $20
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Grupo los Santos is a NYC-based quartet of guitar, bass, drums and tap dance/body percussion, often augmented with Afro-Cuban batá drums. A funky, rootsy, weirdly eclectic jam-band which pulls equally from the traditions of jazz, rock, funk, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian, and whatever else they come across. Formed in 1998, Santos has played concerts throughout the U.S.A., (including New York’s famed Town Hall), Cuba and Europe.
A Slice of Life:​
An evening of stories
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March 29th • 7pm
Tickets $18 in advance/$22 at the door
Join nationally celebrated storyteller Connie Regan-Blake as she welcomes her storytelling workshop participants to the stage for “A Slice of Life: An Evening of Stories.” This year's tellers are TBA.
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Connie is emceeing this evening of unique voices. The last several “Slice of Life” shows have been sell-outs – so get your tickets early!
Book Launch:​
"Perpetuonics"
by Jeffrey Melvin Hutchins
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April 13th • 2pm
Free Event
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This event is a launch party for the novel “Perpetuonics”, a futuristic cautionary tale. Jeff, the author, will provide refreshments and have books to sign and sell. The event will include a reading by the author, a staged reading of a dramatized section of the book, and a Q&A with the author.
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In the near future, young tech entrepreneur Declan Marchand invents Perpetuonics, a method of digitizing a living person's character, knowledge, emotions, and memories — and then bringing that person back into "existence" after death. These Digital beINGS — Dings in shorthand — can theoretically “live” forever. They reside in massive servers, where they communicate with living people with the help of a living Compadore. They are also, of course, subject to rules and restrictions . . . until they begin to discover their own power.
Red
by John LOgan
May 9-18
Fri & Sat 7pm, Sun 2pm
Set in New York City in 1959, RED is an explosive exploration of the creative process. The play takes place during a crucial moment in the career of renowned Abstract-Expressionist artist Mark Rothko as he prepares for his greatest commission, a series of murals in New York’s prestigious Four Seasons restaurant. A two-person show, RED reveals Rothko and his assistant Ken as Rothko struggles to fulfill his vision of creating a sacred space for his deeply emotional paintings in the temple of “status and conspicuous consumption” that is the Four Seasons. What follows is a series of clashes between the fiery and domineering Rothko and his young, impressionable assistant. RED is produced by Mockingbird Theatre Productions, the company that brought Birds of North America and Popcorn Falls to the BMCA stage. Veteran actor John Hall portrays the combative and creative Rothko!