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next to a roaring fire. Light refreshments. Free. 800.438.1601, visitcherokeenc.com.
Mann. Free, but tickets required. 227.2479 or FriendsOfTheArts.wcu.edu.
• Sept. 1 is the deadline to apply for a booth for the second annual Christmas Craft Fair, Saturday, Dec. 7, Canton Armory. 10x10 booth without tables, $25. 10x10 booth with two tables, $45. Booth fees go to a local charity. Carolyn Surrett, 648.0101 or email Denise Cairnes, mdcairnes@att.net.
• Pianist and composer Michael Jefry Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, recital hall of WCU’s Coulter Building. Free. WCU School of Music, 227.7242.
• Fireworks Over Cashiers, Sunday, Sept. 1. Hosted by The Village Green and GCAMA. Live music by The Extraoridnaires. No coolers. www.VisitCashiersValley.com. • 40th annual Fall Regional Shelby/Mustang & Ford Meet, noon to 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Free admission for spectators, rain or shine. Rick Hayslip, 678.378.5799, jrhayslip@yahoo.com; Northeast Georgia Mustang Club on FaceBook, or http://negeorgiamustangclub.org. • The Haywood Chamber of Commerce is accepting applications for artists and crafters – as well as craft demonstrators – for the 25th annual Haywood County Apple Harvest Festival, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct.19, Historic Main Street downtown Waynesville. Deadline for applications is Aug. 30. Booth space assignments for the festival will be announced after October 4. Applications available at HaywoodAppleFest.com or by calling 456.3021.
LITERARY (ADULTS)
Aug. 28-Sept. 3, 2013
• Let’s Talk About It book discussion, 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, auditorium of the Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville. Book is Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan. Nordan won the Southern Book Critics Award for this novel. Merritt Mosely of UNC-Asheville will lead the discussion. Linda Arnold, 456.5311 or at stanandlinda@charter.net. • Asheville writer and columnist Susan Reinhardt will present her new novel Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle at 3 p.m. Saturday Aug. 31, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. 586.9499. • Gary Carden booksigning,1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1, City Lights Bookstore, 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva. Carden’s new book is Appalachian Bestiary. GCarden498@aol.com, 586.9499.
ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Bean Sidhe (pronounced: ban-shee), 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, Marianna Black Library, corner of Academy and Rector streets, Bryson City. Premier Celtic band of the Smokies. 488.3030, www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity. • Almost, Maine, Aug. 29-Sept. 1, Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands, 526.8084, highlandscashiersplayers.org.
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• Thursdays at the Library, music with Eric Hendrix, 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, Macon County Public Library Meeting Room. 524.3600. • An Appalachian Evening Concert Series at historic Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center. 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, through Aug. 31. General seating $120 adults, $40 students (K-12); season reserved seats are $50 rows A through E and $25 all others. www.StecoahValleyCenter.com or call 479.3364. • Rehearsals for Community Chorus Christmas concert, 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, First United Methodist Church, 566 S. Haywood St., Waynesville. 456.1020 or 452.0156.
• Belchers and Friends, an evening of music and dance, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University. Featuring Chancellor David O. Belcher, a classically trained concert pianist, and wife Susan Brummell Belcher, a professional opera singer and vocal teacher, and other WCU performers, including 40 recent Tony Award-nominated Broadway star Terrence
• Champion mountain dulcimer players, Lois Hornbostel and Ehukai Teves, 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, Swain County Center for the Arts, Bryson City. Eugenia (Jenny) Johnson, 488.7843, www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta. • Auditions for “The Heiress,” 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8 and Monday, Sept. 9, HART, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville.
NIGHT LIFE • The Two Armadillos, acoustic duo , 6 p.m. Aug. 2930, Nick and Nate’s Pizza, 111 Main St. Waynesville. • Live music: Angela Faye Martin, 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30; A Man Called Bruce, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14; Liz & AJ Nance, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24; and Tina & Her Pony, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, City Lights Café, Sylva. • Tribute to Elvis and Conway Twitty, 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, Chris Monteith and Ray Wike, Papou’s Wine Shop and Wine Bar, Sylva.
OUTDOOR MUSIC • Lisa Price Band, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, Concerts on the Creek, downtown Sylva at Bridge Park. 800.962.1911. • Hurricane Creek, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, Groovin’ on the Green, Village Commons, Cashiers. • Music in the Mountains Free Evening Concert Series, 6:30 p.m. Saturdays, through Oct. 26, Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Depot, Bryson City. 872.4681. • Bryson City band jakleg, 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, downtown Bryson City.
DANCE • Pisgah Promenaders Square Dance Club beginners square dance lessons , 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, Old Armory Recreation Center, Waynesville.
ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • Jackson County Arts Council is now accepting proposals for regional artist exhibitions in the Rotunda Gallery on the first floor of the Historic Jackson County Courthouse, part of the Jackson County Library Complex on Courthouse Hill. www.jacksoncountyarts.org, Norma Hendrix, 342.6913. • “Avian Perspectives,” a bird art exhibition featuring paintings, carvings and photography by local artists, will run through Aug. 31, Hudson Library, Main Street, Highlands.
• “Contemporary Traditions” new exhibit featuring local artists, Sept. 5-28, Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville. Artist reception, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6. www.haywoodarts.org, www.facebook.com/haywoodarts.
• Highlands Plateau Audubon Society beginner’s bird walk, Saturday, Sept. 3, select areas of Highlands. Meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Highlands Town Hall parking area to car pool. 743.9670, www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org.
• Regional fine artists are invited to show and demonstrate their art form at ColorFest, Art & Taste of Appalachia in fall 2013. Applications available at spiritofappalachia.org or 293.2239.
• Volunteer Trail Work Days, 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, Kelsey Trail. Meet at the Highland-Cashiers Land Trust office at the Peggy Crosby Center in Highlands or contact Kyle at ste.hitrust@earthlink.net, 526.1111.
CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS • Exhibit featuring works by WNC painter Elizabeth Ellison and fabric crafter Ann Smith, through Sept. 2, North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org, 665.2492. • Doreyl Ammons Cain, 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, Swain County Center for the Arts, Bryson City. Cain will demonstrate the four-step process of creating a historical mural. www.spiritofappalachia.org, 488.7843, www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta. • Beginning Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom, 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, Sept. 3-Oct. 3, Creative Arts Building, Haywood Community College. Cost is $105 plus supplies. To register, please visit Student Services. 565.4240. • ColorFest artists work displayed, Sept. 5—October 5, Dillsboro shops. www.colofestartblog.com.
FILM & SCREEN • New movie, 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, Meeting Room, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. Stars Matt Damon, Hal Holbrook, and Frances McDormand. Rated R for language. 524.3600. • “King – From Montgomery to Memphis,” 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, Niggli Theatre, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee. Documentary, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famed “I Have a Dream” speech. Jack Sholder, director of WCU’s Film and TV Production Program and an editor of the 1970 Academy-Award nominated documentary, will take part in a panel discussion.227.2324 or jsholder@wcu.edu. • Classic 1943 movie, 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, Meeting Room, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. Stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. 524.3600. • Family movie, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. Animated adventure. 488.3030. • Classic 1937 movie starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche, 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, Macon County Library, Franklin. 524.3600. The O’Leary brothers become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
• Painter Kel Tanner solo exhibition, through Sept. 2, Haywood County Arts Council’s Gallery 86, downtown Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org. • Public Art Project Dedication for Grace Cathey’s “Wildflowers of the Smokies,” 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, corner of Depot and Main streets, downtown Waynesville. 452.2491. • Stained glass course, 9 a.m. to noon, Mondays, Sept. 9-Oct. 28, Haywood Community College, Clyde. Taught by George Kenney. $148, students responsible for purchasing their own glass. All other supplies included. 627.4500, 565.4240. • Southern Lights, a colorful exhibition, through Sept. 1, The Bascom, Highlands. www.thebascom.com. • Green Biennial Invitational Exhibition featuring nine new sculptures, through Dec. 31, the Village Green Commons, Cashiers. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com, 743.3434.
Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Blue Ridge Parkway rangers guided hike, 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 30, base of Mount Hardy in the Middle Prong Wilderness Area. Three miles, moderate in difficulty. Meet at Rough Butt Bald Overlook, near Milepost 425, just south of Devils Courthouse. 298.5330 x304. • Franklin Bird Club and Audubon Society join bird walk, Saturday, Aug. 31, along Franklin’s Greenway. Highlands/Cashiers folks meet at 7:15 a.m. in the Highlands Town Hall parking lot to carpool. Franklin people should meet at 8 a.m. in the Franklin Library parking.www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org.
• Sports Films fundraiser, 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, Carolina Cinemas, Ashville. REI event to support Trips for Kids WNC. See Epic big mountain ski and snowboard descents, nail-biting speed climbing, stomach turning kayaking drops. http://tripsforkidswnc.com/, www.carolinacinemas.com/asheville. VIP tickets available for $30. http://www.rei.com/event/52348/session/75434. Register/Info: rei.com/Asheville.
PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS • Ecology and Evolution in Las Islas Encantadas - A Darwin-Inspired Exploration of the Galapagos Islands, by Jim Costa, executive director, Highlands Biological Station, 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, Highlands Nature Center, 930 Horse Cove Road, Highlands. The free talk is part of the Zahner Conservation Lectures. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221. • Wild Things Weekend, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, Jubilee Community Center on Wall Street in downtown Asheville. • Hunter safety courses, 6 to 9:30 p.m. Sept. 3-5, Haywood Community College Auditorium, left side. Must attend three consecutive evenings to receive certification. Free. Additional hunter safety courses offered Oct. 28-30 and Nov. 4-6. Must register online to attend any session. Register at www.ncwildlife.org.
COMPETITIVE EDGE • Caddyshack Open, Saturday, Sept. 7, Sapphire National Golf Club , Cashiers. Texas Scramble format. Prizes include $10,000 Hole-in-One, week in Cancun, cash and more. 743.5191 for reservations. Space is limited. • Eighth annual WNC Run/Walk For Autism, 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, UNC-Asheville Asheville Track Club Grand Prix series. 5K Run/Walk, 1K Fun Run/Walk. Proceeds support the programs and services of the Autism Society of North Carolina in western North Carolina. www.wncrunwalkforautism.org.
FARM & GARDEN • Sylva Garden Club meeting, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, Fellowship Hall of the First Presbyterian Church, Sylva. • Seed saving expert Keith Nicholson, 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, Macon County Public Library Meeting Room. 524.3600.
FARMER’S & TAILGATE MARKETS Bryson City • Swain Tailgate Market Organic produce, plants, trout, honey, jams, quail and rabbit as well as an array of local crafts. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays, Main Street behind the historic courthouse downtown. 488.3848. www.greatsmokies.com.
Cherokee • Cherokee Farmers Tailgate Market Fresh local, organic and heirloom produce. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays, Acquoni Road, Cherokee. 554.6931.
Stecoah • Stecoah Tailgate Market The Stecoah Tailgate Market, 8 to 11 a.m., Wednesdays, at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center. 479.3364. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.