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• Voices in the Laurel Christmas concert featuring the poetry of Robert Frost, traditional and international Christmas carols and a medley from “The Polar Express,” 2:15 to 2:45 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at historic Stewart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. Tickets for the matinee performance of the Lake Junaluska Singers and the Voices in the Laurel preshow are $16.50 for adult reserved ($15 general admission) and $8 for children, age 8 and under. 800.222.4930 or www.lakejunaluska.com/christmas. • “A Night Before Christmas” 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, downtown Waynesville. Shopping, candlelight carolers, Santa, horse drawn wagon rides, and more. No pets. www.downtownwaynesville.com or 456.3517 • Music, Mirth & Good Cheer, A Family Holiday Concert by the Blue Ridge Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, Colonial Theatre, 53 Park St., Canton. $15 general admission; $10 for Friends of the Blue Ridge Orchestra; $5 for students. Tickets available online www.blueridgeorchestra.org • Dillsboro Festival of Lights & Luminaries, dusk to 9 p.m., Dec. 7-8 and Dec. 14-17, downtown Dillsboro. Sing-alongs, horse-and-carriage rides, WCU students in renaissance costumes, children’s art in the courtyard, and Santa and Mrs. Claus at Town Hall. www.visitdillsboro.org or 800. 962.1911. • Voices in the Laurel Winter Silent Auction, noon to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Harrell Center, Lake Junaluska. • An Evening with Santa, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, Jackson County Family Resource Center (Old Webster School Building, Webster). For Jackson County families.
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HOLIDAY GIFT MAKING • Wreath Workshop, 10 a.m. to noon or 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, Haywood County Cooperative Extension Office, 589 Raccoon Road, Waynesville. Bring gloves and garden clippers. $20, register at 456.3575. Net proceeds to the Haywood County Extension Master Gardener Association grant program. • Holiday ARTSaturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Dec. 1, old Cowee Elementary School gym. Elementary-age children. Materials provided for make-and-take projects. Adults stay with their children. Arts Council, 524.7683 or www.artscouncilofmacon.org. • Glass classes: Holiday ornament, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 45-minute time slots, Saturday, Dec. 1, Jackson County Green Park, $30; Glass Tumbler, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 45minute time slots, Saturday, Dec. 15, Jackson County Green Energy Park, $40. Payment due at registration. No experience necessary. Ages 13-18 may participate with parent. Wear cotton clothing (no polyester) and closed shoes and long pants. 631.0271 or www.jcgep.org/classes.php. • Holiday Gift Creation at Stecoah Valley Center. Register at 479.3364 or stecoahvalleycenter.com. Holiday Cookie Exchange – 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3. $45; Filled and molded chocolates— 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4. $60; Christmas Victorian Tea – 1 to 3 p.m. Wed. Dec. 5.$45; Underground Railroad Messenger Doll—10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, $20 (includes materials); Corn Shuck Angel or Doll – 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13. $25 (includes materials). • Twined Basketry Workshop, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.; 12:45 to 2:45 p.m.; or 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, Harrell Center, Lake Junaluska. All ages. $15. Hosted by Haywood Community College Continuing Education Department. 565.4240 or register at Student Services or mail in registration form, found at http://www.haywood.edu/UserFiles/continuing_education/CERegistrati on_Form_inservice.pdf.
• Holiday Felting Workshop, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, $58 includes all supplies for a completed project. Bring several hand towels, sponge, large plas38 tic bag and an apron or overshirt. 565.4240 or register
at Student Services or mail in registration form, found at: www.haywood.edu/UserFiles/continuing_education/CERegistration_Form_inservice.pdf.
ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Western Carolina University music students jazz concerts, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, recital hall of the Coulter Building. Free. WCU School of Music, 227.7242 or go online to music.wcu.edu. • WCU’s Low Tech Ensemble will perform a gamelan degung from Western Java jointly with Warren Wilson College’s Gamelan Ensemble, playing Central Javanese gamelan, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, recital hall of the Coulter Building on the WCU campus. Free. 227.3258 or wpeebles@wcu.edu. • Chatterbox, DJ Dizzy, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, Essence Lounge, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. • Sounds of the Season fundraising concert 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University. Features student and faculty musicians from WCU’s School of Music. Reserved-seat tickets available in advance from the Bardo Arts Center box office at fapac.wcu.edu or 227.2479; $15 adults, $10 faculty/staff/seniors (60 and older), $5 for students, children. School of Music, 227.7242. • WCU Wind Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. The Wind Ensemble is the premiere instrumental performing ensemble in the WCU School of Music and comprises 54 of the top music students at WCU. School of Music, 227.7242 or visit music.wcu.edu. • Western Carolina Civic Orchestra fall concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, recital hall, Coulter Building, Western Carolina University. Free. 227.7242. • Karaoke, 8 to midnight, Thursday, Dec. 6, Essence Lounge, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. • Saloon Five, DJ Gallo, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., Friday, Dec. 7, Essence Lounge, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. • “A Christmas Carol,” 7:30 p.m. Dec 7, 8, 14, and 15; 3 p.m. Dec. 9 and 16; and 2 p.m. Dec. 15, at HART Theater, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. Tickets for evening performances are $20, adults; $17, seniors; and $7, students. Discounted tickets to matinees are $16, adults; $14, seniors; and $6, students. For reservations, call 456.6322 between 1 and 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, or go to www.harttheatre.com. • Contagious, DJ Moto, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8, Essence Lounge, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. • Karaoke, 8 p.m. to midnight, Thursday, Dec. 13, Essence Lounge, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. • Music Benefit for Full Moon Farm Rescue and Sanctuary, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, Black Mountain. Featuring guitarist Trey Merrill, singer/songwriter Paco Shipp, singer/songwriter David Cody, and others. 664.9818 or email info@fullmoonfarm.org. www.fullmoonfarm.org. • Hoss Howard, DJ Suave, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday, Dec. 14, Essence Lounge, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. • Scotty McCreery in concert, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center. Open to all ages. www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000. • KC and The Sunshine Band, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, Cherokee. Tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000. www.heykcsb.com • Styx, 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, 777 Casino Drive Cherokee. www.ticketmaster.com. • Tickets are now on sale for a 60-minute radio show of Tarzan of the Apes, performed before a live audience at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. $10. Proceeds to fund scholarships in participating academic departments.
Advance tickets suggested and can be purchased at the box office, 227.2479 or online at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu. Don Connelly, 227.3851 or dconnelly@wcu.edu. • Season tickets on sale for “An Appalachian Evening” Concert Series at historic Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center. Performances for the 2013 season will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, June 29 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. • The hour-long radio show Stories of Mountain Folk airs at 9 a.m. every Saturday on its home station, WRGC Jackson County Radio, 540 AM on the dial, broadcasting out of Sylva. Stories of Mountain Folk is an ongoing allsound oral history program produced by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia (CSA), a western North Carolina not-forprofit, for local radio and online distribution.
ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • Holiday Open House, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30 and Saturday, Dec. 1, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, Mud Dabber’s Pottery and Crafts, 20767 Great Smoky Mountain Expressway, (highway 23/74, Waynesville. Between the rest area and the Blue Ridge Parkway entrance at Balsam Gap. 456.1916, www.muddabbers.com. Refreshments and a free pottery cup while supplies last. • Art sale, It’s a Small, Small Work 2012, through Saturday, Dec. 29, Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Art sale of artwork 12 inches or smaller by more than 80 artists from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area in North Carolina. Most artwork priced between $20 and $80. None over $300. Encaustic works, painting, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, mixed media, collage, fiber, sculpture, woodworking, metal, jewelry, photography, and more. www.haywoodarts.org and on Facebook. 452.0593. • Guild Artists’ Holiday Sale Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 1 and Sunday, Dec. 2, at the Folk Art Center, milepost 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville. Southern Highland Craft Guild members will sell select work. More than 70 artists participating; different artists each weekend. 298.7928. www.craftguild.org. • The Waynesville Public Art Commission seeks an artist for its fourth outdoor public art project to be located in the Mini Park at the corner of Main and Depot Streets. The theme of the piece is Wildflowers of the Smokies to honor the historic connection between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Town of Waynesville. The selected artist will receive $12,500 for proposal development, fabrication and installation. www.townofwaynesville.org or call Town of Waynesville at 452.2491.
CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS • Glass classes: Holiday ornament, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 45-minute time slots, Saturday, Dec. 1, Jackson County Green Park, $30; Glass Tumbler, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 45minute time slots, Saturday, Dec. 15, Jackson County Green Energy Park, $40. Payment due at registration. No experience necessary. Ages 13-18 may participate with parent. Wear cotton clothing (no polyester) and closed shoes and long pants. 631.0271 or www.jcgep.org/classes.php. • Ceramic Firing Techniques featuring Linda Christianson and the WCU Ceramics Department, through Dec. 5, Jackson County Green Energy Park, 100 Green Energy Park Road, Dillsboro. www.jcep.org. • North Carolina Glass 2012: In Celebration of 50 Years of Studio Glass in America, exhibit through Friday, Feb. 1, Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University.
• The Cherokee County Arts Council and the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center are offering classes made possible with grants through Handmade In America and the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. For details: 479.3364, kathleen@cherokeeartscouncil.org, or www.cherokeeartscouncil.org/craft-labs-for-artists/ • Art classes with Dominick DePaolo, 10 a.m. to noon on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at the Old Armory Building, 44 Boundary St. in Waynesville and from 1 to 3 p.m. every Friday at Mountain Home Collection at 110 Miller St., Waynesville. Watercolor classes will be offered from 10 a.m. to noon every Monday and oil painting classes from 1 to 3 p.m. every Monday at the Uptown Gallery in Franklin. Registration requested. For Armory classes call 456.9918; for Home Collection classes call 456.5441; for Franklin classes call 349.4607. • Catch the Spirit of Appalachia will host Creative writing workshops. $35. For details: 631.4587 or www.spiritofappalachia.org. • The Smoky Mountain Knitting Guild is offering free Learn to Knit classes for both adults and children at the Waynesville Library on Tuesdays. The adult class meets from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Children (boys and girls ages 8-12) meet from 5 to 6 p.m. Pre-registration required. 246.0789.
FILM & SCREEN • Movie Night, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Call library for movie title. 586.2016. • Food for Thought Film Series, “Grow,” free documentary film, 6 p.m. Monday Dec. 10, Clayton Municipal Complex, highway 76 West. This award-winning documentary, filmed in Georgia, follows a new generation of sustainable farmers. 706.782.7978 or smlcinc@windstream.net.
MUSIC JAMS • Rye Holler Boys, First Thursday Old-Time and Bluegrass Jam Series, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center, ground floor of H.F. Robinson Administration Building. Jam session to follow at 8 p.m. Local musicians invited to participate. 227.7129.
Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Old Growth Hike, 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 with Georgia ForestWatch Ecologist Darren Wolfgang to an old growth cove forest in the Upper Mill Creek watershed of the Ed Jenkins National Recreation Area of the Chattahoochee National Forest in north Georgia. Meet at 9 a.m. at the Georgia ForestWatch office, 15 Tower Road, Ellijay, GA to caravan to Upper Mill Creek. Five to six-mile hike, moderate to strenuous, off trail. Bring lunch, water, rain gear if showers are expected, appropriate clothing and footwear, walking stick if needed, epi-pen, if needed. Limited to 10; no pets. Smoke free. Register by calling 706.635.8733. • 113th annual Christmas Bird Counting with Highlands Plateau Audubon, 7 a.m. Friday, Dec. 14. Binoculars available. $5 chili will follow. Call Brock Hutchins at 787.1387 or 404.295.0663 or brockhutchins@bellsouth.net for location and other details. • Sons of the American Legion Turkey Shoot, 9 a.m. every Saturday, Legion Drive, Waynesville. Benefits local charities. • The local Audubon Society is offering weekly Saturday birding field trips. Meet at 7:30 a.m. in the