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The WNC Pottery Festival returns to Bridge Park in Sylva on Nov. 7. Launched in 2005 and originally held in Dillsboro, the one-day event draws thousands of spectators and dozens of vendors. Its highlight is …

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The Asheville Symphony gives the US premiere of Gabriel Prokofiev's Concerto for Minimoog Synthesizer and Orchestra on Saturday, November 14, at First Baptist Church of Asheville, with performances at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Pianist …

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The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is restoring two-thirds of a mile of Raven Fork at Big Cove on the Qualla Boundary through an $11 million project. The project removes a deteriorating dam and collapsed …

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The Weaverville Art Safari is a free, self-guided studio tour on Saturday, November 7, and Sunday, November 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. This fall, the juried tour includes 85 artists at …

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The Save the Woods campaign, representing more than 18,500 petition signers, asked Asheville City Council on Oct. 27 to pass a resolution in favor of preserving the woods at UNC Asheville. The resolution asks UNCA …

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Ordinary Beauty is a group exhibition at Asheville Gallery of Art, 82 Patton Avenue in Asheville, featuring acrylic painter Beth Ammons, watercolorist Laura Frisbie and Matt Levin, whose work explores rust and natural oxidation. The …

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Tryon Fine Arts Center is showing 50 restored photographs by Jane Saxman Brown, who documented five decades of life in Tryon and Polk County. The exhibition in the Jeanne Parker Gallery runs through Dec. 18 …

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Downtown Hendersonville's 24th annual Bearfootin' Bear Auction raised a record $145,700 for local nonprofits. Over two weeks of virtual bidding, 80 bidders placed 327 bids, and six bears sold through Buy Now for $10,000 each. …

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The Swain County Heritage Museum, on the second floor of the former Swain County Courthouse at 2 Everett St. in Bryson City, documents early settlers, Horace Kephart and the conservation movement, the timber industry, and …

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Elk are back in Western North Carolina after vanishing around 1800. The National Park Service released 52 elk into Cataloochee Valley in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2001 and 2002, and more than 200 …