Asheville Celebrates Black History Month

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by ohia design
on Monday, February 15, 2010

February is Black History Month and Asheville and surrounding communities celebrate with an array of events from lectures to art installations to jazz and pancakes.

You can find some beautiful photographs of Asheville's Black History online via UNCA's Special Collections in the Ramsey Library.

Feb. 16 at 7p.m. "Natural Woman," a documentary exploring the psychological attitudes that occur when African American women decide to wear their hair naturally." Location: UNC Asheville's Highsmith University Union Grotto.

Feb. 17 at 7p.m. Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker will give a reading. Location: UNC Asheville's Humanities Lecture Hall.

Feb. 20 at 8:30a.m. Martin Luthur King, Jr. & Black History Month Breakfast with guest speaker Rev. Charles Lee, pastor of the Liberty Baptist Church, Sylva, NC. Location: St. John 'A' Baptist Church, 20 Dalton Street in Asheville, NC.

Feb. 20 at 8:30 a.m. The 20th Annual Swannanoa Valley MLK, Jr. event. The event was rescheduled due to inclement weather. Tickets will be available at the door. Patrons $30 (tax-deductible), regular adult tickets are $10, children $5. Location: Camp Dorthy Walls, 1292 North Fork Rd., Black Mountain, NC.

Feb. 21 at 2:00p.m. "Angels & Visionaries - Asheville Women and Men of Color" will be presented by Helen Moseley Edington at the meeting of the Ethical Society of Asheville. Location: Botanical Gardens Visitor Center, 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd. All are welcome!

Feb. 21 at 7p.m. The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (IMA) will hold its Black Awareness Worship Service. The guest Minister will be Pastor Alphonso E. McGlen, formerly the pastor of St. James AME Church, and presently the pastor of Bethel AME Church of Greensboro, NC. Location: Hopkins Chapel AME Zion Church, College Street (next to the Allen Center), Asheville, NC.

Feb. 21 at 3p.m. Dedication of Nina Simone Sculpture in Polk County. "A heritage tourism celebration recognizing the unique contributions to the American songbook and to the national struggle for equal rights by local Western North Carolina (WNC) daughter Nina Simone." Location: Nina Simone Plaza 54 South Trade Street, Tryon, NC

Feb. 27 at 2p.m. Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts presents the 2nd Annual Black History Expo. Location: Stephens-Lee Recreation Center

Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. Step groups from across the Southeast will take center stage for the Black Student Association's "Step It Out 2010: Go Hard or Go Home!". Location: Crowne Plaza Tennis & Golf Resort Asheville.

March 2 at 8p.m. Esperanza Spalding will perform with her jazz ensemble. Location: UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium.

There are events year round in Asheville celebrating our diverse culture. One for example, Building Bridges of Asheville, offers nine week seminars on race relations and community building. Sessions are designed around the small group experience. Each series is special because the curriculum continues to evolve in response to suggestions made in previous series. The winter series is going on now at MAHEC but you can still attend the second series later this year. Just visit www.buildingbridges-asheville.org

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