HAPPENING: Kicking-Off Saturday Nights at Black Mountain College

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by Gillian Coats
on Wednesday, September 16, 2009

A dance party explosion and fundraiser for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The Media Arts Project

September 26, 8 - 12 pm

$7 for students + BMCM+AC members; $10 for everyone else

Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts Street, River Arts District

Along with The Media Arts Project (MAP), the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will sponsor HAPPENING, a fundraiser dance party in the heart of the River Arts District of Asheville. This exciting event will raise money for the Museum's "Living Legacy: Living Artists of Black Mountain College" exhibition series, and is the official kick-off celebration to announce an exciting new series of Saturday Night Events at the original dining hall of the Black Mountain College.

Wedge Microbrewery will provide the beer. DJ Trevor Baker will be spinning records. Come early to enjoy the yummy food and to view the art installation downstairs in the Flood Gallery space. There will also be a salon in the upstairs library, hosted by Jolene Mechanic, where you can learn more about the college, our organizations, and our exciting upcoming events series.

Back in the day students and staff at Black Mountain College got together on Saturday nights to entertain each other with music, dance, poetry, theater or whatever they were moved to share.

"Saturday night parties were...a tradition at Black Mountain...for that one night in the week everybody put on shoes and dressed up: the women in dresses and stockings, the men in ties and jackets. Booze for the party was supplied by the student home-brew master on campus..." Michael Rumaker, Black Mountain Days

Starting this fall, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The MAP are hosting a series of Saturday Night dinner and entertainment in this vein but with a fresh new twist. So be at HAPPENING, Saturday, September 26 at the Phil Mechanic Building to revive the Black Mountain College Saturday night tradition. More information can be found at www.blackmountaincollege.org or by calling 828.350.8484

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center preserves and continues the unique legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain College for public study and enjoyment. We achieve our mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications, and public programs.

The Flood Fine Art Center is a non-profit contemporary art organization dedicated to bringing excellent, provocative art to Asheville from artists working around the world. We seek out art that is provocative, challenging, daring, relevant, and important. We believe that there are great things happening in the world of art, and we want to bring those things to Asheville.

The MAP helps promote and grow the media arts in WNC. Founded in 2003, the MAP helped establish public access television for Asheville and Buncombe County. Since then, we have sponsored, incubated and hosted our way through many projects including HATCHAsheville, Quarks to Quasars, the 48 Hour Film Festival, and our monthly event: "Off the MAP". We partner with projects that help create media arts jobs and opportunities in our region. Learn more at www.themap.org.