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Collage Mind: A Collage Workshop

for Rising 8th graders thru Rising10th graders What happens when you take two things that seem unrelated—llke, say, visual art and writing, collage art and poetry, non-fiction and creativity, Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial...

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On Time and Place

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Saturday July 31, 2010 8:00 p.m. Jason Scott Furr and Vincent Wrenn present a collaborative performance based and constructed on the time and location of the performance itself, utilizing emerging data streams as well as...

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MadHat’s Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes

Saturday, November 20th, 7:00 - 9:00pm Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) at 56 Broadway in downtown Asheville is pleased to...

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Exhibiting Ray

GUEST LECTURE by Dr. Frances Beatty for the exhibition From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) Friday, May 21, 7:00 p.m. $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID Dr. Frances F. L. Beatty, Ph.D., Columbia University, Vice President of Richard L....

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Women of Black Mountain College Film Screenings

3 documentary films in 1 evening at the Fine Arts Theatre Thursday, June 11, 7:00 p.m. M.C. Richards: The Fire Within by Richard Kane + Melody Lewis-Kane Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth by Robert Snyder Josef and Anni Albers: Art is Everywhere by Sedat Pakay Fine Arts...

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HAPPENING

Kicking-Off Saturday Nights at Black Mountain College September 26, 8:00-12:00PM $7 for students + BMCM+AC members; $10 for everyone elsePhil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts Street, River Arts District A dance party explosion and fundraiser for the Black Mountain...

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Stan Vanderbeek: Avant-garde Filmmaker + Teacher

Thursday, December 3, 7:30 pm Johanna Vanderbeek will present and discuss the underappreciated films of her late husband Stan. Combining animation, painting and collage with a Dadaist sensibility, Vanderbeek made films in the 1950s and 60s that were beautifully...

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Double Blind (Love)

Telepresence performance Annie Abrahams. Living Room, Montpellier, France. Sunday November 29, from 6PM until the end of the performance (Living Room will remain open until 23:30PM). Curt Cloninger. Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, North...

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Poet/Activist Andrea Gibson

Yellowbird - CD Release Tour Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Friday, January 29th, 8:00 p.m. 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Admission: $10 Andrea Gibson (http://www.andreagibson.org) is not gentle with her truths. It is this raw fearlessness that has made...

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Asheville Fringe Arts Festival – Fringe Audio

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Friday and Saturday, January 22 and 23, 2010 - 8:00 pm $10 for BMCM+AC members, seniors and students w/ID / $12 for all others Free with Fringe Freak all-access Pass The Asheville Fringe Arts...

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How to Draw a Bunny

by John Walter and Andrew Moore The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the Fine Arts Theatre present the award-winning documentary How to Draw a Bunny as part of the exhibition From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) Thursday, April...

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BMCM + AC and The Captain’s Bookshelf present a

Reception and Reading to Celebrate North Carolina's New Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers Friday, April 30, 2010 - 7:00 PM BMC Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville Free The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The Captain's Bookshelf are...

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The Poetry Bomb – Tour of Words 2010

  May 23, 3:00 p.m. This is a free event, donations appreciated.   "I'm taking one of the most iconic images of destruction of the 20th century and turning it into something positive." S.A. Griffin The Poetry Bomb is a former Vietnam era...

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Write Soon Goon

  CLOSING NIGHT POETRY READING & PERFORMANCE for From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) Saturday, June 12, 7:00 p.m. $7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID {mosimage} In celebration of the recent four-month run of the Ray Johnson...

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Food for Thought 2010

A fundraiser for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center YMI Cultural Center - 39 S. Market Street, downtown Asheville Saturday, July 10, 2010 8:00 p.m. Food for Thought is a champagne and dessert party and live auction at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown...

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