2019 Blue Ridge Pride Festival: Becoming Our Greatest Selves – Together Festival Week Calendar | 1 Community Event Benefit Just for Fun! Friday 9/20 Senior Prom LGBTQ Elder Advocates 7 PM to 10 PM @ Eleven on Grove / Club 11, 11 Grove Street Tickets: $15 per individual, $25 per couple. Pay cash or check at door. Free parking available across the street. Did you atend your high school prom? If not, join us at ours. If so, come again and relive the fun! Prom/party attire welcome, or come as you are. Now is your chance to wear what you wish you could have worn to your prom. We're celebrating the past 5 decades of Pride, so bring on the retro outfits! Featuring tunes by DJ Sherry, a photo booth, heavy hors d'oeuvres and special musical guest. LGBTQ Elder Advocates gratefully acknowledge support from Givens Communities & AARP. Evite Event | Facebook Event | LGBTQ Elder Advocates | Givens Communities | AARP NC | Eleven on Grove / Club 11 Friday 9/20 Tuck It Up Buttercup! Banks Ave Dancing 10 PM, Showtime 11:30 PM @ Banks Ave, 32 Banks Avenue A Drag & Dancing spectacle you must see! Music provided by DJ Deven and emcee Margaritte bring you a night of interactive drag and dance music to fill your needs! With an ever-changing lineup, each event will blend well-known, established queens/kings with up-and-coming queens/kings from the community and surrounding areas. Tonight’s Drag Performers: Margaritte (Randy Rodríguez), Ida Carolina, Jordan S. Kestner Facebook Event | Banks Ave Saturday 9/21 Party Foul Drag Show Odditorium Doors 9 PM Show 10:30 PM @ Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road | $10 18+ Asheville's favorite punk Drag Show is at it with a special Disco themed show! Come out and boogie woogie oogie your cares away! We'll be bringing you our regular debauchery, filth, and camp with a bit of 70s flair. Drag! Drinks! Dancing! Facebook Event | Odditorium Sunday 9/22 Pride Week Kickball Games Stonewall Sports – Asheville | Wicked Weed West 12 pm to 3 pm @ Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 Apac Dr, Asheville “Kick” off Blue Ridge Pride Week by cheering on athletes from the LGBTQAI+ community and straight allies playing in Stonewall Sports Asheville’s inaugural kickball league. Blue Ridge Pride Center will be on hand with free Pride swag. Bring your camping chairs, coolers, + shade structures as you raise your voice in support of inclusive social sports in western North Carolina. Games are at noon, 1:00, and 2:00. Stonewall Sports is about low-cost, high-fun, inclusive leagues AND getting to know new friends. Our post-game social will take place at Wicked Weed West. It's close to the playing fields, has a food truck, and allows families. Plan to play, cheer, and celebrate! We'd also like to get a group photo with as many players as possible at around 1:45 -- just before the final games of the day. Facebook Event | Stonewall Sports – Asheville | Wicked Weed West
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Community Event Benefit Just for Fun!
Friday 9/20 Senior Prom LGBTQ Elder Advocates 7 PM to 10 PM @ Eleven on Grove / Club 11, 11 Grove Street Tickets: $15 per individual, $25 per couple. Pay cash or check at door. Free parking available across the street. Did you atend your high school prom? If not, join us at ours. If so, come again and relive the fun! Prom/party attire welcome, or come as you are. Now is your chance to wear what you wish you could have worn to your prom. We're celebrating the past 5 decades of Pride, so bring on the retro outfits! Featuring tunes by DJ Sherry, a photo booth, heavy hors d'oeuvres and special musical guest. LGBTQ Elder Advocates gratefully acknowledge support from Givens Communities & AARP.
Evite Event | Facebook Event | LGBTQ Elder Advocates | Givens Communities | AARP NC | Eleven on Grove / Club 11
Friday 9/20 Tuck It Up Buttercup! Banks Ave Dancing 10 PM, Showtime 11:30 PM @ Banks Ave, 32 Banks Avenue A Drag & Dancing spectacle you must see! Music provided by DJ Deven and emcee Margaritte bring you a night of interactive drag and dance music to fill your needs! With an ever-changing lineup, each event will blend well-known, established queens/kings with up-and-coming queens/kings from the community and surrounding areas. Tonight’s Drag Performers: Margaritte (Randy Rodríguez), Ida Carolina, Jordan S. Kestner
Facebook Event | Banks Ave
Saturday 9/21 Party Foul Drag Show Odditorium Doors 9 PM Show 10:30 PM @ Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road | $10 18+ Asheville's favorite punk Drag Show is at it with a special Disco themed show! Come out and boogie woogie oogie your cares away! We'll be bringing you our regular debauchery, filth, and camp with a bit of 70s flair. Drag! Drinks! Dancing!
Facebook Event | Odditorium
Sunday 9/22 Pride Week Kickball Games Stonewall Sports – Asheville | Wicked Weed West 12 pm to 3 pm @ Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 Apac Dr, Asheville “Kick” off Blue Ridge Pride Week by cheering on athletes from the LGBTQAI+ community and straight allies playing in Stonewall Sports Asheville’s inaugural kickball league. Blue Ridge Pride Center will be on hand with free Pride swag. Bring your camping chairs, coolers, + shade structures as you raise your voice in support of inclusive social sports in western North Carolina. Games are at noon, 1:00, and 2:00. Stonewall Sports is about low-cost, high-fun, inclusive leagues AND getting to know new friends. Our post-game social will take place at Wicked Weed West. It's close to the playing fields, has a food truck, and allows families. Plan to play, cheer, and celebrate! We'd also like to get a group photo with as many players as possible at around 1:45 -- just before the final games of the day.
2019 Blue Ridge Pride Festival: Becoming Our Greatest Selves – Together Festival Week Calendar | 2 Sunday 9/22 The Sunday Reveal Banks Ave Music: 5pm, Show: 6pm @ Banks Ave, 32 Banks Avenue. No cover. The Sunday Reveal is not your average burlesque show! Hosted by Asheville native, EE Cumming (Elizabeth Evans), this FREE show combines all that you love about burlesque (boobs) with so much more! With acts inspired by circus arts, drag, viral videos, the nerd universe, and whatever bizarre ideas the performers cook up, this show promises to surprise you, make you laugh, and to always entertain! Artists: EE Cumming (Elizabeth Evans), Queen April (April LeQueen), Kitty Bubbles, Seraphina Syren
Facebook Event | Banks Ave
Saturday 9/21 Risqué Monday Burlesque Odditorium Doors open 8:30 PM Show 9:30 PM @ Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road | $10 in advance, $15 at the door | 18+ Risqué Monday is a weekly burlesque show at The Odditorium presented by Deb au Nare's Burlesque Academy of Asheville. Come see a mix of burlesque performers from newbies to veterans EVERY WEEK! You will never see the same show twice! Performances by: Ada Pixels Orange Crush Dixie TheSpiderqueen and LadyLeo Hosted by Deb au Nare Our stage kitten of the evening, Violet Rhodes
Tickets | Facebook Event | Odditorium
Wednesday 9/25 Aura Home for Women Benefit Blue Ridge Pride / Green Man Brewery 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM @ Green Man Brewery, 27 Buxton Ave Join us at the Green Man Brewery for a casual get-together and to raise funds for Aura Home. A number of local businesses have contributed gifts to our raffle. All proceeds to benefit Aura Home. While you’re there, try Green Man’s special brew, LUV ALL. All profits from this IPA go to the Blue Ridge Pride Community Partner Fund. Aura Home: Aura Home empowers Women Veterans to be vibrant and self-sufficient to thrive in their community.
Facebook Event | Green Man | Aura Home
Thursday 9/26 Movies & Mixer: Sordid Lives Blue Ridge Pride, Fine Arts Theatre, Aloft Asheville Downtown 7:30 PM – 11 PN @ Fine Arts Theatre (36 Biltmore Avenue) and Aloft Hotel (51 Biltmore Avenue) Closing Night film in our series. Come ready for fun with a costume contest and prizes afterwards at the Aloft Mixer. Audience participation encouraged, think Rocky Horror meets South Texas….!
Tickets | Facebook Event | Fine Arts Theatre | Aloft Downtown Asheville
Thursday 9/26 Pint Night Benefit for WNCAP WNCAP / UpCountry Brewing Co. 5 PM to 10 PM @ UpCountry Brewing Co, 1042 Haywood Road Come visit either of UpCountry’s taprooms any Thursday in September for local brews, designer pint glasses, and awesome entertainment! A portion of proceeds will benefit WNCAP, the Western NC AIDS Project. Featuring UpCo Lager.
Facebook Event | WNC Aids Project | UpCountry Brewing
2019 Blue Ridge Pride Festival: Becoming Our Greatest Selves – Together Festival Week Calendar | 3 Thursday 9/26 Pre-Pride Kick Off Party Foul Drag Show Odditorium Doors 9 PM Show 10:30 PM @ Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road | $10 18+ Asheville's favorite punk Drag Show! Come out and boogie woogie oogie your cares away! We'll be bringing you our regular debauchery, filth, and camp. Drag! Drinks! Dancing!
Odditorium
Friday 9/27 Blue Ridge Pride Beer Day Tour Beerspoke Travel 11:30 am to 6:30 pm / Tour Begins at Bhramari Brewing Company, 101 South Lexington Avenue, If you’re a beer lover heading to Asheville to celebrate Blue Ridge Pride, we’ve got a day for you! Asheville’s craft beer scene (as with their pretty-much-everything scene) is among the best in the world. So let us give you a taste of this amazing beer city. If you’d love to see Asheville through the lens of its beer culture with other LGBTQ beer lovers, join our beer day, featuring a curated lineup of immersive behind-the-scenes beer experiences set up just for you. Enter Promo Code: BlueRidgePride for a discounted rate.
Facebook Event | Beerspoke Travel
Friday 9/27 Pride Family Potluck PFLAG Asheville | Youth OUTRight WNC Doors Open @ 6:30 PM | Stories 7:30 to 9:30 PM @ Block Off Biltmore, 39 South Market St Please join Youth Outright & PFLAG Asheville for a potluck in the park on Friday 9/27. Please e-mail [email protected] to sign up to bring food or games if you are able. See you there!
Friday 9/27 LGBTQ Story Slam Blue Ridge Pride Center | Block off Biltmore Doors Open @ 6:30 PM | Stories 7:30 to 9:30 PM @ Block Off Biltmore, 39 South Market St A Community is Shaped by the Stories it Shares. Blue Ridge Pride and the WNC LGBTQ Oral History Project are pleased to introduce an evening of personal storytelling that will inspire and challenge. Both local and nationally recognized storytellers will share pivotal moments in their lives when confronting their own or a loved one’s true nature. “You are not alone” is a key takeaway from this magical evening. Master of Ceremonies: Mike Cooper, Blue Ridge Public Radio Featured Storytellers: Roland Wise (Asheville Moth Champion), Amy Smith, Aisha Adams, Jamie Trowbridge, Allan Barger, Kirby Winner, Jan Cope, Stephen Shell
Story Slam Home Page / Bios | Facebook Event | Block Off Biltmore
Friday 9/27 Bad Romance – A Tribute to Lady Gaga The Orange Peel 9 PM to 11:30 PM @ The Orange Peel | $15 Bad Romance: A Tribute To Lady GaGa, is THE jaw dropping Lady GaGa experience!! A live show playing all of the hits you love!! Put your paws up, baby!!!
2019 Blue Ridge Pride Festival: Becoming Our Greatest Selves – Together Festival Week Calendar | 4 Uhaul! A Drag King night Banks Ave 10 PM to 2 AM @ Banks Ave, 32 Banks Avenue | No cover | Showtime 11pm Asheville's newest Drag King Night. We’re here to show you some hunk and give you some OOOMFFF!! Hosted by the Drag Daddy of the Trailer of Chambers, Channing Taint. He’s bringing you the hottest and THOTT-est Drag Kings in the south east. Performers: Channing Taint, Jonny Yonny, Mister Queen, Saylor Alexander. Special Guest Appearance: Priscilla Chambers of The Boulet Brothers Dragula Bring your girls and bring your guys! We’ve got games, Drinks, Dancing, and most importantly DRAG KINGS!! You’re not ready for the macho men we’re bringing to YOU!!
Facebook Event | Banks Ave
Saturday 9/28 Welcoming WNC Procession: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion – Becoming Our Greatest Selves – Together Blue Ridge Pride Center 10 AM – 11 AM From Grove Street and Patton Ave to Pack Square Park Main State (walkers meet in parking lot 9:00 to 9:30 AM Join us for a very special procession through the city of Asheville. This year's theme: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Becoming Our Greatest Selves Together. We want the world to know that the majority of people and organizations in western North Carolina aspire to be a community that is truly welcoming. Whether you are a business, a group, a congregation, community, family, or a pack of friends — join us on this half-mile walk. Wear your logo, carry a banner, make signs. Let the world know that, in WNC, we want to win with welcome. This procession is for everyone – not just members of the LGBTQ community. We seek a community where all are welcome to work, shop, and congregate as their authentic selves – regardless of their race, ethnicity, sex, disability, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.
Procession Registration | Facebook Event | Blue Ridge Pride
Saturday 9/28 Blue Ridge Pride Festival: Becoming Our Greatest Selves – Together Blue Ridge Pride Center 11 AM – 7 PM @ Pack Square Park, Asheville Our largest festival yet! Join us for day-long celebration of a community growing together. Two stages feature some of the best musical talent in WNC. Over 200 booths. Where else can you shop for social justice, health care, jobs, and magic beads - all while enjoying incredible music and food? MAIN STAGE: Laura Blackley and the Wild flowers, Aaron Woody Wood, Modern Strangers, Ryan RnB Barber, 80H Project, Asheville Gay Men’s Chorus, Wild Bodema, Beer City Sisters, and an army of drag performers. New this year: our Junior Drag Showcase. CAFE STAGE: Melissa McKinney, Lo Wolf, Nick Gonnering, Cynthia McDermott, Knotty Gs
Facebook Event | Blue Ridge Pride
Saturday 9/28 Pridetoberfest Wicked Weed, Benefiting Campaign for Southern Equality 12 PM to 9 PM @ Wicked Weed Brewing, 91 Biltmore Avenue Come join us to celebrate our annual Oktoberfest celebrations in conjunction with Blue Ridge Pride! Special Oktoberfest beers, traditional German music, drag queens, and more! Proceeds from special Pride themed beers benefit Campaign for Southern Equality. Entertainment by Mike Beckley, Polka Kings, Lagerhosen, DJ Rexxstep, Beer City Sisters, and more! *Special addition Pride themed steins will be available for purchase!
2019 Blue Ridge Pride Festival: Becoming Our Greatest Selves – Together Festival Week Calendar | 5 Saturday 9/28 Pride Karaoke Love Aloft Asheville Downtown 8:00 PM to 11 PM @ Aloft Asheville Downtown Join us for a night of fun, laughs and karaoke! Hosted by local comedian Betsy Puckett, Pride. Karaoke. Love. is an event you won’t want to miss. And, all weekend, Aloft Asheville Downtown will be hosting an information desk. Stop by to check out these other awesome events! Green Man Brewing IPA Special - Thursday, September 26 - Sunday, September 29: Stop by for a refreshing glass of Green Man Brewing Luv All Brut IPA. Receive a complimentary Green Man Brewery pint glass and Green Man Pride sticker for every 16oz Luv All Brut IPA purchased. The best part? All profits go to Blue Ridge Partner Fund!
Facebook Event | Aloft Asheville Downtown
Saturday 9/28 Pride Asheville 2019 O Henrys Doors Open 12 PM to 2 AM. Shows run 4 PM to 1 AM. @ O Henry’s, 237 Haywood Street It’s PRIDE in Asheville y’all! We are opening at noon. Karaoke from 4pm-8pm. DJ Fame starts upfront at 9pm. The Underground opens at midnight with DJ Deven The most amazing drag show at 11pm, midnight and 1am! FREE for members (membership available at the door). Auction for Loving Food Resources at 10!
Facebook Event | O Henrys | Loving Food Resources
Saturday 9/28 DJ DrewG – Blue Ridge Pride Night Scandals Nightclub 8 PM to 3 AM @ Scandals Nightclub, 11 Grove Street | Doors 8pm - 3am | 18+ | $12 Members/ $15 Guests at the door | No advance tickets. Mixedtraxx Entertainment & Scandals Nightclub Present Blue Ridge Pride After Party, The llargest after partyl. Drag Shows, 3-Dance Floors, 4-DJ’s, One Price. Main Floor: DrewG, Dirty Pop (Los Angeles), with local support RexxStep, MixedTraxx Entertainment. 𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐛𝐛 𝐄𝐄𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐄: DJ Point 5 (Variety Dance) | 12:00 midnight - Scandals All Star Drag Show. 𝐁𝐁𝐁𝐁𝐁𝐁𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐄𝐁𝐁 𝐑𝐑𝐁𝐁𝐁𝐁𝐑𝐑: DJ Drew (Andrew Kirk) Asheville (Hip-Hop, Bass, Breaks, House Top 40) | 10:00pm: Viktor Grimm's Kingdom: Drag Kings & Hyper Queens Show
Scandal Nightclub | MixedTraxx Entertainment | Rexx Step
Saturday 9/28 Pride Dance Party Banks Ave 9 PM to 2 AM @ Banks Ave, 32 Banks Avenue | No cover / Drink specials Celebrate your pride! DJ Stratos (David Riddle) is back spinning your club favorites. Lights, music, dancing, PRIDE. Special Pride Drag Show featuring The Luna Coven at 11:00pm: Katarina Eclipse, Alexis Black, Vandeja Voo (Hunter Isley), Gravity (Jacob Burkett), Ivanna (Uli Lopez)
Facebook Event | Banks Ave
Sunday 9/29 Post Pride Brunch Tupelo Honey Cafe, Benefiting Blue Ridge Pride) 9 AM to 12 PM (open till 9PM @ Tupello Honey, 1829 Hendersonville Rd Tupelo Honey Cafe first opened its doors in Asheville, NC in 2000. Considered one of the pioneers of Asheville's farm-to-table movement, we’ve continued to serve fresh, scratch-made Southern fare and put new twists on old Southern dishes and cocktails. This special brunch will feature a silent auction of artwork, the proceeds of which will be donated to Blue Ridge Pride. Blue Ridge Pride will be on hand.
2019 Blue Ridge Pride Festival: Becoming Our Greatest Selves – Together Festival Week Calendar | 6 Sunday 9/29 Asheville Drag Brunch Asheville Drag Brunch | Banks Ave 11 AM to 2 PM | Banks Ave, 32 Banks Avenue | $20 The $20 ticket includes one show time a fabulous brunch catered by AUX Bar and the hour-long drag show. The family-friendly drag queen entertainment promises to be sing along top-notch fun with plenty of laughter and audience interaction. The show includes performances by professional queens Calcutta, Ginger Von Snap, Katarina Eclipse, Margaritte Enchanted, and is hosted by The Bearded Lady: DIVINE (Divinity Holeburn). They're a hoot! This unique event is a fundraiser for Blue Ridge Pride Center. Banks Avenue Bar boasts full-service bar and AUX Bar catering promises a bountiful brunch with vegetarian options.
Tickets | Asheville Drag Bruch | Banks Ave |
Sunday 9/29 Post Pride Potluck Odditorium 5 PM @ Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road | Bring a Dish; Suggested donation $5 Drag Show at 8 pm with special guest, Priscilla Chambers
Odditorium
Sunday 9/29 All Inclusive Karaoke Elite Entertainment @ Banks Ave, 32 Banks Avenue Get ready Asheville!!! Your all-inclusive karaoke party is here!!! Starting September 29 at 9 PM!!! Nothing but love here!!!
Facebook Event | Banks Ave
Tuesday 10/1 Keep AVL Queer – Discussion Pack Memorial Library 6 PM to 7:30 PM @ Lord Auditorium, Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood Street Keep AVL Queer: Discussing AVL's LGBT+ Past, Present & Future. Join the Friends of the North Carolina Room and a panel of local LGBT+ community members and activists for a lively panel discussion. Topics will include: The importance of collecting and preserving LGBT+ history in local archives, teaching, discussing, and exhibiting LGBT+ history in the post-Stonewall age, and Asheville as a center for LGBT+ Activism in Southern Appalachia since the 1970s and into the present. David Forbes of the The Asheville Blade will serve as moderator.
Facebook Event | North Carolina Room, Pack Square Library
Wednesday 10/2 Documentary Screening: 5B WNCAP | Grail Movie House 7 PM to 9:30 PM @ Grail Movie House, 45 South French Broad Avenue Suite 130 WNCAP & The Grail Movie House present 5B, a powerful documentary about the activist nurses in the first ever AIDS ward in San Francisco. Panel discussion to follow. A portion of the proceeds will support WNCAP's mission of HIV Prevention & Care in 18 counties of WNC. Can't make the special screening on 10/2? The Grail will be playing 5B daily from 9/27-10/3
Facebook Event | WNC Aids Project | Grail Movie House | 5B Film
