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Indoor Yard Sale

Proceeds benefit Student Ministry scholarships for camps and mission trips.

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Spring Festival

Come out to Soggy Bottom Farms and meet our fur babies (including Baby James) and animals from other local farms. There will be amazing locally sourced food available for purchase at the Tin Shed, games, and music.

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Native Bloom: WNC Wildflower Gathering

Day passes available!

Come to learn more about the amazing botanical diversity of our mountains with a community who has a passion for wilderness lifeways! We’ll be timing the event to correspond with the incredible wildflowers blooming across Western North Carolina. Situated on pristine land with a rushing creek and multiple waterfalls.

Families Welcome! 4-wheel drive(limited parking) or shuttle from Maggie Valley town parking lot. Parking will be monitored. Site is 15 minutes away from lot. No heavy drinking or drugs. This is a Sanctuary, honoring the land, animals, and each other. Leave no trace. Pack in Pack Out.

Food: Ticket prices include 4-5 healthy meals[breakfast and dinner on Friday and Saturday) prepared by Festival Chef. Please bring plenty of snacks and picnic lunch items. Please bring your own plates, bowls, cutlery, etc.

Amenities: Toilets and Shower. No RV hookups.

What to bring:

*Pocketknife fo Flute Making

*Plates, bowl, cups, cutlery

*Headlamps, lanterns, flashlights

*Containers for Water, there is a artesian spring on the way to the site

*A Love for Nature

Ticket prices: Adult-$99 w/ Communal Healthy Meals(4), Child-$33 w/ Communal Healthy Meals(4), Co-Creators-$52w/ meals, Vendor-$122 w/meals.

TeePee Ticket includes: Private Mountain top site with access to the TeePee, cabin Tent, Shuttle to Valley and back when ready(2 miles), up to 10 people. Event tickets must be purchased separately.

Our offerings include:

✻ Guided Plant Walks

✻ Wilderness awareness skills

✻ Wild foods harvest

✻ Waterfall Hikes

✻ Family Camping

✻ Communal Healthy Meals

✻ Primitive Living Skills

✻ Arts and Crafts

✻ Herbalism

✻ Tribal Family Drum Circle

✻ Sweat Lodge

✻ Sounbathing, Music, & Storytelling

Email us at nativestarfairies@gmail.com with questions or offerings.

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  • April, 17
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Sale on the Trail (Yard sale from Fairview to Lake Lure)

19 miles of bargains!

If you enjoy yard sales, you will not want to miss this event! Begin your trinket hunting in Fairview at the Hub of Fairview. Then, follow the trail to New Moon Marketplace. The sales will continue along Charlotte Hwy (74-A) through Gerton, Bat Cave, and into Lake Lure. There are sure to be plenty of sales and treasures along the way!

If you have items that you are looking to get rid of, you can rent a table in the Hub of Fairview parking lot for just $10. This is the perfect way to kick off your spring cleaning! Please call the Hub or stop by to sign up for a spot.

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Bluegrass & BBQ to benefit DayStay

6th Annual Bluegrass & BBQ to benefit DayStay Adult Day Services
4 bluegrass bands + slow-cooked pork bbq

Music Line-up
3:00 The Doghouse Band
4:00 To Be Announced
5:00 Sons of Ralph
6:00 Middle Cross

Tickets:
$10.00/adults
$5.00/children

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Youth Culture NYC Mission Yard Sale

Brookstone Youth Culture is going to NYC this summer to share Jesus with every person they meet! Help them get there! The team will host a multi-family yard sale this Saturday in Downtown Weaverville from 7:30am until noon!

  • April, 17
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Virtual Reality Arcade Public Nights

TUESDAYS: 5:00pm-8:00pm

THURSDAYS: 6:00pm-9:00pm

SATURDAYS: 7:00pm-10:00pm

 

These are our regular Public Events. If you want to schedule a private session you can here: https://www.betterthanunicorns.com/play-vr/

We pick the games, you pay a flat admission fee of $15 ($10 for students) and jam!
Come early… we will queue players up as you show up!

Sign our waiver, rules, and media release ahead of time here: https://www.betterthanunicorns.com/play-vr/

Bring your friends and #getyourheadinthegame!

Become a Patreon to join our inner circle to explore how deep the immersive rabbit hole goes: https://www.patreon.com/betterthanunicorns!

 

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TAX DAY FOOD DEALS 2018

CELEBRATE NATIONAL CHILL OUT DAY!
Apr 17th 12:00pm-2:00pm – FREE Kona Ice with Kona Ice of Asheville at the Food Truck Park at 68 Haywood Street. “Stop by, Chill Out and get a free Kona Ice!” https://www.facebook.com/events/405038343240818/?ti=icl

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TAX DAY DEAL!
Apr 17th (TODAY!) – FREE small Original with purchase of chips and a medium drink, at all area Schlotzsky’s. “Offer not valid for catering, online orders, or third party delivery.” https://www.facebook.com/Schlotzskys/videos/10210855773220288/

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TAX DAY DEAL!
Apr 17th-19th – FREE Medium Sub when you buy a full priced medium or large sub, chips & drink at all area Firehouse Subs

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FREE SAUSAGE BISCUIT!
Apr 17th 7:00am-10:00am – FREE Sausage Biscuit Day at all area Hardee’s. “Just mention MADE FROM SCRATCH. We promise you it’s free, but it definitely doesn’t taste free. #TastesLikeAmerica” https://www.facebook.com/events/218246738928013/?ti=icl

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FREE TAX DAY TREAT!
Apr 17th – FREE Cookies & Cream Cookie at all area Great American Cookies locations, to celebrate the end of tax season. “The best things in life are free! Stop by a participating store today and receive a free Regular Cookies & Cream Cookie. One per customer. While supplies last. Offer valid 4/17 only at participating locations.”

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Apr 17th – $10.40 Big Bagel Bundle at all area Bruegger’s Bagels. “Offer valid for a $10.40 Big Bagel Bundle (13 bagels + 2 tubs of cream cheese) at participating bakeries April 11-17. Does not include specialty bagels.Hours of operation vary by bakery. Please check your favorite bakery’s hours of operation before redeeming. One offer per person, per visit. Cannot be combined with any other offer, discount or promotion. No substitutions allowed. Only original offer will be accepted. Prices do not include tax. Bakery hours may vary by location. Void if transferred, sold, auctioned, reproduced or altered from original. SIGN UP HERE: https://www.brueggers.com/tax-day/

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Apr 17th ALL DAY – 1/2 Priced Cheeseburgers at all area SONIC Restaurants. “The math is simple! We’re crunching the numbers…er ½ price cheeseburgers ALL DAY on April 17th at SONIC!”

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Apr 17th … Taxes don’t have to be scary. Heck, they can get you some sweet deals! On April 17th, visit your local Boston Market for a $10.40 Half Chicken meal with drink OR a $10.99 Rosemary Lemon Chicken with drink.

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April 17th – Stop by Zaxby’s of Marion to get your free zappetizer with your adult meal purchase! Make sure to mention your free zappetizer upon ordering! Only available on Tuesday April 17th, 2018.

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Earth Day Celebration

Earth Magick and Royal Peasantry are teaming up this Earth Day to celebrate Mother Earth in style.

Both stores are offering 20% off everything!!! Earth Magick will be giving away a $50 gift certificate to their store.

Keep checking back as we add more to our list of offerings:

** Lexington Prayer Trees **
We will have baskets of long thin pieces of fabric and markers for people to write a prayer to Mother Earth. The fabric will be tied around the two trees in front of each store.

** Community Altar **
We will be creating a community altar outside around the prayer trees. Please only bring nature items (flowers, sticks, acorns, leaves, stones, moss, water, etc.)

** Upcycled T-Shirts with Daniella **
11am – 4pm
@ Royal Peasantry
$10-20 sliding scale
Bring one of your least favorite t-shirts or pick from our pile of forsaken supplies and upcycle with us! We will make them into a personalized, unique, fresh, new style you will love! Let us show you how to transform!

** Cranial Sacral & Thai Yoga Bodywork (Massage) with Shea **
12 – 5pm
@ Earth Magick
$2 per minute, 15 minute minimum
Thai Yoga Bodywork is a beautiful dance between giver & receiver, offering a dynamic combination of techniques intended to align and open the person for healing. A treatment weaves together assisted yoga postures, stretching, acupressure, energy balancing, deep tissue work and herbal medicine.
To learn more visit: www.mettahearthealingarts.com

** Save the Monarchs Workshop with Auburn Lily **
10am – 12pm
@ Earth Magick
FREE, $1-5 suggested donation for supplies
Join us in creating swamp milkweed seed balls in an effort to save the monarch butterflies. We will create seed balls for 2 hours and offer them to the community. Directions on how to properly distribute the balls will be included.

** Human Design Readings **
TBA
@ Royal Peasantry
We are waiting for confirmation and details.

** Tarot Card Readings with Bobbi & Meredith **
10am – 8pm
@ Earth Magick
$2 per minute, 10 minute minimum
Bobbi Williams provides intuitive tarot readings with general casts, traditional celtic cross spreads, past life spreads, relationship spreads, self love spreads, or goddess spreads. Meredith has worked intuitively with the Osho Zen Deck for 13 years now, deeply influenced by teachings of Non-Violent Communication, Tantra Yoga, Thai Buddhism, and Nature Herself.

** Woodcense Aromatherapy Workshop **
1 – 3pm
@ Earth Magick
FREE
Come smell the wonderful wood aromas of the Appalachian Mountains! The founder of Woodcense is holding a workshop for anyone interested in learning more about the popular Woodcense Wood Diffuser Kit. One of Earth Magick’s bestsellers!

** Akashic Records & Astrology Readings with Virgina **
3 – 7pm
@ Earth Magick
$2 per minute, 15 minute minimum
Astrology is an ancient symbolic language and healing art based on the observation of heavenly bodies and their influence on life on Earth. Virginia combines interpreting sky-charts with reading the intuitive field.

** Henna by River Dawn **
10am – 1pm and 5 – 8pm
@ Earth Magick
Prices vary based on design

** Shanti Jun Tea **
10am – 8pm
@ Earth Magick
$5 for 12oz.

Photo Credit: National Park Service Online

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Star Party

FREE ScieNCe Festival Celebration
Star Party at the Bare Dark Sky Observatory

Free daylight activities begin at 5:30 pm and will feature hands-on astronomy related activities for children. Tours of the observatory and Earth to Sky Park (ESP) will be given.

Hog Hollow Pizza truck will be on site from 5:30-8:00 pm.

At dark, the Blue Ridge Astronomy Club will have telescopes set up near the parking area for visitors to view celestial objects. The Bare Dark Sky Observatory will also open for use of the two telescopes, including the Sam Scope, to view the night sky, or bring your own telescope to set up that evening. Shuttles will be provided to and from the parking area to activities.

This is a drop-in event and reservations are not needed to attend. Each participant will receive an informational packet at the check-in table that includes a viewing schedule for the telescopes for the evening, a glow stick bracelet for safety after dark, a red balloon to cover flashlights or cell phones, and an ESP bumper sticker. New Earth to Sky Park (ESP) t-shirts in adult and youth sizes will also be available for purchase.

A rain date is set for Sunday, April 22 at 5:30 pm. In the event of clouds both evenings, daylight activities only will be held on Saturday the 21.

The NC ScieNCe Festival offers an opportunity to celebrate science in fun and welcoming settings. The goal of the festival is to spread science education through exciting, educational and fun, hands-on science events across the state. Learn more about the NC ScieNCe Festival at https://www.ncsciencefestival.org/

Learn more about the Bare Dark Sky Observatory at www.mayland.edu/observatory or call 828.766.1214.

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