Hey fellow nerds! We are hosting a build your own eclipse viewer get together.
Starting at noon when we open, we will be building our own eclipse viewer boxes, so that we can all watch together and nerd the eff out!
Bring your own cereal box, we’ll provide the rest, including instruction. Afterwards, you get 15% off anything in the store.
See you there!
On Monday, August 21, 2017 North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see one of nature’s most awe inspiring sights – a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun, will stretch from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina; and includes several communities in Western North Carolina! Observers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse where the moon covers part of the sun’s disk. In any given location on Earth, a total eclipse happens only once every hundred years or so, making this a once in a lifetime opportunity.
On Monday, August 21st starting at 10 am we will be doing a live feed of the eclipse for viewers wishing to witness the incredible event from the comfort of our air conditioned community room. Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Fairview Library, and the live feed will last until about 4 pm.
The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as “eclipse glasses”. Beginning in August, the Fairview Library will be giving out eclipse glasses (until supplies last) for any excited observers out there!
An informal talk about its cause, what are viewing experience will be like here in Black Mountain, and how to view it safely. All Ages. Don’t forget to pick up your free eclipse viewing glasses while supplies last!
EcoExplore BUGS! with the WNC Arboretum and stay after for a “rocking” bug hunt through the park. Painted rocks of various bugs will be hidden throughout Grovemont Park and Playground.
BECOME AN ECLIPSE EXPLORER!
Via National Park Service: The National Park Service, working together with The Planetary Society, brings you an all-new Junior Ranger booklet in honor of the 2017 North American Total Solar Eclipse on August 21st. This activity book is sure to make your first-hand viewing of this unique natural event a special experience for your visit to a National Park or public lands. Simply by completing the appropriate amount of work in the activity book and taking it to your local National Park site, you can even earn your own unique Eclipse Explorer Junior Ranger Badge!”
Download yours HERE: https://www.nps.gov/home/homestead-eclipse-junior-ranger.htm
Ingles Markets Pharmacy and Eblen-Kimmel Charities have teamed up to benefit area children who are uninsured or under insured. Our partners are helping to provide free vaccines that are required for children who begin Kindergarten or 7th grade this year.
The Ingles Pharmacy and Eblen Charities Vaccination Project will coincide with the Tools for Schools distribution on Wednesday, August 16 from 9:00am to 3:00pm.
Health care professionals will be on-site to screen those interested in these life-saving vaccines. Please bring your child’s vaccination record and insurance or Medicaid information with you.
Call Eblen Charities at 828-255-3066 to learn more.
Family Friendly Asheville has 4 pairs of Solar Eclipse Glasses (each!), to give away to 2 LUCKY winners, to safely view the upcoming eclipse on August 21st!!
Deadline to enter is NOON on August 18th.
Winner will be chosen at random, and will be announced August 18th shortly after 12:00pm on the Family Friendly Asheville Facebook page.
Learn more HERE: http://bit.ly/Eclipse2017FBGiveaway
*This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
WHERE: The Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St., 28801
WHEN: Sunday December 10, 2017
DOORS: 1:30pm | SHOW: 2pm
GENRE: children/family theater
AGES: all ages
TICKETS: $8 adv. / $10 d.o.s.
SEATING: seated general admission
WEB LISTING: http://
WEBSITE: www.tboneruns.com
SEE A VIDEO: https://youtu.be/
Through the music, costumes, puppetry, dance and magic, the audience will be taken on a magical journey into the Japanese culture. Shozo has been described as Cirque du Soleil meets Bill Nye The Science Guy. Arem portrays a silent character making new and cool discoveries throughout the performance. “Shozo” doesn’t have any meaning one would find in the dictionary, but Arem says he likes for it to mean using your imagination. “I just like the sound of the word basically,” he says.
Arem has performed the show in Tokyo and Los Angeles, and he’s adding some new material specifically for this performance at The Altamont. Having portrayed such characters as Ronald McDonald, Mac Tonight and Striker, the mascot of World Cup Soccer, Arem has a successful background in live performance. One of his distinctive and original characters is T-Bone, a persona Arem created to get children excited about physical activity.
Arem helped establish David Copperfield’s Project Magic at the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital and has performed with Harry Blackstone Jr. He is celebrated internationally with performing tours of Nepal, Thailand, Canada, Japan, Israel and Ireland. In the United States he has been featured In the Los Angeles Times and on Late Night with David Letterman, ESPN, NBC, and ABC network programs.
Through his lifelong fascination with Japan combined with his extensive history in live performance, Arem hopes audiences of Shozo will be taken on an adventure into a world they have not experienced before. Arem says his favorite quote about Shozo comes from an entertainer friend who has attended shows and performed for more than 30 years. “I’ve not seen 80 percent of what you did in your show in any performances I’ve seen.”
We just need parents to give us a days notice by calling or texting.
It’s way more than childcare.. It includes outdoor education, learning bird songs and more!
Via Astronomy Club of Asheville:
While all of North America will experience a partial solar eclipse on the afternoon of Monday, August 21st, only those under the eclipse’s “path of totality” – the Moon’s 70-mile wide shadow as it sweeps across the Earth from Oregon to South Carolina – will see a total solar eclipse. Asheville is not under this path and therefore will not see totality.
Check out this helpful interactive path of totality map: https://
And to learn more about why you should travel to the path of totality, visit the Astronomy Club of Asheville’s page dedicated to the Great American Eclipse here: http://