World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays DOUBLE FEATURE
2025-02-07 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 802 Fairview Rd. Suite 1200, Asheville, NC, 28803, United States
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 7th we’ll be watching a French double feature! First, we’ll watch Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 film The Red Balloon (34m), which elegantly captures the adventures of a boy who befriends a seemingly sentient balloon and follows it through the streets of Paris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DU9SFT5B6I Then, we’ll watch Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée (27m), a science fiction film constructed almost entirely from still photos that tells the stable time loop story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WstrUci5Fbg
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!

True Home Open Mic
2025-02-13 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-02-20 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-02-27 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-03-06 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-03-13 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-03-20 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-03-27 18:00 - 20:30
Join us every Thursday from 6:30pm – 8:30pm for music, poetry, comedy and stories performed by our favorite local artists! Feel free to bring your own food/drinks or anything you’d like to share!
Sign up begins at 6pm, show begins at 6:30pm. Each performer will have twelve minutes, and the show is always livestreamed on our Facebook account.

World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
2025-02-14 19:00 - 22:00
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 14th we’ll be celebrating love with Mira Nair’s 2002 Indian film: Monsoon Wedding (1h55m)! “A BAFTA-winning film about a father, Lalit Verma, trying to marry off his daughter, Aditi, in the traditional manner. Aditi is having second thoughts, while her cousin Ayesha Verma, 17, is just beginning to realize she’s attractive to boys, and her other cousin, Ria, has a shocking revelation ready. Her brother, however, just wants to dance.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjQjw-UyAX0
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!

Flooded Poetry
2025-02-17 18:30 - 21:00
Every Monday Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Luke Hankins: the author of several poetry collections, a collection of essays, and a volume of translations, and is the editor or co-editor of several anthologies. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, EuropeNow, Image, New England Review, Pleiades, Poetry International, 32 Poems, Verse, World Literature Today, and The Writer’s Chronicle, as well as on the American Public Media radio program “On Being”. He is the founder and editor of Orison Books, a non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives, and is the director of UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)

World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
2025-02-21 18:30 - 22:00
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 21st we’ll be watching Pavel Chukhrai’s 1997 Russian film: The Thief (94m)! “In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a place to stay where he becomes everyone’s favorite through his good looks and generosity. Meanwhile the widowed Russian with a young son falls for a soldier who turns out to have another identity.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs7FGGvRQYU
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!

Flooded Poetry
2025-02-24 18:30 - 21:00
Every Monday Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Mary Arnold: a writer of haiku, haibun and senryu. She is particularly drawn to the openness of these forms of poetry, the breathing room they offer to the reader. In addition to being a poet, Mary works as an administrator for a Head Start program in Asheville. She is a novice, but enthusiastic player of the ukulele and enjoys living in beautiful western North Carolina with Beckett, her husband, and Trixie, their canine companion. One of her poems is currently under consideration for a 2024 Touchstone Award.

(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)

World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
2025-02-28 18:30 - 22:00
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 28th we’ll be watching Alain Resnais’s 1960 French/German film: Last Year at Marienbad (94m)! “In this unconventional French drama, a group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback. X (Giorgio Albertazzi) is convinced that he has met the beautiful A (Delphine Seyrig) before in the Czech resort town of Marienbad, and implies they had a romantic relationship. M (Sacha Pitoeff), who may be A’s husband or boyfriend, confronts her mysterious suitor, leading to conflict and questions about the truth behind his story.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Tvl1Fuxt8
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!

Flooded Poetry
2025-03-03 18:30 - 21:00
Every Monday Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems during the open mic portion of the evening, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Scott Owens: author of 22 collections of poetry, most recently eventually, a collection of haiku illustrated by Missy Cleveland, and An Augury of Birds, with photos by Clayton Joe Young. Lenard Moore, past president of the Haiku Society of America, says “eventually will whisper like wind at our ears until we take it with us.” Dave Russo, founding member of The Haiku Federation, notes that the book “refreshes our sense of the extraordinary in the ordinary.” Owens is recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Next Generation/Indie Lit Awards, the NC Writers Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC. His poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac eight times, and his articles about writing poetry have been used in Poet’s Market four times. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and to be NC Poet Laureate. Owens holds degrees from Ohio University, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro. He is Professor of Poetry at Lenoir Rhyne University, and former editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and Southern Poetry Review. He owns and operates Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse and Gallery and coordinates Poetry Hickory in Hickory, NC.
[Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet!]

World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
2025-03-07 18:30 - 22:00
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
March 7th we’ll be watching Ang Lee’s 2000 Chinese film: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (120m)! “In 19th century Qing Dynasty China, a warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) gives his sword, Green Destiny, to his lover (Michelle Yeoh) to deliver to safe keeping, but it is stolen, and the chase is on to find it. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story takes on a whole different level.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr6KyDfmWic
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!

Flooded Poetry
2025-03-10 18:30 - 21:00
Every Monday, Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Tim Peeler: a retired educator from Western North Carolina who has written twenty-two books of poetry, short stories, and regional history. He has twice been a finalist for the Casey Award for baseball book of the year, and five of his books are housed in the library at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Most recently he has collaborated with the Appalachian photographer Clayton Young on books that combine verse narratives and rural images.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)

World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
2025-03-14 18:30 - 22:00
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
March 14th we’ll be watching Federico Fellini’s 1972 Italian film: Roma (1h59m)! “As a young man, Fellini (Peter Gonzales) leaves his small Italian town to go to the big city of Rome, live in a boarding house and cavort with the natives in the 1930s and ’40s. In an alternating storyline, the older Fellini (Federico Fellini) goes back to make a movie about Rome, filming things like traffic jams at the Colosseum and the subway system, which hides underground crypts. By inter-cutting this footage, Fellini the director draws comparisons to the old Rome and the new. ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-83XJB9mr0
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!

Author Book Signing: Julia Nunnally Duncan
2025-03-16 15:00 - 17:00
Please join us for a special book signing event with Julia Nunnally Duncan on Sunday, March 16th at 3PM! Julia Nunnally Duncan is an award-winning author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including her essay collection All We Have Loved (Finishing Line Press, 2023) and poetry collection When Time Was Suspended (Redhawk Publications, 2024). Julia is a native of Western North Carolina and has been inspired by her working-class childhood in a textile town. Her works have garnered praise from acclaimed authors, including Ron Rash, Fred Chappell, Lee Smith, and many others. Her essays frequently appear in Smoky Mountain Living Magazine and WNC Magazine. A review of All We Have Loved recently appeared in Smoky Mountain Living, Southern Literary Review, and the Spring 2024 online issue of North Carolina Literary Review. A review of When Time Was Suspended is featured in the current Winter 2025 online issue of North Carolina Literary Review. Julia lives in Marion, NC, with her husband, Steve, a mountain woodcarver.

Flooded Poetry
2025-03-17 18:30 - 21:00
Every Monday Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Michael Hettich, who’s most recent book of poetry, The Halo of Bees: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2022 won the 2024 Brockman-Campbell Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in many journals and anthologies, and he has published more than a dozen books of poetry across four decades. His other honors include several Individual Artist Fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, the David Martinson/Meadowhawk Prize, a Florida Book Award, the Lena M. Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the inaugural Hudson-Fowler Prize from Slant magazine at the University of Central Arkansas. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Miami and taught for many years at Miami Dade College where he was awarded an Endowed Teaching Chair. A new book, And the Poet Said… was published in 2024.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)

World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
2025-03-21 18:30 - 22:00
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
March 21st we’ll be watching Francois Truffaut’s 1959 French film, The 400 Blows (99m): “For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents (Claire Maurier, Albert Remy), Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene (Patrick Auffray), trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAVOlu8WP1Q
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!

Flooded Poetry
2025-03-24 18:30 - 21:00
Every Monday Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems during the open mic portion of our evening, then occasionally a local poet will close out our night with a featured reading!
[Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet!]

World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
2025-03-28 18:30 - 22:00
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
March 28th we’ll be watching Joshua Marston’s 2004 Ecuadorian film Maria Full of Grace (101m): “Seventeen-year-old Colombian Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is desperate: pregnant and with a large family to care for, she’s forced to leave a demanding job after an altercation with her boss. Needing work as soon as possible, she encounters charming Franklin (John Álex Toro), who offers her a dangerous job as a drug mule. With cocaine pellets in her stomach, Maria flies to New York for the drug drop-off, but finds her new line of work may be far riskier than it initially seemed.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkdFcCtrFzI
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!

Flooded Poetry
2025-03-31 18:30 - 21:00
Every Monday Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from David E. Poston, author of three poetry collections, including Postmodern Bourgeois Poetaster Blues, which won the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s Randall Jarrell Chapbook Competition. His poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in Broad River Review, Pedestal, Cider Press Review, Pembroke, and NC Literary Review, among others. A former Kakalak editor, he has a new poetry collection, Letting Go, forthcoming from Fernwood Press in fall 2025.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)

Flooded Poetry
2025-04-07 18:30 - 21:00
Every Monday, Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from David Hopes, a Professor Emeritus of English at UNCA who has participated in the literary, theatrical, and musical life of Asheville since 1983. His latest book of poetry, The Ones with Difficult Names, is available from Amazon and, probably, here tonight. His novel The Falls of the Wyona is a winner of Red Hen’s Quill Prize for queer fiction. His play, Washington Place, will be produced (for the 3rd time locally) at HART in Waynesville this October. Despite advanced age and decrepitude, he continues to write and paint at a ferocious pace.
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)

Flooded Poetry
2025-11-03 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-11-10 18:30 - 20:30
Poetry-specific open mic, starring YOU plus our weekly Featured Readers!
(Email Ivy at ivyrozenpoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to be a featured poet.)

True Home Open Mic
2025-11-06 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-11-13 18:00 - 20:30
Join us every Thursday from 6:30pm – 8:30pm for music, poetry, comedy and stories performed by our favorite local artists! Feel free to bring your own food/drinks or anything you’d like to share! Supportive listening room in an art gallery setting.
Sign up begins at 6pm, show begins at 6:30pm. Each performer will have twelve minutes, and the show is always livestreamed on our Facebook account.

Foreign Film Fridays: "My American Uncle"
2025-11-07 19:00 - 21:00
“My American Uncle” (1980, 2h 5m, France, by Alain Resnais)
In this unconventional French film, renowned writer/philosopher Henri Laborit (portraying himself) presents three stories that illustrate the complexities of human behavior. René (Gérard Depardieu) is a man from humble farming roots who becomes manager at a textile factory and must contend with the pressures of the job. Meanwhile, Janine (Nicole Garcia), an actress turned stylist, is involved in an affair with Jean (Roger Pierre), a politician and aspiring writer who faces difficulties at home.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.

Foreign Film Friday: "Ciao Professore!"
2025-11-14 19:00 - 21:00
Classic movies from around the world!
“Ciao Professore!” (1992, 1h 40m, Italy, by Lina Wertmüller
An error puts a strict teacher (Paolo Villaggio) from northern Italy with street-smart third graders to the south.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
