Flood Gallery Fine Art Center

True Home Open Mic
2026-06-11 18:00 - 20:30, 2026-06-04 18:00 - 20:30, 2026-05-28 18:00 - 20:30, 2026-05-21 18:00 - 20:30, 2026-05-14 18:00 - 20:30, 2026-05-07 18:00 - 20:30, 2026-04-30 18:00 - 20:30, 2026-04-23 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 802 Fairview Rd. Suite 1200, Asheville, NC, 28803, United States
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.

Flooded Poetry & Prose
2026-06-08 18:30 - 20:30
Poetry & prose open mic every Monday at 6:30 PM, starring YOU plus occasional Featured Readers!
All styles of poetry/spoken word are welcome! Eight minutes per reader. Supportive listening room in a gallery setting.
(Call Carlos at 828-273-3332 if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
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Foreign Film Friday: “Amarcord” by Fellini
2026-06-05 19:00 - 21:00
“Amarcord” (1973, 2h7m, Italy, Comedy/Drama by Federico Fellini)
Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7!
A semi-autobiographical, episodic comedy-drama, set in a 1930s coastal Italian village during the Fascist era, that unfolds as a series of vibrant, nostalgic vignettes over the course of a single year. The movie is anchored by Titta, a mischievous adolescent boy, and his quirky family, as he and his friends navigate puberty, fantasize about unattainable local women, and get into trouble.
Winner of 20 international awards, including Best Foreign Film Academy Award.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

Foreign Film Friday: "Dreams" by Kurosawa
2026-05-29 19:00 - 21:00
“Dreams” (1990, 1h 59m, Japan, Fantasy/Drama by Akira Kurosawa)
Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7!
Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

Let's Film AVL!
2026-05-26 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-04-28 18:30 - 20:30
Lights. Camera. Asheville!
Join “Let’s Film AVL” at Flood Gallery — Where Local Creatives Turn Ideas Into Movies
• Every last Tuesday of the month!
• Creative filmmaking meet up for actors, filmmakers, writers, etc.
• Focused on developing film ideas
• Goal is to identify and select a story that will be then filmed by the group!
Meetup at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

Flooded Poetry & Prose
2026-05-25 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-05-18 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-05-11 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-05-04 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-04-27 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-04-20 18:30 - 20:30
Poetry & prose open mic every Monday at 6:30 PM, starring YOU plus occasional Featured Readers!
All styles of poetry/spoken word are welcome! Eight minutes per reader. Supportive listening room in a gallery setting.
(Call Carlos at 828-273-3332 if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
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Foreign Film Friday: "The Circle"
2026-05-22 19:00 - 20:30
“The Circle” (2000, 1h 30m, Iran, Documentary/Drama by Jafar Panahi)
Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7!
Rife with anger and compassion, the systemic oppression of women in contemporary Iran is told through the intertwined experiences of two women over the course of one day in Panahi’s Golden Lion masterpiece.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

"Totem" Opening Reception!
2026-05-16 15:00 - 19:00
“Totem” Group Open Exhibition at Flood Gallery
Group show featuring 25+ artists inspired by the title’s theme, “Totem”, any media, style, and interpretation.
Mixed media • collage • sculpture • fiber art • ceramic • drawing • painting • photography found object • printmaking • all media!
Opening reception Saturday, May 16, 3-7pm.
Light refreshments available, live music TBD.
Show runs through July 31, 2026.
Exhibiting artists include:
Alicia
Cy Amrich
bo ball
John Baumann
Patti Beckert
Harold Black
Albert de Lorenzo
Oguz Erdur
Paul Frehe
Colleen Giesenschlag
Bradlee Hicks
Lana Hirsch
Deborah Jahn
Tesla Jamieson
Moe
Chelsea Morning
Karen Paquette
Cynthia Potter
Ronald Rand
Rick Reason
Charlie Spear
Joshua Spiceland
Carlos Steward
Taum Johanson
Melissa Terrezza
Josh Tripoli
Yang Yu

Foreign Film Friday: "Undertow"
2026-05-15 19:00 - 21:00
“Undertow” (2009, 1h 50m, Peru, Romance/Drama by Javier Fuentes-León)
Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7!
A respected local fisherman is expecting his first child with his beautiful wife. However, their peaceful existence is threatened by his love for a visiting artist whose presence is viewed as a threat by the villagers. When a fatal accident befalls the community, he is faced with hiding his true feelings or coming to terms with who he is and risk losing everything, including those he loves.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

Let's Film AVL EXTRA!
2026-05-12 18:30 - 20:30
Lights. Camera. Asheville!
Join “Let’s Film AVL” at Flood Gallery — Where Local Creatives Turn Ideas Into Movies
• We are adding this additional date (usually only every last Tuesday of the month) so that we can catch up our our film project!
• Anyone can join at any phase of the project and participate
• Creative filmmaking meet up for actors, filmmakers, writers, etc.
• Focused on developing film ideas
• Goal is to identify and convert a story into a film created by the group!
Meetup at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

The Hay/Klimchak Duo in Experimental Concert at Flood Gallery
2026-05-09 18:30 - 21:00
Plus Special performances by Mongo Sondo and Counterfeit Circus!
Join us for an evening of exploratory music! This concert is a prelude to the experimental program of the Twin Rivers Media Festival coming to Flood Gallery in September.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
The Hay/Klimchak Duo create spontaneous, experimental performances that blend unconventional sounds, electronics, and vocal techniques into unpredictable sonic landscapes. Flutist Emily Hay explores unusual tones, rhythms, and expressive vocals, while percussionist Klimchak uses handmade instruments, throat singing, and electronics to push beyond traditional musical boundaries. Together, they craft evolving, immersive soundscapes that are both dynamic and avant-garde.
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Emily Hay is a flutist (C flute, alto flute, bass flute and piccolo) and a vocalist (soprano and extended techniques) whose musical language reaches beyond the traditional roles and capabilities of her instruments by combining the complexity of contemporary electronics with the spontaneity of free improvisation. The result is startling interpretations of sound and intense ensemble interaction. Her vibrant musical explorations embody unusual tone colors and soaring rhythmic structures, often augmented by electronically generated effects and overlapped by unusual vocalizations ranging from the primal to operatic, exploding with humorous stories, disturbing lyrics, harsh vamps and shocking noises that arise from the stream of consciousness.
Recently relocated from So. California to the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina (USA), Hay remains an active member of the ‘experimental left’ music communities and has performed in avant garde, art rock, free improvisation, electro-acoustical and contemporary ensembles such as HayFever, Polarity Taskmasters, U Totem, The Motor Totemist Guild, The 5 UU’s , Otherparts, I Am Umbrella, Adam Rudolph’s Go Organic Orchestra, The Emily Hay Collective, The Rich West Ensemble, The Jeff Kaiser Okodektet and The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble. Recordings of her work have been released independently as well as by Cuneiform Records, Recommended Records, Nine Winds, Meta, pfMentum, Public Eyesore and Dragnet Records. She has toured and performed extensively with concert highlights at the Bimhuis/Amsterdam, the Stone/NYC, the Ottomat/Italy, Rhizome/Washington D.C., New Music America Festival/Montreal, Timucua Arts Foundation/Orlando, Art Rock Festival/Frankfurt, Open Gate Music Series/Los Angeles, Static Age Records/Asheville, Kulturni Dom/Yugoslavia, the Pilot Light/Knoxville, TN, Staion de Art Sankt Peter/Cologne, Germany, Art Rat Studio/Roanoke and the Reithalle/Switzerland.
Emily Hay co-hosted the radio show, “Trilogy”, on KXLU 88.9FM Los Angeles (and at [http://www.kxlu.com)]www.kxlu.com) for decades, producing live performances and guest interviews by musicians and composers of the avant-garde, free jazz, improvisation, contemporary classical, experimental and electronic music genres. Formerly the Music Director for the Beyond Baroque Foundation in Venice, CA, Hay curated and promoted live experimental music events in Los Angeles by a stream of renowned performers such as Fred Frith, Tom Cora, John Adams and David Moss.
http://www.emilyhay.com

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Klimchak is a composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and improvisor creating electro-acoustic music for film, theater, dance and live performance. His work focuses on the intersection of chaos and order. His composer side builds elaborate structures of interlocking melody & rhythm. Then his performer side takes over and obliterates those structures with bursts of noise, random drones and slabs of spontaneous improvised sound. While trained as a percussionist, Klimchak employs hand-built instruments, Tuvan throat singing, theremin, daxophone, electronics, and any number of peripheral objects to sculpt a soundscape that wanders farther and farther from the confines and timbres of the drum as the set lurches, evolves, and transforms.
For the past year, klimchak has been in residence at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center performing a series of improvised duets as part of his Ear Pollen Experimental Music Series. His duet partners included multi-instrumentalist Elliot Sharp, mandolinist Majid Araim, pianist and modular synthesist Ipek Eginli, violist LaDonna Smith, guitarists Shane Parish, Killick Hinds and Shaking Ray Levis percussionist Bob Stagner.
Recent compositions and performances include a live score for Peter Brooks Conference of the Birds at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse in New Hampshire (2022), playing live music on a theremin bike for the solo piece, Pied Pipers Payback for Art in Odd Places Orlando (2016), and LeBeato Lounge: Water Wonderland, a concert for homebuilt instruments that use water as part of their design for Art on the Atlanta Beltline (2022).
In March, 2015, Klimchak premiered his solo show, CooksNotes, in which he makes music on kitchen implements while cooking dinner for the audience. Favorite dance commissions include we are democracy….we the people choreographed by Jawole Jo Willa Zollar and Urban Bush Women at Emory University, and Three Bagatelles for the Righteous performed at NYC’s Joyce Theater by Jane Comfort and Co. Favorite theater work includes The Navigator at the Goat Farm & Titus Andronicus at Georgia Shakespeare (both of which were winners of Atlanta’s Suzi Bass awards for best sound design).
https://klimchakmusic.com
Photo by Shay Aelious EP dec show

Mongo Sondo / Zen Sutherland
Zen Sutherland is Mongo Sondo. Asheville’s own experimental sound and music from circuit-bent toys and hand-made instruments. His multidisciplinary work blends improvised sound, spoken word, and visual art in a playful, handcrafted, but sometimes edgy, style.
Mongo Sondo has played at Bent/Broken Fest (Online, worldwide)- 2023, 2024 and 2025, Cesspool of Synth – 2023, Nightmare of Noise – 2022, 2023, 2024, Bank of Christ – 2022 and many open mics.

Counterfeit Circus / Carlos Steward
Carlos Steward, along with dozens of musicians and pantomime performers, founded the Counterfeit Circus in 1972 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, as a way to raise funds to feed orphans. Known for its quirky blend of electronic and experimental theatre, the group has performed across Latin America. Today, Carlos brings that same spirit to his performances, weaving together film, spoken word poetry, and storytelling with an array of synthesizers and unusual instruments—channeling the energy of his traveling circus.

Flood Gallery Fine Art Center
802 Fairview Rd. Suite 1200, Asheville, NC 28803
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8, we have plenty of space for events, exhibits, & parking! River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

Foreign Film Friday: "The Exterminating Angel"
2026-05-08 19:00 - 20:30
“The Exterminating Angel” (1962, 1h 35m, Mexico, Comedy/Fantasy by Luis Buñuel)
Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7!
A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

"Totem" Call for Artists!
2026-05-02 11:00 - 2026-05-03 17:00
“Totem” Group Open Exhibition at Flood Gallery
Call for art: Mixed media • collage • sculpture • fiber art • ceramic • drawing • painting • photography found object • printmaking • all media!
Entries due May 2-3!
• No entry fee!
• All perspectives, styles, & media
• Limit 2 works each
• Personal interpretation of “Totem” as theme
• Artwork must be framed/ready to hang/display.
• All artwork is for sale; Flood Gallery retains 35%, so price accordingly.
• Label each artwork with name, title, medium, price
• Email artist bio/statement to attheflood@outlook.com
• Labeled artwork MUST be hand-delivered to Flood Gallery on Sat-Sun, May 2-3, 11am – 5pm, at 802 Fairview Rd. Suite 1200, Asheville, NC 28803
Opening reception Saturday, May 16, 3-7pm.
Light refreshments available, live music TBD.
Show runs through July.

Foreign Film Friday: "Cinema Paradiso"
2026-05-01 19:00 - 21:30
“Cinema Paradiso” (1988, 2h 35m, Italy, Drama by Giuseppe Tornatore)
Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7!
Young Salvatore Di Vita (Salvatore Cascio) discovers the perfect escape from life in his war-torn Sicilian village: the Cinema Paradiso movie house, where projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) instills in the boy a deep love of films. When Salvatore grows up, falls in love with a beautiful local girl (Agnese Nano) and takes over as the Paradiso’s projectionist, Alfredo must convince Salvatore to leave his small town and pursue his passion for filmmaking.
Multiple awards, including Academy Award for Best International Film.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

Foreign Film Friday: Tortilla Soup
2026-04-24 19:00 - 21:00
Tortilla Soup, 102min, Spanish, 2001 Comedy by Ripoll, 2 wins, 7 Nom.
Classic movies from around the world every Friday!
Three grown sisters, Maribel (Tamara Mello), Leticia (Elizabeth Peña) and Carmen (Jacqueline Obradors) try to cope and live with their father Martin (Héctor Elizondo) ; a veteran chef who is slowly losing his sense of taste. Martin has one simple rule: be at home for Sunday dinner and attendance is both mandatory and non-negotiable. A rift in the family develops when the sisters develop relationships and an obnoxious woman (Raquel Welch) sets her sights on Martin’s affections.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Flood Gallery Fine Art Center
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

Live Concert by Thee Dragonfly
2026-04-18 18:30 - 21:00
NEW BAND ~ DEBUT SHOW!
Thee Dragonfly, a 4-piece “Electric Rhythm Music” band makes its debut at Flood Gallery, featuring nostalgia-invoking ballads and fresh new originals, plus a few powerhouse covers thrown in for good measure.
The members are: Terry Goodwin on guitar, percussion, and vocals; James Kamp on guitar, harmonica, keys, and vocals; Jason Philbeck on bass and vocals; Greg Alley on drums and vocals. Original songs by Terry Goodwin and James Kamp.
Join us for an evening of music, dancing and good times, and help celebrate this new band’s debut! Donation-based admission.

Foreign Film Friday: Babette's Feast
2026-04-17 19:00 - 21:00
Babette’s Feast, 103 min, Danish/French,
1988, Drama by Axel, Oscar, 11 wins, 9 Nom.
Classic movies from around the world every Friday!
Denmark, 1871. Having fled France, cook Babette Hersant arrives in West Jutland and soon becomes a housekeeper for two unmarried sisters. But when Babette wins the lottery, she decides to spend the money on a sumptuous meal for these melancholic and frugal people.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)
