True Home Open Mic

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.

True Home Open Mic

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.

True Home Open Mic

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.

True Home Open Mic

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.

Author Book Signing: Julia Nunnally Duncan

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.

World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays

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!

True Home Open Mic

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.

Flooded Poetry

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 [email protected] if you’d like to be a featured poet.)

Flooded Poetry

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 [email protected] if you’d like to be a featured poet.)

Flooded Poetry

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 [email protected] if you’d like to be a featured poet.)