Wednesday, Sept. 3
DANCE DEMONSTRATION: Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. 3 p.m., free.  The Asheville Allemanders Interactive Square Dance Demonstration will be held.

Thursday, Sept. 4
BUSINESS SEMINAR: Asheville SCORE presents “Do You Have the Right Stuff To Be an Entrepreneur?” Room 128, Haynes Building, A-B Tech Enka Campus, Enka 6-9 p.m., $30. Presented in partnership with A-B Tech’s Small Business Center. The featured speaker will be Don Sinclair. He spent 15 years as a chief executive officer and marketing chief of a specialty advertising and marketing company. He is presently a marketing consultant and SCORE counselor. To register, call 274-1142.
MUSEUM FUND-RAISER: Asheville Art Museum, 6:30-9 p.m., The AAM will host its sixth annual Taste of Art + Wine: Wine-Tasting and Silent Auction. Local wine distributors will donate and pour more than 100 fine wines and craft beers at the fund-raiswer, as well as food prepared by local restaurants. Tickets purchased in advance are $30 per person and $55 per couple for museum members and $35 per person and $65 per couple for nonmembers. Tickets will be $40 at the door for both members and nonmembers. Call 253-3227 for more information, or to purchase tickets. 

Friday, Sept. 5
EXHIBIT: Exhibition reception: UNC Asheville Selected Student Exhibit, 5-7 p.m., UNC Asheville's Highsmith University Union, free. Call 828.251.6559 for more information.
RECEPTION: Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville, 5:00-9:00 p.m., free.  Complimentary wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served.  The works  of Mänya Pirkle and Jonathan Pirkle are on exhibit from September 5-For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at 865.523.7543, or click on www.knoxalliance.com.

Saturday, Sept. 6
BENEFIT CONCERT: American Legion Post 526, 1329  E. Tunnel Rd, 4:30-8:30 p.m. A barbecue and bluegrass concert to benefit Amerian Legion Post 526 of the ABCCM Veterans’ Restoration Quarter. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for children under 10 and senior citizens. Post 526 is one of only two in the nation that is part of a homeless transitional housing facility. The post is hoping to raise enough funds to purchase an American Legion banner, uniforms and a vehicle.
CONCERT: Little Rainbow Row’s back deck, corner of Greenville Highway and West Blue Ridge Road, Flat Rock, , 6-8 p.m., free. Free Range will perform. Barbecue and pizza meal will be available for purchase. Attendees are urged to bring lawnchairs and blankets.
DANCE PERFORMANCE: Diana Wortham Theater, 8 p.m. “Beowulf is Min Nama...” will be presented. Tickets are $20 and $25. For more information, call 828.257.4530 or click on www.dwtheatre.com.

Sunday, Sept. 7
PICNIC: 5th Annual Allies/Celebrating LGBTQ Diversity Picnic. Western North Carolina University, Picnic Pavilion. 4pm-7:30pm. Unity members (WCU GLBT student group) will be sponsoring some ice breaking games and activities. Out in the Mountains members and WCU Family Circle members (and all others so desiring) will be providing the food. For more information, email Jill at jillern@yahoo.com.

Wednesday, Sept. 10
CONCERT: University Faculty Concert, 12:45 p.m., UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium, free. Call 828.251.6432 for more information.
 
Thursday, Sept. 11
WORKSHOP: Family Business Forum Workshop: "The Buzz Project," Dr. Cindy Iannareli of the Bernelli Foundation, 8:30 a.m.-noon, UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, registration required. Call 828.251.6527 for more information.

Friday, Sept. 12
BINGO: 80's She Bop Bingo at The Empire Room, 203 South Elm, Downtown Greensboro, 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 or $10 with a student ID. For more information, or to purchase tickets click on www.ggfnc.org.
 
Saturday, Sept. 13
CONCERT: Judi Lampert and Friends in Concert, 4 p.m., UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium, $5 (students free with ID). Call 828.251.6432 for more information.

Tuesday, Sept. 16
PUBLIC HEARING: Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 7 p.m.. The North Carolina Department of Transportation will present an explanation of a proposed Interstate 26 connector corridor between Patton Avenue and Broadway Street. A pre-hearing open house will be held from 3 to 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 19
LECTURE: North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement's TGIF Lecture Series: "Jewish Yiddish Humor," Rubin Feldstein, 11:45 a.m., UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, free. Call 828.251.6140 for more information.
DOWNTOWN AFTER FIVE, North Lexington Avenue, Asheville, 5-9 p.m., free.  A free outdoor music show will feature two bands — Laura Reed and Deep Pocket and Blue Mountain.
CONCERT: Symphony Talk: "Russian Spectacular," Conductor Daniel Meyer of the Asheville Symphony, 3 p.m., UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, free. Call 828.251.6140 for more information.
STORYTELLER: UNC Asheville Distinguished Speaker Series presents "The Land of the Lightning Brothers," Aboriginal Tribal Elder Bill Harney and Honorary Tribal Member Paul Taylor, 8 p.m., UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium, $10. Call 828.232.5000 for tickets and information.
LECTURE: Visitors Center, the Botanical Gardens at Asheville, 2-3:30 p.m., free. Dr. Joe Haun will address “Ethics and Democracy: Is Money Equal to Free Speech?” at the monthly meeting of the Ethical Society of Asheville. Haun, professor emeritus from Clemson University, will document the role of money in politics and justice in the United States.
 
Tuesday, Sept. 23
LECTURE: N.C. Center for Creative Retirement's Health Education Series: "Emotions and the Brain," Dr. Ed Hamlin of the Pisgah Institute and Center for Advancement of Human Potential, 11:45 a.m., UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, free. Call 828.251.6140 for more information.
 
Friday, Sept. 26 
LECTURE: North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement's TGIF Lecture Series: "Truth in Fiction," author Bahia Abrams, 11:45 a.m., UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, free. Call 828.251.6140 for more information.

Monday, Sept. 29
CONCERT: Lucinda Williams with Buick 6, 7:30 p.m., Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Belk Theater. Tickets start at $24.50. Call 704.372.1000 for more information, or click on http://www.performingartsctr.org.

Saturday, Oct. 4
Asheville AIDS Walk: Starts on the campus of AB Tech.   For more information, visit www.wncap.org.