Zombie Pub Crawl
Zombie Pub Crawl and Pre-Party starts at ZaPow Gallery on Sunday, October 14 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. This party is all ages. Face painting, palm reading, live music, art viewing, zombie makeup, a raffle, and as much fun as we can fit into that space. This event involves beer. If you are considering bringing the kids, just keep in mind that there will be drinking, and that it’s also in an art gallery. Bartenders will be checking IDs. More details at http://blog.ashtoberfest.com. ZaPow! 21 Battery Park Ave., Suite 101, downtown Asheville, www.zapow.com.
Festival Dia de los Muertos
Celebrate the Day of The Dead or All Souls Day. Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre hosts a celebration to remember loved souls in a performance with altars, sugar skulls, flowers, traditional food and drinks, and a costume contest. The event will be held Friday and Saturday, November 2 & 3. ACDT members will entertain with original “DEAD” choreography.
Tickets: $15 and $10 in advance; $17 and $12 at the door. BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St., Asheville. Call (828) 254-2621 or visit acdt.org for more details.
TEDxAsheville
Tickets for the 2012 TEDxAsheville Conference “The Edge” are on sale now for $47. This year’s event will be held at the Diana Wortham Theater on November 4. The first three speakers have been selected.
Grammy nominee Casey Driessen, an Asheville-based fiddle virtuoso, takes the audience to the edge of musical possibility, mixing traditional sounds with modern technology to create a new sound all his own.
Interfaith minister and healer Anne Heck brings the audience to the edge of one woman’s body and soul with her personal story of healing, redemption, and transformation, after surviving a brutal assault that made national headlines.
TIME Magazine science editor Jeffrey Kluger, returns to take us to the edge of human aspiration—and to the new edge of our species’ future—as he addresses space travel as the next step in human destiny.
Attendees are encouraged to purchase tickets early as seats are limited and the event is expected to sell out. Visit www.tedxasheville.com for more information.