8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Adventure Canyoneering
Pura Vida Adventures
Description: Pura Vida Adventures has brought canyoneering to the Eastern United States now experience waterfall rappelling for yourself. This is our full day canyoneering experience. Participants should be in good physical shape and consistently maintain a high level of fitness. This trip is 7-9 hours of climbing, rappelling, bouldering, and full on adventure. This program includes the waterfall rappels pictured in National Geographic Adventure Magazine. Limit of six participants.
Fee: Full day program (7 - 9 hours) $150 per person (minimum of 2 people/ maximum of 6 people). Participants must be age 15 or up.
Contact: For more information, e-mail contact@pvadventures.com or call (772) 579-0005. If you would like to create another adventure during this weekend visit our website www.pvadventures.com.
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
American Canoe Association Swiftwater Rescue Courses
Pura Vida Adventures
Description: These one and two day courses are designed to provide you with competence and confidence on whitewater. Topics include, but are not limited to, outfitting, water reading, paddling techniques, rescue of a capsized boat, portaging, identifying river hazards, rope throw, stabilization lines, and whitewater swimming. We also offer paddling courses that focus on sea kayak instruction and self rescue techniques.
Fee: One Day Course: $125 per person (minimum of 2 people/ maximum of 6 people). Two Day Course: Course includes a paddling trip (inflatable kayak) on the Upper Green River or Section 9 of the French Broad River (up to class IV rapids) where we will learn and apply required skills throughout the day. $250 per person (minimum of 2 people/ maximum of 6 people).
Contact: For more information, e-mail contact@pvadventures.com or call (772) 579-0005. If you would like to create another adventure during this weekend visit our website www.pvadventures.com.
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Photography Workshop: Tips & Techniques on Photographing Waterfalls
Bluewood Gallery
Description: Enjoy "Get the Picture - Tips & Techniques on Photographing Waterfalls," a photography workshop presented by photographer Jack Christfield. Plus camera Q &A. Topics to include:
· Getting the light right – tips on exposure
· A little composition – what’s in and what’s out?
· Let it flow or freeze the action?
· Finding the picture within the picture
· How to balance foreground people with a background waterfall
· Getting tight on the subject -- wide-angle or zoom in?
Fee: $40 per person. Limit of 12 participants.
Contact: For more information, call 828-883-4142 or info@bluewoodgallery.com
9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Family Clay Day
Carwile-Dodson Studio
Description: Family Clay Day: Garden Art for children and adults to create together. www.muddabbers.com/classed.htm
Fee: $35/person.
Contact: Requires advanced registration. For more information, call (828) 884-5771
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Pisgah Fly Masters Fly Fishing Tournament
Davidson River Outfitters and Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education
Description: The Pisgah Fly Masters, a fly fishing tournament that benefits wildlife education and programs about trout fishing, returns for a third year with the addition of a professional category. On March 20, entrants will test their casting skills at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, with top finishers advancing to a catch-and-release fishing competition on March 21 along a private stretch of the Davidson River. The new category for professionals is for anyone who has worked in the fly fishing industry within the past 10 years or is a member of a state or national fly fishing team. A youth category is open to ages 10 to 15. Nonprofessional anglers 16 and older will compete in the fisherman category. All money raised will go toward programming at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, which hosts the event. Davidson River Outfitters of Brevard sponsors the event.
Fee: $30 for youth and $50 for adults.
Contact: For rules, prize list and entry forms, contact the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education at (828) 877-4423 or e-mail emilie.johnson@ncwildlife.org.
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Transylvania County Bike Ride
Brevard College
Description: Enjoy a community bike ride on the beautiful back roads of Transylvania County. The course will venture along the beautiful headwaters of the French Broad River. This is a roughly 30 mile unsupported ride open to all ability levels. Helmets are required. Riders will leave from the Porter Center for Performing Arts Amphitheatre on the campus of Brevard College.
Fee: Free
Contact: For additional information contact Thad Walker at Brevard College at walkertm@brevard.edu
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Community Gear Swap/Paddling and Cycling Clinics
Brevard College
Description: Buy and sell used outdoor gear during a Community Gear Swap at the Porter Center for Performing Arts Amphitheatre on the campus of Brevard College. Anyone may bring and/or buy outdoor gear without having to use a computer or a middle man. Just show up and spread out your goods (please bring a table or tarp) in the amphitheatre just outside the entrance of the Porter Center. Brevard College is offering the space to sellers for free as a community building event. This will be an excellent chance to get a good price on used outdoor gear. Sycamore Cycles will be offering a free bike maintenance clinic at 9 a.m. and Headwaters Outfitters will be offering a free cold weather paddling clinic at 1 p.m.
Fee: Free
Contact: For additional information contact Thad Walker at Brevard College at walkertm@brevard.edu
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Signs of Spring Along the French Broad River Canoe Trip
Headwaters Outfitters
Description: Spring is the perfect time to explore the beautiful scenery of the French Broad River, and what better mode of transportation than in a canoe? This peaceful eight-mile guided canoe trip will take about four hours to complete. You, your friends or family, paddle downstream through perhaps the most beautiful section of the entire river. Join one of our experienced river guides and encounter the beauty and tranquility of this ancient river as it springs to life with the melodic chatter of wildlife and the colorful burst of new foliage. Reservations are required and are confirmed with a 50% deposit.
Fee: $50.00 per person which includes; canoe, paddle, life jacket, transportation to and from the river, and river guide.
Contact: Call Headwaters Outfitters at (828) 877-3106 to complete your reservation.
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Gallery Exhibit
Transylvania Community Arts Council
Description: Enjoy mountain quilts made by members of the WNC Quilters Guild – Area 5 that are on display at the Transylvania Community Arts Council from March 19 - 29. The TC Arts Council is located at 349 S. Caldwell St. in Brevard.
Fee: Free
Contact: For more information call (828) 884-2787 or go to www.artsofbrevard.org.
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Skateboard/In-line Lesson/Mixed Martial Arts Clinic
Zero Gravity Skatepark
Description: $10 for one-hour group lesson, rentals included.
Contact: Call (828) 862-6700 to make a reservation. or go to www.zerogravityskatepark.com. Memberships will be available at a discounted rate.
11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
5th Annual Empty Bowl Soup Luncheon to benefit the Bread of Life
Carwile-Dodson Studio
Description: Sponsoring the 5th Annual Empty Bowl Soup Luncheon to benefit the Bread of Life Free Community Kitchen. Event will take place at the Fellowship Hall of First United Methodist Church at 325 N. Broad St. Local potters are providing hand-made pottery bowls, free of charge, for the event. www.muddabbers.com/classes.htm
Fee: For $15, diners can enjoy a soup and salad lunch in a bowl they choose and can take home after the meal. For those who only want lunch, it is available for $5 (no bowl included). All proceeds go to Bread of Life.
Contact: For more information, call (828) 884-5771
12 p.m. - 2 p.m. or 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Climbing Skills Clinics
Looking Glass Outfitters and Brevard Rock Gym
Description: Dial in your face climbing skills in this basic climbing technique movement course taught by Jeremy Whitworth and Natasha Fischer. The group will meet at Brevard Rock Gym at 224 South Broad St. and travel to
Moving Over Rock.
Fee: $10
Contact: Please pre-register for this course by emailing: brevardrockgym@gmail.com or calling the Brevard Rock Gym (828) 884-7625.
3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Rappelling Instructional Program
Pura Vida Adventures
Description: Learn how to rappel. Spend the afternoon learning rappelling basic and the skills and experience the thrills of rappelling of a 65 ft cliff. No experience necessary.
Fee: $50 per person
Contact: For more information, e-mail contact@pvadventures.com or call (772) 579-0005. If you would like to create another adventure during this weekend visit our website www.pvadventures.com.
4 p.m.
HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO PADDLE THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES?
Location: Brevard College, MG building room 125
Fee: Free
Description: A graduate of the Brevard College WLEE program, Bethany Cox, and her husband Dan arrived in Key West this past December having come to the end point of their 15 month sea kayaking adventure that started in Maine. They will be presenting their trip to the Brevard community this Saturday. Come out and learn about an amazing expedition!
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Redwood Creek Winery Wine Tasting
Poppies Market & Cafe
Description: Poppies Market & Cafe will host a wine tasting with Redwood Creek Winery, a national sponsor of the Banff Film Festival. Redwood Creek is very involved with many outdoor initiatives and supports a wide range of environmental efforts besides producing well-made, well-priced wines. Attendees that mention the Banff Festival will win one of Redwood Creeks' cool vintage posters (while supplies last).
Fee: Free
Contact: Nancy DePippo, owner of Poppies Market at (828) 885-5494 or (828) 674-0058.
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Pottery Class
Carwile-Dodson Studio
Description: Try Pottery: Wheel Throwing. For adults. www.muddabbers.com/classes.htm
Fee: $40/person.
Contact: Requires advanced registration. For more information, call (828) 884-5771
7 p.m.
Banff Mountain Film Festival
Brevard College
Description: Experience the adventure of adrenaline-packed action sports, mountain expeditions, remote cultures, and the world’s last great wild places – all brought to life on the big screen – when the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns to Brevard College’s Porter Center for Performing Arts. The two-day event features award-winning films and audience favorites from hundreds of films entered in the annual festival in Banff Alberta, Canada. The film festival doors will open at 6 p.m. each night to give patrons an opportunity to interact with this year’s sponsors. The film showings will begin at 7 p.m.
Fee: Tickets are $10 each showing or $15 for both nights. They may be purchased from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Monday through Friday by calling (828) 884-8330 or by visiting the Porter Center Box Office in person. Tickets are also available at Looking Glass Outfitters in Pisgah Forest and at Mast General Stores in Hendersonville and Asheville.
Contact: For more information about the Banff Mountain Film Festival at Brevard College, visit www.brevard.edu/banff or contact Jason A Djuren, Brevard College Director of Campus and Outdoor Recreation, at djurenja@brevard.edu .