CHESS IN PRITCHARD PARK, ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Myself and Robert, playing chess in Pritchard Park.
Drum Circle Asheville NC USA
The Drum Circle at Pritchard Park in Asheville, NC USA has been a Friday night happening for over a decade. All are welcome to come and play an instrument, dance, wiggle, hula-hoop, or simply watch and listen. Although I didn't experience the Haight-Ashbury of the sixties in San Francisco, I so want to believe that it could have felt a little like this. So dress comfortable, wander over and prepare to be transported mind, body and soul....
(Beer City Vlogs) History of Pritchard Park, Asheville NC
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Qiet in Pritchard Park
Stumbled upon a Fun band in Asheville!
The State of Black Asheville, A Documentary
Packs Tavern of Asheville, NC and a Link to Prohibition | NC Now| UNC-TV
Asheville, North Carolinas Packs Tavern is new business that captures the essence and history of the century-old building in which it resides. The building features access to a now destroyed underground tunnel system by which bootleg liquor was smuggled during Prohibition. North Carolina Now Senior Correspondent Kelly McCullen reports.
BHTV: Asheville Parks, Part 1 – City Parks
Outdoors enthusiasts find no shortage of activities in Asheville, whether it's hiking, biking, and climbing in nearby mountains; paddling and fishing on the French Broad River and local lakes; or visiting one of the city's many well-maintained parks.
BHTV: Asheville Parks, Part 2 – Carrier Park, Asheville's Most Popular Park:
BHTV: Asheville Parks, Part 3 – The Montford Park Players, Bringing Shakespeare to All:
BHTV: Celebrating 100 Years of State & National Parks in WNC:
Welcome to our three-part profile of Asheville City Parks. Throughout our region, our neighborhoods are interconnected, not just by our mountains and rivers, but also by our local city parks and green spaces. While all parks have common elements, our parks are as unique as the neighborhoods in which they can be found. In fact, several have become destinations for the larger Asheville community. Open to everyone, our parks serve as getaways in our own communities in this amazing area where you really can Live the Life You Choose.
“Within the City of Asheville, we have 54 parks located in many neighborhoods,” says Roderick Simmons, director of the Asheville Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Arts Department. “Part of our Master Plan calls for parks to be within walking distance of residential housing, so we pretty much accomplish that goal with our park system. We have eleven community centers, three swimming pools, golf course, our Nature Center. We have many, many, many great facilities for citizens to enjoy. Pack Square Park was created with a partnership. The City partnered with the County and the Pack Square Conservancy to bring this beautiful space to life. It was redeveloped in 2001 to draw tourists to stay in Asheville longer, to spend their weekends. The stage that I'm standing on now housed a lot of events like Shindig on the Green, Goombay Festival, and a lot of other community activities for the citizens to enjoy without having to leave town. The parks that we do have in all our neighborhoods are well-kept and well-maintained, so that it's a park that you can go to to have a picnic, have a birthday party, and it's not a high traffic volume to where local neighborhoods can enjoy being out of the house and enjoying the community. Every park, we try to have a design that fits the neighborhood, so it's not a cookie-cutter effect, so that you can actually enjoy amenities that you may not find at another park. It encourages citizens to go to other communities to use parks, because they will find other things to be able to engage in, so each park has its own unique identity. We try to keep that flavor of Asheville, because Asheville is a unique place. Pritchard Park, which is located north of Pack Square Park, also offers activity called the Drum Circle. It's very, very Asheville in terms of it's very organic. It starts with one drummer that shows up, starts drumming, and then, after a period of time, you'll see more and more drummers show up and listen to the music, it changes as the rhythm of the drummers change. No one talks doing it. Everybody enjoys themselves and it's very, very unique to Asheville and it's very organic. If you get a chance to come out and see it, it'll blow you away at how that event takes place. When you come to Asheville, we would gladly welcome you to visit any one of our 54 parks or other recreational facilities. As you visit downtown and enjoy yourself, or other attractions such as the Biltmore House, please come to our parks system and enjoy our parks to get away, to enjoy some of the great scenery that we have and enjoy your stay at Asheville.”
Don't miss part two of our series profiling the many activities of Carrier Park.
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Asheville Community Information
Asheville has placed great emphasis on preserving the natural environment, and the city's government has instituted substantial greenways and bikeways programs.
Celebrating 100 Years of State and National Parks in WNC
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CYOP-Downtown Asheville Video
This is my CYOP project for my CSCI 107 class. I decided to make a video all about Downtown Asheville to show off its beauty!
The song I used is Radioactive Instrumental by Kings of Leon. I do not own any of this music used.
ASHEVILLE TRAVEL VLOG // URBAN OUTFITTERS SUCKS AND SO DOES NORTH CAROLINA //
2014 Drum Circle, Asheville NC
Every Friday night from now thru fall, the city hosts a drum circle in Pritchard park downtown.
Origin of Asheville Hoops
The two founders of Asheville Hoops talk about how they founded community around hooping in Asheville, N.C. and why you should come out to hoop (if you're around Asheville on Tuesdays)!
Pritchard Park, Asheville, N.C.
Tuesdays, 5:30p-7:30p
Hecklers at Bele Chere 2012 Asheville
Part 2 of open air street preaching at Bele Chere festival in Asheville NC. Buddy Fisher and many others deal with hecklers and questions.
ASHEVILLE THROUGH BROWN EYES ART EXHIBITION
Joseph Pearson curated the Asheville Through Brown Eyes and he speaks about Black Art in Asheville, Black People in Asheville and how the history has been suppressed over decades. This coming together of Black Artists is a major step in the evolution of Black folks in Asheville.
Colorful Asheville NC Summer Tour 4K - Part 2 - Pack Square
More of my Summer 2015 4K drive around Asheville, NC Downtown. I used my GoPro Hero4 Black Edition to shoot this colorful video. Included is Pack Square, Police Department, Pack Square Park, College Street, Patton Avenue, Pritchard Park, Otis Street, federal courthouse, sheriff's office, Haywood Street, Indigo Hotel and more. Video was edited using Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015. Here's a link back to Part 1 -
Asheville Drum Circle
Every Friday night, you can visit Pritchard Park in Downtown Asheville to see the drum circle for yourself. Downtown Asheville is one of the most unique cities in the United States.
Best Kept Secrets in Asheville: Hood Huggers International
Hood Huggers tours introduce visitors (and reintroduce locals) to an often overlooked, but powerfully prominent, community in Asheville.
DeWayne Barton, founder and CEO of Hood Huggers International, LLC, dons a pair of comically large sunglasses with a gold crown attached as he ushers tour-goers into his colorfully-painted Hood Tours bus. He is, after all, somewhat of a king in Asheville’s Burton Street community, with the bus acting as his chariot.
Barton was born in Asheville, where his mother grew up as well. He lived in Washington, D.C. in his early adulthood and moved back to Asheville in 2000. When he did, he noticed a change.
“It began with a conversation with my mother,” Barton says. “She was talking about her time growing up here in this city, and then I just started seeing a lot of historical landmarks being torn down.”
Most of the African American businesses that he used to know were closed, or completely gone. Barton saw his community’s history being overlooked and overshadowed by the growing popularity of Asheville as a tourist destination.
“I remember one day going to the Chamber of Commerce and asking, ‘Is there an African American tour company here?’” Barton says. The answer was no, because no one had shown any interest in such a venture before. So Barton took matters into his own hands, resulting in the creation of Hood Huggers International, with “The Art of Resilience” as its tagline.
Asheville Drum Circle
Every Friday night at 5 pm, weather permitting, people meet at Pritchard Park in Downtown Asheville to drum and dance. This goes on until around 10 pm.
Stubborn and Stiff-Necked Sinners at Bele Chere Asheville
Final segment of open air street preaching in Asheville NC at Bele Chere 2012. These are a stubborn and stiff-necked people, but we are still to preach to them, whether they listen or whether they refuse.
The Asheville Coffee Pedlar
Meet Asheville's Coffee Pedlar who rides his coffee cart bi/tri-cycle into downtown Asheville, sets up at Pritchard Park most of the time, and offers delicious beverages to choose from. You must try the Japanese iced coffee! Also see the coffee section on AskAsheville
Asheville in the 1980's: Downtown Housing & the State of Buildings
This is the fifth in a 6-part series about the state of Downtown Asheville in the 1980's presented by Pack Library & The North Carolina Room. Moderating this event were Kevan Frazier and Erin Derham.
Mark your calendar so you don't miss out on the last lecture in this engaging series:
Wednesday September 28: Politics and Civic Engagement. Moderators: Leslie Anderson and Becky Anderson
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