“Asheville has the remarkable opportunity this week to sit down with Dominic Barter, a fellow who’s been turning people all over the world on to the possibility of recreating our communities in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vandana Shiva and others invested in a world of peacemaking.”
The final installment of this season’s West End Reading Series is set for Saturday, June 13, at 7 p.m. The prose and poetry readings are held (and the event’s name hints) at the West End Bakery and feature storyteller David Novak, poets Katherine Soniat and Luke Hankins and series hostess and curator Lockie Hunter.
This year’s Firefly Gathering, being held June 25-28 in Barnardsville, aims to take its transformation potential a step further, putting cultural transformation at the forefront. The gathering, now in its eighth year, has always been geared toward changing participants’ lives through a variety of classes based on radical ideas and concepts, but this summer, directors are working to make that goal explicit instead of implicit.
