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Hey y'all,
Does anyone else feel a little 🥴 about everything reopening? I'm so excited to support our local businesses again (and reprise my old rituals likely Sunday brunch (miss you, Desoto) and evening yoga classes at Asheville Community Yoga), but I, like so many folks the world over, feel more than a little nervous about reentering the public sphere after two-plus months in quarantine.
The fact of that discomfort only makes me more grateful to live where we do. The efforts of our community to contain coronavirus are evident in the numbers, and with broad efforts like the Asheville Cares - Stay Safe Pledge and the individual choices of small businesses to stay closed or open intentionally, I'm confident we'll continue to weather this storm honorably and intelligently—even as we step out into the rain. ☔️
Till next week,
Emily Glaser, Managing Editor
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La Bodega by Cúrate
James Beard nominee Katie Button has been an outspoken advocate for the restaurant industry in light of COVID-19. In this week’s Open for Takeout feature, she’s sharing the why and how behind her new adaptive venture, La Bodega by Cúrate.
Read Open for Takeout Week Five: La Bodega by Cúrate
Takeout Hours & Operations:
Mon.–Sun. | 11:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Delivery - Pickup
Check out other restaurants open for takeout in Asheville.
And if you're feeling bold, here are restaurants open for dine-in.
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STEM Craft 🧵 Center for Craft has announced three Materials-Based Research Grant recipients that feature collaboration between craft and the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Projects include the adaptation of knitting as a user-friendly fabrication approach for crafting on-skin interfaces (Exploring Opportunities for Knitting and Morphing Second Skin), inventing environmentally responsive embellishment methods for textile (Response Patterns), and inventing a “soft” screen made entirely from natural ancient materials (Soft Monitor).
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Tourism Recovery Grants 💸 Applications for the Buncombe County Tourism Jobs Recovery Fund Grants are due by Sunday (May 31) at 11:59 p.m. To recap: these grants are designed to preserve and safely reopen the region’s unique small business ecosystem and protect tourism-related jobs. The Tourism Fund helps tourism-related small businesses and nonprofit organizations reopen through micro-grants of $500–5,000 and full grants of $5,001–50,000. Learn more and apply for a full or micro-grant.
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Farms to Fams 🥕 ASAP's Appalachian Farms Feeding Families program will deliver fresh, healthy food to people who need it while also fairly compensating farmers. Through this new initiative, ASAP will facilitate direct connections between farms and relief efforts like food banks across the region. After assessing food relief sites’ needs, ASAP will contract with a farm or farms to supply the food. The first phase of the project will focus on rural communities, which are further away from centralized food resources. Learn more.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Pardee Sports Medicine Director, Dwayne Durham, MEd, ATC, LAT, has been awarded the 2020 North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s Elton Hawley Athletic Trainer of the Year Award. 👨🏼⚕️ Learn more.
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Come Together Asheville, a variety show presented by Asheville Music School and benefiting the local arts scene, will feature performances by Mark & Maggie O’Connor Duo, David Wilcox, and more on June 11 at 7:30 p.m. on AMS' YouTube Channel. 🎸
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Want to be a Young Professionals of Asheville board member? Nominate yourself (or someone you think would be a good fit) through 5:00 p.m. on Wed. June 3. 👨🏽💼
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Arts NC and the North Carolina Arts Council shared a new reopening guide for the arts. which provides recommendations for arts orgs as they respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and develop plans for reopening to the public.
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Artists Collective | Spartanburg invites all established visual artists in SC, NC, GA, and TN to apply for its 2nd annual juried exhibition. 👩🏻🎨 All work must be original, created within the past three years, and submitted July 4–Aug. 1.
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Explore Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau launched the Asheville Cares - Stay Safe Pledge last week, a visual reminder of recommended precautions that both businesses and guests pledge to take to stay safe as businesses reopen.
- CFWNC recently approved a $40,560 Early Childhood Development grant to Mountain Area Heath Education Center (MAHEC) for the SistasCaring4Sistas Community Based Doulas program. 🤰🏾
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Mercy Urgent Care is now offering viral and antibody COVID-19 testing. The viral test detects current infections; the antibody test may determine whether a patient has had a previous infection of the virus. Learn more.
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🥬 Eat Fresh | While the Asheville City Markets remain closed, vendors can be found at the ASAP Farmers Market, which will continue to operate at A-B Tech Sat. & Thurs. 9 a.m.–12 p.m.
🧐 Ask the ___| Center for Craft's "Ask the _____" series returns with "Ask the Researcher" featuring two Materials-Based Research Grant recipients on June 3 at 4 p.m.
🍻 Grab a Beer | Highland Brewing will reopen its taproom, front porch, and rooftop tomorrow with initial hours of Mon.-Fri. 4-8 p.m. & Sat.-Sun. 12-8 p.m.
👉🏼 Job Hunt | The WNC Career Expo will be held June 3-5 as a virtual regional recruiting event, and job seekers will meet with hiring employers live online.
💵 Craft Your Commerce | AAAC and other local orgs are hosting a Craft Your Commerce COVID-19 Webinar Series series, including a Legal Live Q&A for Makers and Creative Entrepreneurs tomorrow May 29 from 2-4 p.m.
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Everybody's been impacted by COVID, especially regional farmers. ASAP's working on efforts to get locally grown food to those who need it, but here's what the short-term impact looked like (and learn more in this month's Local Industry):
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