Author Talk and Workshop: Weaving at Black Mountain College Registration is required and attendance is limited. Sign up here for the Black Mountain Library program. This program is presented in partnership with Buncombe County Special Collections and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students is curated by…
NC Poet Laureate Visits Black Mountain Library The Black Mountain Library was honored to welcome Jaki Shelton Green, the North Carolina Poet Laureate, on Tuesday, October 4 for an evening of reading and conversation. Community members gathered to listen to her powerful poetry contextualized with her reminiscences and stories. Over an hour-long program, Ms. Green…
Halloween Fun on October 31 Ahoy mates and greetings to goblins, ghosts and ghouls of all kinds. On Tuesday, October 31 the Friends of the Library and library staff will be celebrating this spooktacular holiday along with the thousands of trick-or-treaters that stop by the library. Please donate a bag of candy and come join…
Local Author Fair Returns to Library on November 11 The Black Mountain Library is excited to present the second annual Write Local, Read Local authors’ fair on Saturday, November 11 from 9:00 am to noon! This event will showcase local writers across all genres and will feature readings from select writers who have published their work within…
A Stitch in Crime – New Tuesday Afternoon Program in October Calling all yarn artists and True Crime fans. Grab your knitting needles, crochet hooks, and embroidery needles and join us at the Black Mountain Library! We’ll listen to a True Crime podcast and work on our yarn projects. This is not intended to be an…
An Evening with Jaki Shelton Green, Oct 3 at 6pm Don’t miss a reading and conversation with Jaki Shelton Green, Poet Laureate of North Carolina on Tuesday, October 3 from 6-7:30pm in the Black Mountain Library’s Community Room. This special event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and is free and open to…
Big Book Sale and an Antique Book Sale, Too! Folks were lined up at 9:15am on Saturday, August 12 (the morning of the Sourwood Festival) anxiously waiting for the doors to open for the Big Book Sale. And the emphasis was on BIG! FOL had recently received a single contribution of two truckloads of used…
Fiction Book Donations Needed We are in need of fiction books for our upcoming book sale in December. If you have fiction books you are ready to donate, we would love to have them! You may place the books in our book donation bin in the foyer of the library. Or if you have a large quantity…
At the River ~ Documentary Film Screening on August 27 The Friends of the Black Mountain Library and the White Horse Black Mountain join with filmmaker Carolyn Crowder for a showing of her feature length documentary At The River: Struggle and Grace in the Segregated South on Sunday, August 27 at 3 PM. Carolyn, a Black Mountain resident,…
Sowing Circle Presents: Botanical Cyanotype for Beginners Join us at the library on Saturday, September 23rd from 10:30am-12:30pm for a special adult workshop in which we will learn about and create cyanotypes. The cyanotype is a beautiful historical process using sunlight and photographic chemistry hand-applied to watercolor paper to yield wondrous blue and white images. This process was first discovered in 1842…