News
Leaf & Lizard welcomes Melissa Hall and Taryn Brown! Melissa brings her great enthusiasm along with her marketing and promotional skills, and Taryn's artistic talent and warm energy strengthen our creative team. So glad to have you both here!
March 1: Deadline for submissions to the next issue of ANGER&fun*. We'd love for you-- YES, YOU! -- to be a part of it. Visit the ANGER&fun* page to find out more.
March 3 at 6 pm: Come to the 7th Fabulous Annual Auction for the Arts at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts! We love this event! You're supporting the arts, buying local and having fun all at once. Rollicking live auction as well as a silent auction of fine art, jewelry, vacations, services and gift certificates, accompanied by delicious hors d'oeuvres, wine and desserts – all included in your $22.50 ticket ($25 day of event). Seating is limited! To make your reservation, call 669-0930.
March 15: Look for Issue #2 of ANGER&fun*. We take a look at why anger is sometimes funny, and when it crosses the line to being scary.
March 24: Open House at Leaf & Lizard! Mark your calendars! Details TBA, but we already know it will be fun, and we'd like you to join us.
April 12: New class starting. Details on the way…
Friends
Asheville BookWorks
BookWorks is a community resource for print and book arts located in West Asheville, North Carolina. Through classes, exhibits, lectures, and annual events like BookOpolis and Edible Book Festival, BookWorks has become a gathering place for those with an interest in bookbinding, papermaking, printmaking, and letterpress. Asheville BookWorks provides studio space, equipment and technical support for artistic exploration, collaboration and the sharing of knowledge.
BookWorks • 428 1/2 Haywood Road • West Asheville • North Carolina ashevillebookworks.com 828.255-8444
ATrek Dance
The aTrek Dance Collective offers professional contemporary modern dance performances and educational programs in the St. Louis metro area.
aTrek Dance • 30 Crestwood Plaza • St.Louis • MO • 63126 atrekdance.org 314.772.7778
Black Mountain Center for the Arts
A pillar of our community, the BMCA's mission is to bring arts to the people and people to the arts. The Center offers exhibits, performances, classes, and several well-loved annual events. You'll find the BMCA a welcoming and engaging place to be.
Black Mountain Center for the Arts • 225 West State Street • Black Mountain • NC • 28711 blackmountainarts.org 828.669.0930
Black Mountain Farmer's Market
Offering year-round fresh produce, most locally and sustainably grown, the Black Mountain Farmer's Market is a friendly, neighborhood haunt. You'll find all kinds of goodies tucked away, and a plentiful selection of chocolate. Come visit! Mon-Sat 10-6
Black Mountain Farmer's Market • 151 South Ridgeway Avenue • Black Mountain • NC • 28711 828.664.0060
Black Mountain Tailgate Market
The Black Mountain Tailgate Market is a seasonal Saturday morning community event. A producer-only market, all of the products represented are grown or handmade by the vendors who sell them. The market features predominantly organic farmer-vendors of vegetables, small fruits, cut flowers, cheeses, and pasture-raised meats, and also proudly includes local artisans and bakers among our membership.
For sixteen years the Black Mountain Tailgate Market has been bringing the best of farm fresh products to our community. Friends come to meet friends, children play among the tents, and the opportunities and relationships that the market creates affirm and strengthen our community as a whole.
Saturdays from 9-Noon May-October
Black Mountain Tailgate Market • 130 Montreat Road (behind the First Baptist Church) • Black Mountain • NC • 28711 blackmountaintailgatemarket.org
Ellen S. Jaffe
Ellen's poem, "Souls Wander the Universe," graces December's New Moon in Sagittarius page in the 2012 Leaf & Lizard Almanac. The poem was originally printed in Sandra Ingerman's book, Soul Retrieval.
Ellen S. Jaffe grew up in New York City and has lived in Ontario, Canada since 1979. Her published books include Writing Your Way: Creating a Personal Journal; Water Children (poetry), and Feast of Lights, a young-adult novel (Moonbeam award for multi-cultural fiction, 2007). She has had her poems translated into Finnish and published poetry and stories in many journals and anthologies, including Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era. (2008) -- many of the poets who came to Canada at that time have become well-known figures in Canadian writing. Ellen has also studied Shamanic healing with Sandra Ingerman and others. She teaches writing in schools and community centres, co-organized two Jewish literary festivals, and has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council.
Ellen Jaffe ellen-s-jaffe.com
Janice Mackenzie
Janice MacKenzie, L.OM., is an acupuncture practitioner and teacher with 30 years of experience in the field. She is currently a faculty member of the Acupuncture Studies Program at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies in Glenside, Pa. In 2002, Janice published a book, Discovering the Five Elements One Day at a Time, by Wind Palace Publishing, available through her website.
Janice Mackenzie janicemackenzie.com
Val McGaughey
Texture–Spirit–Vibrant Color–Val makes textileart wall hangings. Her work is about her love of painting and layering organic images on fibers, and about being in love with color, lots of juicy color, in big pots, for dyeing and painting white fibers. And the way fibers feel when touched and their wonderful textures. Patching and piecing one textile with another, then painting and printing it, woven cloth reminds Val of the web that holds us all together.
Val earned her MFA from the College of Design at NC State University. She is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Commissions are welcomed.
Val McGaughey southernhighlandguild.org
Mellie Mac's Garden Shack
A whole lot of flora, a little bit of fauna, and plenty of fun. Visit this great garden shop in Black Mountain. You'll love Mellie, and she can tell you all about making fairy gardens!
Mellie Mac's Garden Shack • 304 W. State Street • Black Mountain • NC • 28711 828.669.5727
Sister J Spirit Voice
Beekept, Beelover, Educator, Performing Artist, Musician, Writer ... All Things Bees and Beyond!!!
Sister J SpiritVoice @sjbee33 Weaverville, NC thehoneybeeproject.com
