IF4 2025 International Fly Fishing Film Festival

Appalachian Theatre of the High Country 559 West King Street, Boone, NC, United States

IF4™ is the world’s leading fly-fishing film event, consisting of films produced by professional filmmakers from all corners of the globe and showcases the passion, lifestyle, and culture of fly fishing.

$22 – $55

Considerations Tour with Sarah Vaughn at BRAHM

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Sarah Vaughn’s Considerations invites visitors to step into a landscape of thousands of carefully crafted glass river rocks. Made using techniques like blowing, flame-working, casting, and laminating, these fragile stones are stacked and arranged to create an immersive installation that explores how we experience and remember the world around us.

Registration Required

Excavating One Ship with Two Identities: La Concorde and Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been raised from the shipwreck of Queen Anne’s Revenge since full excavation began in 2005. Kimberly Kenyon of the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology is the lead archaeologist for the site of Blackbeard’s infamous flagship, formerly the slave ship La Concorde.

Free

Considerations: Mending Stones

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Join BRAHM Friday, May 2, 2025 for a discussion between artist Sarah Vaughn and Reverend Andrew Hege about the significance and symbolism of stones in their work.

$8

Community Day – Make Your Own Needle-Felted Rocks

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Join BRAHM artist in residence Sarah Vaughn for a drop-in event creating needle-felted stones like those featured in her current BRAHM installation, Considerations. Throughout the last week of April interact with the artist during her residency...

Free

Studio Saturdays: Pacita Abad

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Youth aged 12-18 are invited to join us at BRAHM every second Saturday from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm this spring for directed studio time inspired by famous artists. Explore new styles and processes for making art. Meet new friends and express your creative side. Free for the community. Reservations are required due to limited space.

Free

Blowing Rock Community Library Association: Spring Social!

Blowing Rock Community Library 1022 Main St., Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Head on over to the Historic Library on Main Street Blowing Rock for wine, appetizers, and dessert. Get to know your local library, learn about volunteer opportunities, and meet new friends. 

Free Entry

Zine Community Workshop

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Use collage, drawing, journaling, and painting to express your healing journey and vision for the future. Create a "zine" format vision board collage with Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator Andi Gelsthorpe for this FREE workshop. Ages 16+ 

Free

Remaking the Mayview Manor with Dan Nance

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Join BRAHM on Thursday, May 29, at 11 am for a talk about the Mayview Manor diorama, with artist Dan Nance. In this program, Dan will take us through his artistic practice of historically accurate works.

$8.00

Grandfather by Night – Twilight Hike

Grandfather Mountain 2050 Blowing Rock Highway, Linville, NC

The Twilight Hike version will include a hike after sunset to discuss and look for the creatures that are more active after the sun goes down. The group will explore a unique forest ecosystem from top to bottom in search of salamanders, owls, flying squirrels, fireflies and any other creatures they might come across.

$50

Mindfulness Meditation Group at BRAHM

Blowing Rock Art & History Museum 159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC, United States

Make time for yourself on Wednesday evenings for a weekly mindfulness and meditation Group. The gatherings will explore meditation, mindfulness and consciousness. Combining years of meditation practice experience with his lifelong passion of living in service to others, Eric DeVere will be guiding the weekly meditation group.

Free