ABSFest 2025

✨Prepare to be captivated… ABSFest returns May 22-25, 2025! 💃🎭 Immerse yourself in 4 days of daring burlesque & mesmerizing sideshow performances in Asheville. Will you dare to join us? 👀🎟️ #ABSFest #KeepAshevilleWeird #Burlesque #Sideshow

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Wine to Water Emergency Relief is now set up on Haywood Rd at West Asheville Baptist Church. #helene2024 #DisasterRelief #avlh2O #hurricaneheleneavl

Food resources in Asheville for today, October 3, 2024. #ashevillefoodie #avleat #hurricaneheleneavl #DisasterRelief

.@absfest supports @sisterkittenar, a North Carolina cat rescue and rehome nonprofit. sisterkitten.org #internationalcatday

Green is beautiful. #worldenvironmentday

Love is love. Pictured: Lucas Kade. #pride #pridemonth #isaacharrellphotography #absfest

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TONIGHT! DON'T MISS our Saturday Spectacular, featuring the amazing acrobatic entertainer Leah Orleans of Tiny Girl Big Show, at @thepeel in Asheville, NC. Leah wows with jaw dropping skills! Doors 7:45 PM, show 8:30 PM. TICKETS: absfest.com/shows/

TOMORROW AFTERNOON! Join us for Half as Old as Time: the Abridged Sideshow History with James Taylor of Shocked and Amazed! Saturday afternoon, May 25th, 2024, @absfest proudly presents this FREE community lecture. INFO: absfest.com/workshops/ #circus #absfest #sideshow

TONIGHT, join us for an epic evening of burlesque, variety arts, and live music with goth folk geniuses Charming Disaster, Friday, May 24th, 2024, @thegreyeagle. VIP doors at 7 PM. Doors 7:30 PM, show 8 PM. TICKETS: absfest.com/shows/ #absfest @charmingdisastr

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Heading to the Crow and Quill to get this party weekend started!

Thursday, May 23, 2024, enjoy a relaxed evening ft. Drayton & the Dreamboats live. From 8-9:30 sample performances by the amazing 2024 ABSFest cast. Expect variety arts and bellydance, live music and high spirits! Doors 8 PM, $15 at the door, Crow & Quill. absfest.com/shows/

Songwriters, THIS SATURDAY afternoon, 25-May-2024, @CharmingDisastr explores tools, tricks, & techniques to generate inspiration, craft lyrics, & work through creative blocks. We’ll write a short song together to practice. #songwriting #lyricist TICKETS: absfest.com/workshops

Join us for an epic evening of immersive burlesque, variety arts, and live music with goth folk geniuses Charming Disaster, Friday, May 24th, 2024, @greyeagleasheville. VIP doors at 7 PM. Doors 7:30 PM, show 8 PM. @CharmingDisastr absfest.com/shows/ #absfest

Take your bump and grind to the next level, while having a riotously good time. Nadira @7citiesstudio has been stunning audiences with her moving performances for 20 years. Enjoy this 2 PM Saturday workshop at @thepeel, 25-May-2024. TICKETS: absfest.com/workshops #shimmy

SATURDAY, 12:30 PM! GET READY for our Whips 'n' Tricks workshop with the fantastic Leah Orleans of Tiny Girl Big Show. May 25th, 2024, @absfest proudly presents this EPIC, back-by-popular-demand class. TICKETS: absfest.com/workshops/ #circus #absfest