Partner Power: Asheville City Soccer Club, Highland Brewing, and Asheville Creative Arts

There are some incredible partners in this community who support the WNC Nature Center and love the wild animals who call the Southern Appalachian mountains home! Read below to learn more about some special programs and collaborations happening during the month of May. 

This year,  Asheville City Soccer Club entered a multi-year partnership with the WNC Nature Center to help raise awareness and help visitors understand their part in protecting the native hellbender. The endangered amphibians thrive in pristine Appalachian rivers, living and surviving under river stones. In recent years, a viral trend of stacking rocks and posting them on social media has negatively impacted the hellbender habitat. 

Please join Asheville Creative Arts’ world premier of Nehprii Amenii’s children’s theater production “HUMAN,” a multisensory puppetry experience for children ages five and up. 

Now that Humans are extinct and the world as we knew it has ended, the Octopus has a decision to make…  Will it be willing to give up one of its three hearts in order to create a new, more sensitive human being? Will it be willing to give humanity a second chance?  HUMAN is told through the windows of a sunken submarine, using images of the human heart, and a hybrid of puppetry styles. Meant to be enjoyed by children 5 and older and their families, it consists of projection design, sound design, dance, puppetry, and sensory play that explore what it means to be HUMAN.