The Well

08/23/2026

Join us Sunday mornings for a rejuvenating experience of sound and energetic healing with James and Karen Genaro.

James will take you on an hour-long musical journey using singing bowls, gongs, bells, didgeridoo, lyre, Moog synthesizer, and other musical instruments while Karen offers the option to receive individual healing energy work.

Suggested donation $10-20+.

James is a musician and composer with 25 years of experience using sound as catalyst for altering consciousness, healing, and accessing visionary states.

Karen has been a practitioner of massage and bodywork, reiki and trauma release for over 16 years. In these sessions, she will be working to identify energetic blockages and encourage the body to heal.

08/13/2026

It's a big weekend for sound and healing at The The Well:
We kick off Saturday night with the monthly Synthesizer Sound Bath w/ Logos (which was rescheduled from its regular first Friday slot this month).

Then Sunday morning, James and Karen return with a more traditional sound bath and reiki healing from 11-12.

Then come get a free ten-minute live session on our Vibroacoustic Sound Table from 1-6 pm on Sunday Aug. 16!

James will perform a live sound journey using the PsybOrg, his one-of-a-kind synthesizer performance rig, along with more traditional sound healing instruments, and you will feel the sounds moving around you and vibrating directly through the table via our unique quadraphonic sound system. It’s like getting a massage with sound!

And Karen will offer body and energy work at the same time, creating a profound, immersive healing experience.
You can show up any time or reserve a spot ahead of time by calling James at (828) 333-2017.

07/31/2026

We were heartbroken to learn of the passing of our dear friend Z/Charity/Mordaga, who has been one of the artists we've showcased here at The Well since we first opened.

They were a dear friend to us and an all around amazing human being who will be greatly missed.

Their sudden passing has left behind two children who could use our help and support. If you are able, please consider donating to their gofundme:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/supporting-mordagas-children-after-their-loss

And we still have prints of Z's work and a couple of original paintings that we will continue to sell, with all proceeds going directly to support their children.

07/31/2026

Our friend Joseph Robinson, who has been hosting Spotlight AVL with us is bringing the Community Showcase & Open Mic to the Wesley Grant center on Thursday August 6. There's gonna be some really incredible performers and an opportunity for anyone who wants to sign up to bring a song, poem, or story to share!

07/26/2026

07/26/2026

Need a tarot reading today? Edward the Amazing is here at The Well: A Gathering Place
We all could use a little clarity in this weird times, trust him he is a wizard!
Remember to stay grounded, breathe, drink water, and hug those you love. Blessed Be.

07/25/2026

Dance party at The Well! TAPZ playing now, Followed by James Burns. Going until 2 AM

Come on down and dance!

07/15/2026

Friday night at The Well, we launch our new monthly film series with Santa Sangre, a psychedelic slasher film by Alejandro Jodorowsky!

Viewing starts at 7:30. Tickets $10 (NOTAFLOF)

More about this amazing film:

Surrealist. Provocateur. Heretic. These are but a few of the many superlatives utilized to describe Chilean filmmaker and maestro of the bizarre Alejando Jodorowsky. Director of such cult classics as EL TOPO, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, and an unrealized adaptation of DUNE that would’ve been the most audacious and expensive film in the history of movies, Jordorowsky, who began his career as a mime and the co-founder of the performance art collective The Panic Movement, bravely follows in the footsteps of such surrealist masters as Luis Bunuel, Fernando Arrabal, and Man Ray. On July 17th at 7:30 pm, THE WELL and Michael Wheeler, local film programmer and host of the Fine Arts Theatre’s Wheeler Wednesday series, will proudly present his 1989 magnum opus SANTA SANGRE in a one-time-only limited capacity screening.

SANTA SANGRE, a psychedelic slasher film co-written by Claudio Argento (Dario Argento’s younger brother), is a madcap co-production between Mexico and Italy and thematically takes on oppression, religion, the circus, and mental illness in a florid and lavish way unseen previously by denizens of any genre. Violent, transgressive, and downright funny, Jordorowsky’s masterpiece is a one of a kind overwhelming experience that leaves viewers - first-timers and repeat offenders alike - in a paralytic haze and fugue state of uneasiness. Roger Ebert, legendary critic of The Chicago Sun-Times, defined it as "a horror film, one of the greatest, and after waiting patiently through countless Dead Teenager Movies, I am reminded by Alejandro Jodorowsky that true psychic horror is possible on the screen – horror, poetry, surrealism, psychological pain, and wicked humor, all at once."