WNC AAPI, Asheville, NC (2026)

04/29/2026

AAPI Month Potluck! We’re hosting a potluck event for our community, family, and friends to help celebrate AAPI Month ✊🏽

We’ll be outdoors at a local park in Asheville and plan to gather rain or shine under a covered pavilion at the park

Please bring a dish to share, along with serving utensils and your own plates, reusable mug/silverware, etc. to eat with. Emphasis on reusable!

Please refrain from bringing single use, plastic items. Consider bringing silverware from home that you can wash. Chop sticks, forks, spoons, camping bowls/plates. Reusable mugs are also handy at our potlucks since some folks bring drinks that require serving cups. Generally consider things you can wash instead of throwing away ✌🏽

We will have bins for compost, recycling, and trash.

Exact location will be emailed to participants by Friday May 29.

Sunday May 31st
12pm-3pm

03/28/2026

Come hang out at Master BBQ Monday March 30th 5-7pm at Zillicoah Beer Co.

04/26/2025

Join us for the AAPI Potluck on May 18th, 12–4 PM at West Asheville Park (198 Vermont Ave)! Open to the AAPI community and their friends and family.

To stay eco-friendly, please bring reusable plates, bowls, cups, and utensils from home. Compostable dishware and utensils will be available if needed. The park will offer recycling and landfill waste collection. We will provide separate bins for garden vs. industrial compost.
Don't forget picnic blankets and camping chairs!

Credits: Thank you , , , and for organizing, for advising and for the event art.

01/12/2025

🎊LUNAR YEAR 2025 POTLUCK🎊

🧨 Celebrate the Year of the Snake with food, fun, and karaoke! 🧧🐍🎤

Join us on Saturday, February 1st from 4-8pm for a night of good food, great company, and singing your heart out!

✨ Bring your own food (to share), drinks, utensils, and dishes.
✨ Open to AAPI community and family.

For location details and to sign up, email: [email protected]

Don’t miss out – let’s make this celebration unforgettable! ㊗️🎶🍽️

Graphics by .overthinks

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1. Red background with light splatters and faded dots. Illustration of 2 sets of red lanterns across the top corners surrounding light-yellow illuminated text reading: WNC AAPI. Below that, a light yellow circle with red border and text over top reading: Lunar New Year Potluck — Sat. Feb 1. Illustration of red envelopes with gold embellishments in the bottom left corner of the circle.

2. Same background and circle as previous slide, with different stylized lanterns. Over-circle text reads: Join us as we share food, hang out, and karaoke to celebrate the Year of the Snake! BYO food (to share) + drink, utensils and dishes. Open to AAPI + family. Saturday, February 1 @ 4-8pm. Below the circle, illuminated yellow text reads: Email [email protected] for location & to sign-up!

09/02/2024

Grateful for this community and all the delicious things we gather around. Thanks to all who came out, and thanks again to our amazing friends and hosts

08/27/2024

UPDATE!!! Join us for a casual pot luck hangout at the farm at from 4-6pm Sunday Sept 1st at the farm!

Open to AAPI + Allies! Please bring any food, snacks, and beverages you’d like to share, AND leftover containers so that we can leave meals and snacks in the free food fridge!

We will be setting up a big tent next to the covered shelter where their Free Food Fridge is housed. BYO-Chairs! There are a few chairs available at the shelter but extra lawn chairs never hurt. We have access to an electric grill as well, potentially also a charcoal grill for anyone that wants to grill 🔥

Volunteers to help set up tents and tables are always welcome 🙏🏽

Please park on Gaston St., the street adjacent to the farm. Sorry, no dogs allowed on the farm.
Address is 133 Livingston St.

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Background image depicting a portion of the Southside Community Farm and their Free Food Fridge under a blue covered shelter. Yellow and purple text at the top reads “POTLUCK at the Farm!” Below that reads “WNC AAPI” and “AAPI + Allies,” and below that reads “Sunday Sept 1st 3:30-5:30pm @ Southside Community Farm 133 Livingston St.”

Special thanks to our WNC AAPI Organizer Volunteer and Community Volunteer for coordinating this event, and EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS to our friends and hosts

08/23/2024

Join us for a casual pot luck hangout after the next BIPOC Farmers Market at from 3:30-5:30pm Sunday Sept 1st at the farm!

Open to AAPI + Allies! Please bring any food, snacks, and beverages you’d like to share, AND leftover containers so that we can leave meals and snacks in the free food fridge! Don’t forget you can buy snacks and food at the market, too ;)

Some of the WNC AAPI community folks will be vending at the market and one or two of them will bring their tents down next to the shelter to provide more shaded hangout space. Volunteers to help move things are always welcome 🙏🏽

The BIPOC Farmers Market runs from 12-3pm and is the second to last market at the farm for the year! Stop by to support local BIPOC artists and growers if you can! Otherwise feel free to show up afterwards to hang with community in the shade.

Please park on the street adjacent to the farm. Sorry, no dogs allowed on the farm, but they can visit the farmers market if you’re only joining the market.
Address is 133 Livingston St.

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Background image depicting a portion of the Southside Community Farm and their Free Food Fridge under a blue covered shelter. Yellow and purple text at the top reads “POTLUCK After the Market. Below that reads “WNC AAPI” and “AAPI + Allies,” and below that reads “Sunday Sept 1st 3:30-5:30pm @ Southside Community Farm 133 Livingston St.”

Special thanks to our WNC AAPI Organizer Volunteer and Community Volunteer for coordinating this event, and EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS to our friends and hosts

08/19/2024

Join us for Asian pear picking! On Sunday, September 8, we’re meeting up at (aka Circle L Farm) at 10am.

The farm has all the picking supplies available, as well as cardboard boxes to carry the produce home in. But people can definitely feel free to bring their own bags. Pears are sold by the pound.

There’s a small store at the farm where people can buy snacks and I think drinks.

BYO water bottle!

The outing will be rescheduled in the event of rain!

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Pale yellow background. Black text reading “WNC AAPI Asian Pear PIcking”. Below that, black text reading “Sunday, September 8 ” over top of a goldenroad rounded rectangle. Below that, a photo of a box of Asian pears over top of a green geometric shape with an illustrated Asian pear to the left and right of the shape. Below that, black text reading “Address: Circle L Farm Dr Edneyville, NC 28727” over a goldenrod rounded rectangle. Below that, black text reading “Open to AAPI + family & friends”

Special thanks to our WNC AAPI Volunteer Organizers for coordinating this event and .overthinks for creating the graphic!

07/09/2024

Join our Block Party at Haiku I Do on Saturday July 20th from 4-9pm! We’re opening up the party to all our BIPOC neighbors. Come hang out with us and enjoy good company, good FOOD, outdoor games, an ice cream truck, drinks at the Haiku bar, and KARAOKE!
This event is open to BIPOC and family! Food is pot luck style so bring your favorite non-dessert dish! Our friends at .thai will be bringing going their Ice Cream Bus! Please sign up via the events link in our bio to join the fun!
Special thanks to our friends and - two of several organizer volunteers behind - for facilitating this event! And even more thanks to our friends and hosts for hosting our party in their beautiful space!

07/05/2024

Private lunch for AAPI + Family at Dalaya Thai Cuisine in Sylva, followed by a visit to the WNC Cat Museum! Yes, that’s a thing 🐱!
Chef Gun from .thai will be cooking up a family style lunch for us, and will join us in long table seating to eat together as community.

After lunch, we’ll be visiting the amazingly weird on the way back to Asheville! Tickets for the museum are $10 ($5 for kids) and help support the

Dalaya Thai seating is limited so the lunch is first come first serve due to the small size of the restaurant. Reserve your seats asap via the Fillout form in the events link in our bio! Lunch will include appetizers, an entree, and dessert. Tickets are $30 per person.

Special thanks to our friend - one of our community members and organizing volunteers of for planning the lunch, and extra special thanks to Chef Gun for being our host!

Special thanks to our friend - one of our community members and organizing volunteers of for planning the adventures!

Sign up via the event link in our bio ✌🏽

06/30/2024

Join one of our friends and community members alongside members of the for a guided hike at Masa K**b! Ben and members of the George Mass Foundation are filming a PBS documentary on George Masa, the Japanese photographer whose work helped create the Appalachian Trail and Smoky Mountain National Park. Parts of this hike will be filmed for the documentary, but you can opt out of being in the footage.

This group will be leading a hike at Masa K**b, roughly a 7.6 mile hike round trip with an elevation gain of over 1,100 feet.

If you’re interested in joining or have questions about the hike, please connect with Ben Phan via [email protected]

Image Description:

Offwhite background.
Green text reading “WNC AAPI”, “Guided Hike at Masa K**b”, “Wednesday, July 10, 2024”.

Brown text reading “Meetup at 8am to carpool to the trailhead” “Opent o AAPI + friends & family (including kids)”.

Beneath that, an illustration of green rolling hills/mountains, blue clouds and a yellow sun.

In the bottom left corner, overlayed on the illustration, is a dark blue rectangle with off-white text on top of it reading “Email [email protected] for carpool location & hike info!”

This graphic was created by .overthinks who is one of several organizer volunteers behind

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