Welcome to LEAF

LEAF Community Arts creates empowering arts education programs locally & globally,
& is fueled by our signature festivals for families & friends.

Our Final Performer for Fall LEAF is in! Click HERE!

LEAF October Festival Tickets on Sale Now!

Check out our Fall Festival Lineup HERE!

Benefit of Culture Ticket on Sale Now!

For more information visit the LEAF Special Events page

To purchase tickets NOW visit www.Highland Brewing.com

LEAF is excited to announce our 4th annual FUNdraising event, Benefit of Culture: A Pirate Party Hullabaloo.The LEAF team is on a Mission to Connect Cultures with this pirate themed evening of music, food, drinks, and fun.

All proceeds will benefit six youth arts education programs locally and glob

LEAF Festival ACTION NOW

•Reserve Fall LEAF Lodging - call 828-68-MUSIC (686-8742)
•In the next weeks we will be announcing the LEAF Winner of the New Song Competition, LEAF Poetry SLAM, Youth SLAM, Fiddle Contest, and Step-Dance. LEAFers are talented!

•LEAF is in the process of doing a major website overhaul.....coming next month.

LEAF In the News

Lots of LEAF Love coming our way...."I arrive, attend, and leave LEAF in awe, utter awe. So many pieces working so smoothly, calmly, gracefully and professionally. I am humbled to be involved in such an amazing event, celebration, educational showcase, community communion, .....so many things. Hats off to the many, many people who worked so hard and soulfully to plan and execute this amazing feat! Wow." -Vince

LEAF is #1 Festival for KIDS:...and it just got even better! LEAF Map14sm

Kids' Village Is STARBURSTING across LEAF for 7 mini-interactive villages & One Big FAMILY ADVENTURE. LEAFlet Kids Village was SO AMAZING yet a bit isolated, and parents would get trapped there. Many parents requested beer in kids village or a main stage....we couldn't do that so we starbursted EVERY aspect of the beloved Kids Village throughout LEAF.The map is in design - look for round symbols for FAMILY ADVENTURES: Need visuals: SEE VIDEO or Read Ashvegas story.

LEAF Schools & Streets

LEAF Schools & Streets: Summer-Long Easel Rider Events in Pritchard Park!

For 10 Wednesdays this summer 2014, LEAF Schools & Streets is participating in the Asheville Downtown Association's Summer FUN in Pritchard Park! From June 4 - August 6, our teaching artists will present engaging & interactive showcases! Audience members will have the chance to participate and learn from our wonderful artists. The Easel Rider will also set up with creative art activities to complement the performance. "I LOVE public art!" exclaimed a teacher participating in one past Pritchard Park event! Come join us from 5:30-7pm this summer for creative FUN in the SUN!

LEAF International

LEAF International Haiti: 12 young artists came for a week to AVL & LEAF!

"Hei hei, we have arrived safely in Port au Prince, and we are all agreeing that the week at LEAF has been life-changing, fabulous, and more fun that we could ever have imagined!! The parents were here when we arrived, receiving the kids and telling me to send a million thanks to you for taking so good care of their children.
The kids feel like rock stars ( as they should).
Thank you again for doing this for us!!! Hugs"
Ingvill

LEAF Giving Tree
GIVE the GIFT of MUSIC & ARTS

Donations and LEAF MemberSHIP 100% fund Arts Education Programs to over 5,000 children yearly locally and in 9 countries! ***Donations made to LEAF Community Arts are tax-deductible.*"

LEAF is proud to announce the lineup of performing artists for the Spring 2013 LEAF Festival, taking place May 9-12, 2013 in Black Mountain, NC. Headlining the 36^th festival are R&B icon Mavis Staples; urban Latino culture-mashers Ozomatli; Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, led by the bluegrass legend; Zimbabwean maestro Oliver Mtukudzi & the Black Spirits; and Abigail Washburn, Appalachian songbird & long-time LEAF favorite. With support in part by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, LEAF will present an eclectic sampling of vocal traditions. From American folk, vocal jazz, and gospel traditions to Tibetan a cappella, Zimbabwean afro-pop and classical choral customs, you’ll experience a blend of voices both familiar and new.

"I've been a big fan of LEAF for years!

I really love both the community you've built around the festival, and the great work
you're doing with young peoplein Asheville
and around the world. You're doing something special."

-Jason Sandford, Ashvegas

"LEAF showed me a life that I had lost contact with
and awakened me to the excitement of possibility."

-Dr. C.B.

LEAF Festival May 2014
Kim & Reggie Teaching Artist Residency at Claxton Elementary

LEAF FESTIVAL

LEAF SCHOOLS & STREETS

LEAF INTERNATIONAL

Rising Appalachia Visit Bribri

2014 Special LEAF Happenings:

*AUGUST 7th- Thursday
LEAF's 4th Annual Benefit of Culture

* OCTOBER 16-19
39th LEAF Festival

*NOVEMBER 8th

Zealandia Masquerade Ball

* Wednesdays at 5 Walnut
5pm-close % to support
LEAF Jazz Kids at Delta House