MAY 2025 - MONTH LONG CELEBRATION | BE A SPONSOR AS EARLY AS NOW!
LIST OF MINI EVENTS
GrindFest is a yearly event in Asheville, this year we will celebrate a month long festival that celebrates Black Business and entrepreneurship.
This includes a weekend full of music, games, live performance, food, local vendors + learning, employment and partnership opportunities. The goal of the festival is to highlight the progress made by people of color while also connecting folks in the community. A long weekend of fun and excitement. See you there!
Let’s make HISTORY together!
May 4 GRINDFEST 2025 -
Art Exhibit!
May 8 Understanding Racial Justice: A Community Workshop
May 14 CBDG Rebuilding Is Everybody's Business
May 14 GrindFest Partner Meeting
May 15 - Racial Justice Part 2
May 20 GRINDFEST 2025 :
Elder Talk
May 22 - Wilma Dykeman Birthday
May 23 GRINDFest 2025:
Taste of Black Asheville
May 23 The Gospel Play Come Home
May 24 - Pitch Contest
May 24 Slay & Lay:
The Baddest Braider Showdown
MAY 24 - GRINDFEST MAIN FESTIVAL
May 24 - WNC Housing Summit
MAY 24 - GRINDFest Family Feud:
Pull Up & Show Out!
MAY 24 -MAJORETTES & DRUM CORPS
May 24 - Change the Rubic
MAY 24 - Christine Avery Learning Center
MAY 24 - Car Giveaway
May 27 Empower Hour: Stories of Strength and Change
MAY 27 - River Revival: A Celebration of Culture & Clean Water
May 29 After Glow Party
FEATURED ACTS
DR. ALAYSIA BLACK HACKETT
Key Note Speaker
CHEF CLARENCE ROBINSON
Cooking with Comedy
HILLCREST HIGH STEPPING'
Majorettes and Drum Corps
CAR GIVEAWAY
FOOD TRUCKS
BOUNCE & PLAYZONE
OUR SPONSORS
Truist Bank | Buncombe County NC | Explore Asheville | Mountain Housing Opportunities | Rotary Club of Asheville
YWCA Asheville Asheville - Buncombe Community Land Trust | Aisha Adams Media Group | Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity | City of Asheville Fire Department
103.3 Asheville FM | Asheville Museum of History | Asheville on Bikes | Black Wall Street AVL | Duke Energy | Emergency Management NC
Explore Asheville | GFT | | Justice Economics WNC | Pack Memorial Library | PISGAH Legal Services | Riverlink | the Radical Hotelier | The Wyre | Wilma Dykeman
Asheville Watchdog | The MLK Association | OnTrack
BECOME A SPONSOR
Let your business echoed on our campaign and become our valued sponsor during the event!
BLACK WALL STREET AVL
Step into the World of Black Wall Street and experience the remarkable history of Asheville's resilient and innovative community, where black entrepreneurs and leaders thrived together!
828-513-0850
8 River Arts Place, Asheville, NC, 2880
POST OFFICE BOX - MAILING ADDRESS
PO Box 2537, Asheville, NC 28802
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