Events in Boone, NC

Find savings on apparel, accessories, and outdoor gear at the Vance Venue Warehouse Sale. Discounts include 40% off select packs, luggage, travel accessories, and clothing, plus 50% off select tents, sleeping bags, coolers, bags, sunglasses, and samples. Select men’s and women’s fall and winter clearance items marked with prices ending in .98 receive an additional 50% off. Availability and sizes vary.

This retreat offers a warm, grounded space to awaken intuition with guidance from psychic medium Bill Philipps. It centers on learning to hear the quiet wisdom beneath mental noise by noticing energy, vibration, and a felt sense of knowing. As you settle into stillness and presence, you reconnect with inner guidance and build confidence to trust it in daily life. Over the course of the weekend, the focus is on direct experience rather than theory. Guided meditations help calm the mind, while explorations of subtle energy and chakra balance deepen sensitivity and flow. Practical exercises reveal whether your intuitive strengths show up through seeing, feeling, or knowing, and partner practices provide a supportive setting to share impressions and affirm what you notice. Reflective prompts bridge spiritual insight with everyday choices so clarity can inform action. The program emphasizes clear perception, self trust, and practical presence, offering tools for meditation and energetic awareness that support emotional balance and self understanding. It encourages conscious decision making and personal growth within a respectful, nonjudgmental environment, inviting meaningful self discovery and a steady, reliable relationship with your own inner wisdom.

The Watauga County Farmers’ Market brings together local vendors offering fresh, seasonal produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, pantry items, crafts, art, and herbal products. The market also features live music, cooking demonstrations, children’s activities, coffee, and breakfast and lunch options. All products are grown, raised, or made by the vendors. SNAP/EBT and WIC and Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program vouchers are accepted, and SNAP/EBT benefits can be doubled at the Market Info Booth for eligible food items.

Blue Star Mothers of the High Country presents an annual pickleball tournament at The Summit Pickleball in Boone, NC, bringing the community together to recognize service members and veterans. Serving as the organization’s primary fundraiser, it helps provide support for active-duty personnel, veterans, and military families. After a hurricane-related schedule change earlier in the year, the event returns with a renewed focus on honoring those who have served. Look forward to friendly matches, a welcoming atmosphere, and a day centered on purpose. Details about registration and sponsorships will be shared soon.

At Rivers House Park in Boone, this hands-on day focuses on tackling invasive plants and turning them into something useful. Work with MountainTrue to gather bittersweet, then learn basket-making techniques from Angela Eastman using the collected material. The program is offered in collaboration with Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, Transition Blue Ridge, and MountainTrue. Each ticket includes a lunch from Wildwood.

Fans of Magic: The Gathering and Star Trek can experience the MTG: Star Trek prerelease at CCG. Attendees are asked to arrive early to complete registration. The entry fee is $35.

This immersive weekend with Seane Corn invites a return to full-bodied presence through movement, breath, reflective ritual, and attentive stillness. Rather than analyzing the physical, emotional, and energetic layers of experience, you will engage them directly as sensations you can feel and trust. The process supports confidence in the body’s signals, greater ease with emotion, clearer awareness of where energy is flowing or held, and the ability to sense guidance that arises beyond thinking. Many find this work nurtures a calmer, more resilient nervous system and a grounded clarity that carries into everyday life. Sessions weave together alignment-focused vinyasa designed to steady and regulate, conscious breathing that encourages release and mental clarity, somatic inquiry to track sensation and uncover patterns, chakra-informed practices to notice how feeling and energy move, sustained quiet postures that cultivate deep listening, and creative ritual to anchor insight through intention and expression. The emphasis is on turning practice into lived wisdom you can return to long after the weekend ends.

Dining Days at Café Violette turns an evening out into meaningful support for animals, with a portion of sales benefiting Watauga Humane Society. This boutique spot showcases cuisine inspired by Nice and the French Mediterranean, founded by Catherine Thomas, Kyle Martin, and Sunshine Martin, who emphasize fine dining, seasonal ingredients, and attentive hospitality. Known for freshness, Café Violette collaborates with local farmers when possible and shapes its offerings around what is in season. Guests can anticipate French Riviera flavors, refined seafood, carefully matched wines, and artfully made desserts informed by Sunshine’s baking background. Enjoy a meal that also helps provide care for animals in Watauga County.

This is the final opportunity to experience Hickory Ridge History Museum before its winter closure. Living History Museum Days return, bringing back the immersive, hands-on village atmosphere that once defined the museum. Cabins come to life with demonstrations of 18th-century mountain living, including open-hearth cooking, blacksmithing, weaving, spinning, woodworking, and everyday frontier tasks. Interpreters and volunteers share traditional skills throughout the village, inviting conversation and questions that connect visitors to the daily lives and stories of early Appalachian settlers. Whether you have visited before or are discovering the museum for the first time, this program offers a deeper connection to the past. The museum also welcomes prospective volunteers interested in learning or sharing 18th-century skills.

A Veterans Day BBQ dinner fundraiser supports VFW Post 6908 and the programs it provides for veterans and the community. Plates are $20 and include whole hog barbecue while supplies last, homemade baked beans, classic macaroni and cheese, fresh coleslaw, and a choice of sweet tea or water, with Veterans Day cake for dessert. Families and friends can enjoy a hearty meal together while contributing to a meaningful cause. Payment is accepted by cash or check.

A small animal and livestock auction featuring a full lineup throughout the day. The sale begins with miscellaneous farm items, moves into poultry and small animals, and concludes with larger livestock. Offerings include chickens and other poultry, chicks with occasional bottle babies, rabbits, birds, guinea pigs, hedgehogs, and other small species. Livestock typically includes hogs and piglets, cattle with bottle calves, equine such as horses, mules, donkeys, and ponies with a current Coggins required, along with goats and sheep including bottle babies, with nannies, wethers, kids, billies, and more. Sellers may drop off animals on the day of the auction only, and a seller contract must be completed with an auction employee at check-in. Fees are 30 percent for miscellaneous farm-related items, 20 percent for crated poultry and small livestock including bottle babies, 10 dollars per head for stall-sized sheep and goats, and 20 dollars per head for cattle and equine. Crates can be purchased at drop-off for 3 dollars each. Cardboard boxes are not accepted for crated animals. In warm weather, limit crates to no more than two birds, except for pullets. On-site phone service is often limited, so messages sent on the day of the auction may not be seen right away.

Caldwell County Smart Start is distributing baby essentials at United Way of Caldwell County.

At Moon Rising Retreat Center in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, Sitting in the Stillness is a women’s retreat created by Felicia Grant and rooted in her Dragonfly Retreats. It offers a calm pause from everyday responsibilities, inviting space to breathe, reflect, listen inward, and reconnect with the part of yourself that already knows what you need and who you are. The experience includes Sacred Circles, time in nature, meditation, and reflection, along with meaningful connection among women. The intention is a safe, supportive circle where each person can be seen and heard and where individual journeys are honored, encouraging a lighter, more connected, and self-trusting way of being.

Enjoy drinks, shop clothing and accessories, and spend time with the community at J. McLaughlin. A portion of sales benefits Watauga Humane Society, supporting local animals and shops.

Brews & Mews Cat Cafe partners with Wolf Moon Salt Cave & Stress Reduction Center for a playful cat yoga class. Adoptable felines will mingle in the studio, sometimes climbing and balancing on participants as everyone moves through a light, easy sequence. All necessary equipment is available on site, making it a comfortable choice for those new to yoga. A portion of proceeds benefits the Purrole Office to help more cats.

World Ballet Company brings The Nutcracker to J.E. Broyhill Civic Center, a festive ballet for all ages where imagination and holiday spirit meet. On Christmas Eve, Marie sees her cherished Nutcracker come to life, embarking on a journey through glistening snow, a daring face off with clever mice, and a joyous visit to the Kingdom of Sweets. This production features a cast of 40 accomplished dancers, more than 150 hand sewn costumes, and richly crafted sets that create a sparkling, storybook world. The performance runs about 1 hour and 40 minutes, including a 20 minute intermission, and is suitable for ages 2 and up. Based in Los Angeles and led by Sasha Gorskaya and Gulya Hartwick, World Ballet Company tours beloved classics nationwide, welcoming renowned artists from more than ten countries. Guided by the belief that ballet is for everyone, the company has visited more than 300 cities and performed for over 500,000 attendees. Group pricing is available for parties of 10 or more.

Get a head start on holiday gift hunting at Beech Mountain's Holiday Market. Explore booths from local artisans showcasing handmade pottery, jewelry, woodwork, and other Christmas crafts. For details, contact Buckeye Recreation Center at 828-387-3003. Vendor applications are currently being accepted.

Western Piedmont Symphony brings its annual holiday tradition to J.E. Broyhill Civic Center with a Foothills Pops program that blends seasonal standards, nostalgic classics, and unexpected delights for audiences of every age. Guitarist Matt Sickels appears with the orchestra in a high energy tribute to the music of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Additional guest artists will be announced.

A small animal and livestock auction with day-of drop-off only. Sellers complete a contract with staff at drop-off. The sale opens with miscellaneous farm-related items, continues with poultry and other small animals, then concludes with larger livestock later in the day. The small animal portion may include chickens and other poultry, chicks with occasional bottle babies, rabbits, birds, guinea pigs, hedgehogs, and other small species. The livestock run features hogs and piglets, cattle with bottle calves, and equine such as horses, mules, donkeys, and ponies with a current Coggins required, along with goats and sheep offered as families or individually, including nannies, wethers, kids, sheep, and billies. Commission for miscellaneous items is 30 percent, and crated poultry or small livestock including bottle babies is 20 percent. Sheep and goats in stall-size spaces are 10 dollars per head, while cattle and equine are 20 dollars per head. Crates are available for purchase at drop-off for 3 dollars each. Do not use cardboard boxes for crated animals. In warm weather, limit each crate to no more than two birds unless they are pullets. Cell reception on site is often limited or unavailable, so messages sent the day of the auction may go unseen.

A full day of buying and selling features a run of miscellaneous farm-related items, followed by poultry and small animals, then livestock. Sellers may drop off animals on the day of the auction and must complete a seller contract with an auction employee at drop-off. The poultry and small animal portion can include chickens and other poultry, chicks that may include bottle babies, rabbits, caged birds, guinea pigs, hedgehogs, and other small animals and birds. The livestock portion moves through hogs and piglets, cattle including bottle calves, and equine such as horses, mules, donkeys, and ponies. A current Coggins is required for all equine. Goats and sheep are included as well, with categories such as families, nannies, wethers, kids, billies, and sheep. Fees are applied as follows: 30 percent for miscellaneous farm-related items, 20 percent for crated poultry and small livestock including bottle babies, 10 dollars per head for stall-sized sheep and goats, and 20 dollars per head for cattle and equine. Crates are available for purchase at drop-off for 3 dollars each. Cardboard boxes are not permitted for crated animals, and during warm weather no more than two birds are allowed per crate unless they are pullets. Phone service on site is often limited, so messages sent the day of the auction may not be received right away.

Unplug for a phone-free weekend at the Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC. In an all-inclusive setting, this experience offers space to slow down, step away from the relentless pace of life, and head home feeling clear and restored.