Due to rising COVID cases, we are postponing the United for Youth block party.
We hope to host this event in the near future when we can all be together safely and in the truest spirit of this event - a fun, interactive, family-friendly event celebrating our students, families, schools, and community partners.
We'll be in touch soon with a new date and time and meanwhile, here's to the start of a safe and healthy new school year for all!
Join us for a BLOCK PARTY where we'll celebrate the youth and families of our community and prepare for a new school year.
To Be Rescheduled
x PM - x PM
CITY COUNTY PLAZA, Downtown Asheville (Splashville)
FREE EVENT for YOUTH & FAMILIES, TEACHERS & SCHOOL STAFF, & COMMUNITY PARTNERS
We made it through a really hard year, let's celebrate a fresh start in 2021 together!
We'll have FREE Food*, a DJ and Youth Performances, Activities, Prizes and Give-Aways, and Community Info Booths. There will also be a vaccination clinic on site.
Get more details on the tabs below, and let us know you're coming so we can have enough food!
* Food available first-come, first-served until it runs out!
Enjoy the rich talents of local youth:
Walker Jazz Band
Carolina Diamond Divas Dance Troupe
LEAF Schools and Streets Hip Hop Dance
TC Roberson High School Band
and more!
Visit these great booths:
Youth Entrepreneurs feat by GRIND
STEAM Kids activities
Buncombe County's Rec and Roll bus
Free Books from the Buncombe County Library
Photo Booth hosted by the Asheville Chamber
Climb onboard a city Fire Truck
Vaccination Tent
LEAF Easel Rider and Mobile Art Lab
and more!
And a few of the local chefs include:
Island Grill (hot dogs)
Cooking With Comedy (grilled chicken mac bowl, turkey quesadillas and more)
Girl Go Cook (gooey butter cake)
AVL Cake Lady (cup cakes)
Ettison Group (mini donut boats)
and more!
We want to have enough food and fun for all.
Please fill out the form below so we can plan well and send you more information about the event.
United for Youth is a partnership between Asheville City Schools, Buncombe County Schools, the City of Asheville, Buncombe County, United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County, and local health, social service, higher education, and youth services community partners.
United for Youth partners work together with youth and family leadership to ensure educational outcomes are determined by the high quality of our schools and partner organizations, the abundance and accessibility of opportunities in our community, the strength of our collaborations, and are never again predictable based on a student's race, home language, family income, or any other dimension of identity.
