Connect Beyond Returns
May 29-31
The Orange Peel
Connect Beyond Festival is a 3-day weekend event in Asheville, NC, featuring groundbreaking music, film, art, panels, and engaging conversations to promote community connection and positive social change.
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“Asheville’s version of SXSW”
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The 2026 festival brings together filmmakers, musicians, creatives, and cultural voices for a weekend of live performances, conversations, and interactive installations, including The Community Garden, a large-scale venue-wide art exhibit where attendees actively engage with the experience.
FESTIVAL FEATURE
The Community Garden
Created in partnership with Asheville-based immersive media creators, Impractical Instruments, and the distributed team of imagineers at Brain Collision, with 20 years of insight from creating some of the nation’s most engaging experiences at Meow Wolf and Epic Games, comes a venue-wide art installation.
Throughout the festival weekend, attendees will have a chance to explore The Community Garden, art that reimagines community services as elements of a living garden.
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