1 Passport= 5 Festival meal vouchers for just $65. Valid only at Baba Nahm in Eden Hall.
Use your Passport Vouchers at Eden Hall run by Baba Nahm.
The passport vouchers are easy to share with your kids and friends – so you can buy several passports to share.
Make festival eating easier, save $ and time.
Welcome, Baba Nahm. The former Rezaz owners now can be found at Baba Nahm, Middle Eastern Restaurant, in downtown Asheville’s Grove Arcade! This Chef couple is dedicated to creating exceptional food with a festival flair. LEAF is so grateful for this partnership with Brian & Laura Smith of Baba Nahm. babanahm.com
DISCLAIMER: This discounted meal pass is ONLY AVAILABLE online in advance of the event and can be picked up in Eden Hall at the cashier station. Culinary passports will be sold on site in Eden Hall for $65. Passports are non-transferable to future events and non-refundable. This passport is for meals only and does not provide admittance to the festival. You must also purchase a festival ticket!
CREDIT POLICY: NO REFUNDS. If you are unable to use your ticket(s), a credit towards a future LEAF Festival can be applied IF you notify LEAF in writing by EMAIL or LETTER at least 7 days prior to the event for which you purchased tickets minus a $18 fee per item. NO phone credit request or post-deadline requests accepted. Your credit is good for 3 years and may be transferred to another person.
AN URGENT LETTER FROM THE LEAF BOARD:
For nearly 30 years, LEAF Global Arts has connected people through the power of art, music, and culture. Every shared moment has been made possible because of you – our community.
The LEAF Festival is critical to funding LEAF’s larger work: providing global cultural arts programming for thousands of local youth and preserving cultures and traditions around the world.
This year, we are facing a financial crossroads: between the loss of last fall’s Festival, losing a majority of our arts education funding in 2025, and not fully recovering from COVID, the future is bleak. The upcoming LEAF Festival could be our last if we don’t come together to sustain the heart of LEAF’s mission – but we have seen what this community can do when united for a cause greater than itself.
To open the Festival experience to as many people as possible, and to rally the full spirit of LEAF, we are offering a limited number of LEAF LOVE Tickets at a significant discount.
These special tickets, offered at 30% off (our highest discount, even more so than our Early Bird pricing) are our way of ensuring everyone has a place in this story. Full-priced tickets also remain available for those with the means to give a little more to help support LEAF’s vital work.
Your presence, your voice, and your support matter more than ever right now. Join us in making this LEAF Festival one that the world will never forget and ensuring the music continues for generations to come.
Mayani is a Maasai boy from longido Arusha. He went to boarding school at 6 years old and lost his Maasai language and tradition. Since joining the LEAF program, he has learned to sing Maasai songs, practiced the ‘jump’ tradition and wear Maasai shukas (traditional clothing). Mayani is extremely happy and is currently teaching other youth the culture.