May 9, 2013
Summer is sneaking up on us and bringing along with it some of our favorite celebrations, including the hugely popular Wawa Welcome America festival. From July 1 through July 7 the celebration returns to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and beyond to celebrate Independence Day with live — and free! — music from Grammy-winning musicians, a [...]
Read more»May 9, 2013
This Saturday, May 11, Philadelphia is set to pay tribute to its 10 sister cities with the Sister Cities Park International Festival, a free festival also celebrating Love Your Park Week. Be transported around the world with a number of activities honoring the rich culture of Philadelphia’s sister cities, which include Florence, Italy; Tel Aviv, [...]
Read more»May 8, 2013
This Saturday, May 11, at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Bird Fest takes wing. Check out the second annual Bird Fest, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., to learn all about our fine feathered friends, including why some birds fly and why some don’t, and see rare bird specimens from around the [...]
Read more»May 3, 2013
To commemorate its one-year anniversary on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Barnes Foundation is set to debut a special exhibition featuring the work of contemporary artist Ellsworth Kelly, the sculptor whose 40-foot abstract work Barnes Totem welcomes visitors from the head of a reflecting pool on the north side of the building. Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture [...]
Read more»April 22, 2013
Philadelphia is lucky enough to call 10 cities around the globe its sister cities, and on Saturday, May 11 Sister Cities Park celebrates each one of its sister’s cultures with a daylong free festival. Philadelphia’s sister cities include Florence, Italy; Tel Aviv, Israel; Torun, Poland; Tianjin, China; Incheon, Korea; Douala, Cameroon; and Aix-en-Provence, France. Truly [...]
Read more»April 18, 2013
The Philadelphia Science Festival officially begins today, with more than 100 smart events scheduled through April 28, but we’re particularly stoked for this weekend’s festivities. This Saturday brings the annual festival’s awesome Carnival on the Parkway, a free five-hour science bonanza showcasing more than 140 exhibitors and continuous (and educational!) fun — from family-friendly experiments [...]
Read more»April 11, 2013
As we mentioned earlier this week, Jay-Z’s Made in America Music Festival is returning to Benjamin Franklin Parkway for Labor Day Weekend 2013. Yesterday, the festival released its musical lineup and, much like last year, it features a wide range of artists representing many different genres — from underground sensations to pop music superstars. Speaking [...]
Read more»April 9, 2013
We were hoping it would return and now it’s official — Jay Z’s Made in America Music Festival is returning to Philadelphia. The festival is coming back to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for Labor Day Weekend 2013. The two-day festival will be hitting the streets of Philadelphia on Saturday and Sunday, August 31 and September [...]
Read more»April 4, 2013
After an epic run at The Franklin Institute, Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition closes its doors on Sunday, April 7. The impressive exhibition includes more than 300 artifacts retrieved from the wreck site of Titanic. The exhibition even has cool Philadelphia tie-ins — stories of 19 passengers who all have direct ties to Philadelphia are one of the focal points of the exhibit. The last admission on Sunday is at 7:30 p.m. Stop by the marquee exhibit before it sails away.
March 27, 2013
In partnership with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Orchid Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences hosts a three-day long international orchid show and sale from April 12 to 14. Orchid vendors from all over the world will be in attendance with gardening supplies and orchid-related gifts in tow. In addition to vendors, more than 30 orchid exhibits [...]
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