Philly Weekend Preview: 2/27/15
Get to The Winter Lodge at RiverRink on Penn’s Landing for ice skating, cocktails, smores and fire pits. THIS IS THE LAST WEEKEND so get there!
ROCCO at the FringeArts happens this Friday and Saturday. Classically trained ballet dancers act out a sibling rivalry in a boxing ring. On a stage transformed into a boxing ring with audience seating on three sides, male fighter-dancers perform a virtuosic display of close combat-choreography. Be a witness to an animalistic courtship of intelligence, masculinity and physicality, extreme control and iron discipline of the boxing body and the dancing body. Until somebody gets knocked out.
R5 Productions has the SCREAMING FEMALES record release party this Friday night at the First Unitarian Church. Ticket are $12-$14.
PhilaMOCA is doing the first annual Music Video Festival this weekend. Events run Friday through Sunday. Among the Festival’s events are a Name That Video competition, A Weird Al Burlesque show, and a tribute to the legendary MTV music show 120 Minutes. Everything this place does is a good time so definitely check out some of the events. Click here for more info!
The PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW begins Saturday. Who doesn’t need something to remind them of Spring with these temperatures? The show happens to be the world’s longest-running and largest indoor flower show. Show it some support…plus it is indoors and warm!
Take the kids the to the The Franklin Institute’s ART OF THE BRICK to enjoy the world’s largest gallery of LEGO art! This art gallery features over 100 LEGO creations made from more than a million LEGO bricks, all from the mind of famed contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya. This collection of sculptures includes a variety of Sawaya’s original concepts as well as a 20-foot-long Tyrannosaurus Rex made from over 80,000 LEGO bricks! Also on display are interpretations of historic works such as Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and Edvard Munch’s The Scream–all made entirely of LEGO bricks! Info.
The World Culture Series at the University of Pennsylvania Museum celebrates African Cultures Saturday from 11-4. The celebration features drum and dance workshops, storytelling, crafts, games, cuisine, art, and artifacts!
Annual Celebration of African Cultures 2015 Schedule
11:00 am – African Proverbs Family Gallery Tour (every 15 minutes until 12:30 pm)
11:30 am – Women’s Sekere Ensemble
12:00 pm – Folk and Modern Dance Workshop with Anssumane Sillá, formerly of the National Ballet of Guinea Bissau
1:00 pm – Tunisian and Moroccan Belly Dance Workshop with Habiba
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Craft station with Odunde365
1:30 pm – “Stories from the Motherland: An Interactive Storytelling Celebration” with Queen Nur and Yomi Jojolo
2:30 pm – Women’s Sekere Ensemble
3:00 pm – Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble and Finale
Local rockers CALLOWHILL have a 7″ record release party Saturday night at Johnny Brenda’s. Show starts at 9. Callowhill hits the stage at 11. Admission is only $10.
Saturday night the Plastic Club on Camac street is hosting the Philadelphia Independents Animation Festival, where Local professional animators including University of the Arts faculty and alumni present their works. This is a free event. Come early, seating is limited.
Franky Bradleys, which is probably the best new restaurant/bar/venue in town (review) hosts the amazing PIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY’S MARTHA GRAHAM CRACKER CABARET in their second floor cabaret space. This is a one-of-kind comedic drag event, one which I will most likely be attending. Robert Drake will also be DJing the after party.
Sunday is the Flyers Wive’s Carnival. It’s a good time for a good cause.
Have a good time this weekend. Don’t forget to download, subscribe and share the Jawnville Podcast.
Be good to one another!