Eastern State Penitentiary’s Pop-up Museum: Sports and Leisure
Eastern State Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Ave.
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Sunday. Free with admission.
What’s a museum to do when they simply have too much stuff? Eastern State Penitentiary hosts Pop-Up Museum: Sports & Leisure. Get a glimpse of sports paraphernalia, rare photos — like the Phillies’ legendary Connie Mack with Warden Cornelius Burke (fun fact: Mack’s real first name was also Cornelius) — and a short film from 1929 about sports and recreation.
Bronx Gothic
FringeArts, North Columbus Boulevard and Race Street.
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets: $29; $15 students.
In Okwui Okpokwasili‘s Bronx Gothic, set in 1980s outer-borough New York, two young girls navigate the complicated path from innocence to experience.
Photography 34
Perkins Center for the Arts, 30 Irvin Ave., Collingswood.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Free.
The intriguing exhibit Photography 34, featuring works by Al Wachlin Jr., Igor Svibilsky, and Virginia Anthes-Veltre.
Fine Art Music Company
8 p.m., Saturday: International Institute for Culture (6331 Lancaster Ave.)
3 p.m., Sunday: Ethical Society (1906 S. Rittenhouse Square).
$15 to $25.
The Fine Art Music Company is to play works by David Ludwig, George Crumb, Debussy, Henry Cowell, Ernest Bloch, Lili Boulanger, and Jacques Ibert in two venues.
St. Patrick’s Day Parade
16th Street and JFK Boulevard up the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Free.
The St. Patrick’s Day Parade, a long-running Philadelphia tradition (since 1771), features floats, Irish dancers, and bands aplenty. The theme this year celebrates those who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising. Can’t make it? Watch the parade on Fox 29.
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