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Mel Brooks's 1974 monster comedy runs for a week at the Lancaster Avenue art house. Showtimes change day to day.
374 things on this weekend, 2156 in the next two weeks across 27 towns, plus 9 running now.
Mel Brooks's 1974 monster comedy runs for a week at the Lancaster Avenue art house. Showtimes change day to day.
Local artists play the Mount Airy Road taproom every Friday. The brewery does not post set times ahead, so check the taproom page or call before you drive out.
Story times pause for a week and the Junior Room fills with crafts and games instead, open 10 to 4 each day. All ages, drop in, no registration.
The Aspen Tree takes over a corner of the Narberth refill shop for the first two weeks of September. Browse during shop hours, Tuesday to Sunday. The store is closed on Mondays.
Vintage coaches running out of the Bridge Street station all three days of the holiday weekend. Roughly forty-five minutes through Solebury farmland and back, and the last stretch of summer to do it in short sleeves.
Shops stay open late, many run sales, and street parking is free after five. The Rescue Dogs Band plays the Historic Courthouse and The Richard Brothers Band plays Gay Street.
Two weeks of vintage racks inside the refill shop: Phillies and Eagles tees, summer dresses, and jewelry Jessica Niamath builds from old parts. Shop hours, closed Mondays.
Jane Schoenbrun's Cannes title opens at the Hiway. Hannah Einbinder plays a filmmaker sent to revive a dying slasher franchise and Gillian Anderson the recluse she finds there. Showtimes post about a week ahead.
Controla takes the floor on the first and third Fridays of the month at the Lancaster Avenue studio. Latin social dancing on a proper ballroom floor rather than a cleared corner of a bar.
Four acts on the Haverford Road stage, Jug Carver through Steven Singer. The Nail has booked original bands on Friday and Saturday nights for seventy-odd years and shows no sign of stopping.
The First Friday walking tour takes the Main Street hill this month, the block of houses above Bridge Street most people drive past. Twelve dollars, and these sell out.
Four blocks of Gay Street close to cars so restaurants push tables into the road. Walk down the middle of the street, eat outside, and browse the shops on either side.
Riddles hidden around the Junior Room for ages 3 to 11, solve one and take a prize. Runs all week, drop in any hour the library is open.
Get The Led Out, the Philadelphia-area Led Zeppelin tribute, plays the Univest Performance Center on the Friday of Labor Day weekend. The band builds its show around the studio recordings rather than a costumes-and-wigs impersonation.
New first-run title landing on the Lancaster Avenue screens September 4. Showtimes at BMFI shift week to week, so look up the day's schedule before you drive over.
The 1959 epic gets a week-long run at the Lancaster Avenue art house. It is a long sit, so check the daily schedule before picking a showtime.
September round of the chamber's parents night off, kids looked after while you go eat. The listing carries the sign up, cost and drop off point.
The water glass, the kitchen, the T. rex. Spielberg's dinosaurs hold up better than almost anything made since, and this is a three-day run.
Village restaurants run discounted plates on the first Friday of the month. Buttonwood Grill, Earl's New American and Cock 'n Bull all take part. Walk it off after.
Admission is waived all day at the preserve on River Road. Roughly a hundred acres of native plants along the Delaware, plus the trails and the visitor center.
Seated yoga at the Doylestown branch, run by the Friends group. Sessions at 9:15 and 10:05 every Friday, geared toward seniors.
Half an hour of music, bouncing and shakers for the very small, Friday mornings at the library on West Ferry Street. Caregivers stay and join in.
An hour of chair yoga in the large meeting room, postures plus breath work and standing balance. Loose clothing and a low-backed armless chair are what they recommend.
Stories, songs and fingerplays for babies six to twenty-four months with a grown-up. Running out of the borough hall while the library building is under renovation. Registration requested.
A four hour KACS workshop on what causes poverty, how different life experience shapes outlook, and practical ways to lower barriers. Registration required.
The Friday craft group runs straight through the fall. Ten to noon, bring your own materials, and pick up a new hobby by watching the person next to you.
Bubba the corgi and his handler Mary Ann take up the children's room for half an hour on Friday mornings. Pet him, read to him, no reservation.
Bring needles, hooks, yarn and whatever you have going, and work on it alongside other crafters. Pattern books are out for browsing. No sign up needed.
Stories plus a book club for the smallest readers, Friday mornings in the children's area. Half an hour, free, and it lands right before the farmers market sets up across town.
A half hour of stories for the smallest listeners on a Friday morning. Thirty minutes is the whole idea, short enough that nobody comes apart before the last page.
Friday mid-morning in the Budzik Room, pitched at kids who are starting to sound words out on their own. Free, no registration, weekly at the Lincoln Highway branch.
The Friday run of the library's story time for ones, twos, and kids who like to keep moving. Same Story Room, same half hour, end of the week.
A Friday morning gathering for older adults in the library Board Room. It is a standing date on the calendar, so you can plan around it rather than watch for it.
Songs, sensory play and books for babies under one, led by Ms. Danielle. Registration is required and the room is small, so book a seat first.
Songs, crafts, and stories for kids under five with Miss Mackenzie. In warm weather they meet outside at the Narberth Park pavilion, otherwise inside. No registration.
Songs, crafts and stories for kids from birth to five. Warm sunny mornings move it outside to the pavilion in Narberth Park, rain sends it back indoors. No registration.
Friday late morning, two hours of writing with prompts and shared reading. Same workshop as the Monday night session, moved for people whose evenings are spoken for.
Friday casual games for newer players who want the reps without a lesson. Bring your 2026 card. Two hours in the Krapf Room.
Cards at noon on Fridays in the library community room, two hours and no charge. Bring nothing, the decks are already there and so are the regulars.
Lobster rolls with fries for three days only, at lunch and dinner Friday through Sunday. Reservations are recommended, and the kitchen wants your count in advance because these sell out.
Rabbi Moriah SimonHazani leads the High Holiday edition of this monthly lunch talk, a bowl of cholent and an hour on the texts behind Rosh Hashanah. Five dollars, register ahead.
A monthly art session for adults with developmental disabilities at the Race Street branch, half past twelve on the first Friday. Free, run by library staff.
An hour of hands on science built for homeschooled kids, midday on a Friday when the library is quiet. RSVP required, and it runs at the Swartley Street building.
The Chester County Food Bank truck parks at the Masonic Lodge on Friday afternoons with local produce and pantry staples. SNAP and Veggie Bucks accepted, one to two fifteen.
Two hours every Friday afternoon at the Roslyn branch for whatever handicraft is sitting unfinished at home. Drop in with your own materials, no registration, no project too small.
Bring whatever you are knitting, crocheting or mending and work on it in company for two hours. No registration, no skill test, no project of theirs you have to make.
An hour of Rummikub at the library on Centre Avenue, every Friday afternoon. Tiles and tables are already there, you just show up. Regulars will walk you through the rules.
Beginners learn stitches at their own pace, everyone else brings the pattern that stopped making sense. Ninety minutes Friday afternoons in the Hessinger Study Room.
Pre-2006 films only, chosen for being adapted from a book, culturally significant or simply asked for by patrons. A casual discussion follows. First Friday of the month.
Incoming sixth graders put their questions about middle school to the kids who already survived it, in the library's young adult area. An hour, and free.
A screening with the lights left up and the sound down, so kids can move and talk. All ages, two hours.
A relaxed showing with the lights up and the sound down, so kids who need to move around can. Two hours on a Friday afternoon, all ages, free.
Growers and food makers set up in the Borough Hall lot every Friday afternoon. Free parking on site, rain or shine, and it wraps at six so you can plan dinner around it.
A seasonal craft or activity set out every Friday afternoon at the Belmont Hills branch, all ages, no sign-up. Two hours, come when you can.
Bring a deck to the library on Friday afternoon and find a game. All levels, all formats, and nobody minds if you are still learning the stack.
Board games and beer in the Logan Inn living room to start the weekend, Fridays three to five. Open to the public, and dominoes take over the same room at six.
A Friday afternoon kickoff, Ipswich Town against Liverpool, on the screens at the Easton Road gastropub. Select drafts drop to $5 for the match.
Tokio Sushi parks out front from three. Rolls to go with a barrel-aged sour, then the music room fills up at seven when the band starts.
September's cask tapping, four o'clock sharp, four dollars a pour. One barrel, one afternoon, and when it is gone it is gone until October.
Burgers and fries at the Keswick Avenue brewery to open Labor Day weekend. Seats at the bar, on the patio, or in the large beer garden behind the building.
September's First Friday theme is backyard barbecue, with Country Mile on the plaza. Six hours of vendors, themed menu items and specialty drinks, four to ten.
Friday hours for the borough's downtown street program, four in the afternoon to ten at night. First Friday runs the same evening, so the block is full early.
Fifteen dollars to walk through the Parry Mansion on a Friday evening, four to six, with the historical society that keeps the house running the tour itself.
Happy hour pricing all night for teachers and school staff who show a school ID. Everyone else can come too, they just pay the regular tab.
Victor's Pizza truck back in the Ten7 lot to start the Labor Day weekend. Pies from four, taproom open until ten, no reservation and no table service.
Curator Lauren McCardel and painter Hee Sook Kim talk through her rework of Cezanne's mountain in Korean symbols and beadwork, then the reception opens the show. Listed as open to the general public.
The Washington House pours a flight from Wissahickon Brewing Co. at 5 on a Friday, in the historic hotel bar beside Sellersville Theater. Reservations hold a seat, with the tavern's kitchen open for dinner after.
West Court between Hamilton and Harvey closes for the evening. Restaurants and shops move outside, with live music and street games until eleven.
Downtown shops and kitchens stay open late along East Lincoln Highway for the food-themed edition of the monthly First Friday. Four hours, free, park once and walk it.
Labor Day weekend Friday on the patio, five to eight, no cover. Long weekend crowd, so the tables outside go early. Kitchen open the whole time.
A West Chester University music school graduate who has toured the States and Canada, playing five to eight on a Friday. Pour a glass and take a seat outside.
Claim a table and run your own campaign, or email ahead to see whether a local DM has a seat open. Five hours every Friday evening in the game cafe on Broad.
A Labor Day weekend family program on the retreat house grounds off South Warren Avenue, Friday evening through Sunday noon in the McShain-Horstmann center. Register through the house ahead of time.
Two hours of browsing on the first Friday of the month at the Cricket Avenue shop, and any purchase over $45 comes with a free reader galley. One per customer, so choose well.
Friday nights the outdoor grill at the Desmond goes lobster, five to nine. Deck tables go first, and the pub inside stays open if the weather turns on you.
A genre-defying singer and guitarist in the Beer Garden, free with Gardens admission. Sets end at 7:45 so you can walk over for the Illuminated Fountain Performance.
The resident artists open the studio on First Friday. Abstract and realist work, fabric art, stained glass, with new pieces rotating in. Snacks and drinks, and the artists are there to talk.
The café holds the doors open into the evening for the town's First Friday, two hours of Haverford Avenue with something in your hand. Free to drop in.
Free music on the back deck of the golf club, five to eight, with the course spread out below. No tee time required. Food and drinks come from the clubhouse.
Out on the patio from five to eight, weather permitting. The restaurant sits on Stump Hall Road beside the golf club, a few minutes from the village center.
DelVal hosts its own 5K on the campus course, men's and women's races on a Friday evening. Spectators can walk the loop and catch runners at three points.
Sin Brothers play the event tent overlooking the show grounds at sunset, with food by Innovative Catering Concepts, a silent auction and a cash bar. Tickets are 85 dollars in advance.
Tailgate polo on the Friday of Labor Day weekend, five minutes west of Kennett Square. Cars park along the boards, people bring coolers, and the divot stomp is at halftime.
A two hour walk around the preserve learning which native trees and plants you can eat or use as medicine, plus the ethics of taking them. Early evening light.
The 100 and 200 blocks of Bridge Street close to cars from 5:30 to 8:30 on the first Friday of every month through December, with restaurants spilling into the street, craft vendors, and musicians tucked along Bridge and Main. The Kids Zone sets up in the Main and Bridge Street lot.
Country rock on the last Friday of the summer series, the night before the fireworks finale. Six to ten, ten dollars online.
Guided breathwork set to sound on a Friday evening at the center inside Montgomery Mall. Forty four dollars, book ahead, and dress for lying on the floor.
A guided evening paddle on Marsh Creek Lake, two hours on the water as the light goes. Free, and registration through the state park calendar is required first.
Two blocks of Walnut Street close for the September edition, themed cookout night. Music, a food truck, shopping and dining specials from the businesses along the strip, plus a charity drive.
A roller from 708 Cigars works in the shop on West End Boulevard, six to nine on a Friday night. Watch the leaves go together and buy what comes off the table.
A rotating cast of local acts plays the tavern inside Downingtown Country Club every Friday evening. Open to the public, no membership needed, and the patio looks over the course.
Country rock on the Festival Field, the second to last Friday night of the season. Food vendors, Rose Bank wine and local beer, lawn chairs welcome, ten dollars if you buy online.
First Friday movie in the field. Park opens at six, the film starts around sundown. Popcorn, candy, ice cream, a wine bar and a creekside beer bar.
Bring your own records and they spin them. Six to ten every Friday at the West Market Street bar, free, and the queue is whoever turns up with a sleeve.
Two hours of clay slab building for a pair, two pieces per couple, glaze and kiln firing covered. Bring your own drink. Ages 21 and up, work ready in three or four weeks.
Two hours for families at the Gay Street diner on Friday evenings, six to eight, through the end of September.
Madison Street closes and downtown fills with a beer garden, food trucks, live music, a kids zone and dozens of vendors. Six to nine sharp. Park in the SEPTA garage.
Master roller Bomba rolls cigars in front of you for three hours, with music and food put out at no charge. Twenty-one and over, free to walk in, buy four and get one.
Perkasie's First Friday season closes with Cookout Night on Walnut Street between 5th and 6th, 6 to 8 pm. The Hot Diggity Dog cart handles dinner while the downtown shops, arcade, and brewery keep their doors open late.
Dominoes in the Logan Inn living room on Friday evenings, six to eight, right as the Whiskey Lounge gets going. Open to locals and hotel guests alike, with reservations suggested.
The 62-bell carillon played by the city carillonneur of Frederick, Maryland. Bring a blanket for the turf across from the Chimes Tower. Free with Gardens admission.
Strength, cardio and stretching in the Jane Stover Lodge on Fourth Street, led by Ally Wesner. Ten dollars at the door, all levels, and you work at your own pace.
Songs from every genre and decade, mark them off your card, prizes all night. No music expertise needed. Bring a crew or turn up alone and get folded into one.
Fourteen seats, a different car and track every week, and a cash pot the field pays into. Doors 6:40, qualifying at seven, feature final near nine on full motion rigs.
A classically trained Philly saxophonist turned electrosoul act, blending jazz improvisation with R&B and hip hop. Free show in the brewery's music room, 7 to 10pm.
Three hours of live music in the taphouse on a Friday night, seven to ten, halfway up Souderton's main block. The kitchen runs until closing.
Township parks and rec puts a movie up at the biergarten out at Arader Farm, seven to eight thirty. Free, no registration. Beer and food are right there if you want them.
Friday night lights at Lions Stadium, the first home game of the season. Bleachers sit behind the high school off West Bridge Street, kickoff at seven.
Friday evening painting on Leedom Street, two hours, forty two dollars a seat with everything supplied. A second canvas runs at the same hour if this one fills up.
Youth Day at Vonnie Gros Field, so the Rams build the night around kids who play. Friday 7 p.m. start against Assumption University.
Seven o'clock on the lawn behind the township building, ten minutes up 476 from Conshohocken. Blankets, coolers and a band on the bandshell to start the long weekend.
Four-band noise rock and shoegaze bill put together by Psychic Street Gang and The Rat Shack. Twelve dollars ahead, fifteen at the door, and there is a special show menu that night.
Three hours of live music in the taproom on a Friday night. The brewery makes its own beer, wine and seltzer, and you bring the food or order it in from up the street.
The long running immersive comedy where the audience are the wedding guests, staged over dinner at the Cock 'n Bull. Four days of seatings.
Name That Tune crossed with bingo, prizes each round in gift cards, wine, cider or swag. Groups of six or more can hold a high top ahead of time for sixty dollars.
The Knights open at home under the lights against Central York. Kickoff is 7 p.m. at the stadium behind the high school on South Valley Forge Road, a short drive from downtown.
Duo act on the outdoor stage from seven to ten, first Friday of September. The self-pour tap wall runs Pennsylvania beer only, and the kitchen stays open alongside.
Friday night football at War Memorial Field, walking distance from downtown Doylestown. Wilson of West Lawn comes east for the Bucks' second game of the season.
Acoustic set on the heated outdoor patio, seven to ten. The Creamery books a different act every Friday and Saturday through the fall.
Friday night football on Main Street. Patterson Field sits a short walk from the Collegeville restaurants, so park once and eat before or after.
A classically trained saxophonist out of Philadelphia who moved into vocals and hip hop production, playing three hours in the taproom. No cover, and a food truck runs alongside.
Jazz in the old bank building on Main Street, three sets from seven to ten. The vault door is still there, and the pizza oven keeps going while the band plays.
The Philly Keys take requests for three hours on First Friday, all sing along and crowd noise with Brian Aglira leading. Tables sell out every month, so reserve ahead.
Guitar and voice for three hours, no cover, kitchen open the whole time. The tavern sits out on Hilltown Pike, roughly ten minutes south of Sellersville.
Improv made up on the spot at the storefront comedy theater on East Butler. Doors at eight, bring your own beer, tickets around twenty dollars.
A large ensemble that plays Frank Zappa's catalog, horns and all, which takes more players than most tribute acts carry. Labor Day weekend Friday, doors 7:30.
Dead tribute with a rotating lead guitarist, so no two nights match. This one adds Mark Diomede and a double drum section. Upstairs, twenty one and over.
Tom Petty songs played straight by a long running tribute band. Doors 7:15, music at 8, 21 and over. The room is on East Lancaster Avenue, a short walk from the Ardmore train station.
Three and a half hours of karaoke in a medieval themed arcade, 21 and over. The $15 admission covers unlimited pinball, arcade games, pool and darts while you wait your turn.
Eight to eleven on the porch overlooking Lake Afton, weather permitting. The 1875 tavern keeps sixteen drafts and nine screens, so the room splits between listeners and the game.
Friday night in the Main Street concert room. Doors at six, band at eight, thirty-five dollars a seat with table service before and during the set. Every ticket is will call at the door.
Three hours of covers in the back room of the Court Street red-gravy place, eight to eleven on the Friday of Labor Day weekend. No cover charge listed, so get there before the tables go.
Two-piece acoustic act running eighties and nineties singalongs from eight to eleven in the main room. Puck's beer garden pours twelve Pennsylvania craft taps alongside it.
A comedy magician who has worked six continents and Hollywood's Magic Castle, in a purpose-built room where nobody sits far from the deck. Ages 16 and up, two nights only.
Solo set at the main bar from eight to eleven. The kitchen menus come from Vernafern, Spuntino and The Side Bar, all three sharing the Main Street Marketplace building.
Friday night on the restaurant side, eight until midnight, in the bar area rather than the dining room. Thirty-plus drafts and a kitchen that runs to eleven on weekends.
Guitarist Michael London plays Rumi-inspired originals with sax player Ken Ulansey, bassist Dylan Taylor and drummer Bill Marconi. Doors at 7:30, $20 ahead or $25 at the door, $10 for kids.
You pick the song, the Troubles End house band plays it behind you. Nero Catalano, Frank Vasile, Devon Middleton, Jonas Oesterle and Casey Parker take requests through the @troublesendlive inbox.
First Friday of September on the Slow Hand stage. Downtown is already busy that night, so get there before nine.
Friday karaoke at the Market Street bottle shop and bar, nine o'clock, free. It runs Saturdays at the same hour too.
A late Friday slot in the Blackbox, the small studio theater on campus, as part of the college Fringe weekend. Open to the community, not students only.
A late Friday set at the East Market Street bar, starting at 9:30. Covers band, small stage, and the room gets loud fast.
Ten p.m. Friday karaoke in the basement bar on West Gay Street, free to walk in. It goes late, and the list gets long once the Gay Street crowd spills over.
A Chester County Labor Day tradition since 1943, the Ludwig's Corner Horse Show & Country Fair blends top-level equestrian competition with classic country fair fun. Watch hunters, jumpers, and equitation riders compete across three rings from morning through dusk, culminating in the $10,000 Mini-Prix on Labor Day Monday. The midway offers inflatables, rides, and games for kids, plus food trucks, a beer garden, and live music. Stroll vendor tents for local artisans offering home and garden decor, jewelry, apparel, and gourmet treats. Free admission to the grounds.
Four band Saturday at the Nail, all original material. A small stage on Haverford Road with a long habit of booking bands nobody else will.
Fill your plate at the Skippack Village Food Truck Festival, returning for Labor Day weekend with about 30 food trucks and vendors lining the historic village. Browse the shops of Skippack Village between bites — most trucks are in the lots across from Pasta Basta. Bring the whole family, and dogs are welcome too. Free admission, pay as you go. Noon to 5 p.m. both days.
Step back into the age of knights, jesters, and merriment at the Bucks County Renaissance Faire, returning to the historic TileWorks for Labor Day weekend. Five stages feature magic, juggling, music, and theater throughout each day. An artisan marketplace offers handmade crafts, while food vendors and a locally sourced pub keep everyone fed. Test your aim at archery and axe-throwing, or challenge a knight to single combat. Costumes encouraged. Adults $20, children 5-14 $10, under 5 free. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, rain or shine.
Four blocks of Gay Street close to cars so restaurants push tables into the road. Walk down the middle of the street, eat outside, and browse the shops on either side.
A mile on foot through town with a guide, split into fifty-year chapters from the Revolution forward. Meets at the Parry Mansion, about an hour, fifteen dollars.
Perk City sets up outside the West Walnut taproom. Bravo's Pizza delivers inside at twenty percent off for Van Lieus customers, so the group does not have to agree.
Second day of the Jurassic Park run. Saturday is the one that sells, so buy ahead if you want the good seats.
The region's largest Polish American festival returns for its 60th year over Labor Day weekend. Live polka and disco polo bands perform on two outdoor stages, alongside Polish folk dance groups from across the US and Canada. Feast on kielbasa, pierogi, potato pancakes, and stuffed cabbage, or try the Polish Vodka Tasting. Kids enjoy amusement rides, the Little Circus show, and a crafters' village. Historical reenactors bring the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and WWII era to life. The Polish American String Band performs in Mummers costumes on the second Sunday. $15 admission includes unlimited midway rides. Free parking. Noon to 8 p.m. each day.
The first-Saturday tango night at Pivot, one of three milongas on the studio's September calendar. Argentine tango classes run Wednesdays here, so the floor knows what it is doing.
The Short Bus cart parks at the brewery for the day, hot dogs going out beside the taps. Same Saturday as the Street Sausage benefit show, so plan to stay.
The indoor market on Lancaster Avenue opens at six on Saturday, which is when the Amish stands still have the sticky buns. Ten hours of butchers, produce and cheese, ten minutes from Bryn Mawr.
Four hundred vendors across thirty acres of indoor and outdoor stalls: antiques, produce, tools, clothing, food. Gates open at seven and the lot fills early. Bring cash.
Saturday hours for the borough's downtown street program, seven in the morning to ten at night. Vintage Fest is in the Bridge and Main lot the same day.
Seven matches across seven hours, starting with Newcastle against Bournemouth at 7:30 in the morning and closing with Hull versus Aston Villa at half twelve. Breakfast is on the menu.
Free walk at half past seven, which is when the fall migrants are actually moving. Loaner binoculars if you need them. The center sits on Bath Road in Bristol, about fifteen minutes below Yardley.
The Doylestown Farmers Market runs Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on South Hamilton Street between West Oakland Avenue and West State Street, in the heart of downtown Doylestown. It is one Saturday in a regular season that runs April 18 through November 21, so five market days follow it before the winter market takes over at the Central Bucks Senior Center, 700 Shady Retreat Road, on the first and third Saturdays of December, January and February. Expect between 23 and 26 vendors selling produce, eggs, meat, bread, kombucha, soap, baked goods, coffee, microgreens and crafts. It is a producers-only market: every vendor has to grow what they sell or make it from local ingredients. October is apple and winter squash season on the market's own calendar, alongside eggplant, peppers, potatoes, lettuces, spinach and Napa cabbage. The musician booked for this date is Fools and Prophets. EBT and SNAP cards are accepted at the green market tent. The market was established in 1975 and is in its 51st season, the oldest continually operating farmers market in the county, run by the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance since 2017. The exact vendor list changes week to week: the market posts a Vendor Roll Call on its Instagram and Facebook each Thursday, and any change after that lands in the Instagram story channel called Vendor Status Updates. Check it Friday night, then head over for 8.
Two hours out on the Honey Hollow watershed land with binoculars, first and third Saturday mornings. Wet grass early, good warbler traffic as fall gets closer.
September walks catch the birds heading south. Two hours on the Peace Valley trails with an expert, free of charge, no registration needed.
Meet at Lake Afton and walk down to the Delaware and back along the towpath, an hour of looking up. Binoculars help. Run off the borough calendar, and it starts on the half hour.
Growers, bakers and prepared food makers set up in Kerr Park from nine to one. Cash and a tote help. A free movement class runs alongside most Saturday mornings.
Saturday mornings at the Grange hall on Route 611, north of Doylestown. Growers and bakers under the pavilion, wrapped up by half past twelve, so this is an early errand rather than a lazy one.
Saturday mornings at the Middletown Grange on Penns Park Road, ten minutes north of Newtown. Growers, bakers and a hard stop at noon, so this is a get-up-early market.
Labor Day weekend market on Seventh Street. Nine to noon, rain or shine, with produce, baked goods, and prepared food from growers around upper Bucks.
Nine to six on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend at the working farm on Thornbury Road, with the CSA pickup running alongside the market stalls. Cash and card both fine.
Saturday mornings in Buttonwood Park, nine to noon, producer only. Local farms, bread, eggs, mushrooms, flowers and prepared food. SNAP swipes get matched dollar for dollar up to thirty. Free lot right there.
Fourteenth year, more than eighty sellers spread along shaded paved paths, food, and a playground for whoever gets bored. Free parking on the ball field. Around 3,000 people come.
Over eighty sellers along the tree-lined paved paths at Waterworks Park, with free parking on site and a playground to park the kids at. Rain date is September 13.
Perkasie's weekly farmers market brings local growers, bakers, and makers to town every Saturday morning. Fresh produce, homemade treats, and community spirit — a perfect weekend staple.
The Phoenixville Farmers' Market runs Saturday, October 31, 2026, from 9 a.m. to noon, the same as every Saturday from April 1 until the last Saturday before Thanksgiving. It sits along French Creek under the Veterans Memorial Gay Street Bridge at 200 Mill Street, with the entrance off Taylor Alley. Parking is metered at Municipal Lot #4, paid by kiosk or app, and at the Borough Hall lot about 100 meters down from the market entrance. Bridge, Mill and Main streets have free two-hour parking. Every vendor makes what they sell, and the market says many of those products are sold nowhere else. On a regular Saturday that means Birchrun Hills Farm cheese, Country Time Farm pork, Mickley's Orchard cider and tree fruit, Fungified mushrooms, Bridge Street Chocolates made in Phoenixville, Taste of Puebla's Mexican food, Vera Pasta, hot coffee from Top Java, and dog treats from Saint Rocco's. There is live music and a children's area, and dogs are welcome. The potters and cutting-board makers come on the second Saturday of the month, and this is the fifth. The market started in the spring of 2002 with four farms in a parking lot at Bridge and Main, and moved under the bridge in 2010. If you want a specific loaf or cut, several vendors take pre-orders with Thursday and Friday deadlines, listed on the market's site. After the last Saturday before Thanksgiving the hours shift to 10 a.m. to noon through the winter.
The September round of the vintage market, nine to four in the Bridge and Main lot. Sellers rotate, so it is worth a second look even if you came in August.
The Malvern Farmers Market runs Saturday, September 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Burke Park, at Warren Avenue and Roberts Road in Malvern, its corner every Saturday. Most producers sell on the day and many also take pre-orders with a Friday deadline; Wyebrook Farm (pasture-raised beef and heritage pork) and Wingswept Acres (pasture-raised poultry and eggs) close theirs at 10 a.m. Friday. The stand list is posted fresh each week; a recent one had naturally grown vegetables and herbs from Full Circle CSA, mushrooms from Fungus Aurelius, sourdough and English muffins from Good Girls Bakery, malt-boiled NYC-style bagels from Street Cart Bagels, Mexican food from Taste of Puebla, baklava, honey, chocolate, flowers, and coffee from Hill Road Coffee Roasters and the Mayday Coffee truck, which matters at 9 a.m. Good Girls on the Go makes breakfast sandwiches to order every Saturday, and Back to Earth Compost takes scraps on the first and third Saturdays, which covers the 19th: $5 a five-gallon bucket, no meat, bones or dairy. The free Movement at the Market class on the 19th is Full Body Sculpt & Strength with Logan Dawson at 10 a.m., low-impact, all levels; bring a mat and water. The night before, Friday, September 18, the same park hosts the Craft & Mercantile night market, 5 to 8:30 p.m., with live music, food, drink and 35-plus makers. Check the market page before you go; the stands for the 19th post by Monday, September 14.
Saturday mornings on West Glenside Avenue, nine to one, through the third week of November. Produce, baked goods and prepared food, rain or shine.
The Bryn Mawr Farmers Market runs Saturday, September 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 7 N. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, where Bryn Mawr Avenue meets Lancaster Avenue. It is a weekly market, and those are the hours every Saturday from April through December, minus the fourth week of November. From January through March it thins to the first, third and fifth Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon. Lower Merion Farmers Markets has run it since April 2025, when Farm to City handed the market over, and it is producer-only: vendors sell what they grew, produced or made themselves within 150 miles of Philadelphia, and the market does not take businesses that resell what they bought elsewhere. The vendor list on the market's page runs to twenty-nine names, among them Birchrun Hills Farm, Canter Hill Farm, Two Gander Farm, Urban Roots Farm, Frecon Farms, Hands on the Earth Orchard, Davidson Exotic Mushrooms, Shellbark Hollow Farm, Amaranth Bakery, Wild Flour Bakery, Settantatre Pasta Company, Doc Pickle, Kombucha Bliss, Philly Fair Trade Roasters, Scrape & Scoop Ice Cream, Taste of Puebla, Maggie's Soups and Five Saints Distilling. Not all of them come every Saturday, and the market posts each week's lineup on its page. Restrooms are at Ludington Library, per the market's own rules. If there is one stand you are driving for, check that week's lineup on the market's page before you go.
Saturday morning dance-fitness at the Park at 4th, run by the borough parks department. Ten dollars walk-in, nothing to sign up for. Come as you are and bring water.
Ambler's beloved Saturday morning farmers market brings local produce, baked goods, and artisanal treats to downtown. Stroll the stalls, grab a coffee, and enjoy the small-town morning vibe.
Free outdoor yoga on the Kerr Park lawn while the farmers market runs. Kim Wolff of Optimal Massage and Movement leads a beginner friendly hour. Bring a mat and water.
A Saturday morning market on Gap Newport Pike in Avondale, about eight minutes down the road from Kennett Square. Growers and makers, wrapped up by one.
Labor Day weekend market with Ashlynn Distillery canned cocktails and Neil's sharpening service, so bring your dull kitchen knives. Coal's Creek sourdough and Quarry Hill beef round out the morning.
The Lansdale Farmers' Market is on Saturday, October 24 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., one stop in a regular season that runs every Saturday from May 9 through December 19, 2026. It sets up outdoors in the Penndale Middle School parking lot at 400 Penn Street, on the side facing Church Road, and it goes rain or shine. Two dozen vendors are listed for every week, with another twenty or so rotating in on select Saturdays that the market announces in its email newsletter. The weekly regulars include farms like Apple Ridge, Taproot and Living Hope, plus Amazing Acres Goat Dairy, Ironstone Farm, Brandywine Valley Bread, Backyard Beans Coffee, Humpty's Dumplings, Cloud Cups Gelato and Yia Yia's Baklava. Wild for Salmon, Taste of Puebla and Settantatré Pasta & Provisions are among the names that come on select weeks. The market lists credit card, cash, Venmo, FMNP, SNAP EBT and Market Bucks as ways to pay. Dogs can come on a leash of six feet or less (no retractables), and there is no smoking or alcohol on school property. The market was started by volunteers in 2008, held its first season in 2009, and is still run by an unpaid volunteer board as a nonprofit. If this Saturday gets away from you, the season runs through December 19, and a winter market picks up on the second and fourth Saturdays from January through April, 10 a.m. to noon.
A Saturday morning pulling invasives and tending meadow on the 571 acres along the East Branch. Two and a half hours, tools provided, no experience wanted.
The West Chester Growers Market runs Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the corner of Church and Chestnut Streets in the borough. That is its regular slot every Saturday from May through December; from January through April it shifts to the first, third and fifth Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon. For parking, the market's site sends you to downtown West Chester's own parking page. This is a producer-only market and the bylaws mean it: vendors sell only what they grow or produce themselves, and anyone who just resells is turned away at the application stage. The weekly roster averages 28 producers from the surrounding region. Expect seasonal fruits and vegetables alongside meats, cheese, local honey, breads, pastries, roasted coffee, local wines and spirits, hard ciders, fresh flowers, bedding plants and prepared foods. The member list runs from Big Sky Bread and Tally Ho Coffee to Society of Bacon, Conebella Farm, Vera Pasta and North Star Orchard, with rotating guests such as Hank's Cinnamon Buns and Rosie's Kettle Corn filling in around them. A Community Tent hosts non-profits and musicians who apply for a spot. The market opened on this same corner in July 1995 with 10 farmers, and its own pitch is a plain one: come and shake the hand that feeds you. Saturday's window is 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the shorter winter hours do not start until January.
Saturday morning soldering basics in the community makerspace: iron, flux, and a small board to take home. Free, registration required, and no prior experience assumed.
The West Chester Walking Club picks a different downtown spot each week and sets off at 9:30. Easy pace, no sign up, and some weeks the group ends up in a shop or a cafe.
An hour of slow standing movement in the park while the farmers market runs beside it. Pay what you can, cash or Venmo, and drop-ins are fine.
Saturday mornings at Nor-View Farm Park, four hours of growers and bakers on the Henderson Road side. Parking is on the grass and fills up by ten.
Two hours of pulling invasives, tending the nursery and working the gardens across eleven acres. Tools and gloves are provided. Wear long pants and closed toe shoes.
A guide walks you through the ironmaster houses and mill buildings of the Lukens National Historic District. Tours leave at ten, twelve thirty and two thirty, fifteen to twenty five dollars.
The last one of the season, Labor Day weekend. Demonstrations run ten to four and then the summer program closes until next June. Free, park on site.
Three days of hunters, jumpers and equitation across three rings, with a midway of rides, games, pony rides, alpacas and a beer garden alongside. Vendor Village runs ten to four each day.
A working gristmill on the Neshaminy that has been grinding Bucks County grain since 1730, open for a guided walk every Saturday morning. Ten dollars, and the mill shop sells the flour.
Two hours of hands-on work on the preserve, whatever the season needs: planting, trail repair, hauling. No experience required and the tools are there. Bristol, about fifteen minutes from Yardley.
Hearth cooking, tape weaving, wood turning, historic laundry and soldier life, demonstrated on the grounds of Frederick Muhlenberg's restored house. Free, though guided tours are separate. September 5 closes the season.
Local artists set up among the apple trees with work for sale, cider poured all day, and the farm market open alongside. Parking runs ten dollars a car during festival hours.
An indoor maker market in a Carter Drive warehouse, open three hours on Saturday mornings. Bakers, hot sauce people, prepared food, coffee. Same lot as Levante if you want to make a morning of it.
First Saturday tours of the 1765 stone house where Washington planned the Battle of Trenton, and the only home known to have been owned by two signers of the Declaration. Seven dollars at the door.
A 10 a.m. Saturday start against Albright, early enough to still make the farmers market afterward. Free to watch from the stadium side.
Keeper chats, a discovery table and a vulture flying overhead in the Wild Encounter, free with zoo admission. Hoover flies at eleven, and there is a greet with a turkey vulture at half two.
Walk Henry Mercer's concrete castle at your own pace instead of on a guided tour, so you can stand in one of the forty four rooms as long as you like.
Three hours in Victory Park on Saturday morning, ten minutes down Route 29 from Collegeville. Growers, bakers and a short walk to the Schuylkill River Trail if you keep going.
Free family yoga and mindfulness at Burke Park with Jamy from Felicity Farm 1867. Kids welcome. A mat Pilates class follows at eleven if you want to stay.
Volunteer stewardship morning in an eleven acre native green space, ten to noon on the first and third weekends. Tools and gloves are provided. Wear long pants and closed toe shoes.
Two days of extended park hours over the holiday weekend, with the water rides still running and the character parades on their summer schedule. Langhorne is about ten minutes from Newtown.
Five dollar Saturday morning kid film, free for members, from the 1988 live-action Pippi. Ten o'clock start, out in time for the farmers market.
Walk the preserve with a phone and log every bee, butterfly and beetle you can photograph into iNaturalist. Every September sighting counts toward the township's national tally. Stay on the marked trails.
The cemetery association walks you past the Civil War graves on East Court Street on first Saturdays. About an hour on foot, and the stories are the reason to come.
Kids run their own stalls at Miller Meadow alongside the wider community market. Three hours on the first Saturday of the month, with the young sellers handling their own money and pitches.
The monthly first-Saturday tour of the rescue, plus the rundown on volunteer jobs from barn chores to event help. Meet in front of the indoor riding arena.
An hour of yoga in a goat pasture, ten in the morning on Saturdays through mid-November. Thirty dollars a person, twelve and up, and the goats wander through the poses.
The farm's retail market on Cedar Knoll Road runs Saturday mornings through October with produce grown on site. Ten thirty to one thirty, and no CSA membership is needed to shop.
The Saturday morning slot of the borough's bootcamp series. Strength training, cardio and HIIT-style work at the Jane Stover Lodge with instructor Ally Wesner. Ten dollar walk-in fee, bring water.
The Chester County Astronomical Society sets up three solar telescopes at Exton Park's Chester Valley Trail trailhead on September 5, 10:30 to 1:30, free. The sun is at its once-in-11-years activity peak, so the scopes should catch sunspots and plasma loops in real detail.
An hour of guided meditation in the library's Community Education Room, Saturday mornings at ten thirty. Run by the Sahaja Yoga Pennsylvania Center, free and open to anyone.
A ninety minute Saturday morning canvas pitched at younger painters, thirty five dollars a seat. Shorter and cheaper than the evening sessions, and everyone is out before lunch.
A family story time with books, music, and art, the library's weekend slot for kids who miss the weekday sessions.
Two hours of hands on, screen free activities for kids in the bookshop. No sign up, just turn up. The shop is on Haverford Station Road, a few minutes from downtown Ardmore.
Adult Recess runs a field day for the twenty five and older crowd on the Miles Park fields off Germantown Pike, four hours on a Saturday, twenty dollars. Ten minutes from Fayette Street.
An educator from Elmwood Park Zoo brings an opossum along and makes the case for the most maligned animal in the county. Free, all ages, and there is a craft to take home.
Free hoagies, chips and drinks at the dealership on State Road, three hours on the Saturday of the holiday weekend. Ride in or drive up, the showroom is open until four.
Monthly used book sale in the community room, run by the Friends of the library. A dollar a hardback, fifty cents a paperback, five dollars a bag. Bring your own bag or use theirs.
Morning match that opens the Bryn Mawr Tri-Match, three games in the Class of 1958 Gymnasium across one Saturday. Indoors, so the forecast does not matter.
An hour with the hives open at the Creamery Road nature center, close enough to watch the frames come out. Separate from the morning bird walk on the same site.
Stories, crafts and songs in the old Lyceum building, aimed at toddlers and pre-K but open to anyone willing to sit on the rug. Free, and the used bookstore is open the same morning.
September walk through the vines, which is when the fruit actually looks like something. An hour with the winemaker, tasting at the end. Saturday mornings.
The costumed Dog Man character turns up in the store for an hour on Saturday morning. Bring the books, get them stamped, take the photo.
The same disease-history walk through West Chester, run late morning on Saturdays. Ninety minutes on foot, sixteen dollars, starting from the Chester County History Center on North High Street.
One hour walking the rows with the person who makes the wine, covering the vineyard, the winemaking and the lab work behind it. Saturday mornings at eleven.
A free forty-five minute mat Pilates class on the lawn at Burke Park, all levels and ages. Bring a mat. Progress Pilates leads it, right after the family yoga hour.
Three hours of open chess at Borough Hall on the first Saturday of the month. Sets provided, no registration, beginners sit down next to club players.
Teens who want a say in what the library buys and programs meet for an hour to plan it. Registration required, and it is a real seat at the table rather than a suggestion box.
Six hours of open doors on Saturdays, noon to six, fifteen dollars to tour the Parry Mansion on South Main Street. The historical society guides it.
El Toro Serrano opens at noon on the Saturday of the long weekend and runs until about eight. Tacos on the lawn, fifteen drafts inside, no ticket needed.
Two hours in the Easttown Library lot to hand off kitchen scraps. Bring your own bucket or buy one from Back to Earth for ten dollars. Run by the township environmental council.
Forty five minutes of guided quiet for children in the park's new Tookany Creek outdoor classroom, led by Melia Anthony of Heart Sanctuary. Free. Park in the lower lot across from the track.
Four local breweries and one cidery pour in the Beer Garden for the afternoon, with live music and the gardens around you. Walk the fountains after, since it runs on gardens admission.
Eleven hours marking the brewery's eighth year, with food trucks, beer releases, live music and drink specials. Family welcome, and the taps keep running until eleven at night.
A car meet built around cheesesteaks, second year running, starting half past noon on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. Bring the car or just walk the rows.
Harvest mugwort from the park, then soak, cook and pull it into sheets using mold and deckle. Adults only. Five dollars for members, eight otherwise.
An afternoon set at the brewery, one to four, folded into its eighth anniversary Saturday. Food trucks and beer releases run alongside on the Skippack Pike lot.
One ticket covers the guided walk through town and the house tour at the Parry Mansion. Twenty-five dollars, or thirty for the version with extras, starting at one.
Two hours of real field method and excavation technique, minus the Indiana Jones part. Hands on, at the helicopter museum, and yes there is actual digging.
Two hours of poetry in the Lewis McLean Reading Room, built around work that fell out of the anthologies. Saturday afternoon, open to anyone who wants to listen.
Two hours of reading and sharing poems in the reading room. Writers and listeners, all ages and abilities.
Smoke in the parking lot from one o'clock on a Saturday. Babalouie handles the barbecue while Ten7 pours, and the outdoor tables go first.
Four sections from Open down to Under 400, game in 25 with a five second delay, trophies to at least the top three. Twenty dollars, first round at one, the rest as soon as boards clear.
Four hours of acoustic music indoors on Labor Day Saturday, free to walk in. Bottles, drafts and cocktails at the bar, light bites if you want to stay put.
Labor Day weekend Saturday in the tasting room, two to six. No cover charge, wine by the bottle, and a band that plays the room most weekends.
Gates open at noon for tailgating along the field, first chukker at two. About twenty-five minutes up River Road from New Hope, and you park where you sit.
A dog parade down Ridge Avenue and judged categories like Best Groomed and Largest Dog, because Ambler takes this more seriously than you'd expect. Bring the dog; leave the ambivalence at home.
Three dollars and up to ninety minutes on the trails with a preserve naturalist, Saturday afternoons at two. Native plants get named as you walk, all ages welcome.
Saturday afternoon seating of the immersive wedding comedy at the Cock 'n Bull. Two and a half hours with a meal in the middle of it.
Bring a pencil to the Logan Inn living room on Saturday afternoons, three to five. The programming is open to the public, and the Whiskey Lounge opens at three the same day.
One long table set out in the field on Moyer Road, cooked this year by Ari Miller of Post Haste in Philadelphia. Doors at three, dinner runs to seven thirty, tickets are 390 dollars.
Locust Lane is known for its Penn State tailgates, which run in the lot or inside with extra TVs depending on weather. The calendar has this one starting at three thirty.
Solo set on the patio from four to seven, early enough to catch before dinner. The beer garden pours twelve Pennsylvania craft beers plus local cider and wine.
Saturday of Labor Day weekend, four to seven on the patio, no cover. Pair it with the winemaker's tour that morning and you have the day handled.
Covers and originals leaning on the Beatles, Tom Petty and Neil Young, four to seven on the Saturday patio. Estate wine by the glass or the bottle.
September's monthly prime rib night at Beaver Creek, starting at four. Labor Day weekend, so the bar side tends to run later than the kitchen.
Labor Day weekend night on West Court Street. Tables in the roadway, shops open, music playing. Final restaurant seating is ten.
Out on the patio from five to eight, weather permitting. The restaurant sits on Stump Hall Road beside the golf club, a few minutes from the village center.
Saturday evening Magic at the fantasy-themed board game cafe on Broad Street, where the coffee and baked goods are made in house. Bring a deck or sit in and learn.
Close out the summer concert series at Shady Brook Farm with the unWINEd season finale, featuring a high-energy cover band and a fireworks display to cap off the night. Gates open at 5 p.m. with music starting at 6:30. Grab food and drinks on site — craft beer, Rose Bank Winery wines, and specialty cocktails — or bring a picnic blanket and settle in for the last summer hurrah. Admission $20.
The Saturday half of the lobster run on the Sunset Grille deck, five to nine. Same kitchen, same hotel lot, and a full pub inside when the deck fills up.
Latin fusion in the Beer Garden on a Saturday evening, free with Gardens admission. Victory pours beers brewed just for Longwood while they last.
Saturday night in the 1903 trolley barn, three hours of music with the full kitchen running and the beer garden open. No cover, no reservations, order at the counter.
The Eagles defensive coordinator and longtime beat writer Paul Domowitch take questions and sign copies of Domowitch's Sam Mills biography, two hours on a Saturday evening in the Fayette Street pub. Fangio wrote the foreword.
Rock and soul band Street Sausage plays one night for cancer research. Six to nine in the taproom behind Bridge Street, with the brewery's own beer a few steps from the stage.
An hour building an eight to ten inch glass terrarium with four plants and decorative bits to arrange. Bring your own bottle, and give yourself fifteen minutes to park.
Labor Day weekend Saturday, three hours of music in the bar from six. Expect the room busier than usual for a holiday weekend, so come early for a table.
Last night of the concert season. Gates at five, music at six thirty, fireworks to close it out. Twenty dollars online, and the Festival Field attractions are included with admission.
Four hours of 70s, 80s and 90s covers with no cover charge, on the Saturday of the holiday weekend. Parking is on site, out on Hilltown Pike.
The party band plays the outdoor bar behind Basta Pasta for Labor Day weekend, 7 to 10.
A Grateful Dead and JGB tribute out of NJ and PA with a rotating cast of players curated by Anton Milioti. Free show, 7 to 10pm.
The park's resource manager and a ranger run through which animals work the night shift, then walk you out to look for their signs. Bring a red flashlight. Ages fourteen and up.
Same drill as August. Shotgun Jenny teaches the steps, then the floor opens until ten. Twenty-one and up. Boots optional, willingness to be corrected in public required.
A Dolly Parton tribute screening of the 1989 salon picture, eight dollars for members and $13.50 otherwise. Saturday night on State Street.
Reggae on the patio at the old Kennett dairy, seven to ten. The patio bar runs until 10:30 on Saturdays and the food side stays open behind it.
Piano trio jazz under the bank ceiling from seven to ten. No cover, so get a table early if you want to be near the players rather than the bar.
A Grateful Dead and JGB tribute out of New Jersey and Pennsylvania with a rotating cast of players curated by Anton Milioti. Three hours in the taproom, no cover.
AM Radio replays the 1960s and early-70s hit parade at Uptown Knauer on Saturday, September 5, curtain at 7:30. Buy through the theater's own site; Uptown warns that resale listings are the only fakes in the building.
Saturday night of the long weekend, Endless Detour plays eight to eleven at Villa Capri. Order the pizza, stay for the set, walk it off on Court Street after.
Tomlinson plays half the bars in this town, and Saturday he is at Chambers with a full band from eight to midnight in the bar area.
Ghost Tours of New Hope walks Saturday, October 3 at 8 p.m., like every Saturday night from the first Saturday in June through the Saturday before Thanksgiving. October is the one month they add public tours on Friday nights, plus Halloween night, and they recommend showing up 30 to 45 minutes early. The tour meets at the corner of Main and Ferry Streets, next to the Parry Mansion, and leaves promptly at 8. No reservations needed: you buy tickets when you arrive, $15 a person. They do not take credit cards but do take Venmo. For a large group, or any October night, they'd appreciate a heads-up by phone or email. It is a walking tour, about an hour and roughly a mile, all outdoors (insurance keeps everyone out of the buildings), so wear comfortable shoes. Light rain or drizzle does not stop it. Thunderstorms, heavy downpours or snow can, and their Facebook page is where to check if the forecast looks questionable. The stories come from Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey, the author of "Ghosts in the Valley," who founded the tour in 1981 and researched and investigated every story herself. Nobody in costume jumps out at you. The walk is lantern-lit and the town does the rest. Pictures and paranormal gear are welcome. They call it fine for ages 10 and up, with the caveat that you know your own kid. Non-alcoholic drinks only. Check the forecast, get there early, and bring something other than a credit card.
The same person who hosts Tuesday trivia plays the main bar on Saturday, eight to eleven. Cocktails are built in house, and the room tightens up after nine.
The Blue Demons host Plymouth Whitemarsh at the turf stadium behind the high school on South Street. Kickoff is eight, which is late for a home game out here, so the lots empty slowly.
Salsa, bachata and merengue on the floor from eight, with a lesson early on for anyone who needs it. Off West Town Road, parking on site.
The Delaware roots-rock band strips down to two players and a lot of harmony. Late Saturday start in the listening room off Sycamore Alley, all ages, twenty to twenty-eight dollars.
One man party band out of Boston, live-looping sax, keys and flute into funk and reggae. Upstairs, twenty one and over, Saturday at eight.
A comedy show built around everything that went wrong in the last seven days. Eight o'clock in the storefront room on East Butler, bring your own beer.
A comedy magician who has worked six continents and Hollywood's Magic Castle, in a purpose-built room where nobody sits far from the deck. Ages 16 and up, two nights only.
Acoustic sets from eight to eleven at the corner of Main and Afton. Kitchen runs until ten on Saturdays, so eat before the second set.
A touring stand-up bill of women comics past forty, doing material about being women comics past forty. Labor Day weekend Saturday, doors 7:30, tickets $25 to $62.
The same count, after dark. Lights go up at the preserve at half past eight and whatever flies in gets photographed and logged in iNaturalist. Bring a flashlight and something with sleeves.
Saturday night set at the Church Street cocktail bar. Kitchen is open late if the plan started with drinks and drifted.
The Saturday half of the Bier and Loathing karaoke weekend, nine o'clock on West Market Street, free to sing. Same setup as the Friday night, usually a fuller room by then.
The patio sets run May through September and this is the first of the three left. Trashcan Margaritas play, the tables are outdoors, and the restaurant serves right through it.
We Are Skeletons take the Sunday slot at the Nail, the Haverford Road room that calls its Sunday night just chillin' and still puts a band on the stage.
Last day of the Jurassic Park run over Labor Day weekend. Good rainy-Sunday fallback if the holiday plans collapse.
Four blocks of Gay Street close to cars so restaurants push tables into the road. Walk down the middle of the street, eat outside, and browse the shops on either side.
Sunday hours for the borough's downtown street program, seven in the morning to ten at night. Labor Day weekend, so plan on a wait at the busier spots.
Sixty fast minutes on paved and dirt trail, starting and ending at the old gristmill. Free to join with a ten dollar suggested donation. Park along Evergreen Drive.
Sixty fast minutes on the Fox Loop Trail, paved and dirt, starting and ending at the old mill. Free with a suggested ten dollar donation. Park along Evergreen Drive.
Two early hours clearing invasive growth and planting along the Cynwyd Heritage Trail with the Friends group. Tools and guidance provided, minors welcome with a parent, waiver required.
Sixty hard minutes on the Fox Loop Trail, walking as fast as you can without breaking into a run. Starts and ends at the mill, paved and dirt underfoot. Park along Evergreen Drive.
The Harley Owners Group chapter meets for an hour on Sunday morning at the dealership. Anyone weighing whether to join can sit in and register on the spot.
Sunday morning stewardship work on the rolling grassland preserve off Pikeland Road. Two and a half hours, gloves and tools handed out at the start.
Second day of the September vintage market in the Bridge and Main lot, nine to four. Cash helps, and the downtown lunch options are a block away.
Sunday morning market on Lancaster Avenue in Berwyn, seven minutes from Malvern. Farmers, producers, artisans and local nonprofits, done by noon.
Sunday morning doubleheader: Everton against Man United at nine, then Arsenal versus Chelsea at half eleven. Get there for the first one if you want a seat with a sightline.
The library brings storytime out to the Sunday market at the elementary school. An hour, first thing, before the produce runs out.
An hour of chakra-focused vinyasa with Wisteria Dawn out on Sterner Mill Road, closing with a guided yoga nidra during savasana. Twenty dollars, held outdoors when the weather holds.
The HIIT-focused session of the borough's bootcamp series, Sunday mornings at the Jane Stover Lodge with Ally Wesner. Ten dollars at the door, and you work at whatever pace you can hold.
Day two of the open-air art festival in the orchard. The market keeps festival hours on Sunday, cider is poured all day, and parking is ten dollars a car.
Walk Henry Mercer's concrete castle at your own pace instead of on a guided tour, so you can stand in one of the forty four rooms as long as you like.
Sunday mornings in the lavender rows off North Mt Airy Road with the farm's horses in view. Twenty dollars paid to the instructor, no advance sign up. Rain moves the class into the barn.
Small farms, bakers and makers set up on the grass beside the pool lot in Harleysville, ten minutes north of Lansdale. Live music, food, bathrooms on site, and it runs rain or shine.
Small farms, makers and food set up on the grass beside the Harleysville pool lot, with live music going. Held outdoors rain or shine, and there are restrooms on site.
The Sunday half of the first workday weekend of the month. Same eleven acres, same jobs, and a decent way to meet the neighbors who look after the place.
The Horsham Farmers' Market runs Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Horsham Township Library, 435 Babylon Road, Horsham. The 2026 season started June 14 and wraps on Sunday, October 25, so this is one of the regular season's last Sundays. The library is the market's new home, and vendors set up both indoors and out. Expect fresh produce, sweets, handmade designs and flowers, plus food trucks with a seating area if you would rather eat there than carry it home. The Friends of the Horsham Library open the Book Café most Sundays during market hours, and October 4 is on the calendar, so budget for a book along with the produce. Pets are welcome on a leash. The market goes ahead rain or shine unless the weather turns dangerous. Parking is the part to plan. The township publishes a parking map for the 2026 season: the parking area is marked, the no-parking zones are marked, and there is no parking in the neighborhoods. The map also marks a crossing guard and the walking routes over to the vendors. Vendor details live on the market's Facebook page. Park where the map says, not in the neighborhoods, and walk over.
Volunteer stewardship morning in an eleven acre native green space, ten to noon on the first and third weekends. Tools and gloves are provided. Wear long pants and closed toe shoes.
Same class, Sunday morning at ten, running from April into the middle of November. One hour, thirty dollars, and the pasture is part of the deal.
More than a dozen local authors set up tables inside the zoo for three hours on a Sunday morning, signing and selling between the animal habitats. Included with zoo admission.
A different sangria every Sunday, poured in the bank barn or out in the field, with live music and a food truck. Bring a chair if the tented seating fills.
Labor Day weekend sangria at the vineyard, eleven to six. Live music, a food truck, and twenty one wines on the tasting menu if the sangria is not what you came for.
A women's pickleball throwdown at The Picklr, starting at noon on a Sunday. Bring a paddle if you are playing, or take a seat along the courts and watch.
Same Sunday hours as Saturday, noon to six, fifteen dollars for the Parry Mansion tour. It runs every weekend through the third week of December.
Take a two-hour scenic train ride from West Chester to Glen Mills aboard the historic West Chester Railroad, a restored line dating back to 1831. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at the preserved 1880s Glen Mills station, and explore nearby Red Brick Winery. A relaxing way to spend a Labor Day Sunday afternoon with the family. Adults $25, children $20, family pack $67.50. Departs at noon.
Wrap 'n Roll takes the courtyard slot from noon to about six on the Sunday of the holiday weekend. Fifteen rotating taps inside, seating on the front lawn and courtyard.
Wrap n Roll takes the Sunday shift, noon to around six. The taproom closes at eight, so this is the last easy meal of the long weekend before Monday.
Four bands from twelve thirty to eight thirty, with Mini Millie's pasta cart and the Flying Deutschman handling food. Ten dollars per car, presale admission is cheaper, and no outside alcohol.
Division I field hockey in Collegeville: Villanova plays two of its home dates at Ursinus this fall, and this Sunday noon match against New Haven is the first.
The historical society opens the Ashbridge House on East Lancaster Avenue for three hours on the first and third Sunday of each month. Free, with society volunteers on hand.
Sunday noon session where the playlist does as much work as the canvas, and you pick which of the four designs to paint. Two hours, singing along encouraged, all supplies included.
Free Sunday class on the brick plaza outside the hotel, led by the YogaSix studio up on Ridge Pike. Mats down at noon, no charge, and the plaza catches whatever breeze the river sends.
A different craft project every Sunday at noon, an hour long, walk in without booking a term. Aimed at kids and built so a first-timer can finish the thing they started.
Joiners, blacksmiths and other tradespeople work the crafts that kept William Penn's estate running, out in the yard where you can ask questions. Sunday manor house tours run at 12:30 and 1:30.
Illustrator Steve Teare signs at the Lahaska Bookshop for two hours on a Sunday afternoon. Small room, so come early if you want time to talk to him.
Labor Day weekend edition on the SORA West plaza. Music one to four, specials on beverage buckets and draft beer holding until seven.
Sunday afternoons on the river with a food truck, rotating local vendors and a band from two to five. Craft beer, cider, wine and seltzer, with the taps running until seven.
Wellesley comes down from Massachusetts for a Sunday afternoon game at Shillingford Field. Non-conference, so both sides are still working out what they have.
Art on Screen documentary on the painter who abandoned the canvas for light and perception, including the Getty Central Garden and the Marfa piece. Sunday afternoon, 93 minutes.
September's bluegrass circle. Kitchen and bar both open, free to sit in or just listen from a table.
Sunday's slot in the Logan Inn's weekly lineup is sudoku, one to three in the living room. Open to anyone, and Landmark Tavern serves lunch until half past two.
A chair dance class on Pottstown Pike at one o'clock Sunday, pitched at people who have never taken one. No partner and no experience needed, just clothes you can move in.
William Wyler's 1936 marriage drama, running as a Deep Focus selection. Sunday afternoon screening at one, part of Hollywood Summer Nights.
Ferns predate the dinosaurs and Green Lane has plenty of them. A talk at the Stone Lodge on telling the species apart, then an optional mile on the Orange Trail to try it out.
Forty-five minutes through the restored home of Chester County ironmasters, furnished with original artwork. Rangers and the Friends of Hibernia tell the stories. Several flights of stairs, no pets.
Labor Day weekend Sunday in the loft, one thirty to four thirty. Live acoustic music above the tasting room at the Durham Road winery.
Sunday afternoon of the long weekend, two till five on the patio. No cover. September light on the rows is the reason to sit outside for all of it.
Final seating of the Labor Day weekend run, Sunday at two. Immersive wedding comedy over a meal at the Cock 'n Bull.
A suburban Philadelphia singer and guitarist who has played Pottstown to Atlantic City, working the Labor Day Sunday afternoon shift from two to five.
Sunday of the long weekend, acoustic in the tasting room from two to six. Free to walk in, with the bar handling wine, beer and light bites.
Baby Gear Group Jenkintown runs a swap in the community room: bring outgrown clothes and toys, take home what fits now. Free, and a lot cheaper than another round of buying.
Solo acoustic through the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, indoors and free. The sangria pour runs alongside it, so this is the low-effort holiday afternoon.
Labor Day weekend bingo in the taproom. Two to four on Sunday, same as every week.
Wood-fired pizza in the lot on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Bill's opens at two on Sundays and closes at eight, so the beer garden fills early.
The Cadwalader residence and the Edith P. Moore Schoolhouse open their doors for two hours on the first Sunday of the month. Moore taught in that one room schoolhouse for 27 years.
Two hours inside the Cadwalader residence and the Edith P. Moore Schoolhouse, named for a teacher who spent 27 years in that room. Free, first Sunday of the month.
The monthly Sunday poetry circle, open to every age and skill level. Write, read, listen, respond. Two hours in a bookshop full of secondhand stock, which is a decent place to end a weekend.
Three o'clock match on the Sunday of the long weekend, on the fields off Route 41 outside Kennett Square. Gates open early enough to set up chairs along the sideline.
Labor Day weekend Sunday, four to six, downtown. The borough keeps this series running every Sunday afternoon through the end of September.
Seventh year of an all white dress code day party on Eagleview Boulevard, doors at four on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Tickets run 23 dollars.
First trivia night of September at Locust Lane, five to seven. The taproom sits in an office park off Three Tun Road, which is why the parking is never a problem.
Funk meets jazz before the Fireworks and Fountains show. This one is open only to Fireworks and Fountains ticketholders, so buy that ticket first.
Up to 1,000 diners in black and white take over a closed North State Street at one long communal table, BYO picnic and decorations, with live jazz and a sparkler send-off at 8. Tickets are $44.99, nothing is sold at the event, and every dollar goes to keeping the 1906 Newtown Theatre running.
First Sunday solo set digging through the songwriters that shaped him. Free, cellar bar, six o'clock, and the room is small enough to hear every word.
Four Philly bands split up the Clash catalogue for one early Sunday show. Doors 5:45, music at 6, 21 and over.
A Sunday night double bill of folk songwriting on the gazebo lawn. All ages, and for most ticketed shows kids twelve and under get in free. Rain or shine.
Blues guitarist Mike Zito closes out Labor Day weekend at Sellersville Theater on September 6. Tickets start at $25 for one of the harder-touring players on the blues rock circuit.
Fireworks fired over the Main Fountain Garden and timed to the water and the music. Separate ticket from gardens admission, an earlier start now that the nights are drawing in.
Sunday night karaoke at the Gay Street pub, starting at ten and free to walk into. It runs every week into January.
Labor Day, and the street stays closed. Four blocks of Gay Street without cars, restaurant tables out in the road, and the shops on either side open for the holiday.
The mini golf course at Alverthorpe Park runs every day through Labor Day, then drops to weekends only for the rest of September. This is the last everyday round of the year.
The fountain season runs to the end of September, and the gardens stay open on Labor Day Monday when most of Chester County is closed. Closed Tuesdays. Timed tickets sell out on holiday weekends.
Three bands on Labor Day night. Mondays are usually dark at the Nail, so a holiday bill of Skarlette Roxx, Snow White and Manticore is the rare reason to point the car at Haverford Road.
Seven weeks of homemade scarecrows along the Village paths, built by anyone who entered by early September. Free to walk, and voting for a favorite is part of it. Weekends draw the crowds.
An urban forester and Audubon volunteers walk the park naming the native trees and the birds using them. Free, families welcome, and use the Butler Pike entrance.
Two hours on a board on Marsh Creek Lake, Labor Day morning. Free, and registration through the state park calendar is required. Meet at the park off Park Road.
An hour of open play for toddlers on the move: a pop-up tunnel, soft climbing blocks, sensory tiles, shakers and scarves. Drop in for ten minutes or stay the whole hour.
Newtown's beloved Labor Day Parade steps off at 10 a.m. on Monday morning, with the 2026 theme 'Picture Perfect Parade' honoring Grand Marshal Bill Glass, who has spent decades capturing the town's most cherished moments behind the camera. Lineup begins at 7:30 a.m. for participants. This 100% volunteer-organized, self-funded tradition is a quintessential small-town Labor Day celebration.
The zoo drops admission to nothing for every guest on the Monday holiday, ten to five. Registration ahead is preferred, and a free day at a zoo is a good argument for arriving early.
The Historical Car Club of Pennsylvania parks its annual show on the Ludwig's Corner grounds for Labor Day, five hours of chrome on the grass off Route 100.
Israeli music, pool games, fresh watermelon and popsicles at the Kaiserman pool on Labor Day Monday. Ten dollars, and it is the last swim of the season.
Labor Day is the last swim of the year at the Abington township pools, open eleven to five and then shut until next summer. Check the township page before driving over.
Taproom doors open on the holiday from noon to five, so the long weekend has somewhere to land that is not your own back yard.
Bring whatever knitting or crochet you have going and work on it in a room full of people doing the same. Free, though the township asks you to register first.
Two hours of tiles on Monday afternoons in the library community room, free and weekly. The group plays straight through the Labor Day Monday, so September 7 is on.
A textile collective for hand sewing and mending, beginners through experts. Bring your own basic supplies and a project. Eight adults per session, so it stays a conversation.
All-you-can-eat barbecue on the holiday Monday, 3 to 8, with the taps running all afternoon. A solid landing spot if the grill at home feels like too much work.
The Logan Inn living room turns over to mahjong tiles every Monday afternoon, three to five. Non-guests are welcome and no reservation is needed, but space is limited so arrive early.
Local artist Mr. Chinchilla sets up in the Budzik Room every Monday with preset projects and an art cart. Stay as long as you like and take the work home.
Labor Day evening at the borough pool, with the water turned over to the dogs for two hours. Leashes on the deck, paws in the shallow end, and a towel for the ride home.
Arlen Solomon, who runs the Society of Young Magicians, teaches and shares tricks with all ages. Two hours on a Monday evening.
Labor Day Monday quiz night at Vault. Same six to eight slot, same vaulted room downstairs from the bar. Bring three friends and a broad memory.
Labor Day evening on the water: a lesson on land for new paddlers, a short warm up paddle, then forty five minutes of poses anchored on the board. Thirty six dollars for adults, less for students and veterans.
Four players, 144 tiles and two hours in the library after closing time. Preregistration is required, and the table money goes back to the Newtown Library Company.
An hour with a guest maker at the rum bar on Main Street in the Town Center. Monthly slot, so the September edition brings whoever is up next.
Labor Day evening set from a singer songwriter who plays this room often. Music starts at six on Ford Street, just over the bridge in West Conshohocken, and there is no cover listed.
Ninety minutes of heads-down writing on the shut-up-and-write model, then time afterward to talk about what came out. Bring whatever you are stuck on and a coffee.
Two hours of drawing from life upstairs at 2 Stockton Avenue, first and last Monday of the month. Bring your own materials. Walk-ins are fine, though you can email ahead to hold a spot.
Labor Day Monday quiz, seven to nine, same as every week. Beer specials and prizes, and the town is quiet enough to get a table.
Labor Day edition of the weekly pub quiz on Easton Road. Seven at night, $5 drafts, food specials, prizes for the winning table. Worth a call ahead given the holiday.
Two hours of guided writing on Monday nights, prompts and quiet time rather than a lecture. The morning version runs Fridays if evenings do not work.
Mike Coffey runs the questions at seven every Monday in a tavern that has been pouring since 1772. Thirty-three rotating taps behind the bar and the kitchen goes until midnight.
Monday night poker at Saloon 151. Seven thirty start, downstairs bar, no buy-in listed.
Labor Day Monday and the quiz still runs, 7:30 to 9:30. Bar is open until two, so there is no rush to leave when the last round ends.
Drop-in ballroom on Monday nights through September, samba at 7:45 and foxtrot at 8:30. No partner needed and no sign-up, twenty dollars at the door or a card of ten for $150.
Bar trivia at eight every Monday at the west end of State Street. Rotating craft taps, a long bar and a patio big enough that a losing team can spread out.
Labor Day Monday quizzo at Kildare's, nine o'clock. Free, walk in with a team or make one at the bar.
Monday music bingo at Barnaby's on High Street. Ten o'clock, free, and it fills once term is back in session.
The chamber's monthly evening mixer, going since 2023 and open past the membership. Venue moves month to month, so read the listing before you set out.
Four hundred vendors across thirty acres of indoor and outdoor stalls: antiques, produce, tools, clothing, food. Gates open at seven and the lot fills early. Bring cash.
Indoor nine hole scramble on Tuesday morning at the Liberty Boulevard lounge. Twenty five dollars, clubs provided, and every skill level plays the same format.
The Ardmore Business Association takes over Char and Stave on the second Tuesday morning of the month. Coffee, breakfast and an hour of talking shop with other owners.
Three hours of seasonal garden work on the old Haas estate with staff and regulars, gloves provided. Tuesday mornings through the fall, no experience needed.
Stories and songs on the library's outdoor programming porch, a quick Tuesday-morning half hour while the warm weather lasts. Registration is per session on the library calendar.
Books, rhymes and songs pitched at the pre-walking crowd, every Tuesday morning in the big meeting room.
Stories, lap bounces and floor time for the under-eighteen-months crowd, half an hour on Tuesday mornings. Krapf Room at the library, seats capped, so put your name down first.
Every other Tuesday the arboretum runs a volunteer workday, planting, weeding, mulching or clearing invasives somewhere on campus. Registration is required, and the season runs April through October.
Thirty minutes of books, rhymes and songs in the branch's big meeting room. Built for under-fives and their grownups, though older siblings are welcome. Drop in, no sign-up.
Four Tuesday mornings of outdoor time for two to five year olds: a story, a walk through the garden, a craft. Led by the arboretum's education manager.
Second Tuesday gathering for the 55 and over crowd at the community center: a short meeting, a guest speaker or program, then a light lunch. Residents and non residents are both welcome.
Picture books, songs and a take-home craft in the children's reading room of the 1760 library. Built for ages zero to five with a caregiver, and kids pick their own books afterward.
The Tuesday version of the story hour, half an hour rather than a full one, which suits the shorter attention spans. Free, and it runs every Tuesday morning through the month.
Music, stories, and crafts for kids up to age 4, Tuesday mornings at the Union Library on York Road. Hatboro's library sits a few minutes from Horsham.
Three days where the jeweler appraises and buys what you carry in: old gold, estate pieces, watches sitting in a drawer. Ten in the morning until six, wrapping up at five on the Thursday.
A book, a craft and an active game outdoors, 30 to 45 minutes, pitched at preschoolers but open to any age. Register each child; an adult stays for the whole thing.
Pet themed storytime named for the gecko who actually lives at the library. Thirty minutes of books, rhymes and singing with Miss Ashlee, all ages welcome.
An hour on a working vegetable farm for three to five year olds and one favorite grown-up. September's theme is roots, with a craft and time out in the fields.
Short books, songs, action rhymes and movement built for wiggly ones aged eighteen to thirty six months. First forty through the door get in, twice a week in the community education room.
Ms. Rachel runs the preschool session in the community room on Tuesday mornings, half an hour of stories and songs. Water only in the room, everything else stays at the tables.
Singing and stories for toddlers between one and three, Tuesday mornings at quarter past ten. Half an hour in the Krapf Room, caregivers stay and join in.
An hour in the Harrop Room on what the term means and where it already turns up in daily life. Aimed at people who have heard the word and want the plain version.
All-ages storytime with books, rhymes and singing, every Tuesday at 10:30 in the big meeting room.
The preschool nature series takes on owls, bats, and whatever else works the night shift. Tuesday morning in the library's community room, free, pitched at the under-five crowd.
A loud half hour of songs and simple instruments in the Junior Room for ages 0 to 5. No registration, just turn up.
Ms. Louise runs stories, songs and a craft for children under five, though older kids are welcome. There is a second sitting at one o'clock the same afternoon.
Outdoor stories and songs on the grass at the Manoa Road playground with Ms. Danielle. Bring a blanket. Weather dependent, and five minutes from Narberth.
Miss Delia sings on the ukulele and reads aloud outdoors in the community garden, then runs a craft. Aimed at two to four year olds. Half an hour, free.
Library staff read to small children Tuesday mornings in the children's area. Free, no registration, and it runs about half an hour.
A half hour of moving around for three to five year olds, twice a month on Tuesday mornings.
An hour of play based, interactive storytime where the learning happens through the playing. Tuesday late mornings in the large meeting room.
Miss Jackie reads a story and leads silly songs for ages 0 to 5 in the large auditorium. Half an hour on Tuesday mornings, no sign up, all welcome.
Thirty minutes of movement, songs and stories for three to five year olds in the community room. Tuesday morning, no registration, and it ends before lunch.
A full hour built around play for ages two to five: interactive stories plus parachute games, crafts, music and dancing. Longer than the usual storytime, so plan the morning around it.
Geared at pre-walkers and babies not yet steady on their feet, with books, songs and rhymes. Runs twice a week after Toddler Time in the community education room.
A play-based storytime where the learning hides inside parachute games, dancing and crafts. Tuesdays at 11:30, right after Family Storytime lets out.
Main Line Health staff walk through what actually causes falls at home and on the sidewalk, and how to fix it. Lunch is included and the whole hour is free.
Bring a shirt that needs a button, a hem that dropped or a small tear, and a volunteer sewing team fixes it while you wait, free. Second and fourth Tuesdays.
Two and a half hours of tile clacking in the library community room, every Tuesday afternoon through the end of September. Adults, no partner needed, drop in and get seated at a table.
Cassie Quigley runs a chair-supported practice for forty-five minutes, Tuesday afternoons in the Krapf Room. No floor work, no equipment, and the room caps small so register early.
The afternoon sitting of the baby program, for the under-one crowd and whoever carried them in. Ten seats, registration required.
The second Tuesday sitting of the watercolor hour with Jan McFeeley, an hour this time rather than ninety minutes. Supplies are out, walk in and take a seat.
A story time built for kids about to start school, with music, creative play and exploration folded in. Forty-five minutes on Tuesday afternoons in the children's department.
Weekly knitting circle in the Pennsylvania Room, two hours on Tuesday afternoon.
Same farm, midweek hours. The Cedar Knoll Road market stand runs three to six on Tuesdays through October, stocked from the high tunnels and the fields out back.
Second Tuesday afternoon club at the bookshop, actively looking for new members. Recent reading has run to literary fiction. Porch in good weather, upstairs room otherwise.
Tea in the Logan Inn living room with a tarot reader working the room, Tuesdays three to five. Open to anyone, not just people staying the night, and booking ahead is suggested.
Board games, cards and puzzles at the Church Street senior center, with kids and grandkids the whole point. Ten dollars for adults, five for kids twelve and under, snacks included. RSVP first.
Afternoon home match against Central Bucks West on the Pennridge fields off North 5th Street. Kickoff at 3:30, so it is over well before dinner.
JV and varsity girls both play Central Bucks South at home, starting half past three. Bleachers on Lower Road, tickets online through the school box office, season pass works too.
Sushi from the Tokio truck on a Tuesday, which is not the usual brewery pairing and is exactly why people turn up for it. Draft list runs hazy IPA to pilsner.
A livestream plus hands-on zine making for ages twelve and up, one hour in the community room on a Tuesday afternoon. Paper, scissors and glue supplied.
Cards are provided and the rules get taught, so a first game is fine. Teens only, in the meeting room, registration required and spots go fast.
All ages, four o'clock on Tuesdays in the main library. Boards are set up, no experience assumed, and the regulars will happily beat you a few times first.
Food artisans and produce growers set up around Town Square on Tuesday evenings into late September. Four hours, local vendors, and the shops on the square stay open while it runs.
Coach Stafford takes players wherever they are, any age, adults included. Tuesdays for two hours, no registration. Parents stay in the building.
A kids' book club that meets after school every Tuesday for forty-five minutes. Readers work through one title together rather than racing to finish it alone. Held at the library on Swartley Street.
Tape off a pattern, spray a mason jar, take home a container for a shelf somewhere. Happens outside, so the weather decides. Registration required.
First and second graders press fall leaves into foil to make relief compositions, then paint over the texture. An hour in the Community Room, registration required.
Second Tuesday of the month, an hour of chasing family records with people who know the databases. Free, and worth emailing ahead with your question.
Acoustic music over dinner at the Desmond's Sunset Grille, five thirty until eight thirty on a Tuesday. One of the reliable weeknight music rooms in this corner of Chester County.
Last of the Tuesday volleyball nights on the township calendar. Battle of the Clouds Park, five thirty.
Two games back to back at Keenan Stadium, JV at 5:30 and varsity at 7. Doors open at 5. No outside food or drink inside the stadium, and tickets are nonrefundable.
Knitters, crocheters and needleworkers bring whatever is on the hooks and sit together for an hour and a half. Second and fourth Tuesdays, beginners included.
Second of three Tuesday picnics on the Conservancy's farm. Pack your own dinner and drinks, they handle the tables, flowers and lights. Six to eight in the evening.
Monthly bingo at the library with prizes on the line. Bring dry snacks and a covered drink if you want them.
Switch games, board games and snacks in the Teen Zone for grades six through twelve. No sign up, and nobody minds if you only come for half of it.
Conor Jonasson on Social Security timing, Medicare costs, where the income comes from and the part nobody plans for, which is how it feels. Burke Meeting Room.
The editor talks about her anthology alongside contributors Lisa Grunberger, Ona Gritz and Gabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer. Tuesday at six in the store.
The writing group picks back up for fall, six in the evening at the Ambler branch. Twice a month, free, and a low-pressure place to read work out loud.
Bring dinner and eat it out in the field at the conservancy's farm off Quarry Road. Two hours, no program to sit through, just the place while the light goes. Free.
Weekly photo club at the Race Street branch, six in the evening. Good light season is starting, so bring what you shot over the summer.
An hour of English practice around a table in the Harrop Room, led by Kirsten Van Vlandren. Free, eight people to a session, and beginners get the same patience as everyone else.
September session of the library's mixed-media makers group. Bring your own project and work alongside other people making things.
Two hours of bingo in the Kings Highway dining room, six to eight, every Tuesday. Come early if you want a table near the caller, and stay for the wings.
Kids build track in the children's area and race Hot Wheels down it. Tuesday evenings through September, free, and loud in the best way.
One on one help with a phone, tablet or laptop from RSVP volunteers, in forty five minute slots at six, seven and eight. Bring the device and the passwords.
Six until eight on the simulators, wine from Penns Woods Winery, and course settings tuned so first timers are not embarrassed. Liberty Boulevard in Malvern.
Build a wall-hung arrangement from dried meadow flowers and grasses. All materials, light refreshments and after-hours run of The Garden Shop included. Fee is $128, no Gardens admission needed.
A Tuesday evening non-conference game on Jean Lenox West Field. Rutgers-Camden makes the drive up from South Jersey. Kickoff is six, with parking right off South Easton Road.
September's screening and discussion in the Krapf Room, six to 7:30. Free, and the sort of room where people actually stay to argue about the ending.
A short family storytime in the early evening, which is the version that works when nobody gets home before six. Fifteen minutes, several nights a week.
Adults only board gaming, two hours in the community room, once a month on a Tuesday.
The September science book club in the Hessinger Study Room, 6:30 to 7:30. Small room, one book, an hour of people who did the reading.
Two hours of board games for grown-ups in the community room on a Tuesday night. The library has the games, or bring the one nobody at home will play with you.
Colleen runs through leather tools, techniques and marking methods in the Community Makerspace. Ninety minutes, and the sort of class that decides whether you buy the tools.
Doors at 4:30, first number at 6:30, and at least a thousand dollars in the jackpot every night. The kitchen runs all evening. Bring cash, a dauber and a seat in the hall.
Brett runs the questions in the industrial lounge, free to play, and Ridge Hall's kitchens sit under the same roof if you want dumplings or a lobster roll between rounds.
Unrated free play at the Exton Commons club every Tuesday evening, open to all levels and to anyone who wants to sit down at a board. No entry fee and no rating to protect.
Second Tuesday, gazebo, 6:45 until 9:15. September evenings still hold enough light for the first hour, and the jam is free to sit in on or just listen to.
Rawan and Anna, one Palestinian and one Israeli, talk about drafting the SHIFT Framework and what their delegation took from the women's coalition in Northern Ireland. The college lists it as open to the public.
Bring leftover yarn and a project to the large meeting room on Tuesday nights. Marianna, a lifelong library patron, runs it. All skill levels are fine and other fiber crafts are welcome.
A one night screening at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Tuesday evening at seven. Tickets at the box office on Lancaster Avenue or online through the theater site.
A tribute screening of the 1989 Louisiana beauty shop weepie, with Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah and a young Julia Roberts. One show, seven o'clock.
Tuesday quiz night at the sushi and raw bar on East Lancaster, with a $75 gift card for first place and $50 for second. Walk-ins only, no reservations taken.
Locke runs a quick tabletop role-playing session while Jordan handles the video games. Free, all ages, two hours on the second Tuesday at the taproom.
Tuesday night trivia in the Fayette Street sports bar, with $4 Woodchuck drafts while you play. Teams turn up early for the long tables, so get there before seven if you want one.
Two hours of questions in the taproom on Skippack Pike. The brewery pours its own beer, wine and seltzer, and it is bring your own food or order in from a village kitchen.
Tuesday night trivia run by Righteous Jolly, seven to nine, in a cocktail bar a block off the courthouse. Call ahead, they take reservations for tables.
A different craft each month for adults, September is pixel paintings. Forty spaces. October brings reverse coloring and November zen drawings.
Free drop in yoga by the historic water tower at Oakbourne Park, Tuesday evenings into fall. All levels, ages sixteen and up. Bring a mat and something comfortable.
Riverchasers sets up three or four tables in the restaurant every Tuesday at seven. No money changes hands on the table, and showing up before six thirty starts you with more chips.
No brushes. You tilt the canvas and let the paint find its own edges, which is messier and far more forgiving than the usual class. Tuesday night, and the price scales with canvas size.
Evening dance-fitness at the Park at 4th, run by Quakertown Borough parks and rec. Ten dollars walk-in, no registration. The series keeps going into fall, weather permitting.
Jaimi Vlaanderen runs the questions every Tuesday at seven in the Airport Square beer bar. Come with a team or make one at the bar, and the kitchen stays open the whole time.
September edition of the Uptown open jam. Players sign up, DJ HA keeps it moving, and the room turns over every few numbers.
Weekly trivia, two hours, prizes at the end. Parking is Lot 7, zone 1412 if you are paying by app.
The only thing happening in town this Tuesday night. Kickoff is 7:30 on Patterson Field, and campus parking is free after five.
The film adaptation of Matthew Quick's novel, screened in the theatre's page to screen series. Two hours on a Tuesday night in the 260-seat house on North State Street.
Tuesday trivia at Appetites, seven-thirty. The patio has won a Best of the Main Line award, so if the weather holds, ask to play outside.
Weekly Tuesday quizzo downtown. Eight o'clock at Saloon 151, free, and busier now that the term has started.
The Austin guitarist plays the Keswick with WXPN behind it. Blues, soul and a whole lot of volume in a room where every seat sees the fretboard.
Weekly Tuesday karaoke with a real stage and a fifty dollar gift card for the night's best. Drink specials start two hours early.
Free poker at the bar on North Narberth Avenue every Tuesday at eight. Nothing to put in, and the kitchen runs to ten if you want dinner with your cards.
The Austin guitarist plays a room that seats about 1,300, which is smaller than he normally works. WXPN presents. A Tuesday, so the Glenside parking situation is manageable.
Trivia every Tuesday at eight on Montgomery Avenue. Get there early if you want the heated porch, and the late night snack menu runs to eleven on weeknights.
Tuesday karaoke on Walnut Street, nine o'clock. Free, and a smaller room than the High Street options.
Tuesday karaoke at Barnaby's on High Street. Ten o'clock start, free, and one of three karaoke rooms downtown that night.
Bingo numbers are hidden across Upper Dublin's parks and the first person to call bingo takes a prize, with another for the first full card. Register to get your own card before you start hunting.
Marilyn Monroe in a noir shot at the falls, opening the Colonial's In Glorious Technicolor series. The colour is the whole point of seeing it projected.
Week two of the fall walkabout series. Adults hike the Peace Valley trails with a naturalist and a fresh theme. Free, drop in.
The seven-day tribute relay from the Flight 93 Memorial to the World Trade Center passes through Horsham on its way into Philadelphia. Horsham Rotary sponsors it and is asking neighbors to line the route.
Bring whatever you have on the needles or the hook and sit an evening with other fiber crafters. Light snacks are out, and you can bring your own bottle.
An hour of coffee and introductions with the NGIV networking group before the workday starts. Same diner, same deal as the fall mixers: show up at 8 and meet the people running Upper Bucks businesses.
The midweek version of the trail stewardship crew, clearing debris and pulling invasive plants along the Cynwyd Heritage Trail. Two hours, gloves and guidance provided, email ahead if you are bringing a group.
Morning networking at the Scouting America council building off Scouting Way, with names pulled from a hat for a three to five minute spotlight on their business. Bring cards. Register through the chamber.
Two hours of hands-on native plant work with the Conservancy on Wednesday mornings. The site changes week to week and is posted on the sign-up page, so check before you drive.
Books, rhymes and songs pitched at the pre-walking crowd, every Wednesday morning in the big meeting room.
Four Wednesday mornings of tai chi outdoors among the rhododendrons, an hour each, running September 9 through September 30. Registration goes through the arboretum and the class is capped.
The Wednesday morning version, half an hour of stories and open play for babies under eighteen months. Krapf Room, caregivers on the floor with them, registration capped.
Story time pitched at one-year-olds, half an hour of stories, songs, fingerplays and rhymes. Wednesday mornings in the children's department, with a second session at 10:30.
Two hours of knitting in the Chestnut classroom on Wednesday mornings. Drop in, bring what you are working on, and the group has run long enough to have regulars.
Half an hour of stories pitched squarely at two year olds. Wednesday morning, community room.
Pet themed storytime named for the gecko who actually lives at the library. Thirty minutes of books, rhymes and singing with Miss Ashlee, all ages welcome.
Jan Michener of Arts Holding Hands and Hearts blends yoga and qigong into an hour of movement, breath and attention. Wednesday mornings in the Oak classroom.
A standing mid-morning gathering at the nonprofit café where neurodivergent staff run the counter. Company with your coffee, about an hour and change, and new faces get folded in.
Five Wednesday mornings on silverpoint, the Renaissance metal-stylus technique, worked alongside graphite with classical portrait construction underneath it. David Rivera teaches. One seat is $225 and covers the whole run.
Mr. John runs a half hour of crafts with all supplies provided, in the children's makerspace. Free, registration required, and there is a repeat session at six for working parents.
Ms. Eileen takes the eighteen to thirty five month range in the community room. Half an hour, siblings of any age welcome, twice most weeks.
Thirty minutes of songs and bounces for babies under two, weekly on Wednesday.
Short books, songs, action rhymes and movement built for wiggly ones aged eighteen to thirty six months. First forty through the door get in, twice a week in the community education room.
Two small classes run Wednesday mornings at the Ambler branch, one for beginners and one for conversation practice. Call Anne Hall at the library or email ahead to register before you show up.
The toddler music program lands on a Wednesday this week. Same half hour of songs, puppets, props and musical games in the sunroom, for toddlers through kindergarten.
Wednesday mid-morning in the Budzik Room, stories plus whatever the librarians have cooked up that week. Free, no registration, and it runs about the length of a toddler's patience.
All-ages storytime with books, rhymes and singing, every Wednesday at 10:30 in the big meeting room.
Half an hour of stories and songs for one-and-a-half to three year olds, Wednesday mid-morning in the Krapf Room. Caregivers sit in and take part.
A story time built for ones and twos who will not sit still, with movement worked into the half hour. Wednesday mornings in the Story Room.
Kim Slattery runs a modified chair class in the Struble Room, forty-five minutes on mobility, balance and breathing. Beginner friendly, and registration closes two hours before the start.
Families and caregivers with children up to age five drop in and play. Blocks, puzzles, gross motor toys and books are out, and there are other grown ups to talk to.
Wednesday morning songs and stories for ages 0 to 5 in the large auditorium, half an hour. No registration, just turn up with a small person.
A free hour of introductions for anyone who works for themselves or runs something small in town. Any profession, no dues, street and public parking on North Main.
Six week Wednesday cycle working through a sequence of eighteen moves, one hour each week. Open to any fitness level and the whole form can be done seated. Register through the township.
An hour of paint, paste and whatever else washes off, aimed squarely at toddlers. Registration required, smocks are on you, and the community room takes the damage.
Late morning books, rhymes and singing for the under-five crowd at the Edgewood Road branch. Half an hour, no registration, all ages welcome to tag along.
Songs, crafts and stories for kids from birth to five. Warm sunny mornings move it outside to the pavilion in Narberth Park, rain sends it back indoors. No registration.
Stories and an activity for three to five year olds, half an hour on Wednesday morning.
Kids three to five sit at the Main Pavilion for read-alouds, songs and puppets, outdoors along the Perkiomen Creek. Weather dependent, and the park asks you to email a week ahead.
Songs, crafts, and stories for kids under five with Miss Mackenzie. In warm weather they meet outside at the Narberth Park pavilion, otherwise inside. No registration.
Half an hour of one-on-one help with a phone, a laptop or whatever else is misbehaving, on a library machine or your own device. Register first and say what you want covered.
Two hours in the JFCS kitchen in Bala Cynwyd cooking meals that go out to other organizations. Monthly, free, and no cooking background required.
Built for eighteen months to five years with a grown up in the room, this is the one where the caregiver is meant to join in rather than watch from a chair.
Gem the therapy dog holds court in the children's room on Wednesday mornings. Kids read a book out loud to a listener who never corrects them.
Barnstone Art for Kids brings a teaching artist to the library each Wednesday. Preschoolers and a caregiver read a picture book together, then make something from it.
The older end of the storytime ladder, three and a half to five years, in the Krapf Room on Wednesday mornings through September.
An hour of introductions over lunch at Franconia Heritage, run by the Indian Valley Chamber with Networking Group Indian Valley. No registration, no membership needed, just walk in and start talking.
The Kids' Zone opens for free play twice a week after storytime. Half an hour, drop in, and the fastest way to burn off a morning indoors.
Wednesday morning songs and instruments for babies and toddlers, held in the meeting room at the processing center rather than the main library. September only.
Noon sets at Railroad Plaza every Wednesday in September, run by the borough parks department. Grab lunch on Main Street, sit outside for an hour, then go back to work.
Weekly midday speaking club in the library community room. Guests can watch before signing up.
An hour of ambient music over lunch in the VCAM lounge and kitchen on the Haverford campus. The college lists it for the general public as well as students and staff.
Orthodontist Grace Wu Simco talks about dental airway health over a catered lunch. The club's weekly meeting is open to guests, and lunch runs sixteen dollars at the door.
Two hours of open Mahjong at the library every Wednesday. Tiles and tables are there, experienced players will answer questions, and watching is fine.
Knife sharpening set up for four hours inside the zero-waste refill shop on Haverford Avenue in Narberth, about a seven minute drive from downtown Ardmore. Drop off, shop, pick up.
The daytime group takes on The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali. An hour in Yardley Study Room 1, no registration needed.
The daytime version of the library craft circle, Wednesdays in the program room. Your own materials, your own project, no teacher and no sign-up sheet.
The mystery club takes on Barbara Vine's A Dark-Adapted Eye at one in the afternoon, in the Board Room and on Zoom for anyone who cannot get to Joshua Road.
Two hours of tiles every Wednesday afternoon, running from September straight through December. Regulars will walk a newcomer through a hand.
Bring dull kitchen knives and garden shears to the refill shop on Haverford Avenue and Seven Stars will put an edge back on them during the afternoon.
Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods gets the discussion this month. Second Wednesday, one o'clock, in the shop on South Eagle Road. No membership required to sit in.
A free hour walking the woodland garden with staff every Wednesday afternoon, different things in bloom each week. Forty-eight acres of native plantings under oak canopy.
A panel picking apart the 2026 World Cup, the pride it stirred and the controversies that trailed FIFA through the summer. Four campus centers argue it from four angles.
A monthly afternoon book group at the Union Library. Ask at the front desk for this month's title, read it, then show up with an opinion about it.
Ninety minutes on one mystery novel, monthly, Wednesday afternoon in the community room.
The mystery readers meet Wednesday afternoon in the community room for ninety minutes. Read the month's pick, or turn up to find out what to read next.
The Lower Merion market runs Wednesday afternoons in the plaza at One Bala, about seven minutes from Narberth. Smaller than the Thursday Narberth market and easier to park at.
Paint for two hours in the living room of a 1727 inn, every Wednesday afternoon. Open to the public with no reservation required, though space is tight and the inn suggests booking ahead.
Sting Ray Anthony works the doo-wop and early rock songbook on a Wednesday afternoon, three to five. Matinee timing that suits anyone who would rather not drive home late.
Downtown shops and restaurants hiring for the semester, all in one room. Students check in at align.Space on West Market and leave with a map of who is looking. Rain date September 10.
Two hours on Wednesday afternoons for knitters, crocheters, quilters and embroiderers. Bring your own project and supplies, there is no instruction.
An open craft studio for ages 13 and up with hot glue guns, woodburners, modeling knives and the library's 3D printer. Bring whatever project you are stuck on.
Drakes soccer at home midweek. Kickoff is quarter to four, so it is over well before dark and it costs nothing to stand at the touchline.
A four o'clock Wednesday game at Draper Walsh Stadium against Eastern, another small Chester County program. Immaculata's campus is the old Villa Maria grounds, worth the drive up the hill on its own.
A 1938 Mickey Rooney comedy with a very young Judy Garland. Two showings, 4:15 and 7:00, closing out the summer classics run.
Wednesday kickoff at Applebee Field against Marywood, up from Scranton. An easy weeknight hour outdoors on campus before the light goes.
A forty five minute wellness session for four to seven year olds in the storyhour room.
Ages seven to fourteen trade cards, play the trading card game and make a themed craft. Second Wednesday of the month, registration required.
A running campaign for ages thirteen and up in the library program room, played with DnDBeyond. No experience needed, ten seats, and you register for each week you want.
Wednesday grill night at the Owls pavilion, five to eight, open to anyone who walks up. A cheap dinner that does not require a reservation or a plan.
Bill Monach hosts three hours of open mic at the taproom on Penns Trail, five to eight on Wednesdays. Bring an instrument, or come for the early set and a pint.
City to Shore riders pull the taps for the night, five until eight, ahead of the fall ride. Taproom is off Three Tun Road with the kitchen open alongside.
Same player, different room. This week the music moves into the Fox and Hounds pub side of the Desmond, five thirty until eight.
Discussion of bell hooks on love and self. Buy the pick at the shop and RSVP online. Mavey is the Cricket Avenue shop that opened as Ardmore's first independent bookstore.
A monthly evening for knitters, crocheters and anyone with a project stalled in a bag. Two hours in the community room, adults, and nobody checks your gauge.
Ninety minutes on light, water and repotting for anyone whose pothos keeps dying. Held downstairs at the Cricket Avenue plant shop, reachable only by stairs. Seating is limited so register ahead.
Back in the bar for a Wednesday, six to nine. McElwee plays this room a few times a season, which makes him about as close to a house act as Ron's has.
Ninety minutes covering what Medicare actually is, when to sign up and what it costs, with time for questions at the end. Krapf Room, free.
Ninety minutes of drawing in the Teen Zone on Wednesday evenings. Bring a sketchbook and whatever you are working through.
Weekly quiz night in the taproom at six on Wednesdays. Team up, order a KSQ Brew'd and settle in. Free to play, and the kitchen runs the whole way through.
Commander, Pauper, Standard and limited, kicking off around six on Wednesdays, and beginner friendly if you have never shuffled a deck. Board games are out for anyone not playing Magic.
The horror club. Second Wednesday evenings on the porch of the Main Street bookshop, six o'clock, reading the spooky end of the shelf all year rather than just in October.
A ninety-minute walk through West Chester built around the epidemics that shaped the borough, on a different route from last year's version. Wednesday evenings from the History Center on North High Street.
Knitting, crochet, needlepoint, whatever is half finished in the bag. Two hours at the Elkins Park branch, drop in, no registration, all skill levels at the same table.
Yoga Home teachers run an all levels class on the grass at six, with a rotating roster so you get a different voice most weeks. Ten dollars to drop in. Bring a mat and water.
A Wednesday evening turf game at Jean Lenox West Field, Arcadia against Bryn Mawr College from down the Main Line. Six o'clock start, on the campus where Easton Road runs into Glenside.
Wednesday night open mic in the Big Bar area, six to nine. Cocktails and thirty draft lines behind you while somebody tries out a new song.
Local musicians play the tavern from six to nine on Wednesday nights, with the full dinner menu running alongside. No cover named, and the patio stays open while the weather holds.
Wednesday night trivia runs six to eight at the tavern on Kings Highway. Teams form at the bar, the kitchen stays open, and the questions start on time.
Wednesday evenings in the reading room, learning the pieces or sharpening what you already know. All ages welcome, though players under thirteen need an adult along. No registration and no fee.
Wednesday trivia at Levante. Bring three or four people, order a flight, and argue about the geography round.
Standing Wednesday night at the tap room on East Elm. Six thirty start, free to play, and the room fills up with regular teams.
An hour of chess for learners, reading room, every Wednesday evening.
Board games spread across the whole community room before the school year swallows everyone's evenings. Ninety minutes, open to families, at the Abington branch on Old York Road.
The volunteer group behind the park's programs meets at the Environmental Education Center, six thirty to eight. Free, no registration, and open to anyone curious about pitching in at the lake.
A conversation built around a children's book about postpartum depression. Wednesday evening at 6:30, aimed at parents as much as at readers.
An hour at the township nature area on how a rain garden actually works and where the stormwater off your street ends up. Free, and worth it if your yard puddles.
Trish Troilo plays the suffragist Alice Paul for an evening, part of the Union Library's run of programs marking the country's 250th year. One hour, first person, in costume.
An evening storytime at 6:30 in the Community Room, pajamas encouraged, for the crowd that can't make the weekday mornings.
September's book is The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, talked through over tea and treats at the Belmont Hills branch. Register ahead, the room is small.
Eight weeks of outdoor cornhole on the front patio off Ridge Pike, run with Longshot Cornhole. Teams of two to four, competitive and rec divisions, every team makes the playoffs. Registration closes September 6.
Seven o'clock in the Class of 1958 Gymnasium against Delaware Valley. Indoors, so the weather does not matter, and it is the second Owls home date of the same Wednesday.
Erich von Stroheim's troubled 1932 Gloria Swanson picture, rarely booked anywhere. Two showtimes on the Hollywood Summer Nights calendar, 4:15 and 7.
The Rent cast moves across the courtyard to the Playhouse Barn for a late cabaret. Thirty dollars, general admission, one night only in the middle of the show's run on the main stage.
Steve Tourison hosts the sign-up sheet every Wednesday at seven. Bar seating is first come, first served, and the late-night menu carries you past nine if the room keeps going.
Second Wednesday translation group, this month a Rwandan novel about three generations after the genocide. Free and open to all.
A staged reading of a new play by Chester County writer Richard L. Gaw, in the library auditorium. Seven in the evening, free, actors on book.
Three hours of whoever signs up, Wednesday nights at the East Lancaster Avenue bar. Players can email music@go2borough.com ahead. Walk-ins only for everyone else, so come early for a table.
A talk on where Washington's army camped, marched and wintered just south of here, one hour on a Wednesday night in the library's community room.
Weekly Wednesday trivia. Themed nights have covered Disney, Harry Potter and Taylor Swift, so watch their socials for the week's topic.
An hour on where the Continental Army camped, marched and fought across this county, in the library community room.
Two canvases that hang together as one scene, priced so a pair saves. Wednesday night on Leedom Street, two hours, bring your own bottle.
There is a real stage built into the back of the cheesesteak shop, and the sign-up list runs until everyone has played. Wednesdays only, and it goes late.
Pat runs a themed trivia round with music mixed in at the Mount Airy Road taproom. Free, all ages, two hours, so grab a table before seven.
Seven o'clock Wednesday soccer against Neumann, under the lights at Draper Walsh. Free to watch, and the field hockey team plays the same stadium at four.
Free to play, two hours of it, prizes for the winners. Kids are welcome, and the dollar wing night runs the same evening if you get there before the cards come out.
The Red Queen author brings her adult fantasy debut to the Colonial, run with Reads & Company. Ticket includes a signed deluxe edition, and she will personalise one copy.
Eight rounds every Wednesday, one built on audio clips and one printed visual round, questions from all over. Beer brewed on site and a kitchen running until close.
The library stays open past closing for a Magic the Gathering evening. Draft or bring a constructed deck. Second Wednesday of the month, seven o'clock.
Sign-ups at six thirty, jokes at seven, no cover in the cellar bar. Hosted by Jeannette Orr, and new material is the whole point.
Midweek lights, Aggies against Gwynedd Mercy at 7 p.m. The women play the same field at 4 p.m., so you can make an afternoon of it.
Trivia every Wednesday at 7:30 in the big Fayette Street pub. Bring a team, grab a table on the bar side, and settle in for a couple of hours of arguing about answers.
Six Wednesday evenings on reading the night sky, from constellations to deep sky objects, with observing at the Pleiades Observatory when skies allow. Adults and students sixteen and up.
Questions start at 7:30 on Wednesday nights in the bar, hosted by Jon Geiger. The dining room shuts at nine but the bar runs to midnight, so a bad round costs you nothing.
Weekly quizzo on High Street. Seven thirty Wednesday, free entry, teams welcome at any size.
Weekly trivia downstairs at the brewpub, 7:30 start. Cocktails are mixed with Pennsylvania spirits, and the categories are deliberately all over the map.
Beginner Argentine tango at 7:45 on Wednesdays through September, fundamentals for the further-along at 8:30. Walk in without a partner, twenty dollars a class or $150 for a card of ten.
Doors at 7:15, lottery sign ups at 7:30, first act at eight. Musicians, poets and comics each get ten to twelve minutes on a full backline. Free to sit and listen.
Free every Wednesday at the nonprofit music room on South Easton Road. Doors at 7:15, lottery sign-up, first performer at 8. Bring an instrument or just a seat.
Weekly Wednesday trivia on Gay Street. Eight o'clock start, no cover, teams form at the bar.
Three singer-songwriters trading lead vocals and stacking harmonies across a full set. Wednesday night, doors 7:30, tickets $25 to $52.
Philadelphia's DJ Jazzy Jeff scores an illuminated fountain performance from his own crates in the Main Fountain Garden. Eight o'clock, separate ticket, and it will sell.
Wednesday karaoke at Appetites, eight-thirty start. Twenty-four TVs on the walls and a long draft list, so there is something to do between songs.
Weekly late-night pong at Kildare's on Gay Street. Free to play and busier once the university term is running.
Wednesday karaoke at Ryan's on West Gay, ten o'clock, no cover. The far end of the block from Kildare's, if you want to compare.
Four days of hunter and jumper competition on the Devon grounds, about ten minutes east of Malvern. Quieter than the spring show and easier to walk up to.
Spielberg's 1977 film across four days at the nonprofit art house on Lancaster Avenue. Showtimes vary, so check the schedule before you drive over.
The monthly meetup of the Doylestown wellness group that also runs the Peace Valley walks. Open to anyone, held at the Swamp Road spa, and the listing gives no start time.
Parkside Place turns into a midway for four days as the township's carnival hits year 35, running Thursday, Sept. 10 through Sunday, Sept. 13. Rides, games, and fair food, right on North Wales's doorstep.
The Forest Room on a Thursday at the Haverford Road nightclub. Cheap, loud and late, the sort of room where five bands on a bill is normal.
Six weeks of youth run club sessions in Kerr Park, running from the tenth of September into the middle of October. Registration is through the club.
Structured rounds first, open mingling after, and you build and bake your own pizza in Gerhard's oven while you talk. Proceeds go to Open Hearth. Register through the chamber.
Thursday mornings through fall migration you can stand at the nets while researchers band songbirds and read the numbers back. Three hours, free, right beside the organic farm fields.
The chapel stays open from eight in the morning until quarter past six, when a short service closes the day. Sit for as long as you want, whenever the day allows.
Friends of Exton Park lead a 1.5 mile loop around the old Church Farm Pond and its wetland, looking for seasonal birds. Figure on two hours. Park in the gravel lot off Swedesford Road.
Ninety minutes on how large language models actually work, plus live prompting practice and a look at the security side. Bring a laptop. Twenty dollars a head and space is limited.
The Thursday shift of the same garden crew, three hours pulling, planting and cutting back across forty-two acres. Grab gloves and turn up.
A free morning session at the chamber office on building better credit, coffee included. Registration is free through the chamber's event page.
Ten rounds of bingo with breakfast, door prizes and a fashion show from the Village shops, nine to eleven. Doors open at nine sharp and not a minute earlier.
Pick-your-own apples start today and run to the first of November. Weekend reservations and orchard wagon rides begin September 12. The crop is limited this year, so go early in the day.
Twenty minutes of lap bounces, rhymes and fingerplays for babies up to twenty three months. Older siblings can come along, and are asked to bring a stuffed animal to play caregiver.
Miss Emma works through a different musical genre each week with babies under eighteen months, plus a story to match. Half an hour Thursday mornings in the Krapf Room.
A weekly crafting group in the Burke Room. Bring your own knitting, crochet, drawing or anything portable and talk while you work. Sixteen and up, no registration.
Stories mixed with easy yoga poses for preschoolers in the children's area. Free, ten in the morning, and the wiggling is the point.
Five miles out and back to the Evans-Mumbower Mill, with stepping stone creek crossings and a rest at the mill. Moderate pace, roughly thirty minutes a mile. Restrooms at the trailhead.
Five miles out and back to the gristmill, with three sets of stepping stones across the creek and a rest at the mill. Roughly thirty minutes a mile, under a hundred feet of climb.
Five miles out and back along the creek, across cement stepping stones and a run of boardwalks, to the old mill and home again. Moderate pace, about thirty minutes a mile.
An informal playgroup where young children and their caregivers meet other families and learn by playing. Forty five minutes, twice a week, no performance required from anyone.
Fifteen to twenty minutes of books, music, rhymes and lap bounces, then play time with sensory toys. Best for babies up to twenty three months, older siblings welcome.
Early literacy for infants, half an hour of stories and music in the Struble Room. Built for the age before talking, when the language goes in anyway.
Eight hours of used books in the sale room and out front, ten to six. Cheap paperbacks, hardcovers and discs, with the money going back into the library.
The Intergenerational Kennett Community Coffee Klatch meets Thursday mornings in the Oak classroom. A social group with an agenda, and coffee.
The weekly Thursday session making sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Drop in for the full ninety minutes or part of it.
The long Thursday version of the book sale, ten to six. Fiction, nonfiction and a table of puzzles.
A hybrid book talk on Richard Bell's history of the American Revolution, run by the Chester County History Center. Ten in the morning, which makes it a coffee-and-argument sort of hour.
Forty five minutes on Pennsylvania's own mammals, birds and reptiles, ending with a native animal brought out to meet. An adult stays with each child, and zoo admission plus five dollars applies.
The Thursday morning slot for three-and-a-half to five year olds, half an hour of stories, singing and activities with caregivers sitting in. Krapf Room, seats capped.
Storytime moves out to the orchard, trolley side, with Ms. Louise and Ms. Kira reading, singing and running games. Aimed at toddlers, open to any age. Four Thursdays this fall.
Half an hour of books, rhymes, singing and movement, aimed at ages two to five with all ages welcome. Free, and the branch sits about four minutes up the road from Sellersville.
Two hours painting outdoors on the mill grounds with Christopher Monteiro, every other Thursday morning. Eighteen dollars for members, twenty-five otherwise, and you register by the Tuesday before.
The morning half of the library's needlework habit. Knitters, crocheters and menders around one table for an hour on Thursdays. Walk in with your own project.
Thirty minutes for three-year-olds, stories and songs and fingerplays keyed to the state early learning standards. Thursday mornings in the children's department.
Thirty minutes of books, rhymes, singing and movement, aimed at ages two to five with everyone else welcome. Runs Thursday mornings through September.
Thursday morning stories on the grass at the Manoa Road playground, ages 0 to 5. Bring a blanket, and register if you want the cancellation email.
Thursday morning stories, songs and rhymes in the large meeting room. Best for kids under five with a caregiver, and older siblings can come too. No sign-up needed.
The music class for eighteen months to two and a half years, exploring a new genre each week with Miss Emma. Follows the baby class on Thursday mornings.
Drop the stuffed animal off and leave it overnight. The staff document what it gets up to after closing. RSVP required.
The Thursday morning story hour, one of two the library runs each week. Picture books, a song or two, and a rug full of preschoolers. Free and weekly through September.
Songs and stories for ages 0 to 5 in the large auditorium, half an hour, no sign up. Thursday mornings run through late October, with a break the week the craft tables come out.
The library's daytime book group meets late morning in the community room for an hour. Adults, and a good one to pair with an early lunch on Church Road.
Geared at pre-walkers and babies not yet steady on their feet, with books, songs and rhymes. Runs twice a week after Toddler Time in the community education room.
Singing, dancing and rhythm games for ages zero to five, an hour and a quarter of it. Grown-ups are expected to move too. Free, no registration, Thursday mornings straight through September.
A gardener walks you through the ornamental kitchen garden for half an hour, then a chef puts five courses on the table built from what came out of it. One long table, 150 dollars a seat.
Preschool storytime for ages three to five, this run built with Montgomery County's Victim Services Unit around feelings, safe adults, and boundaries. Registration required, and it opens two weeks out.
An hour on figuring out what you actually want next, run as a guided workshop in the community room. In person, free.
Attorney B. Howell walks through wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills, starting right after Thursday lunch at the community center on South Walnut Street.
The Thursday repeat of the chair-supported practice with Cassie Quigley, forty-five minutes after lunch. Modified poses using a chair, no floor work, and the room fills.
September's session of the heritage center's Anabaptist reading group, same ninety minute slot on the second Thursday.
A short talk then a hands-on experiment for homeschooled kids aged five to eight, with a caregiver alongside. September's topic is earth sciences. Register each child separately.
A daytime book club that pairs a novel with works in the galleries. Ten dollars for members, twenty two otherwise, one to two thirty.
An hour on where to actually start when you want to trace a family line and have no idea what you are doing.
Half an hour of books and songs for preschoolers and younger with Ms. Dawnita. Registration is recommended, and a note goes out each week with what is planned.
Bring whatever you are already working on and spend an hour with other crafters in Study Room 3. Adults, free, every Thursday at two through the fall.
September's book is Alice McDermott's Absolution, discussed at 2:30 on the second Thursday. New members always welcome, and you can skip a month without penalty.
Growers, bakers and makers set up in the tree grove across from Restaurant Row. Lineups rotate weekly, so expect some mix of local produce, sourdough, cut flowers, honey and something hot to eat.
Chinese-style mahjong with house rules, every Thursday from three to four in the community room. Regulars will walk a newcomer through it. Email the library if you have questions.
Big Red Bites parks at the brewery every Thursday afternoon through mid September, three until roughly eight. A standing reason to make the four minute drive over from Sellersville.
Big Red Bites is back for the Thursday shift, three until roughly eight. Midweek is the version of this place where you can actually get a table in the courtyard.
Jigsaw puzzles and popcorn in the Logan Inn living room, Thursdays three to five. Free to join whether or not you are a hotel guest, and the Whiskey Lounge opens at five.
The market left Town Square this year and now sets up in the library lot on Route 611. Produce from Herrcastle Farm, sourdough from Mockingbird Bakery, honey, wine, bacon on a stick.
Thursday afternoon market at Station Circle, three until seven, produce and prepared food in the shadow of the train station. Easy stop on the walk home from the platform.
Varsity girls take on Haverford at quarter past three, a few hours before the football team kicks off on the same campus. Tickets online through the school box office.
Home tennis against Dock, on the same afternoon the field hockey team plays. Two things on one campus if you want to make an hour of it.
Bicentennial League field hockey at home. Jenkintown is a small school playing a small schedule, which means you will recognise half the sideline by the second half.
Second week of the outdoor sculpture garden yoga run. Four to five on a Thursday, mats out among the artworks, open to any level.
A reading themed badge session with three badges to earn, Born to Read, Serial Madness and Reading Rebel, plus a visit from Gordy, the library's gecko mascot.
Bring a gently used book wrapped, swap it for someone else's, drink coffee and make a dried flower bookmark. Adults only, registration required.
Food trucks pull into the outdoor event tent with music and lawn games. Bring a blanket. Four hours, next to the Visitor and Event Center.
Build a fall planter to carry home, with the garden center supplying the plants and the pointers. Seatings at 4 and 6; tickets sell through the shop.
Two hours of casual networking in the Locust Lane taproom on Three Tun Road, free to attend, with the rotating flagships and small batch pours on tap. Frazer, about seven minutes east of Exton.
Twenty minute slots with a trained therapy dog who sits and listens while you read. Three of them between 4:30 and 5:30, readers eight and up, bring a book or borrow one.
A free evening built for families living with Parkinson's: a resource fair at 4:30, dinner at 5:30, then a panel from Penn Medicine, Main Line Health and the Parkinson's Foundation. RSVP, the room holds 126.
The same leaf and foil relief project as Tuesday, now for third through fifth graders. An hour in the Community Room after school, and you register ahead.
Fifteen minute slots to read to Xena, the library's golden doodle, or just sit with her. All ages, and you register by phone through the Junior Room.
Thursday mah jongg tables at Malvern Library. Turn up at quarter to five; someone will walk you through it.
The taproom's monthly dog-friendly stretch, five to seven on a Thursday. Bring the dog, get a beer, let somebody else's retriever handle the socializing.
Opening night for a Hagley Museum show of American patent models, the physical prototypes inventors once had to file with their applications. Gallery, five in the evening, free.
The Andy Weir adaptation, 156 minutes with Ryan Gosling, screened in the Community Education Room. Rated PG-13. In person, free.
Bikes lined up outside the Pour House for a Thursday evening run with Chester County Riders. Food and drink inside, no ticket needed to look.
A half hour loop around Black Rock Park with Upper Providence police officers and firefighters, who answer whatever the kids ask. Free, registration required, and there may be a treat waiting.
Two shows open the same night: Hue of Memories II, curated by Jie Deng, in the Allinson Gallery, and Plant Portraits from the Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators in the Huston.
Restorative indoor session with Dragonfly Yoga Studio after the museum closes, 5:15 to 6:15. Twenty five dollars for members.
Live local artists every Thursday evening in the Red Fox Lounge, five thirty until seven thirty. Small room, so arriving early is the move.
Large-scale work from Artists Equity members goes up on the walls, with refreshments and live music on opening night. Two hours on a Thursday at the art center off Panmure Road.
Trucks line Easton Road and Glenside Avenue for one evening, run jointly by Downtown Glenside, Arcadia University and Cheltenham Township. Rain date is September 17. Come hungry and plan on walking a few blocks.
Lenape Valley Foundation gathers in the courthouse courtyard on East Court Street for a candlelight vigil during suicide prevention month. Open to anyone, and bringing someone with you is the point.
Coach Jack runs the club in the children's department for ages six to twelve, beginners included. Registration required, caregivers stay in the room, waitlist gets called after 5:45.
The branch's monthly bingo hour for adults, a few rounds and a shot at a prize. Early evening, so you can still get dinner afterward.
The same one-on-one tech help as the Wednesday session, moved to the end of the day. Bring the device and one specific question. Registration keeps the half hour yours.
New Hope Celebrates books a block for the Playhouse production of Rent, with the evening built around it. Five thirty start, running to ten.
Weekly Magic the Gathering play in the reading room, five thirty to eight.
Two and a half hours of Magic: The Gathering in the reading room every Thursday evening. Learners welcome, and players under thirteen need an adult in the building. No fee.
Thursday nights in the STEAM Lab, adults play through the library's collection of modern hobby games. Newcomers get pointed at a good starting place. No registration, stay as long as you want.
Bring your own yarn and whatever you have half finished. No instruction and no registration, just the program room and other people who know what a magic loop is.
Retired botany professor Gary Emberger on the 135 native tree species that gave Pennsylvania its name, and the terms you need to start telling them apart. At the Blue Bell branch.
September's business book discussion with a guest facilitator, six to seven thirty in the store. Second Thursday, same as always.
A two hour evening session for adults making things, on the second Thursday of the month. Ten minutes from Collegeville.
Week two of the September run. Live music from six, local food trucks, beer and beverages, kids activities on the lawn. Free and open to every age.
Two hours cutting and arranging coloured glass into a butterfly panel with Annemarie from Glass Hen. Downstairs at the plant shop on Cricket Avenue. Space is limited, so register ahead.
Dinner outdoors on the grounds of the 1708 house: antipasto platter, artisan bread, then a pasta entree. Fifty dollars a seat, two hours, and seats go before the day.
Opening night of the four day carnival: rides, carnival food and family activities. Ride tickets are two dollars each or twelve for twenty. Park at the Merck lot across the road.
A brass quintet works classical through pop, jazz through dixieland and marches, in the co-op cafe on Butler. Ninety minutes, no cover, and the hot bar is open alongside.
An evening walk through the New Leaf Sensory Garden, built for kids and adults who want a quieter, slower outdoor space. Free, six in the evening, four Thursdays running.
Name the song, mark the card, hosted by Jaimi Vlaanderen every Thursday at six. Wings and a wall of televisions out on West Swamp Road, well past the borough line.
An hour of poetry and discussion in the shop on South Eagle Road, and the first meeting of the fall for this monthly group. Poets and listeners both welcome.
Six cupcakes to decorate in Phillies colors with Marybeth Harmer, three of them chocolate. A glass of wine comes with the ticket. Two hours on a Thursday evening.
Twenty seats, three pours tasted blind: Angel's Envy port cask, Blanton's single barrel and the restaurant's own Knob Creek barrel. You keep the glasses and the scoring sheets. A hundred and two dollars a head.
A 50-minute vinyasa class in the farm's outdoor classroom, with the fields going gold around you. Buy a single class or the set.
A JourneyDance session out on Esten Road built around moving anger through the body rather than talking about it. Led by Kelly Thomke, around twenty-three dollars, register ahead.
The library's PRIDE reading group meets in the large meeting room to talk through its latest pick. Run for adults; check the library's event page for this round's title and to register.
An informal piano group in the auditorium where people take turns at the instrument. Free, Thursday evening, and listeners are as welcome as players.
Two hours on the wheel on Thursday nights, part of a six week run open to every level. Advance registration required, and the studio sits mid-village on Skippack Pike.
Free two-hour session on how Medicare actually works: what Part D covers, and the difference between a supplement and an Advantage plan. Registration through the borough, educational only, no sales pitch.
Bingo runs Thursday evenings from six thirty, no cover, prizes on the line and the kitchen going the whole time. About ten minutes south of Sellersville on Hilltown Pike.
Erich Cawalla and The Uptown Band close out Whitpain's outdoor series at the gazebo. Vendors, food trucks and games from five. Free, bring a chair or a blanket. Moved here from August 20.
An evening of sculpting whatever comes to mind out of Model Magic clay, open to preschool through fifth grade. Registration on the library calendar.
Grades three through twelve make a charm to hang off a backpack. An hour in the community room with all the materials supplied. Registration recommended.
An hour in the Board Room on a Thursday evening. The library also runs mystery and afternoon clubs, so this is the one for readers who want the happy ending.
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe author launches a new small-town romance series at the Colonial. Ticket includes a signed copy, signing capped at two books.
Weekly Thursday trivia at the Uwchlan Avenue bar, six-thirty start. Ron's kitchen works from scratch, so dinner during the quiz is a real dinner, not bar snacks.
Real clues from the Jeopardy writers' room, team play and a prize every week. Happy hour runs four to six if you want to warm up before the seven o'clock start.
A Thursday night home game with a Salute to Service tribute to people who have served. Gates open at 6, kickoff at 7, and they close at the end of the third quarter. No backpacks.
September's book is Kin, the Oprah's Book Club pick. Free to sit in, though the shop asks for an RSVP so it can count chairs. Copies at the register on North Main.
Free line dancing with J & J Line Dancing at the intermediate plus level, no partner needed. Two hours, boots optional, and the bar is right there.
The multi-instrumentalist from Live From Daryl's House builds songs on stage with live looping, moving between guitar, keys and drums. Doors at 6:30, 21 and over, $20 ahead.
Pat and Jordan call the numbers, tell bad jokes, and work a didgeridoo into it somehow. Free, all ages, Thursday nights at the Mount Airy Road taproom.
The Union Library's evening book group takes the second Thursday of the month, an hour of talking about whatever everyone just finished reading.
Three hours in the beer garden at Conshohocken Brewing's Bridgeport taproom, ages twenty three to thirty eight, run by BeVisionary. Tickets start near twenty nine dollars and it is a short drive over the bridge.
Will Manns runs the questions for two and a half hours. Form a team, order from whichever stall in the market looks good that night, and play for prizes and bragging rights.
An adult non-fiction book club that meets in the evening at the Keswick Avenue branch. Ask the desk for the current title if you want to read along first.
The Colonials host Central Bucks South in a league game under the lights, three miles up Germantown Pike. Bleachers, a band and a concession stand, on a Thursday night.
First home game of the league season, under the lights at Indian Field. Central Bucks West comes up for a seven o'clock kickoff. Tickets go through the district's online box office.
The weekly Thursday trivia run at 304 Old York Road. Seven o'clock, no cover, and the patio stays usable well into September.
The Hall and Oates band multi instrumentalist plays the Easton Road listening room on a Thursday. Small house, seated, and the brewery next door runs a bar at the back.
A monthly open jazz session in the listening room off Sycamore Alley. All ages, bring your horn or just a chair. BYOB, and the Flash sells concessions.
The Vikings host Downingtown East at home on a Thursday night. Tickets are five dollars at the gate for anyone five and up, and the lot fills early.
Warren Beatty's 1990 comic-strip picture in flat primary colors, projected from a 35mm print. One showing at 7 on a Thursday.
Garage folk songwriter working the New Jersey and Pennsylvania circuit, lived-in stories over polish. Free set in the cellar bar, Thursday at seven.
Thursday nights the taproom stage goes to blues and jazz players you will not catch on a weekend. Two hour set, no cover, kitchen and beer running the whole time.
Pop culture through the decades is the theme for this round. No cover, top team takes a prize, wine and light bites for sale. Reservations suggested, teams fill the room.
Free music every Thursday at seven in the industrial lounge beside Ridge Hall, so you can order from 2 Street Sammies or Pho Mi Please and keep your table.
Two hours making a set of four pressed-flower resin glasses with instructor Carrie B. Materials and one glass of Bishop Estate wine are in the 79 dollar ticket. Spots are limited.
The monthly trivia night at the winery bar. Free to play, top scoring team wins a prize, wine and light bites for sale. Reservations suggested.
Steve Guyger and Filthy Rich play blues in the tavern every Thursday at seven. Bar seating is first come, first served, so book a tavern table if you want a clear view.
Real clues from the Jeopardy writers' room, teams of whatever size you can round up, seven o'clock in the Village at Newtown. Happy hour runs before the game starts.
Seven o'clock Thursday trivia at Station 142 on East Market, an hour earlier than the Gay Street rounds, so you can play here and still make one of those.
Panthers host Neshaminy at seven on a Thursday night at the high school on Park Avenue. A non-conference game, one week before Suburban One play opens at home.
Scorsese, De Niro and 1970s New York, screened with the theater's Cinema Studies framing. Thursday evening, one show.
Author Pat Mervine on how Bucks County Quakers went from holding people in slavery to running Underground Railroad stops. Free, no reservations, seating first come at the 1878 library.
Thursday trivia in the Ambler Yards taproom with audio and visual rounds. Hosts and themes rotate week to week, so the format changes. Beer garden seating when the weather holds.
The festival's big-room Thursday show, five comics including Samantha Ruddy. Starts half an hour after the Turks Head set, so you can only pick one.
Abbey Road and Satisfaction trade songs across a full set and the audience picks a side. LaJolla runs this format nationally and the Keswick books it most years.
Gunhild Carling, the Swedish trad-jazz showwoman who plays three trumpets at once, brings her vaudeville act to Sellersville September 10. Between trombone, bagpipes, and tap breaks, the 8pm show never sits still.
Thursday quizzo at eight, free to play. One of four trivia nights running within three blocks that night, so pick your crowd.
A new theme every week, from 90s music to Dungeon Crawler Carl, with prizes for the winners and the runners up. The $15 admission also puts every arcade game on free play.
Two hours of music trivia on Thursdays, eight to ten, no cover. Get there early if you want a table for more than four.
Abbey Road and Satisfaction trade sets and let the crowd pick a winner. Sixties rock argued out loud for two hours.
DeVotchKa plays the Little Miss Sunshine score twenty years after the film. Doors 7:15, music at 8, 21 and over.
Karaoke takes the room over right after the trivia round finishes, ten p.m. every Thursday on West Gay Street. Free to walk in, free to sing, and it runs into January.
Four blocks of Gay Street close to cars so restaurants push tables into the road. Walk down the middle of the street, eat outside, and browse the shops on either side.
The tavern's weekend music takes the summer off and starts back this Friday night. Porch overlooking Lake Afton, sixteen taps, and a bar restored to its 1875 layout.
A ticketed benefit night at the Merion Tribute House for girls' education in Tanzania, honoring three members of the 1830 Family Foundation. Tickets run $125.
The 1920s coaches run Friday through Sunday out of the Bridge Street station. Buy at the window or online, and the earlier departures are the ones with seats left on a September weekend.
Anders Hyatt plays the tavern on a Friday night. Bar seating is first come, first served, and a tavern table gets you a clear view of the band.
The studio's own ballroom social, second Friday of the month at 49 East Lancaster. Standard and Latin on a full ballroom floor, a few doors up from the Ardmore train station.
Carpenter's Prince of Darkness paired with The Sentinel, both on 16mm. Fright Night double bills run long, so eat first.
Cousins Maine Lobster brings the roll to West Walnut Street. Van Lieus posts one truck per Friday and Saturday, and this is the one people drive in for.
Joins the first-run rotation at the theater on September 11. BMFI posts showtimes a week at a time, so check the morning you plan to go.
The steel museum holds its annual commemorative service on September 11, marking 25 years since the 2001 World Trade Center attack. Coatesville's Lukens mill rolled steel used in the towers, which is why the town keeps the date.
Revolution of '87 on a Friday night. Kitchen until 1am, drink specials end at 11. The Nail sits at 2580 Haverford Road and has been booking original music for seventy odd years.
The Owens sisters come back to the Hiway two decades on, confronting the family curse again. Opening day is Friday the 11th, and the theater posts its showtimes roughly a week out, so check before you drive over.
Shady Brook's festival field opens for the season with wagon rides to the pumpkin patch, a corn maze, and 25-plus attractions on one admission, running through October 30. After dark the farm flips to the Eerie Illuminations light show, a moonlit maze, and bonfires, with live music on weekends.
Local artists play the Mount Airy Road taproom every Friday. The brewery does not post set times ahead, so check the taproom page or call before you drive out.
Twenty-five years on at Pennsylvania's official 9/11 memorial. In past years the ceremony opened at 8:30 with the bell tolled nine times for the nine township residents lost.
The chamber's morning drop-in at Twin Valley Coffee on River Station Boulevard, an hour of coffee and conversation before the workday starts. Register on the chamber calendar.
Twenty five years on, the morning runs a timeline of the attacks, a bell toll, a memorial procession, static displays of military, fire and police equipment, and a medevac landing. The formal ceremony is at 11.
Pennsylvania's official 9/11 memorial marks twenty five years with a morning ceremony that runs about an hour, then quiet time to walk the grounds and the twin fountains.
American Legion Post 242 marks twenty-five years since September 11 with a timeline of remembrance, first-hand accounts from responders and military, and a guest speaker. Free to attend, doors at eight.
Fifth year of the glass pumpkin festival on Newark Road in Toughkenamon, ten minutes west of Kennett. Nine to five all three days.
Three days of glassblowing and torchwork demonstrations at a working studio five minutes west of Kennett Square, plus a beer garden, artisan market, live music and food trucks. Five dollars in, free under 12.
Gentle chair yoga in the library meeting room, two Friday sessions. Free to attend, though space fills up.
Half an hour of music, bouncing and shakers for the very small, Friday mornings at the library on West Ferry Street. Caregivers stay and join in.
Stories, songs and fingerplays for babies six to twenty-four months with a grown-up. Running out of the borough hall while the library building is under renovation. Registration requested.
Bring needles, hooks, yarn and whatever you have going, and work on it alongside other crafters. Pattern books are out for browsing. No sign up needed.
Stories plus a book club for the smallest readers, Friday mornings in the children's area. Half an hour, free, and it lands right before the farmers market sets up across town.
Ninety minutes walking the mausoleums and monuments of the West grounds, with the stories of the people inside them. The ground rolls, so wear shoes you can walk hills in.
The county's 9/11 memorial has moved to Elmwood Park and gets its formal rededication at ten, twenty five years to the day. Outdoors, open to anyone, about ten minutes from Conshohocken.
Two and a half hours on what to cut and dry now so you have seed heads, grasses and berries to work with in December. Hands-on, in the garden.
A rope labyrinth laid out on the front lawn for one day, open from ten in the morning until seven at night. Walk it whenever you like.
A five acre corn maze, a thousand-odd pumpkins, wagon rides and roughly fifty other things to climb on, running daily into November. Cider and baked goods on select September weekends and every weekend in October.
Bubba the corgi and his handler Mary Ann take up the children's room for half an hour on Friday mornings. Pet him, read to him, no reservation.
Friday morning, ten to noon, at the Ambler branch. Artists, crafters and hobbyists working side by side. Email branch librarian Anne Hall before your first visit.
Forty-five minutes of songs and shakers outdoors for the smallest kids, Friday mornings in the garden. Free, and the paths are stroller-friendly afterward.
Friday mid-morning in the Budzik Room, pitched at kids who are starting to sound words out on their own. Free, no registration, weekly at the Lincoln Highway branch.
Sarah Vogan from the Studio of Valley Forge runs an introduction to ballet with basic steps, songs and games. Forty five minutes on a Friday morning.
The Friday run of the library's story time for ones, twos, and kids who like to keep moving. Same Story Room, same half hour, end of the week.
Songs, crafts, and stories for kids under five with Miss Mackenzie. In warm weather they meet outside at the Narberth Park pavilion, otherwise inside. No registration.
Friday casual games for newer players who want the reps without a lesson. Bring your 2026 card. Two hours in the Krapf Room.
The art cart comes out every other Friday and children pick their own materials and work at their own pace. Nobody expects a finished product. Best for ages two to five.
Ms. Tai from Harmony Kids Playhouse runs an hour of singing and dancing for ages 0 to 5 in the large auditorium. No registration required.
Playdoh monsters in the program room for preschoolers and younger. Registration opens three weeks ahead and fills. Free and run by the library, on Ardmore Avenue near the Suburban Square lot.
Friday late morning, two hours of writing with prompts and shared reading. Same workshop as the Monday night session, moved for people whose evenings are spoken for.
Twenty-five years on, an hour of stories and activities for children five and up in the library community room. Held on the anniversary itself, at eleven in the morning.
A free Friday morning gathering for people living with memory loss or dementia and the people who care for them. Ninety minutes in the Community Room, no cost to attend.
Songs, crafts and stories for kids from birth to five. Warm sunny mornings move it outside to the pavilion in Narberth Park, rain sends it back indoors. No registration.
An hour of apple-themed craft work at the township center, aimed at older residents and timed for the first week of apple season.
The Kids' Zone opens for free play twice a week after storytime. Half an hour, drop in, and the fastest way to burn off a morning indoors.
The second Villanova home date staged at Ursinus, noon on a Friday against Queens University of Charlotte. Same field, same free sideline.
Reenactors ride the vintage cars to Glen Mills in uniforms spanning several wars, with field gear and firearms out on the tables. Two departures, noon and 2:30. Thirty dollars for adults.
An hour of remembrance on the cemetery grounds off Belmont Avenue, marking twenty-five years since 2001. Five minutes from Narberth, in the next township over.
On the twenty fifth anniversary the library airs a thirty five minute film from the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, running through the afternoon in the Board Room. Adults and older teens.
An hour of the mansion's pipe organ at midday, doors open to anyone walking the garden. Bring lunch and sit on the terrace afterward.
Cards at noon on Fridays in the library community room, two hours and no charge. Bring nothing, the decks are already there and so are the regulars.
The Conservancy opens its native plant farm off Quarry Road for two afternoon hours, one to three. Same grounds that host the fall plant sale and the Tuesday picnics.
The Chester County Food Bank truck parks at the Masonic Lodge on Friday afternoons with local produce and pantry staples. SNAP and Veggie Bucks accepted, one to two fifteen.
Two hours of open farm time at the conservancy's Dragonfly Farm: the growing beds, the pollinator plantings, and whatever needs doing that week. Drop in, kids welcome.
Two hours every Friday afternoon at the Roslyn branch for whatever handicraft is sitting unfinished at home. Drop in with your own materials, no registration, no project too small.
An hour of Rummikub at the library on Centre Avenue, every Friday afternoon. Tiles and tables are already there, you just show up. Regulars will walk you through the rules.
An afternoon screening of Pressure, the D-Day drama starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser, at 1 pm in the Community Room. Rated PG-13.
Beginners learn stitches at their own pace, everyone else brings the pattern that stopped making sense. Ninety minutes Friday afternoons in the Hessinger Study Room.
The Friday walk runs twice, eleven in the morning and two in the afternoon. Three dollars, ninety minutes at most, and a naturalist doing the naming.
Bring a deck to the library on Friday afternoon and find a game. All levels, all formats, and nobody minds if you are still learning the stack.
Growers and food makers set up in the Borough Hall lot every Friday afternoon. Free parking on site, rain or shine, and it lands the day before the Mushroom Festival takes State Street.
Bad Mother Shuckers sets up at three with oysters, and Cassidy Rain plays the music room at seven. Two reasons to get there before the Friday parking fills.
Board games and beer in the Logan Inn living room to start the weekend, Fridays three to five. Open to the public, and dominoes take over the same room at six.
A seasonal craft or activity set out every Friday afternoon at the Belmont Hills branch, all ages, no sign-up. Two hours, come when you can.
The township beer garden sets up in Renninger Park for Caribbean Night, four until dusk, The Ways Brewery pouring. Bring ID, it is 21 and over.
Fifteen dollars to walk through the Parry Mansion on a Friday evening, four to six, with the historical society that keeps the house running the tour itself.
Friday hours for the borough's downtown street program, four in the afternoon to ten at night. Second Friday of the month, and the street stays open late.
Friday night truck at the Beaver Street taproom. Wrap 'n Roll cooks in the lot from four, the beer list is inside, and nobody minds if you split a table.
The parish festival on Derstine Road in Hatfield, five minutes north of Souderton, opening at five on the Friday. Food stands, rides and the kind of crowd that knows everyone.
Outdoor bar, outdoor kitchen, a live band and then a DJ until midnight. Ten dollars at the door goes to charity.
A former Philadelphia Boys Choir singer playing acoustic covers, five to eight on a Friday. The tasting room sits on Germantown Pike, a short run south of the village.
Reggae band Eclipse plays Renninger Park on South Keswick, with the township beer garden pouring from four. Chairs, blankets and a picnic all work here.
Traditional Celtic music under the trees, free with Gardens admission. Members need a timed reservation after three on Friday evenings, so check before you drive out.
Friday nights the outdoor grill at the Desmond goes lobster, five to nine. Deck tables go first, and the pub inside stays open if the weather turns on you.
Pitch a tent inside the zoo and stay the night, with after-dark animal encounters. Arrive at five. Bring a tent with room for your party, sleeping bags and pillows. Norristown is ten minutes from Conshohocken.
Out on the patio from five to eight, weather permitting. The restaurant sits on Stump Hall Road beside the golf club, a few minutes from the village center.
Parish fundraiser on the church grounds with food trucks, live music and raffle prizes, five to nine on a Friday. Hatfield is about ten minutes north of downtown Lansdale.
Reggae from Eclipse for Cheltenham's Caribbean Night, with the beer garden opening an hour ahead at four. Blankets and picnics welcome, outside alcohol is not.
An early Friday set in the taproom, five to eight, so you can catch it and still get to dinner. Kitchen open, ten barrels brewed on site.
Friday evening set on the vineyard patio, five to eight, no cover. Cunningham is back for a second run after August. Bistro kitchen open throughout.
Five hours of Grateful Dead music on the Brandywine Red Clay grounds off Unionville Wawaset Road. Bring a chair, plan for the field, and expect it to run until ten.
Claim a table and run your own campaign, or email ahead to see whether a local DM has a seat open. Five hours every Friday evening in the game cafe on Broad.
After-hours trivia in the closed library: bring a team or take it on solo. The front doors lock at close, so players come in through the meeting room doors to the left.
Leave the kids at the Y for games, a craft, pizza and a movie while you go out. Ages twelve and under, five thirty to nine. Thirty five dollars for members, fifty seven if not.
Drop the kids at the Y for games, a craft, pizza and a movie, then go do something else for three and a half hours. Through age 12, siblings welcome, registration required.
A seder and a sit-down dinner for the new year, starting at five thirty. Temple Judea sits in Furlong, about five minutes east of the borough, and seats are worth calling about.
Opening night of FallFest, and the Big Stage runs four hours. Country covers, bonfires going, the light show starting at dusk. Music is included with festival admission.
Bring your own records and they spin them. Six to ten every Friday at the West Market Street bar, free, and the queue is whoever turns up with a sleeve.
Six Friday evenings drawing from a live model in the downtown studio. $195 for the session and spots go fast; registration required.
Opening Friday of FallFest and the big stage runs four straight hours. Admission to the festival covers the music, so you can drift between the band, the bonfires and the pumpkin patch.
Press real botanicals into a clay slab and build a bowl around them. Two pieces per couple, glaze and firing included, drink of your choosing welcome. Ages 21 and up.
The Legion post on South Main sets aside the second Friday of the month for veterans, and this one lands on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Six o'clock start at the post.
The New Hope Historical Society turns Parry Mansion into a gallery for three weekends, one artist at a time. Friday evening is the meet-the-artist opening, and the work hangs through the weekend.
Friday night music in the bar at Ron's, three hours from six. Walk in, sit down, order. This is the shape of most Fridays here.
Two hours to see what the art center's members made this year, with the artists in the room. The show then hangs weekends through the twenty-seventh.
The Borough Recreation Board puts Ferris Bueller on an outdoor screen for a Friday evening. Free, family crowd, blankets and low chairs. There is no rain date, so watch the forecast that afternoon.
Three hours of hands on cooking at the kombucha brewery's culture factory, all of it vegan, mezze and flatbreads. You make the whole spread, then you sit down and eat it.
Bingo in Event Room 201 at the big market on Station Road, six to eight thirty on a Friday. The market floor stays open until nine, so walk the aisles first.
Dominoes in the Logan Inn living room on Friday evenings, six to eight, right as the Whiskey Lounge gets going. Open to locals and hotel guests alike, with reservations suggested.
The lakeside beer garden keeps its stage busy into September, with this rock outfit playing the Friday evening slot and the food truck of the day parked nearby.
Two hours of sundaes in the Antioch Annex behind the parish on North Narberth Avenue. Open to the neighborhood, and a soft start to the parish year.
Butler Avenue does its block party thing from 6 to 9, with live music, food, late shop hours, and kids' activities up and down the strip. September's edition lands on the second Friday instead of the first, same street, same routine.
Opening night of the fall run. A band plays the big stage from six until ten while the pumpkin patch and corn maze stay open. Included with FallFest admission, no separate ticket.
Friday night football at Jenkintown, the only home game inside the first three weeks of the season. Bicentennial League ball, small stands, and a band that plays through it.
Two hours for families at the Gay Street diner on Friday evenings, six to eight, through the end of September.
Night two ends in fireworks over Parkside Place. Rides open at six and sunset lands around 7:15. The basketball, pickleball and tennis courts close at noon for the weekend.
A rotating cast of local acts plays the tavern inside Downingtown Country Club every Friday evening. Open to the public, no membership needed, and the patio looks over the course.
American Legion Post 234 marks 25 years since September 11 with a remembrance service in the park. Organizations and companies that want a part in it are asked to contact the post.
An associate carillonneur from the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington plays Longwood's five-octave instrument. Free with Gardens admission, and chairs are allowed in the turf area.
The Concours weekend opens with a barbecue cooked on site on the Radnor Hunt clubhouse patio, music, dancing, and a first look at some of the cars going on the field Sunday.
A string trio plays Dancing Queen, Fernando and twelve more by candlelight inside the parish church on Pennswood Road. Doors at 5:45 for the first of two hour-long sittings.
Orion Communities takes over the brewery for a barbecue fundraiser with Uncle B's. Proceeds put children's books in local homes, 26,000 of them last year.
Build a raised fruit canvas with acrylics, palette knives and sculpting paste. Pick lemons, blueberries, raspberries or all three. Materials and step by step guidance included, no experience assumed.
A free men's group that meets at half six on a Friday inside Montgomery Mall, first floor between Macy's and Wegmans. Fifteen seats, open to anyone who registers.
Strength, cardio and stretching in the Jane Stover Lodge on Fourth Street, led by Ally Wesner. Ten dollars at the door, all levels, and you work at your own pace.
Fourteen seats, a different car and track every week, and a cash pot the field pays into. Doors 6:40, qualifying at seven, feature final near nine on full motion rigs.
The Fabulous Greaseband returns to close the series with fifties through nineties rock and roll at seven, rain or shine. Bring a chair. Online ticket sales close at four thirty that day.
The Gospel Allstars take the Gateway Park stage at seven, with guest DJ Dre-Money running the room between sets. Free, free parking, and bring a lawn chair.
Local players including Terri Camilari, Pat Rooney, Florida Wayne and Night Ride Home play for a Phoenixville nonprofit that supports adults with intellectual disabilities. Doors at five for dinner, fifteen dollars ahead.
Home Friday number two at Lions Stadium, Pequea Valley in town. Kickoff at seven, off West Bridge Street behind the high school.
The Nigerien guitarist plays a solo set at the gazebo, a long way from the volume he usually works at. Lawn chairs and blankets welcome, no outside alcohol.
Three hours of covers on the taphouse stage starting at seven. Pennsylvania beer on the self-pour wall, kitchen open, outdoor seating under the pergola when the weather holds.
Viral prank and character comedian Ed Bassmaster plays the 300-seat Newtown Theatre, a change of pace from the venue's usual tribute-band run. The show starts at 7.
Premiere of an independent superhero feature in the History Center on North High Street. Doors at seven, three hours booked.
Stand-up at the winery on Durham Road, doors at seven and done by quarter past nine. Ticketed through the winery, with French-style wine made on site poured alongside.
Three hours of rock in the taphouse on Chestnut Street, seven to ten. The kitchen runs late on Fridays and the tap list is why people turn up early.
Three hours of mediumship, psychometry and object readings inside the Keith House, which Graeme Park bills as the most haunted place in Horsham. Bring a small personal item if you want it read.
Friday night band on the outdoor patio, seven to ten, the night before the Mushroom Festival takes over State Street. Dogs are welcome on the patio.
Indigo dyeing in the barn on Rogers Road in Furlong. You fold, clamp and dip a silk scarf, then take it home. Ninety minutes on a Friday evening, registration required.
The night ceremony returns for the 25th anniversary: candle lighting, music, and the fountains rising as it gets dark. It ends with people walking up to the glass name panels.
Acoustic rock, folk, blues and classic country, with Bonnie Raitt and Johnny Cash in the set. Free, three hours, and the taproom stays open until ten on Fridays.
Liz Rogers plays the tavern from seven to nine on a Friday night. No cover is listed, so grab a table early and order before the room fills up.
Guitar-led jazz from seven to ten in the 1889 bank room. Order the beer brewed downstairs and settle in, the room stays full on Friday nights.
Closing concert of the ten-show outdoor season, fifties through nineties rock and roll, rain or shine. Bring a lawn chair. Twenty dollars ahead, twenty five the week of.
The all-analog reissue of Maggot Brain played front to back at seven sharp, so get there early for the sticker giveaway. A raffle for a mug and hat bundle follows the record.
Seventy five minutes of supported restorative shapes with crystal singing bowls ringing over the top, led by the studio's lead teacher and a guest sound practitioner. Sixty dollars, Friday night on Ridge Pike.
A laid-back acoustic set of rock, folk, blues and classic country, covering Bonnie Raitt through Johnny Cash and the Dead. Free, 7 to 10pm.
Friday acoustic set, seven to ten. Happy hour ends as the music starts, which is convenient timing.
Three acts on one bill: new wave from The FIXX, Zombies songs from Colin Blunstone, and Peter Asher telling stories between numbers.
DCP Theatre in Telford stages the Bettye Knapp adaptation of Milne for the bear's hundredth birthday, running two weekends. Evening curtain at 7:30, matinees at 2.
Three acts of British invasion and new wave on one bill, including the voice of the Zombies. Earlier 7:30 curtain, so eat in Glenside first.
Revival Productions stages the 1950s rock-and-roll sendup Bye Bye Birdie at Uptown Knauer, ten performances from September 11 to 27. Opening night tacks on a dress-up cocktail party with an open bar before the 7:30 show, and the September 24 performance is open-captioned.
A Minecraft Movie on the lawn at Wilson Farm Park, free and open to anyone. The film starts at dusk, the Parks Foundation runs activities before it, and Scrape and Scoop sells treats.
Forge opens its 65th season with Cole Porter's musical about two sparring exes staging The Taming of the Shrew, running September 11 through 27. Evenings at 7:30, Sunday matinees at 2, and park in the church lot at Washington and Main, not on First Avenue.
Bettye Knapp's stage version of A.A. Milne, staged for the hundredth anniversary of the bear. Christopher Robin plans to run away and the rest of the wood decides to go too.
Comedians work from real dating and relationship stories the audience hands over. Eight o'clock at the East Butler comedy room, bring your own beer, tickets around twenty dollars.
The festival's Friday night headline set, tucked into a studio off Prescott Alley behind Market Street. Eight until half nine, and the room holds a fraction of what a club would.
Almost Queen plays Sellersville Theater two nights running, September 11 and 12, both at 8. The costumed Queen tribute regularly sells this room out, which is why a second night exists at all.
Six comics in a hair salon after closing, which is exactly the kind of room this festival keeps finding. Runs against the Windish headliner.
Another Friday tribute night at 105 South Main. Doors open two hours before the eight o'clock start, and seats are assigned in the order tickets were bought, so book early for the front.
Four comics on one Friday bill in a room built for listening. BYO wine with a corkage fee, beer from the brewery next door, and parking in the church lot across Easton Road.
Three and a half hours of karaoke in a medieval themed arcade, 21 and over. The $15 admission covers unlimited pinball, arcade games, pool and darts while you wait your turn.
The Dirty Dance Band takes the tavern's big outdoor stage on a Friday night, 8 to 11.
Japanese fingerstyle guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto builds cinematic instrumentals from open tunings and loops, live at the Flash at 8. He is also running an optional guitar workshop for players who want the mechanics.
Folk songwriter who talks nearly as much as he plays, with Humbird opening. Doors 7:15, music at 8, 21 and over.
Four comics, two of them from Abington. Eleven high-top tables go first come, first served, so get there when doors open at 7:30. Ages 18 and up, $20 ahead.
A South Jersey singer songwriter working through classic rock, nineties alternative, Americana, country and blues over three hours in the taproom.
Solo Friday set in the bar area from eight to midnight. Get there before nine if you want a seat, the room fills once the kitchen rush breaks.
A magician detective works a murder at the Royal Americana Hotel, and the suspects are the people sitting around you. Interactive mystery, ages 16 and up, two nights only.
New York's ABBA tribute takes the 1902 Theatre stage at 8 with a cast pulled from the official Mamma Mia! tour and other major road bands. Expect the full run of hits, Dancing Queen through Mamma Mia.
Irish-leaning rock from eight to eleven on a Friday night at Villa Capri, a block off the Doylestown Main Street crowd. Kitchen runs late enough to eat through the first set.
A Journey tribute band filling the Borough's back room on a Friday night. Doors well before the 8:30 downbeat, and the bar runs late.
Friday karaoke at the Market Street bottle shop and bar, nine o'clock, free. It runs Saturdays at the same hour too.
The Canadian cult werewolf favorite plays the 9:45 late show, September's entry in the Hiway's monthly horror night with beer from neighboring Human Robot in the lobby. Teen satire with actual bite, from Orphan Black writer Karen Walton.
Ten p.m. Friday karaoke in the basement bar on West Gay Street, free to walk in. It goes late, and the list gets long once the Gay Street crowd spills over.
Four bands on a Saturday at the Nail. Food is served until 1am and drink specials stop at 11, which sets the shape of the night.
An evening bingo at the firehouse with books on the prize table. The department has not posted a start time yet, so call before you drive over.
Stand-up headlined by John Moses, the Toronto comic who works dark and honest and spares nobody. On the Colonial's stage rather than in a bar back room.
The borough museum gives over its rooms to Star Trek at sixty for one weekend only. Two days, then the exhibit changes over for the next month.
Four and a half hours on dyeing yarn with plant based dyes, every material included and a snack break in the middle. Two sessions run the same day, so pick one.
The Kennett Square Mushroom Festival runs Saturday, September 12 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, September 13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the weekend after Labor Day, same as always. The street fair covers about a mile of State Street and the surrounding roads in downtown Kennett Square, with 220-plus vendors. Admission is $5 per person and covers both days: buy at the entry points and wear the wristband. Cash and Venmo only. Festival parking is at Kennett High School (100 E South St) and Chatham Financial (235 White Horse Lane, with handicap accessible access), and shuttles run from both. The Kennett Square Parking Garage and the YMCA lot are independent, so no shuttle. It goes on rain or shine, it's stroller-friendly, and pets are not permitted on the grounds. The schedule leans hard into the fungus. Saturday has two rounds of the Mushroom "Chopped" contest (10 a.m. and 2 p.m.), chef demos at noon and 4 p.m., Damselfly on the music stage at noon, a children's magic show at the American Legion building, and Cory Glover and Vernon Reid playing an acoustic set from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday brings the Chopped finale at 10 a.m., the mushroom eating contest at noon, and two more chef demos. There's a growers exhibit and a kids zone both days, plus a 9/11 tribute fire truck show and fresh mushrooms for sale. Bring walking shoes and some cash, since some vendors may be cash-only.
Four blocks of Gay Street close to cars so restaurants push tables into the road. Walk down the middle of the street, eat outside, and browse the shops on either side.
Ten dollars gets a four inch terracotta pot, paint and supplies, and you stop in whenever suits. No reservation, bring your own drink if you are over 21, and the pot goes home with you.
Kurt Russell as the most confident idiot in movie history, screened on 35mm. Cult Cinema, and the print is the draw.
West coast swing on the second Saturday of the month. The studio teaches beginner and intermediate west coast on Thursday nights, so this is where the week's work gets used.
September theme is beer and bratwurst, paired with the hotel's second annual music festival on the plaza. The biggest of the Second Saturday dates by some distance.
The farm switches to fall mode for the weekend: hayrides, the corn maze, apple picking and cider donuts out of the bakery. Opening weekend of a run that goes to November.
Barrel racing and pole bending in the outdoor ring off Cressman Road, the September stop on the foundation's 2026 Buckle Series. Check the horse shows page for a start time before you drive over.
Lyrics on screen, kids encouraged to sing. Sponsored screening in the Family Favorites series, and the easiest Saturday morning you will have all month.
Saturday hours for the borough's downtown street program, seven in the morning to ten at night. Market opens at nine a few steps off Bridge Street.
Four hundred vendors across thirty acres of indoor and outdoor stalls: antiques, produce, tools, clothing, food. Gates open at seven and the lot fills early. Bring cash.
Free walk at half past seven, which is when the fall migrants are actually moving. Loaner binoculars if you need them. The center sits on Bath Road in Bristol, about fifteen minutes below Yardley.
A relaxed country drive rather than a timed run: a set of questions, sponsor stops, sealed envelopes with playing cards for the tiebreak poker hand, and a catered lunch at the finish. Rain or shine.
The borough environmental council leads a guided walk across the retreat house grounds during fall migration. Two hours, free, and worth bringing binoculars if you own a pair.
Guided walk on the trails around Lake Galena at the height of fall migration. Free, adults, two hours, meet at the nature center.
Three hours on the Radnor Hunt grounds looking at whatever people drove in, then watching the rally cars roll out. No ticket and no registration; parking is first come.
A morning fitness challenge in Valley Forge park honoring Staff Sergeant Marc Small, starting at eight at the chapel. Teams and individuals both welcome.
Free monthly car meet in the Lincoln Highway lot on second Saturdays, April through November. All makes, all models, coffee and donuts. Spectators welcome, no ticket.
A 5K at nine, a kids fun run at 9:15 and a walk at 9:30, all off the Cathcart Road entrance in Blue Bell. Done by eleven, which leaves the rest of the Saturday.
Half an hour of talking, an hour of everybody reading their own book, half an hour of talking about it. The September meetup lands in Carlino's coffee shop and bakery cafe.
Saturday mornings on West Glenside Avenue, nine to one, through the third week of November. Produce, baked goods and prepared food, rain or shine.
Ambler's beloved Saturday morning farmers market brings local produce, baked goods, and artisanal treats to downtown. Stroll the stalls, grab a coffee, and enjoy the small-town morning vibe.
Bring up to four file boxes of old paperwork to Borough Hall and watch it get destroyed. No cost, no commercial drop-offs, no hazardous chemicals. Hosted by the borough and Representative Craig Staats.
The Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy sells natives raised at its Dragonfly Farm, and early fall is the right window to get them in the ground. Ten minutes up the road in Harleysville.
A morning on Pennsylvania German fraktur birds, run with the PA Guild of Craftsmen. Three hours, materials at the table, no prior drawing required.
The Lansdale Farmers' Market is on Saturday, October 24 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., one stop in a regular season that runs every Saturday from May 9 through December 19, 2026. It sets up outdoors in the Penndale Middle School parking lot at 400 Penn Street, on the side facing Church Road, and it goes rain or shine. Two dozen vendors are listed for every week, with another twenty or so rotating in on select Saturdays that the market announces in its email newsletter. The weekly regulars include farms like Apple Ridge, Taproot and Living Hope, plus Amazing Acres Goat Dairy, Ironstone Farm, Brandywine Valley Bread, Backyard Beans Coffee, Humpty's Dumplings, Cloud Cups Gelato and Yia Yia's Baklava. Wild for Salmon, Taste of Puebla and Settantatré Pasta & Provisions are among the names that come on select weeks. The market lists credit card, cash, Venmo, FMNP, SNAP EBT and Market Bucks as ways to pay. Dogs can come on a leash of six feet or less (no retractables), and there is no smoking or alcohol on school property. The market was started by volunteers in 2008, held its first season in 2009, and is still run by an unpaid volunteer board as a nonprofit. If this Saturday gets away from you, the season runs through December 19, and a winter market picks up on the second and fourth Saturdays from January through April, 10 a.m. to noon.
A Saturday morning market on Gap Newport Pike in Avondale, about eight minutes down the road from Kennett Square. Growers and makers, wrapped up by one.
Volunteers work Main Street for four hours collecting change toward new fire equipment. It is the next borough over, about two miles up the road from Quakertown, so slow down through town.
Growers, bakers and prepared food makers set up in Kerr Park from nine to one. Cash and a tote help. A free movement class runs alongside most Saturday mornings.
Fourth year of the cornhole tournament the Kelble family runs for volunteer first responders, held at the Oreland firehouse five minutes from Glenside. Boards, food and a crowd from nine to one.
Saturday mornings at the Middletown Grange on Penns Park Road, ten minutes north of Newtown. Growers, bakers and a hard stop at noon, so this is a get-up-early market.
Parents sell what their kids have outgrown and other parents carry it home. Shopper admission is a one dollar donation to the Y's financial assistance fund, and no registration is needed. Enter at the rear gymnasium door.
Perkasie's weekly farmers market brings local growers, bakers, and makers to town every Saturday morning. Fresh produce, homemade treats, and community spirit — a perfect weekend staple.
September market on Seventh Street, when the late peaches overlap the first apples. Nine to noon, rain or shine, plus a weekly community table with a kids' activity.
Pieri Winery pours, Czerw's kielbasy, and Primitive Boutique's Philly sports gear. The plaza has plenty of outdoor seating if you want to sit with a coffee and listen to the band.
Forty booths run by kids aged five to fourteen who built the product, the brand and the pitch. Three hours at Jack's Corner, and yes, you are meant to buy things.
Second of three fall open days at the campus nursery, nine to three. Plants grown on site, which means they already handle this soil and this weather.
Gay Street is already closed to cars for the market, so the mats go down on the pavement near the post office. Five dollars, one hour, all levels welcome.
The West Chester Growers Market runs Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the corner of Church and Chestnut Streets in the borough. That is its regular slot every Saturday from May through December; from January through April it shifts to the first, third and fifth Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon. For parking, the market's site sends you to downtown West Chester's own parking page. This is a producer-only market and the bylaws mean it: vendors sell only what they grow or produce themselves, and anyone who just resells is turned away at the application stage. The weekly roster averages 28 producers from the surrounding region. Expect seasonal fruits and vegetables alongside meats, cheese, local honey, breads, pastries, roasted coffee, local wines and spirits, hard ciders, fresh flowers, bedding plants and prepared foods. The member list runs from Big Sky Bread and Tally Ho Coffee to Society of Bacon, Conebella Farm, Vera Pasta and North Star Orchard, with rotating guests such as Hank's Cinnamon Buns and Rosie's Kettle Corn filling in around them. A Community Tent hosts non-profits and musicians who apply for a spot. The market opened on this same corner in July 1995 with 10 farmers, and its own pitch is a plain one: come and shake the hand that feeds you. Saturday's window is 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the shorter winter hours do not start until January.
The Bryn Mawr Farmers Market runs Saturday, September 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 7 N. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, where Bryn Mawr Avenue meets Lancaster Avenue. It is a weekly market, and those are the hours every Saturday from April through December, minus the fourth week of November. From January through March it thins to the first, third and fifth Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon. Lower Merion Farmers Markets has run it since April 2025, when Farm to City handed the market over, and it is producer-only: vendors sell what they grew, produced or made themselves within 150 miles of Philadelphia, and the market does not take businesses that resell what they bought elsewhere. The vendor list on the market's page runs to twenty-nine names, among them Birchrun Hills Farm, Canter Hill Farm, Two Gander Farm, Urban Roots Farm, Frecon Farms, Hands on the Earth Orchard, Davidson Exotic Mushrooms, Shellbark Hollow Farm, Amaranth Bakery, Wild Flour Bakery, Settantatre Pasta Company, Doc Pickle, Kombucha Bliss, Philly Fair Trade Roasters, Scrape & Scoop Ice Cream, Taste of Puebla, Maggie's Soups and Five Saints Distilling. Not all of them come every Saturday, and the market posts each week's lineup on its page. Restrooms are at Ludington Library, per the market's own rules. If there is one stand you are driving for, check that week's lineup on the market's page before you go.
Multi-vendor yard sale on the Manor House grounds in the middle of the village, nine to three, rain or shine. Bring small bills and come early if you want the good tables.
Third year of the Community Volunteers in Medicine run. Nine a.m. start at West Goshen Community Park, with a family walk for anyone not chasing a time.
Autumn is the better planting season and this is the conservancy selling what it grew: natives for shade, for full sun, and for the wet corner where nothing else lives. Six hours.
Wagon rides out to the rows start this weekend and run into the fall. The crop is short this year, so book a weekend slot, and there are bins in the orchard filling the gaps.
Saturday mornings in Buttonwood Park, nine to noon, producer only. Local farms, bread, eggs, mushrooms, flowers and prepared food. SNAP swipes get matched dollar for dollar up to thirty. Free lot right there.
The Malvern Farmers Market runs Saturday, September 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Burke Park, at Warren Avenue and Roberts Road in Malvern, its corner every Saturday. Most producers sell on the day and many also take pre-orders with a Friday deadline; Wyebrook Farm (pasture-raised beef and heritage pork) and Wingswept Acres (pasture-raised poultry and eggs) close theirs at 10 a.m. Friday. The stand list is posted fresh each week; a recent one had naturally grown vegetables and herbs from Full Circle CSA, mushrooms from Fungus Aurelius, sourdough and English muffins from Good Girls Bakery, malt-boiled NYC-style bagels from Street Cart Bagels, Mexican food from Taste of Puebla, baklava, honey, chocolate, flowers, and coffee from Hill Road Coffee Roasters and the Mayday Coffee truck, which matters at 9 a.m. Good Girls on the Go makes breakfast sandwiches to order every Saturday, and Back to Earth Compost takes scraps on the first and third Saturdays, which covers the 19th: $5 a five-gallon bucket, no meat, bones or dairy. The free Movement at the Market class on the 19th is Full Body Sculpt & Strength with Logan Dawson at 10 a.m., low-impact, all levels; bring a mat and water. The night before, Friday, September 18, the same park hosts the Craft & Mercantile night market, 5 to 8:30 p.m., with live music, food, drink and 35-plus makers. Check the market page before you go; the stands for the 19th post by Monday, September 14.
The Phoenixville Farmers' Market runs Saturday, October 31, 2026, from 9 a.m. to noon, the same as every Saturday from April 1 until the last Saturday before Thanksgiving. It sits along French Creek under the Veterans Memorial Gay Street Bridge at 200 Mill Street, with the entrance off Taylor Alley. Parking is metered at Municipal Lot #4, paid by kiosk or app, and at the Borough Hall lot about 100 meters down from the market entrance. Bridge, Mill and Main streets have free two-hour parking. Every vendor makes what they sell, and the market says many of those products are sold nowhere else. On a regular Saturday that means Birchrun Hills Farm cheese, Country Time Farm pork, Mickley's Orchard cider and tree fruit, Fungified mushrooms, Bridge Street Chocolates made in Phoenixville, Taste of Puebla's Mexican food, Vera Pasta, hot coffee from Top Java, and dog treats from Saint Rocco's. There is live music and a children's area, and dogs are welcome. The potters and cutting-board makers come on the second Saturday of the month, and this is the fifth. The market started in the spring of 2002 with four farms in a parking lot at Bridge and Main, and moved under the bridge in 2010. If you want a specific loaf or cut, several vendors take pre-orders with Thursday and Friday deadlines, listed on the market's site. After the last Saturday before Thanksgiving the hours shift to 10 a.m. to noon through the winter.
Saturday mornings at the Grange hall on Route 611, north of Doylestown. Growers and bakers under the pavilion, wrapped up by half past twelve, so this is an early errand rather than a lazy one.
Open Nutcracker auditions on Sugan Road, staggered by age from nine in the morning. Ages four and up, no company experience required to try out.
The fire company auxiliary builds turkey hoagies until they run out, which is the reason to get there closer to nine than to one. Baked goods on the same table. Chalfont sits ten minutes west of Doylestown.
The Kerala harvest festival marked with a floral carpet, a sadya lunch served on banana leaf and dance through the day. Open to anyone who turns up.
Pre-1979 iron squares off against 1980-and-newer builds at Fischer's Park on Saturday morning, Sept. 12, with top-five awards on each side of the line. Registration runs $20 a car with a dash plaque, and a DJ and concessions carry the show from 9 to 12:30.
Hands in the dirt on one of the largest preserved farm tracts in Chester County, off Flint Road. Two and a half Saturday hours, everything supplied.
Kids ten to thirteen ride wheeled luge sleds down a paved course with Olympic and national team coaches, then run fitness tests. Free, three clinic slots, pick one and register.
A day of bracket play on the Lancaster Avenue courts raising money for ANCOP. Spectators welcome, and there is usually food on site.
Seventy-five slow minutes on the garden paths before the Saturday crowd arrives, guided, phones away. Registration required through the arboretum.
Two free classes back to back at the market. Fit Coach Karl runs a bodyweight circuit at 9:15, then Lauren Daly Clark leads all levels yoga at 10. Bring a mat.
The West Chester Walking Club picks a different downtown spot each week and sets off at 9:30. Easy pace, no sign up, and some weeks the group ends up in a shop or a cafe.
Eighteen movement-pictures on the shaded green beside the canal towpath, near the Scudders Falls Bridge. Ten dollars suggested, any amount accepted, no experience needed.
Saturday morning, five dollars, free for members. The 2010 animated one with the dragon, in a 1913 single-screen house on Old York Road.
Kids read aloud to a therapy dog that will not correct them once. Runs about once a month at the Doylestown branch.
Polished antique engines parked on Cypress and Broad as a 9/11 tribute, marking twenty five years, running alongside the festival. Worth the short walk over from State Street with kids.
Saturday mornings at Nor-View Farm Park, four hours of growers and bakers on the Henderson Road side. Parking is on the grass and fills up by ten.
Free forty-five minute all-levels mat Pilates on the Burke Park grass, run by Studio Trio. Bring a yoga mat, and ankle weights if you want the harder version.
Historic Sugartown and the Chester County Beekeepers Association run Bee Day on Saturday, September 12, 10 to 1, five dollars at the door. The beekeepers take over the Carriage Museum and lawn for a family morning built around National Honey Month.
Classic cars fill the St. Catherine of Siena lot on Witmer Road with a flea market running alongside. Three hours on a Saturday morning, put on by the Knights of Columbus.

The Doylestown Arts Festival runs Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, on the streets of downtown Doylestown. It is free, held rain or shine, and this is the 35th one: a volunteer group of businesses and residents started it in 1991, and Discover Doylestown organizes it now. The streets fill with a juried lineup of more than 160 independent artists, plus live music on five stages at State and Main, State and Clinton, Main and Oakland, State and Pine, and Oakland and Clinton. The food court sits in the Dommel Way lot behind the Starbucks, with nine vendors including Sherri's Crab Cakes and Beck's Cajun Cruiser. Neshaminy Creek Brewing runs the beer garden in the Pine Street lot at East State and Pine, serving 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 21 and over to buy, drinks stay inside. Demos run all weekend and most cost nothing: pottery at State and Hamilton, glass flameworking on West Oakland, stamping with TileWorks, crafts from the Mercer Museum. On Sunday the Bucks County Classic bike races circle the town. A large part of downtown closes to traffic, so park free at the Union Street or Court Street garages, CB West, Lenape Middle School or Fanny Chapman. The free Doylestown Dart shuttle loops from the Union Street Garage, CB West and Fanny Chapman, 10 to 5 each day. SEPTA Regional Rail lets you off at Clinton and Ashland, a few short blocks below the festival.
A self-guided walk through private gardens in the northwest corner of the borough, map emailed the week before. There is a plant sale at the school. Twenty five dollars, rain or shine.
The 1747 mill runs its gears and bakes bread all day, with a tea tasting built around what tea meant politically before the Revolution. Regular site admission, donations welcome.
The rescue on Beck Road hands out free pet food for one hour on a Saturday morning. It lands a week before their open house, so it is a quieter time to see the place.
Michael Reist runs interactive magic for kids inside the American Legion building, out of the street crowds. Shows repeat at noon, two, and four, so you can time it around lunch.
Two hours learning kinusaiga, the Japanese craft of building a picture out of fabric scraps pressed into cut foam. Sixty dollars, materials included.
A guide walks you through the ironmaster houses and mill buildings of the Lukens National Historic District. Tours leave at ten, twelve thirty and two thirty, fifteen to twenty five dollars.
Coach Chuck Shaw runs two hours of chess for kids five to fifteen in the library community room. Beginners get taught, regulars get a game. No registration, just turn up.
Expressive Path runs its arts and music festival inside the zoo: live music, student performances, artists, vendors and a beer garden for anyone over twenty one. Free with zoo admission.
A working gristmill on the Neshaminy that has been grinding Bucks County grain since 1730, open for a guided walk every Saturday morning. Ten dollars, and the mill shop sells the flour.
The township's first run at this one: food vendors, inflatables, a car show, a silent auction and the fire trucks parked out front, on the middle school grounds up Big Road.
Master Gardeners open the demonstration beds behind the James-Lorah house on North Broad Street and answer whatever you bring them. Three hours, free, and a good excuse to walk downtown afterward.
A weekend built around police, fire and EMS, with rigs parked for kids to climb on and discounted entry for service families. Regular rides run alongside it.
Walk Henry Mercer's concrete castle at your own pace instead of on a guided tour, so you can stand in one of the forty four rooms as long as you like.
Experienced observers set up solar telescopes so you can look straight at the sun without wrecking your eyes. Drop in any time, all ages, weather permitting.
Half an hour of stories, songs, fingerplays and movement for preschoolers and whoever brought them. Saturday morning, no registration, walk straight into the children's department.
The Pottstown Pike shop turns one with local vendors set up for the day, shop promotions and treats. Ten to three on a Saturday, no ticket needed.
Bring the broken lamp or the jacket with a busted zipper to Central Presbyterian on West Uwchlan and see what can be mended. Four hours on a Saturday morning.
An hour of yoga in a goat pasture, ten in the morning on Saturdays through mid-November. Thirty dollars a person, twelve and up, and the goats wander through the poses.
Local cooks get a mystery basket with mushrooms in it and have to make it work in front of a crowd. Culinary stage, ten in the morning, free once you are through the gate.
The twenty-foot bird that burns in December gets built by hand in Reservoir Park, weekend after weekend from September. Turn up, pick up a hammer, no experience required. Near the Dayton Street entrance.
Ninety minutes of beginner birding out of the Environmental Education Center at the lake, aimed at scouts and their families. Free, though a ranger needs your registration ahead of time.
Third running of the Cole Cares 5K, ten a.m. off New Galena Road in Chalfont, about ten minutes up 202 from Doylestown. All proceeds go to the foundation.
A two-mile ranger-led walk from the Hawk Watch deck on Militia Hill Road. Learn how to prep for a hike, then look for plants, birds and bugs along the way. Water and real shoes required, registration too.
Local students reveal poems written in water on the pavement at Green Hills Farm, an outdoor installation that only appears when it rains. Free, two hours on a Saturday morning.
An indoor maker market in a Carter Drive warehouse, open three hours on Saturday mornings. Bakers, hot sauce people, prepared food, coffee. Same lot as Levante if you want to make a morning of it.
Six fixtures rolling from ten in the morning through the three o'clock Sunderland versus Arsenal, including Liverpool against Fulham and Spurs against Everton. Seven hours of football and $5 drafts.
Ninety minutes of plain instruction on Google Docs in the Doylestown Study room. Free, and aimed at people who want to stop guessing.
Local students unveil poems painted on the grounds in a coating you can only read when it gets wet, an outdoor art installation with the writers on hand. Free, everyone welcome.
A monthly Saturday workshop where local poets bring drafts, read aloud, and trade notes. Second Saturday mornings in the meeting rooms.
Gongs, bowls and chimes in the open air at Layton Park on a Saturday morning. Free to attend. Bring a mat or a blanket if you want to lie down for it.
Expressive Path runs its arts and music festival inside the zoo, with vendors, student performances, animal greets and the Zoo Brew beer garden open. Norristown is a short run up Ridge Pike from Conshohocken.
A send-off for the monarchs before they head to Mexico, run twice that Saturday, morning and afternoon. Free for members, six dollars otherwise, and registration is required.
Saturday storytime moves onto the library lawn when the weather holds. All ages, ten thirty, and you can spread out on the grass instead of sitting on a rug.
The Saturday morning slot of the borough's bootcamp series. Strength training, cardio and HIIT-style work at the Jane Stover Lodge with instructor Ally Wesner. Ten dollar walk-in fee, bring water.
A Saturday morning storytime in the children's area at the Keswick Avenue branch: stories, songs and enough movement to wear a toddler out. Free and drop-in.
An hour of guided meditation in the library's Community Education Room, Saturday mornings at ten thirty. Run by the Sahaja Yoga Pennsylvania Center, free and open to anyone.
Ninety minutes inside the Haas family house and out through the plantings around it, with the story of how a private Main Line estate became a public garden.
Tea, cake, and a frank group conversation about death and dying, led by death doula Kyra. Not a grief group, just an open table. Fifteen seats, register online.
Brian Goldberg opens a custom jewelry studio on Penns Trail and the business association brings the scissors. Open to anyone who wants to see the bench and say hello.
The farm's retail market on Cedar Knoll Road runs Saturday mornings through October with produce grown on site. Ten thirty to one thirty, and no CSA membership is needed to shop.
A walk-through of how a mushroom actually gets grown, lab to harvest, with displays you can put your hands on. It sits inside the festival footprint on State Street, so the five dollar wristband covers it.
An hour on the bugs that actually help a garden, plus a swap. Bring a native plant you have too much of, leave with something you do not have. Saturday morning at the nature center.
Fifth year of Greencastle Consulting's veteran-owned food truck and brew festival: forty-plus vendors, live music, yard games and kids' activities. Free, rain or shine.
The pool's dogs only swim before it closes for the season. Three sessions, two for dogs over thirty pounds and one for the small ones. Owners get in the water too.
The same disease-history walk through West Chester, run late morning on Saturdays. Ninety minutes on foot, sixteen dollars, starting from the Chester County History Center on North High Street.
Two-on-two brackets outdoors at the brewery, check-in at eleven, first throw at noon. Sixty dollars a team, capped at forty teams, with the money going to cystic fibrosis research.
The Honor and Courage Foundation walk starts at Miller Meadow and heads through Hatboro, five minutes from Horsham. Eleven to half two, thirty five dollars.
Two hours making stickers, vinyl transfers and pins for water bottles, laptops and backpacks. Tumblers and craft materials are provided, the rest you bring.
An hour in the rows with the winemaker, from how the vineyard is farmed through the lab work that decides when a wine is finished. Saturday at eleven.
An hour of yin yoga on the floor of a Himalayan salt cave, blankets and props there for you. Tea and fruit from 10:30, doors 10:45, ages sixteen and up.
The women and children who trailed the Revolutionary armies, cooking, mending and nursing. Reenactors work through a normal day in camp. Free, four hours.
German bands, a beer tent and a kids' area on the club's sixty-eight wooded acres in Warminster, about ten minutes up Davisville Road from Horsham. They have run this one for close to ninety years.
Pony rides and face painting for the kids, a doughnut eating contest and an apple peeling contest for everyone else, plus a dog costume contest, food trucks and a band. Free.
A monthly Saturday art session for school age kids and teens, with a different take home project each time. Materials come from Haley Foundation and Friends of the Library grants.
An hour in the rows with the winemaker heading into harvest season, then the tasting. Small group, Saturday morning, ends before the patio music starts.
Two hours on the plants and animals crowding out local habitat, at the Perkiomen farm where Audubon first painted birds. The trails stay open sunrise to sunset if you want to keep walking.
Stories, crafts and songs in the old Lyceum building, aimed at toddlers and pre-K but open to anyone willing to sit on the rug. Free, and the used bookstore is open the same morning.
September's living history day looks at the women and children who traveled with the Continental Army. Reenactors in the historic village, four hours, free.
Chair-based yoga in the library community room, no floor work and no experience needed. Runs every other Saturday morning at eleven, and the room is right off Vine Street.
Kids drop in and read aloud to certified therapy dogs, who are famously uncritical listeners. Bring a favorite book or grab one off the shelf; no registration.
A noon start at Snell against a Virginia program that travels well. Good one to catch before the afternoon fills up with everything else in town.
Noon on a Saturday at Draper Walsh Stadium, Immaculata against Marywood from Scranton. The stadium sits on campus just off King Road outside Malvern.
The fifth year of this charity basketball tournament in the high school gym, tipping off at noon on a Saturday.
Indoor stations on animal migration plus a self guided scavenger hunt on the trails. Ages three to twelve, drop in between noon and three. Free.
The band formerly known as Solar Coaster opens the festival music stage at noon. Festival wristband is five dollars cash or Venmo and covers both days.
The festival opens a second weekend on the shrine grounds. Continuous music on two stages, amusement rides, and the food tents running from noon to eight.
Eleven and a half hours of music on Hares Hill Road, noon until half eleven at night. Bring a chair.
VFW Post 845 on West Lincoln Highway hands the stage to local bands competing for a top prize. Doors at noon and it runs long into the afternoon.
Cigars built this town and the museum has the photographs and artifacts to prove it. Four hours in the former trolley station on Walnut Street, first of two days.
Afternoon set on the big stage, included with FallFest admission. Daylight hours, so the corn maze and the wagon rides are running at the same time and the kids have somewhere to go.
The Gay Polo League plays a full afternoon at the Tinicum Park polo field. Tailgating, divot stomp and a first outing for New Hope Celebrates.
The members show hangs at the art center out on Patterson Farm, open noon to five. Twenty minutes of looking, and the drive down Mirror Lake Road is half the point.
Last weekend to see the summer show at the Foundry West on West Court Street before the walls come down. Noon to four both days, and it costs nothing to walk in.
The teen room's e-book club meets at noon on a Saturday at the Lincoln Highway branch. Free, and everything gets read on a screen rather than paper.
Cars fill the Crossroads lot on Hilltown Pike, noon to four, on the second Saturday of the month. Free to walk the rows, and the tavern kitchen is right there.
Romano's Stromboli parks out front from noon until about eight, the same day the cornhole tournament takes over the lot. Fifteen drafts inside if the brackets run long.
Nine hours of food trucks and six local bands on the stage at the Park at 4th, free to walk in. The lineup starts easy in the afternoon and gets louder toward evening.
Four hours carving bones out of clay with the sgraffito technique, kiln fired and strung on hemp, back in time for October. Ticket covers materials, firing and one drink. Ages fifteen up.
The last of three Saturdays at the chocolate factory: Conshohocken beer, canned cocktails, a food truck in the lot and the Asher's store open alongside. All ages, dogs welcome, seven hours.
The season closes with the leisure pool handed over to the dogs, two sessions split by size between noon and 2:45. Bring proof of vaccinations and a dog license, one dog per handler, nobody under 14.
Kids in grades 2 through 6 learn to code by building games based on favorite books and characters. Bring your own laptop; the hour is free.
Six hours of open doors on Saturdays, noon to six, fifteen dollars to tour the Parry Mansion on South Main Street. The historical society guides it.
The West Chester steakhouse chef cooks mushroom dishes live on the Culinary Stage and talks through the technique. Included with the five dollar festival wristband.
Midday set on the big stage, four hours of it, with the festival field open around you. Included with FallFest admission, so wander off to the wagon ride whenever you like.
New Eagles clothing drop, a Philly pretzel and four hours of people arguing about the season on West Gay Street.
A noon kickoff on the taproom screens, with the tailgate setup that spills into the parking lot when the weather holds. Kitchen open the whole time.
Noon Saturday against Stevenson, a conference opponent the Aggies see every year. Parking is free on campus and the stadium is a short walk from the lot.
A five round Swiss at game 25 with a five second delay. Rated sections from Under 500 up to Open, plus unrated school sections for K through 8 and grades 9 to 12. Twenty dollars.
Hands-on hour covering how to create, name, save and format a Google Doc, plus inserting images and links. The library supplies the laptops. Space is limited, so register first.
Two hours of real field method and excavation technique, minus the Indiana Jones part. Hands on, at the helicopter museum, and yes there is actual digging.
Regional breweries pour at Memorial Park, 300 E. Main Street, from 1 to 5 p.m. on September 12. Discover Lansdale runs it as a walk-around tasting.
The Greater Philadelphia Dahlia Society fills the Ballroom with competition blooms, everything from two-inch pompons to ten-inch giants. Free with Gardens admission, open to the public.
Miller has worked family rooms across the Delaware Valley for years and leans hard on audience participation. Saturday one o'clock, ages six and up, about sixty minutes.
The club's annual horseshoe tournament on the Elm Avenue pitch, registration at noon and pitching at one. Open to the public, which includes people who have never thrown a shoe.
The long day, nine hours of rides and carnival food, capped by a drone show after dark. Family wristbands are thirty dollars and only good for the day you buy them.
A longer tour of the Raymond Farm house and grounds on Pidcock Creek Road, the mid-century design compound connected to George Nakashima's circle. Three hours.
Regional growers haul their best dahlias into the Longwood ballroom for a judged two-day show. Saturday runs to nine at night, Sunday closes at six. It rides on gardens admission.
Saturday afternoon soccer at Applebee Field with York College visiting. One of only three home soccer dates on the whole September schedule.
The Nicely, Sparre and Hawkins Orchestra take the festival music stage in the early afternoon, second act of the Saturday lineup on State Street.
Volunteer tutors work through basic arithmetic with kindergarten through third graders in the library meeting rooms. The fall block runs every Saturday from September 12 through November 7, and sign-ups go through One In Math.
Three hours on layered cottage-garden planting with designer Katie Verdieck, and you take your own container home. Fee is $169 and includes all-day Gardens admission.
Fifth year of a cornhole tournament on Greenwood Avenue raising money for cancer support. Brackets, food and a long Saturday afternoon of beanbags. Sign your team up ahead of the day.
Saturday afternoons the meeting room turns into a small cinema: Labyrinth on the 12th, The Librarian on the 19th. Bring a snack, all ages welcome.
Three dollars and up to ninety minutes on the trails with a preserve naturalist, Saturday afternoons at two. Native plants get named as you walk, all ages welcome.
Bring the phone, laptop, or email question that has been bugging you and a teen volunteer walks you through it. Two back-to-back hour sessions.
Second daytime round at the preserve, two in the afternoon. Photograph pollinators and flowering plants, log them in iNaturalist, and the township adds them to its September count. Marked trails only.
Japanese harvest festival on Schauffele Plaza with taiko drumming, Minyo dancing, a cosplay fashion show, karaoke and origami you take home. Ten dollars in, kids twelve and under free.
An hour on the Doan Gang, the Bucks County outlaws who ran with the Loyalists during the Revolution. In the branch's large meeting room.
The Union Library of Hatboro clears its shelves on a Saturday afternoon on York Road. Two hours, cheap paperbacks, and the money stays with the library.
Sweet Spot plays two thirty to five thirty on a Saturday afternoon, indoors. No cover charge, and the winery bar handles wine by the bottle and light bites.
Duo sets indoors from half past two, no cover charge. A reasonable landing spot after the Yardley Friends flea market closes at two.
Ninety minutes of yoga with Jeni on the cidery grounds, cider after. Registration is required and the mats go fast, so book before the weekend.
East Branch Brewing pours at the Lenfest Center pavilion, with 1,300 acres and fourteen miles of trail out the back door. Bring a picnic, a blanket, and cash for snacks.
Bring a pencil to the Logan Inn living room on Saturday afternoons, three to five. The programming is open to the public, and the Whiskey Lounge opens at three the same day.
Two days of Ukrainian food, music and dance at the Mykhailivka parish. Saturday runs three to eleven, Sunday noon to six, with Vadym Krasnooky of MADHEADS and the Marichka Band playing.
Six hours of bingo in the church hall with the Rustin boys soccer program taking the proceeds. Doors at three, last game at nine, kitchen open the whole way through.
The sequel to the teddy bear sleepover, ninety minutes of tea party on a Saturday afternoon with the bears back from their night alone. RSVP required.
The United Methodist Men run the pit, a DJ handles the music, and there is a bounce house for the kids. Free to attend, and donations go to the Bucks County Opportunity Council.
An hour of hands-on activities for grades K through six, working toward library badges. Already finished this one? Bring whatever badge project you have going.
Afternoon patio set from four to seven, the early half of a two-band Saturday at Puck. The eight o'clock slot goes to VladdTime and Friends in the main room.
Late Saturday demo on the Culinary Stage, the same platform that hosts the two rounds of the mushroom chopped contest earlier in the day.
The Rotary Club of Hatboro's yearly lobster and steak dinner out on the College Settlement grounds, with a raffle table running alongside. Tickets go in advance, none are sold at the gate.
Saturday four to seven at the Collegeville winery, no cover. Outdoor tables are the good seats in September. Order from the bistro and stay put.
Caln Township throws its 18th Community Day at Caln Municipal Park on Saturday, September 12, 4 to 8, a few minutes up Business 30 from downtown Downingtown. Live music, food vendors, a community art show and free kids activities, with fireworks to close it out.
A father and son duo on acoustic guitars and harmonies in the Playhouse courtyard, four to five. Free, rain or shine, moving inside to the Deck restaurant if the weather turns.
The Solebury Township Historical Society walks you through the old Ruckmanville Tavern on Upper York Road. Two hours, four until six.
Lobster tots and a martini menu at the VFW, with bands playing through the afternoon and evening. Cash bar, and the post hall holds a crowd.
Eighteen years running, with a roaming magician, inflatables, bingo, face painting, an art show and fireworks to close it out. Free, at the township park about five minutes east of Coatesville.
Sixties through nineties rock covers from a Philadelphia area singer and guitarist, four to seven. Grab a glass and a seat outside among the vines.
Suite Brass Quintet, the Acoustical Voices and organist Brian Bullard fill the sanctuary on Chestnut Street for an afternoon of brass, voice and organ. Free to attend, with donations going to Mennonite Disaster Service.
First banquet for the new Southeast Pennsylvania chapter, held in the Wagontown Fire Company hall on a Saturday evening. Dinner, raffles and auctions, with the money going to habitat work.
Spanakopita, Greek village salad, chicken souvlaki with tzatziki and a lemon olive oil cake, all of it made by you in a hands on class. Seats are limited and go quickly.
The Steve Liberace Band closes the Saturday music stage at half past four, the last set before the festival grounds shut at six and the crowd moves indoors.
Three hours of the Jeff Domenick Band and Running Sands on the grass at Shamona Main Park, out Dowlin Forge Road. Bring a chair or a blanket.
Jeff Domenick Band and Running Sands play back to back at Shamona Main Park off Dowlin Forge Road. Uwchlan Township runs it, three hours on a Saturday afternoon, blankets welcome.
Traditional bluegrass in the Beer Garden, five to 7:45, four miles down Route 1 from the Mushroom Festival. Free with Gardens admission.
Out on the patio from five to eight, weather permitting. The restaurant sits on Stump Hall Road beside the golf club, a few minutes from the village center.
Commander night, five hours of it, every Saturday. Casual decks and serious ones share the room, and there is a seat if you turn up alone with a hundred cards.
Three and a half hours on the roof of the Chestnut Street parking garage looking out over downtown. Proceeds go to the Downtown West Chester Foundation.
The Saturday half of the lobster run on the Sunset Grille deck, five to nine. Same kitchen, same hotel lot, and a full pub inside when the deck fills up.
East Whiteland marks the nation's 250th with a public reading of the Declaration of Independence tied to the 1777 skirmish fought on this ground. Evening start.
Live music, the Washington Crossing Fife and Drum Corps, period food and a look inside the Durham Boat Barn. Proceeds split between the park's Friends group, Upper Makefield Fire Company and the police association.
An hour building an eight to ten inch glass terrarium with four plants and decorative bits to arrange. Bring your own bottle, and give yourself fifteen minutes to park.
Division II football under the lights against Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the first home date of the season for the Golden Rams. Tickets are sold online ahead of time through wcupatix.
The Saturday night slot, four hours on the big stage once the Halloween light show is up. Local beer and Rose Bank wine at the Pour Shed, s'mores going at the fire pits.
Living Colour's singer and guitarist play a stripped down set on the Liberty Place stage once the festival grounds shut for the day. Two hours, starting at six.
Saturday night on the lakeside patio with a cover band, a rotating food truck, and the drink lines that make this the busiest corner of Horsham on a warm weekend.
Cocktails at six, silent auction and art show preview, dinner at seven thirty, then live music and dancing with a patio lounge. Dress is black tie, hunting scarlets encouraged.
Mushroom Festival Saturday winds down four blocks from State Street with a taproom set at six. Braeloch stays open to eleven on Saturdays.
An evening of short sets on the hotel grounds put together by Level Up 2 Entertainment, with Country Mile opening at six. Food available on site. Come early, the lineup runs late.
Two evening hours cutting your own bouquet in the flower field on Meetinghouse Road, drink in hand. Scissors and buckets are provided.
Pylon played six days before release, at seven on the dot. RSVP required, button packs and sticker sheets for everyone through the door, and a test press goes to one raffle winner.
Three witches from Salem run an immersive cocktail show in the old Hot Topic space on the mall's second level. Interactive games, singalongs and themed drinks. Costumes get you further than street clothes.
Where the Mushroom Festival crowd ends up once the street fair closes at six. Band on the patio seven to ten, bar open late.
Latin jazz piano from seven to ten. Ortiz is a regular here, so the room knows the sound, and the back bar stays open past the last set.
Saturday acoustic at the Fenix. A quieter alternative to the bigger rooms further down Bridge Street.
Pennsylvania fiddle and guitar duo whose all-violin cover of Sweet Child O' Mine ran to sixteen million views. Thirty dollars ahead, doors at five if you want dinner first.
Jen Gervasi leads an hour of slow yoga on preserve land right after the beer crowd thins out. Bring a mat or a beach towel and stay for the sunset.
A wedding-themed whodunit over dinner, run with a professional cast that pulls the whole room into it. Two and a half hours, ticketed, and these tend to sell out ahead of the date.
Four pieces, four hours, no cover charge. A Saturday night fallback out on Hilltown Pike when the Sellersville rooms have already sold their last seat.
A volunteer company puts twelve actors in the Hundred Acre Wood for the book's centenary. Tickets run twenty dollars, eighteen for seniors, students and children under twelve.
Improv troupe Better Than Bacon builds a whole show out of audience shout-outs at Uptown on Saturday, September 12 at 7:30. They play this stage often enough that the crowd tends to know the drill.
Rock and roll covers from eight to eleven in the main room, the late half of Puck's double-bill Saturday. Arts Festival crowds are two blocks away and end at five.
An Ambler hard rock band that leans on seventies and eighties riffs, playing originals alongside classic rock covers. Doors at 7:30, $16 ahead or $20 at the door, $10 for kids.
Two players, two pianos, and a request list the crowd shouts out. Eight to ten on a Saturday at the 1831 theatre on North State Street.
Live from eight to eleven in the restored 1875 barroom. Flea market day up the street ends at two, which makes this the natural second stop.
Harmonica Slim has fronted blues bands from Canada to Florida. Backed by the South Street Hustle, this is three hours of hard-driving harp blues in the taproom.
Arts Festival Saturday ends here, eight to midnight in the bar area. On The Fly plays the sports bar side earlier the same night, so there is music in the building from six.
Saturday night rock in a room where people actually sit and listen. The Royal's own listing points fans of loud guitars and bigger hair this way. Advance tickets recommended.
Improv troupe The Laughletics take the Saturday night slot at the storefront comedy theater on East Butler. Bring your own beer, tickets under twenty dollars.
Eliot Lewis, longtime Hall and Oates band member and Live From Daryl's House regular, plays a one-man rock and soul set at 8. It lands on Mushroom Festival Saturday, so make a day of it downtown.
A magician detective works a murder at the Royal Americana Hotel, and the suspects are the people sitting around you. Interactive mystery, ages 16 and up, two nights only.
Ghost Tours of New Hope walks Saturday, October 3 at 8 p.m., like every Saturday night from the first Saturday in June through the Saturday before Thanksgiving. October is the one month they add public tours on Friday nights, plus Halloween night, and they recommend showing up 30 to 45 minutes early. The tour meets at the corner of Main and Ferry Streets, next to the Parry Mansion, and leaves promptly at 8. No reservations needed: you buy tickets when you arrive, $15 a person. They do not take credit cards but do take Venmo. For a large group, or any October night, they'd appreciate a heads-up by phone or email. It is a walking tour, about an hour and roughly a mile, all outdoors (insurance keeps everyone out of the buildings), so wear comfortable shoes. Light rain or drizzle does not stop it. Thunderstorms, heavy downpours or snow can, and their Facebook page is where to check if the forecast looks questionable. The stories come from Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey, the author of "Ghosts in the Valley," who founded the tour in 1981 and researched and investigated every story herself. Nobody in costume jumps out at you. The walk is lantern-lit and the town does the rest. Pictures and paranormal gear are welcome. They call it fine for ages 10 and up, with the caveat that you know your own kid. Non-alcoholic drinks only. Check the forecast, get there early, and bring something other than a credit card.
The Kelly Jax Band plays the Trolley Barn Public Market from 8 to 11 on a Saturday night. Quakertown's converted trolley depot keeps its bar pouring while the band works through covers built for a dance floor.
Smash Atoms take the Saturday slot at the Duck Inn, which sits right on the Perkiomen Creek with a deck and patio over the water. Music runs eight to eleven.
A decade plus of playing the Dead catalog with real teeth, long jams and lead guitar that goes places. Upstairs, twenty one and over, Saturday at eight.
Shane O'Connor hosts comics competing for a date while the audience decides. Closing night of the festival at Turks Head.
Final showcase of the weekend with Cassandra Kyriazis, Kyle Zeigler, Lydia Orme, Pat George, and Matthew Liam. Late slot in the gallery.
The Saturday half of the Bier and Loathing karaoke weekend, nine o'clock on West Market Street, free to sing. Same setup as the Friday night, usually a fuller room by then.
DJ Stevie Steve spins R and B all night and the room sings along. Doors at nine, ten dollars at the door, and ladies get in free before ten.
The middle Sunday of the month brings Jamming Joe out to the patio, second of three September dates. Walk in, sit outside, and the acoustic season closes at the end of the month.
Four blocks of Gay Street close to cars so restaurants push tables into the road. Walk down the middle of the street, eat outside, and browse the shops on either side.
Three acts fill a Sunday at the Nail. The room keeps loose hours and says so on its own schedule, so ring 610-649-6245 first if you are driving any distance.
Second and last day of the Star Trek sixtieth anniversary show at the borough museum on Church Street. Call ahead for hours, they shift month to month.
Forrest Avenue fills with a makers market while bands play down Haverford for the afternoon, plus food and drink vendors between the two. It has run for more than twenty years and stays free.
The farm switches to fall mode for the weekend: hayrides, the corn maze, apple picking and cider donuts out of the bakery. Runs weekends into November.
The Soviet war film people describe as the hardest watch ever made. Art House Cinema slot. Go in knowing what it is.
Six weeks of work by George Robert Overhiser Jr. in the gallery, with a talk by the artist on September 20.
The Sunday running of the same five-mile section, creek crossings and all, from Parkside Place to the gristmill and back. First of eight guided hikes on the trail this fall.
The George Pal version, all glowing manta-ray war machines and matte paintings. Part of the In Glorious Technicolor run.
A knitting circle where somebody who knows what they are doing is on hand for a suggested donation when you hit a snag. Snacks and drinks come out of the registration.
Thirteen kitchens run deals for six days. Iron Abbey does three courses for $40, Cafe Lombardi is buy one entree get the second half off, Copper Crow sets $25 lunch and $35 dinner. Say the words at the table.
Seven a.m. start on Freedoms Way in Warrington, ten minutes south of Doylestown. Pick the triathlon, the duathlon, the aquavelo or a relay leg.
Sunday hours for the borough's downtown street program, seven in the morning to ten at night. Music series at four, same handful of blocks.
Andrew Dolan has logged 146 of the 150 bird species ever recorded in this 77 acre park. Two easy hours on paved and natural paths hunting warblers. Bring binoculars.
September's beginner birding walk with the township, eight in the morning when fall migration is picking up. Check parks and rec for the meeting spot.
The Sons of the American Legion breakfast comes back from its summer break on the thirteenth. Scratch made, cooked to order, four hours of it. The post is handicap accessible.
Two early hours clearing invasive growth and planting along the Cynwyd Heritage Trail with the Friends group. Tools and guidance provided, minors welcome with a parent, waiver required.
A 5K and a 1.5 mile walk off Strafford Avenue, both away at 8:30. Flat course through the neighbourhood streets, and it clears out before the Sunday traffic.
Kids dash at 8:50, then a 5K at nine and a one mile walk after it, all inside Wilson Farm Park. Plenty of grass to stand on while you wait for the finish.
AMC and AMX owners park up across the village lot from nine until three. Free to walk through, and the shops are open around it.
Day two of the national luge recruiting stop, same three clinic slots and the same coaching staff. Free, a T shirt for everyone, and a parent has to come along.
Sunday morning market on Lancaster Avenue in Berwyn, seven minutes from Malvern. Farmers, producers, artisans and local nonprofits, done by noon.
Post 9788's run and walk marks September 11 and raises money for veterans' mental health work. Registration and bibs at nine, anthem at 9:30, race off at ten. Awards by age group.
The same walk-through of the growing process, lab to harvest, open with the gates on Sunday morning before the crowds build on State Street. Festival admission covers it.
Bria Method and the Brad Fox Charitable Foundation run this one in Warminster, a short hop east of Horsham. Three hours from nine, forty dollars in.
Pro and amateur fields hammer a 1.4-mile circuit through downtown all day, with kids races at 1:05 and the pro men off at 1:55. The course wraps right around the Arts Festival, so you can catch the sprint into Court Street between booth visits.
The Manchester derby, United against City at half eleven, with Coventry versus Brighton ahead of it at nine. This is the one the room fills up for.
Twenty-ninth year. Bentleys, pre-war racing cars, Indian motorcycles at 125, and the only Concours in the country that also parades horse-drawn coaches, which arrive around noon. Gates nine, awards four. No pets.
More than forty vendors work Summit Street in front of the elementary school: produce, cut flowers, native plants, baked goods, coffee and craft beer. Free parking in the school lot.
The Montgomery County Suicide Prevention Task Force walks the Temple Ambler campus at nine. Kids ten and under go free, everyone else pays twenty five.
Sunday morning work party on the 1,282-acre preserve along the Brandywine, the largest privately owned public preserve in the county. Two and a half hours.
Twenty-five years on. A 5K, a rucked 5K and a one-mile walk named for Sergeant Sambuco and Corporal O'Connor, starting at Rustin High School. Runners, ruckers and walkers all welcome.
An hour of chakra-focused vinyasa with Wisteria Dawn out on Sterner Mill Road, closing with a guided yoga nidra during savasana. Twenty dollars, held outdoors when the weather holds.
The HIIT-focused session of the borough's bootcamp series, Sunday mornings at the Jane Stover Lodge with Ally Wesner. Ten dollars at the door, and you work at whatever pace you can hold.
The Sunday running of the same five mile route, out to the Evans-Mumbower Mill and back. Stepping stones across the creek in three places, so wear shoes you can soak.
Four players a section by rating, three rounds through the morning, game 25 with a five second delay. Twenty dollars a quad and trophies to the winners. Results count toward regular ratings.
Kids from age two through fifth grade play games and earn prizes at the Scouting Way campus. Gaming gear optional. An annual barbecue follows for whoever sticks around.
A morning of succulent planting and care know-how at the garden center. Starts at 10; seats are sold ahead through the shop.
The Horsham Farmers' Market runs Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Horsham Township Library, 435 Babylon Road, Horsham. The 2026 season started June 14 and wraps on Sunday, October 25, so this is one of the regular season's last Sundays. The library is the market's new home, and vendors set up both indoors and out. Expect fresh produce, sweets, handmade designs and flowers, plus food trucks with a seating area if you would rather eat there than carry it home. The Friends of the Horsham Library open the Book Café most Sundays during market hours, and October 4 is on the calendar, so budget for a book along with the produce. Pets are welcome on a leash. The market goes ahead rain or shine unless the weather turns dangerous. Parking is the part to plan. The township publishes a parking map for the 2026 season: the parking area is marked, the no-parking zones are marked, and there is no parking in the neighborhoods. The map also marks a crossing guard and the walking routes over to the vendors. Vendor details live on the market's Facebook page. Park where the map says, not in the neighborhoods, and walk over.
Same class, Sunday morning at ten, running from April into the middle of November. One hour, thirty dollars, and the pasture is part of the deal.
Opening weekend of the farm's eighteenth fall season. Pumpkin patch hayride, corn maze, pony rides from 10:30, the new farm arcade, and three small museums included with the gate.
Shep and Jim play the market on a Sunday morning, ten to two, no cover. The stands are open the whole time, which is the point of catching music here.
Community booths, local vendors and live entertainment at the 4-H Building, ten to five. The Historical Society keeps a table with information on Skippack's past and how to pitch in.
Second and final day of the Greater Philadelphia Dahlia Society's competitive show, in the Ballroom. The society has been staging it at Longwood since 1948. Free with Gardens admission.
A walk, light stretching and a seated meditation on the Peace Valley grounds. Mats supplied, chairs available on request. Ages fifteen and up, free for members.
The long version: three rounds at 10, 1:45 and 4:30, game 80 with a five second delay, four players a section. Thirty dollars a head and the winner of each quad takes a hundred.
One outdoor service at half past ten, then food, music, games, cornhole brackets and face painting on the lawn off Edgewood. Free. Bake four dozen bite sized somethings and you can enter the bake off.
Local makers set up for eight hours on East King Street, with free DIY crafting tables, food and drink, and The Sin Brothers playing. Long enough that a late drop in still works.
Eighteenth year of the farm's weekend fall run: pumpkins, pony rides, an apple slingshot and cider donuts. Ten to five on Sundays, with the gate closing to new arrivals at four. Service dogs only.
Sunday mornings in the lavender rows off North Mt Airy Road with the farm's horses in view. Twenty dollars paid to the instructor, no advance sign up. Rain moves the class into the barn.
Cars roll in from eight, the show itself runs ten to two on the 4-H grounds off Bridge Road. Pre-entry closes September 10. Proceeds go back into the buildings and grounds.
Same build, second day. Volunteers frame the Phoenix in Reservoir Park from ten until the light goes, every Sunday of build season. Skilled carpenters and first-time hammer holders both welcome.
The weekend's winning cooks face one last mystery basket on the culinary stage Sunday morning. Free once you are through the gate, and there is seating if you turn up early.
The Independence Seaport Museum crew is still building a full-scale Durham boat replica in the park's Boat Barn. An hour with the boat shop director on what has changed since July.
The same five mile Green Ribbon stretch on a Sunday, Parkside Place to the gristmill and back. Stepping stones, boardwalks, restrooms at the start and a port-a-potty at the mill.
Shipwrights from the Independence Seaport Museum talk through how the full-scale Durham boat replica is being built, inside the Boat Barn where it sits. Pay what you wish, registration required.
Dan Freed's puppet and comedy magic act, indoors at the American Legion while the street fills up outside. Second show at eleven, then Juggle Joy takes the room at noon.
The Good Shepherd congregation takes its Sunday morning outdoors to Pavilion 2 at Hibernia Park. Worship at ten, then a shared meal on the tables. Bring a dish, anyone is welcome to sit down.
An hour on the lawn under the big trees on a Sunday morning. Bring your own mat. The garden is open around you before and after.
Central Presbyterian starts its program year with a picnic on the lawn after worship: food, inflatables and music. Seating is provided, and it moves into Fellowship Hall if it rains.
The historical society walks you between Quakertown's Revolutionary-era landmarks, starting at the Friends Meeting House and ending at the Burgess Foulke House, with house tours, a reenactment and live music along the way.
Wade into Skippack Creek with a park ranger and find out what lives under the rocks. Water shoes required, registration required, and a second slot runs at 12:30.
Stories under a tent with lawn games and a stroll through the meadow, any time between eleven and one. Free, sponsored by Let's Go Outdoors, and it runs again on the 26th.
Divinity Cruzz and Trixy Valentine work through Britney, Gaga, Katy Perry and Hilary Duff while a brunch buffet and a build your own waffle bar run alongside. Cash bar for cocktails.
Dogs, local vendors, raffles and a beer garden in Root Down's lot, with the money going to Philly Bully Team. Flash tattoos and a blind-box art vending machine if you want a souvenir.
Seven hours of sangria, wine flights and local beer on a working vineyard, with a food truck parked outside. Dogs on leashes are fine, kids need a parent along.
Park educators lead a wade into Skippack Creek to find what lives under the rocks, part of Girl Scouts Love State Parks weekend. Two sessions, 11 and 12:30, and registration is required.
The sangria goes seasonal as September moves along. Live music and a food truck on the farm, plus a flight of six wines for ten dollars with the glass to keep.
The fall kickoff at the Ministries Center, straight after the ten o'clock service. This is the Sunday the church's program year starts back up for everybody.
Co-owner Tom Carroll Sr hosts a harvest tasting: eat the grapes, drink the wine they turn into, and sit down to a light lunch. Seventy five dollars, reservations required.
Sunday's first band on the festival music stage, starting at the same hour as the breaded mushroom eating contest. Grounds open at nine on Sunday.
Two hour round trip down the Chester Creek valley to Glen Mills with a long layover at the 1880s station. Pack lunch for the picnic grove or walk over to Red Brick Winery.
The Craven works the Sunday shift, noon to around six. Sunday closing time is eight, so plan on an early dinner and a slow one.
The members show hangs at the art center out on Patterson Farm, open noon to five. Twenty minutes of looking, and the drive down Mirror Lake Road is half the point.
Rochester makes the trip for a Sunday noon game at Shillingford Field. Third home field hockey date in eleven days, so the turf gets a workout.
A basket of food and a bottle of wine, taken to a shady spot in the rows. Eighty five dollars feeds two, and you keep the basket, the glasses and the corkscrew.
The Craven takes the Sunday courtyard slot, noon to about six. Fifteen rotating draft lines and a cocktail list inside, plus room to spread out on the front lawn.
September's monthly run of the Menlo Park carousel, noon to five. Fifty cents a ride on a machine that has been turning in this park since the borough bought it in 1955.
Closing day, and the one people plan around: the Polish American String Band plays in full Mummers costume. The ten thousand dollar sweepstakes drawing happens at 7:30.
Three hours of book signing at the shop on Yorkway Place, noon to three on a Sunday. Drop in, no registration listed on the shop calendar.
Local caterers, florists and photographers set up in the Cock 'n Bull for a couple of hours. Useful if you are planning a Bucks County wedding.
A two-hour vintage train run down to Glen Mills with living-history military encampments waiting at the other end. Tickets start at thirty dollars and the noon departure is the only one.
Jackson Levine juggles balls, clubs, and rings, spins plates, and pulls kids up to try. Final show at two, in the American Legion building off the main drag.
Contestants race through plates of breaded mushrooms, one of the festival's oldest traditions. Noon on Sunday, right after the Chopped finale wraps on the culinary stage.
September's free admission day, noon to five, with family programming on the schedule. Same weekend as the Arts Festival, so plan the parking.
Same Sunday hours as Saturday, noon to six, fifteen dollars for the Parry Mansion tour. It runs every weekend through the third week of December.
Irish bands from noon, the Celtic Flame dancers at 2:30, and the farm's own cornhole and attractions thrown in. Ticket covers admission, food and drink. Cash the gate price if you wait.
Second day of the cigar industry display at the historical society museum. Noon to four in the former trolley station, with the rest of the Perkasie collection open alongside it.
A different craft project every Sunday at noon, an hour long, walk in without booking a term. Aimed at kids and built so a first-timer can finish the thing they started.
Forty-five minutes through the restored home of Chester County ironmasters, furnished with original artwork. Rangers and the Friends of Hibernia tell the stories. Several flights of stairs, no pets.
The Caldecott honoree reads his first picture book, about the smallest squirrel in the family and the largest acorn he has ever seen. Ages four to eight, one SEPTA stop from Ardmore.
Sunday afternoons on the river with a food truck, rotating local vendors and a band from two to five. Craft beer, cider, wine and seltzer, with the taps running until seven.
Tookany Creek Parkway closes to cars between Central Avenue and Beryl Road for three hours so people can ride, run and walk the roadway. Weather permitting.
The fall shows open with a two-hour reception at Mill Grove, in the building that holds the Birds of America exhibit. Artists on hand, trails outside afterward.
An afternoon built around the decade's narrative songs, the ones with an actual plot. One to three on a Sunday, which leaves the rest of the day open.
William Wyler's 1936 adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel about a marriage coming apart in Europe. Sunday at one, with Deep Focus notes.
September tours run to five rather than four. Film first, then guided walks at one and two thirty through the Whitemarsh house Washington's officers used in 1777.
Two hours of making pierogi by hand with Sassy Polish Girl Provisions at the West Point Pike kitchen. You pinch your own dough and you take home what you make.
Three Sunday afternoon hours on the foundations of stained glass, no experience assumed. Held in the workshop space below the Cricket Avenue plant shop, which is reached by a set of stairs.
A ninety three minute documentary on the light and space artist behind the Getty's Central Garden, part of the Ambler's Art on Screen strand. Sunday afternoon, one o'clock.
Sunday's slot in the Logan Inn's weekly lineup is sudoku, one to three in the living room. Open to anyone, and Landmark Tavern serves lunch until half past two.
The plaza bar runs one to seven with live entertainment through the afternoon. Come off the Schuylkill River Trail, it lets out two blocks away.
Greenshire marks twenty-one years with vendors, artists, drumming, gongs, a labyrinth and a Peace Pole ceremony from four. Potluck, so bring an appetizer, and a wrapped gift for the giving blanket.
Open auditions for Wolf's staging of Puffs, the play about the other kids at wizard school. A second call runs Tuesday evening if Sunday afternoon does not work.
Free family art making in two hour-long sessions, one to two and two to three. Pre-register and pick your session, paper landscapes are the project.
Three hours walking Longwood's tree collections with educator Levi O'Brien, learning leaves, bark and branching. Forty-nine dollars, Gardens admission included on the day.
The fourth year of this one. The parking lot fills with a card registration table, makerspace activities, bubbles, LEGOs and bookmark crafting. All of it free.
Bucks County's oldest musical organization plays a one hour set inside the home of Quakertown's first burgess, rain or shine. It falls in the middle of the Liberty Bell Trail walk that afternoon.
Free ninety minute tour of the center's Earthship, a building put together from packed tires, cans and bottles that heats and cools itself. The questions usually run past the hour.
Last four hours of the carnival before it packs up for the year. Bring cash and small bills, some booths cannot make change. A separate wristband is needed for this day.
Five Sundays of short races for kids from pre-K through eighth grade: the fifty and seventy five yard dashes, quarter mile, half mile and the one mile. Walk-up spots open an hour before.
Hannah Penn ran the colony of Pennsylvania for six years and rarely gets the credit. First-person theater on the grounds, included with admission along with the animals and the garden.
Dr. Marion Kyde on how fungi recycle nutrients, partner with trees and hold forests together. Ages fifteen and up. Free for members, five dollars otherwise.
The historical society's yearly lunch, with Carol Spacht in costume as Betsy Ross. Social hour at half past one, buffet at two, out at the country club on Country Club Road.
Two Mercer Museum historians come down to Washington Crossing to trace how Bucks County taverns fed, funded, and sheltered the Doan Gang, the county's most notorious Loyalist outlaws. The Sunday talk runs 1:30 to 2:30 and pairs neatly with the Doan exhibition up in Doylestown.
William Peck on Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan Schools, with a focus on the one that ran at Chester Springs. An hour and a half in the studio building on Art School Road.
Mercer Museum staff on Bucks County tavern culture and the Doan Gang, the local outlaws who worked the Revolution. One hour, afternoon, at the visitor center.
Live music upstairs at the winery, one thirty to four thirty. September afternoons are when the vineyard actually looks like a vineyard, so sit near a window.
Sunday afternoon on the festival music stage, timed with the Kids Zone peak hours if you need somewhere to put the children.
A writers' group meets in the library Board Room on Sunday afternoon at two. Bring pages if you have them, or come once to see how the room works.
An hour of slow seated and standing work in the library community room on a Sunday afternoon. Free and adults only. The listing is marked tentative, so call ahead.
Sandwiches and sides on a Sunday afternoon at the Keswick Avenue brewery. Doors at two and last call at eight, so this is an early one.
Sunday two till five on the patio, no cover. Three straight hours of music while the kitchen runs. The kind of afternoon that eats a whole Sunday.
Classic rock with jazz, reggae and blues folded in, from a full-time tri-state solo player. Sunday afternoon, two to five, in the tasting room.
An hour for ages ten and up, working through a different country each session in the community room. Sunday afternoon, and it is a quiet way to fill the gap before dinner.
The Sunday matinee, which is the one to take small children to. Milne's story of Christopher Robin running away, staged by a volunteer company on Ridge Road.
The Black Lab Breads baker works mushrooms into recipes on the Culinary Stage, Sunday afternoon, after the chopped contest finale wraps in the morning.
Two hours in the two acre walled garden behind the late 18th century mansion on Sheaff Lane, a few minutes up Bethlehem Pike from Ambler. Ticketed through the historical society.
Sunday bingo at the West Chester taproom. Afternoon slot, two hours, no sign-up needed.
An hour on one country for kids ten and up, Sunday afternoon in the community room.
A family puppet show in the old sanctuary at the borough's arts center on Main Street, where Boxy the crayon box heads a cast that walks off the job. Admission is free.
Acoustic afternoon in the tasting room, two thirty to five thirty on a Sunday. No cover, and harvest is usually underway on the property by mid-September.
Acoustic guitar indoors through the Sunday afternoon, free to walk in. Picnic baskets are booked separately at noon if you want to eat on the lawn first.
Five Sundays of short races for kids from pre-K through eighth grade: the fifty and seventy five yard dashes, quarter mile, half mile and the one mile. Walk-up spots open an hour before.
Second Sunday social for people interested in psychedelics, healing and personal growth. Free, casual, and open whether you are experienced or just curious.
Five Sundays of short races for kids from pre-K through eighth grade: the fifty and seventy five yard dashes, quarter mile, half mile and the one mile. Walk-up spots open an hour before.
Five Sundays of short races for kids from pre-K through eighth grade: the fifty and seventy five yard dashes, quarter mile, half mile and the one mile. Walk-up spots open an hour before.
The band that closes out the whole festival, one hour before the grounds shut at four. Final vendor shopping starts at 3:30.
The afternoon run of the same witch show, three o'clock instead of seven, which is the workable one if you have anywhere to be Monday. Tickets are thirty five dollars plus fees.
The final cooking demo of the weekend, from a chef at one of the region's big mushroom processors. Recipes and technique you can take home.
September's second Sunday tea dance, DJ Brad Scott on the decks from four until eight. River view from every seat, and the kitchen stays open through it.
Sunday afternoon downtown, four to six, one of the borough's standing music slots. Two hours, then the block goes back to its usual weekend business.
Sunday afternoon on the patio, four to seven, the same two-man acoustic setup running throwback rock and pop. Kitchen and beer garden both open through the set.
A documentary portrait of Leonard Bernstein told through his own letters, lectures, and broadcast footage. Sunday afternoon at 4 in the theater that turns 100 this fall.
Sunday afternoon music from four to eight, out on the covered patio when the weather holds. Ask for patio seating when you make the reservation, since it fills before the first set.
Country western evening for Gateway HorseWorks with live music, a bourbon tasting and barbecue. Half four to half seven on Union Hill Road.
Five Sundays of short races for kids from pre-K through eighth grade: the fifty and seventy five yard dashes, quarter mile, half mile and the one mile. Walk-up spots open an hour before.
Twelve dollars gets you into the theater's yearly thank-you for members, doors at five on a Sunday. A rare night when the room, not the stage, is the point.
Rock, country and pop from the fifties on, free with Gardens admission. A Sunday evening set with casual food served right in the Beer Garden.
Trivia in the Three Tun Road taproom, five until seven, the day after the brewery's Penn State watch party. Beer from the tanks and food from Epicurean Garage.
Bring your own table, chairs, dinner and head-to-toe white outfit to Keswick Village for an outdoor supper with live music. Prizes for best tablescape. Registration opens August 1 and last year sold out.
Sign up early, play a short set, then stay and listen to whoever follows. Sunday evening in the listening room, all ages, bring your own bottle.
Science fiction and fantasy readers meet the second Sunday evening of each month at the bookshop. One of the few Sunday night things happening in the borough.
Bring your own table, chairs, white decor and picnic dinner, dress in white and eat outside in the middle of Keswick Village. Live music at dinner, then a DJ and table contests. Sold out for 2026.
A regional poetry tour stops in Souderton with the Ripe Poetry team. Free admission, doors at half past seven on a Sunday night.
Sunday night karaoke at the Gay Street pub, starting at ten and free to walk into. It runs every week into January.
September's spice kit lands on the second Monday. Ask at the circulation desk with your library card, take it home, cook something, and report back on what you did with it.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence holds its twenty sixth annual golf outing at the Philadelphia Country Club off North Spring Mill Road, eight in the morning through four. Foursomes and sponsorships, booked ahead.
Morning shift in the pollinator gardens: weeding, mulching, planting. Natural Lands caps the group size, so register ahead. Two and a half hours on preserve land off Cannery Road.
The Monday morning run of the baby storytime, half an hour of songs and movement for under twos.
Half an hour of stories, lap bounces and open floor time for babies under eighteen months and whoever brought them. Krapf Room, Monday mornings, and seats are capped so register.
Twenty to thirty minutes of books, music, rhymes and lap bounces for babies up to two, then play time. Older siblings welcome, no charge, first of three Monday storytimes.
The early Monday sitting, half an hour of songs, rhymes and lap bounces for babies under two, then free play. No registration, and older siblings can come along.
Two and a half quiet hours of the treehouse park with the adventure activities shut and nobody over five in the way. Twelve dollars a head, tickets bought ahead, and it runs daily from here.
Story time built for two-year-olds, half an hour of stories, songs and rhymes. Monday mornings in the children's department, and there is a second session at 10:30.
Six weeks of short courses and one-off lectures for adults on history, current events and the arts, run by the Upper Dublin library. Classes fall on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays through October 26.
Seventy five minutes on one book, mid morning, once a month. Community room.
An hour of open play for toddlers on the move: a pop-up tunnel, soft climbing blocks, sensory tiles, shakers and scarves. Drop in for ten minutes or stay the whole hour.
An informal playgroup where young children and their caregivers meet other families and learn by playing. Forty five minutes, twice a week, no performance required from anyone.
An hour of stretching, singing, dancing and rhythm instruments in the branch's big meeting room. Aimed at families with young kids who need to move.
Half an hour of singing, shakers, and moving around for kids two to six, in the children's area. Free, and the room clears out by eleven.
The morning book club meets for an hour and fifteen minutes in the community room. One title a month, coffee-hour pace, and new readers can drop in.
Kids bring a stuffed animal and Penn Medicine staff walk them through a checkup. An hour, meant to take the fear out of a doctor visit.
The fall run of the baby storytime picks back up. Ukulele sing-along, stories read aloud, free play after. Babies under two, thirty minutes, no charge.
Miss Rebecca runs half an hour of songs and stories for young toddlers, eighteen months to three years, in the Krapf Room. Registration required and seats go quickly.
The fifteenth year of this charity outing at Downingtown Country Club, a 10:30 shotgun on a Monday. Registration goes through Sweet Jane's Wish rather than the club.
Monday morning preschool story time in the library's Junior Room, ages 0 to 5. Free, drop in, and about five minutes down Montgomery Avenue.
Kim Slattery runs a modified chair class in the Struble Room, forty-five minutes on mobility, balance and breathing. Beginner friendly, and registration closes two hours before the start.
Stories and songs for little kids and whoever brought them, at the Glenside branch on South Keswick Avenue. Free, and the library runs it most weeks through the fall.
Miss Rebecca reads, sings and gets one-and-a-half to three year olds moving for half an hour. Monday mornings in the Krapf Room, capped seating, and it books up.
Miss Elena runs stories, songs and shakers for birth through five. Mondays and Wednesdays through the fall, no registration, just turn up in the community room.
An hour aimed at kids about to start school, built around sitting still, listening and taking turns as much as around the story. Registration required, no charge.
Knitters, crocheters and cross stitchers bring whatever they are working on and sit together for ninety minutes. No registration. The same group meets again Thursday afternoons.
Books on a weekly theme plus songs, freeze dance and other activities for preschoolers. Monday late mornings in the community education room.
The library's monthly lunchtime book group meets again in the Budzik Room, noon on a Monday. September's title is not posted yet, so call the branch or just turn up.
The canasta group at Kaiserman starts its new year with lunch at noon and cards at one. Twenty five dollars, registration required, and new players are welcome.
Matthew Mitlas teaches a Monday class built around hips, low back and shoulders. Eight sessions for sixty-five dollars or ten at the door, cash or check. Bring a mat, register first.
Family Promise of Southern Chester County runs its annual scramble at the country club. Check-in at 10:30, shotgun start at 12:30, dinner at 4:30. Dinner-only seats are a hundred dollars if you would rather skip the round.
Two hours of learning the tile game from scratch, Monday afternoons in the Krapf Room. No equipment needed and no cost, which is more than most new hobbies manage.
Sew charity quilts with other machines humming beside you, second Monday of the month through December. Free, two hours, and the finished quilts go out to people who need them.
Two hours of tiles on Monday afternoons in the library community room, free and weekly. The group plays straight through the Labor Day Monday, so September 7 is on.
Francis Lyons, digital navigator at the Wayne Senior Center, on getting better answers, changing your privacy settings and what has actually changed lately.
Bring whatever knitting or crochet you have going and work on it in a room full of people doing the same. Free, though the township asks you to register first.
An art hour built for homeschooled kids aged five to ten, Monday afternoon in the community room.
Afternoon poetry reading group with resident poet Christi Marshall. Come to read your own or just to listen.
A textile collective for hand sewing and mending, beginners through experts. Bring your own basic supplies and a project. Eight adults per session, so it stays a conversation.
Kandinsky first, then classical music, then paper. Kids five to ten listen and draw what they hear, and families are welcome to make something alongside them. An hour, no registration.
A weekday afternoon showing of the Michael Jackson biopic in the library meeting rooms, with free popcorn while supplies last.
Mariano Garcia-Blanco, who chairs microbiology, immunology and cancer biology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, speaks in Sharpless Auditorium. Part of Haverford College's Distinguished Visitors series.
The Logan Inn living room turns over to mahjong tiles every Monday afternoon, three to five. Non-guests are welcome and no reservation is needed, but space is limited so arrive early.
The Pennridge rivalry on a Monday afternoon, JV then varsity, at the high school on Lower Road. Half past three, tickets online through the school box office.
Middle school boys soccer at home, the early half of a doubleheader Monday on the Jenkintown fields. Short, free, and full of siblings on the sideline.
The Friends of the Library screen The Princess Bride in the auditorium at four. Free, and an easy after-school landing spot for anyone who has somehow never seen it.
A Monday afternoon date at Jean Lenox West Field, Arcadia hosting Neumann. Four o'clock start, early enough to catch most of it once school lets out.
A quick drop-in project in the Children's Makerspace every Monday from four to five. No registration and no need to finish anything.
Monday afternoons in the Budzik Room, the library's art club works through the week's project. Free, four o'clock, most Mondays at the Lincoln Highway branch.
A one hour window to drop gently used books with the Friends of the Malvern Public Library, ahead of their fall sale. Clear a shelf at home, back the library.
A late matinee of the Andy Weir adaptation so you can argue about whether the book was better. No registration, but the room fills.
An apple-themed make-and-take hour for kids four to ten, run by the township on the first Monday of the school-year craft series.
Books, rhymes and singing at the Yardley-Makefield branch, aimed at kids under five with a grownup along. Half an hour, no registration, and an easy stop before dinner.
JV at 5:30, varsity at 6:45, against one of the bigger programs in the conference. Doors open at 5. No outside food or drink in the gym, and tickets are nonrefundable.
Westtown Township session for people new to the game or shaky on the rules, on the Oakbourne courts. Runs Mondays through October 5 with Labor Day off. Register through Just Tennis before you show up.
The hour that unlocks the Community Makerspace: the tools on hand, what you can book and which programmes run there. Every other Monday evening.
Four players, 144 tiles and two hours in the library after closing time. Preregistration is required, and the table money goes back to the Newtown Library Company.
Grades six through twelve build faux neon signs in the Teen Zone. Snacks are out, no registration, and Homework Helpers runs in the Community Room right before it.
The high school opens its doors for ninety minutes so families can walk the halls and meet teachers early in the school year. More details go out closer to the date.
An hour on the grass under the old Oakbourne water tower, kids and grown-ups on mats together. Ten dollars per child, adults free. Bring your own mat and pay cash or Venmo at the park.
Monday evening yoga in the garden as the light drops, running from mid-September to the end of October. Seventy-five minutes, registration through the arboretum.
Bring pages and get them read: poetry, memoir, mystery, children's writing, all of it. Two hours in the Dogwood Room on a Monday evening.
Monday evening English classes for beginner levels one to three, run with Upper Dublin Lutheran Church. The session runs all the way to late May. Contact Anne to register.
Stories, poetry, comics, whatever eleven to fourteen year olds want to work on, an hour in the Hessinger Study Room. Free, and the group meets around one table.
This month's pick for the library's mystery readers is Andrea Mara's It Should Have Been You. A Monday evening hour for crime fiction fans.
Ninety minutes of heads-down writing on the shut-up-and-write model, then time afterward to talk about what came out. Bring whatever you are stuck on and a coffee.
A queer crafting group that meets Monday evening in the Spruce Room. Bring whatever you are working on, free, and there is no skill floor.
Monday night chess in the Community Room, boards set up and open to players who are still learning. It starts after Teen Cafe, so the building is already awake.
Ninety minutes of whoever signs up, in the reading room. Music, poems, whatever you have been working on.
The progressive feminist club meets second Monday evenings at the bookshop. Reading list is posted in store, and the shop asks that you bring a friend.
An hour on budgeting, saving and the order to do things in, pitched at people who find the whole subject unpleasant. Community Education Room, in person.
The September session of the library's chess club for kids and tweens. An hour and a half of games in the community room, with help on hand for anyone new.
Evening craft session for adults at the library. Supplies are provided, the project gets announced closer to the date. Just show up.
Ten minutes or two songs, whichever runs out first. Music, poetry and storytelling in the reading room, sign-ups from six, and you can come purely to listen.
Bring whatever you are knitting, crocheting or mending and sit with the group for an hour. Jen Drust leads it. Nothing on Labor Day, September 7.
Wedding bands playing full sets on a real club stage, which is a lot more useful than a demo reel if you are booking one. Doors at seven, 21 and over.
Two hours of guided writing on Monday nights, prompts and quiet time rather than a lecture. The morning version runs Fridays if evenings do not work.
Seven dollar films on select Mondays at seven, in the theater on North High Street. The lineup runs all ages and changes month to month.
Woody and Buzz on the Uptown screen for Monday movie night. Cheap tickets, short runtime, easy call for a school-night outing with kids.
Wes Craven's 1996 slasher back on the big screen for one Monday night showing at the nonprofit art house on Lancaster Avenue.
Jesse Howe of Howe Sharpe demonstrates sharpening, then covers storage, tool selection for home gardeners and picking scissors that last. Twelve spaces, registration required.
Mike Coffey runs the questions at seven every Monday in a tavern that has been pouring since 1772. Thirty-three rotating taps behind the bar and the kitchen goes until midnight.
The nightcap of a Monday doubleheader on campus. Stockton comes up from the Jersey shore for a seven o'clock kickoff on Jean Lenox West Field.
Jesse Howe of Howe Sharpe demonstrates sharpening and covers storage, maintenance and picking the right tool for a home garden. Twelve spaces at the Roslyn branch.
Bring whatever you are working on and sit with the group at the old Trappe church. No experience needed, they teach each other. Second and fourth Monday of the month.
Weekly pub quiz at the gastropub on Easton Road. Seven at night, $5 drafts, food specials, and prizes for the table that knows the most. Get there early if you want a booth.
Monday quiz night in the bar, two hours from seven. Cocktails, thirty draft lines and a set of questions that rewards the local knowledge.
Monday trivia at 7:30 with prizes and cheap margaritas. Walk-ins only after two in the afternoon, which is fine, the room turns over fast.
Drop-in ballroom on Monday nights through September, samba at 7:45 and foxtrot at 8:30. No partner needed and no sign-up, twenty dollars at the door or a card of ten for $150.
Bar trivia at eight every Monday at the west end of State Street. Rotating craft taps, a long bar and a patio big enough that a losing team can spread out.
Kentucky songwriter Chris Knight plays a Monday night at Sellersville Theater on September 14. His hard-luck story songs have been covered across Nashville, but they land differently in a 325-seat room.
Telescopes go up on the library terrace after closing, weather permitting. Free, no registration, and one of the few things running late on a Monday night in town.
Local filmmakers get the big screen for ten minutes apiece, and anyone can bring a short. The 9:15 late slot, after the evening feature clears out.
Handmade sewn goods take over a corner of the Haverford Avenue refill shop for three weeks. Browse during regular hours, Tuesday through Sunday.
Four hundred vendors across thirty acres of indoor and outdoor stalls: antiques, produce, tools, clothing, food. Gates open at seven and the lot fills early. Bring cash.
Eight to nine thirty on the simulators, then out into the day. The Willows runs this weekly for people who want to meet neighbors without a name tag.
Two hours on the Pennypack Trail with Liberty Bird Alliance, looking for fall arrivals in an Audubon Important Bird Area. Binoculars can be lent to you. No sign up.
Three hours of seasonal garden work on the old Haas estate with staff and regulars, gloves provided. Tuesday mornings through the fall, no experience needed.
Stories, lap bounces and floor time for the under-eighteen-months crowd, half an hour on Tuesday mornings. Krapf Room at the library, seats capped, so put your name down first.
Stories and songs on the library's outdoor programming porch, a quick Tuesday-morning half hour while the warm weather lasts. Registration is per session on the library calendar.
Books, rhymes and songs pitched at the pre-walking crowd, every Tuesday morning in the big meeting room.
Monthly daytime book discussion in the library reading room. Check with the desk for the current title.
The morning half of the Kennett writing programme, a support group for anyone serious about writing. Ninety minutes in the Pine Room.
Music, stories, and crafts for kids up to age 4, Tuesday mornings at the Union Library on York Road. Hatboro's library sits a few minutes from Horsham.
Picture books, songs and a take-home craft in the children's reading room of the 1760 library. Built for ages zero to five with a caregiver, and kids pick their own books afterward.
Four Tuesday mornings of outdoor time for two to five year olds: a story, a walk through the garden, a craft. Led by the arboretum's education manager.
Four hours painting the waterlily collection on a Tuesday, the one day the Gardens are closed to everyone else. Bring your own supplies.
The Tuesday version of the story hour, half an hour rather than a full one, which suits the shorter attention spans. Free, and it runs every Tuesday morning through the month.
Pet themed storytime named for the gecko who actually lives at the library. Thirty minutes of books, rhymes and singing with Miss Ashlee, all ages welcome.
Thirty minutes of books, rhymes and songs in the branch's big meeting room. Built for under-fives and their grownups, though older siblings are welcome. Drop in, no sign-up.
Handmade sewn goods take over a corner of the Narberth refill shop for three weeks. Browse during store hours, Tuesday to Saturday ten to six and Sunday eleven to four. Closed Mondays.
Ten o'clock start at RiverCrest, played each year in memory of Steven Lampe. Entry money funds the Eastern Pennsylvania Bleeding Disorders Foundation's family support and education work across 41 counties.
Singing and stories for toddlers between one and three, Tuesday mornings at quarter past ten. Half an hour in the Krapf Room, caregivers stay and join in.
The fall storytime session for babies up to a year, five Tuesdays in the community room. Registration opened in early September and the sessions fill.
Short books, songs, action rhymes and movement built for wiggly ones aged eighteen to thirty six months. First forty through the door get in, twice a week in the community education room.
Ms. Rachel runs the preschool session in the community room on Tuesday mornings, half an hour of stories and songs. Water only in the room, everything else stays at the tables.
Library staff read to small children Tuesday mornings in the children's area. Free, no registration, and it runs about half an hour.
Ukulele songs, stories read aloud and a craft, all outside among the garden beds. Suggested age two to four. Thirty minutes on a Tuesday morning, no charge.
The playground storytime again on Manoa Road, ages 0 to 5, blanket recommended. It moves or cancels in bad weather, so check before you walk over.
Open-ended building and tinkering for preschoolers in the library's community room, every other Tuesday morning. Drop in, no registration. Runs about an hour, and the crowd skews toddler through kindergarten.
All-ages storytime with books, rhymes and singing, every Tuesday at 10:30 in the big meeting room.
Simple experiments, sensory play and stories for ages one and two with guest educator Miss Jen. Registration required, and it was close to full.
The Tuesday morning gazebo storytime again: songs, books and room to move around. Thirty minutes, no cost, a two minute walk from the King Street shops.
Ms. Louise runs stories, songs and a craft for children under five, though older kids are welcome. There is a second sitting at one o'clock the same afternoon.
An hour of play based, interactive storytime where the learning happens through the playing. Tuesday late mornings in the large meeting room.
Miss Jackie reads a story and leads silly songs for ages 0 to 5 in the large auditorium. Half an hour on Tuesday mornings, no sign up, all welcome.
A full hour built around play for ages two to five: interactive stories plus parachute games, crafts, music and dancing. Longer than the usual storytime, so plan the morning around it.
Jeff Ziegler talks about Eight Suitcases and a Dog in the Bayard Taylor Reading Room. Eleven in the morning, free, and he stays for questions.
Five weeks of Tuesday storytime for twelve to twenty four month olds in the community room, part of the library's fall session that starts mid September.
An hour of singing with toddlers, which in practice means the adults sing while the toddlers weigh it up. Registration required, and it comes back on September 25.
Geared at pre-walkers and babies not yet steady on their feet, with books, songs and rhymes. Runs twice a week after Toddler Time in the community education room.
An hour of clips and history from Lincoln Center Theater's best known musicals and plays, walked through by a presenter. Thirty five dollars at the Kaiserman JCC in Wynnewood.
Free-form craft time with whatever is on the library's art cart. Drop in, best for ages 3 and up.
A lunchtime book group in the Fullerton Room, held the third Tuesday of every month. Open to anyone who has done the reading, or most of it.
The Central Bucks Chamber's bimonthly networking lunch lands at Maxwell's on Main this round, with member speakers on whatever is moving in local business. Registration required, non-members welcome.
Two and a half hours of tile clacking in the library community room, every Tuesday afternoon through the end of September. Adults, no partner needed, drop in and get seated at a table.
The library's afternoon book group takes on The Wager, David Grann's shipwreck and mutiny account. Read what you got through and come anyway.
Cassie Quigley runs a chair-supported practice for forty-five minutes, Tuesday afternoons in the Krapf Room. No floor work, no equipment, and the room caps small so register early.
A story time built for kids about to start school, with music, creative play and exploration folded in. Forty-five minutes on Tuesday afternoons in the children's department.
A slow guided walk through the woods at Marsh Creek State Park, about an hour, led by park staff. Less hiking than noticing. Dress for the trail.
Work through the herb garden at the Horticultural Society's farm by smell and taste, then harvest what you liked and steep it into tea. Free, ages six to sixteen with an adult.
Tuesday afternoon knitting, two hours in the Pennsylvania Room. Bring your own project.
Third Tuesday afternoon mystery club at the bookshop on Main. Call the store first if you want in, since the porch only holds so many chairs.
Tea in the Logan Inn living room with a tarot reader working the room, Tuesdays three to five. Open to anyone, not just people staying the night, and booking ahead is suggested.
Same farm, midweek hours. The Cedar Knoll Road market stand runs three to six on Tuesdays through October, stocked from the high tunnels and the fields out back.
Home tennis on a Tuesday afternoon against Calvary Christian. Free, quick, and done by five if you want something to do between school and dinner.
All ages, four o'clock on Tuesdays in the main library. Boards are set up, no experience assumed, and the regulars will happily beat you a few times first.
Coach Stafford takes players wherever they are, any age, adults included. Tuesdays for two hours, no registration. Parents stay in the building.
Food artisans and produce growers set up around Town Square on Tuesday evenings into late September. Four hours, local vendors, and the shops on the square stay open while it runs.
Hands on science, engineering and math for first and second graders, an hour in the Community Room. Registration is required and the list fills.
A kids' book club that meets after school every Tuesday for forty-five minutes. Readers work through one title together rather than racing to finish it alone. Held at the library on Swartley Street.
Carve your own mini stamps, ink them, then print your design onto a small tote bag you keep. An hour, registration required.
Kids aged five to ten read aloud to a certified therapy dog for a shared twenty minute session. Call 215-635-5000 to book a slot. The dog does not correct pronunciation.
Grades K through 5 bring cards to show and trade, Pokemon or sports. Kids ten and under need a parent in the room.
Four Tuesdays of knitting for ages eight to twelve with instructor Mariah Stanford, starting from nothing if that is where your kid is. First session is the fifteenth.
Six Tuesday evenings of audition work with Victoria Ann Scovens, for ages thirteen and up. One hour a week at the Playhouse, starting the third week of September.
An hour of trading and battling for kids five and up. Bring your binder.
An hour of trading and battling for ages five and up in the community room. Bring your cards, Tuesday at five, and no registration is needed.
Arch Hunter on how colonies with no navy, no trained officers and no arms industry beat the superpower of the day. Colonial style buffet at 5:45, talk upstairs after. $53.99 all in.
Third Tuesday session of the library's hands-on kids series. New theme each time, one hour, free, in the Lynn Janoff Community Room.
An open writing group led by local author Mark McNease. Fiction, poetry, memoir, or a vague urge to try. You write, read aloud and get responses.
Evening networking in the Buck Family Center for the Arts on the Church Farm School campus, with food and drink included. Free for Main Line Chamber members and twenty five dollars if you are not one.
The last Lebresco date on the Desmond's calendar this season, five thirty to eight thirty. Bill Hake keeps the Wednesday slot going after this one.
The Tuesday evening call for Puffs, the same audition as Sunday in a longer window. Wolf runs its casting out of the Montrose Avenue building off Lancaster.
An hour of building, bricks supplied, on the third Tuesday of the month. It runs from September straight through to March.
Six Tuesday evenings on the fundamentals: line, value, proportion and putting a drawing together. $150 for the session, registration required, classes cap small.
Chester County PA MEDI runs the plain-English version of Medicare enrollment in the Dogwood Room. Six in the evening, free, and nobody in the room is selling a plan.
Young actors invent characters and build scenes from scratch through improv, movement and play. No script to memorize. Runs Tuesday evenings from mid September through late October.
Harlan Coben talks with novelist Alan Drew about Plot Twist and the messy first draft, then takes questions and signs books. Doors at six, talk starts at seven sharp. Ticketed at forty dollars, which includes a signed copy.
Third Tuesday of the month the Rotary works a two hour shift at the food pantry, and the shift is open to volunteers who are not members. They also want twelve count egg cartons.
Last of the Tuesday picnics on the native plant farm off Quarry Road. Bring the food and the company, six to eight, tables and lights already set.
The Teen Zone opens for games on Tuesday nights, Switch and board games both, snacks included. Grades six through twelve and nothing to sign up for.
Bring dinner and eat it out in the field at the conservancy's farm off Quarry Road. Two hours, no program to sit through, just the place while the light goes. Free.
Bring a book you own and paint the page edges with stencils. The library supplies stencils, paint and tools. Ninety minutes in the community room.
Montco Jazz Fest takes the amphitheater at six. Final concert of the borough season, so bring chairs and plan to stay through the whole set.
The library system's town-wide read puts Harlan Coben in conversation with novelist Alan Drew about Plot Twist, then a Q and A and a signing. Forty dollars covers a seat and a pre-signed copy.
Ninety minutes on how Medicare actually works, held at the township center ahead of the fall enrollment window. Useful if you or a parent are turning sixty-five this year.
An hour of English practice around a table in the Harrop Room, led by Kirsten Van Vlandren. Free, eight people to a session, and beginners get the same patience as everyone else.
Tuesday evening golf and wine, six to eight, in the Malvern lounge off Liberty Boulevard. Clubs on hand and no expectation that you have played before.
Three hours of business mingling across Lola's indoor and outdoor rooms at Suburban Square. Tickets run $25 in advance and $30 at the door, and table sponsorships are still open.
Musical theater dance across the decades, six Tuesdays with Victoria Ann Scovens. Ages thirteen and up, one hour a week, straight after the audition prep hour in the same room.
Kids build track in the children's area and race Hot Wheels down it. Tuesday evenings through September, free, and loud in the best way.
Two hours of bingo in the Kings Highway dining room, six to eight, every Tuesday. Come early if you want a table near the caller, and stay for the wings.
Tuesday night club for photographers of any level, running every week at the Ambler branch. Tips, techniques, and honest feedback. No registration required.
Doors at 4:30, first number at 6:30, and at least a thousand dollars in the jackpot every night. The kitchen runs all evening. Bring cash, a dauber and a seat in the hall.
Alcohol ink on paper and tile, with time to try different surfaces and application tricks. Ninety minutes in the Community Makerspace, small artwork to take home.
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton is the September pick. Third Tuesday of the month in the Hessinger Study Room, an hour of talk about it.
A dietitian from Andersons Nutrition talks through what is actually in the bottles and what the labels can and cannot claim. One hour in the Krapf Room, seats limited.
Half an hour of evening stories for any age. Pajamas encouraged, storyhour room.
Penn State Master Gardener Kristi Wenrich on planting so bugs do less damage without a spray schedule. Free, registration required, 24 seats.
Half an hour of stories and rhymes at half past six, for families who cannot make a morning session. Children's area at the Glenside Free Library.
Bring a project, get a beer and a hot dog, sit with other makers at the brewery on Bridge Street. No registration and no sign up, just turn up at half six.
Unrated free play at the Exton Commons club every Tuesday evening, open to all levels and to anyone who wants to sit down at a board. No entry fee and no rating to protect.
Suburban One match in the Pennridge gym against Central Bucks West at 6:30. Field hockey plays outside the same night if you want to split the evening.
The Folksong Society brings its monthly concert to the Royal on a Tuesday evening. Call the venue about tickets before you go, since the listing calls it a member concert.
The folksong society's monthly member night puts two bands and an open mic on the Easton Road stage. Free for PFS members, and the room is small enough that everyone hears everything.
Ninety minutes on foot through Yardley Borough after dark, from Underground Railroad stops to Prohibition-era stories. Starts at the Gather Place Museum, covers about a mile, and takes all ages.
Brett runs the questions in the industrial lounge, free to play, and Ridge Hall's kitchens sit under the same roof if you want dumplings or a lobster roll between rounds.
The after dinner version of storytime at the Glenside branch on South Keswick Avenue. Lands early enough to still get everyone home for bed.
Bind your own journal with a French link stitch. Third Tuesday evening of the month, open to adults and teens, a mile and a half up York Road from Jenkintown.
Two hours of critique and technique with the library photography club, in person and on Zoom. No registration.
Two hours of photo critique and technique in the community room, with a Zoom line for anyone who cannot get there. Tuesday evening, and the group takes beginners.
Mid-September trivia. Dogs are welcome inside and out, which is not true of most trivia nights around here.
A roundtable on what grew and what died this year, plus how to put beds down for winter. Open to anyone, no membership and no registration, just turn up.
A prerelease look at the five-part series Robert May and Barry Levinson filmed over four years here, following two teenage best friends whose families land on opposite sides of everything.
A 1932 Joan Crawford picture that almost never screens, running on 35mm with an introduction by TCM writer Hannah Jack. One night, 7 o'clock.
Cary hosts, and whoever signs up plays. Guitarists, poets, comics, whatever turns up that night. Free and all ages at the Mount Airy Road taproom.
Tuesday quiz night at the sushi and raw bar on East Lancaster, with a $75 gift card for first place and $50 for second. Walk-ins only, no reservations taken.
Grown-ups only Mario Kart on the library's consoles, racing for bragging rights. Ages 18 and up; the library supplies the games and systems.
Riverchasers sets up three or four tables in the restaurant every Tuesday at seven. No money changes hands on the table, and showing up before six thirty starts you with more chips.
Tuesday night trivia in the Fayette Street sports bar, with $4 Woodchuck drafts while you play. Teams turn up early for the long tables, so get there before seven if you want one.
Scott Paul Gordon on what happened when the war reached Bethlehem: a pacifist community told to pick a side or lose everything, and how that year changed the town for good. Free.
Free drop in yoga by the historic water tower at Oakbourne Park, Tuesday evenings into fall. All levels, ages sixteen and up. Bring a mat and something comfortable.
Evening dance-fitness at the Park at 4th, run by Quakertown Borough parks and rec. Ten dollars walk-in, no registration. The series keeps going into fall, weather permitting.
Teams gather at seven in the Skippack Pike taproom for a fresh set of rounds each week. The brewery is bring your own food, so carry something over from a village kitchen.
The fantasy group starts Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy. Buy the pick at Mavey and RSVP online. Space is tight, so RSVP rather than turning up cold.
How Pennsylvania's Moravians tried to stay neutral, and what happened to Bethlehem once troops, prisoners and wounded soldiers filled it. Free, and Historic Trappe runs the lecture series.
Jaimi Vlaanderen runs the questions every Tuesday at seven in the Airport Square beer bar. Come with a team or make one at the bar, and the kitchen stays open the whole time.
An hour of question and answer style discussion on education, once a month on a Tuesday night.
Bring leftover yarn and a project to the large meeting room on Tuesday nights. Marianna, a lifelong library patron, runs it. All skill levels are fine and other fiber crafts are welcome.
A blacklight canvas under UV lamps with an eighties and nineties singalong running behind it. Two hours on a Tuesday, forty five dollars, and the paint reads completely different once the lights go down.
Jazz technique for musical theater with Remy Barson, Tuesdays at half past seven for six weeks. Ages thirteen and up, and late enough that you can eat in town first.
The Hiatus Kaiyote singer and guitarist out on her own. Doors 6:45, music at 7:30, 21 and over. General admission on the floor, booths and a balcony above it.
Perry Hamilton on Penn's Holy Experiment, his treaty with the Lenape and the founding documents that gave Pennsylvania its shape. Free for Heritage Center members, $5 for everyone else.
Weekly Tuesday quiz in the Main Street at Exton center. Join the online waitlist before you drive over if it is a busy night, since the bar does not take bookings.
Eastern University comes up from St. Davids for a 7:30 kickoff under the lights. A short local trip for both benches, which usually shows in the crowd.
Tuesday quizzo at Saloon 151, eight o'clock. Free to enter and the rounds run about two hours.
Free poker at the bar on North Narberth Avenue every Tuesday at eight. Nothing to put in, and the kitchen runs to ten if you want dinner with your cards.
The Moody Blues singer plays the Story In Your Eyes tour, which means Nights in White Satin sung by the man who wrote it.
Tuesday night karaoke on Market Street. Win the week and you are in the running for the grand prize round later on.
Three hours of live band music in the back room of the Court Street Italian place, no cover listed. Kitchen stays open, so dinner and the set run together.
The Moody Blues singer on the Story In Your Eyes tour, playing acoustic and electric. Nights In White Satin is his, and yes he plays it.
Trivia every Tuesday at eight on Montgomery Avenue. Get there early if you want the heated porch, and the late night snack menu runs to eleven on weeknights.
The Florida indie rock band plays a scaled down set, with Jenny Dee opening. Tuesday night, doors 7:30, tickets $29.50 to $56.50.
Mid September hike for adults who want to keep moving and learn something. New theme each week. Free and no sign up required.
Four cans drop at once, including a new Amorphous IPA and a cold IPA. Doors at four on Wednesday, with the A Haven fundraiser night running the same evening.
Gene Tierney in the rare noir shot in colour, and a lake scene that will stay with you. In Glorious Technicolor series.
Five days of Bavarian beer at the brew farm on Almshouse Road in Jamison, ten minutes from Doylestown. Stein holding, German music, and releases you will not find the rest of the year.
Willistown Township's parks steward John Holback walks the preserve at first light, looking for neo-tropical songbirds moving through. Bring binoculars, leave the dog at home, and plan on ages ten and up.
The midweek version of the trail stewardship crew, clearing debris and pulling invasive plants along the Cynwyd Heritage Trail. Two hours, gloves and guidance provided, email ahead if you are bringing a group.
An 8 a.m. referral meeting for veteran business owners and anyone who wants to work with them, held at the 101 West Elm building. Free to attend, with registration through Eventbrite.
Two hours of hands-on native plant work with the Conservancy on Wednesday mornings. The site changes week to week and is posted on the sign-up page, so check before you drive.
Drive-through e-waste drop at White's Road Park, nine to one, one registration per car. Computers, phones and cables go free; printers, monitors and TVs carry a fee.
Four Wednesday mornings of tai chi outdoors among the rhododendrons, an hour each, running September 9 through September 30. Registration goes through the arboretum and the class is capped.
Two hours of knitting in the Chestnut classroom on Wednesday mornings. Drop in, bring what you are working on, and the group has run long enough to have regulars.
Books, rhymes and songs pitched at the pre-walking crowd, every Wednesday morning in the big meeting room.
The Wednesday morning version, half an hour of stories and open play for babies under eighteen months. Krapf Room, caregivers on the floor with them, registration capped.
Thirty minutes of stories aimed at two year olds, Wednesday morning in the community room.
Story time pitched at one-year-olds, half an hour of stories, songs, fingerplays and rhymes. Wednesday mornings in the children's department, with a second session at 10:30.
Mary LaVoie of PA MEDI takes one on one Medicare questions at the library before open enrollment starts. A two hour window, free, and you book a slot in advance.
The parts of Fonthill the standard tour skips, from the tower down to the crypt. Five hours of access on the day, and it is not a walk for bad knees.
Five Wednesday mornings on silverpoint, the Renaissance metal-stylus technique, worked alongside graphite with classical portrait construction underneath it. David Rivera teaches. One seat is $225 and covers the whole run.
Pet themed storytime named for the gecko who actually lives at the library. Thirty minutes of books, rhymes and singing with Miss Ashlee, all ages welcome.
An hour of reading and singing together for little kids, run by the cafe that hires adults with disabilities. Walk in, take a table, stay for a muffin.
Mr. John runs a half hour of crafts with all supplies provided, in the children's makerspace. Free, registration required, and there is a repeat session at six for working parents.
Jan Michener of Arts Holding Hands and Hearts blends yoga and qigong into an hour of movement, breath and attention. Wednesday mornings in the Oak classroom.
An apple story, a few songs and a craft to carry home, aimed at toddlers and preschoolers. Free, one hour, and registration is only needed if you want the craft.
The Wednesday half of toddler storytime for twelve to twenty four month olds. Five weeks in the community room, starting the third week of September.
Two small classes run Wednesday mornings at the Ambler branch, one for beginners and one for conversation practice. Call Anne Hall at the library or email ahead to register before you show up.
Ms. Eileen takes the eighteen to thirty five month range in the community room. Half an hour, siblings of any age welcome, twice most weeks.
Short books, songs, action rhymes and movement built for wiggly ones aged eighteen to thirty six months. First forty through the door get in, twice a week in the community education room.
Half an hour of songs, bounces and movement for babies from birth to two.
Ninety minutes in the Antioch Annex building sandwiches for people who need them. Bring hands, the parish brings the bread. Free and open to anyone who shows up.
A story time built for ones and twos who will not sit still, with movement worked into the half hour. Wednesday mornings in the Story Room.
All-ages storytime with books, rhymes and singing, every Wednesday at 10:30 in the big meeting room.
Kim Slattery runs a modified chair class in the Struble Room, forty-five minutes on mobility, balance and breathing. Beginner friendly, and registration closes two hours before the start.
Families and caregivers with children up to age five drop in and play. Blocks, puzzles, gross motor toys and books are out, and there are other grown ups to talk to.
Wednesday mid-morning in the Budzik Room, stories plus whatever the librarians have cooked up that week. Free, no registration, and it runs about the length of a toddler's patience.
Two midweek morning hours of studio time with easels and company. No instruction, bring whatever you're working on. $15 a visit.
A half hour of simple poses, breathing games and stories with Ms. Courtney, built for small kids. Four Wednesdays run from September into December.
Bring the phone, the laptop, the thing that will not connect, and sit down with the technology librarian. Call ahead to book a slot.
Half an hour of stories and songs for one-and-a-half to three year olds, Wednesday mid-morning in the Krapf Room. Caregivers sit in and take part.
Wednesday morning songs and stories for ages 0 to 5 in the large auditorium, half an hour. No registration, just turn up with a small person.
Kids three to five sit at the Main Pavilion for read-alouds, songs and puppets, outdoors along the Perkiomen Creek. Weather dependent, and the park asks you to email a week ahead.
Songs, crafts, and stories for kids under five with Miss Mackenzie. In warm weather they meet outside at the Narberth Park pavilion, otherwise inside. No registration.
Late morning books, rhymes and singing for the under-five crowd at the Edgewood Road branch. Half an hour, no registration, all ages welcome to tag along.
Half an hour of one-on-one help with a phone, a laptop or whatever else is misbehaving, on a library machine or your own device. Register first and say what you want covered.
The second September run of the toddler movement hour: music, stretching and an excuse to burn off a morning indoors. Registration required, one hour, no charge.
Songs, crafts and stories for kids from birth to five. Warm sunny mornings move it outside to the pavilion in Narberth Park, rain sends it back indoors. No registration.
A weekly half hour for three to five year olds, stories plus something to do with their hands.
Six week Wednesday cycle working through a sequence of eighteen moves, one hour each week. Open to any fitness level and the whole form can be done seated. Register through the township.
Built for eighteen months to five years with a grown up in the room, this is the one where the caregiver is meant to join in rather than watch from a chair.
A picture book from the children's library, then an art project sized for small hands and tied to the story. Ages three to five with a grown up. Walk ins as space allows.
Gem the therapy dog holds court in the children's room on Wednesday mornings. Kids read a book out loud to a listener who never corrects them.
The Kids' Zone opens for free play twice a week after storytime. Half an hour, drop in, and the fastest way to burn off a morning indoors.
Wednesday morning songs and instruments for babies and toddlers, held in the meeting room at the processing center rather than the main library. September only.
A midday networking lunch at the Limekiln Pike country club, open to anyone who registers. The club sits inside Glenside and runs occasional public dates like this one.
The older end of the storytime ladder, three and a half to five years, in the Krapf Room on Wednesday mornings through September.
Ambient sets over the lunch hour in the VCAM presentation lounge, Wednesdays at noon through the end of September. An hour of music, then back to whatever you were doing.
Noon sets at Railroad Plaza every Wednesday in September, run by the borough parks department. Grab lunch on Main Street, sit outside for an hour, then go back to work.
Lunch-hour public speaking practice at the library, every Wednesday. Free to attend as a guest.
Committee chairs lay out the service projects coming this year, new members get inducted, and September birthdays get Bundt cake. Guests welcome, sixteen dollars for lunch.
New this fall at the Fairview Avenue Y: a ninety minute canvas painting class for adults, twelve thirty to two on a Wednesday. Registration goes through the Y.
WHYY runs a moderated room on whether Montgomery County actually works for its oldest residents, from housing to ageism. Adults, one hour, free, and registration goes through WHYY.
An Alzheimer's Association group run by trained facilitators for family and friends caring for someone with dementia. Third Wednesday of the month through December.
The chief curator walks through how artists from Leutze onward have pictured Washington crossing the Delaware. An hour, Wednesday at one.
The Wednesday afternoon shift of the library fiber crowd, ninety minutes in the program room. Bring a project, borrow an idea, and nobody checks whether you finish anything.
The adult book group takes on the month's pick at one in the afternoon. The title list lives on the library blog, and they ask you to register so they can count chairs.
Ninety minutes covering the basics, mouse to browser, in the community room on a Wednesday afternoon. Built for people starting from zero, and it costs nothing.
Two hours of tiles every Wednesday afternoon, running from September straight through December. Regulars will walk a newcomer through a hand.
A free hour walking the woodland garden with staff every Wednesday afternoon, different things in bloom each week. Forty-eight acres of native plantings under oak canopy.
Two hours of open Mahjong at the library every Wednesday. Tiles and tables are there, experienced players will answer questions, and watching is fine.
The daytime reading group meets the third Wednesday of the month at 1:30 in the Burke Room. New members are welcome and registration is asked for.
Safe Kids Chester County runs a free car seat check at the West Whiteland fire house, two o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon. Bring the seat and the car it lives in.
September's novel is Trespasses, set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. This is the Wednesday afternoon sitting, the quietest of the four the shop runs on this title.
A ninety minute cooking class from the food bank's Eat Fresh programme, built around Pennsylvania grown produce and the dishes students actually cook at home.
The Lower Merion market runs Wednesday afternoons in the plaza at One Bala, about seven minutes from Narberth. Smaller than the Thursday Narberth market and easier to park at.
Paint for two hours in the living room of a 1727 inn, every Wednesday afternoon. Open to the public with no reservation required, though space is tight and the inn suggests booking ahead.
Two hours of writing in response to what is on the walls. New program, ten dollars for members and twenty two for everyone else.
Two hours on Wednesday afternoons for knitters, crocheters, quilters and embroiderers. Bring your own project and supplies, there is no instruction.
An open craft studio for ages 13 and up with hot glue guns, woodburners, modeling knives and the library's 3D printer. Bring whatever project you are stuck on.
Phones down, craft supplies out, tweens and teens in the young adult area for ninety minutes. Wednesdays after school, free, no sign up needed.
Central Bucks East visits the Pennridge fields for a 3:30 kickoff on a Wednesday afternoon. Early enough that you can still get into town for dinner after.
The second September session of the library's teen campaign, guest dungeon masters running the table for grades six through eight. Registration opens ahead of the date.
A reading themed Badge Squad with the Born to Read, Serial Madness and Reading Rebel badges, plus a visit from Gordy, the gecko who lives at the county library.
Bubble science for grade schoolers in the Community Room, a 4:30 after-school slot in the library's Curiosity Club lineup.
A running campaign for ages thirteen and up in the library program room, played with DnDBeyond. No experience needed, ten seats, and you register for each week you want.
Steaks from five, trivia from seven to nine at the Elm Avenue club. Open to the public, teams form on the spot, and the questions lean local more often than not.
Community night for the girls program, JV first and varsity after, against Central Bucks West. Five o'clock start on Lower Road, tickets through the school box office.
Stephanie Van Huss works on movement and presence with actors and anyone who has to speak in public. Six Wednesday hours starting mid-September, ages thirteen and up.
Bill Monach hosts three hours of open mic at the taproom on Penns Trail, five to eight on Wednesdays. Bring an instrument, or come for the early set and a pint.
A Haven hosts the fundraiser evening, five until eight, on the same day four new cans go on sale at the counter. Worth timing your visit around both.
Guest bartenders work the Locust Lane bar for three hours and every cash tip goes to A Haven. A twenty dollar Community Cup sends ten more. RSVP through the nonprofit before you go.
Book club for 4th through 7th graders in the Community Room: this month it's Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, with snacks and an activity. Registration requested.
The Wednesday supper starts back up for the fall in Congregational Hall, five thirty to seven. Sit-down food at long tables, and you do not have to belong to anything.
Brian Jones runs an interactive session on the traps that eat a manager's day and how to spot them early. Ninety minutes in the Burke Meeting Room.
Before the varsity game the seniors each honor a teacher they connected with over their years here. JV at 5:30, varsity at 7. Doors open at 5, tickets are nonrefundable.
Kids learn about Skee Ball and the ChompSaw, both local inventions, then use the ChompSaw to build their own Skee Ball game. Ninety minutes, registration required.
Back in the grille for the night, five thirty to eight. Acoustic Wednesday music at the Desmond off Liberty Boulevard, with dinner service running the whole time.
Third Wednesday club, half past five, on the porch of the Main Street bookshop. Early enough to still get dinner in town afterward.
Rose Lang of Resilience with Rose runs an hour on getting through a big transition, working out what you want next and taking the first step toward it.
Yoga Home teachers run an all levels class on the grass at six, with a rotating roster so you get a different voice most weeks. Ten dollars to drop in. Bring a mat and water.
Standing Wednesday open mic downtown, six to nine. Sign up with the host, play a couple of songs, hand the stage over.
Local musicians play the tavern from six to nine on Wednesday nights, with the full dinner menu running alongside. No cover named, and the patio stays open while the weather holds.
Wednesday night trivia runs six to eight at the tavern on Kings Highway. Teams form at the bar, the kitchen stays open, and the questions start on time.
First of three Wednesday sessions for business owners, six to eight. Hands on rather than theory, and the run continues on the twenty third and thirtieth.
Wednesday night at six under the lights at Draper Walsh Stadium, Immaculata hosting Bryn Mawr College. Two Main Line-adjacent programs that have played each other for years.
Short films on the removal of four Klamath River dams and the Indigenous tribes who pushed for it, screened with Stroud Water Research Center. Auditorium, six in the evening, free.
The Blue Jays' first home volleyball match of the season, on the Fox Chase Road campus. College sport ten minutes from the middle of town, and the gym is small enough to hear everything.
Weekly quiz night in the taproom at six on Wednesdays. Team up, order a KSQ Brew'd and settle in. Free to play, and the kitchen runs the whole way through.
Twelve-week screenwriting course taught by Jeff Bender of Ursinus College, capped at nine people, meeting Wednesday evenings in the Colonial's Garden Suite from mid-September.
Second Valerio date on the fall calendar, this one a Wednesday, six to nine in the bar. Free and easy to drop into after work.
Bring whatever you are reading and read it quietly next to other people doing the same. Two hours in the Bayard Taylor Reading Room, monthly through December.
Ninety minutes of drawing in the Teen Zone on Wednesday evenings. Bring a sketchbook and whatever you are working through.
Tabletop roleplaying every other Wednesday evening, two hours a session. No registration required, which is rare for a game night, so you can just turn up.
Open a first pack or bring a deck you have been building for years. Two hours to play, trade and learn the rules from people who already know them. Families welcome.
A ninety-minute walk through West Chester built around the epidemics that shaped the borough, on a different route from last year's version. Wednesday evenings from the History Center on North High Street.
Local rivalry on the Glenside turf, Arcadia against Gwynedd Mercy from up in Lower Gwynedd. Wednesday night at six, on the field beside the Delran Pavilion.
A weekly evening yoga hour at the library, open to whoever turns up with a mat. It runs Wednesdays into November. No session on September 9.
A public townhall on the PA PFAS Multi-Site Study, held in the high school. Anyone following the township's long-running water story can hear where the health research stands and ask questions in person.
The Fund for Women and Girls screens excerpts from the Moms First documentary, then opens the floor to local groups working on caregiving. Free, with seats reserved ahead at thefundcc.org.
Weekly general trivia in the taproom. Six thirty to eight thirty, no cover, and Levante's own beer on all twenty-odd lines.
The group cooks from one book a month, and September is My Harvest Kitchen by Gesine Bullock-Prado. Members pick a recipe, make it at home and bring it in to share.
Eight weeks of outdoor cornhole on the front patio off Ridge Pike, run with Longshot Cornhole. Teams of two to four, competitive and rec divisions, every team makes the playoffs. Registration closes September 6.
Mid-September trivia at the brewery tap room, six thirty. The Elm Street location is the original of the four Conshohocken Brewing rooms.
The Wednesday run of Yardley Borough's lantern walk, same route along the canal and Main Street. About a mile at a slow pace, and there is a second departure at eight.
Beginner chess in the reading room, an hour every Wednesday evening.
Ninety minutes on hormone health, lymphatic drainage and face yoga in the shop's Amethyst Room. Sixty five dollars, booking required, and the room is small.
The New Play Theatrical Club stages original short plays by local writers as part of the Philadelphia Fringe, the first time Kennett has been on that map. Free, registration required.
The New Play Theatrical Club reads and works up original one-acts headed for the Fringe. Writers, actors, directors and anyone who likes theatre can sit in. Ten seats, registration required.
Four Wednesday evenings with Pete DeMeo on how voiceover work actually gets booked. Two hours a week at the Playhouse on Main Street, ages sixteen and up.
Wednesday evenings in the reading room, learning the pieces or sharpening what you already know. All ages welcome, though players under thirteen need an adult along. No registration and no fee.
Third Wednesday romance group on Paisley Hope's Kentucky ranch novel. Free, open to the public, book discounted at the register.
Eight rounds every Wednesday, one built on audio clips and one printed visual round, questions from all over. Beer brewed on site and a kitchen running until close.
Mid-September open mic at Station 142. Four hours of rotating players on a stage with proper sound, sign-up through the venue site.
Hojalata is the Mexican folk art of embossing and punching thin sheets of tin. This session works in aluminum foil instead. Registration is required and the room gets messy, so dress for it.
Wednesday open stage in the cellar bar. Bring an instrument, a poem, a comedy bit, or nothing at all. Free, hosted by Michael Henry Robert.
The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival documentary, screening here as part of the Montco Jazz Festival. Evening start at 7, one showing.
A Wednesday night meadow canvas with an upgrade option for a larger board. Two hours at the Leedom Street studio, which is about a five minute walk from the Jenkintown train station.
Pat runs a themed trivia round with music mixed in at the Mount Airy Road taproom. Free, all ages, two hours, so grab a table before seven.
An hour of making something in the community room, materials laid on, aimed at adults rather than kids. One of the few evening things running midweek out here.
Becky Diamond on the tavern near Independence Hall where the founders argued over ale and Madeira. Seven o'clock in the meeting room, registration required.
The Museum of the American Revolution traces how a document written out of a colonial rebellion became one of the most quoted statements of political rights anywhere.
People's Light opens its 2026/27 season with Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer winner Topdog/Underdog, September 16 through October 11, with Akeem Davis starring and Amina Robinson directing. The September 23 performance is a $30 Community Curtain night, and Thursday shows end with a post-show discussion.
A twenty-year-old Peruvian vocalist singing Tony Bennett, free, at the township rec center. Montgomeryville is about seven minutes east of North Wales on Horsham Road. Beltran sang on NBC's The Voice.
Local novelist Lee Kelly runs the talk, and September's book is The Measure by Nikki Erlick. Third Wednesday of the month, free to join, buy a glass of something to keep it going.
Mid-September trivia at Stable 12. Jumbo projection in the back room, which also makes it the game-day spot.
Steve Tourison hosts the sign-up sheet every Wednesday at seven. Bar seating is first come, first served, and the late-night menu carries you past nine if the room keeps going.
Fourth through seventh graders get their own fall kickoff in the gym classroom at seven. Follows the Wednesday dinner downstairs, so families can make one trip of it.
Free to play, two hours of it, prizes for the winners. Kids are welcome, and the dollar wing night runs the same evening if you get there before the cards come out.
The 1979 cycling film, all limestone quarries and bike racing, gets the movie club slot on a Wednesday night. Two hours in the restored 260-seat house on North State Street.
There is a real stage built into the back of the cheesesteak shop, and the sign-up list runs until everyone has played. Wednesdays only, and it goes late.
Three hours of whoever signs up, Wednesday nights at the East Lancaster Avenue bar. Players can email music@go2borough.com ahead. Walk-ins only for everyone else, so come early for a table.
Messiah is one of the tougher names on the field hockey schedule, and this one is a Wednesday night game at Snell. Bring a chair if you want the good sideline.
Guitar, bass and John Swana on electronic valve instrument, in the York Road taproom, no cover. One of roughly a dozen Montco Jazz Fest stops spread across the county that week.
How teens earn service hours at the library, laid out for parents and their grades six to twelve kids. Useful if Key Club or National Honor Society hours are due.
Barbara Stanwyck teaches slang to a houseful of professors, 1941, script by Billy Wilder. One Wednesday evening screening with Cinema Studies notes.
Trivia every Wednesday at 7:30 in the big Fayette Street pub. Bring a team, grab a table on the bar side, and settle in for a couple of hours of arguing about answers.
Questions start at 7:30 on Wednesday nights in the bar, hosted by Jon Geiger. The dining room shuts at nine but the bar runs to midnight, so a bad round costs you nothing.
Thirty-plus years in, the alt-rock band still tours hard and the crowd still sings every word back. Open Air Theatre, and the ticket covers gardens admission all day.
Mid-September Wednesday quiz night on Madison Street. Free to play, prizes each round, and the kitchen runs its full menu alongside.
Six Wednesday evenings on reading the night sky, from constellations to deep sky objects, with observing at the Pleiades Observatory when skies allow. Adults and students sixteen and up.
Standing Wednesday quizzo at Barnaby's. Seven thirty, free, 15 S High Street.
Doors at 7:15, lottery sign ups at 7:30, first act at eight. Musicians, poets and comics each get ten to twelve minutes on a full backline. Free to sit and listen.
Texas psychobilly institution The Reverend Horton Heat plugs in at Sellersville Theater on September 16. Jim Heath has been snapping upright-bass rockabilly into overdrive since the mid-80s, and the 1894 room will feel it.
Free every Wednesday at the nonprofit music room on South Easton Road. Doors at 7:15, lottery sign-up, first performer at 8. Bring an instrument or just a seat.
Wednesday music bingo downtown. Eight o'clock at Saloon 151, free, and the song list skews toward whatever the room knows.
Mid-September Wednesday trivia at Side Bar. Standing weekly game in the middle of the Gay Street block.
Good Grief tour stop from the soul songwriter. Doors 7:15, music at 8, 21 and over, a short walk from the Ardmore train station.
Weekly karaoke in the Main Street at Exton shopping center, eight-thirty on a Wednesday. No cover and no reservations, so join the online waitlist if it looks busy.
Deep sky objects and planets viewed from the library terrace after closing, using electronically assisted astronomy. Doors lock at 9pm, so get upstairs by 8:55.
Wednesday karaoke at Ryan's on West Gay, ten o'clock, no cover. The far end of the block from Kildare's, if you want to compare.
Wednesday pong at the Gay Street pub, ten o'clock. No cover, sign-up at the bar.
Wes Anderson's second film, opening the Colonial's Back to School series. Jason Schwartzman at fifteen, running every club at once.
Four days of independent film at the Colonial, with filmmaker panels, workshops, after-parties and an awards ceremony. Fourth year running.
Four days of dressage, cross country and show jumping over the Green Valley Road fields, with a country fair running alongside the four star competition. Walking the cross country course is the point.
Montgomery Theater's fall mainstage is Dear Jack, Dear Louise, running September 17 through October 11. Ken Ludwig's two-hander follows his own parents' WWII courtship, carried out letter by letter between an Army doctor and a Brooklyn actress.
Ken Ludwig wrote this one about his own parents, an army doctor in Oregon and an actress in New York who court each other entirely by letter through the war.
Thousands of years of housecats, told by the local historian who also runs the town's haunted history nights. Phoenixville NextWave puts it on, Thursday evening.
Thursday mornings through fall migration you can stand at the nets while researchers band songbirds and read the numbers back. Three hours, free, right beside the organic farm fields.
Friends of Exton Park lead a 1.5 mile loop around the old Church Farm Pond and its wetland, looking for seasonal birds. Figure on two hours. Park in the gravel lot off Swedesford Road.
The Thursday shift of the same garden crew, three hours pulling, planting and cutting back across forty-two acres. Grab gloves and turn up.
An hour walking through Medicare parts, enrolment windows and what the supplements actually cover. Morning session at the Great Valley Community Organization; the same talk repeats that evening.
The parts of Fonthill the standard tour skips, from the tower down to the crypt. Five hours of access on the day, and it is not a walk for bad knees.
Twenty minutes of lap bounces, rhymes and fingerplays for babies up to twenty three months. Older siblings can come along, and are asked to bring a stuffed animal to play caregiver.
Miss Emma works through a different musical genre each week with babies under eighteen months, plus a story to match. Half an hour Thursday mornings in the Krapf Room.
The morning version of the same class, Thursdays from mid-September through the end of October, seventy-five minutes in the garden.
Half an hour of singing, shakers, and moving around for kids two to six, in the children's area. Free, and the room clears out by eleven.
An informal playgroup where young children and their caregivers meet other families and learn by playing. Forty five minutes, twice a week, no performance required from anyone.
The Intergenerational Kennett Community Coffee Klatch meets Thursday mornings in the Oak classroom. A social group with an agenda, and coffee.
Fifteen to twenty minutes of books, music, rhymes and lap bounces, then play time with sensory toys. Best for babies up to twenty three months, older siblings welcome.
Small kids pick pretend apples off the park's trees, hear an apple story and make a craft to take home. Ages three to six with an adult, three dollar craft fee, second slot at 1pm.
A weekly crafting group in the Burke Room. Bring your own knitting, crochet, drawing or anything portable and talk while you work. Sixteen and up, no registration.
Early literacy for infants, half an hour of stories and music in the Struble Room. Built for the age before talking, when the language goes in anyway.
Weekly Thursday volunteering, cutting and weaving plastic bags into sleeping mats for people without housing.
The Thursday sitting of storytime for two and three year olds, five weeks in the community room. Same programme as Wednesday, different day.
The Thursday morning slot for three-and-a-half to five year olds, half an hour of stories, singing and activities with caregivers sitting in. Krapf Room, seats capped.
A story and easy poses on the grass for young kids and whoever brought them, forty-five minutes. Stay after and walk the garden paths.
The morning half of the library's needlework habit. Knitters, crocheters and menders around one table for an hour on Thursdays. Walk in with your own project.
Thirty minutes of books, rhymes, singing and movement, aimed at ages two to five with everyone else welcome. Runs Thursday mornings through September.
Thirty minutes for three-year-olds, stories and songs and fingerplays keyed to the state early learning standards. Thursday mornings in the children's department.
Thursday's quieter storytime under the gazebo, built for kids who need to wiggle. Half an hour of songs and books, and the rest of the park is right there after.
Half an hour of books, rhymes, singing and movement, aimed at ages two to five with all ages welcome. Free, and the branch sits about four minutes up the road from Sellersville.
The last September Thursday sitting of the outdoor storytime on Manoa Road. Half an hour of songs and books, weather permitting, blanket recommended.
An hour of introductions and partner tables for local employers at the Brandywine Center, then a job fair from 12:30 to three. Both halves are free, run by PA CareerLink Chester County.
Short story discussion for adults, third Thursday of the month in the Bayard Taylor Reading Room. Stories are handed out ahead of time, free, registration required.
The Thursday morning story hour, one of two the library runs each week. Picture books, a song or two, and a rug full of preschoolers. Free and weekly through September.
Songs and stories for ages 0 to 5 in the large auditorium, half an hour, no sign up. Thursday mornings run through late October, with a break the week the craft tables come out.
The music class for eighteen months to two and a half years, exploring a new genre each week with Miss Emma. Follows the baby class on Thursday mornings.
A monthly gathering for people living with dementia and the people caring for them, with refreshments and activities. Register with Sharon Pachler by text or phone.
The Wedding People by Alison Espach, discussed in store at eleven on a Thursday morning. An hour, then you are back out with the rest of your day.
Thursday morning stories, songs and rhymes in the large meeting room. Best for kids under five with a caregiver, and older siblings can come too. No sign-up needed.
Geared at pre-walkers and babies not yet steady on their feet, with books, songs and rhymes. Runs twice a week after Toddler Time in the community education room.
Storytime for three to five year olds, five Thursdays in the community room. The last stop before kindergarten, and the loudest of the fall sessions.
Singing, dancing and rhythm games for ages zero to five, an hour and a quarter of it. Grown-ups are expected to move too. Free, no registration, Thursday mornings straight through September.
A gardener walks you through the ornamental kitchen garden for half an hour, then a chef puts five courses on the table built from what came out of it. One long table, 150 dollars a seat.
Free seminar and lunch at the community center on organizing your documents, pre planning funeral costs, veterans benefits and the Medicaid five year look back. Membership not required, but register by the thirteenth.
Grown-ups only, noon in the community room, with the library supplying the project and the table space. Free, and it lands on the third Thursday of the month.
Ninety minutes for active older adults to meet the staff and hear what the Fairview Avenue Y is running this fall. Noon to one thirty on a Thursday.
The school's free lunchtime concert, this month handed to its jazz trio. Doors at noon, music ten minutes later. Bring lunch or takeout. Trappe is a few minutes up Main Street from Collegeville.
Bring lunch from home or grab takeout, then sit down for an hour of jazz from the school's faculty trio. Doors at noon, music at 12:10, free, part of the county jazz festival.
The John Coltrane documentary screened at 12:15 in the Zlock center on the Bucks County Community College campus off Swamp Road, part of the college's jazz centennial series.
Second week of the storytime series that gives three to five year olds plain language for feelings and boundaries, with follow-up ideas for caregivers. Thirty-five minutes, registration required.
Half an hour of books and songs for preschoolers and younger with Ms. Dawnita. Registration is recommended, and a note goes out each week with what is planned.
The Thursday repeat of the chair-supported practice with Cassie Quigley, forty-five minutes after lunch. Modified poses using a chair, no floor work, and the room fills.
Two hours on what volunteering at the Dublin Road campus actually involves: leading house tours, staffing the gift shop, helping run the holiday craft show. Reserve a spot first.
Staff from state Representative Greg Scott's district office keep hours in the library community room, one o'clock on a Thursday afternoon. Walk in with whatever state paperwork has you stuck.
The older half of the homeschool programme at the county library, an hour in the Struble Room a week after the K to 2 session.
First of three Thursday sittings on Trespasses. One in the early afternoon, one at three, one at seven, all on the same book, so pick the hour that fits.
The museum's director walks the refreshed Byers Gallery and talks through works new to the collection. One hour, fifteen dollars for members.
Bring whatever you are already working on and spend an hour with other crafters in Study Room 3. Adults, free, every Thursday at two through the fall.
Three hours with Dr. Deb Davies on acupressure points for labor and birth, aimed at doulas, midwives and parents-to-be. Around sixty dollars, tickets through Eventbrite.
Growers, bakers and makers set up in the tree grove across from Restaurant Row. Lineups rotate weekly, so expect some mix of local produce, sourdough, cut flowers, honey and something hot to eat.
The market left Town Square this year and now sets up in the library lot on Route 611. Produce from Herrcastle Farm, sourdough from Mockingbird Bakery, honey, wine, bacon on a stick.
Thursday afternoon market at Station Circle, three until seven, produce and prepared food in the shadow of the train station. Easy stop on the walk home from the platform.
Jigsaw puzzles and popcorn in the Logan Inn living room, Thursdays three to five. Free to join whether or not you are a hotel guest, and the Whiskey Lounge opens at five.
Chinese-style mahjong with house rules, every Thursday from three to four in the community room. Regulars will walk a newcomer through it. Email the library if you have questions.
Big Red Bites holds the Thursday slot again, three to roughly eight. Bring your own food if you would rather, the taproom has never minded.
Big Red Bites parks at the brewery every Thursday afternoon through mid September, three until roughly eight. A standing reason to make the four minute drive over from Sellersville.
A Penn Medicine health educator walks through how to tell good online health information from bad. One hour, no registration, part of the adult learning series.
Middle school field hockey at home, running alongside the varsity soccer game. Seventy five minutes, and the kind of afternoon where half the town seems to be on the field.
Varsity soccer at home against Delco Christian, one of two Drakes games on the campus that afternoon. Nothing to pay and nothing to book.
Third Thursday of the garden yoga series, four to five in the Patricia D. Pfundt Sculpture Garden. Advance payment through Dragonfly Yoga Studio.
Uncle Vin's takes the Thursday slot in the Ten7 lot. Four o'clock start, taproom open until nine, and the food comes from a window rather than a kitchen.
Decorate a pumpkin with pressed flowers under the greenhouse roof and take it home for the porch. Two seatings, 4 and 6.
Halal food and gyros from King Gyro outside the brewery on a Thursday. Crowlers and four-packs at the bar if you would rather take the beer home.
Order anything at the Lindenwold Avenue cafe between four and eight, tell the staff you are there for the library, and part of your check goes to the Ambler branch. Takeout counts.
An hour of loud, hands on science experiments about states of matter and pressure, with kids pulled up from the audience to help. Registration is preferred but not required.
A sociologist from Florida International University speaks in the Gest Center late on a Thursday afternoon, part of Haverford College's Distinguished Visitors series. Ninety minutes, a mile and a half from Ardmore.
The senior center's third Thursday evening turns into a health fair, with tables from local providers to walk between and ask questions at. Two hours, and the building stays open late for it.
Conference field hockey at four on a Thursday against Millersville. Vonnie Gros Field is named for the coach who built the program, and the sideline is free.
The castle museum stays open into the evening on the third Thursday, three hours to walk the medieval collection without the daytime crowd. Bryn Athyn is a short drive up Old York Road.
The club's social meeting, third Thursday of the month at the Trolley Barn. Guests are welcomed, so it is an easy way to see what the Rotary actually does around here.
The older half of the STEM program, third through fifth graders, in the Community Room after school. Registration runs through the library calendar.
Weekly Thursday mah jongg at the library. Community room, quarter to five, no charge.
State Street closes to cars from five until ten so the restaurants can put tables in the road. Shops stay open late, bands play, pop-up vendors set up, kids have their own corner.
Fire and police chiefs work the bar and compete for tips, all of it going to the Crime Victims' Center of Chester County. Indoors, rain or shine, five to eight.
North Penn in the Pennridge gym at five, earlier than the usual weeknight start time. The two schools sit about fifteen minutes apart, so both sides travel well.
Cruisin' Classics fills the Caln Village lot with old iron for three hours on a Thursday evening. Free to look, and the shopping center sits right on Lancaster Avenue west of town.
Ninety minutes walking the hedgerows with a clinical herbalist, looking at what is worth picking in September and what to do with it once you have it.
Four nights of rides, games and fire company food on East Hector Street, opening at five on Thursday and running through Sunday evening.
Two hours of modern board games for adults in the community room, every other Thursday. Games are there, you just need to turn up.
A movie for kids in the library auditorium at quarter past five. Free, and early enough that bedtime survives it.
Opening night for artist in residence Jaye Tremille-McNair's fall textile exhibit, two hours with the work and the person who made it. Free, in the Gladwyne meeting room.
Randy Flood on Kings Mountain, Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse, the fighting that pushed Cornwallis north to Yorktown. Doors at 5:30, an 18th century buffet at six, the talk after. Tickets $59.
Illustrator Jason Rodriguez teaches a Marvel focused drawing class, formal lesson first and then open drawing time while he works the room. Register the teens only.
Thursday Magic the Gathering night, two and a half hours in the reading room.
Monthly evening book group for adults. Relaxed, one Thursday a month, drinks in hand.
The same one-on-one tech help as the Wednesday session, moved to the end of the day. Bring the device and one specific question. Registration keeps the half hour yours.
Live local artists every Thursday evening in the Red Fox Lounge, five thirty until seven thirty. Small room, so arriving early is the move.
Two and a half hours of Magic: The Gathering in the reading room every Thursday evening. Learners welcome, and players under thirteen need an adult in the building. No fee.
Coach Jack runs the club in the children's department for ages six to twelve, beginners included. Registration required, caregivers stay in the room, waitlist gets called after 5:45.
A talk on the war's southern theatre in the taproom of an eighteenth century inn. Dinner service runs alongside, so book a table if you want to eat.
State Street closes at five and the restaurants put tables out on the road. Reserve ahead with Lily, La Verona, Portabellos, Trattoria La Tavola or Sweet Amelia's if you want one outside.
New Hope Arts runs its yearly fundraiser as a 1926 speakeasy at Aldie Mansion: big band, dancing, dinner and auctions. Money goes toward a new canal level community and education center.
The library breaks out the Master Edition of Trivial Pursuit for an evening game in the meeting room. Free, adults, no bar tab required.
Young adult novelist Abbey Nash walks grades 7 through 12 through building characters and scenes across two hours. Materials are supplied, registration is required and seats are limited.
Name the song, mark the card, hosted by Jaimi Vlaanderen every Thursday at six. Wings and a wall of televisions out on West Swamp Road, well past the borough line.
Crabs, beer and barbecue at Normandy Farm in Blue Bell, ten minutes west of Ambler. Six to nine, no etiquette enforced.
Three hours every Thursday night with Griffin Horn, six weeks running. Ages sixteen and up, and the longest session on the Playhouse's autumn class list.
An evening writing hour in the library community room. Come with a project or take the prompt they hand you. Registration required, one hour, free.
Thursday nights in the STEAM Lab, adults play through the library's collection of modern hobby games. Newcomers get pointed at a good starting place. No registration, stay as long as you want.
September's veterans hour at Artillery's West Chester taproom. One hour, same time every month, open to anyone who served.
A six-part series run by Changing Shoes on planning, the dying process, after-death arrangements, legacy and the spiritual side of it. Two hours on alternate Thursday evenings into November.
Two hours under the pavilion building a fall arrangement, led by the owner and lead designer from Flowers from 12ths. Adults only, eighty-five dollars for residents and ninety-five otherwise.
Carolee Rand and Bob McCluskie play old American square dance tunes on fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin and ukulele. Carolee calls a Virginia reel, and dancers are welcome in the cafe.
Free swing dance lesson at six, then a nine-piece band until nine. Kate Holden and Mike McDermott teach the beginners and dance a choreographed number in the set. No cover.
An hour on what it would actually take to put people back on the moon and keep them there, and what stands in the way. Burke Meeting Room.
Saint Francis comes east across the state for a Thursday evening kickoff on Jean Lenox West Field. Six o'clock, on campus off South Easton Road with the castle in the background.
The Berman Museum throws open its fall season Thursday, Sept. 17 from 6 to 8, centered on Rebecca Rutstein's Universal Nature and its hanging centerpiece Flow, hundreds of nickel-plated steel discs suspended in the atrium. Free, with light refreshments, and the show itself hangs through Nov. 24.
First of four talks on Howe's march through southeastern Pennsylvania, six to seven thirty. Brandywine, the Battle of the Clouds and Paoli, laid out with maps and slides.
Bring your own yarn and whatever you have half finished. No instruction and no registration, just the program room and other people who know what a magic loop is.
Vocalist Cindy King and her band play the dining room for three hours with no cover. First Avenue, a block off Fayette. Book a table if you want to sit down to eat.
Learn to take cuttings and root them so one plant turns into several. Ninety minutes on a Thursday evening downstairs at the Cricket Avenue plant shop. Register ahead, seats are limited.
An evening walk through the New Leaf Sensory Garden, built for kids and adults who want a quieter, slower outdoor space. Free, six in the evening, four Thursdays running.
Third Thursday of the September series at Broad Commons Park. Music starts at six with food trucks and a beverage tent. Bring a chair or a blanket.
A free seminar on how Medicare works, what Part D covers, and where supplements differ from Advantage plans. Run by DelVal Senior Advisors in the township's main meeting room. Registration required.
Open chess at the Glenside branch on South Keswick Avenue. Boards are set out, opponents turn up, and no rating or club membership comes into it.
An hour on wild edible plants at the Creamery beer garden, half six to half seven. Aimed at people who have never foraged anything.
Tara Bane comes to the shop on South Eagle Road to talk about her new memoir, Evolution of a Heart. Thursday evening, one hour, in store.
Bingo runs Thursday evenings from six thirty, no cover, prizes on the line and the kitchen going the whole time. About ten minutes south of Sellersville on Hilltown Pike.
Build a fifteen inch crescent moon wreath out of foraged moss, woodland mushrooms, dried botanicals and crystals. Ticket covers materials, instruction and one drink. Ages fifteen up.
Bucks Country Gardens walks you through building a fall container that survives past October, and you leave with the planter. Ninety minutes on a Thursday evening on North Easton Road.
Turn old books into something else. This month it is a modular ornament folded from book pages. No experience needed, third Thursday through December.
An hour the township sets aside for trading, battling and comparing binders. Bring your deck and your doubles, and expect the room to be mostly elementary schoolers on a Thursday night.
Thursday quiz night in the bar at Ron's, two hours flat. Teams of four or five do best. The gluten-free menu is real here if that matters to somebody in your group.
Two hours on the wheel on Thursday nights, part of a six week run open to every level. Advance registration required, and the studio sits mid-village on Skippack Pike.
Grammy winner Dan Zanes, jazz vocalist Claudia Zanes and singer Tyree Austin play a sensory-friendly family set. Members-only hours, so a Longwood membership is what gets you in.
Third Thursday: a featured poet reads first, then the floor opens to anyone who brought something. Six thirty, no fee, no sign-up ahead of time.
Four rounds of movie and television questions in the theater lobby, run by Play it Out Games. Free to play, prizes each round and a grand prize at the end. Play one round or all four, solo or as a team.
Real clues from the Jeopardy writers' room, team play and a prize every week. Happy hour runs four to six if you want to warm up before the seven o'clock start.
Contestants take the stage for presentations and interviews ahead of the October fair, and the ceremony dedicates this year's fair to Meredith and Becky Bailey. No ticket needed. Unionville is a few minutes north of Kennett Square.
Seven o'clock Thursday trivia at Station 142 on East Market, an hour earlier than the Gay Street rounds, so you can play here and still make one of those.
An hour on one book in the Pennsylvania Room, third Thursday of the month. Open to anyone.
One hour of free water ice and ice cream on South Clinton Street, seven to eight. Sign up ahead so they know how much to scoop.
An evening hour on native plants worth putting in your own yard, from the people who grow forty-eight acres of them off Berwyn Baptist Road.
Real clues from the Jeopardy writers' room, teams of whatever size you can round up, seven o'clock in the Village at Newtown. Happy hour runs before the game starts.
Hands-on class building cocktails out of wine rather than spirits, muddling and garnishing your own. Fifty five dollars, aimed at beginners as much as regulars. Booking required.
The novelist takes the Keswick stage at seven for an hour. Ticketed, and her events sell through fast in this room.
Bruce Lee in the 1972 Hong Kong martial arts picture, programmed for the After Dark slot. One Thursday night show.
Warren Oree and the Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble rebuild Four Tops hits through a jazz lens, with vocalists and a full instrumental lineup. Free on the Great Valley campus, registration required.
You, Me, & Harry works through the Harry Chapin songbook, Cat's in the Cradle and Taxi included, at 7 in the Flash's listening room. It shares the night with Third Thursday on State Street, so the walk over is part of the plan.
The New York Times writer on how autocrats sell an imagined past, and what a politics of the future would sound like. Registration is required, doors open at 6:15 and shut at 6:55.
A Thursday night match in Helfferich, the old gym on the east end of campus. Same evening the Berman opens its new show across the lawn.
Pat and Jordan call the numbers, tell bad jokes, and work a didgeridoo into it somehow. Free, all ages, Thursday nights at the Mount Airy Road taproom.
Mexican Train dominoes, Scrabble, Rummikub, Blank Slate, backgammon and bingo in Wesley Hall, with hot buttered popcorn. Bring your own game if you have a favorite. Open to anyone.
A hands-on class making wine-based cocktails, mixing, muddling and garnishing your own. Fifty five dollars. Built for beginners as much as people who already know their way around a shaker.
Thursday nights the taproom stage goes to blues and jazz players you will not catch on a weekend. Two hour set, no cover, kitchen and beer running the whole time.
Steve Guyger and Filthy Rich play blues in the tavern every Thursday at seven. Bar seating is first come, first served, so book a tavern table if you want a clear view.
An hour in the Pennsylvania Room on a Thursday night. The name is a joke that stuck, the reading list runs wide, and anyone can join the table.
Jacques Tati's 1967 comedy of glass towers and office chaos, in the theater's French Film Series. Free if you are a member, 7 pm start.
Will Manns runs the questions for two and a half hours. Form a team, order from whichever stall in the market looks good that night, and play for prizes and bragging rights.
The band's season opens at Charles Boehm, Thursday nights from seven through May. Adults who play something are welcome to bring it and sit in. Free, and a December concert is the payoff.
Art Baehr of the Bridgeton-Nockamixon-Tinicum Groundwater Management Committee on what happens under your feet and how it reaches your well. Free, hosted by the Haycock Historical Society.
Professor Charles Hardy on how Betsy Ross became the most famous woman in American history, which is a different question from what she actually did. Evening talk at the Washington building.
The Whippets host Perkiomen Valley under the lights on a Thursday, one of five home dates on the varsity schedule. Kickoff is seven.
First night of a new series where a band plays instrumentals among the shelves. Jazz, ambient and lo fi, pick a book and listen. Ticketed.
Trivia every Thursday at seven at the Drake. Local drafts on rotation, burgers made to order, and a room that takes the scoring more seriously than it admits.
Free monthly hangout for people with unfinished projects. Bring yours and something to drink, or use the supplies they keep on hand. Third Thursday, seven to nine.
Free music every Thursday at seven in the industrial lounge beside Ridge Hall, so you can order from 2 Street Sammies or Pho Mi Please and keep your table.
Fantasy and genre readers gather for Sophie Kim's The Winged Game. Free, Thursday at seven, RSVP through the form on the shop's events page.
Jack Nicholson's 1970 breakout on a Thursday night, diner scene and all. Part of the fall repertory calendar at the Lancaster Avenue theater.
Thursday trivia in the Ambler Yards taproom with audio and visual rounds. Hosts and themes rotate week to week, so the format changes. Beer garden seating when the weather holds.
Philly trombonist and singer Hailey Brinnel brings her quintet to Uptown's jazz cocktail hour on Thursday, September 17, swinging through a set of 1970s songs. Downbeat is 7:30, drinks come first.
Prog-rock trio Zebra brings its 50th anniversary tour to Sellersville on September 17. Half a century after forming in New Orleans, the "Who's Behind the Door?" band still runs as the original three-piece.
A new theme every week, from 90s music to Dungeon Crawler Carl, with prizes for the winners and the runners up. The $15 admission also puts every arcade game on free play.
The 1986 Paul Simon record played front to back, South African rhythms and all. Thursday night, eight to ten, at the 1831 theatre on North State Street.
Two hours of music trivia on Thursdays, eight to ten, no cover. Get there early if you want a table for more than four.
Thursday quizzo at eight, free to play. One of four trivia nights running within three blocks that night, so pick your crowd.
More than a dozen Philadelphia musicians take a song each from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, twenty five years on. Doors 7:15, music at 8.
Karaoke takes the room over right after the trivia round finishes, ten p.m. every Thursday on West Gay Street. Free to walk in, free to sing, and it runs into January.
Brotherly Love takes the Friday truck slot at Van Lieus. Small taproom, one truck, no cover, and Bravo's Pizza inside if the line outside gets long.
Four blocks of Gay Street close to cars so restaurants push tables into the road. Walk down the middle of the street, eat outside, and browse the shops on either side.
Fourteenth year of the parish's two-day food festival, cooked by the congregation, with church tours and children's activities alongside. Clearview Road sits just outside the borough, a few minutes from Main Street.
Three days of donated books sold by the Friends of the Library, with the money going back into library programming. Donations were collected all summer, so the tables run deep.
The third-Friday Controla night, second of the two the studio runs each month. Latin social dancing on the Lancaster Avenue floor, a short walk from the Ardmore station.
Anders Hyatt is back on the tavern stage a week later. Thirty-three rotating taps behind the bar and the kitchen runs to midnight if the set goes long.
Five band Friday, the sort of bill that runs late. The schedule prints no start time, so call 610-649-NAIL before you drive over.
Three days of radio-controlled jets with real turbine engines over a thousand-foot grass strip north of Quakertown. Spectators welcome, and past years have raised money for the local fire companies.
Pianist Peter Dugan and Grammy winning clarinetist Mark Dover play a barn on Meetinghouse Road. Classical, jazz and whatever else they feel like.
Local artists play the Mount Airy Road taproom every Friday. The brewery does not post set times ahead, so check the taproom page or call before you drive out.
Weekly seated yoga at the Doylestown library. Two morning sessions, gentle pace, no floor work involved.
Stories, songs and fingerplays for babies six to twenty-four months with a grown-up. Running out of the borough hall while the library building is under renovation. Registration requested.
Half an hour of music, bouncing and shakers for the very small, Friday mornings at the library on West Ferry Street. Caregivers stay and join in.
Bubba the corgi and his handler Mary Ann take up the children's room for half an hour on Friday mornings. Pet him, read to him, no reservation.
Bring needles, hooks, yarn and whatever you have going, and work on it alongside other crafters. Pattern books are out for browsing. No sign up needed.
Open craft session at the library, ten to noon. Knitting, painting, journaling, sculpture, all in the same room. Free, and the coffee talk is half the point.
Stories plus a book club for the smallest readers, Friday mornings in the children's area. Half an hour, free, and it lands right before the farmers market sets up across town.
Forty-five minutes of songs and shakers outdoors for the smallest kids, Friday mornings in the garden. Free, and the paths are stroller-friendly afterward.
The Friday run of the library's story time for ones, twos, and kids who like to keep moving. Same Story Room, same half hour, end of the week.
Friday mid-morning in the Budzik Room, pitched at kids who are starting to sound words out on their own. Free, no registration, weekly at the Lincoln Highway branch.
A monthly hour where a professional or a librarian leads a discussion on one topic. This session Joan Adler of PA-MEDI takes questions. No registration.
Naturalist Dawn White brings live animals and a half hour on how they smell, hear and see the world differently than we do. Monthly on a Friday morning.
Friday late morning, two hours of writing with prompts and shared reading. Same workshop as the Monday night session, moved for people whose evenings are spoken for.
An hour of Revolution era picture books plus a craft, run by the historical society inside the bookshop. Aimed at ages four to eight.
Texas Roadhouse on East Lancaster runs its first Battle of the Badges, three full racks of ribs per contestant and the fastest eater wins. Watching costs nothing.
Friday casual games for newer players who want the reps without a lesson. Bring your 2026 card. Two hours in the Krapf Room.
Forty-five minutes riding the garden rather than walking it, for anyone who finds the hills hard going. Staff drive and talk you through what you are passing.
Songs, crafts, and stories for kids under five with Miss Mackenzie. In warm weather they meet outside at the Narberth Park pavilion, otherwise inside. No registration.
Songs, crafts and stories for kids from birth to five. Warm sunny mornings move it outside to the pavilion in Narberth Park, rain sends it back indoors. No registration.
A Revolutionary War picture book read aloud plus a craft, run with the Doylestown Historical Society. Aimed at ages four to eight, Friday at eleven.
Grades six to twelve drop in for therapy dogs, fidget making, slime and snacks. Three hours, no registration, in the community room.
A walk through the Heritage Room and grounds at the event venue on Pumping Station Road, eleven thirty to one. Free for chamber members, twenty five dollars if you are not one.
The Kids' Zone opens for free play twice a week after storytime. Half an hour, drop in, and the fastest way to burn off a morning indoors.
Nomadd Marketing founder Elizabeth Krupka on building an agency back when a person had to write the copy and make the plan. A lunch hour talk at the U-Imagine Center.
The members show hangs at the art center out on Patterson Farm, open noon to five. Twenty minutes of looking, and the drive down Mirror Lake Road is half the point.
Cards at noon on Fridays in the library community room, two hours and no charge. Bring nothing, the decks are already there and so are the regulars.
Bingo at the Race Street branch for adults with developmental disabilities and their caregivers. Picture bingo, Eagles bingo and Jingo, third Friday of the month. Contact Anne Hall to register.
Three hours putting plants in the ground at the park's new rain garden. Plants and tools are supplied. Bring water and shoes you do not mind ruining.
Bingo for adults with developmental disabilities at the Race Street branch, half past twelve on Friday afternoon. Free, and the library runs it every month.
Volunteer planting session at Jacob Reiff Park, twelve thirty to three thirty, putting a rain garden in the ground. Wear boots you do not mind wrecking.
An hour of Rummikub at the library on Centre Avenue, every Friday afternoon. Tiles and tables are already there, you just show up. Regulars will walk you through the rules.
The Chester County Food Bank truck parks at the Masonic Lodge on Friday afternoons with local produce and pantry staples. SNAP and Veggie Bucks accepted, one to two fifteen.
Two hours every Friday afternoon at the Roslyn branch for whatever handicraft is sitting unfinished at home. Drop in with your own materials, no registration, no project too small.
Beginners learn stitches at their own pace, everyone else brings the pattern that stopped making sense. Ninety minutes Friday afternoons in the Hessinger Study Room.
September's book is No Impact Man by Colin Beavan. Two hours of nature writing talk at the nature center, free, adults, drop in without registering.
Comfort Kitchen parks out front at three and runs to about eight. The taproom is open until ten on Fridays, the latest it runs all week.
A seasonal craft or activity set out every Friday afternoon at the Belmont Hills branch, all ages, no sign-up. Two hours, come when you can.
Bring a deck to the library on Friday afternoon and find a game. All levels, all formats, and nobody minds if you are still learning the stack.
One Friday fixture, Brentford against Chelsea, from three o'clock. Two hours of football to start the weekend, with select drafts at $5 while it runs.
Growers and food makers set up in the Borough Hall lot every Friday afternoon. Free parking on site, rain or shine, and it wraps at six so you can plan dinner around it.
Board games and beer in the Logan Inn living room to start the weekend, Fridays three to five. Open to the public, and dominoes take over the same room at six.
Varsity boys host Archbishop John Carroll at quarter past three, the early half of a busy Friday on Lower Road that ends with football at seven. Tickets through the box office.
Varsity field hockey against Villa Joseph Marie on a Friday afternoon. Free to watch, over by five, and a decent excuse to end the week outside.
Middle school boys soccer at home to close out the school week. Short game, no admission, and the fields sit a few blocks from the shops on West Avenue.
Food trucks, a parish-run beer garden, and games for the kids on the church grounds on Witmer Road. Seating is set up, though you can bring your own, and pantry donations earn raffle entries.
Fifteen dollars to walk through the Parry Mansion on a Friday evening, four to six, with the historical society that keeps the house running the tour itself.
A private Minecraft world built as a volcanic island, with dinosaur habitats to explore. Ages 8 to 12, registration required.
Friday hours for the borough's downtown street program, four in the afternoon to ten at night. The night before one of the busiest Saturdays on the calendar.
The Bryn Mawr Owls run the Main Line Invitational on the Haverford College course, a mile and a half down Lancaster Avenue. Friday late afternoon, watch from the grass.
Teens play Family Feud after hours at the library, part of a game show series for grades 6 through 12.
Claim a table and run your own campaign, or email ahead to see whether a local DM has a seat open. Five hours every Friday evening in the game cafe on Broad.
Folk-pop, art-rock and Americana kicking off the Love is in the Air fountain weekend. Free with Gardens admission, and the fountains take over at 8:15.
Small bagged-and-tagged acrylic paintings hung in the bookshop for one Friday evening, five to seven thirty. Cheap art, and funnier than most of it.
Cheese steaks made to order and hand cut fries at the Legion on East Broad, five to eight on a Friday. The Sons run the kitchen and say they are back after a break.
An early Friday start at Snell, which leaves the rest of the night open for whatever else is on in town. Five o'clock, no ticket needed at the field.
Local makers set up in Burke Park for an evening market, 5 to 8:30, a dressier cousin to the Saturday morning stalls. Handmade goods and food with the park lights coming on as it gets dark.
The Friday music run on the Woodside Road deck, free and outdoors while the weather allows. Rain moves it into the event tent rather than cancelling it.
Friday five to eight on the vineyard patio, no cover. A returning act on this stage. Bring a jacket, September evenings out here turn cool by eight.
Food trucks and drink tents fill the Ambler Yards quad, live music runs six to nine, and there is a meadow for yard games. Bring a blanket, park in the upper lot off Brookside.
Friday nights the outdoor grill at the Desmond goes lobster, five to nine. Deck tables go first, and the pub inside stays open if the weather turns on you.
Out on the patio from five to eight, weather permitting. The restaurant sits on Stump Hall Road beside the golf club, a few minutes from the village center.
Three evenings of fountain shows built around love songs, with the Everlasting Love program running each night. Free with gardens admission, five until nine, good for a slow walk after.
Two friends playing classic rock covers as an acoustic duo, five to eight on a Friday. Wine by the glass and room to sit outside.
Same one-night format as August. Guest artists fill the Main Street gallery from five to nine while 3rd Friday runs outside. Free to walk through, work is for sale.
West State from Hamilton to Clinton goes to pedestrians. Outdoor tables, late shopping, live music and games through eleven.
Woodfired pizza from Red Stone, beer from Deer Creek Malthouse and The 29ers playing, all of it out in the field at the farm. Two and a half hours on a Friday evening.
Painting, collage and drawing for ages 15 and up with special needs, ninety minutes of studio time and a treat at the end. Twenty six dollars for members, thirty five otherwise.
Three hours of mixed media for ages five to eleven, watercolour through chalk pastel, with artists from around the world as the starting point. Pizza costs ten dollars extra.
Country line dancing at the winery on Durham Road, five thirty until nine, with wine by the glass. Ticketed through the winery's own event calendar.
Friday night in the competition gym, JV at 5:30 and varsity at 6:45. Doors open at 5. No outside food or drink allowed in the gym, and tickets are nonrefundable.
Classic cars line York Road from 5:30 to 8:30 for the Hatboro chamber's Cruise Night, part car show, part family fun night, part food drive. Hatboro sits right on Horsham's border, and this strip is the closest thing the area has to a shared main street.
Second of the three Vernissage weekends at Parry Mansion, a different artist each time. Friday at six is the opening, then the work stays up on South Main Street through Sunday.
Guitar, bass and drums playing improvised fusion with funk and hip hop underneath, in a York Road gallery hung with contemporary work. Two hours, fifteen dollars at the door.
Bring your own records and they spin them. Six to ten every Friday at the West Market Street bar, free, and the queue is whoever turns up with a sleeve.
Friday evening set in the bar, six to nine. Ron's stocks a long craft draft and bottle list, so there is more than the usual four taps to work through.
Skill work, games and open play for ages 8 to 10 on this date, supervised, ninety minutes on the court. Free for members and twenty dollars for everyone else.
Dominoes in the Logan Inn living room on Friday evenings, six to eight, right as the Whiskey Lounge gets going. Open to locals and hotel guests alike, with reservations suggested.
A Friday evening stroll through Newtown Borough's older streets, led by the historic association. Ninety minutes on foot past eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings, with five dollars asked as a good will donation.
Tracks, scat, chewed twigs, all the evidence animals leave behind when you are not looking. An evening walk for families, ninety minutes, ending about when the light goes.
Piano trio with guest vocalist Geri Oliver in the Sixth Avenue bar, three hours from six. Tickets are twenty dollars, so buy ahead rather than turning up cold.
Guitar, bass and drums playing jazz fusion with funk and hip hop running through it, in a working gallery on York Road. Fifteen dollar cover, two hours.
A rotating cast of local acts plays the tavern inside Downingtown Country Club every Friday evening. Open to the public, no membership needed, and the patio looks over the course.
Friday night on the big stage, six to ten. Grab a local beer at the Silo or the Pour Shed and stay for the moonlit maze afterward. Bring a flashlight for that part.
A Friday evening of improv games at the library, run by Darryl Spencer. No acting background required, just a willingness to look silly.
Guest poet D.M. Dutcher reads first, then the open mic runs as long as people keep signing up. Kathleen Mulholland hosts. Third Friday of the month at the library on Centre Avenue.
An hour of making things with other tweens and teens on a Friday night, materials supplied by the library. Registration required and it costs nothing.
Main and Chestnut close down for crafters, artists, nonprofit tables, a band, food trucks and a Kids Zone. Galleries up the hill stay open late. Leashed dogs are fine.
Six Friday evenings drawing from a live model in the downtown studio. $195 for the session and spots go fast; registration required.
Main and Chestnut close for crafters, food trucks, breweries, a distillery, a band and a kids' zone. Galleries stay open late, six to nine, third Friday May through October.
Dishes from around the world cooked by Y members and local restaurants, then entertainment from community groups. Six to seven thirty on a Friday. RSVP through the Y.
Two hours for families at the Gay Street diner on Friday evenings, six to eight, through the end of September.
Opening night under a thousand-seat tent in a field on County Line Road, across from Jesse's BBQ. Laura Williams plays before Tenth Avenue North. Free to get in, and the food is free too.
The September round of the mediumship practice circle, ninety minutes with Jennifer and Patrick in the Amethyst Room at the back of the Main Street shop. Fifteen dollars.
Non-conference match at 6:30 in the gym while the football team plays outside at seven. Two things on one campus for anyone who cannot pick.
Adults 18 and older with special needs get bingo, trivia, pizza and a dance party to finish. Held monthly at the Lower State Road branch, registration required.
Strength, cardio and stretching in the Jane Stover Lodge on Fourth Street, led by Ally Wesner. Ten dollars at the door, all levels, and you work at your own pace.
An open discussion circle on a Friday evening, free and capped at fifteen. Held at the center on the mall's first floor, so parking is the one thing you will not think about.
Candy slime, homemade pop rocks, and the Diet Coke and Mentos eruption, for ages six and up. Ninety minutes on a Friday evening on Haverford Avenue, thirty five dollars.
Fourteen seats, a different car and track every week, and a cash pot the field pays into. Doors 6:40, qualifying at seven, feature final near nine on full motion rigs.
Bluegrass from seven while 3rd Friday fills Main Street below. Walk the hill after the street fair winds down and catch the back half of the set.
Friday night acoustic slot. Three hours of music in a bar that also rents out as a private party room.
Friday night at Helman Field against Central Bucks West, band and cheer on the sideline. Kickoff at seven, parking runs along North 5th Street.
Friday night lights on South Street, Kennett against Upper Perkiomen at the turf stadium behind the high school. Park in the school lots and walk in from the South Street side.
Friday night football at the high school on Swamp Road, Council Rock North's first conference game of the season against Bensalem. The stands fill early on a home Friday.
A covers band running four hours with no cover charge and the kitchen open late. Parking on site, roughly ten minutes from Sellersville on Hilltown Pike.
A Suburban One League division game under the lights, with Pennsbury making the drive up from Lower Bucks. Kickoff is 7 p.m. at the stadium on South Valley Forge Road.
Seven to ten on the patio. The Creamery opens at four on Fridays, so come early for a table before the band starts and the place fills in.
Central Bucks West comes north for a Friday night under the lights at Helman Field, band and cheer squad included. Parking off North Fifth Street, kickoff at seven.
Division game at Indian Field, seven o'clock kickoff, Council Rock South in town. It lands on the same night as 3rd Friday downtown, so leave extra room for parking.
Friday night lights on Phoenixville Pike. The Patriots host Pottstown at seven, the fourth game of a season that opened in late August. Tickets go through the school athletics page.
The Suburban One League home opener, Panthers against Plymouth Whitemarsh at seven on a Friday night at the high school on Park Avenue. First conference game of the season.
Name That Tune crossed with bingo in the tasting room on East Butler, with gift cards, wine and cider going out each round. Reserve a high top if you are bringing six.
Bluegrass in the taphouse from seven to ten, the same night the 3rd Friday market fills the street outside. Walk over once the vendors start packing up.
Third straight home Friday for the Lions, Pine Grove visiting. Seven o'clock kickoff at Lions Stadium, a short walk up from Bridge Street.
The Red Raiders host Owen J Roberts at Memorial Stadium at seven on a Friday. Coatesville home games fill the stands, so leave time for parking on Lincoln Highway.
A wizarding world parody with quizzo built into it, staged in the speakeasy on the mall's second level. Thirty dollars a seat, a hundred for a table of four, twenty one and over.
Pixar's jazz picture on an outdoor screen at dusk, run by Plymouth Township parks and recreation. Plymouth Meeting is about six minutes from Conshohocken. Bring a blanket and low chairs.
Drive-in screening in the zoo's parking lot, Spielberg's 1982 picture, rated PG and just under two hours. Lot opens at seven, film at eight. Fifteen dollars an adult, twelve a child.
Saxophone jazz from seven to ten in the old bank lobby. Free to walk in, and the kitchen runs its full menu through the set.
Four lead singers and a five-piece band with the requisite sax and flute run note for note through the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, and Christopher Cross. Two sailings at the Playhouse: Friday at 7:30 and a Saturday matinee at 1:30, an hour fifty with intermission.
Second Friday of the run, curtain at half past seven. Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger and Rabbit talk Christopher Robin out of the North Pole and into staying put.
Two hours behind the bar at the distillery on West Third, half seven to half nine. Less instruction than a class, more of a party.
The Neighborhood Club puts a screen up in Cynwyd Station Park for a two hour outdoor movie. Bring chairs or a blanket. Free, and the trail parking lot is right there.
Tony Miceli on vibraphone, Chris Farr on tenor, John Swana on trumpet, plus bass and drums, a band with thirty years of playing together behind it. Eight o'clock in the taproom, no cover.
Eight to eleven at the bottom of Main Street, two blocks from the Delaware. The porch seats fill first when the night is warm.
Three and a half hours of karaoke in a medieval themed arcade, 21 and over. The $15 admission covers unlimited pinball, arcade games, pool and darts while you wait your turn.
Stand-up from the WTF host on his Yammering Into The Void tour. One man, one mic, a lot of talking about cats and mortality.
Eric Tagglione from NBC's Last Comic Standing headlines and Malcolm Hill hosts, two hours of stand-up at Timothy's on Eagleview Boulevard. Reserved seating, 26 dollars.
The WTF host on his Yammering Into The Void run. Stand-up, not a podcast taping, and the Keswick is a room where you hear every word from the back.
Friday night on the Havana stage, doors at six and music at eight. There is a dance floor inside and a patio out front for people watching, and the kitchen runs to eleven on Fridays.
Acoustic duo in the bar area, eight to midnight. The Otherside Bar next door runs a DJ from nine thirty if you want to keep the night going.
Telescopes out on the library lawn in Lafayette Hill after dark, ninety minutes, weather permitting. A short drive from Conshohocken.
Cover band takes the main room eight to eleven on a Friday. Twelve Pennsylvania drafts, a cocktail lounge and a beer garden if the front room fills up.
Chicago duo on the Small Talk tour, with Emma Ogier opening. Doors 7:15, music at 8, 21 and over. Buy at the box office and there is no ticket fee, Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons.
Elton John's seventies run played straight through, piano and platform boots included. Friday night, doors 7:30, tickets $35 to $72.
An evening astronomy program on the library grounds for grades 6 through 12, running 8 to 9:30 pm. Registration is required and capped at 30 spots, so sign up ahead.
An America's Got Talent and Fool Us regular whose act runs on flexibility and goofiness. Named Variety Artist of the Year three times. Ages 16 and up, two nights only.
The Tull Project takes on the flute-forward prog catalog, Aqualung era and beyond. Friday night, eight to ten, at the old theatre on North State Street.
The Philadelphia folk-pop songwriter plays her debut solo record Pinch Me with a full band, moving between guitar, ukulele and piano. Doors at 7:30, $20 ahead, $10 for kids under 13.
Tony Miceli on vibraphone, John Swana on EVI, Chris Farr on sax, Madison Rast on bass and Dan Monaghan on drums. Thirty years of playing together, hard bop with a Philadelphia accent.
Three metal bands in a nonprofit listening room that usually books folk singers. Tickets run fifteen to eighteen dollars, all ages, doors before the eight o'clock start.
A debut record played through on a Friday night in Glenside. Release shows tend to fill this room, so buy ahead rather than turning up at the door.
The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, played front to back with narration and archival footage, plus the hits that didn't make the original tracklist. One of the stranger, better nights the Colonial books all year.
Wisconsin two-piece playing heavy blues rock at volume, somewhere between ZZ Top and Black Flag. Nine o'clock, twenty dollars, and the bar goes until two.
Friday karaoke at the Market Street bottle shop and bar, nine o'clock, free. It runs Saturdays at the same hour too.
Ten p.m. Friday karaoke in the basement bar on West Gay Street, free to walk in. It goes late, and the list gets long once the Gay Street crowd spills over.
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