Mural Arts Young Friends Collective's Off-the-Wall Ball
Thursday, May 23
8:30 -11 p.m.
Alla Spina, 1410 Mount Vernon St.
$40
Join the
Mural Arts Young Friends Collective at their after-hours mixer, the
Off-the-Wall Ball. Come ready to party at Marc Vetri's acclaimed
Alla Spina and enjoy a night of drinks, snacks and music. The party coincides with the ninth annual
Wall Ball Gala and all proceeds from this hip (separately ticketed) after-party support the Mural Arts program .
Tickets to the Off-the-Wall Ball include light bites and two drinks.
Click here to purchase.
40th Street Summer Series
Saturday, May 25
40th and Walnut Streets
Free
The University City District,
the Rotunda and the
University of Pennsylvania come together again this year to present the
40th Street Summer Series, a free family-friendly outdoor concert series. For nine years, the Summer Series has hosted world-renowned performers on the green space at 40th and Walnut Streets, just behind the
Walnut West Free Library. This year, the series will expand to five concerts, held on the last Saturday of the month, May through September. The festivities also feature a lawn full of jugglers, fire artists, face painting, balloon art and more.
The kick-off concert on Saturday, May 25, features
Brooklyn Qawwali Party. This thunderous 11-piece brass band hails from New York City and is known for their awesome renditions of 700-year-old Pakistani Sufi music (called Qawwali). Think gospel goes to the subcontinent.
Click here for a complete list of this summer's concerts.
Hidden City Festival
Thursday, May 23 through Sunday, June 30
Thursday through Sunday, noon - 7 p.m.
One-Day Pass $20; Weekend Plus Pass, $40; All Festival Pass, $70
Hidden City Festival Kick-Off Block Party
7 - 11 p.m.
12th and Wood Streets
Find beauty amongst the abandoned, obscure and inaccessible sites around Philadelphia during the second
Hidden City Festival. Celebrating the "power of place through the imagination of contemporary artists," the festival features art installations, performances and events in a variety of historically significant and oft-forgotten locations.
This Saturday, the shindig kicks off with a block party at 12th and Wood streets.
Hidden City will highlight eight hidden sites in neighborhoods across the city, including Center City, Germantown, Frankford, South Philadelphia and University City.
Click here for Flying Kite's interview with Hidden City's artistic director.
Click here to purchase tickets or contribute to the Hidden City Festival; or you can purchase by phone (267-428 0575).
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JULIET VERDE is an intern at Flying Kite; she blogs at philadelphiatreks.tumblr.com.