Dance Boot Camp
A high energy, low impact workout featuring Top 40 hits, easy to follow dance moves and body weight exercises (think squats and push-ups) for all fitness levels. Singing along is encouraged! No equipment needed. Class will be taught with a live DJ set by Robin M. Gillespie of Philadelphia Sports Clubs.
Wild Wednesdays
Come and explore the natural world with us in Aviator Park. From Birds to butterflies to mammals big and small, join an Academy educator to learn all about the nature in your neighborhood.
League Cornhole
Sign up with a team of friends and co-workers, with a small group and be kept on the same team, or by yourself and be placed on a team with other free agents!
Hip Hop Fundamentals
Hip Hop Fundamentals, a half-hour lecture demonstration centered on youth participation in the arts followed by a half-hour movement workshop, is designed to promote youth participation in the art forms of Hip Hop while providing an example of how youth led art can be and is a catalyst for community change.
Summertime Thursday Jazz Series
Come hear some of Philly’s newest jazz voices each Thursday evening during the Oval+. Picnic on the lawn or grab a chair in the amphitheater of the renovated Shakespeare Park. Dream Pops will be selling water and popsicles.
Telling Our Food Stories: Recipes and Rhythm
Join storyteller Carla Wiley and the Free Library’s Culinary Literacy Center for a FREE two-part family program pairing at the newly opened Shakespeare Park. At this event, taking inspiration from the traditions of family reunions, participants will work together to write collaborative poetry and stir up sweet summer drinks.
Science Storytelling
The Free Library’s talented storytellers will take you on space explorations and go back in time to the days of dinosaurs. This interactive story hour will keep children, adults, and families engaged.
Food Trucks
Flying Deutschman Mama’s Meatballs Mucho Bueno Philly Pretzel Factory Waffles & Wedges
Saturday Stories
The Free Library’s talented storytellers will spin tall tales and wild adventures. This interactive story hour will keep children, adults, and families engaged. Dream Pops will be selling water and popsicles.
StoryTheatre with StoryUP!
Philly’s finest improvisers present an interactive storytelling show based on ideas and suggestions from the children in the audience, with the kids taking part the whole way. A host and team of performers use props, costumes, music and improvisation to create stories onstage, with story ingredients provided by the audience. Entertaining for the whole family, […]
Food Trucks
Surf & Turf Truck Braq BQ Philly Pretzel Factory Curbside Creamery
Wild Wednesdays
Come and explore the natural world with us in Aviator Park. From Birds to butterflies to mammals big and small, join an Academy educator to learn all about the nature in your neighborhood.
Food Trucks
Phoebe’s BBQ Made in the Shade Lemonade Flying Deutschman Lil Pop Shop
League Cornhole
Sign up with a team of friends and co-workers, with a small group and be kept on the same team, or by yourself and be placed on a team with other free agents!
Hip Hop Fundamentals
Hip Hop Fundamentals, a half-hour lecture demonstration centered on youth participation in the arts followed by a half-hour movement workshop, is designed to promote youth participation in the art forms of Hip Hop while providing an example of how youth led art can be and is a catalyst for community change.
Summertime Thursday Jazz Series
Come hear some of Philly’s newest jazz voices each Thursday evening during the Oval+. Picnic on the lawn or grab a chair in the amphitheater of the renovated Shakespeare Park. Dream Pops will be selling water and popsicles.
Food Trucks
Sum Pig Big Rube’s Chicken & Waffles Philly Pretzel Factory Dream Pops
Telling Our Food Stories: Around the Summer Table
Join storyteller Carla Wiley and the Free Library’s Culinary Literacy Center for a FREE two-part family program pairing at the newly opened Shakespeare Park. At this Make and Take craft featuring reusable no-sew cloth placemats, decorate your own placemat to bring home and enjoy a read-aloud of our favorite food-themed picture books.
Science Storytelling
The Free Library’s talented storytellers will take you on space explorations and go back in time to the days of dinosaurs. This interactive story hour will keep children, adults, and families engaged.
Food Trucks
Pbon’s Fresh Phood Say Cheese Sum Pig Cow and the Curd Lil Pop Shop
Saturday Stories
The Free Library’s talented storytellers will spin tall tales and wild adventures. This interactive story hour will keep children, adults, and families engaged. Dream Pops will be selling water and popsicles.
Food Trucks
Philly Pretzel Factory Flying Deutschman Phoebe’s BBQ Dream Pops
StoryTheatre with StoryUP!
Philly’s finest improvisers present an interactive storytelling show based on ideas and suggestions from the children in the audience, with the kids taking part the whole way. A host and team of performers use props, costumes, music and improvisation to create stories onstage, with story ingredients provided by the audience. Entertaining for the whole family, […]
Food Trucks
Local 215 Oink & Moo BBQ Pitruco Pizza Philly Pretzel Factory Milk+Sugar
Wild Wednesdays
Come and explore the natural world with us in Aviator Park. From Birds to butterflies to mammals big and small, join an Academy educator to learn all about the nature in your neighborhood.
CoreFitness Boot Camp
Join us for our outdoor boot camp workout! CoreFitness delivers an action packed class using body weight exercises in an outdoor environment that is more fun than you have ever had working out! Open to all fitness levels!
League Cornhole
Sign up with a team of friends and co-workers, with a small group and be kept on the same team, or by yourself and be placed on a team with other free agents!
Hip Hop Fundamentals
Hip Hop Fundamentals, a half-hour lecture demonstration centered on youth participation in the arts followed by a half-hour movement workshop, is designed to promote youth participation in the art forms of Hip Hop while providing an example of how youth led art can be and is a catalyst for community change.
Summertime Thursday Jazz Series
Come hear some of Philly’s newest jazz voices each Thursday evening during the Oval+. Picnic on the lawn or grab a chair in the amphitheater of the renovated Shakespeare Park. Dream Pops will be selling water and popsicles.
Food Trucks
Farm Truck Mama’s Meatballs Philly Pretzel Factory Big Rube’s Chicken & Waffles Cupcake Carnivale
Science Storytelling
The Free Library’s talented storytellers will take you on space explorations and go back in time to the days of dinosaurs. This interactive story hour will keep children, adults, and families engaged.
Food Trucks
Bonjour Creperie Local 215 Pitruco Pizza Phoebe’s BBQ UndrGrnd Donuts
Julius Caesar: A Live Radio Play
Experience the Bard like you never have before. Revolution Shakespeare and the Hear Again Radio Project team up for an innovative production of an ancient political drama. With a script by Orson Welles, a cast of Philadelphia’s finest thespians, and old time radio effects, you’ll see Caesar in a whole new light. Runtime is 65 […]
Food Trucks
The Cow and the Curd Pbons Fresh Phood Mucho Bueno The Chilly Banana
Civics on Tap: Champs E-le’cheesesteak of Philly
Civics on Tap, in our first ever outdoor hang, will be talking about shapes. Namely, an oval, a circle, and how our neat little grid got a long diagonal slash through it. So come on out to Eakin’s Oval on August 12th to learn about the history, significance, and future of Philadelphia’s very own Avenue […]
StoryTheatre with StoryUP!
Philly’s finest improvisers present an interactive storytelling show based on ideas and suggestions from the children in the audience, with the kids taking part the whole way. A host and team of performers use props, costumes, music and improvisation to create stories onstage, with story ingredients provided by the audience. Entertaining for the whole family, […]
Food Trucks
Chewy’s Phoebe’s BBQ Cow and the Curd Philly Pretzel Factory Cupcake Carnivale