Saturday
Grow with neighbors
The eighth annual Growing the Neighborhood Volunteer Day is scheduled Saturday at FDR Park. The Fairmount Park Conservancy, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department, and Friends of FDR Park will host the volunteer day from 8 a.m. to noon. Dozens of community members and corporate volunteers will gather to clean up the park. Workers are asked to wear long pants and closed-toed shoes. Children will be able to take a tour of a fire truck, fish in FDR Lake, play at a new playground, and learn about the environment. A ribbon cutting for the playground is scheduled at 11 a.m., with Mayor Nutter and Michael DiBerardinis, deputy mayor for environmental and community services. The event, rain or shine, will be at 1500 Pattison Ave. Enter from Pattison Avenue and follow the balloons.
Saturday
Hug the coast
Pennsylvania Coast Day offers a free festival for families, who can board the RiverLink Ferry for a free, round-trip tour of the Delaware River. The events run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants also can paddle off Penn's Landing in a kayak or swan boat for $8 to $10. Kids will enjoy outdoor exhibits, free face painting, and prizes awarded on the doorstep of the Independence Seaport Museum with a $5 admission. There will even be deck tours of the Kalmar Nyckel, Delaware's official tall ship. And a shuttle will be waiting to whisk riders to and from the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, near Boathouse Row. Outside the Independence Seaport Museum at Walnut Plaza on Penn's Landing, located at Walnut Street and Columbus Boulevard.
Saturday
Alzheimer's walk
Thousands of supporters, including Alzheimer's Association "champions" wearing purple, are expected Saturday at Citizens Bank Park to "Walk to End Alzheimer's." The event will begin with registration at 9:30 a.m.; the walk will start at 11 a.m. Registered walkers who raise at least $100 will receive a T-shirt. Champions, who include people living with the disease, families, caregivers, advocates, and corporate and community leaders, have formed walk teams to join the fight against what is now the nation's sixth-leading cause of death, organizers say. The 5K walk raises awareness and funds so the association can continue to support research efforts and provide programs and services to the nearly 300,000 families in this region affected by the disease. The Delaware Valley chapter will hold walks on these dates: Oct. 1 at Kutztown University; Oct. 15 at Grove Park in Rehoboth Beach, Del.; Oct. 22 at Tubman-Garrett Park in Wilmington; and Oct. 23 at Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City. Information: 800-272-3900, alz.org/desjsepa.
Friday-Sunday
Wild about bikes
Roar to the Shore Weekend is planned Friday through Sunday in Wildwood. The motorcycle rally will feature vendors offering such things as pin striping for your bike, souvenirs, new leather, eye protection, and fine cigars. Merchants will be spread across five areas, located at the Wildwoods Convention Center's parking lots and along Oak and Atlantic Avenues in downtown Wildwood. The areas will open at 9 a.m. Friday through Sunday. Offerings will include demo rides on the three-wheeled Can-Am Spyder Roadster; tours of the Jack Daniel's Experience, a mobile Jack Daniel's museum; and meet-and-greets with this year's grand marshal of the Rubber Duck Ride: Animal Planet's the Pit Boss, Shorty Rossi. Kathouse, an all-female rock cover band, will perform Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. On Sunday, the rock band the Groove will perform from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Information: 609-729-8870,
www.roartotheshoreonline.com.
Friday-Saturday
Dance fused with fun
Dancefusion will present "Dancefusion . . . to Mary Anthony" Friday and Saturday at Drexel University's Mandell Theater in University City. The group, celebrating 24 years of dance under the artistic direction of Gwendolyn Bye, will feature the reconstruction of Mary Anthony's
Threnody. An episodic dramatic dance about life and loss,
Threnody premiered in New York City in 1956 and is based on the play
Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge. The dance will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday and at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday in the theater, 3300 Chestnut St. Tickets: $25; $5 off for students and children. Information: 215-413-1318, 215-222-7633,
www.livearts-fringe.org.
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