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Get Out: Things To Do This Weekend
Check out these picks for weekend things to do around the Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch area.
It’s Thursday, and you’ve got no idea what you’ll do for the weekend.
Patch is coming to the rescue. We’ve got the best bets for your done-work-outta-here time. Check our picks for the activities to hit and new bars/restaurants/shops to explore.
1. Groundhog Festival! A Knee High Naturalists Event
Where/when: Rolling Hill Park, 1301 Rose Glen Road, Gladwyne, 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18
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Why go: Ages 3-6, games, crafts, scavenger hunts, and outdoor fun. Play games like “toss the groundhog” to send the famous Phil back into his home for the rest of winter, learn about animal adaptations for winter, and make a weather-predicting groundhog to take home.
Pricing: $12/child, adults free, includes materials
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Where/When: Harcum College – Klein Hall, 750 Montgomery Ave., Bryn Mawr, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18
Why go: This play follows a white couple that relocates to Baltimore, Maryland from Savannah, Georgia in the early 1960s to head a black church, and explores issues of the time.
Pricing: Harcum students/faculty: free; all other students: $5; general public: $10. There is limited seating, and registration is required.
Where/When: Villanova University’s Corr Hall Chapel, 8 p.m. Feb. 17, 18, 19; 2 p.m. Feb. 19
Why go: The Villanova Student Theatre and the Office of Music Activities put together this production of a T.S. Eliot novel, and it’s part of the university’s Catholic Imagination in the Arts series.
Pricing: $7 for students, $10 for adults
4. King Lear
Where/when: Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20; 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23
Why go: It’s classic Shakespeare on the big screen. Derek Jacobi, who’s starred as Hamlet numerous times, takes on the title role.
Pricing: $20 general admission, $18 BMFI members, $10 students with ID
Where/when: Rolling Hill Park, 1301 Rose Glen Road, Gladwyne, 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18
Why go: Search for nighttime critters, and enjoy a bonfire complete with marshmallows.
Pricing: Members are $4 per person or $10 per family; Non-members are $5 per person or $15 per family
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