Get Around with SEPTA this Weekend
Trying to make plans for the Labor Day Weekend?  Let SEPTA help you with your planning; take SEPTA to the many scheduled events and activities around our region.  If you haven't already heard about our special weekend round trip ticket fare promotion on SEPTA Regional Rail this would be a great opportunity to plan a fun outing and save on transportation.  If you are currently not a pass holder, you may want to consider the One Day Convenience Pass, which allows you up to 8 trips, taken on one day, on all SEPTA travel modes except Regional Rail. For other fare information, please take a look at our Fares page. We hope you find this information as convenient as riding SEPTA to all your weekend destinations, wherever they may be.

Radio 104.5 Totally Free Concert
Penn's Landing - Great Plaza Chestnut Street and Columbus Boulevard (on the Riverfront) Philadelphia, PA 19106 Directions	Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:00 p.m. FREE Visit Website
Radio 104.5 celebrates the end of the Summer by taking over Penn's Landing with a totally free day of live alternative rock from 3-9 pm. More details can be found at the official website. SEPTA provides many ways of getting you to this pleasant evening on the Delaware River.  The 2nd Street Station on the Market-Frankford Line is just minutes from Penn's Landing.  The following Bus routes also provide service to these events: 9, 17, 21, 33, 38, 44, 48, and 121.

The Right Foot: Shoe Portraits
Old City Jewish Art Center 119 N. 3rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 Directions	Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. Monday, September 1, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. FREE Visit Website
Put your best foot forward or your right foot in. Either way, shoes are an important part of your wardrobe and identity. Explore your “shoe stories,” make a shoe portrait in an installation/public participatory art workshop with printmaker/mixed media artist Linda Dubin Garfield, and leave your footprint in the sand. To get to this event take Bus Routes 5, 9, 17, 21, 33, 42, 57.

19th Annual Neighborhood-to-Neighborhood Street Festival
50th Street and Baltimore Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19143 Directions	Monday, September 1, 2008 12:00 p.m. FREE Visit Website
Baltimore Avenue turns into one of the largest - and best - street parties in Philadelphia during this Labor Day weekend tradition. Hosted by state Senator Anthony H. Williams and the West Philadelphia Coalition of Neighborhoods and Businesses, treat yourself and your family to the signature event of the year! And it’s all free! Check out the interactive youth station, seniors’ pavilion, resource, merchandise and food vendors, plus hours of music and entertainment on hand. Bidding summer farewell is not so bad when you spend that final day between 49th and 50th streets along Baltimore Avenue - tapping into the social and cultural tapestry that makes this area one of the richest in all of Pennsylvania! Bus Route 42 or 64 can get you there as can the Route 34 Trolley.

Philadephia's Tri-State Labor Parade and AFL-CIO Family Festival
Penn's Landing - Great Plaza Chestnut Street and Columbus Boulevard (on the Riverfront) Philadelphia, PA 19106 Directions	Monday, September 1, 2008 9:30 a.m. FREE Visit Website
Over 100 unions participate in the day's festive events. The parade begins at 9:30 am along Columbus Boulevard from Washington Avenue to Market Street. Admission is FREE! The festival takes place from 11 am-2 pm at the Great Plaza at Penn's Landing. There is a $5 entry fee. SEPTA provides many ways of getting you to this pleasant evening on the Delaware River.  The 2nd Street Station on the Market-Frankford Line is just minutes from Penn's Landing.  The following Bus routes also provide service to these events: 9, 17, 21, 33, 38, 44, 48, and 121.

S.H.A.V.E.D.
Pageant: Soloveev Gallery 607 Bainbridge Street Philadelphia, PA 19147    Directions	Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. $10 Visit Website
A serial dog shaver ''terrorizes'' Media, Pennsylvania. Nargice, an Iranian-American, locks herself in her bathroom to avoid the witch-hunt. Desperate to connect, she addresses the FBI men behind her mirror. As issues of cultural representation, privacy, and exhibitionism converge, will Nargice realize the bathroom is a place, not her friend?  SEPTA gets you to the show aboard Bus Route 40 or 47.

Beauty Is
Gershman Y 401 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19147 Directions	Monday, September 1, 2008  7:00 p.m. $10 Visit Website
Hotel Obligado begins its 2008-2009 season by bringing recent favorite, Beauty Is, to the Festival. Voted one of the Top Ten Productions of 2007 by the Philadelphia Weekly, Beauty Is is an intensely physical journey, inspired by the use of crystal meth in the gay community. To get to the show, take the Broad Street Line to Lombard-South Station, or Bus Routes 27, 32, or C.

There Goes The Bride
Hedgerow Theatre 64 Rose Valley Road Media, PA 19063 Directions	Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:00 p.m. Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:00 p.m. $10 - $30 Visit Website
A harassed advertising executive, Timothy Westerby, hits his head on the morning of his daughter's society wedding. He awakes to find himself in the company of Polly Perkins, a 1920's Flapper girl straight out of his current advertising campaign, whom no one else can see or hear. The situation becomes more critical when another bump on the head transports Timothy back to the Savoy Hotel in 1926 and the carefully planned wedding preparations disintegrate into chaos. Will family and friends be able to pull Timothy back to reality before the ‘in-laws’ abandon the wedding? Our 7th Annual Cooney farce! To get to the Hedgerow Theatre take the Media/Elwyn (R3) to Moylan-Rose Valley Station.

Sea of Birds Friday
Ice Box Project Space 1400 N. American Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 Directions	Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday, September 1, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. $18.75 - $20 Visit Website
Structured like Homer's Odyssey and reminiscent of The Little Prince, Sea of Birds parallels one child's memories of an Eastern European displacement camp in wartime with fantasy characters from an American child's imagination. As we follow the narrator’s journey, we meet Ivars the Butterfly Catcher, Gregor the Tormented Meadow Dweller, a Serpent with a Supercilious Eyebrow, and Others, who live in a sea of blue and black birds. Known for integrating historical themes with lyrical storytelling that engages children and adults alike, performance artist and writer Sebastienne Mundheim (Currently Franklin, 2006) creates a three-dimensional storybook of delicate paper sculpture, dance-based puppetry, and live musicians. Sea of Birds transports audiences to a fantastical world, exploring history, memory, and the power of imagination. The Ice Box Project Space is accessible from Bus Routes 3, 5, 15, 47, or 57.

Mélange Live
Red Room at Society Hill Playhouse 507 S. 8th Street Philadelphia, PA 19147 Directions	Saturday, August 30, 2008 7:00 p.m. $20 Visit Website
Experience a tapestry of multi-textured musical moods...from a delectable sampling of jazz and smokehouse vocal talents, Broadway voices, soul, opera, rock and alien instrumentation to a heaping helping of comedy and dance. This event is accessible form Bus Routes 12, 21, 40, 42, or 47.

Map and Compass Outing
REI - Conshohocken/Plymouth Meeting 200 W. Ridge Pike Ste 115 Conshohocken, PA 19428 Directions	Saturday, August 30, 2008 9:00 a.m.  $45 Visit Website
Learn how to use a compass and read a map to truly find your way in the wilderness. REI teaches you the parts of a compass and how to make use of them. Learn about magnetic north, true north, and magnetic variation (declination), and how to make sense of it all. Then you'll learn how to take a bearing from the terrain and from your map, so you can triangulate your position and plan a route. Speaking of maps, what do all those squiggly lines mean? Take a look at topographic maps and learn how to read them to understand your terrain. Finally, the class discusses strategies such as using ''handrails'' for ''aiming off'' to improve the accuracy of your backcountry navigation. Start your outdoor adventure on Bus Routes 95 or 97.

  

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