Looking for something different to do this weekend?
This week’s local calendar offers a pretty eclectic mix, whether you’re looking for something to do with the kids, want to support a local school team, catch a show, spend some time outdoors or even try a little salsa dancing.
The weather may play a role in your plans. Friday currently looks like the best of the three days, with some sun and a high around 81°. Saturday is expected to be cooler and wetter, with rain and thunderstorms possible, while Sunday warms back into the low 80s with another chance of a shower or storm.
With that in mind, here are eight local activities worth checking out this weekend.
⚽ Support the Vikings With a Friday Morning Treat
Friday morning brings an easy way to support some local student-athletes.
The Upper Merion High School Girls Soccer Booster Club will host a snack stand at the school’s upper turf field, with water ice, soft pretzels and other treats available.
📅 Friday, August 21
⏰ 10 a.m.–noon
📍 Upper turf field, Upper Merion High School
🎭 See Disney Favorites Performed by Local Teen Actors
Students from Theatre Horizon School’s Teen Musical Theatre Camp will perform Disney’s Dare to Dream, Jr.
The 60-minute musical revue draws from a century of Disney films, with music from The Princess and the Frog, Coco, Encanto, Frozen II and more.
📅 Friday, August 21
📍 Theatre Horizon, Norristown
🎬 Catch a Free Outdoor Movie in King of Prussia
Peace Lutheran Church is hosting a Free Outdoor Family Movie Night Friday evening.
Families can arrive early for yard games and time with neighbors before the movie begins at 8:15 p.m. Snacks are free, and guests should bring their own lawn chairs or something comfortable to sit on.
And if the weather doesn’t cooperate, organizers say the movie will move indoors.
📅 Friday, August 21
⏰ 7:30 p.m. | Movie at 8:15 p.m.
📍 Peace Lutheran Church, 200 E. Beidler Rd., King of Prussia
🎟️ Free
🥋 Try Something New at DeStolfo’s Premier Martial Arts
Saturday morning’s DeStolfo’s Premier Martial Arts Open House offers several opportunities to try something new.
The schedule includes fitness kickboxing, a Ninja Turtle workshop, youth jiu jitsu, an ABC’s of Success workshop and teen/adult self-defense.
📅 Saturday, August 22
⏰ Beginning at 8:10 a.m.
📍 DeStolfo’s Premier Martial Arts, 1950 Main Ave., Conshohocken
🏞️ Become a Junior Ranger at Valley Forge
Valley Forge National Historical Park is hosting its second annual Junior Ranger Field Day Saturday.
Families can pick up an activity worksheet at the Visitor Center and explore stations involving Ice Age fossils, fly fishing, paddling safety, birds, Eastern Box Turtles and games children played in the 1700s.
Complete at least four activities, take the Junior Ranger pledge and participants can earn a special Valley Forge Junior Ranger Day badge. Activities are weather-dependent, with a rain date of Sunday.
📅 Saturday, August 22
⏰ 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
📍 Valley Forge National Historical Park Visitor Center
🎉 Celebrate Bridgeport’s Resilience at the 2nd Street Block Party
Saturday marks five years since Hurricane Ida devastated portions of Bridgeport along the Schuylkill River.
The community will commemorate how far it has come with the 2nd Street Block Party, celebrating five years of “kicking Ida to the curb.”
The afternoon includes free food and drinks, music, bounce houses, games, a vendor market and the Backpacks for Bears School Supplies Giveaway.
📅 Saturday, August 22
⏰ Noon–4 p.m.
📍 Borough lot on 2nd Street between Green and Mill Streets, Bridgeport
🎟️ Free
🐴 Watch Dressage at the Devon Horse Show Grounds
Here’s something a little different.
DunMovin Dressage Days brings a full weekend of equestrian competition to the Devon Horse Show Grounds.
Friday and Saturday feature USEF/USDF licensed competition, qualifying events, a Musical Freestyle Jackpot and team challenges. Sunday features an amateur-only schooling show for adult amateurs and junior/young riders.
📅 Friday–Sunday, August 21–23
📍 Devon Horse Show Grounds
💃 Finish the Weekend With Salsa Dancing
Sunday evening offers a completely different way to close out the weekend.
Salsa Night at Sora West Plaza features dancing, a special guest DJ, plus food and drinks in partnership with Natalia’s Muse Dance Studio.
📅 Sunday, August 23
⏰ 5–9 p.m.
📍 Sora West Plaza, Conshohocken
🎟️ $25
Find More to Do Around the Upper Merion Area
These are just eight of the activities happening around the area this weekend.
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