Philadelphia and the Countryside - Press Room

Art lovers, garden enthusiasts, film connoisseurs and sports fans keep coming back year after year for festivals, sporting events, art shows, parades and cultural events in Philadelphia. Here’s what’s going on in the region in 2011*:

January:

• Thousands of decorative strutters kick off the New Year by marching up

The Calendar of Events is organized as follows:

September 2010
October 2010
November 2010
December 2010
January 2011
February 2011
March 2011
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June 2011
July 2011
August 2011
September 2011
Ongoing Activities

SEPTEMBER 2010

Through September 2010, Wednesdays
PM @ PENN MUSEUM. The University of Pennsylvania

As summer winds down, Philly gears up with end-of-season deals at two great Center City hotels and some fun must-dos, including weekly fireworks over the Delaware River at Penn’s Landing. The end of summer also marks visitors’ last chance to take in some big exhibitions and fun happenings, including Late

Note for note, there is no place like Philadelphia over the Fourth of July weekend. While music fans will enjoy three consecutive nights of free outdoor concerts featuring top-name talent, fireworks aficionados will be dazzled by two back-to-back nights of dazzling pyrotechnics. It all adds up to one easy-on-the-wallet Wawa

As the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) takes its popular With Love, Philadelphia XOXO® initiative from campaign to consumer experience, the destination marketing organization is proud to announce a wider release of Victory Brewing Company’s Summer Love Ale on July 6. Brewed locally in Chester County, Pennsylvania with pale

Renoir fans, consider your vacation planned! This summer, Philadelphia will boast more Renoir works than any other city in the world thanks to Late Renoir, displaying 100 pieces at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from June 17-September 6, 2010, and the Barnes Foundation, which always houses the largest collection of

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Can Philadelphia set the world record for the largest number of ‘high fives’ at a special event? Judges from the Guinness Book of World Records in England will find out on July 4^th as thousands of parade-goers touch the hand of

People are falling more in love with the With Love, Philadelphia XOXO™ tourism marketing campaign, and this summer promises to be filled with affection in the City of Brotherly Love as year two of the popular campaign gets underway. Victory Brewing Company, Capogiro Gelato Artisans, Where® Philadelphia magazine, the Philadelphia

Families getting their fill of fun in Philly this summer will need to spend a couple of nights or more in town in order to get it all in, and new and classic hotel packages, which all come with free hotel parking, enable them to do just that. Here’s a

This June, Philadelphia will celebrate Black Music Month with events and shows featuring many genres of music, including jazz, hip-hop, rap and more. Started in 1979 with the help of the city’s famed songwriter and record producer Kenny Gamble, Black Music Month kicks off in Philly on June 5 with