Here’s a recap of what’s happening in the hoods this weekend, Thursday, Sept 12 – Sunday, Sept 15. Do you know of more events and want to share them with your neighbors? Please add them in the comments below or submit them for the Events Calendar.

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Thursday

• Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll – Along Baltimore Avenue between 43rd and 51st Streets. 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Come to Baltimore Avenue rain or shine to enjoy $1 deals from over 30 local businesses. There will also be music, entertainment and activities for the little ones. Read more about this event here. Also, check out the flyer.
• Weed Dating – Mill Creek Farm, 49th & Brown. 6:30 p.m. The Mill Creek Farm is hosting a mixer/fundraiser on Thursday called “weed dating”! Admission: $12. More info here.

Friday

• 2013 Fringe Arts Festival continues with three performances of the musical “Jennifer the Unspecial: Time Travel, Love Potions, and 8th Grade” staged in Penn Museum’s Sphinx Gallery (3260 South St): Friday at 7:00 pm, Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. Admission: $15. More info on this and other Fringe Arts events and performances, click here.
• LOOK. SEE. HEAR: the glass works of 2012-2013 resident artist Celestine Wilson Hughes. Opening reception – AIR Gallery, 4007 Chestnut St., 1st Floor, 6 – 9 p.m. This is the final exhibition of work by a 2012-2013 resident artist. General public, friends, family, supporters, and past residents are welcome. http://40streetair.blogspot.com/
  
• Patriciu Mateescu: Unbearable Craziness of Onions. Opening reception – Art on the Avenue Gallery, 3808 Lancaster Ave. 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. This is a solo ceramic sculpture and drawing exhibition, featuring the most recent works of this noteworthy international artist. The event is part of the Second Fridays on Lancaster Avenue (Facebook page) series. The exhibit runs from September 14 to October 5. http://www.artonave.org/
• Free movie in Clark Park, 43rd & Chester. 7:30 p.m. 5 Broken Windows, shown by Philadelphia International Action Center concludes its summer film series. It’s a documentary about a Palestinian videographer who starts documenting Israeli land grabs around his village.

Saturday

• Uhuru Flea Market – Clark Park “A”, 43rd & Baltimore. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Uhuru Flea Market, an economic development project of the African People’s Education & Defense Fund, presents antiques, collectibles, food, arts & crafts, bikes, records, books, jewelry, clothing and housewares. For more info, visit: http://uhurufleamarket.blogspot.com/
  
  

  Uhuru Flea Market in Clark Park. Photo via uhurufleamarket.blogspot.com.

• Free movie in Clark Park, 43rd & Chester. 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s headliner is one of the handful of black-&-white Westerns that became iconic films: Fred Zinneman’s High Noon, starring Gary Cooper.
• WXPN welcomes The Last Bison and David Wax Museum – World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street. 8 p.m. The Last Bison consists of 7 members that play a wide array of instruments, including banjo, mandolin, reed organ, violin, and cello. They have been compared to the likes of Mumford and Sons, Fleet Foxes, and The Decemberists, but The Last Bison have a style all their own. Joining The Last Bison at World Cafe Live is the folk/roots rock band David Wax Museum. Their sound is a blend of Mexican Son music and American folk, earning them the “Mexo-Americana” label. For more information and to buy tickets ($14-$24), click here.

Sunday

• West Philly Food Swap – Ahisma House, 5007 Cedar Ave. 2 – 4 p.m. The Fall edition of West Philly Food Swap is this Saturday. Rules are still the same (more here). There are a few spots left, so get those tomatoes canned, those green beans pickled, and those hot peppers jellied. To reserve a spot email: foodswapwestphilly@gmail.com. Here’s the event’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WestPhillyFoodSwap

• The Power of Action event & silent auction presented by Training for Change, a West Philly based organization that works all over the US and internationally (recently Turkey, the UK, South Korea, Palestine, and Colombia), training activists in skills needed for effective nonviolent social change – The Cedar Works, 49th & Pentridge. 5 – 8 p.m. Join Training for Change for this social event and silent auction. George Lakey, Daniel Hunter, Nico Amador and others will be reading and sharing stories from their experiences as strategists, community organizers and trainers. Funds raised through this event will go toward supporting TFC to deliver trainings to groups working on issues from immigration to climate change to affordable housing and more!Suggested donation for a ticket is $10 (children are free and no one will be turned away). Light refreshments will be served. For more information and to purchase tickets in advance, visit: http://www.trainingforchange.org/