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Some nice events will be happening this weekend and next weekend, and we want to highlight a few of them. Also, stay tuned for more information on the Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll (Sept. 17), and the fall edition of the Go West! Craft Fest (Sept. 19). For more events or if you want to submit an event, please visit our Events page.

Second Fridays on Lancaster Avenue

Second Fridays will be held on Sept. 11, beginning at 5 p.m., and here’s what’s in store for this Friday: Vendors Village, Neighborhood Time Exchange Open House, paintings and drawing exhibit by Doina Botez, open mic night, a screening of “Song of the South” and more, all on Lancaster Avenue, from 35th to 39th. For more information, visit the Lancaster Avenue Philly website.

Honey Festival at Bartram’s Garden

The beautiful Bartram’s Garden (54th and Lindbergh Blvd.) is hosting the 6th annual Honey Festival this Sunday (Sept. 13). Events will include open hive demonstration, tastings, and even a live “bee-bearding” with Don Shump from The Philadelphia Bee Company. Also beer brewing, beekeeping workshops, kids’ activities, a cooking contest, free yoga sessions, and more! The festival will take place from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Check out this page for more details.

Fringe Arts Festival

The annual Fringe Festival kicked off on Sept. 3, with many wonderful performances and art installations taking place in the city. West Philly is also hosting a few Fringe events this and next week, so here are some more details:

• “Body of Water” dance show by Antonia and Artists – Sept 11, 12, 8 p.m.
CEC Meeting House Theatre, 3500 Lancaster Avenue

Our bodies are 75% water. What would happen if we moved like the liquid we are? Antonia & Artists is a dance company made up of talented humans and led by choreographer Antonia Z Brown. Watch as they journey through the depths within to harness the fluidity, agility, and transformative strength of the most powerful element. For more info and tickets ($18), click here.

• “Second Skull” by Sothis, Sept. 16 & 21 – 8 p.m.; Sept. 19 – 2 p.m.
LAVA Space, 4134 Lancaster Ave.

Second Skull is an experimental gesamtkunstwerk. Three ensembles interlock: textual drama, fully notated music, and improvised music. More info and tickets ($9) are here.

Colleen Corcoran and Laurence Beck star in “Estranged Seekers” (Photo by Robert Kangas)

• “Estranged Seekers” by Nighthawks, Sept. 17 & 18 – 8 p.m.; Sept 19 – 7:30 p.m.
The Rotunda, 40th and Walnut

“Estranged Seekers” features three short plays: Susan Miller’s post 9/11 classic, “The Grand Design” (a mother and daughter go their separate ways looking for meaning in national parks or outer space), and works by 3-time Arts Council recipient William Burrison, imagining an ending to Kafka’s “The Castle,” and drawing on George Buchner’s unfinished novella, “Lenz,” the 18th century writer still inspiring psychological clinical studies. Also highlighted, innovative live music by composer/pianist Ross Lipton. Nighthawks is an offshoot of The Spruce Hill Community Theater Project, which pioneered the Westward/”neighborhood” expansion of the Fringe Festival with a groundbreaking production of “4 by Beckett” at The Woodlands Cemetery. More details are here. Half-price tickets ($10) will be available at the door for seniors, students, and West Philly residents.