Bubble artist and performer Fan Yang will bring his Gazillion Bubble Show to the Merriam Theater on Saturday and Sunday.
Families can watch Yang, the creator of the production who has also set 17 Guinness World Records, transform his bubble tricks and skills into a theatrical show with laser lights.
The self-described bubble scientist, who has been performing more than 20 years, will fascinate with all kinds of bubbles - bouncing, floating, tiny, gigantic - and extract them from one another without bursting them.
Children may have the chance to get inside Yang's bubbles as he creates them on stage. The audience can play with the bubbles released.
Attendees will see a "snow globe" when Yang releases millions of tiny bubbles to fill up the stage. Yang, born in Vietnam and now living in Toronto, has been featured on national television shows including Oprah and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Gazillion Bubble Show is produced by Tony Award-winning producer John Platt and is part of the Broadway season presented by the Kimmel Center and the Shubert Organization.
Harvest festival
Linvilla Orchards continues its Pumpkinland Harvest Festival through Sunday, a Delaware County family tradition for more than 40 years.
For a nominal fee, attendees can wander through an acre-square straw bale and a three-acre cornfield maze and enjoy hay, train, and pony rides. On display will be more than 100 tons of pumpkins, some up to 730 pounds and available for purchase until Thanksgiving. Guests can get help loading pumpkins onto the trucks. There will be scarecrow exhibits that portray the legends of harvest season, books, local history and other stories. Kids can get their faces painted.
Two youth orchestras
On Sunday, enjoy an afternoon of classical music as the D.C. Youth Orchestra and the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra perform together at the Temple Performing Arts Center.
The free concert, which begins at 3 p.m., will be conducted by Jesus Manuel Berard and Louis Scaglione. Musical selections on the bill include Richard Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger and Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9.
The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra is one of the oldest and most highly respected such assemblies in the country. For more than 70 years, it has performed worldwide.