7Days: Regional arts and entertainment, by Michael Harrington

Sunday

Green notes "If plants had voices, what would they sing?" How often we've pondered that question. Well, the theatrical troupe Bearded Ladies provides an answer, in cabaret form, in the show Bitter Homes and Gardens: A Botanical Hoe-Down. The show goes on at 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday at the PHS Pop- Up Garden, Ninth and Wharton Streets, and continues with shows at 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Tickets are $20. Call 215-802-1105. (It then shifts to the garden at 15th and South, with shows at 6 p.m. July 14-19, and an added show at 2 p.m. July 18.)

Monday

Shape of things The Philadelphia Sculptors exhibition 5 into 1 features artists from a quintet of area college art programs. The show is at the Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, 20th Street and the Parkway, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays though Saturdays to July 25. Admission is free.

Call 215-413-9126.

Tuesday

Out of the Wu Hard to believe, but the seminal Staten Island hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan has been at it nearly 25 years. Two key members, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, perform at 8 p.m. at the Theatre of Living Arts, 334 South St. Tickets are $30.

Call 215-922-1011.

Wednesday

Draw together Calling all artists: Grab your sketchbook and pencil (or pen, charcoal, feather - whatever you prefer) and take part in Create on the Porch, an open sketching and writing night with live (clothed) models on Heather Hart's temporary porch installation, at 6:30 p.m. at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St. Admission is free. Call 215-898-5911.

Pointed jokes Comedian and activist Janeane Garofalo brings her acerbic wit and incisive commentary to a show at 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. Tickets are $24.

Call 215-222-1400.

Thursday

Space, man It's called the Fermi Paradox: Though probability suggests it's highly likely that there are extraterrestrial civilizations and that they would be apparent to us, we've seen and heard nothing. As the physicist Enrico Fermi put it when he came up with his paradox in 1950: "Where are they?" It's possible that we're alone. Or that we're the first. Or that any civilizations capable of technology destroyed themselves before achieving interstellar ability (uh-oh). Well, if we're not alone, let's hope contact is something like Steven Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi masterpiece, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which the UFO denizens give us a glimpse of themselves (with music). The film screens at 7 p.m. at the Ambler Theater, 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler. Tickets are $10.50.

Call 215-345-7855.

Key player The virtuosic pianist Yun-Chin Zhou plays works by Scarlatti, Liszt, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and

Ravel at 7:30 p.m. at

Ocean Grove's Great Auditorium

, Pilgrim and Ocean Pathways, Ocean Grove, N.J. Tickets are $16. Call 800-590-4064.

Punk contrarians The Mekons began as a band of art students in 1977, formed in the same University of Leeds scene that spawned the Gang of Four and Delta 5. Over the decades, they have pioneered the alt-country sound, collaborated with landscape artist Vito Acconci and experimental novelist Kathy Acker, and had spectacularly bad luck with recording companies while achieving critical acclaim. Joe Angio's 2013 documentary, Revenge of the Mekons, telling the group's story, screens at International House, 3701 Chestnut St., at 7 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $9;

$7 seniors and students. Call 215-387-5125.

World beat Honduran singer, guitarist, and percussionist Aurelio brings the sound of Central America's Garifuna tradition to a double bill with the Brazilian choro group Regional de NY for a Blue Curtain concert at Pettoranello Gardens, Princeton Community Park North, Mountain Avenue and Route 206, Princeton, at 7 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Call 609-619-0003.

in the region over the coming weekend will appear in the Weekend section in Friday's Inquirer. Send notices of events for "7 Days"

to Michael Harrington at mharrington@phillynews.com.