Events

Every week we round up what is actually worth leaving the house for across Northwest Philadelphia. Markets, music, festivals, trail days, gallery openings, school fundraisers, and the small neighborhood stuff that never makes the citywide lists.

New calendar every Thursday, covering all eight neighborhoods.

Here is what makes it different from a scraped listings page. Every item is checked on a page we actually opened that week. If a venue has not published a date, it does not go in. If something is real but missing a detail, we say so out loud rather than guessing: no address published, check their Instagram. And when a source is stale we drop it, because a calendar that sends you to a restaurant that closed in 2023 is worse than a shorter calendar.

It also means we go looking in places a scraper cannot reach. Library branch pages, Friends of the Wissahickon, the neighborhood mutual-aid and block-party listings that never make it to a ticketing site. When something big is happening, the road closures and tow zones get their own section, because that is the part a neighbor actually needs and nobody else puts it in front of you.

Know about something we missed?

We would rather hear about it than miss it. If your block is throwing something, your shop is hosting something, or your organization has an event worth knowing about, send it over and we will get it in the calendar.

Send it to hello@nwphilly.com, or use the form below. Either reaches the same place. We read all of them, and getting it a week ahead helps.

What we cover

Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy, Germantown, West Oak Lane, Cedarbrook, Roxborough, Manayunk and East Falls. If it is in Northwest Philly, it belongs here.

Every calendar, going back

They all stay up. New one every Thursday morning.