Weekend Planner: September 6-8

Just because Labor Day has come and gone doesn’t mean you can’t still have tons of fun. This weekend, look forward to the ever-popular West Side County Fair, a sweet honey fest, the festive Chinatown Moon Festival & Parade, and much more family fun. Enjoy!

Enjoy the last of the warm weather with an outdoor concert with family-friendly bluegrass tunes from Astrograss, loved for her wicked sense of humor. Don’t forget the picnic blanket! (Friday)

“Taliesin” revives a Welsh tale of sorcery, kings, and heroes with puppets and masks in a creative performance at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Dive in! (Friday-Sunday)

Love theater? Love discounts? 20at20, inwhich Off-Broadway shows release tickets for just $20, is back through September 22. Here’s the scoop. (Friday-Sunday)

Celebrate all things honey at the New York City Honey Festival, which brings honey and dessert tastings, candle making, hive demos, and more to Rockaway Beach. Sweeeet. (Saturday)

In the market for a new bike? The Brooklyn Bike Jumble is a bycicle-centric flea market featuring awesome deals for new and used wheels in JJ Byrne/Washington Park. Happy shopping! (Saturday)

For healthy outdoor fun, join NYC-based dance company The Indie-Ballet with its interactive creative dance, musical, and yoga performances, hits week at the Target Brooklyn Community Garden. Get moving! (Saturday)

Get swept up into an adventure of live genies, disappearing castles, and flying carpets at Puppetworks’ “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” production. Magical! (Saturday & Sunday)

Go down the rabbit hole with Alice at The June Havoc Theatre as she meets a Cheshire Cat, goes to a mad tea party, and plays croquet with the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland.” So trippy. (Saturday & Sunday)

Coney Island is arguably at its best in the early fall. This month, Luna Park is offers a special back-to-school promotion where good grades equal free rides. Learn More Here (Saturday & Sunday)

Come see Radio Disney and New York Familyat the big annual Third Avenue Community Benefit Festival. The lively street fair will run from 66th to 86th Streets from 12-5pm, featuring live entertainment, fun games, and tons of prizes the Radio Disney station between 80th and 81st Streets. New York Family will be located on that block too.  Please come by and nominate your school–nursery through high school–for a Blackboard Award! (Sunday)

Riverside Park’s Westside County Fair is back with carnival rides, reptile shows, aerialists, live music, green activities, and other performances galore. Best goodbye to summer ever! (Sunday)

With street dance performances, kicking shuttlecock fun, lantern making, and a children’s parade, there’s nothing not to love about Chinatown’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Get cultured! (Sunday)

Grandparents Day at The DiMenna Children’s History Museum means intergenerational fun in scavenger hunts and collaborative poetry. Yay for bonding. (Sunday)

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<p><span style="white-space: normal;"> </span></p> <h1>Turn Whining into Winning in MetroWest Boston</h1> <p>From beer gardens to corn mazes, state parks to beautiful art, MetroWest Boston is a great destination for a weekend trip! Enjoy <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/get-outside/?imgoing-place=hopkinton-state-park-61a91acef30b531a665ab64d">Hopkinton State Park</a>’s gorgeous foliage while kayaking on the lake or hiking, mountain biking, or snowshoeing on the amazing trails.</p> <p>In the evening, catch a play, musical, concert, art exhibition, dance performance, or immersive theatrical event at <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/culture/?imgoing-place=hopkinton-center-for-the-arts-63c03d7e0d792d753263b4d1">Hopkinton Center for the Arts</a>.</p> <p>Get a great night’s sleep at one of the region’s hotels, such as <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/where-to-stay/?imgoing-place=the-verve-hotel-boston-natick-tapestry-collection-by-hilton-61aa4790f30b531a666119e4">The VERVE</a>, with its fun and funky pop art décor, or <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/where-to-stay/?imgoing-place=aloft-framingham-6216279ccc891d1d0862c8c2">Aloft</a> with their pool tables and lobby games. In the morning, visit the <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/culture/?imgoing-place=danforth-art-school-61a8e11cf30b531a66592d90">Danforth Art Museum</a>, a jewel box housing 3,500+ artworks from three centuries, including groundbreaking sculptures depicting the African and African American experience by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller.</p> <p>Cross the street to the <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/culture/?imgoing-place=framingham-history-center-61a8e11cf30b531a66592d92">Framingham History Center</a> to explore their new multilingual exhibit that traces the city’s immigration story, from those fleeing the 1690s Salem Witch trials, to the Irish and Italian influx in the 1800-1900s, to the current migration of Brazilians. “Framingham’s Collective Journeys” includes oral histories, interactives, and artifacts.</p> <p>No visit to Framingham is complete without stopping at legendary <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/eat/?imgoing-place=jacks-abby-craft-lagers-61a8e11cf30b531a66592da0">Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers</a>, one of 17 breweries in MetroWest, where you can enjoy a flight with a schnitzel sandwich or their famous Framinghamburger. Afterwards, spend a few hours at <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/activities/?imgoing-place=level99-64a8389c51f92a351a6a3f06">Level99</a> testing each other with 50+ mental and physical escape rooms and challenges.</p> <p>The next day, tour the <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/where-to-stay/?imgoing-place=longfellows-wayside-inn-61aa7aa3f30b531a66621f57">Wayside Inn</a>. The oldest inn in America’s 100-acre property includes the Old Barn, now a farm stand with displays of antique farming tools, the historic Grist Mill, and beautiful grounds containing the Longfellow Memorial Garden, the Redstone Schoolhouse from the poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, the Martha-Mary Chapel, and Josephine's Pond for fishing. Stay for a delicious gourmet meal in their historic dining room.</p> <p>Spend the afternoon at the <a href="https://www.metrowestvisitors.org/culture/?imgoing-place=american-heritage-museum-61a92852f30b531a665b17bf">American Heritage Museum</a>. Start your tour in the depths of a WWI trench listening to a nurse’s first-hand account from the Western Front while bombs explode above you and the floor begins to shake. This extraordinary museum features one-of-a-kind historic aircraft, tanks, cars and rare relics from the Revolutionary War to today, in immersive exhibits and living history events. Afterwards, wander the charming shops and boutiques of downtown Hudson.</p> <h3>MetroWest Boston offers these and many other attractions, activities and events for the whole family!</h3>

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