Philly weekender: Katy Perry, pickleball and pierogis
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🏓 Pickleballers, the courts at Headhouse Plaza are beckoning for National Pickleball Day.
- Play your hearts out, sip cocktails and enjoy the DJ from 4-8pm.
📷 Take in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Clarence Williams' new exhibition on Hurricane Katrina. The Philly native was living in New Orleans when the tragedy struck and spent more than a decade documenting the city's recovery.
- Opens Friday at InLiquid in Kensington and runs through Sept. 27.
👷The Designer Toy Art Festival runs Saturday and Sunday at the 23rd Street Armory with a whole slate of events.
- Expect exhibits, art, DJs and more. Tickets: $20-$25 adults; $10-$15 children aged 12-17
💥Liberty Comic Con is Friday-Sunday at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks. Panels, cosplay performances, gaming tournaments and voice actors from some of your favorite shows, including "The Simpsons."
- Tickets: $25-$75 adults and children 12+; $10-$30 children aged 6-12
🍑 Life's a peach when you can pair it with sunny vibes. Linvilla Orchards in Media is hosting a festival dedicated to peaches and sunflowers this weekend.
- Pick your own peaches, enjoy some of the peachy baked goods and take in the endless row of sunflower fields. Saturday, 8am-6pm.
☠️ You're not dead and gone yet. So take in Laurel Hill cemetery's annual hearse show solidly above ground.
- These peeps make sure people are laid to rest in style. Saturday, 10am-3pm. Free but RSVP.
🥟 No one does pierogis like Port Richmond. Check out the neighborhood festival at Campbell Square on Saturday from noon-5pm. Vendors, food, live music.
🎤 Pop star Katy Perry is rocking the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday starting at 7pm as part of her "Lifetimes Tour." Tickets: $114+