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Gay pride and a beer camp at Penn's Landing, and 16 other things to do in and around Philadelphia June 16-19

The Pride Day Parade and Festival will be out and about, loud and proud on Sunday.
The Pride Day Parade and Festival will be out and about, loud and proud on Sunday.Read morePhoto by J. Fusco for VISIT PHIL
Beer camp

1 p.m. Saturday, Penn's Landing Great Plaza, 101 S. Columbus Blvd. $55; $40 designated drivers, beercamp.sierranevada.com

Community Gardens Day

This citywide celebration spotlights the benefits of the shared growing spaces for Philadelphia neighborhoods, with tours of 50 community gardens offering garden advice, yoga, art shows, and children's activities. Starting point is Las Parcelas in Norris Square. — M.H.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday (rain date Sunday),  starting at Las Parcelas, 2248 N. Palethorp St. Free, 215-988-8800, www.ngttrust.org.

STAGE

"Uncle Vanya"

The Quintessence Theatre Company presents Annie Baker's new translation of the classic Chekhov tale of thwarted ambition, thwarted loves, and a certain gun. — John Timpane

8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, the Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave. $35, 215-987-4450, quintessencetheatre.org.

ART

Kidchella

The fourth annual freak-out for small fries features three Friday-evening concerts over the summer, starting with an excellent jam featuring the stand-out Wynnefield Settlement Music School High School Jazz Ensemble (coached by pianist Alex Kauffman), the kiddie power-pop combo Karen K and the Jitterbugs, and the Deedle Deedle Dees playing tunes inspired by history, science, and folklore. — M.H.

4 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse, 3500 Reservoir Dr., East Fairmount Park. $10, 215-765-4325, smithplayground.org.

"Peter and the Starcatcher"

The Chester County troupe Barley Sheaf Players presents Rick Elice's prequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, telling how an orphan boy became magical. — M.H.

8 p.m. Saturday,  Barley Sheaf Players Playhouse, 810 N. Whitford Rd., Lionville, Chester County. $17, $13 students and seniors, 610-363-7075, barleysheaf.org.

"Junie B. Jones"

A musical based on Barbara Park's beloved series about the bespectacled, kickballing first grader with a Top-Secret Personal Beeswax Journal (everyone should have one). — M.H.

11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. $14.50-$16.50, 215-574-3550, https://www.walnutstreettheatre.org.

CLASSICAL

"Crucifixion Resurrection: Nine Souls a Traveling"

Composer Hannibal Lokumbe's reaction to the senseless killing of nine parishioners in a Charleston, S.C., church is a new work of power and resilience. Scored for his own jazz trumpet, jazz trio, violin (the Philadelphia Orchestra's brilliant associate concertmaster Juliette Kang), vocalists, narrator, and choir, the Philadelphia Orchestra's Music Alive composer-in-residence penned a work of forgiveness and reconciliation that will pack his usual mighty punch. — Tom Di Nardo

7 p.m. Saturday, Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 419 S. Sixth St. Free, reservations required, 215-893-1999, philorch.org.

Simone Dinnerstein

The acclaimed pianist, famed through her revelatory CDs of Bach, is touring with the band featured on her new disc, Mozart in Havana. Antonio Mendez Padron conducts the Havana Lyceum Orchestra in two different programs, which will include Dinnerstein soloing in Mozart's piano concertos Nos. 21 and 23, and the orchestra performing Carlos Farinas' Punto y Tonadas and Copland's Appalachian Spring. — T.D.N.

• 7 p.m. Saturday, Longwood Gardens, Route 1, Kennett Square. $23 (includes Gardens admission), 610-388-1000, longwoodgardens.org.
• 7 p.m. Monday,  Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. $10, 215-278-7200, barnesfoundation.org

POP

Elvis Costello

Everybody's getting into the act of celebrating classic-album anniversaries by playing them in their entirety. Including Elvis Costello, although he's doing it in his own nonlinear way, of course. With the help of the Imposters plus two back-up vocalists, Costello is taking on Imperial Bedroom, his 1982 album that marked a shift to more baroque arrangements than those employed on its more punky predecessors. But he's not doing the songs in order on the Imperial Bedroom & Other Chambers tour, and he might leave one or two out in what promises to be a lengthy show that also takes time to survey the prolific British songster's career. — Dan DeLuca

8 p.m. Friday at the Tower Theater, 69th and Ludlow Streets, Upper Darby. $42.50-$125, 610-352-2887, thetowerphilly.com.

Sigur Rós

Although in the past, Iceland's Sigur Rós made their expansive music even grander by touring with a string and/or a horn section, this time they have chosen to pare to the essentials: just the trio of guitarist/vocalist Jónsi Birgisson, bassist Georg Hólm, and drummer/keyboardist Ori Páll Dýrason. Don't see that as scaling back, though: no disrespect to Hólm and Dýrason, but Jónsi's magical voice — by turns delicate and harrowing — and his bowed guitar-playing are worlds unto themselves. And the elaborate light show will amplify the effect of songs both old and new.  — Steve Klinge

8 p.m. Friday, the Mann Center for Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave. $39.50-$79.50, 215-546-7900, manncenter.org.

Florida Georgia Line

Despite being tagged as a modern country act, nobody ever accused the Brooks & Dunn-ish Florida Georgia Line — the rocking duo of Tyler Hubbard (the guy from Georgia) and Brian Kelly (the one from Florida) — of being altogether too country. That's how they wound up on nuclear house-pop music kings the Chainsmokers' "Last Day Alive." And it's why Florida Georgia Line albums such as  2014's Anything Goes and 2016's Dig Your Roots are as much about the sound of boy-band brio as they are tear-in-your-beer heartbreakers. — A.D. Amorosi

 7 p.m. Saturday, BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden. $65.75-$27, livenation.com.

U2

It has been 30 years since the release of  The Joshua Tree, the landmark album that remains the Irish quartet's biggest seller.  On their current stadium tour named after the 1987 album — which will include a start-to-finish performance, beginning with "Where the Streets Have No Name" — Bono and the boys will be playing Philadelphia for the first time since 2011, having skipped our fair city on the abbreviated Innocence + Experience tour in 2015. The Lumineers open. — D.D.

7 p.m. Sunday, Lincoln Financial Field, 1 Lincoln Financial Way. Sold out, 267-570-4000, lincolnfinancialfield.com.

Lizzo

Houston-born Minneapolis-based feminist rapper Lizzo — born Melissa Jefferson — is a life-force to be reckoned with. The gospel-trained singer and songwriter started to break out with her 2015 album Big Grrrl Small World, and her irrepressible optimism and contagious energy is everywhere apparent on last year's EP Coconut Oil, her debut on Atlantic Records, starting with the characteristically upbeat break-up song and pep talk "Good As Hell." — D.D.

8 p.m. Sunday, the Foundry at the Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St. $27, 215-309-0150. thefillmorephilly.com.

Jason Isbell

8 p.m. Monday, the Fillmore Philadelphia, 29 E. Allen St. $35, 215-309-0150, thefillmorephilly.com.