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Top Family Friendly Things To Do This Weekend May 13-15

Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are our top picks…there's something for everyone in and around the Philadelphia area!

Cirque Du Soleil Presents Ovo

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The Liacouras Center
1776 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA

The Cirque du Soleil heads to Philadelphia for seven performances of Ovo. The show is insect inspired and will feature high flying humans dressed as tiny critters. CBS3's Jan Carabeo got a behind the scenes look, just incase you need a little more motivation.

Pairings On The Parkway

Summer Picnics

Sister Cities Park
210 N. 18th Street
Philadelphia, PA

This BYOB event returns for another season at Sister Cities Park, featuring singer-songwriter style live music from 5:30-7:30 pm each week. Logan Square Café inside the park will offer a special summer grilling menu and the Children's Discovery Garden will offer extended hours.

New Performances Join The Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival

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Franklin Square
200 6th Street
Philadelphia, PA

The Philadelphia Lantern Festival keeps getting better. Organizers added new performances to this celebration of Chinese culture. The new acts include Kung Fu tea, performers use a long stemmed tea pot to perform a unique tea ceremony. The festival has 25 larger than life displays of flowers, Chinese dragon, three-story pagoda and more.

NASCAR Race Weekend

Daytona 500
(Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

Dover International Speedway
1131 N Dupont Hwy
Dover, DE

NASCAR lovers, this one's for you. NASCAR comes to Dover with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the NASCAR Nationwide Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series "Lucas Oil 200."

Fredric and Jean Edelman Planetarium

NASA's Messenger Spacecraft Captures Mercury
(Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

Edelman Planetarium
Science Hall, Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro, NJ 08028

Join the Rowan community in reaching for the stars in the University's planetarium. Here visitors can enjoy a wide variety of shows and special events designed to educate and entertain, advance viewers' understanding of the universe.

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