This Wendy Hammond play follows a Mormon couple through their difficult marriage. The husband's career in the CIA brings further complications — danger, secrecy and foreign policy — into it.

@ People's Light & Theatre, 39 Conestoga Rd.

Occurs: Every Sunday, Every Tuesday, Every Wednesday, Every Thursday, Every Friday, Every Saturday

Nov.

Sun

noon-8pm

FREE

Aforteore

Galleries

Features the works of four artists, including a quilt made from the remains of his father's clothes by artist Sean Riley, graphite animations by Jamal Cyrus, and cosmic paintings by Charles Hayes. Viewers are meant to discover the unpredictable connections between the works.

@ Pageant : Soloveev Gallery, 607 Bainbridge St.

Nov.

Sun

10am-5pm

$10-$12

Africa, Asia & North America

Museums/Exhibits

Features dioramas that exhibit animals from the three continents in their natural habitats. The 37 dioramas include animals such as lions, tigers and zebras. (You thought we were going to say "bears," didn't you?)

@ Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway

Nov.

Sun

3-4:30pm

$10

African Dance

Classes/Workshops

Learn how to move your feet like people from Guinea Bissau do, with styles ranging from Bijagos and Balanta to Fula and Manjaco.

@ Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave.

Occurs: Every Sunday

Nov.

Sun

10:30am-2pm

$12

Aikido Class

Classes/Workshops

Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.

@ Aikido Aikikai of Philadelphia, 2100 Chestnut St.

Occurs: Daily

Nov.

Sun

2pm

$12

Almost, Maine

Theater

This romantic comedy follows various couples in a tiny Maine town as they fall in and out of love.

@ Old Academy Players, 3540-3544 Indian Queen Lane

Occurs: Every Sunday, Every Friday, Every Saturday

Nov.

Sun

9:30am-5pm

$12-$14.75

free for members

Amazing Machine

Museums/Exhibits

Features 25 rarely displayed machines, including Mailardet's automaton and a model of the Strasbourg cathedral clock.

@ Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St.

Nov.

Sun

noon-4:30pm

$5-$7

Animal Adaptations

Museums/Exhibits

Features demonstrations of how certain animal species, like the black rhino and giant anteater, overcome difficult environmental pressures to survive.

@ Delaware Museum of Natural History, 4840 Kenneth Pike

Nov.

Sun

noon-5pm

FREE

Annie Chau

Museums/Exhibits

Features contemporary jewelry by the title artist, who combines black gems and chunky stones with tiers of enameled chain to explore form and contrast.

@ Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, 200 S. Madison St.

Nov.

Sun

10am-6pm

FREE

$10 tasting fee

Apple Festival

Events/Festivals, Food/Drink

It's apple season, and what better way to celebrate than by eating apple butter, apple bread, apple dumplings and apple fritters, and drinking spiced apple wine, apple cider and apple juice?

@ Chaddsford Winery, 632 Baltimore Pike

Nov.

Sun

7am-7pm

FREE

Apples Are YUM! (The Yum! Show)

Galleries

Features acrylic and mixed-media food portraits on wood and canvas by Mark Mattson, whose work involves "things that should not have faces, with faces." That includes everything from teapots to donuts.

@ High Point Café & Gallery, 602 Carpenter Lane

Nov.

Sun

9am-7pm

Ardmore Farmers Market

Farmers Market

@ Ardmore Farmers Market, 6 Coulter Ave.

Occurs: Every Sunday, Every Wednesday, Every Thursday, Every Friday, Every Saturday

Nov.

Sun

10am-5pm

$12-$16

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective

Museums/Exhibits

Features approximately 178 works by abstract artist Arshile Gorky. The exhibit is the first full display of Gorky's work in about 30 years.

@ Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th St. & Ben Franklin Parkway

Nov.

Sun

10am-5pm

$10-$12

The Art of Science: Aquaticus

Kids, etc., Museums/Exhibits

Features local artist and science teacher Caryn Babaian's chalkboard drawings of aquatic creatures.

@ Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway

Nov.

Sun

10am-5pm

$7-$14

Artist- In- Residence Patrick Dougherty

Museums/Exhibits

Features a site-specific sculpture made entirely from local twigs and saplings. Dougherty's creations, which are often more than 20 feet tall, and which look like giant huts and balls of string, last for about two years before they begin to dissolve.

@ Morris Arboretum, 100 E. Northwestern Ave.

Nov.

Sun

noon-5pm

FREE

The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed

Galleries

Features video and sculpture by Ronnie Bass, telling the story of an astronomer who plans to flee an oppressive situation and start a new life.

@ Marginal Utility, 723 Chestnut St.

Nov.

Sun

10am-4pm

FREE

The Bacon Show

Galleries

Features sculptures made out of bacon by Ellen Cagnassola, Jacob Crose, Mike Geno, and more. Subjects range from sock monkeys to deranged toys.

@ Mew Gallery, 906 Christian St.

Nov.

Sun

7pm

$10

Blue Sunday

Jazz/Blues

w/ Sarah Ayers, J.B. Kline, Steve Guyger, Doon Mayer Paul Plumeri & Joe Zook

@ Puck, 85 Printers Alley

Occurs: Every Sunday

Nov.

Sun

9:30am-5pm

$16.75-$27

Body Worlds 2

Museums/Exhibits

Features preserved human specimens that will exhibit how the human body and brain function. In a follow-up to the 2005 exhibition, human bodies will be displayed in various poses, preserved by a process called "plastination."

@ Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St.

Nov.

Sun

$12-$18

boom

Theater

After a journalism student meets a marine biologist in a subterranean lab for a night of casual sex, their affair ends up endangering humanity and the course of the world.

@ Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St.

Occurs: Every Sunday, Every Thursday, Every Friday, Every Saturday

Nov.

Sun

2pm

$12-$18

boom

Theater

After a journalism student meets a marine biologist in a subterranean lab for a night of casual sex, their affair ends up endangering humanity and the course of the world.

@ Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St.

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