5 Fun Things To Do This Weekend In Bucks Co.

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — The first official weekend of summer is here. That means weekend trips to the shore and to the mountains where it's bound to be cooler than the Delaware Valley. But if you're sticking around Bucks County and dealing with the heat, you'll find plenty to see and do right in your own backyard.

Here are five fun things to consider this weekend:

Society Bringing Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Ruddigore' To The Stage

The Bucks County Gilbert & Sullivan Society will bring the musical comedy “Ruddigore” to the stage on Friday, June 20 at 8 p.m., Saturday, June 21 at 2 and 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 22 at 2 p.m. at the
Delaware Valley University Life Sciences Theater, 700 East Butler Avenue, Doylestown. Enter from New Britain Road to access the Life Sciences building). The theater group, now in its 16th year, presents this topsy-turvy musical of two brothers of the family Ruddigore, who are under an ancestral curse to commit a crime a day or else die a painful death.

(Bucks County Gilbert & Sullivan Society)

Doylestown To Show Its Pride At Weekend Block Party

Doylestown will be showing its pride on Saturday, June 21 during a Pride Festival Block Party from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on East State Street between Pine and Main streets. The free event is part of Doylestown's Pride Festival, which continues through the end of the month. The day will feature live music, food, and lots of rainbows and unicorns.

There will be plenty of rainbows and unicorns at Saturday's Pride Festival Block Party in Doylestown.

'Painting Hope' For Cancer Research, Lyme Awareness

Twenty-nine young Bucks County artists are showcasing their works throughout June at the Countryside Gallery in Newtown to raise funds for St. Jude Children's Cancer Research Hospital and Lyme Disease awareness. Dubbed "Painting Hope," the show features individual paintings created by each of the aspiring young artists in addition to three collaborative works that are up for silent auction to benefit St. Jude and the PA Lyme Resource Network (www.PaLyme.org). Their painting of "Kids Castle, Doylestown" will be auctioned off to the highest bidder to benefit St. Jude while their paintings, "Camelback Bridge Over the Delaware Canal" and "Limes for Lymes," will be auctioned for the PA Lyme Resource Network.

The young artists show off their painting of "Kids Castle, Doylestown."

Phillips’ Mill Show Celebrates Renowned New Hope Artist

Phillips’ Mill Community Association presents a powerful new exhibition, The Selma Burke Invitational African American Art Show, paying homage to one of America’s most notable sculptors and art educators of the 20th century, an artist who just happened to call New Hope home for the last 40 of her 95 years. This signature exhibition will feature more than 60 works by many African American artists Burke mentored, taught, and inspired, including James E. Duprée and Kimberly Camp; the exhibition will be on view through June 29 at Phillips' Mill, 2619 River Road, New Hope.

James E. Duprée's "Valley of the Gods." (James E. Duprée)

Free Pet Adoption At Women's Animal Center

Doll 10 Beauty, an internationally selling, cruelty-free cosmetics company based in Newtown, Bucks County, is teaming up with the Women’s Animal Center for a free pet adoption event this weekend. The Dolls for Paws Adoption Event will be hosted at the Women’s Animal Center, 3839 Richlieu Road, Bensalem, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in hopes of placing as many shelter animals as possible into loving forever homes, organizers said. The event will also feature complimentary refreshments and coloring activities for the little dolls and dudes.

The Women's Animal Center in Bensalem will sponsor a free pet adoption event on Saturday. (Women's Animal Center )