Celebrate the best of South Street during South Street’s Spring Festival on Saturday, May 3 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Enjoy live music, street performance, food and shopping along South Street between Front and 8^th Streets. This event, hosted by The South Street Headhouse Disctrict, is free and open to the public.

Philadelphia’s 5th World Water Day 5K Run/Walk is starting again on March 22. The walk is sponsored by Keiyo Soy Ministries, an organization that raises funds to provide for “clean water, sanitations facilities, and hygiene education in the Kerio Valley in the Rift Valley Province of northern Kenya.”

Catch the discounted student entry fee of $20, normally $25 on race day.  The event starts on Martin Luther King Drive at 9 a.m. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.

The Philadelphia Flower Show from March 1-9 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on 12^th and Arch streets. Tickets are $20 online with a valid student ID.  This year marks the 185^th year of the Philadelphia Flower show, which claims the name of the world’s largest indoor flower show with 10 acres of arrangements.

The Wistar Institute at 3601 Spruce St. opened the Nikon Small World Photography Exhibition on February 3. This exhibition showcases microscopic photographs showcasing nature that would not be seen by the naked eye alone. Tickets are free. Stop by from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m Monday through Friday until March 7.

Afterward, stop by Fairmount’s Eastern State Penitentiary. ESP is offering special discounted Valentine’s Day tours from February 14-16. Tickets are buy-one-get-one free if purchased in advance online. General admission tickets for students with ID are $10/ticket.