5 Fun Things To Do In Bucks County This Weekend

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — With Arctic air moving in for the weekend, here are some ideas for enjoying a Bucks County February weekend while keeping warm and toasty. There are numerous art exhibits and shows taking place inside, including a high school art show in New Hope. There's also a wine and chocolate tasting experience that is sure to warm the soul. Here are five fun ways to enjoy Bucks County from the inside.

Wine Trail Toasts February With Tasting Experience

Wine, (hard cider) and chocolate – what could be sweeter? The Bucks County Wine Trail is toasting Valentine’s Day and the sweetest month of the year - February - with its first-ever Wine & Chocolate Flights tasting experience. As part of the experience, the public is invited to sample a three-flight wine (or hard cider) and chocolate pairing any time throughout February (one tasting experience per ticket per location) at five Bucks County Wine Trail locations.

Wine and chocolate pairings. (Bucks County Wine Trail)

Exhibit Showcases Extraordinary High School Art

Award-winning art by 30 high school students from Bucks County and beyond is on exhibit weekends through Feb. 15 at this year's Youth Art Exhibition at Phillips' Mill in New Hope. Admission to the show is free and open to the public. Students are selected for the show by their art teachers, who deliver paintings, works on paper, photography, digital art, and 3-dimensional works to the Mill each January. Find out who won this year's Best of Show Award by clicking here.

Aleksandra Nieznalska from Pennsbury won first place for her painting, "St. Andrew's Eve." Also winning first place is Sloan Miles from Solebury School for "Horn Player," a work on paper.

Celebrated Still Life Artist Showing New Works

There is still time to catch "Peter Paone: Not So Still Life" at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, but time is running out. The exhibition, which runs through March 15, showcases nearly 40 recent paintings and drawings by celebrated Philadelphia artist Peter Paone, inspired by Dutch vanitas paintings, a style intended to encourage contemplation of the passage of time and the inevitability of death. Curated by Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator Laura Turner Igoe, the exhibition presents nearly 40 recent paintings by the artist along with examples of Paone’s drawings that helped to generate his finished still lifes.

Peter Paone, Naughty and Nice, 2021. Acrylic on panel, 20 x 16 inches. Courtesy of the artist. (Photo by Christian Giannelli)

"Visions Of East And West" At Pearl Buck House

From now through April 13, the Pearl S. Buck House in Hilltown Township presents "Visions of East and West," an exhibit of traditional Chinese painting by Shutian Cao. Visitors to the house will experience the beauty of China and the Delaware Valley, two places Pearl Buck loved and called home. "Visions of East and West" features more than 50 pieces of art by noted artist and art educator Shutian Cao. Like Pearl Buck, Shutian Cao also calls China and Bucks County home, and draws on that for inspiration.

The Pearl S. Buck House at 520 Dublin Road, Perkasie.

Super Bowl Watch Parties In Bucks County

Bucks County bars and restaurants will be showcasing the Super Bowl on Sunday between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. Here are some of the places to watch the game in Doylestown, Newtown, Levitown, Bensalem, and Warminster.

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