The Franklin Institute hosts Mitzvahs as well as
weddings. They can put images, including videos,
on the four 16-by-9-foot screens in the corners
of its Franklin Hall or project imagery on the
Fels Planetarium ceiling (below).

Phillie Phanatic: Terry Foote/Wikipedia; Franklin Institute photos provided
Lincoln Financial Field offers a variety of spaces
and features, as does Citizens Bank Park, where
you can get tours of the dugout and clubhouse
areas, walk the bases during baseball season
and have your party crashed (possibly a little
too literally) by the Phillie Phanatic.

For the more culturally minded, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art handles a wide
range of events, offers catering by restaurateur
Stephen Starr’s STARR Events and provides tours
of whatever exhibitions it’s hosting at the time of
the event.

Jose Garces’ catering company handles events at the
Philadelphia Orchestra’s current home, the Kimmel Center, which
offers seven venues, including the rooftop atrium Hamilton
Garden; the Lounge, with its outdoor balcony overlooking Broad
Street; and the Academy of Music Ballroom.

And, of course, there’s the Franklin Institute, which hosts
Mitzvahs as well as weddings. DeGiovanni said one family that
held a Bar Mitzvah there had visited Israel and went with an
Israeli marketplace theme for the event’s cocktail hour.

“Instead of projecting stars, we projected imagery from Israel
[on the planetarium’s ceiling] to really give people the impression
that they were in a different place and time,” she said.

The institute also can put images, including videos, on the four
16-by-9-foot screens in the corners of its Franklin Hall.

For one Bar Mitzvah, DeGiovanni said, the family had a video
made to look like a Nike commercial that featured the Bar
Mitzvah boy playing tennis with his dog.

“It looked like a legitimate Nike commercial that had the dog
wearing the glasses and the special effects,” she said. l
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