Making Time ∞ will return to Fort Mifflin from Sept. 18-20, bringing the three-day festival back to the Revolutionary War-era site near Philadelphia International Airport for its sixth year there. The event, pronounced “Making Time Forever,” will again turn the 3,000-capacity fort into a dense stretch of live music and DJ sets.
Headliners include Bicep, Kim Gordon, Theo Parrish, They Are Gutting A Body of Water and Skee Mask, with more than 120 acts scheduled across the weekend. Three-day passes are on sale for $265 plus fees, while tickets without fees are available at Middle Child in Center City, Middle Child Clubhouse in Fishtown and The Lot Radio in Brooklyn.
The festival was programmed by David Pianka, known as Dave P, who started Making Time as roving parties at Philadelphia music venues in 2000. Since then, the project has grown into what it bills as “the most ambitious and transcendental DIY event in America,” a claim it backs with a lineup that mixes live bands and electronic artists and with the PLURT mantra it embraces: Peace, Love, Unity, Respect and Transcendence.
Pianka said this year’s lineup looks to the future while also returning to the roots of Making Time. He added that when he started the party in 2000, it centered on live performances from bands such as The Strokes, Interpol, Bloc Party and LCD Soundsystem alongside DJs, and that this year he has booked more live performances than ever before.
The tension inside the festival’s growth is simple enough to see: a project built on DIY energy now has a home at a historic fort, a fixed date on the calendar and a ticket price that puts it firmly on the radar of a much larger audience. Yet it still sells itself on the same underground ethos that powered the first parties Pianka threw in 2000.
The 2026 lineup and additional music acts are expected in the coming weeks, but the broad shape of the event is already set. Making Time ∞ is not just returning to Fort Mifflin; it is doubling down on the mix of nostalgia and forward motion that has carried it from club nights to one of Philadelphia’s most closely watched summer-weekend festivals.
