This year, the holidays may take on a bit of a different look without the usual event gatherings. However, thanks to this region’s innovative spirit, the Holidays 2020 will have lots of safe and creative ways for you and your family to get your jingle on!
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Waterloo Region is home to many fantastic museums and galleries that attract visitors from across Canada and the world. May also happens to be Museum Month, so let us take you on a tour of the museums that call Waterloo Region home.
CTV News Kitchener – The City of Waterloo is helping connect the community with local musicians and poets while encouraging people to get their steps in. The initiative, called Trail Mix, pairs playlists with trails.
Thanks to talented local artists, St. Jacobs has even more reasons for people to visit. Bursts of eye-catching colours have sprouted on the Village’s interior and exterior walls. There are several urban art pieces to keep an eye out for when visiting St. Jacobs.
The artistic heart of Downtown Kitchener remains steady and is shining brighter than ever thanks to some new additions to Downtown Kitchener’s Art Walk. This self-guided walk is a collaboration between the Downtown Kitchener BIA, and the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery.
Over the past few decades, Waterloo Region has fully embraced creative place-making, the act of combining art, culture, and creativity to proudly display an area’s character and unite its community. The Region can now include the Uptown Waterloo Hughes Lane Art Walk in its creative place-making.
Sandy Pell shares the story behind the #GaltWings mural she and her partner, Steve Pell, created in Cambridge. This interactive mural was designed to both contribute to the community and attract new people to the Galt area of Cambridge.
La Scena Musicale – The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony is pleased to announce the details of the new 2020/21 Reimagined: KWS Goes Online season. The first set of concerts features programs from across a range of series, recorded live at Centre In The Square and broadcast online, to enjoy at home.
KitchenerToday.com – THEMUSEUM and Bingemans have once again joined forces to bring you safe, family-friendly fun. Hosted at Bingemans, this drive-thru event will bring you back to the Mesozoic Era. Complete with animatronic dinosaurs, you don’t have to go far to be up close with these creatures.
KitchenerToday.com – Stroll Walking Tours features walking tours that look at local history, public art and area architecture. Juanita Metzger is the owner of Stroll and says “there’s a bit of a pent-up demand to do interesting things in the community” when we aren’t able to travel as much.
New Hamburg Independent – After five months, Castle Kilbride is finally reopening to the public. The gradual reopening will include weekends, while all COVID-19 protocols will be in place.
The Labour Day Weekend is full of fun things to see and do in Waterloo Region, so grab your mask and get ready to have some fun!
There’s nothing quite like sitting around a table with family and friends and having great conversations over a delicious meal. Now, take that same table, have it painted by a talented local artist, place it on one of our region’s fabulous patios, and you have the recipe for the Art Fresco Project.
A Journal of Musical Things – Mick, Keith and the rest of the Rolling Stones will be dancing in the streets all the way to THEMUSEUM in Kitchener next fall. THEMUSEUM will be hosting UNZIPPED, a unique immersive experience into the storied history of one of rock’s best and most enduring bands.
TD Kitchener Blues Festival Aug. 6, 2020 – The KBF True Blue Summer Series will take place August 28-30, 2020 at a number of restaurants throughout Kitchener. All shows will be free to attend, with some shows being live-streamed.
CTV News, Kitchener – Forty years ago, Terry Fox travelled through Wilmot Township as he made his way across eastern Canada during his Marathon of Hope. He ran through the area on July 20, 1980. Four decades later, the township has put up a plaque in a park near his route.
Waterloo Chronicle July 17, 2020 – ‘Soundings,’ at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, amplifies voices often pushed to the margins. Indigenous land and territory are at the heart of Tania Willard’s works, which includes musical scores in the form of drawings, beadwork, video and sound.
July 15, 2020 – The film industry in Ontario is resuming as part of the Province’s reopening plan, and Cambridge residents and business owners can expect to see filming crews within the community starting this summer and into the fall.
Get ready for Civic Holiday Long Weekend fun with family and friends in Waterloo Region! No need to go far – hit the trails, visit an attraction, or enjoy a patio.
Posted on KitchenerToday June 26, 2020 – A self-guided bike tour is highlighting important Indigenous sites around Waterloo Region.
It’s been put together by the Kitchener Public Library and ARA Archaeology.
Canada officially turns 153 on July 1st. Canadians love a reason to celebrate, and even though this year Canada Day will take on a different look, festivities are happening in Waterloo Region – virtually! Find out how to join in the celebrations in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Wilmot.
February 2020 – Congratulations to the 2019 FEO Award Program recipients! The 2019 FEO Awards were handed out on Thursday, February 28th during FEO’s Annual Conference “ENGAGE” in London, Ontario and were judged by an independent panel of judges early December 2018.
Wondering what’s happening in Waterloo Region this Family Day? Here are 29 ideas that will have your gang playing together all weekend long (or, all Long Weekend!). Have fun – and here’s to Families!!
