EVENTS IN WATERLOO REGION SEP 24 - SEP 30

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So many things-to-do in the region of Waterloo this week.

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MULTI-DAY EVENTS

Festival: Farm League Brewing's Fest2Fall Music Festival, country on Friday with Nate Haller and Dean Brody & The Reklaws, rock on Saturday with Texas King, The Trews and The Glorious Sons closing it out (all ages) Fri, Sep 25 and Sat, Sep 26, Dickson Park, Cambridge tix

Festival: The Prostgarten, the Gaslight District's free outdoor Oktoberfest biergarten, Bavarian plates and drinks alongside the Galt restaurants, with a different reason to show up each night. Past KW Oktoberfest president Allan Cayenne taps the first keg Friday at 5:30pm with The Polka Maestre Band playing (all ages) Fri, Sep 25 to Wed, Sep 30, The District Square, Cambridge info

Community: New Hamburg Art Tour, the annual weekend of local photography, painting, pottery, woodturning, fibre art, jewellery and glass, with the artists there to talk through the work (all ages) Sat, Sep 26 and Sun, Sep 27, New Hamburg Community Centre, New Hamburg info

Community: KWSA Arts Festival, two afternoons with 50-plus local artists, an artists alley, live painting and demonstrations, and free workshops running alongside (all ages) Sat, Sep 26 and Sun, Sep 27, 44 Gaukel, Kitchener info

Community: Home gardeners close out the season with workshops, Master Gardeners on hand, prizes and family activities (all ages) 4:30pm, Victoria Park Pavilion, Kitchener info

Talk: Artist Kruti Patel walks the park and talks through her work on site (all ages) 6pm, Lakeside Park, Kitchener info

Comedy: Girl Night, Kitchener's longest running all-women showcase, teams up with Toronto's Pink Chicken for standup plus an interactive audience bit, doors at 7:30pm (19+) 8pm, Whoopsie Daisy Drinks, Kitchener tix

Fitness: Fully supported floor poses held long and low, with gong resonance moving through the room (all ages) 7am, Lavender Lane Wellness Centre, Waterloo info

Talk: Alannah Virtanen's travel slideshow on Slovenia and Croatia, light refreshments included, (all ages) 1:30pm, WMRC Community Pavilion, Waterloo info

Community: A free monthly drop-in art space for queer and trans teens, led by queer and trans facilitators, with supplies and snacks out (all ages) 3pm, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener info

Workshop: Coiled clay night with step-by-step instruction, materials, kiln firing and a drink covered, and the finished piece comes back food safe (19+) 6pm, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo tix

Festival: The Wellesley Apple Butter & Cheese Festival takes over the whole village, pancake breakfast first thing and farm tours at 10am, with overall hours and admission not posted ahead (all ages) from 7am, Village of Wellesley, Wellesley info

Outdoor: Arborist demonstrations, guided nature walks and partner booths spread through the natural area, no registration (all ages) 8am, Huron Natural Area, Kitchener info

Community: Volunteer fixers take on broken household things for free, covering woodworking, electrical, sewing, mending, knitting, jewelry and book repairs (all ages) 9:30am, Zion United Church, New Hamburg info

Outdoor: Native wildflowers go into the park's natural areas for pollinator habitat, with a tour of the wildflower meadow and plugs and seeds to take home (all ages) 10am, Bechtel Park, Waterloo info

Community: The Historical Society opens its room of roughly 1,000 artifacts, 2,000 photographs and 200 books, last Saturday of the month, until 2pm (all ages) 10am, WTHHS Historical Room, Wellesley info

Exhibit: THEMUSEUM turns 23 with da Vinci themed crafts and makerspace activities, timed to the opening of its new Leonardo exhibition, all included with admission (all ages) 10am, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener tix

Market: Local artisans fill the church hall with handcrafted goods, seasonal treats and gifts, food vendors on site, free to get in (all ages) 10am, Gale Presbyterian Church, Elmira info

Family: Oktoberfest at the mall outside Urban Planet, a roaming accordionist at 11, storytime at 11:30, a root bier keg tapping with Onkel Hans at noon and the chicken dance at 1, with a treasure hunt map for prizes (all ages) 11am, Fairview Park Mall, Kitchener info

Music Festival: Bluegrass bands play the porches of King Street businesses through the afternoon, ending in an open jam (all ages) 12-8pm, St. Jacobs Village, St. Jacobs info

Workshop: A hands-on session on canning, dehydrating and storing apples using the Library of Things inventory, recipes and reference material to take home (all ages) 12pm, The WALES Building, Kitchener info

Talk: Arts programmers get into how the decisions actually get made, from picking artists to budgets and audience expectations, part of Culture Days (all ages) 1pm, MT Space, Kitchener info

Outdoor: A paddle down the Grand and then a barbecue back at the launch, 120 spots and booking is online (all ages) 1pm, Canoeing The Grand, Kitchener tix

Outdoor Music: Queen Latin Music runs a free outdoor social on Main Street, salsa, bachata and merengue, all skill levels (all ages) 6pm, Downtown Galt, Cambridge info

Film: An outdoor screening of Agatha's Almanac, a portrait of the filmmaker's 90-year-old aunt and her garden, 87 minutes, with a discussion after, seating provided and blanket territory otherwise (all ages) 7pm, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener info

Comedy: Improv troupe Thank You For Laughing come out of retirement for a night, 16 and up, doors at 6:30pm (all ages) 7pm, KW Little Theatre, Waterloo tix

Concert: An Aerosmith tribute set from Aeroforce, doors at 7:30pm (all ages) 7:30pm, Maxwell's, Waterloo tix

Concert: The KW Symphony opens its Masterworks series under Andrei Feher, with Tabakova's Sun Triptych, Dvorak's Serenade in D minor and Beethoven's Eroica (all ages) 7:30pm, Centre in the Square, Kitchener tix

Festival: The Schwaben Club runs its Oktoberfest biergarten night, going until 1am (19+) 6pm, Schwaben Club, Kitchener info

Comedy: Rusty Nail's Saturday headliner is Keesha Brownie, a Canadian Comedy Award nominee who works theatre, sketch and music into the set, doors at 7pm (19+) 7:30pm, TWH Social, Kitchener tix

Variety Show: Pinch Cabaret marks its five year anniversary with a variety bill (19+) 8pm, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo tix

Comedy: Rusty Nail's other Saturday room, with Toronto headliner Jesse Singh, Just for Laughs and CBC Radio credits, wings available (19+) 8pm, Morty's Pub, Waterloo tix

Food: A hall of gluten-free samples and local vendors, aimed at the newly diagnosed and the merely curious alike (all ages) 10am, Bingemans Marshall Hall, Kitchener info

Concert: The KW Symphony's brass quintet plays classical favourites and lighter arrangements in the City Hall rotunda, free (all ages) 11am, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener info

Food: King StrEATery puts 15-plus food trucks on the street with a Love Local market of 15-plus artisans, live entertainment and games, free to walk through (all ages) 11am, King Street East and the Market Piazza, Kitchener info

Outdoor Music: Smooth jazz on the promenade until 5pm, the last Sunday session of the season, a lawn chair kind of afternoon (all ages) 2pm, Lower Main Street Promenade, Cambridge info

Comedy: Victoria comedian Dan Duvall brings his Pretty Good Comedy through for one night, doors at 6pm (19+) 7pm, The Jazz Room, Waterloo tix

Sports: Retro Rollers take over the square with a live DJ, all skill levels, skate rentals $12, socks required and pads recommended (all ages) 7pm, Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener info

Talk: David Rankine on six years and thousands of kilometres spent following the Two Bays coyote pack, in person at Knox or on Zoom, speaker around 8pm (all ages) 7:30pm, Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo info

Family: A stroller-friendly guided tour of the exhibitions for babies, toddlers and their grown-ups, with tummy time and story time for the little ones and coffee for everyone else, free with RSVP (all ages) 10am, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener info

Talk: Artist Lee Angold walks the park and talks through her work on site (all ages) 6pm, Kiwanis Park, Kitchener info

Fitness: KW Movement Studio runs an outdoor cardio dance session in the square, easy to follow and no experience needed (all ages) 6:30pm, Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener info

Talk: How an average flour mill became a world-renowned whisky distillery, and the men who put Waterloo on the map doing it (all ages) 6pm, City of Waterloo Museum, Waterloo info

Workshop: Dr. Andreas Kitzmann and the TriCity Synthesizer Society walk beginners through oscillators, filters, envelopes and modulation, registration required (all ages) 6:30pm, Kitchener Public Library, Kitchener info

Talk: New York Times bestselling author B.K. Borison and Danielle McKechnie on their latest romance novels, with audience questions and a signing after (all ages) 7pm, Kitchener Public Library Central, Kitchener info

Comedy: Susan Stewart launches her book by performing the show that became it, a mental health story told through jokes, ticket includes a copy and she signs after, content warning for suicide (all ages) 8pm, The Registry Theatre, Kitchener tix