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Apr 29, 2019

What to do.

Monday, April 29
It's beer and burger for $10 night at Descendants Beer & Beverage Co. Get the week started right.

DevHouse Waterloo is tonight at Shopify in Uptown Waterloo. Bring an idea or a project you've been working on and present it to an awesome group for feedback or help. Bits will be flowing (wifi is provided), projector will be available, food will be served and the space is provided by the good folks at Shopify.

D2L Night School is tonight with Mike Flewwelling and Pam Martin presenting "Customer Success: D2L’s focus on our 1:Many Customer Success Program". Learn how their "1 : many Customer Success" program focuses on customers who are smaller in size but are very important in overall value. They'll discuss how they focus on our customer segments to develop playbooks to ensure they are reaching as many customers as possible, at the right time and with the right information.

Tuesday, April 30
This is the trivia night you are looking for. This Saturday is May 4 - Star Wars Day - so the droids at Descendants Beer & Beverage Co. have a Star Wars Trivia night tonight.

Millennials can’t afford houses because they’re blowing their budget on avocado toast. Right? Wrong. Learn how you can have your avocado toast and a budget too at Common Knowledge's next workshop.

Waterloo Brewing is teaming up with TWH Social for the April edition of their Beer + Food Menu Pairing Dinner. Enjoy a delicious five-course meal and Waterloo brews.

Join Whisky Maker, Dr. Graeme Macaloney, in an evening exploring a night of six whiskies at The Rich Uncle Tavern. Along with the whisky, enjoy food pairings from The Rich Uncle Tavern in their upper level Library space. This event is co-hosted by The Companions of the Quaich KWC chapter and Whisky Quarterly Ontario.

The YMCAs of Cambridge & Kitchener-Waterloo Immigrant Services present "Newcomer Theatre Performance: Stories of Our World" at your Kitchener Public Library starting at 7. In partnership with MT Space Theatre company, the show "Stories of Our World" illustrates the journeys of newcomer youth from their homes to begin new lives in Canada. Students from St. Mary's High School are performing this play.

If you work at a college or university, scale-up or large enterprise company, then today is the last day to get early-bird pricing for True North 2019. Come learn from speakers including Kara Swisher, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Branka Marijan, Duane Brown, Hongwei Liu, Komal Singh, Mo Musbah, Roy Gori, Tobi Lütke and more. Community builders, students and startup tickets don't change and will be only $200 + tax all the way up to the event on June 19 and 20. (Day job shout out. -Ed.)

Wednesday, May 1
The KW Coworkers Collective will be back working at Catalyst 137 from 1 to 5. If you work from home or work remote, it's a great way to get some in-person human interaction.

Help Mike Farwell kick off this year's Farwell4Hire. Over the the last five years, Farwell4Hire has raised over $300,000 for Cystic Fibrosis. This year Mike is dreaming BIG, with a goal to raise $150,000. Join the team at Dallas Night Club and celebrate the launch this year's Farwell4Hire with The Almost Hip and a silent and live auction.

Thursday, May 2
Jane’s Walks in Waterloo Region run from today through May 5. 'What are Jane's Walks?' you might ask. Well, Jane’s Walks are citizen-led walking tours that make space for people to observe, reflect, share, question and collectively reimagine the places in which they live, work and play. Check out the full list at their site. We've included a few below with this emoji 👟.

👟 The Handmaid’s Tale from 7-8 PM will teach you the forbidden history of Cambridge before it became part of The Republic of Gilead. Handmaidens will escort you to the locations used in the hit Hulu show "The Handmaid’s Tale" and share the history that we don’t speak about ‘Under his Eye’.

Friday, May 3
Waterloo Region Tacofest is known for three things: tacos, craft beer and good times. This year's event features 16 local restaurants and their finest tacos, 16 Ontario craft breweries serving their best brews and ciders, entertainment and more fun than you can shake a maraca at. (There's also a guy dressed as a donkey. Who will be this year's celebrity donkey? -Ed.) Tickets will be available exclusively online at tacofest.ca on Friday, May 3, 2019 at 12 PM NOON SHARP. Tickets sell out fast so if you want to try to snag tickets, be online and ready to go. All proceeds support Community Support Connections – Meals on Wheels and More, a local charity that works with hundreds of local volunteers to help over 7,500 seniors and adults with disabilities live at home with independence and dignity. (Also, Steel Rails is on a different night this year! -Ed.)

CAFKA presents Big Ideas in Art & Culture: Guillermo Gómez-Peña at THEMUSEUM. Combining spoken word poetry, activist theory, radical storytelling and language experimentation, Gómez-Peña offers critical and humorous commentary about the art world, academia, new technologies, the culture of war and violence in the US, organized crime in Mexico, gender and race politics and the latest wave of complications surrounding gentrification in the “creative city”.

Saturday, May 4
Saturday is Free Comic Book Day and Lookin' For Heroes in Downtown Kitchener is opening early two days of in-store specials. Have fun and dress up to get an extra free comic book!

👟 Claudette’s Wonderful World of the KW Library Of Things from 10-10:30 will guide you on a short and accessible walk of the area around KWLOT, talking about what the Library is and what it means in Claudette's life. Some fun surprises along the way, and light refreshments right after the tour.

👟 It’s a Brew-tiful Day from 10:30-11:30 am explores the coffee shops of Downtown Kitchener. (We thought this was beer and wondered about the time, but hey, when in Berlin, right...-Ed.)

👟 Brewers, Taverns, Hotels and Saloons: Drinking in Berlin History from 1-2 PM explores the history of brewing, distilling, booze running and other awesome facts about alcohol in Kitchener. Discover places you’ve walked past before or never knew were there, like the hotel whose name changed more times than the city’s did, the brewery that made Canada’s first lager, and the city’s first LCBO that opened after Prohibition.

Kitchener's own, seven-time World DJ Champ Vekked presents Beats, Beers, 'N Burgs at the Crazy Canuck in Downtown Kitchener. It's a new monthly day-time jam from 3-7PM. DJ Trapment will be the special guest for this first edition.

Sunday, May 5
👟 From 12-1 PM, explore the Waterloo and Kitchener borders through Midtown and ask the question: “What city is this?".

👟 Hyperlocal Art Stroll from 3-4:30 PM is a slow Sunday stroll through the charming neighbourhood of Central Frederick Kitchener; to explore the concept of neighbourhood art installations, discuss how they were created and how they have evolved.

Relax with a flights of four beers at Descendants Beer & Beverage Co. - there's even a $2.00 discount.

Side note.

The Community Edition has everything you ever wanted to know about the famous tacos of Ethel's Lounge's Taco Tuesday.

The book for this year's One Book, One Community Waterloo Region event is Joanna Goodman's "The Home for Unwanted Girls". Head over to your Kitchener Public Library, Waterloo Public Library, Idea Exchange or Words Worth Books to pick up a copy.

FOMO.

Descendents Beer & Beverage is a European style bierhalle that does food, beer, events, and has a retail shop for growlers, cans, and merchandise. They started as a contract brewer and moved into their existing brick and mortar location at Victoria and Lancaster in June 2016. Descendents’ Reynard the Fox took home Bronze in the 2018 Ontario Brewing Award under the Lagered Ale category. If beer doesn’t strike your fancy, Descendents also serves up craft spirits, craft cider, and craft soda. For those curious to see how they do it, Descendents offers free tours of their facility on Saturdays by reservation. Their menu varies but it typically features simple bierhalle items such as charcuterie, pretzels, and paninis. They host a ton of great events such as trivia, music bingo, live music, and comedy nights. Thinking of holding a private event? Their space holds up to 80 guests, or buy out the whole brewery to seat 135 guests for your wedding, stag and doe, or corporate party.

(They also have amazing gluten-free beer from their sister brewery Bitte Schon Brauhaus. -Ed.)