TL;WR

Jan 06, 2020

What to do.

Monday, January 6
Games on Tap Board Game Café has a trivia night tonight at 8 p.m. $5 per person - and there's prizes.

Centre in the Square has the Broadway musical "Waitress" on tonight at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, January 7
Descendants Beer & Beverage has "The Office" trivia. They also have craft beer.

Wednesday, January 8
The Kitchener Market has a Thai Cooking Class on from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Come in and learn about all of the different components of Thai cuisine, and leave with recipes for some of your favourite meals from Thailand.

Your Kitchener Public Library has author Lisa Jewell in for their 85 Queen Series. Lisa Jewell is the internationally bestselling author of eighteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Then She Was Gone, as well as I Found You, The Girls in the Garden, and The House We Grew Up In. In total, her novels have sold more than two million copies across the English-speaking world and her work has also been translated into sixteen languages so far.

The Communitech Art Wall has an opening reception featuring the work of John Siebert. 7 to 9 p.m. at the Communitech Hub in Downtown Kitchener.

Onion Honey plays Grand Trunk Saloon tonight.

Thursday, January 9
The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery has their "Walk the Talk: Gallery Tours" on from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. It's a free guided tour of their current exhibition.

Do you remember the 80s? If so, Descendants Beer & Beverage has Musical Bingo featuring music from the 1980s.

Lana's Lounge has Jesse Parent and Peter Light playing folk music starting at 7 p.m.

Friday, January 10
Mandippal plays TWH Social starting at 6 p.m.

Saturday, January 11
Freedom Cycle has their grand opening at 283 Duke Street West, Suite 116. There will be door prizes, local vendors, food and drink, and get to know the team behind the newest indoor cycling studio in Kitchener.

Minds Eye Studio Art Gallery and Yoga Studio has a Move Together yoga class from 10 - 11 a.m.

Midtown Yoga has an open house with free yoga classes to celebrate one year of new ownership.

Getting married this year? Hacienda Sarria has their wedding open house today starting at 11 a.m. Come meet their vendors and the Hacienda Sarria team to experience what a wedding at this place that should not logically exist on Union Street is like.

Over at the Jazz Room, Steve Montgomery and Lukas Bouda have a live jam session starting at 3 p.m.

Eardrum x SD Present: Center Stage Empire Takeover at Harmony Lunch in Uptown Waterloo. Six bands playing starting at 9 p.m.

Kitchener's best band - Heintz 57 & The Wailing Whippets - play Strykers Kitchener and Bar starting at 6 p.m.

The Rich Uncle Tavern has Sammy Duke playing from 8 to 11 p.m.

Jane Bond has DJ Sylent Syd on at 10 p.m.

Sunday, January 12
The Marit Collective is hosting the Kitchen Table Music Jam at The Causerie staring at 2 p.m. Come out to play, sing or just listen.

The Apollo Cinema has Retro Recall featuring a screening of "Clue" at 7 p.m.

Keep on your radar...
The Big Push Pitch - On Thursday, January 16 from 5:00 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Big Push is hosting a “Pitch and Pair” event that brings together 10 of the most promising local women-led start-ups with more than 100 vetted experts for one evening of match-making.

Replenish 2020 - Come and connect with other women and spend some time focusing on you. Begin 2020 by re-discovering who you are, what your values are and what makes your soul sing. January 18 in St. Jacobs.

F**k-up Nights KW Volume 5 - Hear from three KW entrepreneurs, how they messed up, and what they learned. These stories are raw, honest, and moving – many of you will relate to them for sure. January 27 at Catalyst 137.

Side notes...

Downtown Kitchener’s oldest building gets a new look (via The Record)

‘It’s fuel in the tank’: Barnraiser Award winner Mike Farwell thrives on doing good works (via The Record)

Young drag queens and kings find community and confidence at University of Waterloo drag club (via CBC KW)

Over at the Project 220 pop-up space by Kitchener City Hall, local sustainable fashion maker inspiroue has a pop-up for the month of January.

On the last TL;WR podcast, we talked with Melissa Durrell about politics, moving to Waterloo Region, old Vincenzos and more.