TL;WR

Apr 13, 2020

What to do (at home)

Monday, April 13
Artshine Tutorial at 3 pm with Krya. You'll learn to draw Little Love Bugs.

Tuesday, April 14
Overlap Associates has their "Adopting the Agile Way: Creating a Culture of Trust and Productivity Online" webinar starting at 1 pm.

Good Company Productions have their Virtual Open Mic night tonight starting at 7 pm. If you want to perform tonight or another Monday, you can sign up on the same page.

Waterloo Public Library wants you to be the next master chef. Check out Cooking for Beginners Live at 7 pm.

After cooking, it's Waterloo Public Library's 90's Music Trivia starting at 7:30 pm.

Wednesday, April 15
THEMUSEUM and Beauty by Lisa Dang are here to help you cut and style your hair at home with "Hair @ Home" from 7 to 7:30 pm.

The Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce has a webinar on "Employment Law Risks in the COVID 19 era" from 10 to 11.

Artshine has their French tutorial with Caro painting a seahorse.

Thursday, April 16
The Food System of Waterloo Region is hosting an open discussion on food, community gardening and more from 11 to 12.

Your Kitchener Public Library has a Dungeons and Dragons game on starting at 3 pm. (You are a newsletter editor with 50 HP and a potion to increase open rates by 10%. -Ed.)

The Waterloo Region Small Business Centre has a free online event "Social Media for Small Business" to help your small business use social media. Join Lacey from The Makers Collective from 1 to 3 pm.

uxWaterloo meetup is happening at 5:30 pm. This month, the topic is "Stop Solving Problems".

Yaymakers has a virtual paint night featuring lilacs starting at 7 pm.

Saturday, April 18
Maison Verte has an urban farming webinar this Saturday from 3 to 4 pm. They'll be teaching about low cost options to start container gardening.

Anytime
The McDougall Cottage Historic Site is looking for your stories from COVID-19. Share your written accounts, artwork, or video recordings by emailing them to helpusmakehistory@regionofwaterloo.ca with the subject line “Writing COVID-19 History".

The Apollo Cinema has a screening of "Extra Ordinary" with proceeds going to helping them during the shutdown.

Ways to support local

Support two local businesses at the same time with KW Small Business Support. Civilian Screen Printing has partnered with a number of local businesses, artists and this newsletter to sell t-shirts. Half the proceeds go to the local business of your choice. We have a "We're all in this together. Separately." shirt available and we're donating the proceeds to Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region.

Local writer David McPherson is looking for stories about how our community is coming together during these times. Check out his site for more info.

In addition to delivery great beer, Descendants Beer & Beverage Co. now has an option to purchase for someone in isolation. Check out their store for info.

Active Souls Project is a gym in Kitchener that offers rehabilitation, recreation, and fitness programs for 250 members - many of whom have physical or intellectual disabilities. They're online offering classes as well as s buddy network and 1:1 training for kids and adults with special needs. If you know someone with special needs from across the country who would benefit, please share with them.

Fat Sparrow Group (Taco Farm, Marbles, Stone Crock) has their online store up and running!

Notes for Heroes is an initiative created by the team at Georgette Packaging. They believe that preserving morale is as important as ventilators and surgical masks in this battle. Help them show love and support for our frontline emergency care workers using the hashtag #notesforheroes and contributing to their Facebook group.

Breakfast, Blues and BBQ has contactless curb side pickup starting on April 15.

Check the always up-to-date listings over at Communitech.ca.

Looking for more places to support, check out Support Waterloo Eats and KW From Home - both awesome resources for local businesses and how to order from them.

Gifted Waterloo, Julia Gash, and Lifestyle Market have these awesome totes and mugs available. $5 from each tote and $4 from each mug goes to support the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

We've got an interview with Region of Waterloo Councillor Tom Galloway on this week's TL;WR Podcast.

While You’re at Home is a new series that gives you a peek inside the homes of DTK’s local business owners as they walk you through activities to do…while you’re at home! Check out their Instagram to catch up on the episodes.

Know-how

Local photographer Taylor Jackson is known for his wedding photography. In this video, he shows us how he handles street photography. Could be some good skills for your next physically distant walk.