When: Saturday, May 5, 1-3 pm
Where: Begin at the front steps of the Kitchener Market, end at Victoria Park
Walk Leader: Tess (KW Hungry Minds)
Discussion about work, life & play within our changing downtown core. This is an opportunity to get to know some other people in the community and share your thoughts about some of the changes we see happening around us.
(Photo by Allie_Caulfield)
When: Sunday, May 6, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Where: Begin at old Electrohome building (at Duke Street and Shanley Street), end at Google (at Moore Avenue and Breithaupt Street)
Walk Leader: Trent Bauman
Join Urban Sketcher Trent Bauman and explore three Midtown sites through sketching while chatting about potential developments in Midtown as well as an award winning example of redevelopment.
Come with your sketchbook and contemplate three sites with a sketcher’s eye to development. Bring your own paper & drawing/painting instruments, maybe a stool to sit on and umbrella for rain or sun
No drawing experience needed. Come out and have fun sketching.
(Photo by Trent Bauman)
When: Saturday, May 5, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Where: Begin in the parkette on the east side of King Street at King and William (near Credit Union), end at the Church of the Holy Saviour, 33 Allen Street East
Walk Leader: Tricia Siemens
Join us as we walk through one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Waterloo. Find out where the founding fathers and mothers lived, who they were and what they did.
Refreshments will be served at the end of walk.
When: Saturday, May 5, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Where: Begin behind Centre in the Square, 20 Ellen Street East (walk will end here too)
Walk Leaders: Jeanette and Greg Vincent
Tour the streets of Olde Berlin. Join experienced walk leaders and local residents Jeanette & Greg Vincent for a look at the historic homes and neighbourhood where the wealthy lived, worked, worshiped and played. Appropriate for the whole family.
When: Sunday, May 6, 9:30 – 10:30 am
Where: Begin at Smile Tiger Coffee Roasters, 100 Ahrens Street West, end at Show & Tell Coffee, 30 Ontario Street North
Walk Leader: Anna Beard
It’s a Brew-tiful Day: How Downtown Kitchener Turned Into a Coffee Lover’s Paradise
In the last few years, indie coffee shops have popped up all around Downtown Kitchener. These aren’t your mass marketed coffee shops. These places have instead become intimate spaces, designed for feet, not cars. They’re ready made for flirtatious conversations, collaboration and idea generation, and have become pillars of education and design. We’ll take a wander around the downtown core, visiting four stand out java huts, sharing stories of how they came to be and swapping our own tales of how coffee is so much more than a drink.
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(Photo by Anna Beard)
