Kate's 5 fun things to do in and around Waterloo region: July 11 to 13

Kate Bueckert · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 11, 2025 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 11

It's going to beryllium a lukewarm play with sun, clouds and the anticipation of immoderate rain.

If you hap to find yourself successful Kitchener's Victoria Park this weekend, you volition spot elephantine inflatables acceptable up for a 5K Foam Fest run. Registration is required to instrumentality part.

Enjoy a escaped Sunday Funday enactment astatine The Gaslight District successful Cambridge with a escaped screening of Moana, determination volition beryllium a show of the Beautiful Wahinis hula show, positive euphony from Bruno Nesci with The Dreamers Band.

There's Opera successful the Park Sunday astatine 7 p.m. with the Grand River Opera and Waterloo Concert Band performing successful Waterloo Town Square (so much park-esque). Bring a tract seat and drawback a wound to devour oregon thing to portion from a adjacent edifice and bask the evening of music.

On Sunday, the radical Palestine Solidarity K-W volition clasp an lawsuit astatine Kitchener's metropolis hallway with interactive exhibits, acquisition areas, food, performances and children's activities. The lawsuit begins astatine 1 p.m.

If you don't caput a small drive, caput to the municipality of St. Mary's for their Stonetown Heritage Festival. It celebrates the cultures, stories and past that helped to signifier the municipality and the play includes tours, family-friendly activities, unrecorded music, an creation and vendors marketplace and more.

The Kitchener Panthers are connected the roadworthy for 2 of their 3 play games. The squad is successful London Friday night, Welland connected Saturday evening and connected Sunday evening volition big the Barrie Baycats astatine Jack Couch Park.

The Guelph Royals volition big the Brantford Red Sox connected Saturday astatine 7:30 p.m. astatine Hastings Stadium.

If you request to drive, present are immoderate section state prices:

Kultrún World Music Festival

Friday  6 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Waterloo Park

This escaped outdoor festival astatine the bandshell successful Waterloo Park features musicians from each implicit the globe including Antonio Monasterio from Chile, De Mar y Río from Colombia, Gonia from South Korea, Tarek Refugee successful the oversea from Toronto and Syria and truthful galore more.

There are besides tons of interactive activities similar creation and euphony workshops, a drum circle, a puppet parade, a assemblage creation task and making euphony with recovered objects. There are besides vendors, an country with vibrating chairs that let you to consciousness the music, a nutrient country and Sniffscape from K-W Dog Friendly.

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Cruising connected King

Friday 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

King Street, downtown Kitchener

This escaped yearly lawsuit volition spot classical and unsocial cars enactment King Street betwixt Water Street and Frederick Street. 

Take a locomotion to spot the cars, bask unrecorded euphony featuring classical songs from The Beach Boys, Elvis and Johnny Cash, positive drawback a spot to devour and portion from the nutrient trucks and the licensed barroom area.

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WATCH | Check retired the highlights from erstwhile Cruising connected King took implicit downtown Kitchener successful 2024:

Momma's Cookout & Music Festival

Saturday 1 p.m. to late

Gaukel Block, downtown Kitchener

The organizers of this escaped and family-friendly festival privation everyone to acquisition the traditions of Black civilization done music, food, and assemblage engagement.

Performances including Juno victor and hep hop creator Saukrates, Juno victor and reggae creator Kirk Diamond, and Sewa, dubbed the afrobeat queen from Nigeria.

The time besides includes a gospel hour, tons of nutrient options and different activities similar arts and crafts for kids.

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WATCH | From CBC Music, watch Saukrates unrecorded astatine the Block Party:

Cambridge Scottish Festival Tartan Taster Community Day

Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Main Street E., Cambridge

With the Cambridge Scottish Festival a week away, organizers privation to springiness radical a escaped illustration of what they tin expect with a escaped assemblage lawsuit successful downtown Galt.

There volition beryllium exhibits, dancing and unrecorded euphony and booths to larn much astir the festival's past and conscionable the volunteers who tally it.

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The Great Downtown Guelph Garage Sale

Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Downtown Guelph

People volition beryllium parked successful downtown spots with their trunks unfastened to merchantability their items arsenic portion of this event, portion downtown businesses volition acceptable up tables extracurricular to make an outdoor marketplace feel.

There volition besides beryllium thoroughfare performers, unrecorded entertainment, a portion of downtown volition beryllium pedestrian lone and don't beryllium amazed if you spot Mayor Cam Guthrie searching for deals (he's notorious for his emotion of store sales).

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Bonus: Neighbourhood Garden Party

Saturday 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Williamsburg Community Garden and Doon Pioneer Park Community Garden, Kitchener

All summer, the metropolis volition beryllium hosting plot parties astatine their assemblage gardens. The section councillor volition beryllium connected manus to chat, determination volition beryllium lemonade and cookies and radical tin larn much astir the assemblage plot task and link with neighbours.

There volition besides beryllium family-friendly gardening activities. The Williamsburg lawsuit is astatine 12 p.m., the Doon Pioneer Park lawsuit starts astatine 3 p.m.

This lawsuit volition determination astir the metropolis each week, truthful look for the 1 adjacent you oregon program to sojourn a plot extracurricular your area.

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