Kate’s 5 enjoyable issues to do that Thanksgiving lengthy weekend in and round Waterloo area

It’s the Thanksgiving lengthy weekend which implies folks can be busy with gatherings with household and mates.

This weekend can also be completely dominated by Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest occasions (learn extra beneath) from the parade to fest halls to free occasions in Kitchener’s downtown core.

There’s a Witches and Wizards Halloween Festival in Stratford on Saturday from 11 a.m. to six p.m. It contains an enchanted woods, meals, tarot playing cards, crystals, distributors and extra. There’s additionally a fancy dress parade, so you should definitely gown up.

Howl-o-weenie can be held Sunday at Farm League Brewing in Cambridge. People are inspired to carry their pooches in costume and if they’ll do a trick, they’ll get a deal with.

Woodside National Historic Site in Kitchener opens for the season on Friday. The web site is the boyhood residence of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s tenth prime minister. There are guided excursions of the Victorian residence and folks also can simply stroll the grounds.

In Cambridge on Saturday afternoon, there’s an HMCS Conestoga commemoration parade set to being at 1:30 p.m. at Queen’s Square in Galt.

Approximately 100 persons are anticipated to participate within the parade. The HMCS Conestoga was began in 1942 and was the fundamental coaching institution for the volunteer service Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS). The parade is open to the general public.

The Kitchener Rangers are on the highway this weekend.

The Guelph Storm host the North Bay Battalion on Friday night time on the Sleeman Centre.

Ok-W Oktoberfest

All weekend

Various venues

Grab your dirndls and lederhosen as a result of it’s Thanksgiving weekend in Waterloo area at meaning it’s full-on Oktoberfest.

Willkommen Platz is open in entrance of Kitchener metropolis corridor till end-of-day Sunday. This is a free space (pay in your personal beer and meals) that additionally contains FARMtoberfest and DOGtoberfest down on Gaukel Block, KIDtoberfest inside metropolis corridor, and a great deal of distributors alongside King Street.

There can also be reside music together with:

• Walter Ostanek on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• Steven Page Trio Friday night time beginning at 8:30 p.m.
• The Watchmen on Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
• Jessie T and mates on Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
• Some different occasions embody:
• Oktoberfest at TheMuseum.
• Amanda Marshall is enjoying Kool Haus at Bingemans.
• Family days at native festhalls.
• Schneider Haus has all-ages Oktoberfest all weekend from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Also the parade is Monday beginning at 9:30 a.m. in downtown Kitchener and it runs up Weber Street to Waterloo.

On high of all that, native bars and eating places are open serving beer, sausage, schnitzel and different companies can be leaping on the Oktoberfest bandwagon, too.

Canada Tea Festival

Sunday 1 p.m. to eight p.m.

Doon Pioneer Park Community Centre, 150 Pioneer Dr., Kitchener

Celebrate all issues tea with tastings, workshops, talks, household pleasant actions, meals, and a distributors space with teas and different cubicles devoted to wellness and mindfulness.

This competition is free to attend.

Monster Month Pumpkin Day

Saturday 11 a.m. to three p.m.

Wellington County Museum and Archives

Celebrate all issues pumpkin at this occasion, which incorporates demonstrations by an expert carver, a carving competitors, reside music, cultural performances, a reptile present and meals distributors.

Thanksgiving Weekend at McDougall Cottage

Saturday, Sunday and Monday 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

89 Grand Ave. S., Cambridge

The cottage is open this weekend for folks to take a look at the displays, speak a stroll alongside the Grand River on the cottage’s property and on Saturday and Sunday the Friends of Waterloo Region Museums could have sizzling or chilly apple cider for sipping for a donation.

Note, each Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum and Schneider Haus National Historic Site are open Monday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Life Of A Showgirl launch celebration and drag present

Friday at 8 p.m.

Albion Hotel, Guelph

Swifties unite for this enjoyable night time of singing, slaying and glowing. The night is hosted by Anne Tique and Violet. Sing-along or simply benefit from the vibes. Tickets will be bought upfront or on the door.

Be certain to tune into CBC Ok-W’s The Morning Edition on Monday from 6 a.m. to eight:40 a.m. for a particular provincewide present hosted by Josette Lafleur the place we’ll be sharing shops all about meals.