Kate's 5 fun things to do in and around Waterloo region: March 14 to 16

Kate Bueckert · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago

It volition consciousness similar a due outpouring play with rainfall and warmer temperatures to wrapper up March break.

There are galore St. Patrick's Day events successful section restaurants and bars up of the existent solemnisation connected Monday.

Friday night, the Kitchener Rangers volition big the North Bay Battalion astatine The Aud, past deed the roadworthy to Owen Sound connected Saturday.

WATCH | The Rangers held a instrumentality lawsuit this week successful downtown Kitchener:

The Guelph Storm are location Friday to the Owen Sound Attack, past volition beryllium successful Erie, P.A., to instrumentality connected the Otters connected Sunday.

The K-W Titans hoops squad person a location crippled Sunday wherever they'll big the Jamestown Jackals. The crippled is besides a "mismatched sock game" successful enactment of the Waterloo Wellington Down Syndrome Society. The crippled begins astatine 2 p.m.

If you request to thrust this weekend, present are immoderate section state prices:

Conestoga Powwow

Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Conestoga College, Doon campus, Kitchener

This is the 15th twelvemonth for the powwow, which is enactment connected by Indigenous Student Services and Indigenous Initiatives.

This twelvemonth volition diagnostic peculiar impermanent Adriel Harjo, a younker vocalist and connection talker from Six Nations of the Grand River.

The time volition see euphony and dancing, including caput dancers AJ Douglas and Adrian Klein, and drumming groups Little Creek Singers, Old Style Singers, Red Tail Singers, All Nations Juniors, Chippewa Travellers, Old Soul Singers and Snide Creek Singers.

General admittance is $5. Entry is escaped for students with recognition and children nether five.

• Conestoga College lawsuit page

College Royal Open House

Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

University of Guelph

The yearly College Royal unfastened location means the field is buzzing with activities planned by students for the community.

Favourites see the pancake flipping, inferior tractor rodeo, Old MacDonald's Farm, feline and canine shows, kid's carnival and tons of different activities. Visit the nutrient subject gathering for milkshakes (bring cash).

• College Royal Society website

Irish Real Life Festival

All weekend

Various venues

The Irish Real Life Festival continues this play with respective events. There are tons of philharmonic performances and workshops, a ceili successful the pavilion successful Victoria Park successful Kitchener, a speech called Diaspora Relationships that looks at the humanities narration betwixt Indigenous radical and the Irish.

• Irish Real Life Festival website

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Keeping Time: Opening Reception

Saturday 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Cambridge Public Library, Queen's Square branch

Keeping Time is an grounds by Laura Peturson and Andrew Ackerman. It reflects their acquisition of being parents and, the lawsuit leafage says, "their feelings connected the insularity of household and the quality of time, which is often made truthful evident successful the accelerated and melodramatic changes of children."

Light snacks and refreshments volition beryllium served. The grounds volition stay up until May 31.

• Cambridge Public Library / Idea Exchange lawsuit page

Stitch Social

Saturday 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Kitchener Public Library main branch

Bring a task to the room to knit or crochet and beryllium with others arsenic they enactment connected their projects, get tips from each different successful this free, drop-in league for adults. If you can't marque it this month, that's OK. The Stitch Social happens each month.

• Kitchener Public Library lawsuit page