The Community Edition: September 2018

VOLUME 6, ISSUE 12 • SEPTEMBER 2018

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BEST OF WATERLOO REGION

MARCH TO YOUR OWN CUSTOM DRUM

NEW DEVELOPMENT IN MOUNT HOPE

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IN BRIEF // EDITOR’S NOTE BEST OF SHORT LIST GRAFITTI MARKET: A CULINARY COLLISION KW PHOTOGRAPHER SHOWCASES REFUGEES THE CRAFT OF CUSTOM DRUM BUILDING KW WELCOMES HOPE FEST TO THE STAGE HOW TO LEARN IN THE ABSENCE OF EDUCATION NEW KWAG EXHIBIT SHOWCASES LOCAL ART NEW DEVELOPMENT ROCKS MOUNT HOPE IZNA BRINGS JAPANESE FLARE TO DTK YOU CODE LIKE A GIRL! SEXPLANATIONS: NEW BEGINNINGS EASY BEING GREEN: THE POINT OF NO RETURN TCE POETRY THE BEAT GOES ON AND ON AND ON AND ON NEW TUNE REVIEW MENTAL MATTERS: ABC’S AND P-L-E-A-S-E EVENT LISTINGS // HARU NOON

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IN BRIEF

Have you been to Graffiti Market yet? This place is not only super tech savvy, but it also has a very Instagram-able aesthetic. More on page 5.

BRIT KOVACS PHOTOS

EDITOR’S NOTE: ASK THE QUESTION, DAMMIT! OR DON’T. WHATEVER.

BY: BETH BOWLES

In a recent session with my therapist, she told me something that I’ve been reiterating to anyone who will listen. This isn’t out of character for me; anyone who knows me well knows that I’m very open about the fact that I’m in therapy, and the things I’ve learned about myself as a result.

As my publisher likes to say, “When Beth goes to therapy, we all go to therapy.”

What my therapist told me wasn’t by any means a revolutionary idea. It was actually quite simple. She told me that I shouldn’t be afraid to ask questions.

Let me be the first to acknowledge the irony here — as a writer, my job is to literally interview people and ask questions. I like to think I’m good at my job, so why is this so hard for me in other aspects of my life?

In a professional sense, a lot of people don’t like asking questions because they’re afraid they’ll look unintelligent. The fear of asking your boss or supervisors

NEWS

ARTS

URBAN

ALL-CANDIDATES MEETINGS IN DTK

LUMEN FESTIVAL LIGHTS IT UP

SMOKING BAN ON CAMPUS

The race has begun! This month, at Queen Street Commons in downtown Kitchener, candidates for the municipal election will answer questions from the audience. Dates are as followed: Sept. 12 - Kitchener Ward 9, Sept.

19 - Kitchener Ward 10, Sept. 26 Kitchener’s Regional Councillors, Oct. 10 - Regional Chair. Meetings are open to everyone.

Uptown Waterloo will be lit on Sept.

29 with a new festival merging art and technology. Light-based art installations and events will be happening across various locations uptown Waterloo, including Waterloo Park, Waterloo Town Square, and the alley beside Button Factory whose official name is now apparently “Laney McLaneface Lane.”

The University of Guelph may follow in several other Canadian university’s footsteps by banning smoking on university grounds.

Guelph’s vice-president said that the idea came as a result of the school’s healthy workplace initiative. If it’s approved, the ban will begin next May or June. Looks like students will have to find a new place to hack darts.

KITCHENER HOUSE EXPLOSION

BIKES LANES OPEN DTK’S MUSIC MAN MOVES TO HOSPICE FOR BUSINESS

Waterloo Regional Police are treating the explosion that leveled a house on Sprucedale Crescent in Kitchener on Aug 22 as a homicide.

The explosion killed Edra Haan, 58, and put her husband Udo Haan, 58, in hospital. Police say they have no suspects yet. The house has been completely destroyed, and the damage amount is estimated to be seven figures.

Kitchener Market’s long-time busker, Chris Tulk, also known as “Music Man” has moved to Innisfree House Hospice in Kitchener as he battles terminal lung and bone cancer. While Tulk is known for his cowboy hat and classic country tunes, he also has a passion for painting. On Sept. 1, Tulk’s art was sold at the Market and funds were donated to charity.

The uptown Waterloo King street Streetscape and Bike Lanes official opening will take place the evening of Sept. 29. Remarks by Waterloo mayor Dave Jaworsky, uptown Waterloo BIA members will take place in front of Uptown Waterloo Parkade. We’re confused as to whether this celebration will mark the end of construction — hopefully this is the case.

FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE OPP

I HAVE A STORY EXHIBIT OPENS

MOVE-IN MADNESS

The Ontario Provincial Police’s detachment in Cambridge on Beaverdale Road caught fire on on Sept. 4. Fire and emergency crews arrived on scene in the afternoon and everyone has been reported safe. The cause of the fire has not yet been released, but anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Milton OPP detachment.

Last weekend, the “I Have a Story” exhibit opened at Button Factory Arts and will run until Sept.

16. The artist, Jenn Weatherall, showcased 10 painted portraits of local women who have experienced sexual violence.

Weatherall explained that the goal is to localize the issue and to emphasize that each story is different.

Labour Day weekend was move-in weekend for thousands of students for the fall semester, culminating in lots of Orientation Week activities. You can tell that autumn has truly begun if you start to notice huge lineups at Phil’s, throngs of pedestrians making turns at King and University difficult, and an abundance of people wearing purple.

questions is something I can empathize with. There’s the fear of being annoying, or taking up too much time to complete a task. The reality is, if you need clarification, or if there’s a part of your job that’s unclear, chances are you’ll be more efficient if you ask about what’s confusing to you.

That’s the part that’s inarguable.

Asking questions at work is important. The more you know, the more efficient you’ll be. Being annoying because you’re asking too many questions is an anxiety that most likely lives more in your head than in actuality. This advice is easy to digest.

But what about asking questions in your personal life? This is where things get a little more rocky.

I spend so much of my time either: 1) making assumptions about situations, or 2) trying so damn hard to be a mind reader. Both of these things are exhausting and a huge source of my own personal anxiety

— all because I’m afraid to ask questions.

If I think someone is angry with me, I don’t like asking them why because I’m afraid to be at fault. When I’m casually dating someone I really like, I’m afraid to ask them how they feel about me because I don’t want to be perceived as needy. I spend so much time reading signals — how much time it takes them to text me back, the words that they use, the time they invest in me — I calculate all these small clues and store them in the back of my mind where they build up, not offering any sense of clarity, but just adding to the uneasiness that already lives inside my head.

And yet, I would rather sit in this spinning room of instability than ask a damn question. I would rather try to read your mind than ask if you’re still my friend after an argument. I would rather analyze a text for an hour than muster up the courage to ask if you like me as much as I like you.

Why? Because I feel like asking

questions make you needy.

There’s so much pressure to be self-sufficient, to be put together, to be strong; and for whatever reason, we think that asking for clarification is a moment of weakness. It’s admitting that we don’t have immediate control.

Or, maybe the answer is something you don’t want to hear. But what I’ve learned is that sometimes you need to risk it to put your mind at ease. It’s scary as hell, but sometimes you need to ask certain questions, to get certain answers to get out of that spinning room of instability.

Sure, maybe your friend is really mad at you. Maybe your ex doesn’t want to get back together with you. Maybe the person you’ve been sleeping with for a couple months doesn’t actually want a relationship. And all of that really sucks, but so does living in a purgatory of unease.

Sometimes you need to risk being hurt, because if you don’t ask questions, you may never get an answer.

Best of Waterloo Region 2018 short list BEST OF WR IS COLLECTED THROUGH AN ONLINE SURVEY. WE PROVIDED THE CATEGORIES - YOU PROVIDED THE NOMINATIONS. THE SHORT LIST IS COMPILED OF THOSE WITH THE MOST NOMINATIONS AND IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER. VOTE FOR THE WINNERS AT COMMUNITYEDITION.CA WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED NEXT MONTH.

Best Sandwich

Best ice cream

Vincenzo’s Princess Cafe The Yeti

Four All Scoop Du Jour Marble Slab

Best cafe

Best breakfast

Princess Cafe Smile Tiger Seven Shores

The Yeti The Belmont Bistro Checkerboard

Best beer selection

Best casual restaurant

Best vegetarian options

Best local brewery

Beertown Arabella Park Beer Bar Jane Bond

Ethel’s Lounge The Jane Bond Harmony Lunch

Jane Bond Cafe Pyrus Copper Branch

Best uptown restaurant

Best downtown restaurant

Best cambridge restaurant

Together We’re Bitter Abe Erb Descendants

Jane Bond Ethel’s Lounge Taco Farm

The Grand Trunk Saloon The Guanaquita Restaurant Gilt Restaurant

Cambridge Mill Blackshop Little Louie’s

Show & Tell Smile Tiger DVLB

Best special occasion restaurant

Best new restaurant/cafe in 2018

Best place to get groceries downtown

Best social profit / not for profit

Bhima’s Warung Public Kitchen & Bar Loloan Lobby Bar

The Rich Uncle Tavern Loloan Lobby Bar Copper Branch

J and P Grocery Legacy Greens Full Circle Foods

The Working Centre SHORE Centre CAFKA

Best Burger

Best food Truck

Best music shop

Best shawarma

Harmony Lunch Ethel’s Lounge Jack Burger

The Crazy Canuck Fo’ Cheezy The Earthling

Orange Monkey Long & McQuade Encore Records

iShawarma Shawarma Plus Arabesque

best donut

Best LGBTQ+ Space

Best view

Best Patio

Debrodniks Donuts Unity Baking City Cafe Bakery

Jane Bond Open Sesame Cafe Pyrus

Victoria Park Snyder’s Flats Waterloo Park

Ethel’s Lounge Boathouse Barley Works / Huether

Best musician or band

Best community event

Best place to buy a gift

Best place to take a date

Richard Garvey Romeo Sex Fighter JoJo Worthington

Steel Rails Bluesfest KW Rib Fest

Gifted Open Sesame Ten Thousand Villages

Apollo Cinema Jane Bond Waterloo Park

Best tattoo parlour

Best public space

Best gallery or museum

Best Hair salon or barber

Berlin Tattoo Mom’s Tattoo Shop Tora Tattoo

Waterloo Park Victoria Park Kitchener Public Library

THEMUSEUM KWAG Clay & Glass Gallery

Cowboy’s & Angels Spearhead Brown’s Salon

Best Open Mic

Best bus driver

Best Karaoke

Best trivia

The Boathouse Patent Social Rhapsody Barrel Bar

Joe Perry The guy with the spacers

Chainsaw Sirens Waterloo Jack Burger

Princess Cafe Descendents Community Edition @ Chainsaw

Best local writer

Best visual artist

Best bookstore

Best filmmaker

Ellie Anglin Bashar Lulu Jabbour Glodeane Brown

Jonathan Munz Jon Johnson / Bearface Meg Harder

Wordsworth Books Old Goat Books Worth a Second Look

Becca Redden Torin Langen Taylor Jackson

Best Photographer

Best place to volunteer

Best live music venue

Most present politician

Jennifer Lyon Paige Bush Matt Smith Nic Stanley Jessica Rediker

Kitchener Public Library Grand River Hospital Food Bank SHORE Centre

Maxwell’s Concerts & Events Starlight Lounge The Boathouse

Catherine Fife Berry Vrbanovic Laura Mae Lindo

Best teacher

Best performance artist

Yeliz Sherifali

Best fancy coffee

Janice Jo Lee Tess Martens

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GRAFFITI MARKET IGNITES

CULINARY COLLISION KRISTEN PHILIPPI CONTRIBUTOR My interview with Neil Huber, coowner at Ignite Restaurant Group, the team behind Graffiti Market, the new restaurant/brewery/café/ market at Catalyst 137, might have been my most observant yet. We met on an atypical rainy summer morning in the large industrial lobby of Catalyst 137, and for the next hour as we toured the culinary collision,

I said “wow” far more than I asked intelligent questions.

Let me start by explaining everything going on inside the relatively understated Catalyst 137 building, a hardware IoT hub hosting companies like Miovision, SnapPea Design and SigmaPoint. Apart from a few company logos and the faint, quiet glow of a string of Edison bulbs on the Graffiti patio, it would be easy to miss when driving by on Glasgow street.

But inside is bustling with action.

First, there is Red Circle Coffee Roasters, run by Monica and Graham Braun of Monigram Coffee Roasters in Galt. It takes over the front entrance of Catalyst with its warm aroma, giving off that perfect kind

of coffee smell that lingers on you after you leave. They make all their pastries and confections in house and soon will roast the beans on location too.

Next, there is the market of Graffiti’s namesake. The market holds boxes of vinyl, juices, lunches, ice cream, local vegetables and general groceries. This market is meant both to serve the people in the Catalyst community but also the Belmont residents at large.

Beyond the market is the restaurant. The menu is inspired by ‘80s and ‘90s hip-hop with items like “Soup There It Is”, “No Sleep Til Burrata” and “Insane in the Romaine”, and includes the classics – pizza, pasta, burgers. It

also showcases four feature beers from the inhouse brewery Red Circle Brewing: a lager, IPA, farmhouse ale and a stout. The restaurant seats close to 200 inside, and about 98 on the patio.

The industrial walls are covered by a mural of the Kitchener skyline by local graffiti artists, there are beer hall style community tables and benches, and the open concept kitchen gives view to the pizza oven that can crank out 300 pizzas a day.

The crowning jewel of the restaurant are the 26 smart touch screen tables. At each seat is an app that opens up to an interactive scrollable menu, where each item on the menu has a corresponding video and description. You order straight from your table — servers are there to focus on customer service. There is a news app, an air hockey app and a puzzle app. You can even connect your phone to table via a corresponding app and QR code, allowing you to drag your photos right onto the screen on the table.

The final element is a small Four All Ice Cream stand that you can order either off the menu for dessert or grab in boxes on your way out.

And if all of that is not enough, Huber and his team have sky high dreams for the space. The Ignite Group is committed to maturing the local arts, music and maker community in their space through live entertainment events, acoustic music sessions, hackathons and even a podcast featuring the chefs, brew and coffee masters of the space.

“From jump off, we really wanted to make the space about content creation and supporting the arts.

We are doing what we call Red Circle sessions where we will have independent local bands that want to just get their music out there, doing small acoustic sets,” Huber said.

“We want to open up contests with local artists that we know and love and have them design limited edition t-shirts and artwork where a large portion of the proceeds will

go to arts councils and into the community.”

The maker mindset is extending to the Catalyst residents too, who have been pro-actively offering support and suggestions to Graffiti on how to continue advancing their tech. Think beer glasses with chips on the base to offer more info on your pint, new apps on the smart table to connect PDFs or presentations for business meetings, and live art competitions to continue covering the walls.

The innovation happening around Graffiti Market is certainly not lost on them.

On that summer day, I let Huber do most of the talking. The collaboration happening in the space on paper seems like it might be too much, but really, it’s incredible.

Each portion of the group has their speciality, and their focus on their craft combined with an openminded, earnest desire to create collectivity has created a restaurant that is like nothing I’ve seen.

“If you want the best coffee you will ever have you can just walk over to Red Circle and enjoy an Americano and a pastry, if you want to sit down and experience something new that doesn’t really exist anywhere else, you come into the restaurant and sit down at the table and enjoy one of our beers, or pizza,” Huber said.

“And with the brewery, it’s about connecting with everything that occurred around the Region both now and in the past.”

There is something special happening right now to the culture of Waterloo Region. There is an energy of innovation and creativity that started with tech, and is bleeding into the culinary, coffee and beer worlds.

Graffiti Market in Catalyst 137 is a romantic marriage of these impulses. Their support to the local community, offer of excellent products and willingness to try something new and big makes them a valued addition to our community.

REFUGEE PORTRAIT SERIES TURNS BOOK JENNIFER LYON CONTRIBUTOR Brian Limoyo is a KitchenerWaterloo based photographer and a first generation Canadian. He moved with his wife to KW from Montreal in 2012.

“We’re excited to be in the Kitchener-Waterloo area and we were so well received,” Limoyo said.

Following the November 2016 elections south of the border, Limoyo said he began to notice “some nastiness coming out of the woodwork.” Later on, Canada’s 150th anniversary also sparked something for Limoyo.

“There was a lot going on in my head. I was trying to figure out my own identity and what it meant to be Canadian,” Limoyo explained.

“I thought about what it meant to be a first generation Canadian. I felt like I needed to do something to counteract all of this vitriol, all this hatred coming out for refugees, for immigrants, for people that were different.”

As a result, Limoyo used his skills as a photographer to offer a social commentary on this issue. He has been taking family portraits of

refugees living in Waterloo Region ever since.

Limoyo began what is now known as The Great Canadian Portrait Project in partnership with Reception House Waterloo Region, a community-based organization working to provide a warm welcome to government-assisted refugees.

“I wanted to offer my time for new families. No strings attached. I would connect with the families and take a portrait of them,” he said.

Limoyo explained that his own family could have benefitted from a project like this when he first came to Canada.

“I would have loved when my family immigrated if there was a portrait project to help document the beginning of being Canadian and it would also help me trace the history of my family and sort of the beginning of our family as Canadians,” he said.

“It’s the first thing I do when meeting new relatives, I ask to see their photo albums.”

But, it isn’t just about the photographs. Limoyo is also looking to connect with his subjects, also.

“We interviewed them briefly, asked them about what they hope to do in Canada, or what they have in mind for their future as Canadians,” he said.

Limoyo also asks what the hardest thing was to leave behind and

photographed them holding their own photo of whatever it was.

“We said it can be a person or a thing ... most people have chosen family, friends, children, mothers, fathers,” he said.

“With the featured stories, we were able to get more in-depth stories of their journeys to Canada. The journeys of a lot of these families were difficult. Some had suffered a lot of trauma, violence. Just a lot.”

Limoyo explained that this experience so far has been incredible. He said that the stories he has heard have been tremendous accounts of both family and survival.

“Being able to take photos of these families to show their faces I think makes a big difference,” he said.

And now, Limoyo’s photographs and the stories of his subjects will be published in a book that will be out this month. Proceeds from book sales will go to support Reception House.

“I feel really privileged to have the opportunity to do be able to do his kind of project, to have the opportunity to tell the story of all these wonderful people,” Limoyo said.

“I want to thank everyone that was involved with making this project a success.”

The photo above is taken from Limoyo’s Great Canadian Portrait Project.

PHOTO COURTESY OF BRIAN LIMOYO

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THE BRAIN BEHIND THE DRUMSTICKS

JORDAN GAUTHIER OF YC DRUM COMPANY IN WATERLOO TELLS US HOW HE GOT INTO MAKING CUSTOM DRUM KITS

BETH BOWLES CONTRIBUTOR Jordan Gauthier, sole proprietor of YC Drum Company, believes there is a big difference between schooling and education.

“You can spend all this money and all these years and go to school, and get an education, or you can get out there and get your own education, and that’s what I’ve done,” Gauthier said.

Ever since he was a teenager, Gauthier has been building custom drums. Now at only age 24, his hobby has turned full career. His shop, YC Drum Company, is located in Waterloo, just off Northfield Drive.

His clients have included drummers from bands such as July Talk, The Glorious Sons, The Strumbellas, The Dirty Nil, Pup, Seaway, Half Moon Run, Dear Rouge … and that’s just the short list.

Gauthier went to school for audio recording, but didn’t finish. He describes himself as not being overly academic. He wanted to immerse himself in the music industry, not sit in a classroom and learn about it. “[I learned by] trial and error. Everything with this company has been literally trial and error,” he said.

When Gauthier was 19, word spread among local musicians that he owned a collection of vintage drum gear. Musicians would reach out and ask to rent his gear for studio sessions, so he began to exchange rentals for gas money and the opportunity to work gigs as a drum tech. This led to paid drum tech gigs, which eventually turned into a job building custom drums to order.

“It turned into basically a full-on custom drum manufacturer, but also, on the flip side of that, studio technician work, as well as live technician work, as well as back-line support, and drum rentals, and repairs.

So it’s basically a one-stop shop for a drummer’s needs,” he said.

Gauthier himself, is a drummer, and would often skip high school to tour with his band. Being originally from Ottawa, touring with his band introduced him to Toronto’s music scene — the central hub for the Canadian music industry. Gauthier explained that touring helped him get to where he is today, as a business owner.

“When I started playing in bands, I was like the business guy. I was the guy who would book the shows, that did all the promotion, that would organize everything,” he explained.

“I truly believe it teaches you how to run a business at a young age [sic].

You don’t realize it at the time, but

it’s like, you’re settling money, you’re budgeting.”

Just three years ago, Gauthier was still in Ottawa. He was travelling frequently to Toronto for work, while building drums in the basement of his rental house.

But, the travelling started to wear him out, both mentally and physically.

When a fellow musician told Gauthier that his dad had a workshop rental space available in Waterloo, Gauthier had to go check it out.

The unit, just off Northfield Drive, was the perfect size for building drums; it was also affordable and close to Toronto and London. The only other time Gauthier had been to Kitchener-Waterloo was for KOI Fest, but he decided to make the move.

Without a place to live, he packed up his things in Ottawa and moved to Waterloo, spending his first month sleeping on the floor of his workshop.

“I used my backpack as a pillow,” he said. “I had a towel that I put down on the ground to kind of soften it a little, and then I had one blanket, maybe.”

“ I TAKE A LOT OF

PRIDE IN SITTING DOWN WITH PEOPLE [AND ASKING] WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR DRUMS TO SOUND LIKE? -JORDAN GAUTHIER

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Eventually, he found an apartment in Kitchener.

Since moving to Waterloo, YC Drum Company — the “YC” being short for “Young Classics,” an homage to a Ten Second Epic song — has grown in a way that wouldn’t have been possible had Gauthier continued his business in an Ottawa basement. He now has the space to service more clients and continue to grow.

But what exactly goes into building a custom drum kit? What even is a custom drum kit?

“I take a lot of pride in sitting down with people,” Gauthier said. “[And asking] what do you want your drums to sound like? What do you want your drums to look like? And then from there, manufacturing what’s in their head, sound wise and the way it looks, manufacturing that into a drum kit.”

Instead of going into a store, trying out different drum kits and saying

“that’ll do,” Gauthier will select specific sizes of drums to build a kit that suits an individual drummer’s needs.

“There’s a million and one things that you can do to a drum, and it’s kind of knowing what to do to make a specific sound,” he said.

While Gauthier does have one part-time employee, there’s no middle man in his business. The drummers work directly with him, and he produces the product, with the exception of the shells, which are made by Keller, a company in New Hampshire.

Quality is obviously important to Gauthier. As mentioned earlier, “Young Classics” is a reference to a song — but it’s also a reference to Gauthier’s love for vintage drums.

The problem is, vintage drums weren’t always built to last. So while Gauthier’s drums often give a nod to vintage style and have the same warmth as an old kit, his kits are more reliable. Gauthier said he’s never had a drum kit returned because of quality issues. Because many of his clients are playing huge shows, like the Arkells who played Tim Horton’s Field in June, Gauthier’s product has to hold up.

Evidently, drummer Tim Oxford of the Arkells was one of Gauthier’s first big clients, bringing him on to work drum tech at an upcoming show when Gauthier was just 19 after Gauthier persistently offered his services, free of charge.

“The other dudes in Arkells had never met me before, and here’s [me] like running around the stage during the show like fixing things; I wasn’t getting paid, it was just funny. I was like 19, it was rad to me, it’s still rad to me,” Gauthier said.

“It’s been five years now, and [Tim] is kind of like an older brother to me. I’ve worked on the record that’s coming out in October, I worked on their last record, I’ve teched for them live a bunch, their whole band and management team has been really kind to me.”

But that wasn’t Gauthier’s only “big moment.” In 2017, The Strumbellas won the Juno for Single of the Year, which Gauthier was the drum tech on. Strumbellas drummer Jeremy Drury even brought Gauthier a Juno because he was involved in recording the track.

In such a short time, Gauthier has accomplished more than he ever thought he could.

“I didn’t know that five years ago, I would be here. So, I would hope that [in five years] it would be a little less hectic, in the sense of my workload,” he said, when thinking of the future.

“I would love to maybe, not work less hard, but have a bit less work on myself and maybe have some employees. But, I really just genuinely hope that this does not end.”

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KEEPING KW HARDCORE ALIVE WITH HOPE FEST

THIS YEAR, KW’S HAVE HOPE TURNS 10, SO THEY’RE CELEBRATING WITH THEIR BIGGEST SHOW YET

BETH BOWLES EDITOR IN CHIEF Have Hope, a concert promotion agency out of Kitchener-Waterloo, is turning ten-years-old this year.

Since every birthday deserves a party, owner Kyler Wappler took this opportunity to plan Hope Fest, a day-long punk/hardcore festival that hits Maxwell’s Concerts and Events on Sept. 22.

Last September, Wappler helped plan KOI Fest. KOI, a punk/hardcore festival that first took place downtown Kitchener in 2010, has changed shape and form over the past several years. This year, when the time came to organize KOI 2018, Wappler and fellow KOI organizer, Curt Crossman, felt rushed and unable to take on the project. The “retirement” of KOI left the festival as a piece of KW nostalgia, and Wappler saw an opportunity.

Have Hope started in 2008, founded by Wappler and a friend.

When the two parted ways, Wappler kept it going.

“We book bands from all over Ontario and bring them into various venues across KW, Cambridge and occasionally other places, but seldomly,” Wappler said.

But concert promoting, for Wappler, hasn’t been limited to just the last ten years. He actually

began promoting when he was only 14. His dad’s print company, Document Print Integrity, allowed a young Wappler to get in contact with people in the local music scene, opening up opportunities to not only go to shows, but also to help promote them. This is what sparked Wappler’s passion to get Have Hope up and running. “[The goal is] to bring in as many bands as I can, help as many bands as I can. It’s always been kind of driven from a love of doing these shows and going to these shows, because like I said, I’ve been doing that since I was so young,” he said.

“I do it to keep the scene alive. If one day it could be a living, that would be awesome, but that’s a pipe dream.”

This year has been busy for Wappler, as Have Hope locked down a partnership with Harmony Lunch, securing both Thursday and Friday nights to host shows.

“We haven’t had a small venue for local events and a lot of the venues, while there are a lot of great venues in town, the overhead is way too high to just take a risk on a small developing band. In the end, that’s what I like doing,” Wappler said.

“When an opportunity arose that I could bring in new bands every single week, I jumped at it.”

And that’s what concert-goers can expect from Hope Fest — but on a larger scale. All the acts are Canadian, with the exception of Silver Age, and several bands, like Exalt, The Intake of Glass, and Goldfinch, are from KW. The festival

This year, Kyle Wappler will celebrate 10 years of Have Hope, a KW concert promotion agency. PAIGE BUSH PHOTO will also host a punk rock flea market from local vendors, as well as an outdoor acoustic stage highlighting mostly-local musicians.

“I hope that there’s a good turn out and that people are stoked on it because ideally I’d like to make it a reoccurring thing and be able to grow it and turn it into something even bigger,” Wappler said.

For Wappler, Hope Fest will be more than just an event to mark ten

years of Have Hope; it will also be an opportunity to share with the KW community his biggest passion: live music.

“There’s something totally different about live music as opposed to recorded music — the energy of it, the community of it, the atmosphere. It’s just awesome. It’s totally different than anything else,” Wappler said.

“I made so many friends

throughout the years at these shows and it feels like a belonging, it feels like somewhere where you can go and feel a part of something that matters and be with people who give a shit.”

Tickets for Hope Fest are currently on sale at Orange Monkey Music uptown Waterloo, or online.

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FINDING RELIEF AMONGST THE CHAOS IN A TIME OF OVERWHELMING GRIEF, WRITER JAMES GOWLAND SOUGHT PEACE IN VICTORIA PARK reduction supply center with sterile I am not proud of this, but I am gratethe local coffee shop who knew me well pull its locked limbs tighter, and it stood OPINION still, slightly hunched over, refusing to needles, condoms, lube, clean crack and ful that I was able to shed these demons enough to look away when she brought

JAMES GOWLAND CONTRIBUTOR When I was growing up in the Niagara Region, opiates were only beginning to pervade all socio-economic street corners and neighbourhoods. This was approximately 12-years-ago now, and things had not quite come to a boil with regards to opiate overdoses being acknowledged as an epidemic. And while I was never a very successful reveler, I definitely dabbled with the forbidden and oft appealing backroom-benders of the day.

and forgo a life unlived. Now, after two and a half years of living in Waterloo Region, nostalgia rarely comes into play — the shame I carried no longer exists, and the guilt has dispersed.

Unfortunately though, my past occasionally catches up with me, as these things tend to do.

A young man who worked for me in those days, who I saw myself in, and who looked up to me, died last month from an opiate overdose. I have purposely become so far removed from that scene back home, that it took over a week for old acquaintances to find me and ask why I missed the wake.

A moment after Ryan’s passing sunk in and lingered, shock was followed by angry tears slowly descending to my lap; I am very grateful to the barista in

over extra napkins.

The reality is that this mindless, doomed game of chance had taken the life of a 27-year-old — an intelligent, lost, humble, beautiful person. So out of respect to the seven friends I have lost to this epidemic, I ventured south to Victoria Park in Kitchener on Aug. 27, and attended KW International Overdose Awareness Day, headed by the Waterloo Region Integrated Drug Strategy.

But like I said, my past likes to catch up once in a while.

While I stood there looking for the right volunteer to chat with, anxiety leaned in and grinned at me. Anxiety has many faces, and from what I know, each individual defines and lives up to their own version of it. My version had crossed arms, grasping for anything to

acknowledge any individual glaring in my direction. I froze and I didn’t even know it.

After further awkwardness and a crude conversation with a calm and inviting volunteer from the Sanguen Health Centre who was smoking a cigarette, I watched other young volunteers educate people and hand out naloxone kits.

There was the local Bereaved Families of Ontario support group and multiple tents representing Waterloo Region in different capacities, all draped with multi-coloured mini banners displaying a name or nickname. There was a white van with names, dates, emboldened quotes, phone numbers and lively graffiti completely covering the driver side with coloured marker. The rear of the van doubled as a temporary harm

meth pipes, alcohol wipes and other sanctioned materials.

There was also a case worker from the Sanguen Health Centre who shook my hand but didn’t say anything to me.

This silence meant a lot to me. His shirt, something all the volunteers wore, said: “SUPPORT NOT STIGMA.” As this silence became an odd, inner peace, the realization that I had not taken the time to truly grieve the loss of my old friends to this vicious epidemic became transparent — I had achieved relief amongst the chaos.

I’m grateful I ventured down to the park. I learned a lot that day.

BACK-TO-SCHOOL WITHOUT GOING BACK-TO-SCHOOL ANUM SYEDA CONTRIBUTOR Although it’s not the beginning of a new calendar year, September can feel fresh and new, even if your days of returning to the classroom are behind you. Traditional schooling doesn’t have to be your only opportunity to learn new things if you’re looking to make positive changes this fall. If you’re out of school, but still looking to learn new things, there are lots of non-traditional opportunities to learn here in our Region. Many of them are free or offered at minimal cost. Listed below are just some ideas to get the knowledge ball rolling.

DIPLOMA IN LOCAL DEMOCRACY If you are interested in community engagement, a discussion-led opportunity held by the Waterloo School for Community Development within The Working Centre is offered in the winter (January - April) to reflect on and learn more about local democracy. Maybe this upcoming municipal election season has got you thinking about your place in

this community or maybe you’re even thinking of running for city council someday. If that sounds like you, check this program out. The classes are held in the evening, making it easier to attend for those who typically work during the day. This program does require a formal application process.

HUMANITIES 101 COURSE In this 12-week program by Renison University College, in collaboration with The Working Centre, guest lecturers from several disciplines talk about a different topic each week. This course is offered to individuals that have faced barriers in attending post-secondary education, specifically those who have been economically marginalized. To be eligible, you must have a high school diploma, live in the Region, identify as low-income and speak English. More information can be found online.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAM If you’re a newcomer, and also an aspiring change maker in your community, this program offers some tips on leadership, running projects and building on existing skills. Bridging Resources is a division of KW Counselling that reaches out to ethno-cul-

tural leaders to enhance the sense of belonging in Waterloo Region. The goal is to bridge resources that may be inaccessible to some communities. If that sounds like something you’d be good at, this leadership training program may be suited for you.

PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Intrigued by astrophysics and astronomy? The Perimeter Institute invites speakers all over the world on these topics! Attendance is free, but you must secure a ticket to go. If you can’t get a ticket, they do have a waiting line for “no show” seats, and they also broadcast them in the Black Hole Bistro on TV’s.

These lectures are a great way to get out of the house and learn something new!

WORKSHOPS BY LIBRARY OF THINGS Library of Things occasionally offers workshops on using different tools and equipment for home construction projects. Past classes have been “Learn to Solder” or “All Saws Saturday.” Keep an eye out for dates this fall.

WORKSHOPS BY REEP GREEN SOLUTIONS If you’re a homeowner, or even if you’re renting, REEP Green Solutions

LAURA MCBRIDE PHOTO offers several workshops on living sustainability — from education on energy efficiency to water conservation. For example, there is a workshop this weekend called “Prepping Your Home for the Winter,” which is not only a great way to learn more about sustainability, but also to save money in the long-run.

FILM SCREENINGS Every other month, a free screening on

an environmental or social justice topic is offered by Cinema Politica Waterloo, a not-for-profit initiative with chapters all over the world started by students.

The aim is to show films in an accessible way while promoting underrepresented narratives. While there currently aren’t any scheduled screenings, keep an eye on their site for more information coming soon.

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LOCALLY-BASED ARTISTS

NEW EXHIBITION FEATURES ARTISTS WITH REALLY BIG IMAGINATIONS

SETH RATZLAFF CONTRIBUTOR On July 18, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery celebrated the opening of a new exhibition, The Brain is Wider than the Sky, part of a biannual tradition that features locally-based artists.

Pulling six different artists together in one exhibition was no simple task.

It started when KWAG curator Crystal Mowry first approached the artists with a poetic image, inspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson. The poem, which has the same title as the exhibition, appears in a larger collection of poems by Dickinson called Life. “[The poem] got me thinking about correspondence and how correspondence might be at the root of what a lot of artists are trying to do,” Mowry explained. “They live in the world and try to translate that experience into some other form.”

Mowry explained that most of the exhibitions she’s curated come from “a little grain of an idea.”

“As you have conversations around the idea, it becomes more interesting and develops into something meaningful,” she said.

For some artists, projects were already in the making, and for others, the idea shaped a new one. In either case, it started a dialogue. The result of which is an eclectic six-part exhibition, sure to impact viewers in one way or another. Žana Kozomora’s autobiographical installation is both stunning and uncanny. Red cinder bricks stacked incompletely foreground a film that depicts a

decaying house, spliced and mirrored in vertical and horizontal halves. In the background, we hear a conversation with her father, telling of life before and during war.

“I have no memory of this home but I’ve created throughout my life these fantasies or nostalgias of what it would be like to have a homeland,” Kozomora explained.

At four-years-old, her family fled to Canada as refugees from Bosnia. In her teenage years, she had a chance to return to her homeland. There she confronted a “sleeping giant,” a derelict structure overgrown and occupied by an impoverished family.

It was the opposite of her idyllic expectations.

Tara Cooper, under the moniker Weather Girl, created a nautical collage of mixed media. Objects, sounds, and film, combine to form a dream of ocean imagery. The result is visceral and moving, more experienced than observed.

Cooper explained that many of the various artistic works are products of her time in artists’ residencies. She learned to punch-hook in Vermont; she fired ceramics in Maine; and she found a buoy washed up on the shores of Nova Scotia.

“I’m not one of those artists that plan,” she said. “With collage, you have to be a good editor.”

Aislinn Thomas presents a thought-provoking, interactive installation that explores the human experience of a major celestial event, the solar eclipse of Aug. 27, 2017. Viewers can browse collections of photos and then view through a viewfinder various depictions of the social phenomena around a solar eclipse. The solar system meets the everyday in comical, bizarre, and beautiful ways.

In a series of paintings, Amanda Rhodenizer captures, with chilly pink and blue hues, glimpses of a visit to Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia.

“My vision for this was to examine the dynamics of host and guest in an AirBnb,” she said.

It’s winter in a tourist town, the quiet and lonely off-season. Peering through doorways, windows, and camera lenses, Rhodenizer’s paintings capture anxiety and divisions in the home of an unknown host. Each painting spies on its surroundings: peering through windows and doorways, listening through walls, examining objects for clues about the owner.

When Hyang Cho received a letter meant for someone else in a foreign language, the random event inspired an art project. Her installation presents a collection of letters that never made it to their recipient. Lost in transit and translation, these mysterious messages pose all sorts of questions about the authors, the intended readers, and the unknown lives that inspired them.

Meg Harder presents an epic illustration, stretching several metres in length and drawn in astonishing detail.

Portrayed in the “fraktur” style of her Mennonite ancestors, dazzling elements and creatures tell an intricate story that spans both sides of a sprawling and spiraling serpentine river.

The magnitude of Harder’s project is remarkable. As one absorbs its symbolic narrative, it becomes clear that this is no fairy tale. Local tributaries feed and shape this musical, and sometimes disturbing, myth.

The exhibit The Brain is Wider than the Sky is open until September 23 at KWAG. Admission is free.

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FORGIVE ME, FOR I HAVE GINNED LOCATED IN AYR, WILLIBALD FARM DISTILLERY IS DEVELOPING QUICKLY WORDS BY BETH BOWLES • PHOTOS BY NICK STANLEY When Cam Forminca, Nolan van der Heyden and Jordan van der Heyden finished post-secondary, like most recent grads, the three bounced ideas about their future. With mixed backgrounds in environmental science and engineering, the three twentysomethings wanted to do something new, something different, something out of the box. This was five years ago, and now, they are the proud founders of Willibald Farm Distillery, a gin distillery in Ayr. “We saw a lot of opportunities in beverages and alcohol. Beer was up and coming, or already there, spirits were on the horizon, so we saw the potential in that,” Forminca said.

After two years of construction on the van der Heyden’s existing farm, and investments from friends and family, the guys started distilling in May 2016, opening their doors a year later in April 2017. By October of the same year, Willibald gin was being sold in Waterloo LCBOs, and now the product can be found in approximately 50-60 LCBO locations across southern Ontario.

“Our opening day, we had probably around 600 people out here,” Forminca said.

“You hope it’s going to be good. I don’t think we were ready for that type of response. [The] parking lot was full, both sides of the laneway to the end of the road, both sides of the road to the corner, [was full] of cars. We had two bartenders, so they were wildly overworked.”

Since opening, the business has only been growing. Their liquor license at first only allowed them to serve samples of their gin. People would make the drive to Ayr, tour the distillery (which is beautiful) and sample the gin. While this experience was worth the drive, Forminca explained that it was hard to make people come back a second time.

With the passing of a new government legislation, they were then allowed to serve cocktails, which gave customers more incentive to make the drive. Forminca and his partners are constantly experimenting with cocktail recipes, having different specials every weekend. Although most of their business comes from Ayr, slowly, more people are driving in from other nearby cities.

This summer, Willibald experimented with more ways to interact with their customers and bring them out to the farm, holding “Summer Sessions,” a ticketed, recurring event with cocktails, food and live music..

They’ve also made themselves very visible in Kitchener and Waterloo.

Bright yellow, Willibald-branded Volkswagen aside, they also poured cocktails at the Arabella pop-up on Ontario Street at the beginning of August, and served samples of their gin at the Community Edition’s annual art-party-on-a-train, Steel Rails (shameless plug for our own event).

But the question remains: why gin?

“Knowing that we love oak aging and oak aged products, aging a gin seemed like a really cool opportunity, it wasn’t really being done really at all in Canada,” Forminca explained.

“I saw a lot of benefit in having a gin that you could use in most of the traditional ways that you would use a gin, but having that aged component to use it now in cocktails that would typically require an aged component that an unaged gin would not be ideal for, and unaged whiskey obviously doesn’t fill that void, so it’s like, aging the gin was like two birds with one stone. It was like creating two products in one.”

Forminca included that he and his partners don’t have the desire to release a ton of products.

“We believe in keeping a very narrow focus and really knocking those out of the park,” he said.

That said, currently a full two thirds of their production capacity is going to whiskey, which won’t be ready for a few years. In addition, a new product will be released in early September that consists of unaged whiskey, apples, cinnamon and other spices.

This “mulled-whiskey-esque-spirit” will be aged in ex-bourbon casks and will compliment the “fall on the farm” aesthetic perfectly.

It’s no secret that Forminca and the van der Heydens have hit the ground running on all things Willibald, but their newest project is the biggest one yet. In just a few weeks, Willibald’s kitchen will open. The distillery will be offering full dinner service from Wednesday to Saturday every week, and lunch service on Saturdays.

“We’ve been working on a little project out here, over the winter and into the spring [sic] to try to build an emphasis around the farm. The farm, we realized pretty early on, is one thing in distilleries, specifically in Ontario, that set us apart. We’re one of the very few farm distilleries, there’s only two others,” Forminca said.

“If we can create a reason to get people out here and have them experience it, then we can really get people on board with what we’re trying to do.”

The restaurant’s focus will be farm to table. They will utilize the resources they have on their own land, like their vegetable garden, as well as resources

from neighbouring farms, like grassgrazing Galloway heritage beef and pigs.

“You do as much as you can, and create as [much of a] sustainable of a project as you can. That’s all you can do. For us, that means relying heavily on the seasons,” Forminca said.

Alongside head chef Byron Hallet and sous chef Mike Gibner, both from KW, the team aims to create a menu that is seasonal and creative, yet approachable. With the installation of a wood-fire oven, Forminca can guarantee that pizza will be on the menu.

“We’re going to provide an experience, that’s big for us. We want you to come out here and get something you can’t get other places, and get a Willibald-esque experience, opposed to something you’re super comfortable with,” Forminca said.

“Now, that’s not to say that everything we’re going to do will be way out there, but I think we’re going to try to present flavour and quality in a way that’s a little bit different than what we’re used to around here. That’s the goal.”

The restaurant also opens the door to expand Willibald’s in-house liquor license, too. Now, rather than being limited to just serving Willibald products, they can serve other alcoholic beverages, making it easier to widen their cocktail menu and serve a classic Negroni, a drink they haven’t been able to make before because it requires vermouth and Campari.

Forminca explained that one of his goals with the opening of the restaurant is to continue to represent the Willibald brand, and communicate with their customers. He cited the owners of Monigram, a coffee shop in downtown Galt, saying that they set the bar for exceptional small business owners. They’re present and proud of the brand they’ve established, and Forminca idolizes that approach.

“Being small enough, it’s definitely manageable,” he said.

The next few weeks will undoubtedly be busy on the Willibald farm, but the atmosphere feels positive and energetic.

“This is an agricultural business, and we treat it like that, and we thought the restaurant would tie into that very well, and tie into the existing business very well, and provided just that next level opportunity to showcase what we’re up to on the distilling side of things,” Forminca said.

“When we take something on, we take it on or we don’t do it. We’ve had that mentality since we opened, and this restaurant is going to be no different.”

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COMMUNITY RALLIES AGAINST BIG CHANGE RESIDENTS OF KITCHENER’S MOUNT HOPE NEIGHBOURHOOD HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT NEW DEVELOPMENT SCOTT MILLER CRESSMAN CONTRIBUTOR Neighbours have rallied to push back against one of the shiny, new developments that are sprouting in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge.

In Kitchener’s Mount Hope neighbourhood, residents say they can live with the plan to build a 50-metre office building, but oppose a fivestorey parking garage that they worry will loom over nearby backyards.

The project adds 10 storeys of prime office space and new stores on the ground level to the neighbourhood which is bordered by Victoria, King, Union and Weber Streets. The property is currently a parking lot on Wellington Street and Moore Avenue, next to the Google building on King and Breithaupt Streets and just steps from the new LRT tracks and Waterloo Region’s future transit hub.

This is Phase 3 of the Breithaupt Block project, which has already seen Perimeter Development transform a derelict factory from an eyesore into the tech giant’s headquarters.

To Perimeter and the City of Kitchener, it’s a prime spot for more intensification. But neighbours who feel the project is too big and too close to their quiet streets and historic homes filed legal appeals this summer to stop it. Passionate arguments at Kitchener city council and committee meetings in April and June didn’t stop the plan’s approval, but volunteers aren’t giving up. After feeling ignored and disillusioned by the city process and decision earlier this summer,

neighbours are now hoping Ontario’s independent Local Planning Appeals Tribunal (LPAT) will listen more closely, said Dawn Parker, a professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning, as well as a Mount Hope neighbourhood member involved in the efforts to challenge the development.

The neighbours want a smaller parking garage and more green space around the buildings. There are also concerns about increased traffic and disruption from the building’s loading dock.

Many people in the neighbourhood want small tweaks rather than wholesale changes, Parker said.

The community is actually excited about new shops or cafes that might appear on the ground floor. Perimeter Development did agree to address neighbours’ concerns about height by reworking their design this spring to lower the office tower by two storeys — although the building’s total square footage didn’t decrease and the parking garage was unchanged.

That was a successful compromise, but other neighbourhood requests seem to have fallen on deaf ears, Parker said.

“I think we’re being eminently reasonable,” she said. “I think minor changes could make this a good development.”

The city isn’t able to comment on a case that’s currently under appeal, said Alain Penard, Kitchener’s Director of Planning.

But, as a whole, the LRT project has created a development spike that is helping transform the city, he said.

Intensification often prompts a passionate response, he noted. Almost everyone agrees that a more efficient,

walkable city is best.

“But there’s no consensus on how much intensification is appropriate and where it should go,” Penard said, The city tries to balance the views and the rights of both developers and nearby residents. In the end, someone usually won’t get what they wanted, Penard said.

But many neighbours who attended the marathon, three-plus hour council sessions this spring and summer that ultimately approved the BB3 project felt disillusioned by the appearance that city staff and council members weren’t open to any of their suggested changes, and wonder why the city couldn’t help them achieve more compromises.

“With this development, they’re not being held to the same standards that others are,” Parker said — developers often have to incorporate affordable housing or parkland to get city approval.

“When the developer says he did everything that was asked of him, he’s correct. And that shouldn’t have happened.”

The Mount Hope residents seem to have decided not to accept this development project without voicing their concern one more time.

The neighbourhood, which has built a strong connection over the years with regular potlucks and street festivals, has focused that communal energy into figuring out the new LPAT process.

Volunteers raised money, wrote their case, and have filed paperwork for two appeals this summer against the city’s decision to allow the Breithaupt Block 3 plan.

The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) still has to decide if the

neighbour appeals are valid, then in the coming year the case could move to a hearing. If that happens, the neighbourhood will need to mobilize again to find experts and presenters to make their case.

The decision-makers in municipal government take all public input very seriously, Penard said, but the neighbours are only one point of view that must be balanced against other factors.

“In no case do we not listen to community comments,” he said. “We try to develop solutions to address concerns. But at times we do not get there.”

The amount of change possible also depends on the developer’s willingness to compromise, he added, and the city planners have worked extensively on the developer’s plan before the public gets involved.

With limited room left for Waterloo Region’s cities to sprawl and the desire to densify along the LRT, more conflict between other established Waterloo Region neighbourhoods and ambitious developers could be on the horizon.

Not everyone who spoke up or gave money to fund the LPAT appeals is a Mount Hope resident; this Breithaupt Block project has also attracted people from other Kitchener neighbourhoods who are worried about the precedent this case might set for future projects.

“We’re seeing these kinds of issues popping up all through the core neighbourhoods,” Parker said. “They can see others coming down the pipeline, they want to protect their stable neighbourhoods.”

If the City of Kitchener allows this sort of incongruent building here,

it’ll have a harder time turning down other developers with similar ideas in the future, she worried.

Every development project is considered independently, Penard said, depending on the characteristics of the community, like its proximity to downtown or the train line.

“All neighbourhoods are different,” Penard said. “There isn’t really a one size fits all when it comes to developing the tools or the approach to intensification.”

Kitchener has long wanted to see this sort of transformation and growth in its downtown and central neighbourhoods, Penard continued.

“It’s exciting to be a part of this and help shape it,” he said, “and it’s a challenge because there are people with competing views on exactly how it should be done and how fast it should be done.”

In the end, the city and the neighbourhood have very similar goals and agree on a lot, Parker said.

But the neighbourhood didn’t feel their voices were given an equal seat at the bargaining table. It was an emotional rollercoaster, Parker said, to put in so much work and feel that the city didn’t respond.

Neighbours have spent unpaid hours to make their voices count in their community’s future.

“It’s because the neighbourhood was so well connected that they were able to rise to this challenge,” Parker said.

Mount Hope has turned its neighbourly spirit into a grassroots political campaign. Other neighbourhoods may soon follow suit.

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IZNA BRINGS TASTE OF JAPAN TO DTK MELISSA EMBURY CONTRIBUTOR I’m a big fan of trying new things, so when I heard that a new Japanese home-style restaurant was opening in my neighbourhood on King St East, I got excited and booked reservations with the owner.

Upon entering the wooden frontage of Izna, the first thing I noticed was their serene sand garden that had been beautifully arranged for a zen atmosphere. The place felt like being transported to another time when Samurai still wandered in for a bite to eat.

I brought my friends along for fun and we ordered several dishes to share and taste. Just be forewarned — the portion sizes are large and they give you plenty of food!

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on traditional versions of Japanese homestyle dishes. With so much to choose from, we decided to try most of the menu. I started with my regular Japanese restaurant go-to appetizer of Agedashi Tofu and it did not disappoint.

The stand-out favourites of the night were the rice dishes. My friends loved the Una Don — a rice bowl topped with a generous portion of BBQ’d eel — while I can’t stop wishing for more of the Sake Don — a rice bowl topped with salmon

green onions, avocado and a savoury sauce. The rice was really flavourful and the ramen and udon noodles were also great. I will be coming back in the colder autumn months for some warming bowls.

Basically, we ordered way too much food and left very full and happy. The presentation was visually appealing, set on a tray with a side of kimchi, yellow radish and a miso soup. Our server was very friendly and attentive and made sure we had plenty of ice cold lemon water and

tea, while chatting with us about the dishes.

I was also pleasantly surprised to see $6.95 pints of King St. Saison from local brewery Block 3 on tap.

It’s a great local beer and super refreshing.

Overall the portion sizes were large, the prices were good, and the food was delicious, ensuring that Izna is the kind of restaurant you can go to over and over again.

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CREATING SPACE FOR WOMEN IN TECH

WE CHATTED WITH DINAH DAVIES OF CODE LIKE A GIRL ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF INVOLVING GIRLS IN TECH

MELISSA EMBURY CONTRIBUTOR Dinah Davies is the change she wants to see in the world.

She started Code Like A Girl as a side-project publication on Medium for women in tech in 2015, while also being vice president of research and development at Arctic Wolf.

“I didn’t see a way to change society without doing it one conversation at a time, or one article at a time,” she said. “You have to show people what it’s like so that they really get it.”

I sat down with her to learn more about her journey creating Code Like A Girl and the struggles women and girls face in the tech industry that she would like to see addressed.

“It’s not just about changing perceptions of women in technology anymore, it’s also about creating a community for women where allies are welcome so they can learn and figure out what to do with the community. It’s also for parents and teachers to teach their kids how to code,” she said.

“The problem is less conscious bias and more unconscious bias. They’ve shown lots of studies where teachers show bias towards boys being good at math and not helping the girls as much. There’s still a lot of that that exists, but it is getting better.”

Overall Davies has been striving to change perceptions, but her main goal is to create a community where women feel safe and supported.

Code Like A Girl has become a social enterprise, providing girls and women with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter and flourish in the world of coding.

The costs of running the publication are covered by monthly funding through Patreon — a crowdfunding platform typically used by artists.

“So right now, we have about $1,100 a month in support, which is not a lot, but it covers some and allowed me to upgrade a few of the tools that we use to edit, publish and share on social media,” Davies said.

“I was able to hire a social media manager for five hours a week. That is a huge thing, and really exciting, because I was starting to have to spend more time than I wanted on social media, which is really important.”

I was curious about the demographics for their Medium publication and what the percentages of female to male readers were.

“We’re about 55 per cent female, 45 per cent male. Our Twitter has a 60 per cent male following. It’s actually quite equal,” she said.

“The reality is there’s a ton of guys out there that want to support women, and who want their daughters to have a better future.”

Prior to our meeting, I actually posted one of her articles on my

LAURA MCBRIDE PHOTO Slack channel while working at a Y Combinator Startup. It was an article written by a male ally who runs a weekly post about what you can do as an ally to help. One of the guys who saw my post was a supervisor for a female dev coop at my company. He actually thanked me for how much that helped him with mentorship.

“That’s really what drives me to keep going with it!” Davies said.

“Even when it’s a lot of work, and I have a lot of work to do for my day job that actually pays money, and I have a family, these stories help

people.”

Back when Dinah Davies first started Code Like A Girl she was blogging all on her own and struggled to find a publication on Medium to publish her work.

“Women in tech publications were very picky about what they would accept, so I decided I could just create my own publication. What would be better than my voice but hundreds of voices?” she said.

“I thought: I’ll amplify those voices and that’ll affect bigger change than just my voice trying to make people change.”

So that’s what Davies did. Code Like A Girl went from zero followers to 10,000 followers in the first year.

They are around 36,000 now and growing.

I asked Davies what she sees for the future of the publication.

“I want to support women and young girls to have a better future,” she said, “and sharing stories — that’s what it’s all about!”

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TIME FOR A NEW

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STACEY JACOBS COLUMNIST Although January marks the beginning of the calendar year, I have always thought of September as the beginning. The beginning of the school year, a fresh opportunity to be the person I want to be, a clean slate ready for a new start. By the middle of August I find myself planning, making lists and reflecting on the past year. I think about the changes I want to make in myself, the new adventures I want to have and how I want to treat others.

I often find myself discouraged, disappointed or angry at political decisions and other people’s behaviour. It is easy to feel defeated and easy to give up. September makes me want to try harder, fight for what I believe in and make the small changes I am capable of making.

I start by getting enough sleep.

When you are tired it is hard to care,

hard to support others, hard to move forward. I also ensure I have some down time to do the things I enjoy, like reading a good book, joining a friend for coffee or swinging on the swings in Waterloo Park.

In a world that seems to be increasingly filled with hate, I actively try to make people feel good about themselves. I do this by not making assumptions about others and trying to get to know people.

When you listen to people, and try to understand them, it is much easier to respect them and like them. We live in a community full of diversity.

I have made a point to learn about cultures, ethnicities, religions, genders and orientations other than my own, and get to know people outside my inner circles.

I am trying to use consent more in my life. Whether I am out with friends, in a classroom, at work, or with a partner, it is important that everyone’s bodily autonomy is respected. It becomes a force of habit to ask for a hug or ask if you can pick the stray hair off someone’s sweater.

I try to be considerate of others feelings and well-being. Before ordering food I ask if anyone has allergies, sensitivities or restrictions,

I ask before eating the last piece of pizza (usually), when putting on music I ask what others want to hear, I don’t roll down the window in my car when someone is shivering in my backseat. I simply try to be aware of my surroundings and try to make others feel comfortable and safe.

Having conversations with others in my life, rather than making assumptions, allows me to continue building healthy relationships with the people around me.

I am also trying to think about my positioning and privilege more, and to ask myself whether my comments and questions are relevant, helpful and supportive. As someone with a great deal of privilege I want to be a positive and understanding ally to others.

I try to see interactions as learning opportunities, and ask for clarification when I need it, fighting my urge to become defensive.

As the sun sets on one of the last days of August I am off to bed. I am exhausted, ornery and frustrated, but I know that tomorrow is another day, a fresh start, an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life.

Stacey Jacobs is the sexual health educational manager at SHORE.

September can be interpreted as a new year, so why not use that as an opportunity to use consent more in your life?

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HAVE WE REACHED THE POINT OF NO RETURN? EASY BEING GREEN STACEY DANCKERT COLUMNIST Have we already fallen off the climate cliff? Or hit the “tipping point”? Or incited “runaway climate change”? Is there an impending “positive feedback loop”? These phrases have all been used to describe what has recently been termed “irreversible hothouse earth state.”

Essentially, these all describe a situation in which, what is otherwise a relatively small change in climate state, leads to a large, irreversible and abrupt cycle of changes in the

earth’s climate. A change in which we reach a threshold that flips a switch activating greater — and possibly unanticipated — effects.

This effect has been discussed recently as if it is a new hypothesis being discussed for the first time.

The reality is that this topic has been discussed by more than 300 news articles and many more research papers since 2004.

Part of the confusion may stem from the possibility that there are a variety of things we may be referring to when we discuss tipping points, or any other of the above phrasing.

We could be referring to the entire system and the overall warming of the earth — that at a certain point we may not be able to stop an additional warming of 4-5 degrees celcius or more.

Alternatively, we may be referring to a single climate subsystem such

as the melting of arctic ice, wherein decreases in ice coverage darkens the water, lowering the refraction of the sun and hastening the increase in temperature and subsequent melting. This ultimately also releases trapped carbon from below permafrost, worsening the situation further.

Positive feedback loops may also result from delayed effects of gases such as methane and phosphorus that have impacts long after we cut our emissions. Of the greenhouse gases, carbon has the shortest effect lasting for decades after its release.

Ultimately, this means that, at some point, even with aggressive climate action, we may be no better off than if we had done nothing. It’s entirely possible that we may already have passed the tipping point in one or more of our ecological systems.

The greatest issue with this is that

we don’t know what that point is, or even whether or not we’ve already surpassed it.

For example, one of the easiest systems to monitor is that of the arctic ice shield, a system that has been witnessing unprecedented changes over recent years, and is predicted to reach the point of full melting by 2070. But the question remains: can we reverse a system with no northern ice coverage if we change our ways? Some have suggested that we need to maintain levels of carbon in the atmosphere below 350 parts per million (we have already surpassed 400ppm) or keep temperatures below 2 degrees C of warming. The problem is that scientists tend to be conservative with their estimates, and because of unexpected interactions, even these values could be too high. Even if we are able to reverse some of the

effects of warming, we may be in for substantial changes that it triggers for some time.

So what does this mean for us? It’s hard to be certain, but given that ambiguity, I believe it means that we must act immediately. We need to make an ambitious move to a lowcarbon future by any means possible.

I imagine most of us would take the risk of over-investing in mitigating climate change to offset the huge risks of not doing so.

I am starting to see some evidence that this could happen. So for now, I hope that the only tipping point that we are reaching is that of the demand by citizens for more climate action now.

Stacey Danckert is the co-director of Waterloo Region Environment Network (WREN).

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A MAP OF THE NIGHT SKY WHEN/ YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU LOVED ME TCE POETRY WORDS BY BASHAR LULU JABBOUR ILLUSTRATION BY PAIGE BUSH

the moon audacious and full / lake reflection lavish / we of the kings that named the stars / love forbidden on our own tongues / fingers tracing new lines / searching for the other / in the widening inch of space / who are we scared of? / we of a land that knows / death to the core / constellations of gravestones / soil bursting, hungry / pines reaching for the stars once more / we are minaret stone / singing into the heavens / god is great, god is great / who are we scared of? / you draw circles on my chest / we are Enlil / dancing fate into heaven and earth / dirt exalting union / palms pressed / shrinking space / reverse big bang / god is great / heavens echo / god is great / moon lavish and full / our union a map of night sky / jasmine / nectar / down your lips you whisper / we we we are Enlil / the

space between heaven and earth / dirt and constellation / god is great so who are we scared of? / from a land audacious / in love / our stories end with lover dead / my father used to say / here, a war every ten years / yet we dance, fingers linked and sweaty / loud / thunderous / Enlil / jasmine / nectar / down our lips / the moon still full / the reflection on the lake still / lavish / and in this story the hero may still die / and yet / god is great / god is great / so who are we scared of?

#squad goals @uptownwaterloo

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THE BEAT GOES ON TURNS UP THE VOLUME JAMES GOWLAND CONTRIBUTOR John Rocchetta has found success in life through his business, The Beat Goes On. As it continues to grow, his kids still roll their eyes at him.

“I drive my kids nuts,” said Rocchetta laughingly. “We’re in the car, and something comes on, and I’ll just crank it”.

And hell, yes the music was live and loud on Aug. 18, when the amalgamation of two The Beat Goes On stores officially became one.

Located at 341 Weber St. N., the new 2,500 square-foot video and music store replaces and expands on the two previous Waterloo Region stores that were housed on King Street in Waterloo and Highland Road in Kitchener.

While Rocchetta admitted that it is a shame he will be losing a small customer base that cannot make their way to Waterloo for the new store, he said he has no other regrets — the new location has close to 50 per cent more space than the two previous locations combined, which allows for 50 per cent more product.

“We’re making sure we’re moving forward and keeping up with changes in the marketplace,” Rocchetta said, “t o stay relevant, stay current”.

Along with the possibility of hosting

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live shows a few days a week that can potentially spill out into the front lot via the large garage door to his new store, Rocchetta acknowledged that the sustainability of The Beat Goes On is achieved through old-school social experiences and ideals within his stores.

“We really cater to the audiophile or the movie aficionado who wants to just browse or hang out and talk shop and listen to music,” said Rocchetta.

“If I could put a bar in the store, and stools, and hangout, I would, but unfortunately we’re not there yet.”

The new location will also cater to the surge in LP popularity, something Rocchetta said is directly related to the growth in digital music. Rocchetta hopes to increase his vinyl selection

by five times in the new store and to increase the selection of used records, especially. He admitted it is increasingly difficult to find quality used LP’s since they cannot be repaired like a CD or DVD. And while Rocchetta acknowledged that his target market for vinyl is between 29 - 65 years of age, he is surprised by the amount of young people interested in one of music’s most purest forms.

“There is more [youth interest] than I actually thought there would be,” said Rocchetta. “It’s good to see”.

With the flagship store originating in Kitchener, and with a total of nine The Beat Goes On locations in southern Ontario, 48-year-old Rocchetta has been growing his business since he was twenty and expects that in a short

period of time, the online portion of his business will become more lucrative than his brick-and-mortar locations.

Rocchetta already has three full-time employees solely managing online orders and sales, servicing customers from all over North America.

“I’m not in the stores as much as I used to be,” said Rocchetta.

So even though Rocchetta can only pine for those pure moments when he witnesses a father-son duo debate the wisdom of an album in his store on a Saturday afternoon, he is still upbeat.

“I’m hoping to do that one day with my kid,” he said.

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NAMELESS MAKES A NAME ALBUM: A is for Effort by Theoretically Nameless Band LINK: https://wearetnb.bandcamp.com/album/a-for-effort

If you’re a fan of punk/ska and of course a dash of Reggae, then I’m sure you’re familiar with artists like Sublime/Long Beach Dub Allstars, No Doubt, and who could forget The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. There’s also a piece of this scene right here on our own turf. KW based Theoretically Nameless Band. The group consists of six members, who combine to create an individual sound from others in the genre. They just released their second EP titled A Is For Effort — a six track package aimed to please the listener.

The first track, “Space,” sets the tone for the EP. It comes at you with a force of fast paced power chords accompanied by the tight brass section standing true to the punk/ska sound.

The next two songs, “Misplaced Expectations” and “Pastry Lovin” present the true, but also unique sound the band holds. Both tunes begin slow, duplicating the vibe of true roots Reggae. As any punk or ska track, they then build into high energy

riffs paired with strong vocals.

The last track, “Why Can’t You” ends the EP with the same tone the band set with the first track. This is my favorite track; it’s filled with experimentation of different sounds like reverb used in early Dub Reggae by producers or sound engineers such as King Tubby and Scientist. It further shows the heavy influence from pioneers of the punk/ska genre such as Bad Brains and Fugazi.

You can stream, download or even purchase a CD copy of A Is For Effort at bandcamp.com. The band is also playing Hope Fest at Maxwell’s in Waterloo on Sept. 22. Other artists taking the stage will be Single Mothers, Three Crowns and Exalt, to name a few.

Come check out some local talent, it should be a great show.

- Cameron Hoddle, Local DJ

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ABC’S OF MANAGING STRESS, PLEASE?

MENTAL MATTERS

JOHN ROCHE COLUMNIST If you’re a human being with a pulse, the chances are pretty good that you’ve been overwhelmed by sadness, anger, or anxiety at some point. And while it’s not possible to just avoid negative emotions, there is a lot you can do proactively to reduce your chances of being overwhelmed by them.

Lucky for us, a woman named Marsha Linehan even came up with two awesome acronyms to remember how to do it: ABC and PLEASE. A stands for Accumulating Positive Emotions. Accumulating positive emotions just means doing something pleasant every day. Research shows that people who regularly engage in pleasant activities are less vulnerable to being overwhelmed by negative thoughts or emotions.

So what’s a pleasant activity?

It could be walking, stargazing, swimming, reading a book, or finding an occasion to bust out your favourite “Goal Digger” tank top and matching headband. It’s something that’s just plain enjoyable and doesn’t feel like work, and it’s probably the kind of thing you usually tell yourself you don’t have

time for.

B stands for Building Mastery.

This means having something on the go that gives you a sense of competence, something that’s challenging and has room for growth. This boosts self- esteem and also brings a sense of achievement and purpose.

Maybe it’s learning the guitar, taking a cooking class, training for a run, or painting along to The Joy of Painting on Netflix while you contemplate what a badass Bob Ross is.

C stands for Coping Ahead.

This just means that if you’ve got something stressful coming up, you take the time to formulate a plan of how you’re going to deal with it, then visualize yourself running through it. Whether it’s a court case, a first date, or putting up a boundary with your mom, coping ahead really helps. It also happens to be a great way to reduce worry.

The PL in PLEASE stands for taking care of your PhysicaL health. Being sick or in pain wreaks havoc on your mental health, so if you’ve got something like that going on, go see your doctor and/or check out one of the awesome physiotherapy clinics in the Region. (But avoid crappy ones where they just put you on a machine while they tend to eight other clients.)

E stands for Exercise. There’s a staggering amount of research showing the positive effects of exercise on mental health, from depression and anxiety to PTSD. It

also improves your sleep, which just makes everything better.

A stands for Avoid Mood Altering Drugs. This is a tough sell for a lot of people. One important thing to remember is that it’s a not a moral judgment. It’s just that there’s no such thing as a high without the low that eventually comes on its heels, and being in that low tends to leave us more susceptible to dark moods and thoughts.

S stands for Sleep. If you’re only sleeping 5 or 6 hours a night, this will brutalize you. I’ve lived as a monk, meditated for eleven years, and logged countless hours of my own therapy. Even after all that, if I get three bad sleeps in a row, shit in my mind gets real nasty.

E stands for Eating a Balanced Diet.

No need to do an intense paleo/ keto/intermittent fasting thing here.

The important thing is to make sure you’re eating regularly and getting a good mix of nutrients in you. If not, you’re way more likely to feel overwhelmed.

With the ABC PLEASE skills, you’ve got an awesome little checklist to make sure you’re doing everything you can to avoid being pushed over the edge by a minor stressor.

It’s where I start with almost everyone in therapy, so save yourself some money by getting this stuff straightened out before you end up on a therapist’s couch!

John Roche is a therapist in Kitchener Waterloo.

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ARTS & CULTURE EVENT LISTINGS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7-8 HOLD THE LINE FERTILE GROUND FARM

Does cycling to the tune of local music whilst balancing craft beverages intrigue you? Does the smell of pancake batter make your mouth water? Join the Region of Waterloo’s Countryside Line in celebrating the ongoing protection of our rural lands from the pressures of urban sprawl.

Festival • $20-30 • 5pm

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 WAFFLES IN THE WAREHOUSE FOOD BANK OF WR

This event raises awareness about food assistance in the Waterloo Region, addresses misconceptions surrounding food insecurity and inspires our community to make a positive impact. All proceeds will go to support The Food Bank of Waterloo, which is a local organization dedicated to combating local hunger.

Fundraiser • $75 • 7:15am - 10pm

CLASSIC SIMPSONS TRIVIA THE JAZZ ROOM

If you think you’re truly SMRT, you went to Gudger College, or you can outsmart carnival folk, then this trivia is for you. Nothing could possibli go wrong! I GUESS that wraps everything up into a neat little package. Bottom line, you should go. Questions will be from Seasons 1-11.

Trivia • $3 • 7pm

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 DOORS OPEN VARIOUS LOCATIONS

Doors Open is back for another year! This year’s theme is: Patterns and Plans. Discover the secret places of Waterloo Region by going into the buildings you’ve always wanted to investigate! Check out their site for a full map!

Community • Free • 10am - 5pm

BELMONT VILLAGE BESTIVAL BELMONT VILLAGE

Strut the streets with your best walking boots as you bop to the sights and sounds in Belmont Village. They promise even more arts and music than in previous years and if their name is any indication of the evenings activities, it should be a b’excellent time.

Festival • Free • 10am - 8pm

TRUE NORTH BEER FESTIVAL LOT42

If lawn games, sunshine and a chef’s bar intrigue you, then this is the event for you! Sample more than 80 rare beers, cider and Prosecco from all four corners of the province. Don’t partake in the act of consuming alcohol? Designated drivers are free!

Festival • $0-70 • 2pm - 1am • 19+

TANGO TEA AND 1910’S DANCE FASHION HISTORY MUSEUM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 KW HEALTH EXPO KITCHENER AUDITORIUM

Wipe down your yoga mat, slice your celery sticks and jog over to the KW Aud for the largest health and wellness consumer show in WR. There will be 80+ vendors with related products, services and workshops.

Health • $5-15 • 10am - 5pm

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 GEMSTONE BRACELET WORKSHOP MOONSHINE JUICERY

Join Moonshine Juicery and uncover your archetype as you discuss ways in which it can aid in your selfcare routine. At this event, you’ll also learn how to create your own gemstone bracelet with their large selection of crystals, gemstones and filler beads.

Workshop • $40 • 7pm - 9pm

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 BROOKLYN NINE-NINE TRIVIA CHAINSAW

Join TCE in celebrating all things B99! Do you know how to interpret Gina’s dance moves? How about the correct pronunciation of Nikolaj’s name? Noice! Assemble your perfect team and practice your No Look High Fives. See you there. Winky face.

Trivia • $5 • 7pm - 9pm

SURPRISE MOVIE NIGHT DUO PRINCESS CINEMAS

Proceeds from this fun surprise will go towards supporting the KW Counselling Services, Trusting Loving Connections (TLC) program for children and families who have experienced trauma. The second showing takes place on Sept. 27th.

Fundraiser • $30-50 • 7pm-9:30pm

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 HOPE FEST MAXWELL’S CONCERTS AND EVENTS

Help keep the KW punk scene alive by heading over to Hope Fest! Three stages, punk-rock karaoke and a flea market all tucked into one event.

So, grab your weathered jean jacket and prepare yourself for the mosh pits you always knew you needed.

Music • $25 • 3pm

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 MONDAY BLOODY MONDAY APOLLO CINEMA

Join Apollo’s back to school edition of the classic slasher, Scream! Watch as Dir. Wes Craven seamlessly blends tension and selfparody in middle-class suburbia.

Movie • $5 • 7PM - 9PM

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 KOMBUCHA BREWING REFIND STUDIO

Enjoy high tea while participating in dance and recitations or while watching silent films. Beware! Some suffragettes might crash the party.

All tickets include free admission to the Fashion History Museum for the day.

Does a combination of symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast added to a sugar and tea mixture make your mouth water? Learn the art behind fermentation by joining reFIND Salvage at their beginners’ kombucha home-brewing workshop!

Dance • $50 • 10am - 5pm

Class • $35 • 6PM - 8PM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 HARVEST DINNER SWINE AND VINE

Wipe the summer sweat of your brow, the season of pumpkin pie and autumn food has arrived.

Head over to Swine&Vine for a five course feast of festive foods and the big Carl of wine glasses.

We suggest wearing pants with an elastic waistband with large pockets, and deep pockets, for the leftovers of course.

Food • $100 • 7pm - 10pm

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29 ETSY WR: MADE IN CANADA KITCHENER CITY HALL

Is counting down the days until your online shopping order arrives at your door emotionally draining?

We think so! Solve all your woes by shopping in person at the Etsy WR market instead. If simultaneous satisfaction doesn’t cut it, there will be food trucks and live music as a backdrop to your shopping. We also heard BRFC might be there. Hi Jon! Market • Free • 9am-4pm

LUMEN UPTOWN WATERLOO

If you’ve ever seen the movie Tangled, picture the lantern festival and run with it. The City of Waterloo is introducing this festival of light, art and technology, which will illuminate the urban spaces in an interactive and engaging way. Do it for the ‘gram!

Festival • Free • 6pm - 11pm

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 KW COLLECTIBLES EXPO BINGEMANS

Dust off your shelves and cash in your RRSP because this expo has 190 vendor tables lined up. Comic books, vinyl records, pop vinyls, lego, action figures, sport cards, coins, vintage board games and more. Call the doctor! My knees have officially weakened.

Expo • $5 • 10am - 3pm

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 OUR FARM NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET KW HABILITATION

As a part of KW’s #lovemyhood initiative, KW Habilitation is hosting a neighborhood market every Wednesday! Indulge baked goods, locally grown produce, homemade crafts and artwork. Who doesn’t enjoy a locally sprouted tomato!

Market • Free • 11:30pm - 3:30pm

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 RETROBERFEST BINGEMANS

The time of public urination citations and feathered alpine hats is upon us! Join Virgin Radio and KFUN as they press play on the classics and entertain Beyonce song requests all evening in the Kool Kaus. Pro Tip: Do not wear white shoes and always watch your drinks!

Oktoberfest • $15 • 7pm - 1am

CRAFTOBERFEST KITCHENER MARKET

It’s the kickoff night for this twoday event, and all we can tell you right now is that we’ll see you there.

Oktoberfest • $30 • 7pm - 12am

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