Waterloo Region Museum

She Shoots – She Scores!

Start Date Thursday February 9, 2012

End Date Sunday April 29, 2012

Waterloo Region Museum highlights the Preston Rivulettes, a women's hockey team from the 1930s, in the Waterloo Region Hall of Fame gallery. Presented in conjunction with the ARENA | The Hockey Exhibition at THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener.

Workshop: Helping Houseplants Thrive

Start Date Saturday February 25, 2012

End Date Saturday February 25, 2012

9:30 a.m. to noon   View full schedule of 2012 WRM Workshops

Are you having trouble keeping your houseplants healthy?  Learn how to repot plants, take cuttings, fertilize and clean plants under the instruction of Bob Wildfong, Doon Heritage Village's Heritage Gardener.  Advance registration $10 per person plus HST. Member's discount applies. Capacity is limited.

Workshop: Baking Bread

Start Date Saturday February 25, 2012

End Date Saturday February 25, 2012

9:30 a.m. to noon   View full schedule of 2012 WRM Workshops

Join workshop leader Amy Bradley as she has participants making and baking three different types of bread.  Participants will learn how to read and use an historic recipe for one of the breads and will use modern recipes for the other two.

Admission is $20 plus HST. Member's discount applies. Capacity is limited.

Pre-registration is required.

Note - this workshop is rescheduled from February 11.

TALKS Series

Start Date Monday February 27, 2012

End Date Monday February 27, 2012

1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Madelaine Morrison: 'The Sweetest Sounds: The Musical Lives of Southwestern Ontario 1870-1920'

The TALKS Series is a speaker series for active and mature minds.

From player pianos to brass bands, from church choirs to symphony orchestras, Ms. Morrison a Phd student at Carleton University, will be exploring the rich musical lives of the late Victorians and Edwardians.  This toe-tapping talk uses audio clips, sheet music, newspapers, and family letters to evoke the aural landscape of long ago.  In addition, Ms. Morrison will be exploring music's links to wider themes such as gender, class, technology, and Canadian nation-building.

Full Series Pass is $40 plus HST.  Single ticket price is $8 plus HST.  Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Ignite Waterloo 8

Start Date Tuesday February 28, 2012

End Date Tuesday February 28, 2012

Doors open at 6:30 p.m and presentations begin at 7:30 p.m.

For more information and to purchase tickets contact Ignite Waterloo at http://www.ignitewaterloo.ca

Ignite Waterloo will be providing a FREE Grand River Transit bus to and from Waterloo Region Museum. Here are the details:

- 6:00pm - Depart from Waterloo Town Square (iExpress stop).

- 6:20pm - Depart from Joseph St. at Linden Avenue to the Waterloo Region Museum.

- 10:45pm - Depart from Waterloo Regional Museum, returning to Joseph Street at Linden Avenue and Waterloo Town Square (iExpress stop).

Workshop: Growing Seedlings Indoors

Start Date Saturday March 3, 2012

End Date Saturday March 3, 2012

9:30 a.m. to noon   View full schedule of 2012 WRM Workshops

Back by popular demand! You will learn about seed germination, seed storage, soil, watering, lighting and tricks for keeping seedlings healthy and compact. Participants plant and take home a tray of heritage seeds/seedlings for their own garden and in the fall they can bring them back to enter their best produce in Doon Heritage Village's Fall Fair. Advance registration $10 per person plus HST. Member's discount applies. Capacity is limited.

Summer Day Camp Registration

Start Date Saturday March 3, 2012

End Date Saturday March 3, 2012

9:30  to 10 a.m.     Registration for Museum members only

10 a.m. to noon      Registration for Non-members

Adventures in Time Summer Day Camp Registration. During the Day Camp children and youth help do farm and household chores, assist a tradesman with his work as an apprentice, play 1914 games, go fishing by the covered bridge and attend a picnic on the village green. Registration is taken in person only, with full payment, on a first come, first serve basis. Space is limited. MasterCard, Visa, Interac, cash and cheques accepted. No cancellations or refunds.

TALKS Series

Start Date Monday March 5, 2012

End Date Monday March 5, 2012

1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Mark Yantzi: 'Restorative Justice Movement in Canada'

The TALKS Series is a speaker series for active and mature minds.

Mark Yantzi, one of the founders of the modern restorative justice movement in Canada, will speak about the origins of the restorative justice movement. The discussion looks at what makes it innovative in the justice system and what effects it has had regarding the way that we deal with crime and punishment. Mr. Yantzi will discuss how the movement has spread to other countries and how it is practiced in those places. 

Series Pass is $40 plus HST.  Single ticket price is $8 plus HST.  Tickets must be purchased in advance.

March Break Madness

Start Date Saturday March 10, 2012

End Date Sunday March 18, 2012

Monday through Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Fun activities and demonstrations to keep the family engaged during March break. From steam engines, to storytelling, to games that even mom and dad will enjoy, join us for great family fun!

Storytelling for children by the Baden Storytelling Guild (storytelling sessions approximately 20 minutes in duration) - Schedule:

- March 12, Mary McCullum Baldasaro, 1 p.m. & 1:40 p.m.

- March 13, Derek Brisland, 10:30 a.m. & 11:30 a.m.

- March 15, Diane Halpin, 1 p.m., 1:40 p.m. & 2:20 p.m. 
             
- March 16, Sarah Granskou, 1 p.m. & 2 p.m.                                 

Note Doon Heritage Village is closed. Regular admission rates apply.

TALKS Series

Start Date Monday March 12, 2012

End Date Monday March 12, 2012

1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Susan Mavor: 'Westmount - The Tie that Binds the Twin Cities, An Illustrated History of Westmount's 100 Years'

The TALKS Series is a speaker series for active and mature minds.

The Westmount neighbourhood in Kitchener-Waterloo celebrates 100 years  of history in 2012. This talk will outline  that history as well as  survey the many  archival resources, including   diaries, letters and photographs, that went into the production of Mavor's book.

Full Series Pass is $40 plus HST.  Single ticket price is $8 plus HST.  Tickets must be purchased in advance.

TALKS Series

Start Date Monday March 19, 2012

End Date Monday March 19, 2012

1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

John Stephenson: 'Evolution of Bridge Design in Waterloo Region'

The TALKS Series is a speaker series for active and mature minds.

The evolution of bridge design (efficiencies in labour and materials, performance, life spans, aesthetics, utility). Bridge designers (lineage of local bridges). Bridges as landmarks and artefacts (symbols of their time). The Region's local bridges (stone arch, truss, concrete bowstring, Hwy 85 Bridge, etc.) will be highlighted in the talk. Series Pass is $40 plus HST.  Single ticket price is $8 plus HST.  Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Series Pass is $40 plus HST.  Single ticket price is $8 plus HST.  Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Storytelling Series

Start Date Tuesday March 20, 2012

End Date Tuesday March 20, 2012

7:30 p.m.    View Storytelling Series poster.

Storyteller: Evalyn Parry - Spin

Evalyn Parry's SPIN blends words and music in a unique tribute to the bicycle as muse and agent of social  change. From 19th century cycling heroines to the quest for the Northwest Passage, Evalyn's outspoken creations hold out a powerful vision of social and personal change, while her irreverent wit holds nothing sacred.

On Sale Now! Purchase tickets at 519-748-1914.
$15 Advance Tickets, $18 At Door, $75 Series Subscription (all six performances). Call during normal administrative operating hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) from Monday to Friday. Pricing does not include HST.

World Storytelling Day

Start Date Sunday March 25, 2012

End Date Sunday March 25, 2012

2 to 4 p.m.

World Storytelling Day: Voices in the Trees. Original and traditional stories told by The Storyteller's Guild from The Story Barn in Baden will explore this year's theme of Trees. Be prepared for any kind of trees: family trees, ghost trees, trees that give life and some that take it away.

The $10 ticket price will be donated to StorySave, a program of Storytellers of Canada-Conteurs du Canada which records the voices of Canadian storytelling elders and makes these living legacies available world-wide on CD. Advanced ticket $10/person, adults and children over 12. For tickets: email maryeileen@thestorybarn.ca

TALKS Series

Start Date Monday March 26, 2012

End Date Monday March 26, 2012

1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Cynthia Commachio: 'Dancing to Perdition: Inventing the Teenager, 1920s to 1950s'

The TALKS Series is a speaker series for active and mature minds.

Ms. Commachio explores the notion that "teenagers" are a modern invention, emerging out of the social upheaval that followed the Great War, itself a "coming of age" experience for the young Dominion of Canada. As Canadians strove to make sense of the changes brought about by modernity and become a successful modern nation, they focused their worries on "the problem of modern youth". As future adult citizens, the young had to be saved from "dancing to perdition" in order to shape a new and improved modern Canada. From the 1920s through the 1950s, as popular culture became ever more a youth culture, the "teenager" was invented. 

Full Series Pass is $40 plus HST.  Single ticket price is $8 plus HST. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

TALKS Series

Start Date Monday April 2, 2012

End Date Monday April 2, 2012

1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

rych mills: Nazism in Kitchener - A Canadian Comedy or Terror Avoided?

The TALKS Series is a speaker series for active and mature minds.

In a city within a county that had boasted of its German-ness until August 1914, it might have seemed to some people on both sides of the Atlantic that Fascism and or Nazism could find fertile ground in the 1930s.  Well known local historian looks at just what did happen when various attempts to begin Nazi-sympathizing organizations sprang up in Kitchener? An early episode with comic overtones gave way to potentially dangerous forces financed by Nazi Germany. Did either find acceptance in Kitchener's German community?

Full Series Pass is $40 plus HST.  Single ticket price is $8 plus HST.  Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Friends of WRM Annual Meeting

Start Date Wednesday April 4, 2012

End Date Wednesday April 4, 2012

Established in 1956 as the Ontario Pioneer Community Foundation, the Friends of the Waterloo Region Museum will host their 56^th Annual General Meeting, reviewing their activities in 2011 and plans for 2012 in support of the new Waterloo Region Museum and Doon Heritage Village. The Friends represent the hundreds of volunteers who annually contribute their enthusiasm, time and expertise to all aspects of the Waterloo Regions Museum's operation.  Everyone welcome.

Easter Sunrise Service

Start Date Sunday April 8, 2012

End Date Sunday April 8, 2012

Service starts at 7 a.m.

A glorious Easter morning sun cascades through the windows of the historic Freeport United Brethren Church at Doon Heritage Village as the 48^th annual Easter Sunrise Service begins.  The service is sponsored by the Cambridge Christian Business Men's Committee.  Light refreshments served following the service.  A voluntary offering will be collected.

Pruning Trees and Shrubs Workshop

Start Date Saturday April 14, 2012

End Date Saturday April 14, 2012

9:30 a.m. to noon   View full schedule of 2012 WRM Workshops

Learn the principles and methods of basic tree and shrub pruning in this hands-on workshop. Under the instruction of Bob Wildfong, Doon Heritage Village's Heritage Gardener, you will prune young trees, shrubs and vines. Learn how to shape and train woody plants, repair damaged branches, revitalize thin growth, and stimulate foliage, flower and fruit development.  Advance registration $10 per person plus HST. Member's discount applies. Capacity is limited

PD Day at the Waterloo Region Museum

Start Date Friday April 20, 2012

End Date Friday April 20, 2012

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

Explore the exhibits in the Waterloo Region Museum, as schools in Waterloo Region District School Board are closed today.  Hands-on historical games and activities.  Note Doon Heritage Village is closed.  Regular admission rates apply.

Environmental Leadership Camp

Start Date Friday April 20, 2012

End Date Saturday April 21, 2012

A fun-filled overnight camp for students in Grades 9 through 12. If you are interested in learning about protecting our water resources, want to enhance your leadership skills, or if you are thinking  about a post-secondary education in the environment then this camp is for you.  Drop off at 4 p.m. on Friday (with all permission forms); departure at 4:30 p.m. Saturday.  All meals provided (dinner, breakfast and lunch).  Organized by the Children's Water Education Council and generously funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.  Free admission for high school students.  Register on-line at www.cwec.ca.

Waterloo Region Hall of Fame Induction

Start Date Sunday April 29, 2012

End Date Sunday April 29, 2012

2 p.m.

Join the citizens of Waterloo Region as they pay tribute to individuals and groups in recognition of their accomplishments and outstanding contributions to this community.  Light refreshments follow the ceremony.

Season Opening of Doon Heritage Village

Start Date Tuesday May 1, 2012

End Date Tuesday May 1, 2012

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

The 1914 village features more farm animals and lots of daily hands-on activities for everyone.  Watch for new and exciting programs throughout the season.  Regular admission rates apply. 

Waterloo Region Heritage Fair

Start Date Thursday May 3, 2012

End Date Friday May 4, 2012

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

The Waterloo Region Museum in collaboration with the Heritage Fairs Association and the local school boards will be hosting students from schools across Waterloo Region as they exhibit their heritage fair projects. The Heritage Fairs Program is a multi-media learning initiative developed to increase interest in Canadian History and is built into and integrated across the education curriculum. 

Public viewing of exhibits is May 3^rd in the evening 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and judging of exhibits is May 4^th during Museum open hours.

DIG IN with The Food Bank of Waterloo Region

Start Date Saturday May 5, 2012

End Date Saturday May 5, 2012

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

FREE admission to Doon Heritage Village and the Waterloo Region Museum with a non-perishable food donation to The Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

Preparing to Garden Workshop

Start Date Saturday May 12, 2012

End Date Saturday May 12, 2012

9:30 a.m. to noon

The novice gardener will learn all there is to know about starting a garden. This workshop will provide a hands-on overview of soil preparation, essential tools, watering, fertilizing and preventing weeds. Participants will sow early seeds and learn how to care for tender seedlings during the last weeks of cold spring weather. Transplanting and arranging perennial flowers is a highlight of the workshop. Participants will take home a selection of potted perennials to transplant into their own gardens.  Advance registration $10 per person plus HST. Member's discount applies. Capacity is limited.

International Museum Day at the Waterloo Region Museum

Start Date Friday May 18, 2012

End Date Friday May 18, 2012

7 to 9:30 p.m.

Celebrate the 35^th annual International Museum Day at the Waterloo Region Museum.  International Museum Day encourages visitors to wonder about the role of museums in society, in the era of new media, and to discover and rediscover how museums are looking to the future in terms of sustainable development.  Gallery tours, special lectures, musical entertainment and cash bar. 

Regular Admission.

Heritage Plant Sale

Start Date Saturday May 19, 2012

End Date Saturday May 19, 2012

9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. - or while plant supply lasts

Friends of Waterloo Region Museum hold their 17^th Annual Heritage Plant Sale. A selection of the flower and vegetable varieties that can be found in the village's heritage gardens will be available for purchase while supplies last. 

FREE admission to Plant Sale

Waterloo Wellington Children’s Groundwater Festival

Start Date Monday May 28, 2012

End Date Friday June 1, 2012

9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Hosted by the Waterloo Region Museum, the 17^th Waterloo Wellington Children's Groundwater Festival is a week-long event featuring interactive activities, demonstrations and displays which challenge students of all ages to consider the source and importance of water in our lives. More than 4,000 school children will take part in the Festival.  Teachers please register by calling 519-748-1914.  Special admission rates apply to school groups taking part in the Festival. Regular admission rates for the general public.

Ecofest

Start Date Saturday June 2, 2012

End Date Saturday June 2, 2012

9:30 am to 5 p.m.

Reduce your footprint one step at a time at the 5^th annual Ecofest - a fun and interactive event celebrating the environment and sharing simple environmentally friendly lifestyle choices.  Learn how a few simple changes in your day to day living can reduce your environmental footprint.  A showcase for community and municipal initiatives, and products and services related to air and water quality, healthy lifestyle choices, energy efficiency, waste reduction, locally grown food and sustainable transportation.  In collaboration with many local partners, this event is especially designed for families and children.  FREE admission compliments of the Region of Waterloo.

Ontario Artist Blacksmith Association – ‘Hammer In’

Start Date Sunday June 3, 2012

End Date Sunday June 3, 2012

9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The Ontario Artist Blacksmith Association (OABA), who promote both the traditional and modern trade of blacksmithing, will be at the Museum for their monthly 'hammer in'. Watch as members demonstrate their skills and talent creating art with the tools of their trade. Demonstrations will be on-going throughout the day. Included with general admission: $10 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students, $5 Children, Children four and under FREE, $25 Family, all admissions plus HST.

Ontario Historical Society 2012 Conference

Start Date Friday June 8, 2012

End Date Saturday June 9, 2012

Mark Your Calendars! The Ontario Historical Society, in partnership with the Waterloo Historical Society and Waterloo Region Museum, is pleased to announce its 2012 Conference and Honours and Awards Ceremony in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Waterloo Historical Society and the inaugural season of Waterloo Region Museum.

More information to follow!

Seniors’ Day

Start Date Wednesday June 13, 2012

End Date Wednesday June 13, 2012

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

Waterloo Region Museum is throwing a party for seniors.  Anyone who is 55 years of age and older is invited to come to Doon Heritage Village on this day to celebrate a day especially for seniors.  Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with a visit to the turn of the century village. Enjoy some delicious strawberry short cake for sale, garden tours, musical entertainment and a sing-a-long in the Church. Admission is FREE for those 55 years of age and older.

Canada Day at the Waterloo Region Museum

Start Date Sunday July 1, 2012

End Date Sunday July 1, 2012

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

Waterloo Region Museum is throwing a party to celebrate Canada Day and everyone is welcome to attend. Admission is FREE to the museum and the living history village for this fun family event including musical entertainment, fun games like croquet and horseshoes.  Guests bring your own picnic lunch or purchase a tasty BBQ lunch.  Admission is FREE.