Arts events
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 KW Mac & Cheese Festival, featuring 10 restaurants and 10 craft breweries; ticket includes samples from each vendor, plus you get to vote for your favourite restaurant and brewery; check out the exhibitions and music from the John McKinley Band; visit www.themuseum.ca/exhibition/2017-kw-mac-andcheese-festival for list of participating vendors; 19-plus event; tickets are non-refundable, $29.99, 7 p.m., Themuseum, 10 King St. W., Kitchener
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Knits, Mitts and Warm Winter Clothing, warm during the winter season; bring your project along and join our knitting circle from 1 to 4 p.m.; open Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 1 to 5 p.m., $6, $5 senior/student, $4 children, $15 family plus HST, Joseph Schneider Haus, 466 Queen St. S., Kitchener, 519-742-7752
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Free February Films, KWAG is screening a selection of our favourite
art, all inspired by works in the gallery’s Permanent Collection or the impulse to
free, 2 p.m., Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 101 Queen St. N., Kitchener, 519-579-5860 ext. 100
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Movie Matinées, join us for some classic action and adventure movies on
your own snacks, sit back and enjoy a movie on our big screen; call for upcoming movie listings, $2, 1 p.m., Rockway Centre, 1405 King St. E., Kitchener, 519-741-2507
THURSDAY, MARCH 2 Laurier Free Film Series: “Tracking Shots #3: Aboriginal Cinema”; this series features an eclectic mix of Screenings will be held in Room 102 on www.wlu.ca/news/news-releases/2017/
tracking-shots-3.html, free, 7 p.m., Wilfrid Laurier University, Bricker Academic Building, 75 University Ave. W., Waterloo
SATURDAY, MARCH 4 Surviving Until Spring, see what skills early pioneer settlers used to get through the winter; Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 1 to 5 p.m., $6, $5 senior/student, $4 children, $15 family plus HST, Joseph Schneider Haus, 466 Queen St. S., Kitchener, 519-742-7752 The Indie Film Project, an indepen- Saturday of each month, free, 1 p.m., Idea Exchange | Queen’s Square Library, 1 North Sq., Cambridge, 519-621-0460, ideaexchange.org/programs/event/indie-
SUNDAY, MARCH 5 Alma Optimist Toy Show and Sale, sponsored by the Alma Optimist Club; display table at $5; sale table $20 and additional sale table $10, $3; children 12 and under free, 10 a.m., Alma Community Centre, 0051 Simpson St. E., Alma, 519-843-1055
THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Cineseries, $12.50; $8 child (14 and under), 7:30 p.m., Galaxy Cinemas, 355 Hespeler Rd., Cambridge, 519-621-0460, ideaexchange.org/programs/event/cineseriesi-daniel-blake