Congratulations, Brenda!
2Serve is a non profit organization that does outreach projects for the community of Waterloo Region. They have seasonal and ongoing projects feeding and assisting people in need. Please consider checking out and contributing to her good work at 2Serve.
Congratulations to Grace at gracefulbricks.wordpress.com who is January’s winner! She’s planning a great event to showcase many international and local Lego artists such as herself and create more knowledge and dialogue around mental health. Good luck Grace, we look forward to attending what will surely be an awesome event!
From its humble beginnings in 1964 CKMS has gone through many ups and downs, but has always provided an important voice for the community. They are this month’s deserving winner of our KW Awesome Foundation grant. Set your dial to 102.7 FM to listen to an awesome and diverse line up of shows! Congratulations and thanks for making KW awesome! http://radiowaterloo.ca/listen/
Congratulations to this month’s winner, Devon and KW Library of Things! Check out their progress at KW Library of Things.
The Region of Waterloo has a country side boundary line (see map: http://www.
To protect the country side boundary line it is important to embed it in the culture of our community by building awareness of both the existence of the boundary line, and its significance for the sustainable development of Waterloo Region. So let’s have a party that celebrates the boundary line and all that it gives us!
This summer, we will be hosting Waterloo City Limits, a bike and folk music festival just past the St. Jacobs Farmer’s Market at the Waterloo Rod & Gun Club.
Here’s how it will work:
Cycling: The circumference of the boundary line is approximately 120km. The day will start with cyclists having a friendly & fun ride that (as much as possible) follows the line.
Activities: Back at the Rod & Gun Club, bike tuneups will be offered, a course will be setup to teach safe biking skills to kids, and local sustainability & cycling groups will have booths for those looking to engage beyond this day.
Food: Super tasty locally-sourced food will be available.
Folk: Richard Garvey is a great local musician who has put on a small folk fest the last few years with other local artists. Richard will be hosting a local folk music fest at the Rod & Gun Club to welcome cyclists as they ride in and engage attendees who aren’t cycling.
Cyclists & attendees will be invited to donate a suggested amount, and food will be sold at accessible prices. Local craft beer will also be sold. Profits will seed a boundary line action fund to pay expenses of local NGOs if they need to defend the boundary line in future.
Founded in 2011, the KW Poetry Slam is a series of community-building spoken word poetry events in Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario. KWPS is an official slam community under Spoken Word Canada.
By bringing together diverse artists in Kitchener Waterloo, the KW Poetry Slam builds a strong arts community by hosting a series of spoken word poetry events in Kitchener and Waterloo. The regular season slam series sends a team to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.
This month’s KW Awesome Foundation $1000 grant is going to send the KW Slam Poetry Team to Winnipeg to participate at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word from October 23 -30th. Congratulations, you’re all awesome!
Homeless in Waterloo is a social project that provides an opportunity for our community to connect with people who are experiencing or who have experienced homelessness through their photos and stories.
By having this connection made online, it allows our community members to offer support at their own pace, on their own time, and at a level they are comfortable with.
There are so many organizations and groups in the Waterloo Region that provide the basic necessities for those experiencing homelessness and we greatly appreciate their tremendous efforts. We want to build on that strong foundation and provide people in our community with a genuine friendship and a sense of belonging.
The stories we share are only the beginning of our journey with them and along the way, we grow to become their friends and do our very best to help them achieve their goals – whether that be filling the fridge with groceries, learning how to use a computer, or sleeping on a new mattress.
To better help individuals achieve their goals, we’ve created the Homeless in Waterloo Network. The purpose of this network is to encourage open discussion on homelessness, provide a medium for anyone to share new ideas for our project, but more importantly, pool our community’s resources to help those who are in need.
We are a Kitchener-Waterloo arts collective working in all thing DIY, independent and weird. Founded in January 2016. We aim to promote music and art through events, live shows and resource sharing. Safety, inclusivity and open dialogue are prioritized in all that we do. We have been collaborating with countless individuals, artists, spaces and organizations within the city and have continued to gain more and more support from our community. This money will be one more step in making a thriving, radical arts community.
Our most recent Pitch Night at The Boathouse saw seven excellent groups pitching many compelling projects! This was certainly a tough decision!
The winner of the $1,000 grant was the Outdoor Classroom & School Yard Greening project, from Centennial Public School in Cambridge:
This group is building an outdoor classroom space and nature-based playground for use by their students and the local community at large. They plan to create a natural area, pathways and additions for art, exploration, and nature study to complement their outdoor learning curriculum.
This KW Awesome grant is funding a specific portion of the playground/sensory areas: art panels, texture-play sand area, pathways (for running!) and a bridge. They’re also hoping to add a log climbing structure that will promote gross motor skills and physical fitness (disguised as fun!).
Here are the other awesome projects from the evening:
A huge thanks goes out to all of our pitchers and the public that came out to see them! We’d also like to thank The Boathouse for hosting us and providing some much-needed audio support!
As always, if your group wasn’t selected this time around, please feel free to come back and pitch again! Our next pitch night is Tuesday May 26th. If you have a project or idea and want to pitch, please review our Application Guidelines! Deadline for applications is May 15th.
The KW Awesome Foundation is operated and funded by volunteers – If you’d like to help make awesome things happen in Waterloo Region, please consider becoming a trustee!
I want to tile a wall.
It’s a dream that began from a page in a book with a picture of a wall
that Gaudi made
in the beautiful streets of Barcelona.
It’s a dream I found alive and well
and living in the heart of Isaiah Zagar
in the tough streets of south Philadelphia.
I want to tile a wall.
But I’m warning you now,
It will be beautiful.
My wall will be different than my mentor Isaiah’s.
My vision is Not just to encrust but to totally enhance.
And made from my hands!
(my head, my heart, my hands!)
And huge!
Bigger than I can imagine I can handle!
I want to tile a wall.
A wall, that when the sun shines, my bits of mirror reflect back at you
the brilliance of that day.
And maybe if you’re open to it, it will remind you
that you too can reflect light!
I want to tile a wall so that when it’s cold out,
you might look up and see it and it will warm you,
inside
like hot chocolate.
And you will pause
from what you were doing,
from where you were going
and you will wonder for a moment,
Who did that?
How’d they do that?
When did they do that?
But you won’t wonder why I did that.
You’ll know.
You’ll know, looking at that wall
that I was an artist and that that wall
was my dream
(and it came true.)
I want to tile a wall.
You can see all of Meg’s work at http://meglesliecreative.com/.
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