Downtown Kitchener is filled with artists, makers and movers ready to show you the innovative projects they're working on. Take a guided walk with the DTK Art Walk Field Guide or head to a show hosted by our creative partners. There are classes, exhibits, tours, and so much more all year long.
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Here's what you can see right now:
Murdoch Mysteries: The Exhibition, transports you behind the scenes of this internationally acclaimed show. Step behind the camera and immerse yourself in the fascinating history, science, and fashion of the series. Explore what it takes to bring the world of Murdoch Mysteries to life through beautiful costumes, steampunk-style inventions, authentic set recreations, and entertaining interactive experiences.
History buffs and Murdochians alike will enjoy this one-of-a-kind experience!
For more information and other exhibits check out THEMUSEUM.ca
In February 2020, an art party at 44 Gaukel Creative Workspace featured a blind collaboration experiment involving four local artists. Each had a set of black ink materials, one white illustration board and a few hours to eke out something weird in their own style. Their assembled exquisite corpse was magnificent!
From this experiment, The Beasting has come to life. A roster of two dozen artists have been invited to 44 Gaukel to each create one of four beast sections using limited materials and a few hours. Their creations have since been revealed! Check them out online at thebeasting.ca or book an in-person visit through Eventbrite.
Stroll Walking Tours connects you to places, spaces, people and stories that will shift your perspectives on the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo. You just might find them more interesting than you thought or remembered.
Stroll offers curated, small group walking tours led by local guides who live in the neighbourhoods where we love to walk & talk. Each guides leads the walking tour they lovingly researched & developed so you always get the best guide for the walk you’re on – no one is reciting a memorized script! We showcase lesser-known stories and promote the connection between history and our cities today.
DTK Art Walk
DTK has always been the cultural heart of Waterloo Region. The series of oversized outdoor artworks curated by Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in partnership with the Downtown Kitchener BIA during summer 2020 are a great reason to explore public art downtown again. Choose your own adventure at your own pace at the region’s largest outdoor gallery, featuring 50+ murals, sculptures and other installations that beautify DTK’s parks, streets and laneways.Download A Digital Field Guide to DTK's Art Walk
Sign up for an immersive walking tour experience with Stroll Walking Tours - Street art, often hidden in plain sight, brings joy, surprise and reflection in a brick and concrete streetscape. On this mural walking tour, we’ll find the oldest and the newest murals, the smallest and the biggest, along with the most subdued and ‘brighten-your-day-colourful’ murals in the downtown Kitchener core.
We’ll visit murals created by local and international artists. You will quickly find your favourites!
Experience Arts & Culture
Downtown Kitchener is home to some of Ontario's most renowned arts and cultural organizations. Experience arts, culture and DTK's creative community by exploring the following spaces and organizations.
| 44 Gaukel Creative Workspace |
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A post office reimagined as a facility to grow and connect local artists, cultural practitioners and entrepreneurs, 44G is DTK’s emerging creative industries hub. This talented, multidisciplinary community is supported by a unique partnership between the City of Kitchener, ArtsBuild Ontario, an organization dedicated to realizing long-term solutions for arts and creative spaces and the Accelerator Centre, a technology incubator dedicated to building and scaling globally-competitive technology.
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| Centre in the Square |
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The region’s largest and busiest performing arts centre. It's acknowledged as a technically state-of-the-art theatre making it acoustically superior and widely regarded as one of the finest performance spaces in North America.
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| Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts |
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The Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts is a vibrant and dynamic cultural space, and home to The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
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| Kitchener Public Library |
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Besides functioning as the community library for Downtown Kitchener, KPL Central Library also has numerous specialized collections and services including a theatre, bookable meeting spaces, an extensive public art collection, 3D printing, a state-of-the-art audio and digital media production lab and so much more.
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| Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery |
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Waterloo Region's leading public art gallery, connecting people and ideas through art, with a focus on the best of contemporary culture. For the benefit of current and future generations, the Gallery collects, preserves, researches, interprets, and exhibits the visual arts and offers dynamic public programming relating to the visual arts, all with a view to inspire creativity and an appreciation of the visual arts in the Region.
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| Pat the Dog Theatre Creation |
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A catalyst for new play creation, Pat the Dog Theatre Creation is nationally recognized as a leader in the cultivation and promotion of regional Ontario theatre.
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| Registry Theatre |
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This theatre provides an affordable venue for community groups and individuals, as well as fulfilling the role of an arts incubator where new and experimental shows can be presented. Professional shows of all types are frequently presented, and the small theatre auditorium makes The Registry the perfect studio setting for the taping of film and television productions.
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| Schneider Haus |
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A local landmark and one of Kitchener's oldest dwellings, the 1816 homestead was restored and furnished, then opened as a living history museum in 1981. The heart of the complex is a fine Georgian-frame farmhouse that was built by and was home to the area's earliest non-Aboriginal settlers, Joseph and wife Barbara Schneider, Pennsylvania-German Mennonites.
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Green Light Arts |
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Founded in 2014 by Matt White and Carin Lowerison, Green Light Arts is a producing theatre company based in Waterloo Region. We deliver well-crafted, provocative theatrical projects and pairs artistic programming with purposeful outreach events to deepen community conversations about the ideas we put on stage. Through rigorous professional practice we uphold and further the artform of theatre. Through the artform of theatre, we enrich the social fabric of our community.
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