Arts & Culture
Kitchener has a high concentration of arts and cultural services for a diverse population. Below you will discover what Kitchener has to offer. For more information on happenings in Kitchener and Mid-Western Ontario see the VISITOR web site.

City of Kitchener Rotunda Gallery Exhibition Program
The Rotunda Gallery is a public exhibition space at City Hall featuring 12 monthly shows of art work by contemporary artists.  Open seven days a week, the ground floor gallery is known throughout the region for its innovative exhibits of photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, prints and mixed media. The city advertises an annual call for entry and each fall, an independent selection committee chooses the artists for the following year.

City of Kitchener Artist-in-Residence Program 
Since 1995, the artist-in-residence program has provided an opportunity for the region’s professional visual artists to design and operate special programs. Key elements of the selected artists programs have been activities or events based on promoting community outreach and professional development. The City supports the artist-in-residence through an honorarium and the provision of marketing.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Awards
The Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Awards recognize and honour artists who have made outstanding contributions to their art and to the cultural life of Waterloo Region. Each year, nominations are solicited from the general public to honour both professional and amateur artists. Nominations are accepted in the categories of: Literary, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Open, Leading Edge (under 25 years old), Lifetime and Corporate Supporters. A yearly gala celebration recognizes the celebrants. 

Centre in the Square
Acoustically one of the finest in the country, the Centre in the Square provides a first class concert hall and is home to the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra. The classics are only part of the appeal. A community as diverse as ours demands and receives every conceivable kind of entertainment.

K-W Art Gallery
Attached to the Centre in the Square, the K-W Art Gallery rounds out the cultural centre of town - and for most towns, that may be enough. But here, it's just the first stop on a route to many different galleries in the area.

The Homer Watson House and Gallery
The homestead of Homer Watson, Canada's first noted landscape artist (1855 -1936). Along with the permanent display of his works, the Gallery also shows works of local, regional and Canadian artists.

Other arts & culture groups and notable attractions

Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery J.M. Drama King Street Theatre Centre Kitchener Musical Society Band Kitchener-Waterloo Community Orchestra Kitchener Waterloo Opera KW Chamber Orchestra KW Little Theatre Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound Theatre on the Edge Twin City Harmonizers Waterloo Regional Children's Museum Waterloo Community Arts Centre Waterloo Regional Arts Council Wings of Paradise Butterfly Conservatory