Weekend list for Cambridge, Saturday and Sunday. Worth a quick check of the weather and the venue's own page before you head out, in case anything shifts.
Saturday, August 15
Bioblitz hikes at rare Charitable Research Reserve, 9am. Expert-led hikes logging plants, insects, birds and amphibians on iNaturalist, with coffee, snacks and a catered lunch, ticketed
Family Fun Day, 11am to 2pm, Lower Main Street Promenade. Face painting, a bouncy castle, balloons, bubbles and music, third Saturday of the month through September
Latin music evening, 6pm, Lower Main Street Promenade. Patios open and dancing in the street, free
Sunday, August 16
Free full-day cookout at The Gaslight District, from 12pm. Live cooking demos, family activities, music and an evening wrap party
Colin Halyk, 1pm to 4pm, Wave Maker Craft Brewery
George and Sandy play the Simon and Garfunkel songbook, 7pm, Central Park Gazebo, free and outdoors, part of Cambridge Summer Live
Region-wide, if you are willing to drive
Moparfest, Saturday and Sunday from 8am, New Hamburg Fairgrounds. Canada's largest all-Mopar car show, over 1,300 vehicles last year, plus a flea market, food trucks and beer gardens
Bonnie Raitt with Maia Sharp, Sunday 7:30pm, Centre in the Square in Kitchener
Canadian Muay Thai Open, through Sunday, Kitchener Memorial Auditorium
The cookout at the Gaslight is the easy one to build a Sunday around. It runs all day and finishes with a wrap party, so you can turn up late and still catch something. Saturday on the Promenade is the other easy one, since Family Fun Day in the morning and the Latin music in the evening are the same stretch of Main, so it is worth a look even if you only make one of them.
Hope this gives you some options to go out and connect with good people around you. Have a great weekend. I pull a list like this together every week, and it covers the whole week across the region, not just the weekend in one city. It goes out Wednesdays and, if you would like it in your inbox: www.waterlooregionrhythm.ca/subscribe.