Thank you for a wonderful evening!

The 2023 Arts Awards of Waterloo Region took place at THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener, ON on November 16, 2023.

We welcomed artists and community members from across the KW Region to celebrate our nominees and our arts community on a whole.

We had the pleasure of having a comedy performance from Aashay Dalvi.

Later we were honoured to have Emerging Artist nominees Sushila Goyal Group perform a traditional Indian Rajasthani dance that took us through the life in the province.

As our night began to approach its end we welcomed local musicians Sam and Adrian of the band Slow Sky to perform an acoustic set.

We concluded the evening by presenting the Lifetime Achievement award to Shirley Madill, who could not be there as her busy life as the KWAG director pulled her to another event for the evening.

All photos were taken by Bangishimo Johnston

You can view all the winners from the 2023 Arts Awards on the Award Winners Profiles page. You can see more images from the evening in the 2023 Arts Awards gallery.

Our Sponsors

We are especially appreciative of those organizations that have contributed to Arts Awards Waterloo Region. Our sponsors this year are: The Cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Explore Waterloo Region and Apollo Cinema.

If you would like to sponsor the Arts Awards this year please contact us at artsawardswr@gmail.com