Clubs and Festhalls
Many celebrations in the festival take place in festhallen; these venues serve beer and traditional foods, and host traditional dancing and music, particularly polkas. The major festhalls are operated by the German clubs based in the cities:
- The Alpine Club of Kitchener.
- The Concordia Club of Kitchener, the largest ethnic German club in Canada.
- Hubertushaus, operated by the German-Canadian Hunting & Fishing Club of Mannheim.
- The Schwaben Club of Kitchener.
- The Transylvania Club of Kitchener.
- The Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Student Night
Other festhalls and biergartens are operated out of existing bars, clubs, and other venues in the cities, which take on Germanic names (such as Karlsberghaus, Altes Muenchen Haus, and Ruedesheimer Garten) for the festival events. In 2010, festalls opened for the first time in Cambridge and Elmira.
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