Pinch Cabaret #51
About this Event
The Pinch Cabaret is KW’s monthly variety show, performance laboratory, and community arts party. An unexpected mix of Fantasy Writing, Opera, Pole Dance, Folk-Punk, Comedy, Zines & who knows what else!
Hosted and curated by amorous AI chatbot . Get ready for a diverse bill that'll surprise audiences and bring together disparate artistic communities!
Featuring:
- is a queer, disabled speculative fiction author living in Waterloo. She's a community organizer, running the region's largest writers collective, KW Writers Alliance, and always looking for opportunities to help writers level up and to connect with readers. She's the first self-published author to win a Nebula Award, and primarily writes fantasy novels including her firebending sword-lesbian dragon-rider series, Fireborn, and her award-winning kids book, The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts. Sometimes she writes short stories about plagues that K*ll billionaires, but for Pinch she'll be reading something loosely based on a true story about a large guardian dog vs an eldritch horror.
- shares the wonder of opera with the Waterloo Region. Experience timeless melodies of Puccini, performed by Jennifer Carter, soprano, Marcel van Helden, tenor, and Vlad Soloviev, piano.
- After a hiatus from performing, seasoned pole dance artist Inverted Muse is back upside down and ready to captivate Pinch Cabaret with her deliciously unpredictable style of pole fusion!
- is a genderqueer, genre-non-conforming solo act who combines a driving kick drum with high-energy guitar and political lyrics. This self-described solo-punk will make you feel feelings and want to move-around about it. Get ready for a folkpunk transfemme playing acoustic guitar, kick drum, and singing political queer stuff!
- is a comedian and Nebula-nominated author with a passion for queer stories, monsters, and telling audiences every intimate detail of their life. For Pinch, Kristopher will tell jokes about coming out, having social anxiety, and whether or not their mom finds them funny (she doesn't)."
- And for the Pinch Zine Series, this month we’ll release Canada is a Shell of Itself by . Nathaniel (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, a settler in the Willow River Watershed, and a frequent flyer on the Pinch Cabaret stage. They make art about interconnectedness, collective responsibility and what it means to be human. Their zine is a reflection on Canada's identity in a modern colonial era, using analogue photographs by Toronto-based artist Isaac Giles and blackout poetry sourced from Dennis Tourbin's 1992 visual poem, Canada Is.
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Advance tickets are $5 / $10 / $20 / $30 - you choose the option that's right for you
Limited tickets will be available at the door
Indigenous community members are welcomed to attend for free.
Enormous thanks to Waterloo Region Community Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, City of Kitchener, City of Waterloo, and The Registry Theatre for their generous support, allowing for accessible ticket pricing!
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Doors: 7:45
Show: 8:00
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VENUE:
We're back at Button Factory Arts - 25 Regina St, Waterloo.
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Ben Gorodetsky (he/they)is a performance maker, filmmaker, writer, and producer based in Kitchener, Ontario. They are the creator and former host of experimental variety show Dirt Buffet Cabaret, and former technical director at NYC burlesque theatre Duane Park. His performance work has been presented by The Art Gallery of Ontario, CAFKA, Femme Folks Fest, LUMEN, Open Ears, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Tank NYC, Mile Zero Dance, Guelph Dance Festival, Hillside Fest, Brian Webb Dance Company, Expanse Festival of Movement Arts, Rubaboo Festival, SpringWorks, and the Gas Station Arts Centre. They are the former Associate Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre and have performed, taught, and directed improvisation in Atlanta, Detroit, Austin, Philadelphia, NYC, LA, Reunion Island, Vienna, Ljubljana, Montreal, Toronto, Yellowknife, Calgary, and Vancouver. He is co-creator of political satire comedy duo Folk Lordz (VICE). Ben is the winner of the 2016 Emerging Artist Award at the Mayor's Celebration for the Arts (Edmonton), the Anna Pidruchney Young Writers award, and a nominee for a Canadian Comedy Award and a Waterloo Region Arts Award. He is Creator and Executive Producer of CTV docuseries "MY PET ATE WHAT?", out now on Crave. They teach at UWaterloo, and hold an MFA from Brooklyn College-CUNY and a BFA from the University of Alberta.
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Show poster by Aaron Read
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 6.85 to CAD 33.59
