Upcoming Shows

Pinch Cabaret #41
Sat June 28, 2025 - 8pm

Hosted and curated by relentless riffer Ben Gorodetsky. Expect the unexpected!

Featuring:

• Geoff Martin is an award-winning writer, whose place-based and environmental essays and poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Literary Review of Canada, Boulevard, Creative Nonfiction, and the local anthology Poetry in Place (Guernica Editions, 2025), among others. He is also the co-founder of The Creek Collective, a group of interdisciplinary artists creating work in response to—and alongside—Schneider Creek in Kitchener. Geoff will be performing two sections from CHANNEL MIGRATION, the Schneider Creek audiowalk that premiered at this year's Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound.

• Sonic Uke Ensemble shreds the norm with an anarchic mash-up of tunes from the 1800s to now—delivered on ukuleles with raw energy, sharp wit, and zero respect for the status quo. It’s punk. It’s weird. It’s ridiculously fun.

• Dance and Heart is a Ballet Illusion. Specializing in dance theatre, they are a group of dancers from all backgrounds. For Pinch they plan to tell whimsical stories through movement.

• Lisa O'Connell's writing has appeared on stage at Harbourfront, Tarragon, Factory and Banff, and in print in the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and Chatelaine among others. Most of the time she runs Pat the Dog Theatre Creation. O'Connell is anxiously delighted to make her PINCH CABARET debut with Blown Glass and Hidden Shoes, a set of comic musings on her Indigeneity, bureaucracy, and all the messy rest.

• Making Woman is a transfemme multi-instrumentalist who writes mostly about society, her experience transitioning, and mental health. Her cats, the potato twins, are incredibly cute and aptly named Yam and Ube. She will be playing guitar and singing for you at Pinch Cabaret #41.

• Ginny Radler wants to tease you with her freckled bod and playful mind - and she'll do it with googly eyes taped to her tatas. This campy kitten has been batting her lashes and shaking her tail feathers around the tri-cities since 2017 and specializes in stripping stupid, giving glam and character-centred boylesque. Are you ready for a shot of Ginny? For Pinch she’s serving a drag-burlesque act celebrating nature's party animal: the snail!

Advance tickets are $5 / $10 / $20 / $30 – you choose the option that’s right for you.

Indigenous community members are welcomed to attend for free. Just email Ben@PinchCabaret.com and let us know how many tickets you’d like.

Enormous thanks to Waterloo Region Community Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Uptown Waterloo Business Improvement Area, Cities of Kitchener & Waterloo, and the Registry Theatre for their generous support, allowing for accessible ticket pricing!

NEW(ish) VENUE:
We're now at Hepcat Swing Studio (42 Erb St, Waterloo)

Pinch Cabaret thrives on new acts, and that means you!
Email Ben@PinchCabaret.com to submit.
All acts paid $$$!
All experience levels welcome.

Tremendous thanks to the funders of Pinch Cabaret:

• Waterloo Region Community Foundation

• Ontario Arts Council & Province of Ontario

• City of Kitchener

• City of Waterloo

Thanks to our funders we are able to offer accessible pricing for all shows: $5-$30, you choose!