Upcoming Shows

Pinch Cabaret #50
Sat May 23, 2026 - 8pm

Hosted and curated by curious ape Ben Gorodetsky. Expect the unexpected!

Featuring:

• ZEMis the artistic duo Kristyna Balaban & Adam Široký, who specialize in interactive, immersive audio-visual installations and live visuals at performances. The windows of the Button Factory will become windows into the past - a glimpse into the everyday life in the city Łódź, Poland, during the first half of the 20th century. 

• emme kay kennedy is an queer artist who refuses categorization, including the category of refusing categorization. she also loves birds. emme does stand-up which may or may not devolve into improvised dance and clown drag. emphasis on the may not.

• Tijana Krivokapic is an artist based in Southern Ontario who works in screen printing, performance and installation work. Much of her work is influenced by her diasporic upbringing in Canada and Balkan culture. She is also the founder of local fine arts magazine, Kul Tekst. In her performance piece Practice she confronts the normalization of violence against women, and explores intergenerational trauma and how the past continues to shape the present.

• Zack Mason is an artist and writer based on block two of the Haldimand Tract (Kitchener). Mainly a writer of fiction, he's interested in anything silly, gross, strange and beautiful. Zack will be telling some stories, reciting a poem, and reading from his novel in-progress, Darling, which is about a young clown who mistakenly stumbles into kinky sex work.

• Kori Myslichuk’s favourite part of a song has always been the lyrics. It wasn’t until she taught herself guitar that she started turning her poems into something a bit more. Which meant she had to be ready to sing… if only for herself to be able to hear them. But for Pinch she will be singing and playing original songs in public for the first time!

• And for the Pinch Zine Series, this month we’ll release “oracles, spells and farewells”, by haley sheppard and Zack Mason. haley is an artist, organizer, researcher, and songbird. Zack is a writer and artist. Both are based on Block Two of the Haldimand Tract, where they met and fell in love on Peter Street. For Pinch, they are sharing a collection of spells, a farewell for now, all guided by an ever growing deck of oracle cards Zack made haley for journeys through the lowlands.

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.

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

VENUE:
We're back at Button Factory Arts (25 Regina 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.