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Schedule Details
2025-06-28T20:00:00 to 2025-06-28T23:00:00
Price Details
6.66 CAD - 33.28 CAD
Age Restrictions
Not available
Ticket Website
Location Details
Waterloo
42 Erb Street East, Waterloo, ON, N2J 1L7, Canada
About the Event
Freewheeling variety show at Hepcat Swing Studio in KW!
The Pinch Cabaret is KW's monthly variety show, performance laboratory, and community arts par ty. An unexpected mix of music, poetry, storytelling, burlesque & who knows what else!
Hosted and curated by relentless riffer Ben Gorodetsky . Get ready for a diverse bill that will surprise and delight audiences while bringing together disparate artistic communities!
Featuring:
- Sonic Uke - Ukulele Orchestra
- Lisa O'Connell - Theatre
- Geoff Martin - Literary Non-Fiction Reading
- Kate Marentette - Dance
- Making Woman - Singer-Songwriter
- Ginny Radler - Burlesque
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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. Just email PinchCabaret@gmail.com and let us know how many tickets you'd like.
Enormous thanks to Waterloo Region Community Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, City of Kitchener, City of Waterloo, Uptown Waterloo BIA, and The Registry Theatre for their generous support, allowing for accessible ticket pricing!
Doors: 7:45
Show: 8:00
VENUE:
We're now at Hepcat Swing Studio ! Located at 42 Erb St, Waterloo Enter from g rey door on the far right-hand side of the building
About host Ben Gorodetsky :
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.
Show poster by Aaron Read
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