Upcoming Shows

Pinch Cabaret #48
Sat Mar 28, 2026 - 8pm

Hosted and curated by handsome grandson Ben Gorodetsky. Expect the unexpected!

Featuring:

• Nuha Yousuf is an multidisciplinary artist, musical improviser, creator and instapot queen. Recent highlights include performing her NUMUS 2025 winning curation, Of Mothers and Daughters, Assistant Directing Tapestry Opera’s Briefs, and partnering with Conservation Halton to create a site-specific chamber piece at Crawford Lake. Nuha will be performing a live scored musical improv piece with Voice and piano, based on poetry she has never seen before. 

• Established in 2022, KW Breakers (KWB) is a super crew of the top breakers, in and around the Kitchener-Waterloo region. Each member specializes in their own unique breaking styles, techniques, and movements. KWB performs, competes, teaches, and hosts breaking events. Their mission is to share their passion for the artistry, athleticism, culture, and history of breaking with the community, and cultivate KW’s breaking scene.

• Bronwen Olson is a poet, folk singer-songwriter, and deep-feeler from Guelph, ON. While she’s still writing behind the scenes, this past year she’s been pouring her energy into singing in a women’s choir called the Choir Wrens. Rather than another solo set, she’s inviting you into the nest - where wrens gather, voices weave, and the creative spirit comes alive in relationship. The Wrens will sing a few songs around the fire, sharing with you the warmth and simple goodness of singing in the sun room on Metcalfe Street.

• *~*SYSTEM ALERT*~ * Master of Mashups. Unoriginal Original. Hybrid hitmaker. AlgoRhythm is a glitch in the system—smashing together worlds the algorithm swore should never meet. Chaos engineer, digital trickster, he turns “because you liked this” into a rabbit hole you can’t escape. Hybrid hitmaker. AlgoRhythm is a mashup artist and digital performer known for blending unexpected elements and genres into high-energy, unpredictable sets that surprise audiences and disrupt expectations.

• Anat is a dynamic musician celebrated for her vibrant personality and deeply emotional performances, captivating audiences from the very first note. As a skilled pianist and singer, her original songs weave stories of hope, and the shadows we navigate in life. For this performance, Anat will bring her solo vibe to her original songs on piano.

• And for the Pinch Zine Series, this month we’ll release “Untangled” by Cassidy Hicks. Cassidy (she/they) is a therapist, textile artist, and playwright living in the Willow River Watershed. She loves to talk about feelings, and make things with words, thread, and theatre. Untangled is about what an uncomfortable, magical, peculiar honour it is to listen to people share quiet parts of themselves with a stranger.

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.