Upcoming Shows

Pinch Cabaret #54 | Sat Nov 14, 2026 - 8pm

KW’s monthly variety show, performance laboratory, and community arts party.

Featuring a surprising mix of Psychic Performance, Slack Lining, Queer Line Dancing, Improv Comedy, Storytelling, Zines & who knows what else!

Expect the unexpected with:

• Bolo Tie Line is the line dancing love child of Saff and Fox, teaching and choreographing dances in KW and beyond! They’ve been putting the y’all in y’allternative since March 2025 at their own events and various venues/festivals from Hamilton to Halifax! Let Bolo take you on a journey to answer the question, what’s queer about line dancing?

• Ali Engering (she/her) is a slackline athlete, performer and community builder. You may have seen her bouncing around and walking a highline over top of the Elora gorge. Pushing the limits of human balance, Ali stands, sways and does tricks on a slackline.

• Elfie Kalfakis is a multidisciplinary artist currently residing on the Haldimand Tract as a settler from the islands of Crete and Cyprus. Her work spans publications, films, animation and street art. They will be performing as the Oracle of Elfie, a cosmic traveller visiting Pinch Cabaret to deliver some messages from the cosmos. 

• Daniel Gorodetsky is an improviser, storyteller, and psychotherapist living in Vancouver, BC. He enjoys spending time in nature, eating good food, soothing his anxious cat, and visiting his brother's family. Daniel explains the temperamental process of becoming a shrink: choosing the path, grad school, registration, and beyond. 

• The Phlegmies are an improv ensemble of women and non-binary performers from Guelph! Using audience suggestions The Phlegmies will improvise a never-before-seen performance designed to delight you and surprise themselves.

• And for the Pinch Zine Series, this month we’ll release Memento Mori Issue 2 by Freya Greenwood. Freya is a KW based artist, poet, and wanderer in the fourth dimension. They think witchcraft is pretty neat, and love being queer. Memento Mori Issue 2 is a prayer for the survival and joy of transgender people everywhere. It is an exploration of life, death, ancestor veneration, and being queer.

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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, Ontario Arts Council, Cities of Kitchener & Waterloo, Region of 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.