Pinch Cabaret

06/17/2026

Pinch #51 act spotlight!

Grand River Opera shares the wonder of opera with the Waterloo Region. Experience timeless melodies of Puccini, performed by Jennifer Carter, soprano, Marcel van Helden, tenor, and Vlad Soloviev, piano.

Pinch #51 is Sat June 27 at
Sliding scale tix ($5-30) at link in bio.

Thanks to and our individual donors for their generous support with the series.

06/15/2026

Pinch #51 act spotlight!

Vanessa Ricci-Thode is a q***r, disabled speculative fiction author living in Waterloo. She's a community organizer, running the region's largest writers collective, KW Writers Alliance, and always looking for opportunities to help writers level up and to connect with readers. She's the first self-published author to win a Nebula Award, and primarily writes fantasy novels including her firebending sword-lesbian dragon-rider series, Fireborn, and her award-winning kids book, The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts. Sometimes she writes short stories about plagues that kill billionaires, but for Pinch she'll be reading something loosely based on a true story about a large guardian dog vs an eldritch horror.

Pinch #51 is Sat June 27 at
Sliding scale tix ($5-30) at link in bio.

Thanks to and our individual donors for their generous support with the series.

06/08/2026

06/06/2026

LAST ONE BEFORE OUR SUMMER BREAK!
C U THERE?!?!

05/24/2026

This Thursday May 28, outdoors in Downtown Kitchener!

Open Mic, Open Stage, Open Invitation

Anything goes in this diverse & delightful monthly open mic.
Comedy, Music, Poetry, Drag, Dance, Lectures, Rants, etc!

Here's the deal:
- 5 min spots
- 10 spots/show
- Performer sign up at 7:00pm
- Show at 7:30pm
- Low tech = just a microphone
- Tickets are free (thanks City of Kitchener!) but please reserve your spots at link in bio
- No Hate/No Jerks!

Outdoors for the summer months at Vogelsang Green in DTK (located at Queen & Duke).
Bring a blanket, a warm drink, and a pal.
If it rains, we'll play it by ear.

05/23/2026

PINCH CABARET #50 IS TONIGHT
SAT MAY 23
PWYC TIX AT LINK IN BIO

05/21/2026

Pinch #50 act spotlight!

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.

Pinch #50 is Sat May 23 at
Sliding scale tix ($5-30) at link in bio.

Thanks to and our individual donors for their generous support with the series.

05/19/2026

PINCH CABARET #50 IS THIS SATURDAY MAY 23

VIDEO ART BY .vision
COMEDY BY
PERFORMANCE ART BY
WRITING BY ZACK MASON
MUSIC BY KORI MYSLICHUK
ZINE BY & ZACK MASON
KARAOKE BY
MYSTERY & MAGIC BY
COMPETITIVE EGG EATING BY

SLIDING SCALE TIX AT LINK IN BIO

05/19/2026

Pinch #50 act spotlight!

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!

Pinch #50 is Sat May 23 at
Sliding scale tix ($5-30) at link in bio.

Thanks to and our individual donors for their generous support with the series.

05/17/2026

Pinch #50 act spotlight!

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 s*x work.

Pinch #50 is Sat May 23 at
Sliding scale tix ($5-30) at link in bio.

Thanks to and our individual donors for their generous support with the series.