Pinch Cabaret

Pinch Cabaret Interdisciplinary variety show cross pollinating music, theatre, comedy, dance, circus and drag in Kitchener, Ontario!

This Thursday May 28, outdoors in Downtown Kitchener!Open Mic, Open Stage, Open InvitationAnything goes in this diverse ...
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

Pinch #50 act spotlight!For the Pinch Zine Series, this month we’ll release “oracles, spells and farewells”, by haley s...
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

Pinch #50 act spotlight!Kori Myslichuk’s favourite part of a song has always been the lyrics. It wasn’t until she taugh...
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.

Pinch #50 act spotlight!Zack Mason is an artist and writer based on block two of the Haldimand Tract (Kitchener). Mainl...
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.

Pinch #50 act spotlight!Tijana Krivokapic is an artist based in Southern Ontario who works in screen printing, performa...
05/15/2026

Pinch #50 act spotlight!

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.

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.

Pinch #50 act spotlight!emme kay kennedy is an q***r artist who refuses categorization, including the category of refus...
05/13/2026

Pinch #50 act spotlight!

emme kay kennedy is an q***r 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.

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.

Pinch #50 act spotlight!ZEM is the artistic duo Kristyna Balaban & Adam Široký, who specialise in interactive, immersiv...
05/11/2026

Pinch #50 act spotlight!

ZEM is the artistic duo Kristyna Balaban & Adam Široký, who specialise 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.

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.

05/07/2026

SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY:

MUSICAL COMEDY FROM JAY REID
STAND UP COMEDY FROM PHOEBE TAYLOR
BURLESQUE FROM MADEMOISELLE JOLIE BARDOT
VIDEO SKETCH COMEDY FROM BEN GORODETSKY
PLUS, IMPROV WITH BEN & JAY

TOGETHER WE'RE BOISTEROUS COMEDY SHOW
AT TWB BREWING CO-OP
ADVANCED TIX AT LINK IN BIO

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300 Mill Street, Unit 1
Kitchener, ON
N2M 5G8

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