Pinch Cabaret #54

Freewheeling variety show at Button Factory Arts in KW! 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: • Elfie Kalfakis - Psychic Performance • Ali Engering - Slack Lining • Saff & Shawna - Queer Line Dancing • Phlegmies - Improv Comedy • Daniel Gorodetsky - Storytelling • Freya Greenwood - Zine --- 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. Enormous thanks to Waterloo Region Community Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, City of Kitchener, City of Waterloo, Region of Waterloo, and The Registry Theatre for their generous support, allowing for accessible ticket pricing! --- Doors: 7:45 Show: 8:00 --- VENUE: We're back at Button Factory Arts - 25 Regina St, Waterloo. --- 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