Ruby’s Pop Up Peepshow

Ruby Entertainments and Events
Ruby’s Pop Up Peepshow
Fringe
  • Dates: Aug 22, 2025 - Aug 29, 2025
  • Location: Fernwood Square (Site C)
  • Created: Ruby aka Sarah Smith
  • Door price: by donation
  • Duration: 60 mins
  • Rating: Ages 14+
  • Genre: Clown, Dance
  • Country: Victoria, BC

Showtimes

Aug
22
Friday
08:00 pm
Aug
23
Saturday
08:00 pm
Aug
28
Thursday
08:00 pm
Aug
29
Friday
08:00 pm

SHOW CORRECTION: There is no August 24th performance of Ruby’s Pop Up Peepshow.

People are pleasure! We aim to tease!
Community enjoyment, celebration, empowerment, passion, dance and theatre …the whole gamut! Ruby’s Pop Up Peepshow will be a live theatre for the senses, not the censored…

Innovative and interactive performance art such as drag, burlesque, and erotic dance all share a common thread: in essence a cathartic and therapeutic experience for the artist and audience alike. It is about revealing more than skin and body parts, it is about the stripping away of layers of social mores and expectations, truly living in the moment, repealing taboos and rebelling against norms. It is about wrestling guilt and shame away from the public imagination.

By recognizing peoples isolation and putting a spotlight on everyones need for honest connection through the performative arts, Ruby’s Pop Up Peepshow has the power to get us thinking about:
body positivity, healthy sexuality, consent, fun, and play.

Doomsday got you down? Practice “radical joy” with us!
Our travelling carnival-style entertainment has body-positive vibes. A community of celebration, with performances in the Pop Up circus caravan, accompanied by novel elements like popcorn, games, and prizes. It’s gogo on the go!

Latecomers welcome any time during the show.

Reviews

Fun, very chill. I loved the interaction between the dancers and the audience.
-P

Fun and inclusive events worth your time and energy.
-K

Sweet, kind, inclusive, and talented entertainers! Worth every penny.
-I

 

Credits

Created by – Ruby aka Sarah Smith

 

About the Artist

We are performance artists with over 15 years of experience travelling and staging performance art from intimate groups to large scale variety shows in British Columbia.

The Pop Up Peepshow employs our collective experience as burlesque dancers, trained clowns, and gendered-performers to relay the overall message that “all bodies are GOOD bodies”.

Ruby is a Bimbo with multiple personalities.

An activist for sex workers rights, she speaks about stigma through public education.

The visionary behind Ruby Entertainments, she recreates Bachelor Party rituals, combining sex-positivity with consent through play, dance and celebration/connection.

She burlesques with The Cheesecake Burlesque Revue, and is an accomplished poet and playwright.

Instagram: @rubypeepshow @ruby_entertainments

 

Accessibility

Content warnings: Adult themes; stripping to undergarments.

Sensory warnings: Flashing lights other than strobe; audience is outdoors.

For more accessibility information see the Accessibility at the Fringe page on our website.

 

Important Fringe Information:
  • Fringe button NOT required to see this show.
  • This venue is by donation at the venue only.
  • All shows start on time.
  • Masks are recommended

Showtimes

Aug
22
Friday
08:00 pm
Aug
23
Saturday
08:00 pm
Aug
28
Thursday
08:00 pm
Aug
29
Friday
08:00 pm

Location

Fernwood Square (Site C)
1291 Gladstone Ave,
Victoria,
Phone: (250) 383-2663

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