Indian & Cowboy Creative presents
Indian
& Cowboy
Festival of
Stories
Three nights. Five shows. Indian & Cowboy opens its studio to Hamilton for an intimate storytelling festival — live podcast premieres and a landmark conversation about reconciliation. Five new podcasts. Five world premieres. One intimate studio. Indian & Cowboy is bringing live tapings of our most ambitious work yet to Hamilton — storytelling, comedy, paranormal, and true crime across three unforgettable nights.
Thursday, June 11
Tom Wilson's Best F'kn Story
Wherever Tom Wilson goes, a story follows.
The man behind Canada's most-misbehaved '90s F'kn band, Tom is an iconic Hamilton musician, author, and visual artist who has spent a lifetime in the wrong place at exactly the right time. Rock legends in broom closets. Gang members in Santa Monica hotel rooms. Perfect strangers who turned out to be anything but. Sometimes he lived it. Sometimes he heard it from someone who was there. Either way, you're getting Tom Wilson's Best F'kn Story.
Get Tickets →Friday, June 12
How's That Land Acknowledgement Treating You, Anyways?
A seriously funny reflection on 10 years of truth and reconciliation in Canada.
Anishinaabe comedian, writer, and keynote speaker Ryan McMahon opens the festival with the question Canada has been avoiding. Ten years of land acknowledgements, calls to action, and national promises — so how'd that go? McMahon, whose award-winning work across comedy, documentary, and journalism has made him one of the most fearless truth-tellers in the country, delivers an unflinching solo conversation about what reconciliation has actually delivered, what it hasn't, and what comes next. The festival starts where Canada's unfinished business does.
Get Tickets →We're All Mad Here
Transforming anger and rage into something better
Ryan McMahon and Madeline Wilson Shaw share a home, a couple of kids, and a lot of big feelings. Join two of Canada's sharpest Indigenous voices for a live taping of We're All Mad Here, a podcast dedicated to transforming anger and rage into something better through honest conversation and sharp humour. Spoiler: it never quite goes that well. But sometimes talking it through is enough.
Get Tickets →Saturday, June 13
City of Thieves
A live podcast taping & sneak peek
Timmins, Ontario. 1909–1945. Deep in the gold mines of Northern Ontario, workers were stealing from the most powerful mining companies in the country — and they were good at it. City of Thieves is a true crime history podcast about high-grading, the underground economy it built, and the world it left behind. Join us for a live taping and a first look inside one of Indian & Cowboy's most ambitious productions.
Get Tickets →S.N.I.P.E.
A live night of ghost stories with the stars of APTN's Ghost Hunters of the Grand River.
S.N.I.P.E. are Canada's most compelling Native paranormal experts. They've investigated haunted locations across the country and right here in Hamilton including Auchmar Estate and the Germania Club. This live show goes somewhere their APTN audience has never been: the experiences too dark and too strange for TV, shared out loud for the first time.
Get Tickets →Three Nights.
Five Shows.
50 Seats Each.
All shows are intimate and limited. Reserve early.
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