Indian & Cowboy Creative presents
The Indian
& Cowboy
Festival of
Stories
Four days. Three nights. Five shows. Indian & Cowboy opens its studio to Hamilton for an intimate storytelling festival — live podcast premieres, a landmark conversation about reconciliation, and an Indigenous Makers Market to close it out. Stories Indigenous Canada is ready to tell. Out loud. In person.
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Thursday — June 11
7:00 PM
How's That Land Acknowledgement Treating You, Anyways?
Friday — June 12
7:00 PM
Tom Wilson's Best F'kn Story
9:30 PM
We're All Mad Here
Saturday — June 13
7:00 PM
S.N.I.P.E. — Live Ghost Storytelling
9:30 PM
City of Thieves — Live Podcast Taping
Sunday — June 14
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Indigenous Makers Market — Free Entry
Thursday, June 11
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 →Friday, June 12
Tom Wilson's Best F'kn Story
Live storytelling & music from a life fully lived
Tom Wilson — musician, artist, storyteller — sits down for a live podcast conversation unlike anything you've heard before. Career highs and lows, the road, the stories too good (and too honest) for an interview. A night of music and memory in an intimate room.
Get Tickets →We're All Mad Here
Transforming anger and rage into something better
Ryan McMahon and Madeline Wilson Shaw invite a special guest each week to ask an honest question: can we take the anger and rage — the entirely warranted anger and rage — and turn it into something more useful? Hopeful? Positive? Spoiler: it never quite goes that well. But sometimes talking it through is enough.
Get Tickets →Saturday, June 13
S.N.I.P.E.
The stories too dark and too scary for television
As seen on APTN. Widely regarded as the most entertaining Native paranormal experts in Canada, S.N.I.P.E. brings their live ghost storytelling show to the Indian & Cowboy studio — never-before-seen footage, behind-the-scenes truths, and the hauntings that didn't make the cut. The ones that couldn't.
Get Tickets →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 →Sunday, June 14
Indigenous Makers Market
The festival closes with a celebration of Indigenous craft and creativity. The Indian & Cowboy studio opens its doors to a curated market of Indigenous makers — small batch, handmade, and one of a kind. Beadwork, clothing, regalia, art, housewares, and more. Come shop, meet the makers, and take something home. Free and open to the community.
Three Nights.
Five Shows.
50 Seats Each.
All shows are intimate and limited. Reserve early.
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