Indian & Cowboy Festival of Stories

Indian & Cowboy Creative Media is a 100% Indigenous-owned storytelling studio based right here in Hamilton. For National Indigenous History Month this June, we are opening our studio doors for the inaugural Indian & Cowboy Festival of Stories, three nights of live podcast tapings, world premieres, and one landmark conversation about reconciliation.
🎙 Three nights. Five shows. Fifty seats each.
✨ Every show is a premiere. You will hear these stories before they exist anywhere else.
🎸 Thursday, June 11, 7:00 p.m.
Tom Wilson's Best F'kn Story
Wherever Tom Wilson goes, a story follows. The man behind Canada's most-misbehaved '90s rock 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. This is the debut live taping of Indian & Cowboy's new intergenerational podcast, launching this fall.
🪶 Friday, June 12, 7:00 p.m.
How's That Land Acknowledgement Treating You, Anyways?
Anishinaabe comedian, writer and keynote speaker Ryan McMahon opens Friday with the question Canada has been avoiding. Ten years of land acknowledgements, calls to action and national promises, so how did that go? Unflinching, funny and deliberately uncomfortable.
🔥 Friday, June 12, 9:30 p.m.
We're All Mad Here
Ryan McMahon and Madeline Wilson Shaw share a home, a couple of kids and a lot of big feelings. A live taping of a podcast dedicated to transforming anger and rage into something better through honest conversation and sharp humour. Spoiler: it never quite goes that well.
🥷 Saturday, June 13, 7:00 p.m.
City of Thieves
Timmins, Ontario. 1909 to 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. The first look inside one of Indian & Cowboy's most ambitious productions.
👻 Saturday, June 13, 9:30 p.m.
S.N.I.P.E. — Ghost Hunters of the Grand River
Stars of APTN's Ghost Hunters of the Grand River, Canada's most compelling Native paranormal experts, close the festival with experiences too dark and too strange for television, shared out loud, in the room, for the first time.
📍 Indian & Cowboy Studio, Suite 204, 62 King Street East, Hamilton (King John Building, Gore Park)
🎟 $30 per show. Tickets and full lineup at https://ticketscene.ca/series/1660/