Indian & Cowboy Festival of Stories — Hamilton, ON | June 11–13, 2026
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Month — June 2026  |  Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Indian & Cowboy Creative presents

Indian
& Cowboy

Festival of
Stories

Dates June 11–13, 2026
Location Indian & Cowboy Studio, Hamilton, ON
Capacity 50 Seats — Intimate & Limited
Season Indigenous Peoples Month

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. Stories Indigenous Canada is ready to tell. Out loud. In person.


Thursday · June 11
7:00 PM Tom Wilson's Best F'kn Story
Friday · June 12
7:00 PM How's That Land Acknowledgement Treating You, Anyways?
9:30 PM We're All Mad Here
Saturday · June 13
7:00 PM City of Thieves — Live Podcast Taping
9:30 PM S.N.I.P.E. — Live Ghost Storytelling
June 11 7:00 PM

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.

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June 12 7:00 PM

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.

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June 12 9:30 PM

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.

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June 13 7:00 PM

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.

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June 13 9:30 PM

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.

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Three Nights.
Five Shows.
50 Seats Each.

All shows are intimate and limited. Get your tickets now, these shows will sell out.

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