The Gardener & the Golfer is Dale's new one-woman show
The Gardener & the Golfer 2026 Tour Schedule
Feb 11, 7pm: SaskSoil Conference, Hilton Garden Inn, 90 22nd Street East, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Feb 15, 2:30-4:00: Vancouver, Secret Lantern Society, 1398 East 3rd, Vancouver, BC.
Feb 19, 7:30pm: North Saanichton Peninsula Food Growers Co-op, McTavish Arts Centre, 1720 McTavish Road, North Saanich, Vancouver Island, BC.
Feb 21, 1pm: Nanaimo Horticultural Society, St Andrews Presbyterian Church Hall, 4235 Departure Bay Road, Nanaimo.
Sat Feb 28, 1:30 - 3:30: Compost Education Centre, 1216 North Park St., Victoria, BC.
Sun March 1, 1:30-3:30: Victoria West Community Centre, 521 Craigflower Rd, Victoria, BC.
Sunday March 8, 10:30am-12:00, Cowichan Library, 2687 James Street, Duncan, BC.
March 12: Detonate Brewery, #103 - 9503 Cedar Avenue, Summerland, BC.
March 15, 5pm: Okanagan Folk School, 5684 Beach Avenue, Peachland, BC.
Wed March 21, 7:30pm (doors open at 7:00): Save Our Soils Event, Campus Saint-Jean, 8406 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury (91 Street), McMahon Building, 1-01 Amphitheatre. Enter through main doors. Paid parking in lot or free on the street.
March 24, 7pm ET: A live-stream version of my one-woman show. $10 (fundraiser for the Canadian Environmental Network). Register at: https://www.rcen.ca/en/home
March 26, 6:30pm: Territorial Agri-food Association conference, Chateau Nova Hotel, Yellowknife, NWT. Free but register in advance.
April 25: Armstrong Green Fair, North Okanagan Valley, BC (details coming soon)
May 17, 2-5pm: Stratford/Perth Museum, 4275 Huron Road (Line 34), Stratford, ON.
May: Ottawa and area, Kingston, Cobourg (details coming soon)
June-August: Quebec and Maritimes (details coming soon)
She Won't Come in from the Fields
A 30-minute one-woman show and conversation about regenerative farming and climate solutions
Written & performed by Dale Colleen Hamilton
For a video recording of this show go to: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q8SO9uKlfiUksQfRnAfgmwoMbOExRcG7/view?usp=sharing
She Won't Come in from the Fields
A feisty farm woman is fed up with the conventional way her son is farming the family land. That’s why she’s staging a one-woman protest, refusing to come in from the fields until he agrees to try farming regeneratively. In the process, it hits home to both of them that working together is the best way to regenerate their farm and help mitigate climate change.
The performance will be followed by an optional conversation with the audience focussing on challenges and solutions in sustainable food production and food security, exploring ways to dovetail different approaches for the benefit of farmers, consumers and the planet.
Dale has been writing and producing theatre for over forty years and comes from a 6-generations-deep farm family in southwestern Ontario. In the 1990s she was elected to Eramosa Township Council and appointed to the provincial Farm Products Appeal Tribunal. She is a supporter of Farmers for Climate Solutions, a member of Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario and has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University, where she focussed her research on regenerative farming. She and her Indigenous son, in collaboration with members of the local Indigenous community, are presently developing a program of Indigenous and regenerative land-based learning on their 16 acres near Guelph.
DALE STRONGLY ENCOURAGES YOU TO INVITE A FARMER/GARDENER WHO USES NON-REGENERATIVE FOOD-GROWING METHODS TO ATTEND A PERFORMANCE WITH YOU, RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT “SINGING TO THE CHOIR”.
PERFORMANCE DATES
- Oct 17, 2024: Island Cafe gardens Kale Harvest event, Toronto ON
- Oct 28, 2024: Foragers' Farms, near Cobourg, ON
- Nov 3: B.A.L.E. (Building a Local Economy), South Royalton, Vermont, USA
- Nov 8-10,: Festival of One-Woman Shows, New Glasgow, PEI
- Nov 12: TapRoot Farms, Port Williams, Nova Scotia
- Nov 13: Annapolis Valley Folk School, Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia
- Nov 15: Western Environmental Centre, Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NFLD
- Nov 17: Autism Society Greenhouse, Memorial Universoty, St John's NFLD
- Nov 23: North of Sixty Agricultural conference, Whitehorse, YT
- Nov 24 & Dec 1: Whitehorse Public Library
- Dec 4: Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO) Conference, Kingston, ON
- Dec 7: Next Church Community Centre, Kingston, ON
- Dec 11: Fellowship Room, St Johns Anglican Church
- Dec 13: Retro Room, Eden Mills
- Jan 4, 2025: 10C Community Centre, 42 Carden St., Guelph, ON
- Jan 10, 2025: St John's Fellowship Hall, Rockwood, ON (with panelists Don Lobb & Val Steinmann)
- Jan 18: Ralph Thornton Centre, Toronto (with panelist Don Lobb)
- Jan 20: Coalition for Liveable Sudbury
- Jan 24: Guelph Organic Conference, University of Guelph (with panelists Becky Big Canoe & Don Lobb)
- Feb 4: Little Market Box, Saskatoon, Sask.
- Feb 5: Aka Artist Run Centre, Saskatoon, Sask.
- Feb 8: Holistic Farm Management Conference, Assiniboia, Sask.
- Feb 9: Regina Public Library, Regina, Sask.
- Feb 12, 2025: Territorial Agrifood Exhibition, Yellowknife, NWT
- Feb 18: Revelstoke Public Library, Revelstoke, BC
- Feb 21: Armstrong Public Library, Armstrong, BC
- Feb 23: Detonate Brewing, Summerland, BC
- Feb 25: Tempest Theatre, Penticton, BC
- Feb 26: Naramata Slow, Naramata, BC
- March 4: Carnegie Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
- March 6: 411 Senior's Centre, Vancouver, BC
- March 8: Rotary Interpretive Centre (LEPS), Langley, BC
- March 9: Fernwood Community Centre,Victoria, BC
- March 12: Cowichan Branch Library, Duncan BC
- March 15: Beban Park Rec, Centre, Nanaimo, BC
- March 18: Courtenay Little Theatre, Courtenay BC
- March 21: Onoway & District Historical Guild, Onoway AB
- March 22: Campus St Jean, Edmonton, AB
- March 24: The Carrot, Edmonton, AB
- April 5: The Whole Village, Hillsburg, ON
- April 22: Almonte, ON
- April 25: Westport Legion
- May 4: Wellington Historical Society, Aboyne Hall, near Fergus
- May 28: Crooked Farmz, Downsview Park, 160 Downsview Park Blvd, Toronto, 6:30pm.
- June 4: Senate of Canada, Ottawa (not a public performance)
- June 8: Eramosa Eden, 8178 Indian Trail, Rockwood, near Eden Mills, 2pm. Admission by donation-fundraiser for Eramosa Eden.
- June 15: St. Brigid’s Villa, Ignatius Farm, 5420 Hwy 6, Guelph Admission by donation-fundraiser for Ignatius Farm.
- July 23: Soils for our Future International Soil Health Conference (2 presentations & panels), Winnipeg, Manitoba
- July 26: St Boniface Public Library, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Recommended Viewing:
- The Need to Grow (Food Revolution Network or YouTube)
- Kiss the Ground (Netflix or YouTube)
- An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet (Netflix or YouTube)
Dale performing street theatre at the COP 26 United Nation Climate Change Summit in Glasgow Scotland, 2021.
Dale was invited by the Newfoundland Food Producers' Forum to perform her one-woman show in October 2024.
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