One for All - A Festival of Solos
November 7-10, The Mill in New Glasgow
River Clyde Arts presents One for All - a festival of solos from November 7-10, 2024, at the Loft of the Mill in New Glasgow. Each evening features a compelling new play created and performed by collaborators and friends of River Clyde Arts: Jane Wells' How to Live with Dread, Tannis Kowalchuk's Decompositions, Dale Colleen Hamilton's She Won't Come in from the Fields, and Tanya Davis' Seeker.
Each evening’s show will be preceded by a prix fixe meal in the Mill dining room. Chef Emily Wells’ festival menu celebrates PEI’s cultural diversity and the influence of remarkable women cooks, from Julia Child and Madhur Jaffrey to mothers and grandmothers of Islanders, old and new. Tickets for the dinner are sold separately - call the Mill at 902-964-3313 to reserve your table.
Decompositions by Tannis Kowalchuk
Theatre artist and organic farmer, Tannis Kowalchuk writes and performs a series of fiercely personal stories, dances, and songs that explore decomposition as a metaphor for living a full life. Kowalchuk’s dynamic duet with a pile of compost is a brave new work of live intimate theatre.
“I want to confabulate all the sticky stuff of my time and my life, and in birth and death, sickness and health, I propose decomposition as explanation.”
Tannis Kowalchuk digs into her life as a farmer and artist, theatrically exploring personal stories of art, farming, illness, mortality—and the beautiful mess of loving it all.
How to Live with Dread by Jane Wells
Having recently lost her brother Ker (co-founder with Megan Stewart of the River Clyde Pageant) Jane Wells grapples in this new work with how to find the way forward in life and in her work without him — so close was their connection as siblings and collaborators. The piece shines a gentle light on grief and one’s identity within, and after, loss.
With support from the Ontario Arts Council
Seeker by Tanya Davis
Galivanting around themes of connection and isolation, pointlessness and purpose, Seeker is an attempt to sift through the noise of ambition to find the nuance of being here in the first place. The latest work-in-progress by PEI Poet Laureate Tanya Davis, it is a candid and comedic commentary on the many ways we seek, the realities we find, and the truth we miss along the way.
With support from PEI Arts Grants
She Won’t Come in from the Fields by Dale Colleen Hamilton
A feisty farm woman is fed up with the conventional way her son is farming the family land. She stages 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.
With support from the Canada Council for the Arts