Sharing the Field Festival

As autumn arrives, River Clyde Arts invites the community to celebrate the season with the fifth edition of its fall harvest festival, Sharing the Field, from October 3–5 in New Glasgow. 

Sharing the Field is a family-friendly celebration of food, art and community that welcomes the harvest season and connects the agricultural history of New Glasgow with contemporary practices in farming, fishing, food production, and arts and culture. This year’s festival features an eclectic mix of theatre, dance, live music and culinary experiences.

Programming begins October 3 at 7:30 pm, with an outdoor performance of A Beginner’s Guide to the Night Sky by Nova Scotia’s Villains Theatre at the Gardens of Hope. This deeply moving play is written by Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac, directed by Garry Williams (known to local audiences as the River Clyde Pageant’s music director), and features music by Jenny Trites. It invites audiences into a playful outdoor astronomy class taught by an eccentric high school teacher and her awkward yet earnest child. 

Tickets for A Beginner’s Guide to the Night Sky should be purchased in advance at riverclydearts.com/field or on site while supplies last. Sharing The Field is hosted by River Clyde Arts in partnership with Central Coastal Tourism.