One For All

From November 7–10, River Clyde Arts presents One for All, a festival of solo performances written and performed by women, at The Mill in New Glasgow. 

PEI Poet Laureate Tanya Davis will perform Seeker, a new work in progress that offers a candid and comedic commentary on the many ways individuals seek, the realities they find, and the truths they miss along the way.

Jane Wells’ new show, How to Live with Dread, grapples with the death of her brother, shining a gentle light on grief and one’s identity within, and after, loss. 

Tannis Kowalchuk, a Pennsylvania theatre artist and organic farmer, brings Decompositions, a show incorporating personal stories, songs, and the process of decomposing as an exploration of art, farming, and mortality. 

Ontario environmentalist and community theatre artist, Dale Colleen Hamilton, brings She Won’t Come in from the Fields, in which a farm woman, fed up with the conventional way her son is farming, stages a one-woman protest, refusing to come in from the fields until he agrees to try farming regeneratively. This performance will take place on November 10 at 2:30 pm, followed by a community conversation about regenerative farming practices with Dale and Tannis. All other performances are at 7:30 pm.

On Sunday morning, November 10, Tannis will lead a free performance workshop for community members from 10:30 am–12:30 pm, teaching from her experience in song and performance creation (registration required).

One for All will be held in the Loft at the Mill in New Glasgow, with evening shows preceded by a prix fixe meal in the dining room. Chef Emily Wells’ festival menu will celebrate 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.

For tickets and to register for the workshop, go to riverclydepageant.com/solos. For meal reservations, call 902-964-3313.