An Evening With Buddy Wakefield

Buddy has been a busker in Amsterdam, a street vendor in Spain, a team leader in Singapore, a re-delivery boy, a candy maker, a street sweeper, a bartender, a maid, a construction worker, a bull rider, a notably slow triathlete, a facilitator at Quantum Learning Network, and is the most toured performance poet in history.

Buddy is published in dozens of books internationally with work used to win multiple national collegiate debate and forensics competitions. His first short film, Farmly, directed by Jamie DeWolf, won Best of Texas at the Literally Short Film Fest, and the USA Film Festival.

In the spring of 2001 Buddy left his position as the executive assistant at a biomedical firm in Gig Harbor, WA, sold or gave away everything he owned, moved to the small town of Honda Civic, then set out to live for a living. His aim was to tour North American poetry venues for two years. He did not stop. Wakefield, who isn’t concerned with what poetry is or is not, delivers raw, rounded, disarming performances of humor and heart.
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An Evening With Buddy Wakefield at Alumnae Theatre
March 24th, 2026. Doors @ 7pm, Show at 7:30pm SHARP
$35 adv $40 door

An intimate performance by Buddy Wakefield on an early spring evening in the attic at Alumnae Theatre. Very limited tickets. General Tiered Seating. It's a Tuesday so let's try to get everyone home at a decent hour, alright?

***This event is up three gruelling flights of stairs and as such, is not accessible. But we're stopping in Kitchener if you can make the trip!***

** If the only thing stopping you from attending this event is being able to afford the ticket price please reach out to dickthepoet@proton.me directly. The earlier, the better. **