🎧 Coming Fall of 2025 🎧
Summer Milk is a site-specific audio walk experience at the Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead in St. George, Ontario.
Step into the past and journey through Adelaide’s family home with the voice of her mother, Jane Hamilton Hunter. This intimate storytelling experience honours the legacy of Adelaide Hunter Hoodless—educational reformer, mother, and founder of The Women’s Institute—through themes of grief, resilience, and female empowerment.
Created by female-identifying artists, Summer Milk brings history to life in a powerful, personal way. 🎧
Summer Milk
An Audio Walk Experience at the Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead
Summer Milk is a site-specific, multimedia audio walk experience set within the Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead in St. George, Ontario. This immersive performance invites audiences to step outside of time and journey through the historic home alongside the voice of Adelaide’s mother, Jane Hamilton Hunter. As she guides listeners through intimate rooms and grounds, Jane shares heartfelt memories of Adelaide’s life, legacy, and loss—offering a tender and radical reflection on grief, motherhood, and female resilience.
Rooted in Canadian history, Summer Milk explores the life of educational reformer Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, whose advocacy helped bring about the pasteurization of milk and led to the founding of The Women’s Institute. The piece brings forward Adelaide’s story as both personal and political—tracing how the grief of losing her infant son to unpasteurized milk catalyzed a life of public action.
Developed by female-identifying artists, this audio experience transforms the homestead into a space of memory, emotion, and quiet revolution—creating a new kind of engagement beyond traditional tours. In today’s climate, when women’s leadership and stories demand visibility, Summer Milk honours Adelaide’s enduring legacy and opens a living conversation about agency, adversity, and change.
This project is made possible in partnership with the Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead, and will be accessible to the public beginning Fall of 2025.