Fugitive Stories and Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard are partnering again for four afternoons on the farm. June’s theme is “Patience.”
Hearing a true story in a live performance is fun, moving, and transformative. Every event brings surprises. As always, Fugitive’s featured tellers include Moth and Massmouth Story Slam Winners and Champions, theater professionals, comedians, authors, podcast producers, teachers, and university professors. Several folks from the local community will also be telling their tales, some for the first time.
$15/online • $20/door
Online sales end at noon on the event date. Plenty of tickets at the door.
Seating starts at 2:30pm. Storytelling starts at 3pm. We recommend purchasing tickets in advance. This is an outdoor event (weather permitting).
If the weather is extreme, we will be presenting at Five Sparks in Harvard. If light rain is forecast, we’ll all stay nice and dry under a number of canopies. Please visit this calendar listing by noon on the day of the show for updates.
Please put Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, in your GPS. (The street address sometimes take you to the other side of the woods.)
ABOUT OUR CO-HOST, OLD FROG POND FARM
Old Frog Pond Farm is a 25-acre farm in Harvard and one of the few Certified Organic Orchards in Massachusetts. In the fall they open for pick your own apples and raspberries. Every year, the farm hosts an Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit and gathers for Plein Air Poetry.
Visitors to the farm can purchase a ticket to take a self-guided tour around the pond and through the woods discovering the sculpture, native plants, and abundant wildlife that’s makes their home here. The self-serve farm stand is filled with fresh certified organic produce.
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FEATURED FUGITIVE TELLERS
In addition to several local, hand-picked tellers, Fugitive brings four regional, award-winning storytellers.
Matthew Dicks is a record 56-time Moth StorySLAM champion and 9-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories have been featured on their nationally syndicated Moth Radio Hour and their weekly podcast. His stories have also appeared on PBS’s Stories From the Stage. He is an elementary school teacher and the internationally bestselling author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Something Missing, Unexpectedly, Milo, and The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs. He is the founder and Creative Director of “Speak Up,” a Hartford-based storytelling organization. Matt loves ice cream cake, golf, tickling his children, staring at his wife, and not sleeping.
Kate Buhler is a multiple Moth StorySLAM winner who makes her living traveling the world as a consultant for luxury hotels, restaurants, and resorts. This provides the opportunity to meet amazing people and create new stories everywhere she goes. She is a member of the National Speakers Association, and gives talks on the question, “Why is good service so hard to find?" Kate has recently written, Inhospitable: Lessons Learned from a Lifetime in Service. For her, storytelling is an artform and a passion that strengthens the bond of human connection.
Harold Cox is professor at Boston University School of Public Health. Storytelling is his latest passion to go along with camping, knitting and skydiving. Harold has told stories on “Risk,“ “Stories From the Stage,” and “Riot Theater.” He was a recent Moth Grandslam and MainStage participant. Harold likes to tells stories about simple and goofy things that have happened in his life. His life is full of simple and goofy things.
Catherine Weber — a two-time Moth StorySLAM champion — is an award-winning poet, artist and storyteller, community organizer, and marketing professional with a passion for the arts, education, and the environment. She has been telling stories and reading her poetry for more than a decade in the Boston-area. She is also founder and director of Art on the Trails ArtOnTheTrails.com, an annual juried art exhibition that is mounted in the Beals Preserve in Southborough.
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