Fugitive Stories and Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard are partnering again for four afternoons on the farm. May’s theme is “Bittersweet.”
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 • Purchase tickets here
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, arrangements will be made for an indoor venue (TBD). If light rain is forecast, we’ll all stay nice and dry under a number of canopies. Please visit this calendar listing by noon 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. fruit@oldfrogpondfarm.com
FEATURED FUGITIVE TELLERS
In addition to several local, hand-picked tellers, Fugitive brings four regional, award-winning storytellers.
Harold Cox
Harold, the 2019 Massmouth “Big Mouth Off” champion, has been a featured teller on GBH’s “Stories from the Stage” and is a producer of “Stories to Scenes,” a monthly storytelling show in Roslindale. He is a professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He notes, “There is something special that happens when you tell a story. You can feel we’re all connected. It’s powerful.” When not at work or telling stories, Harold can be found canoeing, dogsledding, and knitting.
Sara Sweet Rabidoux-Kelsey
Sara is a writer and storyteller from Boston. She is a Moth MainStage performer and has been a featured teller with Fugitive Stories, Now Hear This, and Listen Up Storytelling. Currently working on her first book, Sara is the Property Research Manager for The Trustees of Reservations.
Norah Dooley
Norah is a storyteller, children’s author, and educator who performs in schools, libraries, festivals and conferences. Booked through Young Audiences (yamass.org) she specializes in teaching people of all ages how important their stories are. She is the founder of StoriesLive.org, the former director and co-founder of massmouth.org and the “Boston Story Slam” series. She teaches storytelling at Lesley Graduate School of Education and has taught storytelling to undergrads at Tufts, Suffolk and Boston Universities. Internationally, she has lectured on storytelling to teachers and graduate students in Japan and Tanzania.
Kurt Mullen
Kurt is an award-winning storyteller, writer, teacher, editor, and producer. He has told stories (twice) on GBH’s, “Stories from the Stage.” And in his work for the Stellar Story Company, he coaches and helps cast the show. As a performer, he’s told stories on “The Volume Knob” podcast in Montreal, the “GRIT: True Stories” podcast in North Carolina, and on the “RISK!” true stories podcast in Brooklyn. In magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, Kurt has written about soldiers coming home from war, about his own personal loss and grief and, generally, about the quirky folks who like to go it alone in this world. To learn more about Kurt, visit at www.kurtmullen.com.