Fugitive Stories and Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard are partnering again for four afternoons on the farm. June’s theme is “Rooted”
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. In case of rain, please check our website after noon on the day of the show. Our back-up location is the Harvard, Mass. UCC Church, 5 Still River Road (on the Harvard Common).
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 regional, award-winning storytellers (see below).
Susanne Schmidt
Susanne is a comedic storyteller and a producer for The Moth. Her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, National Public Radio and HBO’s Inspiration Room.
Robin Schoenthaler
Robin has been a storyteller for about a decade and has been with Fugitive since 2018. In 2019 she won a Moth Grand Slam Championship and she is never going to stop talking about it — ever. She is also an award-winning essayist — mostly about love, loss, life, death, and Covid. Robin’s day job for 28 years was as a cancer doctor with MGH at Emerson Hospital in their Department of Radiation Oncology. She now helps people with second opinions about their cancers while she travels the world. Learn more about Robin at www.DrRobin.org.
Paul Doncaster
Paul is a published author, the father of two outstanding young women (and a bluetick beagle), and has been telling stories since 2016. He has told at events throughout New England, performed in two Moth GrandSLAMs, and been featured on the World Channel's “Stories from the Stage.” By day, he is a user experience design professional, listening to the stories of others and using their words to create more user-friendly online experiences.
Kate Buhler
Kate 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.