Fugitive Stories and Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard are partnering again for four afternoons on the farm. August’s theme is “Epiphany.”
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.
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).
State Senator Jamie Eldridge
Jamie has served as the a state State representing 12 communities in the MetroWest. He focuses his energy on Beacon Hill largely on increasing investments in public education and transportation, combating climate change, guaranteeing healthcare a right, stimulating the economy, reforming our criminal justice system, advancing campaign and ethics reform, protecting the environment, making government more transparent, combatting racial and economic inequality, and supporting immigrants.
Norah Dooley
Norah is a storyteller, children’s author, and educator who performs in schools, libraries, festivals, and conferences. She teaches people of all ages the power and importance of their stories. She founded the high school story slam program StoriesLive.org and co-founded massmouth.org and the Boston Story Slam series. Norah has taught storytelling at Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education and to undergraduates at Tufts, Suffolk, and Boston Universities.
Don Picard
Don has worked in the Boston area for 30 years as a software developer. He was a double major in Theatre Arts and Computer Science at Cornell. Don didn't want to live the life of a starving artist, so he chose to work as an engineer instead. Don enjoys telling live stories about his kids, husband, and extended family as it is fun, therapeutic, and allows him to exercise the other half of his college degree so he doesn't become bitter.
Candace Nelson
Candace is a retired development aid worker, a career that took her to Latin America and Africa dozens of times over 34 years. In retirement, she has become a student of storytelling. She appeared on GBH’s Stories from the Stage and is inspired to transform her own moments, small and large, into stories.
Mark Modrall
Mark is a computer programmer from Littleton. He started telling stories in public in 2012 when he ran out of relatives who hadn’t heard that one before. Hopefully he’s gotten better at it since then. He’s won several story slams at the Moth, Massmouth, and a few other places and has twice been a featured speaker twice at GBH’s “Stories from the Stage.”