As part of Concord’s celebrations for Concord250, we invite you to a new edition of “True Stories Told Live.” Join us for another fabulous evening of storytelling and community! This evening’s theme is “Freedom.”
Fugitive Stories presents non-competitive storytelling events in Boston’s western ‘burbs. We often bring featured storytellers to tell a true tale alongside people just like you who may never have told a story on a stage but are inspired by one of our themes. Hearing a true story in a live performance is fun, moving, and transformative. You’ll laugh and sometimes shed a few tears. Every event opens a door to a memory — and to your heart.
Most of tonight’s tellers come to us via the Concord Art community.
Jeff Clements
Jeff serves as CEO of American Promise. He has practiced law for three decades in public service and private practice, and is the author of Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy From Big Money & Global Corporations. He is also the founder of Whaleback Partners LLC, which provides sustainable financing to businesses in the local agriculture economy. Jeff has helped to start and been a board member of many non-profit organizations and businesses.
Harold Cox
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.
Ryan Hanley
Ryan is Professor of Political Science at Boston College. A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009), Love’s Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (Cambridge, 2017), and Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton, 2019).
Steven Ng
Steve is an Architect and Assistant Vice President at Northstar Project & Real Estate Services. He has served more than 10 years on boards and committees in the Town of Concord and was appointed the role of “Town Crier” during his final elected term as a member of the Select Board.
Tammy Rose
Tammy is an artist, historian, and award-winning playwright. She runs transcendentalconcord.org, an international online platform for history nerds and those who love the Concord authors. Her upcoming book, The Concord Parade: Past is Present, is coming out in Summer 2026 from Mercer University Press. She is pursuing her PhD in Experience Design at Bentley University.
Rose Saia
Rose is Executive Director of the Centre Street Food Pantry, a regional food relief agency that serves residents of six greater Boston cities and provides food for 3,500 people every month. She has been a regular competitor and winner at Moth storyslams and appeared on GBH’s television series “Stories from the Stage” and in the International Institute’s “Suitcase Stories” series. She recently was featured on the Moth Radio Hour with her story “Paint it Black.”
Alexandra Sheldon
Alex is an artist from Cambridge, MA. She specializes in making painterly collages and teaching mixed media. She is represented by the Bromfield Gallery in Boston.
Mandy Young
Mandy is a retired art educator and freelance calligrapher. She is currently a member of Concord Art’s Board of Directors and a McGyver grandparent.
Doors: 6:30pm • Storytelling: 7-8:30pm • Tickets
In collaboration with Transcendental Concord!