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The Surrealist Cabaret at Hampshire College!

The Royal Frog Ballet, an arts collective founded by Hampshire College alums is returning to their point of origin to bring their annual Surrealist Cabaret to the fields of the Hampshire College Farm. The event walks the audience through the gorgeous farm landscape at autumnal sunset. Along the way they encounter a surreal collection of short stories, dance, installation pieces, and roving characters that explore and celebrate themes of season, place, and what it means to be human in these times.

What started eight years ago in Amherst, MA as an outdoor open studio for a group of friends to show works-in-progress, The Surrealist Cabaret has turned into a wild celebration of season, landscape, death and regrowth, spirits, stories, poetry, and community, featuring artists from across the county. The event delights and befuddles with its volley of drumming skeletons, illuminated poetry, moving sculptures, sequined parades, saints, stilters, puppet shows, musicians, and more! Immersed in the landscape, the characters and stories ooze out of the woods and fields as if they are always there, tucked just under the layer of our everyday routines. It is magical, luminescent, and just a dash of spooky.

The Royal Frog Ballet is a collective of performance and visual artists, who collaborate to create landscape based work that blends ritual and humor to create a wacky brand of conceptual folk art built for fields, puddles and woodlands. They take inspiration from season, magic, and the mundane. Originally based in western Massachusetts, they now rest their heads across the nation, but come together to create work together several times a year.

Reservations are required.
Hiking footwear and warm layers are encouraged as the show includes a vigorous walk on uneven terrain for audience members.
The evening will run approximately 1 hour 20 minutes with walking included.
Doors open at 4:30, show starts promptly at 5:00 p.m.
In the event of rain, cancellation will be listed on the website by 2:30.