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Irondale Center to Unearth True Stories of Fort Greene With Latest Project

What is the REAL Fort Greene? How do we define “community”? What are the untold stories of our neighborhood? The Irondale Center (85. S Oxford St), Fort Greene’s newest resident theatre company, pursues these and other questions with its latest project entitled, A People’s History of Fort Greene. Over the next year, Irondale will be gathering interviews and holding discussions with community members in the Fort Greene area to create an original play based on the rich past and ever-changing present of Irondale’s new neighborhood.

Beginning this spring, Irondale will host a series of so-called “story circles,” events at which community members will be invited to gather to share their own opinions, stories, and memories about life in Fort Greene. In May, Irondale will host a “work-in-progress” performance based material gathered during the initial story circles. Following that, in mid-2010, Irondale plans to produce a fully-mounted production in which members of Irondale’s permanent performing company will work alongside area residents to present a special one-of-a-kind performance.

Do you live or work in Fort Greene? Would you or your community group like to share YOUR stories with us? Give us a call! Contact Blake Wilson, Education Associate at 718-488-9233. Participation is open to ALL who have a connection with Fort Greene regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, income, or sexual orientation/identity.