Colbourne Ave presents a night of stories about our suburb, in one of it's many beautiful spaces.  The Glebe Stories will be coordinated by local storyteller Andreea Kindryd, a 75 year old African American Australian who has told her stories internationally.  After "From Slavery To Star Trek", a personal history beginning in Mississippi and ending in Hollywood, Andreea decided to work on stories about her current home - Glebe.

She has interviewed locals and ex-locals to extract a personal and cultural history of Glebe, full of people, food, amenities, good things, not so good things, likes, secrets, and gossip.  This is part of the Story Project which will be visiting other suburbs as well. The stories will be videoed and put into a data base so that they can be accessed by topic or feelings.  Glebe is the first stage of the project, and we will have stories from long time residents and rent arrivals, people who grew up, went to school or worked in Glebe.   A few are professional story tellers and the rest just people with a story to tell.  We all have stories and when an elder dies a library is lost.

- See more at: http://2013.sydneyfringe.com/event/theatre/andreea-kindryds-glebe-stories-project#sthash.jzsyWL5b.dpuf

From a review of her show at the Adelaide Fringe:

"African American Australian Andreea Kindryd’s ancestors and relatives swum across the Mississippi to move back in to slavery to be with the people they loved; they had families of eight children, all of whom got an education in a time when many people didn’t; they shot men in the Ku Klux Klan and escaped to California; they wrote hit songs for Elvis. Her mother worked as a hairdresser for many stars, including Nat King Cole, and was distressed by Kindryd’s choice to show off her natural kinky hair.

Kindryd didn’t just live through the civil rights era: she spoke on the radio with Malcolm X; she was Martin Luther King’s PA (“okay, for a day” she admits). After college, she moved to New York and worked on a radio station in Harlem, and moving back to California, she was one of two African Americans hired to work for Lucille Ball’s production company Desilu Productions. There she worked on many shows, in particular the original Star Trek, where she worked for producer and inventor of Klingon Gene Coon, and kissed George Takei.

To hear these stories first hand (or second or third hand in a direct ancestral line) in any case would be a privilege, but Kindryd is a generous, funny, loving and exciting storyteller. She not only recounts the stories of her and her family’s lives, she takes on their characters, re-enacting their situations and conversations."