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1Brother Blue Tells AllThey%u2019re reading Winnie The Pooh inBoerum Hill on weekends and they%u2019ve recitedthe Equal Rights Amendment in ProspectPark, but what%u2019s happening in the nabes ofBorough Hall is a totally different story.Abandoning fairy-tale fare and thetraditional story lines, the WNYC OutdoorStorytelling Festival has imported BrotherBlue, a professional tale-spinner and Ph.D.from Harvard University, to storytell aselection of Haitian fables with MarshallDodge, student and distiller of philosophyand humor.Brother Blue and Marshall Dodge willappear in a storytelling festival in theBorough Hall Plaza on September 13 from12:30 to 1:30p.m. Their performance will befree.TrainingForTutoringThe Literacy Volunteers of new YorkCity, taking stock of a waning educationalsystem beleaguered by crowding and fiscaldowns, are now appealing to try to fill out itsranks with others concerned over thetroubles of those who can%u2019t read.In hopes to reduce the numbers of theilliterate population by person-to-persontutoring, which eliminates many of the fearsand apprehensions that adults may haveabout returning to school, they LiteracyVolunteers are currently seeking people totake an 18-hour training course in tutoringand then commit themselves thereafter toturoring for at least 50 hours, at a minimumof two hours each week.Tutoring training workshops will beheld on Sept. 10, 12, 17, 19. 24 and 26 inBrooklyn Heights%u2019 First Presbyterian Churchat 124 Henry St., from 6-9 p.m. Forinformation on this seminar or on other waysto participate in the Literacy Volunteers, call522-0320.AFifthOfFairsF ifth Avenue will erupt into the fullsplendor of a snaking street fair thisweekend when the Fifth AnnualFabulous Fifth Avenue Faiir bursts out of theoffices of the Fifth Avenue Committee andwinds itself down the Park Slope strip fromGarfield Place to 16th Street. It%u2019s a fair in thebest sense of the word: there will be ridesoldstyle (on ponies) and fu tu ris tic(moonwalks), and food vendors andfleamarkets and all the standard coterie thattags after a day-long neighborhoodcelebration.Live entertainment will also run all dayfrom four stages, one at Garfield Place, one a5th Street, one at 9th Street and one at 16thStreet, for disco freaks who have been goinghungry since the closing of Colorado East,there will also be a disco dancing contest.On the three days before the fair, FifthAvenue stores will add to the festivities bysponsoring Sales Days along the street,where shoppers will be able to find specialcut-rates and bargains throughout the day.The Fifth Avenue Committee has published aspecial shopping guide to the Sales Days,which is available along the street.The Fabulous Fifth Avenue Fair will takeplace on Sept. 9, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., fromGarfield Place to 16th Street, complete withlive entertainment from four stages. Formore information on individual programs,call 622-1900.Down TheseMean StagesThe long arm of theatre producer JoePapp is stretching into Fort Greene this weekas the Mobile Theatre Company finishes upits sixteenth season of borough-hopping tobring theatre throughout the city with fourBrooklyn shows.The play is %u201c The Mighty Gents,%u201d anappropriate city summer offering, whichbrings forth the struggles as inner city menattempt to relive their supposedly gloriousand triumphant youth. Written by RichardWesley and directed by Ntozake Shange, theplay will appear twice in Fort Greene Parkand DeKalb Avenue and Washington Parkand then twice again in Prospect Park at%u201c The Mighty Gents,%u201d will be performedon Sept. 6 and Sept. 7 at Fort Greene Park andSept. 8 and 9 in Prospect Park by the MobileTheatre Company, produced by Joe Papp. Allperformances are at 8pm, and all are free.Page 20, The PHOENIX, Septembers, 1979%u25a0 H