RFK in EKY, The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project , is a series of public conversations and activities centered around the real-time, site-specific intermedia performance that recreated, on September 9th and 10th 2004, Robert Kennedy’s two-day, 200 mile “poverty tour” of southeastern Kentucky in 1968.
An Appalshop project directed by John Malpede. Recreating Imbalance
A short description by John Malpede that describes the conceptual links between Agents & Assets and RFKinEKY. |
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LA Poverty Department's "Skid Row History Museum" will be installed at The Box Gallery, in Chinatown from June 28 through August 2, 2008.
The show is open and FREE to all.
Open: Wednesday thru Saturday from NOON to 6 PM.
June 28; 6 - 9 PM - OPENING EVENT
Live From Skid Row: Jeff Dietrich and Catherine Morris of the Catholic Worker and the Hippie Kitchen remember remarkable people and initiatives. Music from SS Jones and Oscar Harvey. Performances by Ibrahim Saba and Kevin Michael Key. Food & drinks.
JULY 18, Friday, 6 – 9pm | @ Lamp Community Art Project Gallery
452 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Live From Skid Row: Pete White and Becky Dennison of LA Community Action Network (LACAN) remember remarkable people and initiatives. Music from UTOPIA/dystopia perfromance by Weba Garretson and Ralph Gorodetsky. Performance by Dr. Mongo, Michelle Autry and Sunshine Mills. Food & drinks.
JULY 25, Friday, 2 – 6pm | @ The Box Gallery - WORKSHOP
Live From Skid Row: Workshop for Skid Row residents with Lamp Community and the Downtown Women’s Center. Food & drinks.
JULY 26, Saturday, 6 – 9pm | @ The Box Gallery - PERFORMANCE & PUBLIC CONVERSATION Live From Skid Row: Mollie Lowery, founder and first executive director of Lamp Community remembers remarkable people and initiatives. Music from Code Zero. Performance by Tony Parker and Charles Porter. Food & drinks.
AUGUST 2, Saturday, 6 – 9pm | @ The Box Gallery - CLOSING RECEPTION
Live From Skid Row: Ted Hayes, founder of Dome Village remembers remarkable people and initiatives. Music from Ron Taylor, Lucky Dragon , Church of the Nazarene Gospel Choir. Performance by Riccarlo Porter. Food & drinks.
A major part of this exhibition are events such as the opening,
that will include public discussions with key figures of the Skid Row
community, musical and dramatic performances and workshops for Skid Row residents.
 FREE SHOPPING CARTS
Periodically the LA Police Department has made life difficult for people by claiming that their shopping carts were “stolen property.” The Catholic Worker bought shopping carts and gives them away to people who want them.
This "museum" is temporary and is a planning phase for a permanent "museum' in the form of a series of public artworks that would acknowledge the cultural contribution to the city of people who have lived and worked in Skid Row LA and recognize the history and shifting contours of the area.
Recognizing that the contours of the Skid Row and downtown Los Angeles
have always been dynamic, the museum will include history and events
outside the recognizable boundaries of Skid Row today --- and illuminate
the social dynamics and public policies that have and continue to shape
the area and public perception of the area.
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 THE REAL DEAL, a documentary chronicling the evolution and impact of
the homeless performance group Los Angeles Poverty Department
(L.A.P.D.) and founder John Malpede. Produced by the Halo Group, THE
REAL DEAL was directed by Tom Jones and written by Jones and John
Malpede.
AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
78 minutes / Price for individuals $35
and for institutions $150
(shipping included)
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AGENTS & ASSETS is a National Residency
Performance Project which seeks to give voice to the people whose
communities have been most devastated by drugs and counterproductive
drug policies. The text of Agents & Assets is a March 18, 1998,
hearing transcript from the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence. The allegations in question in this session were made in
a 1996 series of articles by journalist Gary Webb in the San Jose
Mercury News, which alleged CIA involvement in crack cocaine
trafficking into the Los Angeles area. With Agents and Assets LAPD puts
day to day experiences in a larger social and political context while
exposing the root causes and policies that help perpetuate poverty
AGENTS & ASSETS has been performed in Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, Utrecht (the Neterlands), Compton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and 3 boroughs of New York.
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Los Angeles Poverty Department was founded in 1985 by director, actor, activist, and writer John Malpede. At its inception, LAPD was the first performance group in the nation made up principally of homeless people. LAPD is dedicated to building community on Skid Row, Los Angeles. Since 1985, the company has offered performance workshops that are free and open to the Skid Row community— partnering with numerous social service and advocacy groups, including SRO Housing, Inc.; LA Community Action Network; The Downtown Women’s Action Coalition; St.Vincent DePaul Center; The Salvation Army’s Women’s and Men’s drug recovery programs; and the Inner City Law Center.
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Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performance work that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. LAPD is committed to creating high-quality, challenging performances that express the realities, hopes, and dreams of people who live and work in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, and is dedicated to building community and to the artistic and personal development of its members.
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March 2, 2007, Washington There are approximately 754,000 homeless
people living in the United States. One in five of the homeless are
children. “On a yearly basis the total number of homeless fluctuates
between 2 and 3 million” says Philip Mangano, the director of the Bush
Administration's Interagency Council on Homelessness. The army of
homeless is growing because the housing costs are rising faster than
benefits and social services. Other causes are domestic violence,
drugs, the closing of mental hospitals and the lack of reintegration
back into the society after imprisonment. Although blacks make up 12 %
of the population in the US, they represent 45% of the homeless. One in
every 6 homeless people is a woman.
Website design: emediacy / website editor: Henriette Brouwers
Office:
Los Angeles Poverty Department
POB 26190
Los Angeles, CA 90026
PH: (213) 413-1077 / cell: (310) 259 1038
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