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.
JANUARY 25:Making the Case for Skid Row Culture - Findings
from a Collaborative Inquiry by the Los Angeles Poverty
Department and the Urban Institute -published on the Animating
Democracy Initiative web page of Americans for the Arts. Presentation of the paper at the
Japanese American Cultural and Community
Center for the Skid Row Community.
JUNE 9: STATE OF INCARCERATION, directed by John Malpede.
Performed at the Central City Community Church on Skid Row.
JUNE 10: STATE OF INCARCERATION, directed by John Malpede.
Performed
at the LA Community Action Network on Skid Row.
July 22: "REWEAVING
THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF SKID ROW"
A
conversation about LAPD’s ‘Walk the Talk’ a theater project that
chronicles the emergence of a
permanent community and culture in Skid Row at theALOUD series of the Public
library. Panelists:
Pete White
(LA Community Action Network), OG man (Skid Row 3 on 3 basketball),
Clyde Casey (Another Planet), Jeff Dietrich (LA Catholic
Worker) and John Malpede (LA Poverty Department), moderator: Maria
Rosario Jackson (Urban Institute).
2009
MAY 1 and 2: CPR: a Public Training in Life Saving Skills, directed by Henriëtte Brouwers and John Malpede.
With a combined cast of OPCC and LAPD, performed at Highways Performance Space to celebrate the 20 year anniversary
of Highways and 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica.
MAY 5: EMPLOYING HIS TELEPATHIC POWERS, MR. SMALLMAN FIGHTS FOR JUSTICE IN THE INJUSTICE SYSTEM, presentation of a year-long workshop, directed by Henriëtte Brouwers and John Malpede with LAMP residents and LAPDers at the LAMP Village.
May 17: Los Angeles Poverty Department receives the Otto Award for Political Theatre produced by the Castillo Theatre in New York.
Aug. 2 - 24: AGENTES y ACTIVOS, directed by John Malpede.
Bolivian tour of the AGENTS & ASSETS performance in Spanish, performed in Cochabamba, Oruro, La Paz, El Alto, Sucre, Plan 3000 and Santa Cruz.
2008
Jan.: AGENTS & ASSETS, directed by John Malpede.
New York: Performances at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, Manhattan,
St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem and at Housing Works in the East
Brooklyn.
Feb. - April: RED BEARD/RED BEARD, directed by John Malpede.
Co-production of LAPD and Theatre2Gennevilliers, Gennevilliers, Paris.
May 19:ROUND TRIP, LAPD recreates an Allan Kaprow "Happening" on Skid Row.
In collaboration with The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA: Allen Kaprow- Art as Life.
June 13: John Malpede performs "Cruel, Unusual Outrages Upon Personal Dignity, Punishment And Humiliating Degrading Treatment" as part of the City of Los Angeles Literary and Performing Fellows Grand Performances at Cal Plaza.
June 21 and 22: La Llorona: Weeping Women of Echo Park, directed by Henriëtte Brouwers. Perfromed at Echo Park United Methodist Church, Los Angeles.
June 28 - Aug. 2: LAPD presents the Skid Row History Museum at The BOX Gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Live From Skid Row: PERFORMANCE & PUBLIC CONVERSATION JUNE 28 @ The Box Gallery: 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.
JULY 18 @
Lamp Community Art Project Gallery: Public discussion with Pete White
and Becky Dennison of LA Community Action Network (LACAN). Music from
Weba Garretson and Ralph Gorodetsky. Performance by Michelle Autry and
Sunshine Mills. JULY 26 @ The Box Gallery: Public discussion with Mollie Lowery,
founder and first executive director of Lamp Community. Music from Code
Zero. Performance by Tony Parker and Charles Porter. AUGUST 2 @ The Box Gallery: Public discussion with Ted Hayes,
founder of Dome Village. Music from Church of the Nazarene Gospel Choir
and Lucky Dragon. Performance by Riccarlo Porter.
October 11 2008 - January 4 2009: Espèces d’espace at MAGASIN - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble (France),
curated by Yves Aupetitallotarchives. The exhibition dedicates a room
to the Los Angeles Poverty Department with elements (audio /video,
pictures, notes, performance texts, etc.) of LAPD's archive from 1985
to 1990.
December 20, 27, 28: My Eyes are the Cage in my Head written and directed by Ron Allen. Performed at The Box Gallery in Chinatown, the Church of the Nazarene in Skid Row and the Industry Cafe & Jazz in Culver City.
2007
Jan. / Feb. / March: LEGAL*ILLEGAL, directed by John Malpede.
Co-production
of Nieuwpoort theater and Unie de Zorgelozen, Belgium and LAPD.
Performed in former Tax-building 'de Poel' in Gent, Belgium.
April - December: UTOPIA/dystopia, Los Angeles.
April 19: Is it a crime to be poor? screening of The REAL DEAL, Tom Jones’ film on LAPD at the
ALOUD series at the Central Library.
June- Nov.: Glimpses of Utopia 1 -37: Five evenings of performances and presentations by people who are making
"utopian" contributions to life in downtown Los Angeles.
Nov. 16: 220 Glimpses of Utopia an Outdoor-Utopian-Movement-Chain from Skid Row to City Hall, directed by Henriette Brouwers.
Dec. 6 - 8: UTOPIA/dystopia performances at REDCAT theater, directed by John Malpede.
2006
Jan./Feb.: Fried Poetry, directed by poet, playwright, recovery specialist and Buddhist monk Ron Allen. Bayond Baroque; Literary Arts Center in Venice and the James Wood Center on Skid Row.
March/April: Evacuation plan for the city of Charlotte, directed by John Malpede and Henriette Brouwers.
The Urban Ministry Center and Davidson College, Charlotte, NC.
May/June: Sleepwalking Democracy; co-production of LAPD and Made in da Shade. Directed by John Malpede and Maarten van Hinte.
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Oct./Nov.: AGENTS & ASSETS, directed by John Malpede.
Co-production of LAPD and Art Sanctuary, Philadelphia, PA and the Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD.
2005
May 21 - 29: AGENTS & ASSETS, directed by John Malpede.
REDCAT Theatre, the Democracy Forum at JANM and Compton Community College in Los Angeles.
Nov. 30 - Dec. 2: AGENTS & ASSETS, directed by John Malpede.
'Vrede van Utrecht' Festival in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2004
Oct./Nov.: AGENTS & ASSETS, directed by John Malpede.
Co-production of LAPD and Cleveland Public Theater.
2003
July/August: La Llorona, Weeping Women on Skid Row, directed by Henriette Brouwers.
LA Central City Church of the Nazarene on Skid Row and Nov.14 at Scripps College in Claremont, CA.
August: LAPD Retrospective, written and performed by John
Malpede for the REAL DEAL. Co-production with Highways Performance
Space, and Halo Group, Santa Monica, CA.
September: Malpede received Cornerstone Theater’s Bridge Award for outstanding community-based theater.
2002
May/June: Is There History on Skid Row?, Directed by
John Malpede and Henriette Brouwers. Performance / installation.
Written by Rickey Mantley, Troy Ragland, and John Malpede. Winston
Street Store, LA.
Sept./Oct.: AGENTS & ASSETS, directed by John Malpede.
Co-production of LAPD and Urban Community Visonaries, Detroit.
2001 Jan.: AGENTS & ASSETS, directed by John Malpede. Co-production of LAPD, Old Stories:New Lives and Side Street Projects, LA.
Red Beard, Red Beard, directed by John Malpede. , Co-production of LAPD and SRO Housing, at The Carleton Hotel, LA.
1999
Los Angeles Poverty Department receives Theater LA’s Ovation Award for "Sustained
Achievement in the use of Theater Arts to Impact the Community".
Race, written and directed by Pascal Rembert. Co-production of LAPD and Cal State, LA Graduate Department of Theater.
1998
Will They Fare Better or Worse?, directed by Sonya Mims and Emmanuel Deleage, and Artifacts, directed by David Halenda, at The Carleton Hotel.
1997
Skid Row Sukkot, directed by Sonya Mims and John Malpede, Skirball-Kenis Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
Souvenirs, directed by David Halenda at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Wrapped-Up & Buried, directed by David Halenda and Otis Rogers at Los Angeles Theater Center.
Taking Back My Place, a site-specific performance with choreographer Sara Shelton Mann and the dance theater group, Contraband.
1996
Still at War: the Neverending Battle, directed by Brian Brophy and Otis Rogers at Los Angeles Theater Center, December 5-7.
History of the Body, director: David Halenda, Los Angeles Theater Center & Glaxa.
Bone Story, directed by company member David Halenda.
1995
I Gave At the Corner, dir. by David Halenda, Los Angeles Theater Center.
I Was Sleeping With My Eyes Open, Collaboration with Goat Island Performance Group of Chicago, directed by John Malpede and Lin Hixson at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
My Virtual Reality, directed by Otis Rogers at Los Angeles Theater Centre.
1994
LAPD Inspects Raleigh, directed by Malpede at Center Stage, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
1993
Give Up All Your Possessions and Follow Me, directed by Malpede at La Boca, Los Angeles.
The Road Show, directed by Halenda at Los Angeles Theater Center.
Call Home, directed by Malpede at La Boca, Los Angeles Festival, Beyond Baroque.
1991
LAPD Inspects London, directed by Malpede at London International Festival.
LAPD Inspects Amsterdam, directed by Malpede at Touch Time Festival, Mickery Theater Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Time Festival, Ghent, Belgium.
LAPD Inspects the Twin Cities, directed by Malpede at the Walker Art Center and The Southern Theater.
1990
LAPD Inspects America: Chicago and Washington, directed by Malpede at New Performance Space, San Francisco.
LAPD Inspects Chicago, directed by Malpede at Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.
LAPD Inspects Washington D.C., directed by Malpede at Arena Stage, Washington D.C.
1989
Jupiter 35, directed by Malpede and Kevin Williams and Elia Arce at San Francisco Art Institute, Sushi (San Diego), Highways (Santa Monica), Los Angeles Festival.
1988
LAPD Inspects Philadelphia, directed by Malpede at Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia.
LAPD Inspects San Francisco, directed by Malpede at Boyd St. Theater (LA), Sushi, Museo del Barrio, On the Boards (Seattle), and Portland Art Institute.
John Malpede receives the Adeline Kent award from the San Francisco Art
Institute and LAPD receives New York City’s Dance Theater Workshop
Bessie Creation Award.
1987
No Stone for Studs Schwartz, directed by Malpede at Boyd St. Theater, UCLA, and San Francisco Art Institute.
1986
South of the Clouds, directed by Malpede at the Boyd St. Theater.
Performer Jim Beame receives an LA Weekly Best Actor award.
