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.
WALK THE TALK is a peripatetic performance - with brass band - that travels through Skid Row with performances that celebrate the achievements of neighborhood visionaries. LAPD tells the stories of these 36 people in the places where they lived and worked, to bring the history of the community to life and keep it alive. With Community Redevelopment Agency, LAPD is
creatingpermanent public artworksdesigned
by Mr. Brainwash, with images of neighborhood residents whose visionary
actions have contributed to re-knitting the social fabric of Skid Row.
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.
Los Angeles Poverty Department, founded in 1985, is
made up of people who make art and live and work on Skid Row.LAPD
tells the rest of the story, what you don’t hear elsewhere.We create change by telling the story
of the community in a way that supports the initiatives of community residents.We want the narrative of the
neighborhood to be in the hands of neighborhood people.We work to generate this narrative and
to supplant narratives that perpetuate stereotypes used to keep the
neighborhood people down or to justify displacing the community. We want to
create recognition of the community and it’s values.
Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performances and multidisciplinary
artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social
forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the
realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.'s Skid
Row.
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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.
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