upcoming projects

Download LAPD's year-end-letter:2009 Newsletter

* Open theater workshops for 'Hisrtory of Incarceration': Every Tuesday 7-9 PM and Saturdays 2-5 PM, at the UCEPP space on the corner of Stanford and 6th Street: 800 East 6th Street, Los Angeles CA 90021. 
 

performances STATE OF INCARCERATION

* Aug. 12 at 7PM: Behavioral Systems SW Inc., 8141 Orion Avenue, van Nuys CA 91406

* Aug. 14 at 4PM: Jonahproject, corner 6th and Crocker Street, Skid Row

* Aug. 21 at 6 PM: AMITY Foundation Re-entry Program, 3655 S. Grand Avenue, LA, CA 90007 
* Nov. 6-20: Installation @ the BOX gallery in Chinatown, 977 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012.
* January 28 & 29, 2011: Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404.
 
* October - December: LET'S GO!
Open theater workshops every Tuesday 7-9 PM and Saturdays 2-5 PM, at the UCEPP space: 800 East 6th Street, on the corner of Stanford and 6th Street. 
LAPDers will interview Skid Row residents about their hopes and dreams and invite all to particiapte in the creation of a performance that will be presented on December 9, 10 and 11.
 
2010 / 2011
* the SKID ROW WALK OF FAME an outdoor Public Art Project, honoring the community on Skid Row. With Community Redevelopment Agency, now LAPD is creating a “Skid Row Walk of Fame,” permanent public artworks with images of neighborhood residents whose visionary actions have contributed to re-knitting the social fabric of Skid Row.
 
* WALK THE TALK is a peripatetic performance (with brass band) that travels through Skid Row with performances at each Walk of Fame artwork to celebrate the achievements of neighborhood visionaries, to bring the history of the community to life and keep it alive. All the people whose stories will be told in the artworks will be told in the performance
 
WALK THE TALK and WALK OF FAME build upon our work over the past two years. During the project "UTOPIA / dystopia", we created events that engaged community brain-power to identify initiatives and people who had made positive contributions to the neighborhood. We invited some of the most widely recognized social visionaries from the neighborhood, and they were asked to speak about other people and initiatives that they valued. The input led to the installation, “Skid Row History Museum,” at The Box Gallery, which included more performance and public conversation events, to solicit further community input.    
Watch the video explaining the SKID ROW HISTORY MUSEUM / WALK THE TALK
 
 
2010: LAPD will bring artistic director Sjoerd Wagenaar and director Floris van Delft to Los Angeles to participate in 'History of Incareration' and 'Walk the Talk'.
2011 and 2012: PeerGrouP will bring LAPD to Drente, the Netherlands, for a residency project about the Cold War.

PeerGrouP en locationtheater PeerGrouP is a group of people that have the same goal in mind.  PeerGrouP has a steady core group of coworkers. For each project  this inspiring core group is expanded with freelance-specialists, from in- or outside the Netherlands. - PeerGrouP has made important contributions to the development of  ‘site specific theatre’ especially in the northern three provinces of the Netherlands. The PeerGroup makes performances in barns or in the open air, on schips and in abandoned commercial buildings. Locations that matter, places with a history. They are a source of stories for the pepole who live and work there. Besides social, moral and emotional themes architecture and technical possiblities are building stones for a location performance.

Image In 2005 we build our very own Strawcastle! The Strawcastle is a remarkeble project with contem- porary design functions as a theatre for Agricultural and rural related subjects. Since then we premiered seven plays, several debates and many picknick’s.