Agents & Assets - Detroit 2002
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CIA DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN COCAINE TRAFFICKING
PERFORMANCE & SYMPOSIA ABOUT FALLOUT FROM THE WAR ON DRUGS

The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) and Urban Community Visionaries present "AGENTS & ASSETS" at The First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Detroit, 4605 Cass Avenue, corner of Forest.
 
"Agents & Assets", first performed in Los Angeles in January 2001, is re-mounted in Detroit with a combined cast of Los Angeles and Detroit residents, from communities that have been severely impacted by drugs and drug policy.

Read LAPD’s final report for Animating Democracy about Agents & Assets performance in Detroit in 2002. Animating Democracy is an arts and civic dialog project. They were a funder of Agents & Assets in Detroit.
 
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Download press pdf:
Michigan Chronicle 2002 - L.A. group presents crack epidemic drama 
Michigan Citizen 2002 - Drug war theme of new play 
Panorama 2002 - They're the LAPD, but their justice is done on the stage 
 
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Post performance discussions will be moderated by Gwen Winston and Nkenge Zola

Thursday, October 17
Post performance discussion with: Deborah Peterson Small, Drug Policy Alliance; Attorney Jeff Edison; Felix Sirls, recovery professional.

Friday, October 18
Post performance discussion with: Jo Ann Watson, Michigan Drug Reform;  Maureen Taylor, Welfare Rights, Ed Gardin, staff counselor Sobriety House.

Saturday, October 19  (benefit for Mariners’ Inn drug recovery program)
Post performance discussion with: Alfred McCoy, drug war historian, U. of Wisconsin. Dawood Muhammad, Nation of Islam and Amanda Brazel, Students of Sane Drug Policy.

Sunday, October 20  
Post performance discussion:  "the rhetoric of War" with: Peter Sellars,  renowned theater director, Regina Schwartz,  Northwestern University, author of  The Curse of Cain: the Violent Legacy of Monotheism, Chris Parks, Director NRO and specialist on arts in drug recovery.

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Partially funded by The Nathan Cummings Foundation, NEA Theater and The Animating Democracy Initiative of Americans for the Arts with funding from the Ford Foundation. Animating Democracy is an arts and civic dialog project.