LAPD's NEW PROJECT - Los Angeles Poverty Department

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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LAPD's NEW PROJECT

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DOWNLOAD: 'Findings from a Collaborative Inquiry by the Los Angeles Poverty Department and the Urban Institute': MAKING THE CASE FOR SKID ROW CULTURE

"History of Incarceration" theater workshops, every Tuesday 7-9 PM and Saturdays 2-5 PM, at UCEPP space on the corner of Stanford and 6th Street.

LAPD’s History of Incarceration project combines theater, installation and public education to examine the personal and social costs of incarceration in the US. The performance and installation’s creative material is developed in workshops and brings together the first hand personal experience of performers including their inside understanding of how the prison system functions. In STATE OF INCARCERATION these artists articulate the mental and physical challenges of incarceration and the resources needed to endure and recover from it. STATE OF INCARCERATION performances began in June. Additional performances, will take place at various community locations throughout the fall, with new material continually being developed and introduced. A gallery filling installation of prison bunk beds will take place in November. January 28 and 29 performances at HIGHWAYS Performance Space, will feature the installation of the prison bunks in the performance space, and the performances will take place within the constraints of this prison architecture. See: STATE OF INCARCERATION

SKID ROW WALK OF FAME - WALK THE TALK 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.

The project builds upon our work over the past two years. During "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.

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