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.
* 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.
* Thursday July 22, 7 PM: "REWEAVING
THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF SKID ROW"
a panel discussion and conversation about LAPD’s public art theater
project: ‘Walk the Talk’ that chronicles the emergence of a permanent community and culture in what has been perceived as a transient Skid Row. Join the social and artistic visionaries who have contributed to weaving the social fabric of Skid Row at the ALOUD series of the Public
library: 630 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
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).
* October - December: LET'S GO!
Open
theater workshopsevery 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.
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.
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.
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