Projects for 2009:
In January Los Angeles Poverty Department will start a series of workshops at OPCC: Ocean Park Community Center in Santa Monica. OPCC's new facility, the OPCC Cloverfield Services Center, opened in January 2007, and houses Daybreak Shelter and Safe Haven.
The workshops will culminate in a performance piece that will be presented on the outdoor stage at 18th Street Arts Center during their ArtNight event on May 2, 2009.
 LAPD and Miguel Reynaga and his street performance group COMPA / Teatro Trono, in Cochabamba.
LAPD's UPCOMING RESIDENCY PROJECT in BOLIVIA: Agents & Assets
LAPD is preparing a series of Spanish language performances of Agents & Assets in Bolivia with a combined cast of LAPD'ers and Bolivianos. The project brings together victims of the "War On Drugs' in Bolivia and the U.S., people who have experienced first hand damage to their communities, their families, themselves.
Summer 2009, five LAPD'ers will travel to Bolivia and rehearse with 8 Bolivianos from Cochabamba and LA Paz to create the combined cast of 13. Bolivianos will include formerly incarcerated actors, formerly homeless youth and small farmers from coca growing regions. LAPD is working with theater makers Wiler Vidaurre, who through his groundbreaking Abracadabra Project, has worked for eight years creating theater inside the prison in Cochabamba and, in La Paz, with Teatro Trono. For 20 years, Teatro Trono, founded by Ivan Nogales, has made theater and a home for street youth in La Paz. Trono's achievements include a creation of a beautiful handcrafted building that includes: a theater, workshops, and living spaces. Trono has developed a company of young actors who continue to work with the current street youth in La Paz. Trono has worked throughout Bolivia, and in S. America, N. America and Europe.
Agents & Assets performances will take place in Cochabamba and La Paz. We're working to gain additional resources so that we can travel the production throughout Bolivia, to towns large and small.
Agents & Assets is a performance residency project that links people and communities that have been most devastated by drugs and the counterproductive drug policies of US War on Drugs. In Agents & Assets citizens witness the governments, and exercise citizen oversight of government policies.
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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 en locationtheater
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 contemporary 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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