WALK the TALK open workshops
Tuesday and Thursday: 7-9 pm and Saturday 2-5 pm
@ 800 6th Street: at the corner E. 6 Street and Stanford.
Feb. - April: WALK the TALK performance: community
conversation events, and a peripatetic performance, with brass band, that will
travel through the neighborhood celebrating the achievements of 36
community builders.
Public Artworks / Community Portrait Gallery
Based on input from
the community and with the support of the LA Community Redevelopment Agency
(CRA) Los Angeles Poverty department is creating a public artwork featuring 36
portraits of Skid Row community makers and visionaries, designed by Mr. Brainwash.
WALK THE TALK builds upon our work over the past 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.
COLD WAR a performance project, developed over 3 years by the PeerGrouP and
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Feb. 13-25: residency PeerGouP
in Los Angeles
July 15- Aug. 15: residency LAPD
in Drente, The Netherlands
The
finished piece will be presented as part of the Noorderzon Festival in
Groningen, the Netherlands, from16-26 August 2012.
The City of Los Angeles
Department of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Exchange International
initiative has supported two phases of this collaboration between LAPD and the
Netherlands-based PeerGrouP . Both groups create theater work that engages with
current social issues, but the communities they work with are very different:
PeerGrouP builds projects in rural locations in Drente and L.A. Poverty
Department builds projects in the heart of Skid Row, downtown LA.
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October: annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists in Gladys Park
The ‘Festival for All Skid Row Artists’ wants to
bring together the artists of Skid Row and to collect the data necessary to
make the Case forual Skid Row Culture. We set up a booth where all Skid Row artists can register and we take pictures of their work
and film and record their performances. We are creating a database with the
artists contact information and information about where and how they are making
their art that will be made available to the Skid Row community. And all
artists will receive our menacing cool Skid Row Artist sunglasses.
With the festival we present the culture
that exists on Skid Row to emphasize the necessity for cultural resources. In
January 2010 John Malpede (Los Angeles Poverty Department) and Maria Rosario
Jackson (Urban Institute) presented the study, initiated by the Americans
for the Arts: "Making The Case For Skid Row Culture". The paper, a result of interviews of
focus group meetings with community residents and organizational
representatives, found that culture in Skid Row comes from the ground up and is
often initiated by residents and resident driven initiatives. The pdf is
available on our website and on the website of Americans for the Arts: www.artsusa.org/animatingdemocracy/pdf/reading_room/LAPD.pdf
BIGGEST RECOVERY COMMUNITY ANYWHERE
Fall 2012: begin work process, anticipated
performance of finished work: May 2013
LAPD
will start a new performance project that highlights the fact that Skid Row is
one of the most significant recovery neighborhoods in the country.
Fall 2012 - 2013: STATE OF INCARCERATION
Installation / Performance:
Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Examination of the Personal
and Social Costs of Incarceration in the U.S. will travel to:
VSA Arts of New Mexico, North Fourth Art Center Albuquerque, NM.
Tucson-PIMA Arts Council, Arizona
The Queens Museum, NY, NY.
Pascal Rambert’s ‘Micro History of
World Economics, danced’: Spring 2013 LAPD’s 3rd
collaboration with Pascal with 5 French performers and 45 from LA and LAPD.
Agentes y Activos in Nicaragua
LAPD is
planning a 6 week residency in Matagalpa and Managua with Nicaraguan Teatro
MOVITEP SF of ‘Agentes y Activos’: our performance about drug trafficking.
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