The project articulates a vision, in which “Public Safety” is generated by cultivating a sense of mutual responsibility among community members for creating the well being of their community. “Public Safety for Real” is about community generated Public Safety. That means taking back the notion of “public safety” –and reclaiming…
EXHIBITION OPENING: FRIDAY March 9, 6-8pm Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Friday March 9 through Friday June 30 Open: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 2-5pm March 24 @ 3pm: CONVERSATION - Zillionaires against Humanity - Community voice and Public Safety Adrian Riskin, Professor of...
Friday, June 22 at 7pm – GOOK “Gook” – directed by Justin Chon – Runtime: 94 minutes – in theaters: Aug, 2017 Synopsis: Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers who own a struggling women’s shoe store, have an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. On the first day of the 1992 L.A. riots,…
Year End Letter 2017 Dear Friends of Los Angeles Poverty Department, Yikes! 2017 is headed out the door. How did that happen? Time to ask for generous donations before tax code does who-knows-what to you and everybody who isn’t a corporation or as rich as one. One account I just…
Our dear friend and collaborator and Key LAPD staff member KevinMichael Key has passed on. He died on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, surrounded by his loving children, brother, grandchildren and friends. Kevin is a big and loving presence in the Skid Row community, working as an advocate with UCEPP (United…
Skid Row History Museum & Archive has moved to 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012. New project: Public Safety For Real. Rehearsals are open to anyone who wants to participate on Tuesday & Thursday: 7-9pm and Saturday: 2-5pm. Bi-weekly Free Movie Nights at the Museum, every 1st and 3rd…
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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.
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