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...
A PARADE CELEBRATING THE UNSUNG HEROES OF SKID ROW! Los Angeles Poverty Department Honors the History and Heroes of Skid Row at 2018 edition of biennial Walk the Talk Parade. The parade route begins at 800 East 6th Street (corner of East 6th Street and Stanford Ave.) Download the parade...
Friday, April 6, 2018 at 7pm – When It Rains & Final Insult – Directed by Charles Burnett | Total running time: 82 minutes When it Rains (USA, 1995, Directed by Charles Burnett, Video, 12 min.) What would you do if your mother, your sister, or your neighbor didn’t have the money…
Friday, April 20, 2018 at 7pm “Passing Through” – Directed by Leslie Dektor and produced by Tom MacMaster Q&A with Manuel Compito, Leslie Dektor and Tom MacMaster. Exhibit of artworks by Manuel Compito aka OG Man. Leslie Dektor, a 2-time winner and 13-time nominee of the DGA Director of the…
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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