The Back 9 is a consideration of how land use decisions get made and includes a performance, an installation, workshops and contextualizing programming (talks, films, workshops) before and during the run of the exhibition. At The Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles CA 90012 Exhibition…
Coming up: 8th Festival for all Skid Row Artists Saturday and Sunday, October 21 & 22, 2017 each day from 1-5pm. All artists can sign up by email: info@lapovertydept.org or call our office: 213-413-1077. Please tell us: * Your name /name of the group * What are you going to…
Friday, October 20, 2017 : 7pm HOMELESS: THE MOTEL KIDS OF ORANGE COUNTY explores the world of children who reside in discounted motels within walking distance of Disneyland, living in limbo as their families struggle to survive in one of the wealthiest regions of America. The parents of motel kids…
Friday, October 13, 2017 at 7pm “Pull of Gravity” directed by El Sawyer and Jon Kaufman | Running time: 1h 21m North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000 prisoners released into…
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 exhibit: The Back 9: Golf and Zoning policy in Los Angeles. The installation, designed by Rosten Woo, in collaboration with LAPD, is open until October 31 and playable every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from…
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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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