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…
Friday, August 18, 7:00 p.m. directed by Angad Singh Bhalla | Running time: 1 hr 21 mins. Herman Wallace may be the longest-serving prisoner in solitary confinement in the United States – he’s spent more than 40 years in a 6-by-9-foot cell in Louisiana. Imprisoned in 1967 for a robbery…
September 1, at 7pm Directed by Nick Quested | Running time: 1 hour30 mins. The documentary that transports viewers into the lives of maximum security prisoners at Sing Sing in Ossining, NY, as they mount a stage production of A Few Good Men. From auditions through curtain call, the men…
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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