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Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD)

Founded in 1985, LAPD is made up of people who make art and live and work in Skid Row...

 

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Performance, visual art and community conversations. It's an epic history of Skid Row!...

 

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LAPD's yearly arts festival at Gladys Park in Skid Row...

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LAPD’s New Project

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The New Compassionate Downtown

PerformanceDirected by John Malpede and Henriëtte BrouwersCommissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) for WE RISE 2021Visual Art by Robby Herbst May 14, and 15, 2021 at 8PM.At Geffen Contemporary at MOCA plaza for a by invitation only, physically distanced audience & on YouTube Live stream May 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1_nOxf7t6cMay 15:…
LA Poverty Department
March 30, 2020

LAPD’s New Exhibition

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Systems of Exchange 3/27-4/25

March 27 – April 25, 2021Exhibition at ArtCenter, in the window on 4th street, at the corner of Main and 4th street, downtown.Elizabeth Preger brings together Los Angeles artist collectives under the exhibition Systems of Exchange, pairing a series of vitrines inhabited by local creative communities and reproductions of their archival…
LA Poverty Department
April 2, 2021

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CAP UCLA – The Tune In Festival – SING OUT

PERFORMANCE/TUNE-IN FESTIVAL L.A.October 2020Prerecorded Live in Los Angeles and Elsewhere The Tune In Festival: Program 4    SING OUTVijay Gupta & Los Angeles Poverty Department with Kronos QuartetAs part of the Tune-In Festival, violinist and founder of Street Symphony Vijay Gupta and The Kronos Quartet, jam on Los Angeles Poverty Department's performance…
LA Poverty Department
October 23, 2020

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