In Partnership with Escuela de Arte y Talentos in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
July 11 – Aug. 24, 2009
LAPD was in residence in Cochabamba, Bolivia to rehearse the Spanish language performance of AGENTS & ASSETS with a combined cast of LAPD’ers & our Boliviano collaborators from the The Escuela de Arte y Talentos.
Watch the 30-minute film or our 2-month Bolivian tour of Agentes y Activos. Travel with our cast and crew of 17. See Cochabamba, Oruro, La Paz, El Alto, Sucre and Santa Cruz and all points in between.
Made possible with support of HALO group.
Filmed and edited by Matt Mayes.
Five LAPD’ers traveled to Bolivia and rehearse with 8 Bolivianos from Cochabamba to create the combined cast of 13. LAPD collaborated with theater maker Wiler Vidaurre, who through his groundbreaking Abracadabra Project, has worked for eight years creating theater inside the prison in Cochabamba.
At a time when the Obama administration has renounced the “war on drugs” rhetoric, making a major shift in policy by acknowledging the U.S.’s culpability in the international drug trade, the Los Angeles Poverty Department embarked on a Bolivian tour for the South American premiere of Agentes y Activos. The project brought together victims of the “War On Drugs’ in Bolivia and the U.S., people who have experienced first hand damage to their communities, their families, themselves.
PERFORMANCES / OBRAS:
Aug. 5: Cochabamba — El ABRA prison: 10:00
Debate con Theo Roncken y KevinMichael Key, moderator Wiler Vidaurre
Aug. 7: Cochabamba — mARTadero: 18:45 Ritual De Coca, 19:30 performance
Debate con Theo Roncken y KevinMichael Key, moderator Ismael Saavedra
Aug. 8: Cochabamba — mARTadero: 19:30
Debate con Rafael Puente, moderator Ismael Saavedra
Aug. 13: Oruro — Casa de la Cultura Paraninfo Universitario: 15:00 + 19:00
Debate con Alex Alfaro, director Departamental Oruro de Fuerza Especial de Lucha el Narcotrafico y Franz Villegas, Fiscal Sustancias Controladas en Oruro, moderator Wiler Vidaurre
Aug. 15: La Paz, Mallasa — Colegio SOS Hermann Gmeiner : 10:00
Debate con elenco, moderator Zulma Galván
Aug. 15: El Alto — teatro municipal de la Camera: 18:00
Debate con elenco, moderator Wiler Vidaurre
Aug. 16: La Paz — Prado: 11:00 – 13:00
Debate con elenco, moderator Wiler Vidaurre
Aug. 19: Cochabamba — Plaza Principal (Plaza de 14 Septiembre)
Introduction de Rafael Puente y debate con elenco, moderator Wiler Vidaurre
Aug. 21: Sucre — fundación Pachamama: 19:00
Debate con Rafael Garcia Moran, historian, Alejandro Sarate, actor / activist
Aug. 22: Santa Cruz, Plan 3000 — Colegio Saint Andrew: 19:30
Debate con Fernando Quintanilla, sociologo / actor; Eduardo Leayzer, comunicador social y Siller Pactzi, micro empresarioAug. 23: Santa Cruz — Casa de la Cultura: 20:00
Debate con KevinMichael Key, LAPD; Carlos Lara, actor / sociológo y Henry Baldelomar, politologo
Wednesday, April 7, 2010: FLIM SKYPE POPCORN – LIVE REPORT – g727 Gallery.
LAPD invites fellow Angelinos to see and hear our Bolivian tour of Agentes y Activos. We’ve produced a 30-minute film or our 2-month tour. The film features the magnificent larger than life landscape of the Bolivian Andes and the on stage and on the road discoveries of our traveling cast and crew of seventeen: LAPD’ers & our Boliviano collaborators from the The Escuela de Arte y Talentos. See Cochabamba, Oruro, La Paz, El Alto, Sucre and Santa Cruz and all points in between.
En Español:
Agentes y Activos dramatiza una audiencia de la Cámara de Representantes del Congreso de los EEUU. Esta audiencia examinó alegaciones sobre la participación del CIA en el tráfico de cocaína con fines de financiar los Contras de Nicaragua en la década de los 80, actividades expresamente prohibidas por el Congreso estadounidense. La audiencia se llevó a cabo el 18 de marzo del 1998. Su realización representa todos los gobiernos que ignoran los intereses de sus ciudadanos, particularmente los pobres, para llevar a cabo otras políticas.
El Departamento de Pobreza de Los Ángeles (LAPD) está basada en una zona de la ciudad que ha vivido un fuerte impacto por la epidemia de adicción al crack cocaína; mucha gente perdieron sus familias, sus casas y sus vidas. LAPD ha co-producido este proyecto con programas de rehabilitación en Detroit, Nueva York y en barrios pobres de otras ciudades. Actualmente, el elenco de actores bolivianos y del LAPD buscamos intercambiar experiencias para investigar en conjunto los costos humanos de las drogas, del narcotráfico y de la guerra contra las drogas.
Zulma Galván – Ms. Maxine Waters, Yolanda Ramirez – Ms. Millender McDonald, John Malpede – Ms. Skaggs, Tony Parker – Mr. Dixon, Javier Mendizabal – Mr. Gibbons, Carmen R. Pictor – Ms. Harmon and Mr. Lewis, Nilo Berrocal Vargas – Mr. Goss / Chair, Kevin Michael Key – Mr. Skelton, Augusto Hinojosa – Mr. Dicks, Henriëtte Brouwers – Ms. Pelosi, Ariel Coca – Mr. Bishop, Wiler Vidaurre – Mr. Fred Hitz / CIA Inspector General.
Agents & Assets: Witnessing the War on Drugs and on Communities
A publication focused on a decade of Agents & Assets performances and conversation. The book can be purchased for $12.95.
Performances/Residencies
2014 – Agentes y Activos, Queens Museum
2009 – Agentes y Activos, Bolivia
2008 – Agents & Assets, New York
2006 – Agents & Assets, Philadelphia and Baltimore
2005 – Agents & Assets, Compton and Utrecht, The Netherlands
2004 – Agents & Assets, Cleveland
2002 – Agents & Assets, Detroit
2001 – Agents & Assets, Los Angeles
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.
Visit the Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project web site.© 2024 lapovertydept.org. Los Angeles Poverty Department
