Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Skid Row performance troupe made, “Resilience”, a performance derived from Charles Porter’s concerns, and focused on individuals’ innate abilities for self-realization and fulfillment, to heal themselves.

Charles Porter, was this year’s was community curator. He created the exhibition “Cosmology & Community: Networks of Liberation” in collaboration with the curatorial staff of Skid Row History Museum & Archive. With murals by Dimitri Kadiev, Joshua Grace, and Ellie Sanchez  It reviewed Charles’ decades of work in Skid Row and his manifold uses of the spiritual and artistic traditions of the African Diaspora to uplift individuals and organize the community.

Resilience taps into the innate health in everyone by exploring activities that we like to do. When we do these activities, we feel competent and confident. They give us pleasure and we feel good about ourselves. Many people spend way too much time lamenting their past— stuck in guilt. Letting go of that, recognizing that what’s past can’t be undone, opens the space to be in the present moment and do the life affirming activities that make you happy. This is explored in LAPD’s performance Resilience.

• May 20, 2pm: “Systematic Change in Action” @ Skid Row History Museum and Archive
• May 20, 4:30pm: “Heal Hear Here” @ LA State Historic Park
• June 8, 12pm: Urban Land Institute @ California Endowment
• June 19, 2pm: Juneteenth Celebration @ Skid Row History Museum and Archive

RESILIENCE performance / concert.
For these performances LA Poverty Department is collaborating with Street Symphony. Vijay Gupta’s Darshan Piano Trio will be playing music of Robert and Clara Schumann, and their young fierce student Johannes Brahms. ”Their work embodies and amplifies the theme of resilience, it is the music of survival, metabolism, transformation.” (says Vijay)

• September 28, 2pm at The Midnight Mission, 6^th and San Pedro Street
• September 29, 10am at the Downtown Women’s Center, 442 S. San Pedro Street
• October 1, 3pm at Inner City Arts, 720 Kohler St, Los Angeles, CA 90021

John Malpede, Henriëtte Brouwers, Lorraine Morland, Alexander the Poet, Tom Grode, Lee Maupin, Keith Johnson, Iron Donato, Stephanie Bell.

Resilience is funded in part by, The Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Arts – Theater, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Kindle Project and the LA County Department of Arts and Culture.