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RFK in EKY, 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.

Recreating Imbalance
A short description by John Malpede that describes the conceptual links between Agents & Assets and RFKinEKY.


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Download LAPD's year-end-letter:2009 Newsletter

Ongoing: "Employing His Telepathic Powers, Mr. Smallman Fights for Jusitce in the Injustice System" theater workshops at UCEPP space on the corner of Stanford and 6th Street: 804 East 6th Street, Los Angeles CA 90021. Every Tuesday from 7 till 9 PM and Saturdays from 2 till 5 PM.

SKID ROW HISTORY MUSEUM - SKID ROW WALK OF FAME - WALK THE TALK The project builds upon our work over the past two years. During "UTOPIA / dystopia", we created events that engaged community brain-power to identify initiatives and people who had made positive contributions to the neighborhood. We invited some of the most widely recognized social visionaries from the neighborhood, and they were asked to speak about other people and initiatives that they valued. The input led to the installation, “Skid Row History Museum,” at The Box Gallery, which included more performance and public conversation events, to solicit further community input.

With Community Redevelopment Agency, now LAPD is creating a SKID ROW WALK OF FAME, permanent public artworks with images of neighborhood residents whose visionary actions have contributed to re-knitting the social fabric of Skid Row. WALK THE TALK is a peripatetic performance (with brass band) that travels through Skid Row with performances at each Walk of Fame artwork to celebrate the achievements of neighborhood visionaries, to bring the history of the community to life and keep it alive. All the people whose stories will be told in the artworks will be told in the performance.
 
 
 
THE REAL DEAL documentary

Image THE REAL DEAL, a documentary chronicling the evolution and impact of the homeless performance group Los Angeles Poverty Department (L.A.P.D.) and founder John Malpede.  Produced by the Halo Group, THE REAL DEAL was directed by Tom Jones and written by Jones and John Malpede.

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE  DVD 78 minutes. To order THE REAL DEAL write to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or buy now online: Price for individuals $35 (shipping included)

and for institutions $150 (shipping included)

 
LAPD History
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Los Angeles Poverty Department was founded in 1985 by director, actor, activist, and writer John Malpede. At its inception, LAPD was the first performance group in the nation made up principally of homeless people. LAPD is dedicated to building community on Skid Row, Los Angeles. Since 1985, the company has offered performance workshops that are free and open to the Skid Row community— partnering with numerous social service and advocacy groups, including SRO Housing, Inc.; LA Community Action Network; The Downtown Women’s Action Coalition; St.Vincent DePaul Center; The Salvation Army’s Women’s and Men’s drug recovery programs; and the Inner City Law Center.
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LAPD Mission

Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performance work that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. LAPD is committed to creating high-quality, challenging performances that express the realities, hopes, and dreams of people who live and work in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, and is dedicated to building community and to the artistic and personal development of its members.

download the LAPD year-end-letter: 2008 Newsletter 2009 Newsletter
download 'Findings from a Collaborative Inquiry by the Los Angeles Poverty Department and the Urban Institute': MAKING THE CASE FOR SKID ROW CULTURE
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