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BIGGEST RECOVERY COMMUNITY ANYWHERE - MAY 3, 4 and 5,  Saturday 8pm: 'Leaving Las Vegas' @ Movies on the Nickel at James Wood Center, corner 5th & San Julian street. "> Los Angeles Poverty Department is partnering with
the REEL Recovery Film Festival to present 3 days of recovery themed
performance, film, discussion and fellowship. With 3
films at 1:00, 3:00, 5:00pm and LAPD's performance at 7:00pm each day @ Inner City Arts theater, located at the corner of 7th and Merchant Street. The REEL Recovery Film Festival
is a project of Writers In Treatment. Writers in Treatment has produced
previous editions of the film festival in New York, Hollywood, Santa Monica,
and Vancouver. This festival THE REEL
RECOVERY Film Festival – the Skid Row Edition will be a first in several
ways: first time on Skid Row and first time integrating theater and film.
The performance, also
called Biggest Recovery Community Anywhere is created and performed by members of our theater group, comprised of people who live and
work on Skid Row. The performance explores the concepts of recovery and
draws upon the wisdom of company members and other notable members of Skid Row’s
recovery community.
The Biggest Recovery Community Anywhere, documents the development of Skid Row as a site of
recovery and transformation. It highlights not only the considerable
concentration of professional resources and programs in the neighborhood, but
also the 80+ weekly meetings organized by community residents. Getting clean and
sober happens in funded programs, but recovery happens in the community. Because
so many people living and working in the neighborhood are following the
spiritual path of recovery, the neighborhood is suffused with a sophisticated
recovery consciousness. People still in addiction are confronted with people in
recovery everyday, concrete evidence that they too can change.
- FREE EVENTS:
- Open rehearsals every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7 till 9 pm and Saturday 2 till 5pm at UCEPP, at the corner of 6th and Stanford street.
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Oct. 3, 7pm @ UCEPP: film screening "My name is Bill W."
- Oct. 17, 6:30pm @ Weingart garden: film screening "Finding Normal"
- Oct.13, 5pm @ Movies on the Nickel, James Wood Community Center, film screening "Gridlock'd"
- Nov. 3, 3-5pm @ The Last Bookstore: Launch of the Indie Shelves initiative, a project that seeks to draw attention to the high-caliber work produced by LA writers and publishers by devoting shelf space to independent books. LAPD curated a bookshelf with Skid Row based writers about recovery. It includes a video and 6 books: Alcoholics Anonymous - the Big Book and books by Robert Sundance, Michael Dolphin, Flo Hawkins and Los Angeles Poverty Department.
- Nov. 11, 3-5pm @ The Last Bookstore: Conversation with Mike Dolphin, who reads from his book Bridge to Shore, a workbook based upon the practical application of the 'Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous'.
- Nov. 14, 6-8pm @ AMITY: film screening "Bill W." documentary.
- Jan. 26, noon @ corner 6th and Main street: Happy Birthday Recovery. LAPD and OTIS students celebrate the first AA meeting, which happend at the Cecil Hotel in 1940.
- Feb. 6, 6-8pm @ AMITY: film screening 'THE DEATH OF AN ADDICT' and discussion.
- March 21, 1-3pm: James Wood Center: film screening 'Unguarded' and discussion.
- April 4, 2-4pm: Lamp Community Space, film screening 'No Kidding, me 2!!' and discussion.
- April 20, 8:30-10pm: the Drifters in Gladys Park: film screening 'A Program of Shorts, Songs and Comedy' and discussion.
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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.
