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.
Join us
for a lively discussion about how processes for engaging people through their
stories has evolved over the last 30 years. Special
Digital Storytelling Screening followed by Presentations and Panel Discussion.Please contact
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for general information.
Friday & Saturday January 27 & 28 from 12-4 pm, Gladys Park
The
Los Angeles Poverty Department is producing the 2nd annual Festival in Gladys Park, at the corner of 6th and Gladys Street in Skid
Row.There will be space for Public Art and a stage with live performance, poetry, music, rap... etc. You can sign up in advance or use the open mic.If you want to reserve a performance time, send an email to:
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, or call / text Henriëtte: 310-227 6071 or KevinMichael: 213-948-6159
!!! Just like last year, if you register as an artist we will give you some menacing cool shades !!! and we'll film your performance and give you a DVD with clips of all the performances and art works for free.
WALK THE TALK - PUBLIC ARTWORKS
With Community Redevelopment Agency, LAPD is
creatingpermanent public artworksdesigned by Mr. Brainwash, 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 that tell the stories of these people in the places where they lived and worked to celebrate the achievements of neighborhood visionaries, to bring the history of the community to life and keep it alive.
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.
Los Angeles Poverty Department, founded in 1985, is
made up of people who make art and live and work on Skid Row.LAPD
tells the rest of the story, what you don’t hear elsewhere.We create change by telling the story
of the community in a way that supports the initiatives of community residents.We want the narrative of the
neighborhood to be in the hands of neighborhood people.We work to generate this narrative and
to supplant narratives that perpetuate stereotypes used to keep the
neighborhood people down or to justify displacing the community. We want to
create recognition of the community and it’s values.
Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performances and multidisciplinary
artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social
forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the
realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.'s Skid
Row.
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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.
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