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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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LAPD's NEW PROJECT

 
AGENTS & ASSETS

Image July 11 - Aug. 24: AGENTS & ASSETS in BOLIVIA

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 (LAPD) is embarking on a Bolivian tour for the South American premiere of Agents & Assets. The project brings 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. LAPD will be in residence in Cochabamba, Bolivia to rehearse the Spanish language performance of AGENTS & ASSETS with a combined cast of LAPD'ers and Bolivianos.  AGENTS & ASSETS will be performed in Cochabamba, Potosi, Oruro, La Paz, El Alto, Sucre and Santa Cruz. Each performance will be followed by public community discussion. 

download the Spanish info. about our project in Bolivia: Agents & Assets - Español

download English Press Release A&A Bolivia

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Agents & Assets Video
 
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.

 

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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
 
UNITED STATES COUNTS 750,000 HOMELESS

March 2, 2007, Washington There are approximately 754,000 homeless people living in the United States.   One in five of the homeless are children.  “On a yearly basis the total number of homeless fluctuates between 2 and 3 million” says Philip Mangano,  the director of the Bush Administration's Interagency Council on Homelessness.  The army of homeless is growing because the housing costs are rising faster than benefits and social services.  Other causes are domestic violence, drugs, the closing of mental hospitals and the lack of reintegration back into the society after imprisonment.  Although blacks make up 12 % of the population in the US, they represent 45% of the homeless. One in every 6 homeless people is a woman.

Website design: emediacy / website editor: Henriette Brouwers

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Los Angeles Poverty Department
POB 26190
Los Angeles, CA   90026

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