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.
WALK THE TALK * PARADE * 36 PERFORMANCES * MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND * 3 DAYS 1-5 PM
WALK THE TALK talk: Wednesday May 23, 7 PM @ The Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Conversation &
performance:Creating Community from the Ground up on Skid Row. Conversation with Mollie
Lowery co-founder LAMP, Mike Neely, founder Homeless Outreach
Program/Integrated Care System and General Jeff Page, a new generation
of Skid Row leaders, founded Issues and Solutions. Performance by Los Angeles Poverty
Department. Far from being a societal wasteland, Skid Row, Los
Angeles is a long standing endangered low-income residential neighborhood and the only answer in the entire region for problems of
homelessness and recovery. Tonight’s panelists have lived and worked in the
Skid Row community across three decades and have stood up for the community and
launched transformative community building initiatives on Skid Row. They will
talk about the vitality of the community and their successes in empowering the
community.
WALK THE TALK - 36 Skid Row visionaries celebrated with 3 DAYS of PARADES and PERFORMANCES and BRASS BAND - May 26, 27, 28, 2012, Skid Row, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Poverty Department’s new production Walk the Talk is 3 days of parades and performance
traveling 3 routes through the Skid Row neighborhood. Walk the Talk is no ordinary walk. It’s a parade! A brass
band, Paradigm Brass, (plus pick up musicians), will lead the way. It’s a
performance! LA Poverty Department will bring the neighborhood to life with
performances along the parade route that pay tribute to neighborhood
initiatives and 36 men and women whose contributions to the community call for
a big, blaring celebration. It’s visual art dancing down the street! That’s
right, we’d be holding high 36 unbelievable gorgeous portraits of these
hardworking people, that have been created by bighearted, big brained street
artist Mr. Brainwash. It’s YOU! Join the parade. Be part of the New Orleans style
2nd Line. Bring your tambourine, your kazoo, your
cowbell, your laughter, your attention. This peripatetic performance will bring
the history of the community to life and the 36 portraits are destined for a
permanent outdoor site in the community that will keep this history alive.
SATURDAY, May 26: 1PM
start > 800 E. 6th Street -
to Gladys Park
Mike
Neely / HOP, Tanya Tull / PARA LOS NIÑOS, Jeff Dietrich & Catherine Morris
/ LA CATHOLIC WORKER, Nancy Mintie / INNER CITY LAW CENTER, Harry Rodgers /
HOT, Adam Bennion / LOVE CAMP, Pastor William Campbell / PROJECT OPEN DOOR,
Robert Chambers / HOMELESS WRITERS COALITION, Flo Hawkins / MURALIST, Officer
James Rich / DPSS OFFICE, OG man / OG’S ‘NSERVICE, Ted Hayes / JUSTICEVILLE,
DOME VILLAGE.
SUNDAY, May 27: 1PM start
> 530 S. Main Street - to San Julian Park
Pete
White / LA CAN, SS Jones / SKID ROW MUSICIANS
NETWORK, Jill Halverson & Rosa Arzola / DOWNTOWN WOMEN’S CENTER, Clyde
Casey / ANOTHER PLANET, Lillian Calamari / SRO ART WORKSHOP, Mark Holsinger /
LA MISSION, Wendell Blassingame / MOVIES ON THE NICKEL, Andy Raubeson / SRO
HOUSING INC., Darlene Berry / CA MARATHON.
MONDAY, May 28: 1PM start
> 800 E. 6th Street - to Central City
Community Church
Mr. & Mrs. Lee / D&D DELI, Redd / VOA, Dr.
Bleakely / JWCH COMMUNITY CLINIC, Orlando Ward / MIDNIGHT MISSION, Mollie
Lowery / LAMP, Alice Callaghan / LAS FAMILIAS DEL PUEBLO, Tony & Lucy Stallworth / KARAOKE COFFEE CLUB, Scott
Chamberlain / CENTRAL CITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE, Robert Sundance & Judge
Harry Hupp / SUNDANCE CASE, Richard Fulton / 5th STREET DICKS COFFEE COMPANY
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.
