Los Angeles Times
by Carolina A. Miranda
Details here
New York Times
by Holland Cotter
at Queens Museum of Art
Artforum
by Colby Chamberlain
Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD)
public conversation Compassion & Self-Deception
Thursday, July 1, 2021
6:30 PM – 8 PM
at The Box LA
The July 1 conversation with Pastor Cue Jn-Marie, Aryen Cohen, Matt Harper, and Robby Herbst, moderated by UCR Professor of religious studies, Michael Scott Alexander, will be an opportunity dialogue further about the moral crises of a city (ours) that votes to create housing for homeless people –and then doesn’t want any of it built anywhere near them: whether that be permanent housing, or temporary housing, and contradiction induced stasis --- what perpetuates it and how to undo it.
The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) presents the 7th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, from 1–5pm each day.
Gladys Park - Skid Row
808 east 6th street, Los Angeles, California 90021
The Hammer Museum and Los Angeles Poverty Department co-present
Chasing Monsters from under the Bed
Tuesday, June 7 at 7:30pm
details here
The Back 9: Golf and Zoning Policy in Los Angeles with Rosten Woo
$50,000
LAPD and artist Rosten Woo will collaborate on the exhibition, The Back 9, a playable miniature golf course addressing current and historic zoning issues, from the origins of the SRO housing model that underpins Skid Row, to the potential endangering of the area’s affordable housing through the city’s new re:code LA initiative. To inform the exhibition’s content and design, Woo will lead free workshops with the public and LAPD company members—artists who work and live on Skid Row—and company members will also create a major theatrical performance using the golf course as their stage. The project is set to open in early 2017 at LAPD’s Skid Row History Museum & Archive.
Watch the Los Angeles Poverty Department perform Abolition and the Radical Imagination in 5 parts on Youtube, as part of the event presented by the LAPD and Critical Resistance in Los Angeles on Feb. 20, 2016.
Video here
FEBRUARY 20TH in Los Angeles
5pm Doors, 6pm Event
ABOLITION AND THE RADICAL IMAGINATION:
FEATURING ANGELA Y. DAVIS, FRED MOTEN, AND MELANIE CERVANTES, moderated by ROBIN D.G. KELLEY
A fundraiser event to benefit Critical Resistance and Los Angeles Poverty Department
Critical Resistance and Los Angeles Poverty Department invite you to join us forProfiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination. We are excited to host acclaimed poet Fred Moten and renowned printmaker Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde in conversation with Angela Y. Davis.
Abolition and the Radical Imagination will encourage audience members to reinvigorate a critical understanding of prison industrial complex abolition and inspire us to take creative and practical steps to build this liberated future. Moten, Cervantes and Davis will be joined by performances by the Los Angeles Poverty Department to spark our radical imagination and lift up the spirit of liberation. All proceeds with benefit Critical Resistance and Los Angeles Poverty Department. This event will also mark a special celebration of the Los Angeles Poverty Department’s 30-year anniversary.
TICKETS ON SALE @ http://abolition2016.brownpapertickets.com/
SPONSORSHIP: To make this inspiring event accessible to as many people in the Los Angeles community as possible, we are asking for your support. Sponsoring this event helps subsidize tickets for formerly imprisoned people, youth, and low-income communities. Sponsorship also helps demonstrate community support for creative movement building and rigorous, left analysis in these hopeful yet troubling times. For more info on sponsorship: http://criticalresistance.org/abolition/
About the Speakers
DR. ANGELA Y. DAVIS is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis came to national attention after being removed from her teaching position at UCLA because of her activism and membership in the Communist Party, USA. In 1970 she was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List on false charges. During her sixteen-month incarceration, a massive international “Free Angela Davis” campaign was organized, leading to her acquittal in 1972. Today Prof. Davis remains an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system. She is the author of many books, including her most recent collection, The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media).
FRED MOTEN is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition,Hughson’s Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with Stefano Harney), The Feel Trio and The Little Edges. A new poetry collection, The Service Porch and a new collection of essays, consent not to be a single being are forthcoming. Moten lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California, Riverside.
A member of the Oakland-based arts collaboration, Dignidad Rebelde, MELANIE CERVANTES is a Xicana activist-artist whose work includes black and white illustrations, paintings, installations and paper stencils. She is best known, however, for her prolific political screen prints and posters which have been used by movements across the globe. Employing vibrant colors and hand-drawn illustrations, her work moves those viewed as marginal to the center — featuring powerful youth, elders, women, and queer and indigenous peoples.
Brooklyn Museum
December 11, 2015 - August 7, 2016
January 24 - May 15, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 23, 6-8PM
Performances: March 25, 26 and April 1-3, 2016
Exhibition: Blue Book / Silver Book
April 11 - June 27, 2015
Opening reception: Saturday, April 11, 6-9 PM
Skid Row History Museum & Archive
440 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013
open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 2-5 PM
and Friday 3-6 PM
The Los Angeles Poverty Department's work at Queens Museum of Art is featured in the current issue of Artforum magazine. Written by Colby Chamberlain.
Download the full article in the LAPD's "Press" section here: http://theboxla.com/artist.php?id=4623
The Queens Museum in New York will host the first East Coast presentation of State of Incarceration (2010-ongoing) by LA performance group the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD).
Performance Dates: January 31st and February 1 at 7:30pm, and 5pm on Sunday, February 2, 2014. The Sunday performance will be preceded by a gallery talk with curator and artists beginning at 3pm.
All performances are free and unticketed.
More information here: http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/performance-state-of-incarceration-by-los-angeles-poverty-department/
Stay tuned for more details on the LAPD coming to The Box, Los Angeles in March 2014.
