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Mike Kelleys MobileHomestead joins theParade!
May 24: WALK the TALKPARADE and PERFORMANCE
from 11 am to 3 pm
Starts at Gladys Park, corner of
east 6th Street and Gladys
Avenue (zip: 90021).
The Mudbug Brass Band (plus
pick up musicians) will blow
New Orleans jazz as we travel
the route. Along the route,
well make 7 stops to tell the
stories of those were
honoring: General Jeff Page
and how he jump-started the
regene-ration of Gladys park,
Zelenne Cardenas, Charles
Porter and UCEPP, Clancy
Imislund and his 55 years of
sobriety at the Midnight
Mission, LAFD #9 and Captain
Michael Duffy, Michael Blaze,
who started the Skid Row
Photography Club and Unified
Fathers for Life, St. Vincent de
Paul Cardinal Manning Centers
long time director, Joan
Sotiros. Last stop, up to 5th
St. and Main St., to celebrate
poet about downtown, Dr.
Mongo. We'll carry portraits of
parade honorees created by
Brian Dick.
May 29 to June 16: MikeKelleys Mobile Homestead
At MOCAs Geffen Museum of
WALK THE TALK 2014
Walk the Talk 2014 is the second installment of the LosAngeles
Poverty Departments biennial, on-going chronicleof the
accomplishments of Skid Row people and theirvisionary
initiatives.
Walk the Talk 2014 includes two events: A peripateticperformance
parade on May 24 and a community ComeTogether performative
conversation event on May 14.
SKID ROW MOVERS, SHAKERS, DIFFERENCE MAKERSConvene for a "Come
Together".
Wednesday, May 14 from 6:30 to 8:30pmat the Los Angeles Mission,
303 E. 5th Street, LA90013 Parking is available at a lot at 316
Winston, LA, CA 90013.
A Come Together is a community-curated performancestrategy
conceived by Los Angeles Poverty Department(LAPD) pal, and 2006
Alpert Award-winning visual artist,Harrell Fletcher
(harrellfletcher.com). LAPD members wereasked to identify and
invite someone they know who isdoing something laudable, and
important, something thatrepresents the best of the current and
future downtown.The people invited will make 10-minute
presentations, in anyform they see as appropriate, about what they
are doing inSkid Row. The presentations can take the form of
aperformance, a demonstration or a lecture.
May 14 Come Together presenters include a downtownbusiness
owner, a pastor/community activist, a visual artist,and staffers
and former staffers from some of Skid Rows
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innovative social service programs chosen by former clientsfor
their wisdom and compassion.
Come Together presenters
Dora Valenciano worked with homeless parolees from thelate 80s
until her retirement from the Weingart Center in2013. Sarah
Espinosa of the Downtown Women Centerworks on job readiness and
education, and collaborates withinternal and external partners to
connect women to furtherlearning and advancement opportunities. In
1998, RoryWhite designed, founded and ran (until 2008), the LampArt
Project for Lamp Community, with the idea that theculture of the
people of Skid Row was radically spiritual,intelligent, brave and
exquisite. Stephen Cue Jn-Marieis the Pastor of The Row LA, aka The
Church Without Walls,in L.A.s Skid Row. A former Virgin Records
recording artist,he is also a community activist addressing
homelessnessand a member of the Black and Brown Clergy
Coalition.Denise Cornelius is Program Manager for the
WomensRenaissances Program at the Weingart Center
Association.Fernando Fernando opened F. Square Printing on
Springand 5th. F. Square Printing operated under a
combinedbusiness/community space model, years before thesehybrids
were popularized. In addition to its printing andcopying business,
F. Square functioned as an internet cafserving up karaoke,
performance and visual art as well asmeeting site for community
political groups. Recently, hisrent was doubled, forcing him to
close his doors. At theWeingart Center, Fred Walker is Senior
Director of Re-Entry Services, which serves recent parolees, The
VeteranHousing Program, Veterans Family Reunification/ RapidFamily
Re-housing/ Veterans Prevention of HomelessnessProjects. Fred's
vision is for Skid Row residents to acquirethe means to
successfully experience the full quality of life.
Contemporary Art, 152 N.
Central Avenue, LA, 90012 in
Little Tokyo.
The Mobile Homestead will
feature historical materials on
the making of the Skid Row
community. This includes the
stories of the 36 Skid Row
visionaries who were honored
in our first Walk the Talk events
in 2012, along with their
portraits by street artist Mr.
Brainwash. Also on display is a
timeline of Skid Row history,
originally created by LAPD for
the 2008 exhibition The Skid
Row History Museum at The
Box Gallery and since updated
for LAPDs current gallery show
at New Yorks Queens Museum.
ABOUT WALK THE TALK
LAPD mission: Founded in 1985,
Los Angeles Poverty Department
is made up of people who make
art and live and work on Skid
Row. 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. LAPDs works
express the realities, hopes,
dreams and rights of people who
live and work in L.A.'s Skid Row.
Walk the Talk celebrates a long
process of community
engagement including
performances, exhibitions, public
conversations, and interviews with
the aim of enlisting community
brain power to identify initiatives
and people whose actions have
helped weave the social fabric of
Skid Row.
Walk the Talk is a peoples
history of the community. LAPD
tells the story you dont hear
elsewhere: the story of the
community as told by the
community.
Walk the Talk supports LAPDs
larger social practice
methodology, a body of acclaimed
