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Mike Kelleys Mobile
Homestead joins the
Parade!
May 24: WALK the TALK
PARADE 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: Mike
Kelleys Mobile Homestead
At MOCAs Geffen Museum of
WALK THE TALK 2014
Walk the Talk 2014 is the second installment of the Los
Angeles Poverty Departments biennial, on-going chronicle
of the accomplishments of Skid Row people and their
visionary initiatives.
Walk the Talk 2014 includes two events: A peripatetic
performance parade on May 24 and a community Come
Together performative conversation event on May 14.
SKID ROW MOVERS, SHAKERS, DIFFERENCE MAKERS
Convene for a "Come Together".
Wednesday, May 14 from 6:30 to 8:30pm
at the Los Angeles Mission, 303 E. 5th Street, LA
90013 Parking is available at a lot at 316 Winston, LA, CA 90013.
A Come Together is a community-curated performance
strategy conceived by Los Angeles Poverty Department
(LAPD) pal, and 2006 Alpert Award-winning visual artist,
Harrell Fletcher (harrellfletcher.com). LAPD members were
asked to identify and invite someone they know who is
doing something laudable, and important, something that
represents the best of the current and future downtown.
The people invited will make 10-minute presentations, in any
form they see as appropriate, about what they are doing in
Skid Row. The presentations can take the form of a
performance, a demonstration or a lecture.
May 14 Come Together presenters include a downtown
business 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 clients
for their wisdom and compassion.

Come Together presenters
Dora Valenciano worked with homeless parolees from the
late 80s until her retirement from the Weingart Center in
2013. Sarah Espinosa of the Downtown Women Center
works on job readiness and education, and collaborates with
internal and external partners to connect women to further
learning and advancement opportunities. In 1998, Rory
White designed, founded and ran (until 2008), the Lamp
Art Project for Lamp Community, with the idea that the
culture of the people of Skid Row was radically spiritual,
intelligent, brave and exquisite. Stephen Cue Jn-Marie
is 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 homelessness
and a member of the Black and Brown Clergy Coalition.
Denise Cornelius is Program Manager for the Womens
Renaissances Program at the Weingart Center Association.
Fernando Fernando opened F. Square Printing on Spring
and 5th. F. Square Printing operated under a combined
business/community space model, years before these
hybrids were popularized. In addition to its printing and
copying business, F. Square functioned as an internet caf
serving up karaoke, performance and visual art as well as
meeting site for community political groups. Recently, his
rent was doubled, forcing him to close his doors. At the
Weingart Center, Fred Walker is Senior Director of Re-
Entry Services, which serves recent parolees, The Veteran
Housing Program, Veterans Family Reunification/ Rapid
Family Re-housing/ Veterans Prevention of Homelessness
Projects. Fred's vision is for Skid Row residents to acquire
the 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
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work widely acknowledged as
some of the most
uncompromising political theater
(Artforum).
LAPDs Walk the Talk is made
possible in part by grants from the
City of Los Angeles, Department
of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles
County Arts Commission, Art
Matters and The LIA Fund.
Contact us at: 213-413 1077,
info@lapovertydept.org
www.lapovertydept.org
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