Name: Opening Exhibition
Start: 2020-03-07T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2020-03-07T20:00:00-08:00
Location: Skid Row History Museum and Archive

Opening Exhibition

Skid Row History Museum and Archive

WHAT: How to house 7,000 people in Skid Row? Exhibition created by Rosten Woo with Anna Kobara, Henriëtte Brouwers, John Malpede WHEN: Opening Reception March 7, 6 to 8pm Exhibition hours: Thurs, Fri & Sat. 2-5 pm Exhibition dates: March 7 through August 29, 2020. WHERE: Skid Row History Museum and Archive 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012 A project of Los Angeles Poverty Department https://www.lapovertydept.org/how-to-house-7000-people-in-skid-row/ How to house 7,000 people in Skid Row? We’re talking about housing everyone now living on the streets of Skid Row –and more. Tired of promises and no solutions to L.A.’s housing crisis? At the exhibition, learn together and in public how housing works and could work in L.A. A coalition of Skid Row community members and groups have created “Skid Row Now & 2040” a plan that identifies funding sources to house people who have extremely low incomes. The exhibition created by Woo, Kobara, Brouwers & Malpede makes the solutions in the plan graphically legible. You will be able to understand how each funding mechanism works and how many dollars could be raised and therefore how many people could be housed by the City’s adoption of these income-generating tools. They include dollars for housing that could be generated from: inclusionary zoning, a vacancy tax, and the creation of a tax-increment financing district. Worry not--- all these concepts will be graphically and simply explained by the exhibition. What you get to do is choose your mechanisms and determine their geographical boundaries. When your stack of dollars from each of your sources reaches $3.5 Billion, Congratulations! You have a viable plan for housing 7,000 People in Skid Row. Next: the hard work of getting City Council to enact it. At the March 7th opening, The Los Angeles Poverty Department will present a 25-minute introduction to the exhibition ----a dystopic, performative warning: one that imagines a new Amazon headquarters in Skid Row. During the development phase of the project, “How to House 7,000 People on Skid Row,” presented two public conversations with housing policy experts and community organizers. Additional public events will take place during the run of the exhibition. At the next event, on Wednesday March 18, from 4-8pm, members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping will continue to collect stories associated with particular places on Skid Row--- a continuation of the work they began in October at the Festival for All Skid Row Artists. The project “How to House 7,000 People in Skid Row” is supported with funding from A Blade of Grass, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with additional support provided by an Engaging Humanities Grant from the University of California Humanities Research Institut. ______________________________________________________ Artist Bio’s Rosten Woo is an artist, designer, and writer living in Los Angeles. His projects aim to help people understand complex systems, re-orient themselves to places, and participate in group decision-making. He acts as a collaborator and consultant to a variety of grassroots organizations including Little Tokyo Service Center, the Black Workers Center, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and Esperanza Community Housing Corporation, as well as the city of Los Angeles, and the California State Parks. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and various piers, public housing developments, shopping malls, and parks. He is co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), winner of the 2016 National Design Award for institutional achievement. His book "Street Value" about race and retail urban development was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2009. By day, Anna Kobara works in non-profit affordable housing development and finance. By night, she works with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) on data visualization and mapping projects. Her work aims to support community organizations heading housing justice campaigns such as rent control, tenant rights, anti-displacement, anti-dispossession, and anti-gentrification. Her recent work includes supporting Tenants Together with their Rent Control for All campaign by creating an online, interactive database of rent control and renter protection policies throughout California. John Malpede directs, performs, and engineers multi-event projects that have theatrical, installation, public art, and education components. In 1985, he founded Los Angeles Poverty Development (LAPD), a performance group comprised primarily of homeless and formerly homeless people who make art, live, and work on Skid Row. He has produced projects working with communities throughout the US, as well as in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Bolivia. His 2004 work RFK in EKY sought to recreate Robert Kennedy’s 1968 “war on poverty” tour in the course of a four-day, 200-mile series of events focused on historic and current issues and social policy. As a 2008-2009 fellow at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Malpede developed Bright Futures in response to the worldwide financial crisis. In 2013, John Malpede received the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In 2014, the Queens Museum of Art in New York City mounted the first retrospective gallery exhibition on the work of the LAPD, which traveled to the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena in 2016. “How to House 7,000 People in Skid Row” is the continuation of Woo and LAPD’s 2017 project “The Back 9”. Henriëtte Brouwers is the Associate Director of the Los Angeles Poverty Department. Since 2000 she co-directs, produces and performs in many LAPD performances and she worked with John Malpede on the creation of RFK in EKY (2004) a community-based re-enactment of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 trip to investigate poverty in Appalachia. Born in the Netherlands, Brouwers performs, directs and has taught throughout the US, the Netherlands and France. She was a member of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed group and studied corporeal mime with Etiènne Décroux in Paris, France. In Amsterdam she founded movement theater ACTA and performed with Shusaku & Dormu Dance Theatre, Grif Theater, Nationaal Fonds, a.o. The Theatre Project in Baltimore, Highways in Santa Monica and UT Knoxville, TN presented her work in America. Henriëtte performed with Touchstone Theatre, PA and 7 Stages Theater in Atlanta and was the movement director for Blue Monk by Robert Earl Price, for the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival. She devised a series of performances based on the Mexican legend of La Malinche and La Llorona: The Weeping Woman. Brouwers is featured in Bill Viola’s renowned 'The Passions' series. About Los Angeles Poverty Department Based in the Skid Row neighborhood since 1985, Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) is the first ongoing arts initiative on Skid Row, a non-profit arts organization that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks, which express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.'s Skid Row. LAPD has created projects with communities throughout the US and in The Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Bolivia. About The Skid Row History Museum and Archive The Skid Row History Museum & Archive operates as an archive, exhibition, performance and meeting space curated by LAPD. It foregrounds the distinctive artistic and historical consciousness of Skid Row and functions as a means for exploring the mechanics of displacement in an age of immense income inequality, by mining a neighborhood’s activist history and amplifying effective community strategies.

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