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 Los Angeles Poverty Department

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. LAPD's Skid Row History Museum & Archive curates exhibitions, hosts rehearsals, performances, films, meetings and public conversations and convenings.