Los Angeles Poverty Dept Recreates the Inhumanity of Prison in New Work

The LA Poverty Department, or LAPD for short, is a non-profit organization that seeks to expose the causes and effects of poverty through art. Their theater piece, 'State of Incarceration' will immerse audiences in the prison environment by replicating those spaces, filling the performance area with 60 bunk-beds. The performance was created with collaboration from formerly incarcerated adults.

Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar recently spoke with John Malpede, Founder of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, artist and activist and Ricarlo Porter an LAPD performer and contributing writer on the piece.

State of Incarceration will be performed on Friday and Saturday January 28th and 29th; Friday and Saturday February 4th and 5th
All performances are at 8:30pm; Friday the 28th is sold out!

Highways Performance Space is located at 1651 18th St. @ Olympic Blvd., in Santa Monica. For more info, visit www.highwaysperformancespace.org or call (310) 315-1459.

Visit LAPD's website at www.lapovertydept.org.

Thanks to Martina Steiner for recording this video.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• John Malpede
• Ricarlo Porter
• LAPD
• Highways Performance Space
• State of Incarceration
• Uprising
• Sonali Kolhatkar