Los Angeles Skid Row History Museum & Archive

GET READY FOR THE 15th FESTIVAL FOR ALL SKID ROW ARTISTS

ON OCTOBER 26 & 27, 2024 FROM 12-4PM EACH DAY IN GLADYS PARK.

If you’d like to perform, exhibit your artwork or do a workshop write us an email us at info@lapovertydept.org or call 213-413.1077
Performers have time slots of 5, 10 and 15 minutes.
Or sign up on the day of the festival for the OPEN MIC: each day from 2-3pm.

Tell us: your name
title of your performance / artwork
which day you’d like to perform, preferred time slot
tech. needs

Come join Fine Arts Revolution Inc Art of Xpression Creative Arts Wellness coffee and craft with Cami (aka Jenni Alpert of www.finerevolution.org)

You can paint, draw, sew, glue.. and create your own art, or just enjoy the coffee and croissants.

And you can also bring an instrument and entertain everyone!

Welcome to the Covid Hotel
Unveiling unexpected lessons about healthcare for the homeless that emerged from LA County-run quarantine sites during the Covid crisis.
Exhibition: March 9 – December 14, 2024
Open: Thu, Fri, Sat: 2-5pm

A series of panel discussions happened at the Museum on
March 27: Adversity Generates Innovation.
April 11: Housing is Healthcare (Part 1)
May 22: Housing is Healthcare (Part 2)
Los Angeles Poverty Department is pleased to announce the Saturday, March 9 opening of its new Skid Row History Museum and Archive exhibition, Welcome to the Covid Hotel with a public reception from 4-7 pm. Welcome to the Covid Hotel reveals the exceptional innovations and successes of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who ran LA County Health Department’s emergency Quarantine and Isolation (QI) sites for houseless Covid patients and people exposed to the virus in shelters. The evening will feature a 15-minute excerpt of a work-in-progress performance by LA Poverty Department at 5 pm, as well as an opportunity to meet some of the frontline heroes who staffed the QI sites.
In spring 2020, the LA County Department of Health mobilized resources to ameliorate the devastation of the public health crisis on the region’s most vulnerable population: people experiencing homelessness. Makeshift QI sites were set up at various locations, including then vacant hotels and motels. More than 10,000 people quarantined at the sites. There were very few deaths, and once released, 93% of the patients needing housing were sheltered in nursing homes, recovery programs, and transitional programs leading to permanent housing—a remarkable rate.
Welcome to the Covid Hotel unveils the unconventional approaches that engendered this success— holistic care coordinated among typically siloed practitioners, harm reduction, and housing first practices, along with an uncommon level of interpersonal care, steeped in empathy and compassion. The exhibition recreates elements of the facilities at a motel-turned-QI site and features video recordings of the medical staff telling how their work saved lives, transformed patient care, and got people housed.
“The lessons we learned about the power of integrated care is the real gift that emerged from this experience,” said Dr. Sudarsky. “This model successfully merged specialty silos in housing and healthcare to help vulnerable Angelenos get swift access to care. In other words, when health and housing are prioritized as a human right for an entire community, everyone is better off.”
“This exhibition focuses on the secret sauce—the spirit of the QI workers—their commitment, passion, and courage. Their ability to improvise when so many certainties crumbled. The things they discovered and employed everyday were broad departures from business-as-usual convention. The successes they saw led to a belief that the model of care they discovered and provided, can be scaled up to address the twin problems of housing and healthcare. But to do that, more impassioned and dedicated people are needed,” said John Malpede, LAPD Artistic Director/Executive Director.
Project research materials and public activity documentation from Welcome to the Covid Hotel will be preserved and made publicly available in the museum’s archive.
For information, contact info@lapovertydept.org

Welcome to the Covid Hotel
Unveiling unexpected lessons about healthcare for the homeless that emerged from LA County-run quarantine sites during the Covid crisis.
Exhibition: March 9 – December 14, 2024
Open: Thu, Fri, Sat: 2-5pm

A series of panel discussions happened at the Museum on
March 27: Adversity Generates Innovation.
April 11: Housing is Healthcare (Part 1)
May 22: Housing is Healthcare (Part 2)
Los Angeles Poverty Department is pleased to announce the Saturday, March 9 opening of its new Skid Row History Museum and Archive exhibition, Welcome to the Covid Hotel with a public reception from 4-7 pm. Welcome to the Covid Hotel reveals the exceptional innovations and successes of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who ran LA County Health Department’s emergency Quarantine and Isolation (QI) sites for houseless Covid patients and people exposed to the virus in shelters. The evening will feature a 15-minute excerpt of a work-in-progress performance by LA Poverty Department at 5 pm, as well as an opportunity to meet some of the frontline heroes who staffed the QI sites.
In spring 2020, the LA County Department of Health mobilized resources to ameliorate the devastation of the public health crisis on the region’s most vulnerable population: people experiencing homelessness. Makeshift QI sites were set up at various locations, including then vacant hotels and motels. More than 10,000 people quarantined at the sites. There were very few deaths, and once released, 93% of the patients needing housing were sheltered in nursing homes, recovery programs, and transitional programs leading to permanent housing—a remarkable rate.
Welcome to the Covid Hotel unveils the unconventional approaches that engendered this success— holistic care coordinated among typically siloed practitioners, harm reduction, and housing first practices, along with an uncommon level of interpersonal care, steeped in empathy and compassion. The exhibition recreates elements of the facilities at a motel-turned-QI site and features video recordings of the medical staff telling how their work saved lives, transformed patient care, and got people housed.
“The lessons we learned about the power of integrated care is the real gift that emerged from this experience,” said Dr. Sudarsky. “This model successfully merged specialty silos in housing and healthcare to help vulnerable Angelenos get swift access to care. In other words, when health and housing are prioritized as a human right for an entire community, everyone is better off.”
“This exhibition focuses on the secret sauce—the spirit of the QI workers—their commitment, passion, and courage. Their ability to improvise when so many certainties crumbled. The things they discovered and employed everyday were broad departures from business-as-usual convention. The successes they saw led to a belief that the model of care they discovered and provided, can be scaled up to address the twin problems of housing and healthcare. But to do that, more impassioned and dedicated people are needed,” said John Malpede, LAPD Artistic Director/Executive Director.
Project research materials and public activity documentation from Welcome to the Covid Hotel will be preserved and made publicly available in the museum’s archive.
For information, contact info@lapovertydept.org