SKID ROW PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB

Project Homeless Connect Day-December 8th

2010-11-19T10:38:00.000-08:00

December 8, 2010
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
On San Julian Street between 5th Street and 6th Street
Downtown Los Angeles, 90013

Project Homeless Connect Day is designed to bring together service providers, agencies and organizations to provide housing, hospitality, information, health-care and other services for our community’s homeless. Los Angeles County, along with Santa Monica, Long Beach, Pasadena, Downtown Los Angeles, South Los Angeles and the East San Gabriel Valley, will each be hosting an event to bring awareness and connecting the homeless to much needed services. Skid Row photography Club will follow the standards set by Help-Portrait by providing free portraits to the people of skid row; world-classed photographer Chad Hill with assist to this end.

The event will be held on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on San Julian Street (between 5th Street and 6th Street) in downtown and will feature a large-scale collaboration of Downtown Los Angeles/Skid Row service provider organizations, businesses and residents to provide area homeless and working poor access to the assistance they need to become self-sufficient and to ultimately obtain affordable housing.
Some of the day’s activities will include:

Health related services – HIV/STD testing, flu shots, screenings, education
Public information distribution by DPSS, DCFS, DMH, LASD, LAPD
Legal Support and Advocacy
Hygiene Kits (i.e. toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, etc.)
Dental Education
Community Referral Service
In addition to Music & Entertainment, Food to be provided, Jumper, etc.

SRPC Annual Digital Camera & Laptop Drive

2010-10-26T13:35:00.000-07:00

SRPC Annual Digital Camera & Laptop Drive

For those of us that have unused digital cameras or laptops setting in the closet, let Skid Row Photography Club bring new life to them. For the month of November we'll call for donated technology to be dropped off at one of our official drop off stations beginning with BOLT BARBERS in Gallery Row

Working Digital Cameras & Laptops dropped off in Historic Core's
Bolt Barbers (Designated Drop off Station) 460 S. Spring St. 90013 - 213.232.4715

Skid Row Photography Club is comprised of mostly local Skid Row residents who are given the gift of a camera order to document and share the everyday experiences of people in this unique neighborhood. We need your assistance to donate digital cameras, unused Laptops and desk top computers or any other unused technology you may have put up in the closet or garage such as printers, etc. Please donate to this worthy cause. The Skid Row Photography Club was created to provide this community a healthy artistic outlet designed to bring new possibilities of self-expression as well as personal development and growth. All are welcome to participate for this weekly activity as we explore.
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Agape International Spiritual Center / Form the Heart of Skid Row

2009-12-22T20:39:00.000-08:00

Agape International Spiritual Center From The Heart of Skid Row

Michael Bernard Beckwith & Rickie Byars Beckwith joined hands with Tadd Sutton of The Weingart Center in the skid row area with local organization such as Garments of Praise for an event called Street Lights our thanks to Agape International Choir

Dr. Beckwith is the originator of the Life Visioning Process, which he teaches throughout the country along with meditation, scientific prayer, and the spiritual benefits of selfless service. He facilitates retreats, workshops and seminars. His books include: Inspirations of the Heart, Forty Day Mind Fast Soul Feast, and A Manifesto of Peace.

In a personal letter to him Coretta Scott King wrote, "I greatly admire what you are doing to bring about the Beloved Community, which is certainly what my dear husband worked for and ultimately gave his life."

dance music, poetry, love, Michael Beckwith and Rickie Beckwith in skid row, Michael Blaze, Ministries, prayer, Weingart Center, arts & Crafts , PBS, Barack Obama Peace Prize, The Answer is You

Blaze of Skid Row Films

Skid Row Photography Club-November Art Walk

2009-11-02T07:34:00.000-08:00

Thursday November 12th, Skid Row Photography Club's Main & 5th Street Exhibit, (502 S. Main Street 90013 5:00pm – 9:00pm). Also please remember to bring and donate your unused digital camera & cell phone cameras so that our future members can bring new life to your unused cameras, please see Lauren that night @ our table, we thank you.

SRPC on NBC News

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SRPC November Art Walk Main & 5th Street Gallery

2009-10-20T11:29:00.000-07:00

Thursday November 12th will mark our first official Los Angeles Downtown Art Walk opening for our on going yearlong exhibit on the corner of Main & 5th Streets in the heart of Gallery Row 90013. We are grateful to Skid Row Housing for providing this prime street space to exhibit the outstanding work of the photographers of Skid Row Photography Club; we look forward to meeting you on that night, please stop by to say hello or contact us at skidrowphotography.webs.com; email skidrowphotography@yahoo.com.
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Hanging SRO WorkShop Artsits Paintings For The Art Walk

2009-08-12T09:15:00.001-07:00

Skid Row Photography Club invited the SRO Housing Artist Workshop Painters of the Humble Beauty Documentary fame to participate in the Aug 13th Art Walk. The art walk showing takes place at 118 Winston Gallery. The painting were curated by the Amar Art Collective.
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Dude smashes window / Raw Materials During Art Walk

2009-06-06T17:18:00.001-07:00

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The Downownt Art Walk

2009-04-13T19:07:00.000-07:00

Greetings & Blessings
The Skid Row Photography Club is taking on a new and beautiful project known as SRPC Presents The Art Walk. Our members will cover various galleries of the over thirty galleries in the gallery row area which is 2nd to 9th Streets between Spring and Main Streets. Here are a few shots of the most recent art walk of the month of April. The art walk takes place the second Thursday of each month.
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Skid Row Films / Arts Culture and Us

Easter Sunday With Love

2009-04-13T10:22:00.001-07:00

The community of downtowns Los Angeles area known as Skid Row came together to celebrate Easter Sunday for the children of Skid Row with lots of egg painting and then the classic egg hunts began and the kids loved it. I choose a Song by India Irie to play under this loving experience called The Creator Has A Master Plan, my thanks to Barbara

Aduwa and Angelia Harper for sponsoring this beautiful event.
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It was a pleasure seeing all the children painting, hunting for the eggs and enjoying themselves on this Holy day in San Julian Park, the heart of Skid Row.

Let God Be Magnified!

From Homelessness to a Career

2008-09-07T03:06:00.000-07:00

Robert Henry climbed back from the grip of homelessness to reinter the job market Her shares story, his accomplishments with Blaze at skid row photography Club in Downtown Los Angeles/s Skid Row. He has become a beckon to others that may find themselves homeless in the blink of an eye it could happen in this economy.
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MOVIES ON THE NICKEL/ SKID ROW PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB

2008-04-06T20:14:00.000-07:00

MOVIES ON THE NICKEL/ SKID ROW PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB Hello my people, Today we stopped by skid row’s Movie On The Nickel where we spoke with the founder, Mr. Wendell Blassingame. For over the past four years now Wendell has run top-flight new movies for the community in James Woodson Community Center on the corners of 5th and San Julian Streets in the heart of Skid Row. The majority of the participants are often the homeless persons who really appreciate what cannot only be considered good healthy entertainment but it also serves as a safe-heaven where all the drugs and madness that lives 24/7 just a few short feet away are never allowed in side the center. Mr. Blassingame’s Movies on the Nickel is open to the public both Saturday and Sunday from 3:00pm to 9:00pm; a downtown drug free space. We commend the excellent and consistent job Wendell Blassingame has maintain from start to present. Blaze-Out!

2008-04-02T13:37:00.000-07:00

I was out last night with OG Man founder of Skid Row 3 on 3 Street ball who took me with him to see Dramastage Qumran which is a non-profit organization whose objective is to utilize Community Theater to impact the violence found in the individual, school and community. They are a group, which provides a forum for the community of Skid Row to access Community Theater. The members are currently or formerly homeless. The play is about surviving life on “The Nickel” (5th Street) in the Skid Row area of Downtown Los Angeles. They were invited by the students of USC to perform at Ground Zero. The performance and the food were both excellent; food provided by The "Natural Soul Food" www.naturalsoulfood.org Blaze-Out!

To Oprah Winfrey

2008-04-01T05:35:00.000-07:00

Hello My People I pray the week is going well for each of you,
This is what I do imagine along the lines of a retraction of sorts. The end of last week it was brought to my attention that I had misspelled Ophra’s name which is to say I am not a big fan at all. I know she is a great person and throws out blessings around the glob but as far as my watching or reading about her, never. So to make a long story short I had already sent off the Operation Face-Lift DVD from skid row photography to Harpo studios almost a week earlier. I gave it a little thought and decided to call them back to see where the DVD was at that time. I could not reach the people I knew but a very nice young lady named Yolanda was very sensitive to my cry which was” Help I just sent in the DVD to Ophra that had her name spelled incorrectly, can you help me? She asked whom I had sent it to because if I did not put one of the staff names on the package they would reject it anyway. I told her Lisa asked me to send it in a few weeks ago; she says hold please? She comes back in about two or three minutes and says. Blaze I found it what do you want me to do with it, I said please toss it and she did thank God. She then went on to tell me two interesting things, one was that they've done several shows there called “Oprah one of the most commonly misspelled names in the entertainment industry” then too that they no longer except content in that manner for the last few weeks and that most likely no one would have looked at it anyways under these new procedures, then she gave me the exact new formula and I bid her good bye full of thanks and appreciation. This means that no one did or ever will see the DVD I made that had Oprah’s name, misspelled. Then I called Time Warner where the DVD was set to play next Monday was pulled from the shelf. So as they say, all is well that ends well.
Take a look at my official apology to Oprah even though not her or anyone else saw it.
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Oran Z's Pan African Black Facts & Wax Museum

2008-03-31T15:06:00.000-07:00

Hotep my people,
Today we stopped by the Pan African Museum, Black Facts & Wax Museum where we filmed a group of high school students that are a youth dance group visiting Los Angeles from the great state of Florida to discover their African heritage and history. After Oran and sister Betty gave them the grand tour the dance group from Florida then headed off to visit two of our cities top youth dance studio’s in Debbie Allen Dance Academy and then off to Lula Washington Dance studio.
Oran Z has just added a new exhibit: The Return To Blackness, in concert with Valley of the Kings' Prentice Luster. This is an awesome display of some of the wonders of ancient Egypt (Khemet).

Call the museum today to RSVP your tour of the Pan African Black Facts & Wax Museum and see this wondrous display of the riches of ancient Khemet.
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CHILD STAR AVION BAKER / SKID ROW PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB

2008-03-29T12:00:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,
Tonight while waiting for a meeting with Don Gaza of the Los Angeles Downtown Neighbor Counsel to discus sponsorship, I ran into what I recognized immediately as a star. Not the usual stars one might think of when they think star but this star is only eight years old and shining in all her luster and talent. Her and her mother happened to be eating there at The Julie Rico Gallery AKA the Red Dot Gallery located at 500 S. Spring Street Just at that moment Julie came in and while saying hello to me saw them and immediately suggested that I might want to do a show we this promising new star of stage, film and music. Take a look at our first short film with more to come. Of course I already offered her a show lot for my next taping later this month. At the ripe old age of eight here are a few of her film credits: Special Agent Oso as well as a roll in ER
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Set Free Outreach Center/Skid Row Photography

2008-03-26T06:27:00.000-07:00

Set Free Outreach Center is located on the corner of 7th and San Julian in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, Skid RowWe spoke with pastor Ron who began this church back in 2004 with great blessings the people are hearing the word. We discuse the on going project known as Operation Face-lift. The project is completely community run and maintained by a loving caring communty artist that also cleans up the streets to develop new standards of pride while doing for self.

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Operation Face-Lift / Skid Row 3 on 3 Street Ball Leagues Awards Luncheon Awards Luncheon

2008-03-23T17:41:00.000-07:00

Operation Face-Lift / Skid Row 3 on 3 Street Ball Leagues Awards Luncheon
San Julian & 7th Street the heart if Skid Row
OG N SERVICE
There will be an "unveiling and signing" of the Wall (Mural) on San Julian Street and 7th. This will take place on April 17th (Thursday), 2008 at 12:00 noon. If you "intend" to sign the WALL (OPERATION FACE-LIFT/ SKIDROW), Let me know. There are also some "blocks" that can be dedicated to you personally or to your organization. These blocks (bricks) are limited and are similar to "the stars" on Hollywood. Again, be part of a "history”-making making event. See the extraordinary talent that Skidrow/ Central City East has to offer of Downtown Los Angeles and the example of "hardworking Skidronians"!
In strong contrast to the film "Skid Row we see a strong community effort to help restore community unity through community pride. The Beauty of Skid रो"
Brought to you from “Skid Row Photography Club”
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The Los Angeles Downtown Art Walk

2008-03-14T22:45:00.000-07:00

Skid Row Photography Club

Last night while experiencing the Art Walk we ran into O G Man, artist, author, community activist, founder of OG N Service, Skid Row 3 on 3 Street Ball Leagues and most recently, Operation Face-Lift/ Skid Row. Please play the video.

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Skid Row Photography Club. Downtown Art Walk

2008-03-14T20:47:00.000-07:00

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The Skid Row Photography Club
“Exploring the Beauty of Skid Row”

The Skid Row Photography Club was created to provide our community a healthy artistic outlet designed to bring new possibilities of self-expression as well as personal development and growth. All are welcome to participate for this weekly activity as we explore:

THE BEAUTY OF SKID ROW
Camera Not Required

new electronic, photographic, arts club, Skid Row Photography Club’s
If you are interested in joining our photography Club or if you have skills in Web Design, Blogging, photography or Podcasting, and Writing Articles, we want to hear from you today. Come have fun while exploring The Beauty of Skid Row.

The Club Meets Every Tuesday @ 4:00pm
800 East 6th Street at the Corner of Stanford

Contact:
Michael Blaze
(213) 784-1692

NubianBlaze@gmail.com