AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from LA Culture Net

Stephen Glassman Studios, in collaboration with Urban Voices Project, is
creating a "voice installation" on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Urban Echoes is
a civic voice installation, an art action, a happening, that raises human
voices in song from skid row, to echo throughout the cityscape. Music of the
spirit will be sung by an assembled volunteer choir - first on the street,
then from windows, and finally from the rooftops at golden hour.

The installation will be on Sunday, April 17, with a rehearsal for singers
at 4:00 PM to learn the three compositions to be presented, followed by the
installation starting at 5:30 pm. If you wish to participate, but need to
leave after the street portion, it should be finished by 6:00 PM. You may
choose to stay and also participate in more singing on in the building and
on the rooftop of the studio's building at Sunset, when the installation
will end. Sunset is at 7:26 PM.

If you are interested in participating on April 17, please send your 1.
name, 2. vocal range and 3. ability level (music is being chosen so all can
participate in at least one of the three pieces) to
UrbanEchoesfromSkidRow@Gmail.com. Please put "singer" in the subject line.
Detailed information of parking, metro, and extra rehearsal dates will be
sent out to participants.

The Urban Voices Project is an endeavor to provide healing through music for
homeless and disenfranchised individuals on Skid Row. Composed of artists
and performers from the Skid Row neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, this
project is presented by The Colburn School and Wesley Health Centers (JWCH
Institute) to bring music, health & well-being, and community to one of the
largest homeless neighborhoods in the United States. Urban Voices, with
Street Symphony (comprised of LA Philharmonic musicians), presented Handel's
"Messiah" on Skid Row last year. New Yorker magazine declared the concert
one of the 10 notable performances of the year.
http://jwchinstitute.org/about-us/urban-voices-project/

Stephen Glassman Studio is the production center of visual artist Stephen
Glassman. Based in Los Angeles, the studio is an art and design practice
committed to generating the intuitive, random human gesture on a civic
scale. The studio practice is "rhizomatic" - a collective of designers,
architects, engineers, specialists and fabricators engaging in strategies
that seamlessly integrate gesture, place and form to create artworks of
scale and social impact. http://sgstudio.la/project-gallery/