The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy is pleased to announce Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake, a public exhibition about how poor people make the city their home, even in the face of state violence. Abandoned by the city during a global pandemic, unhoused organizers created an encampment at Echo Park Lake that soon became an uprising against the policed-propertied order of Los Angeles. The exhibition and associated public programs activate an archive of organizing histories that is intended to be the practice of a collective future.
Join us at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive for the opening of the exhibition on Saturday, February 1, 2025.
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Future Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake public programs:
Friday, February 21, 7pm: Tenants in the Streets, A Panel Discussion
Friday, March 21, 7pm: The Liberatory Living Room, A Performance
This exhibition is organized by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy with support provided by the Mellon Foundation. It is on display February 1-March 30, 2025 at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive, a project of Los Angeles Poverty Department.
Skid Row History Museum & Archive hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 2-5pm and by appointment.
