In July (2010), WHP launched a new series of kid’s summer programs. Organized in collaboration with the local residents, artists, and educators, the month-long project called Gardening For Families was led by Educators, Katie Bachler and Sarah Dougherty with assistance from Gisela Morales. The kids learned about composting, gardening techniques, wrote in a [...]
On December 19, the newly established 107th St. Neighborhood Association, with the support of the WHP and WHP volunteers, held the first annual 107th Street Posada. Festivities began early with a customary candlelit procession, where residents went door-to-door requesting shelter in traditional song. Finally, the residents found themselves at the WHP Platform, where the final [...]
In conjunction with the Echo Park Film Center
After Sunset (around 7:30pm)
Echo Park Film Center rolled into Watts on Saturday, May 2nd, in what Yana Cerant called a “pimped-out bus.” They gave out little Flip cameras to the neighborhood kids, who spent the next day filming themselves, their friends, the volunteers, the ice cream man, [...]