White Corridor Arts Academy (WHAA) will have fun their third annual Rock The Block group pageant on Sunday, July 27, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., on 54th Avenue between third and seventh Avenues in South Los Angeles.
Rock The Block is a group pageant WHAA began in 2022 as a technique to spotlight native, nonprofit and group organizations. The group occasion was created in partnership with Alliance William & Carol Ouchi Excessive College, Park Mesa Heights Neighborhood Council, L.A. Metropolis District Council 8 and Metropolis of Los Angeles Division of Cultural Affairs.
“It’s a household and children-focused occasion,” stated Tanisha Corridor, founder and govt director of WHAA. “The explanation why we do Rock the Block is as a result of we discover that not sufficient consideration is placed on the smaller organizations [and] companies.
“This an opportunity to spotlight the entire providers which might be accessible from our direct group.”
Corridor shared LADWP shall be their greatest associate this yr. They can even be at Rock The Block telling the group about power sustainability and the way to save cash.
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The final Rock The Block occasion was in 2023 with over 3,000 attendees with WHAA honoring singer and artist, Macy Grey with the Lifetime Changemaker Award.
This yr’s occasion will function useful resource and grocery giveaways, stay music from DJ Unhealthy, Boomer the Clown, a high-energy HBCU Step Present, a particular look by KJLH’s Ricky Ruckus, native artists together with L.A. hip hop legends Venture Blowed, and Nira, and youth performances from WHAA Music Creators Camp and Kids of Manufacturing youth drumline and extra.
Rock The Block 2025 can even have STEM actions, arts & crafts and video games for teenagers, well being screenings and expungement providers. There can even be meals vans and refreshments for this family-friendly, free occasion.
“That is our greatest occasion of the yr — bringing collectively over 3,000 neighbors to have fun the power, expertise, and pleasure of South LA,” stated Corridor.
This yr’s Rock The Block can even have fun the commencement ceremony of the primary Soundworks Cohort with keynote tackle by Decide Songhai Armstead, director of L.A. County Justice Care and Alternatives instantly adopted by a presentation of the 2025 Lifetime Changemaker Award to four-time, Grammy winner and Inglewood native, James Fauntleroy.
There can even be a Changemakers Panel consisting of Fauntleroy, Decide Armstead, stay leisure business maven Candace Newman, local people chief Tyrone Nance, and actor/activist Jonathan Kirkland.
WHAA can be celebrating its Soundworks workforce growth program, which launched in March 2025. This system trains justice-impacted and transitional age foster youth, ages 18-28, in gentle and sound engineering, video manufacturing and lighting design to organize them for careers within the stay leisure business.
This yr, the Soundworks program was just lately chosen as a Los Angeles County Division of Financial Alternative Excessive Street Coaching Program. This system obtained a $700,000 funding to broaden this system to residents all through Los Angeles County.
“In 2024, we obtained a three-year grant from California Neighborhood Basis and the Liberty Hill Able to Rise program placing us at $1 million thus far raised for this program,” stated Corridor.
Among the different partnerships created across the Soundworks program embrace the Los Angeles Simply Care and Alternatives Division, Solotech, The Miracle Theater, The Rightway Basis, Ashanti United Church of Christ and extra.
Soundworks additionally receives assist from the Sony Music World Social Justice Fund, The California Neighborhood Basis / Liberty Hill and The Specialty Household Basis.
“Via the work that I’d been doing for over 20 years, as my college students had a necessity to search out employment, Soundworks appeared like a extremely nice resolution,” stated Charyn Harris, basic supervisor at WHAA. “It’s great to see it come to fruition as a result of we are able to make certain so lots of our children have the sources and go into careers which might be viable and sustainable.”
For extra data, go to www.whitehallacademy.org.
