Video Gallery

Take a peek at a video of highlights of this year’s 2011 Holiday Heart Gala!

HOLA middle and high school students visited residents of the St. Barnabas Senior Center

A nice look at Heart of Los Angeles

Local news channel KCAL 9 covers the grand opening of the new Lafayette recreational center.

Take a look at what George Lopez has to say about HOLA

See what happens everyday at HOLA. These videos highlight HOLA’s Academics, College Prep and Alumni, Visual Arts, Music and Athletics Programs.

The first year of YOLA at HOLA

HOLA’s Rock Band Project 11 plays Youth Talent Night at the Levitt, Summer 2011. The band wrote the song they are performing.

Young Albert loves Sports and Music at Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA). Here he performs at Levitt Pavilion MacArthur Park’s Youth talent night. Thank you Liz!

HOLA Choir Performance at Levitt Pavilion

Debuting in 2008, HOLA’s rockband has played numerous shows and venues under the direction of HOLA music instructor and mentor Mike Tyson.

Mitchel Moore founded HOLA in 1989 with the reopening of the old gym at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, located in the Rampart District. His desire was to provide a safe place for neighborhood kids to gather and to make a vital difference in the lives of disadvantaged inner-city children. Mr. Moore was the 2005 recipient of [...]

Heart of Los Angeles partnered with Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles’s premier Catholic university, to give two high school students an opportunity to participate in Loyola Marymount University’s Summer Film Creative Workshop, a program that introduces inner city youth to college filmmaking process. The students, known as the Feiberg Fellows, are selected from Crenshaw High [...]

HOLA’s youth choir performs “Christmas Time is Here” at Holiday of the Heart.

HOLA youth are the guests of honor at Madam Chocolat’s chocolate party in Beverly Hills. Executive director Tony Brown talks to Allie Mac Kay about HOLA’s accomplishments in the community.

High School counselors from Harvard Westlake in Studio city, Oakwood school in North Hollywood and Mayfield Sr. High school in Pasadena at work with HOLA’s high school college prep students.

Welcome back to HOLA! HOLA’s signature white van whizzes by Lafayette as Executive Director Tony Brown gives us a look inside an afternoon at HOLA. Visit classes and talk to several HOLA youth and familiar faces.

An HOLA student production in collaboration with Loyola Marymount University

Athletics coordinator Bruce Hooks shows us the youth basketball clinic sponsored by the Lakers Youth Foundation.

Javier Carrillo: HOLA Teaching Artist

Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) Welcomes Guests to Meet our VIsual Arts Dept.’s Working/Teaching Artists. Teaching Artist and Alumni Javier Carrillo will be studying in school during the visit but he didn’t want to be left out of the warm welcome.

Local station KABC reports on the grand opening of the community’s newest resource.

Before the blinds, HOLA’s smart start classroom was unprotected from the heat of the mid-day sun. After the instillation, smart start students are ecstatic to find the new addition tot he classroom.

After two weeks of instrument exploration, recorder, solfege and basic fundamentals, our wind ensemble receives their instruments. Meanwhile, our first grade paper orchestra continues to prepare for their performance for Gustavo Dudamel! YOLA at HOLA is the second program of Youth Orchestra LA (YOLA) – LA Phil Music Director Gustavo Dudamel’s signature El Sistema-inspired program. [...]

YOLA at HOLA is the second program of Youth Orchestra LA (YOLA) – LA Phil Music Director Gustavo Dudamel’s signature El Sistema-inspired program. Made possible through a partnership between Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, YOLA at HOLA provides participating students with intensive afterschool orchestral instruction and academic tutoring. Over the [...]

HOLA students play their paper violins during the beginning of the YOLA program. YOLA is the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s initiative to establish youth orchestra programs in underserved communities throughout Los Angeles. HOLA is partnering with the LA Phil to bring orchestral music to 1st and 4th graders. For more information visit www.heartofla.org.

Heart of Los Angeles’ very own, Momentum, a rock band cromprised of all kids, plays their biggest venue at Holiday of the Heart.

The Lucha Libre Art Show at the Heart of Los Angeles.

Afternoons at the Heart of Los Angeles.

Summer camp can be the most memorable, exciting experience in a childs life. Today you can help send more than 300 kids to camp!

Renowned LA artist, Peter Alexander’s Artist in Residence at HOLA.

HOLA ‘s HOT TOPIC FDTN. Concert Singers Perform at the Biltmore

A short video on a day in the life of an HOLA youth. Part of five films co-starring and co-written by HOLA youth.

A short video on a day in the life of an HOLA youth. Part of five films co-starring and co-written by HOLA youth.

A short video on a day in the life of an HOLA youth. Part of five films co-starring and co-written by HOLA youth.

A short video on a day in the life of an HOLA youth. Part of five films co-starring and co-written by HOLA youth.

Time Warner’s coverage of HOLA’s music program.

A short video on a day in the life of an HOLA youth. Part of five films co-starring and co-written by HOLA youth.

So-Cal news spotlights programming at HOLA.

The story of Heart of Los Angeles. This is what we do everyday with Tomorrow’s Leaders.

A Big Day with NBA Legends

How and Why HOLA began…