Altadena Candle
Light Vigil
Out of the Ashes, We Rise | Altadena, CA | January 11, 2026
A community vigil commemorating one year since the Eaton Fire — gathering Altadena in solidarity, healing, and hope. Extended to a global audience through professional livestreaming services by La Mancha Gallery.
Out of the Ashes, We Rise
On January 11, 2026, the Altadena community gathered by candlelight at the Altadena Town & Country Club to mark one year since the Eaton Fire devastated the region. The fire destroyed homes, displaced families, and left wounds that no insurance claim or rebuilding timeline can fully address. What remained — what the fire could not touch — was the community itself: its bonds, its memory, its refusal to be defined by loss alone.
The Altadena Candle Light Vigil was organized by Kinfolks Helping Hands, Connect 2 Rise Inc., and the Intentional Talk Radio Network — community-led organizations whose combined commitment to Altadena's recovery made the evening possible. Hosted by 94.7 The Wave Morning Host Greg Mack, the vigil brought together children's voices, the talent of The Benn Family from America's Got Talent, community speakers, faith-based leaders, civic organizations, and neighbors from across Los Angeles County — all gathered under the shared conviction that solidarity is not a gesture. It is a practice.
La Mancha Gallery served as a livestreaming partner for the vigil — ensuring that Altadena residents displaced by the fire, family members across the country, and supporters around the world could witness and participate in the commemoration alongside the hundreds gathered in person. The livestream was not a broadcast. It was an extension of the gathering itself — a way of saying that the boundaries of community are not defined by geography, and that healing, when it happens, belongs to everyone who shows up for it.
"Altadena may have burned, but our community's unshakeable bonds cannot be broken. Out of the ashes — we rise."
— Altadena Candle Light Vigil, January 11, 2026The Vigil at a Glance
| Event | Altadena Candle Light Vigil Out of the Ashes… We Rise |
| Date | Sunday, January 11, 2026 |
| Time | 6:30 PM — Early Entry & Food / Hot Beverage Station 7:00 PM — Opening Ceremony 8:00 PM — Closing Remarks & Departure |
| Venue | Altadena Town & Country Club 2290 Country Club Drive, Altadena, CA 91001 |
| MC | Greg Mack — 94.7 The Wave Morning Host |
| Program | Children's Choir · The Benn Family (America's Got Talent) Community Speakers · Faith-Based Leaders |
| Transportation | Free Shuttle Buses from Lake Ave & Mendicino St Loading Times: 6:15 – 6:55 PM Free Transportation: Contact Pasadena Village · (626) 765-6037 |
| Organizers | Kinfolks Helping Hands — Yolanda Williams, Chairman Connect 2 Rise Inc. — Veronica Fields, Executive Director/Founder Intentional Talk Radio Network — Yolanda Williams, Co-Founder/Exec Director |
| La Mancha Role | Livestreaming Services Partner Omar Holguin, Director & Owner, La Mancha Gallery Events |
| Admission | Free — open to all |
What the Evening Held
A Community Gathering by Candlelight
Over 200 guests gathered at the Altadena Town & Country Club to mark one year since the Eaton Fire — neighbors, faith leaders, civic organizations, and supporters from across Los Angeles County coming together in solidarity and hope.
Opening Ceremony & Program
Children's Choir, The Benn Family of America's Got Talent, and community speakers opened the evening — followed by closing remarks and departure at 8:00 PM, with MC Greg Mack of 94.7 The Wave Morning Show anchoring the program throughout.
Early Entry & Community Welcome
Doors opened at 6:30 PM for early entry, with food and a hot beverage station welcoming guests — a deliberate act of hospitality for a community that had endured a year of displacement, loss, and rebuilding.
Free Transportation & Access
Free shuttle buses from Lake Avenue & Mendicino Street, free transportation through Pasadena Village, and ample street parking — every logistical decision designed to ensure that no one who wanted to be present was kept away.
Professional Livestream by La Mancha Gallery
La Mancha Gallery extended the vigil to a global audience in real time — ensuring that displaced residents, family members across the country, and supporters worldwide could witness and participate in the commemoration alongside those gathered in person.
Broad Coalition of Partners
Supported by Change Reaction, Chick-fil-A Pasadena, World Central Kitchen, the Pasadena NAACP, Altadena NAACP, Columbia Bank, LA Fire Justice, Black Business Association LA, and dozens of faith-based organizations, civic groups, and community advocates across Los Angeles County.
How La Mancha Gallery Extended the Vigil
La Mancha Gallery approached the Altadena Candle Light Vigil livestream as a community responsibility — building a broadcast that honored the gravity and intimacy of the occasion while extending its reach to everyone who needed to be part of it.
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Phase 01
Partnership & Pre-Event Preparation
La Mancha Gallery joined the vigil as a livestreaming partner — coordinating with the organizing team to understand the evening's program, emotional tone, and logistical needs. Professional-grade cameras, real-time switching equipment, and optimized audio configured to capture the full arc of the event from early entry through closing remarks.
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Phase 02
Live Broadcast — Ceremony & Program
Real-time broadcast of the complete vigil program — Children's Choir, The Benn Family performance, community speakers, and closing remarks — with dedicated monitoring of audio and video quality throughout. Every moment captured and carried to the global audience with the same clarity and presence as those gathered in the room.
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Phase 03
Global Reach & Accessibility
Bandwidth optimization and platform management ensured that displaced Altadena residents, family members across the country, and supporters worldwide could connect to the vigil in real time without interruption — making accessibility a technical commitment as well as an ethical one.
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Phase 04
Recorded Archive & Lasting Access
The full vigil was captured and preserved as a recorded broadcast — ensuring that the evening's message of resilience, solidarity, and hope remains accessible long after January 11. A permanent record of a community that chose to gather, to remember, and to rise.
Carrying the Light Further
The Altadena Candle Light Vigil stands in the La Mancha Gallery archive as a demonstration of what professional livestreaming, delivered with cultural accountability, can mean in a moment of genuine community need. The Eaton Fire displaced families, destroyed homes, and left wounds that no single gathering can heal. What a livestream can do — what La Mancha Gallery's contribution to this evening was — is ensure that the act of gathering, the act of saying we are still here, we are still together, reaches everyone who needs to witness it.
Altadena's bonds, as the vigil's organizers declared, cannot be broken. La Mancha Gallery was honored to help carry that declaration further — to every screen, in every city, where someone who loves Altadena needed to hear it. The fire does not have the last word. The community does. And the community showed up.
Eaton Fire
Attendees
Audience
Organizers
Altadena may have burned, but our community's unshakeable bonds cannot be broken. Out of the ashes — we rise.
La Mancha Gallery
Omar Holguin, Director & Owner, La Mancha Gallery
Altadena Candle Light Vigil | Out of the Ashes, We Rise
Sunday, January 11, 2026 | Altadena Town & Country Club, 2290 Country Club Drive, Altadena, CA 91001
Organized by Kinfolks Helping Hands · Connect 2 Rise Inc. · Intentional Talk Radio Network