JUSTINELEMENT PRODUCTIONS BLOG

The third Raise the Roof concert was held Sunday and it was the last year that i will be helping out behind the scenes.

3 years ago i brought Raise the Roof to CSULB hoping to create an event of events for my fraternity Zeta Phi Rho and helping the closest philanthropic organization in my life Gawad Kalinga. Both organizations changed my life. 4 years ago I watched a presentation by Dermot Wang and his team about getting youth involved physically and not financially to help end poverty in third world countries. GK became the flagship of world wide help, Building homes and communities like none before it. I became an avid speaker and presentor for GK and thus wanted to help in my own way. 3 Years ago I pitched the idea of a benefit concert to create awareness of this organization and the poverty out there, Zeta Phi Rho loved it, and our sponsoring organization, Associated Students Inc of CSULB hopped on. Backed by the funding of the school senate and board of control which I actually sat on, the manpower of the Zetas from Long Beach, the motivation of the unrivaled dedication of the volunteers of GK, and the passion we all had for creating this event, we banded together to create Raise the Roof, a concert which had over 2000 attendees in the last 3 years, with performances by various artists from Passion, Gabe Bondoc, AJ Rafael, Cathy Nguyen, Manny Garcia, Leejay Abucayan, Randolph Permejo, Lexicationships, SPAM, Pac Modern, Movement Project who debuts their set here yearly, Colby O’Donis, Roscoe Umali, Far East Movement, DJ Class, and most recently Jokoy. The concert has blown up from what it has been and i’ve been privileged to work behind the scenes to nurture my baby till today. This is Raise the Roof III