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The Strike Screening @ Stuart Cinema & Cafe
We are thrilled to host our community at Stuart Cinemas in collaboration with Represent Justice to screen The Strike: the documentary chronicling the largest hunger strike in U.S. history through the voices of key organizers who led this movement while in solitary confinement in California prisons. If we want to learn how to act in this moment, we must learn from those who came before us and fought in the most censored of circumstances.
After the screening, we’ll host a performance with members of The Healing Project Choir and a talk back with JoeBill Muñoz (co-director), Jack Morris (inside strike organizer), Michael Saavedra (inside strike organizer), Dolores Canales (outside strike organizer), and Victor Pate (co-director of NY’s Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement Coalition).
The Censored Voices with Samora Pinderhughes, The Healing Project, Anjelica Mantikas, Esq.
“Make your voice heard”, “speak out”, “testify in court” – our justice systems employ a range of ways for voices to be shared – but are these voices actually heard? And is the hearing ever translated into action? Join Samora Pinderhughes, The Healing Project, and Anjelica Mantikas, Esq. of the Safe Passage Project for a gathering that will blend songs, conversation, and a share-out of practical tactics for organizing against systems of incarceration and oppression.
The Baldwin Essays: As much truth as one can bear at The Apollo
Experience James Baldwin’s powerful non-fiction writings like never before in The Baldwin Essays: As Much Truth as One Can Bear—an immersive multimedia experience created by composer and multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes at The Apollo Stages at The Victoria. As part of The Apollo’s James Baldwin centennial celebration, this groundbreaking performance weaves together songcraft, poetry, film, and Baldwin’s own words from works like Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time.
Through instrumental ensemble, small choir, and Baldwin’s timeless language, Pinderhughes invites audiences to grapple with the pressing questions of today while imagining new ways forward. Surrounded by beautiful soundscapes and poignant visuals, this transformative experience honors Baldwin’s legacy and inspires a deeper understanding of our modern world.
Pre Show Talk Chicago with The Healing Project x Jupiter Magazine
Join us tonight in Chicago for a special performance featuring an exclusive pre-show conversation! We’re honored to welcome the incredible Jamila Woods as our special guest, alongside Daria Simone Harper and Elliott Skinner, for a discussion on our collaborative song “Am I Human”, the End the Exception movement, and the role of artists in abolition and responding to this moment.
The talk is free for all ticket holders and will be followed by a mesmerizing solo set from Elliott Skinner, leading into our main performance. Don’t miss this powerful evening of music and conversation!
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition @ Brooklyn Museum
We are proud to announce that "Process", a film from The Healing Project, will be included in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, which will open on the occasion of the Museum’s 200th anniversary - on October 4th 2024, running through January 2025. Uniting more than 200 artists, this major group show highlights the remarkable creativity and diversity of Brooklyn’s populace.
The Healing Project artists Samora Pinderhughes & Christian Padron were selected for this show specifically by legendary artist Mickalene Thomas. "Process" is a very special piece about the grieving process that features excerpts from The Healing Project's interviews.
Sing Sing Screening @ Angelika Film Center
In collaboration with A24 and The Just Trust, The Healing Project will host a screening of Sing Sing at the Angelika Film Center. Based on the true story of Rehabilitation Through the Arts’ (RTA) members putting on the 2005 original production of Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code—a musical time-travel comedy that interweaves gladiators, cowboys, pirates, and even Hamlet into its fantastical plot—Sing Sing centers on the friendship between Clarence Maclin, who plays himself, and John “Divine G” Whitfield, played by Colman Domingo. The plot also captures the two men’s pursuit of freedom, with a particular focus on Whitfield’s real-life battle over a wrongful conviction that has stood for more than two decades.
Following the screening, our Executive/Artistic Director Samora Pinderhughes will moderate a panel with Divine G and fellow RTA alumni Dario Peña. We will also celebrate the news that Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez (fellow RTA alumni and actor in Sing Sing) will be exonerated as of September 30. We will wrap the night with a spiritual performance by our Healing Project Choir members.
We are in awe of the work that went into the making of this film and are grateful to play a small role in sharing its power.
The Healing Project Listening Party @ The Kennedy Center
In this listening session and community workshop, multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes - the executive/artistic director of The Healing Project - will present excerpts of sound-based works from The Healing Project and will share the processes that the organization has built around sound as a framework of honesty and self-definition.
This work is also accompanied by a capsule exhibition of artistic works created collaboratively by community members of The Healing Project, many of whom are currently & formerly incarcerated. This work is on view throughout The Kennedy Center’s Welcome Pavilion and The Reach. The exhibition in particular features the artists Peter Mukuria aka Pitt Panther (incarcerated in Baltimore) and Keith LaMar (incarcerated in Ohio), and seeks to raise awareness about their struggles for freedom.
The Healing Project Exhibit @ The Kennedy Center
A capsule exhibition of artistic works created collaboratively by community members of The Healing Project, many of whom are currently & formerly incarcerated. This work is on view throughout The Kennedy Center’s Welcome Pavilion and The Reach. The exhibition in particular features the artists Peter Mukuria aka Pitt Panther (incarcerated in Baltimore) and Keith LaMar (incarcerated in Ohio), and seeks to raise awareness about their struggles for freedom.
The Healing Project at Harvard University
Join us at Paine Hall for this 90-minute intimate musical performance in which Samora Pinderhughes and friends will introduce The Healing Project to Harvard and local communities.
Pianist-composer Samora Pinderhughes leads world-class musicians, composers, poets, and others in a new multidisciplinary work that explores the daily realities of structural violence, incarceration, policing, and detention in US communities.
The Healing Project creates artistic works, collective healing spaces, and advocacy initiatives in partnership with individuals impacted by structural violence to build a world based on healing rather than punishment. Samora Pinderhughes is a Harvard graduate student pursuing a PhD in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry (CPCI) at the Harvard Department of Music.
This performance is part of a commission of the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) and was made possible with the support of the Johnson-Kulukundis Family President’s Fund for Arts at Harvard University. The Healing Project is part of Samora Pinderhughes’ residency at ArtLab.
Paine Hall is wheelchair accessible by ramp and elevator to the second floor. An accessible bathroom is also available. Special seating to accommodate wheelchairs requires advance notice.
Seeing Through Stone: Visualizing Abolition Exhibition
The Healing Project was proud to contribute work to Seeing Through Stone, a multi-sited group exhibition on view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos, and San José Museum of Art in California.
Seeing through Stone is co-curated by Gina Dent, Rachel Nelson, and Lauren Schell Dickens. The exhibition is organized as part of Visualizing Abolition.
NYC Release Event: "Keith Lamar: SWEET"
Join us for the world premiere of “Keith Lamar: SWEET”, a new single and film created by The Healing Project.
Written by Samora Pinderhughes, Keith LaMar, and Rafiq Bhatia (Son Lux), the single is the next step in an effort to halt the execution of LaMar; a poet, teacher, musician, writer and painter. He is also wrongfully incarcerated in the state of Ohio, framed for a prison riot. His current execution date is set for 2027, even though he has maintained his innocence for nearly three decades—all while being held in indefinite solitary confinement. The film was co-directed by Pinderghughes, Amanda Krische, and Christian Padron.
The event, free and open to the public, will feature a film screening and talk-back with the film co-directors and LaMar (who will call in for the discussion).
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