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.

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.

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.

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).