“I remain a person who dreams about freedom, who dreams about my own redemption and the redemption of other people. I dream about my own reconciliation and resurrection.”
- JJ’88
Impact & Healing
Healing as Practice
Since its release, Songs from the Hole has been shared across the country - inside prisons, child prisons, museums, and community centers - as part of a growing movement for collective healing and transformation.
At each event, JJ’88 and richie reseda lead screenings, healing circles, and live musical performances that turn the film’s emotional power into embodied practice. Participants reflect on harm, forgiveness, and accountability, using the film as both mirror and map.
Through guided conversation and music, participants create personal healing plans* that seed lifelong accountability pods.
(*Click here to access the Healing Plan)
Where We’ve Been
Our journey has reached thousands of participants in partnership with system-impacted and justice-centered organizations, including:
Prisons, Jails & Reentry Spaces
Angola Prison (LA) • Racine Youthful Offender Facility (WI) • Grafton Correctional Institute (OH) • Horizon Juvenile Detention Center (NYC) • Nashville Juvenile Detention Center (TN) • Denver Women’s Correctional Facility (CO)
Community & Cultural Spaces
Abolitionist Law Center (Philadelphia, PA) • Freedom Community Center (St. Louis, MO) • Galaxy Gives Convening (San Diego, CA) • Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC) • Your Move MKE (Milwaukee, WI) • Seattle Black Prison Caucus & Creative Justice (WA)
Each gathering turns viewing into ceremony - a space where art, memory, and dialogue become tools for repair.
Beyond the Screen
Together with partners like Represent Justice and Healing Through Creative Practice, the Songs from the Hole curriculum is now part of California’s prison education system - where incarcerated participants can earn sentence-reduction credits through engagement with the program, literally using the film to help people get free.
The campaign continues to expand through new healing circles, live performances, and digital offerings, extending the practice of collective integrity beyond the screen.
Host a Healing Circle or Screening
We continue to prioritize bringing Songs from the Hole to incarcerated and directly-impacted communities, while also collaborating with cultural, educational, and faith-based partners committed to justice and transformation.
To connect about hosting a screening or healing circle please contact us at songsfromthehole@gmail.com
