Samora Pinderhughes 'The Healing Project' with Guests
Sacred Sounds of Healing Series
Thursday, June 18, 2026
7 PM – Doors | 8 PM – Show
Judson Memorial Church – 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
Tickets: Advance $30 | Day of Show $35
WMI Member Prices: Advance $24 | Day of Show $28
The Sacred Sounds of Healing series is made possible with the generous support of Chandrika Tandon.
The Healing Project is an arts organization based in New York City, originally conceived in 2014 by composer, multidisciplinary artist, and activist Samora Pinderhughes. The organization partners with individuals impacted by structural violence to create artistic works, collective healing spaces, and advocacy initiatives that drive narrative and systemic change. They envision a world built around healing rather than punishment, where systems of violence are replaced with systems of care.
From the Healing Project Choir:
A chorus comprises a multiplicity of voices, moving in harmony while retaining their own characteristics, identities, and experiences. The Healing Project Choir is a dynamic and growing village of singers and musicians connected and mobilized to a specific purpose: using songs to dismantle structural violence and heal from systemic oppression. We share a belief that music should be used as a truth-telling device in service of the people. Living in the legacy of Sweet Honey in the Rock, AACM, the Nueva Canción movement, and others, and founded/directed by composer Samora Pinderhughes, The Healing Project Choir uses collective singing and vulnerable lyricism to shape and hold space for community engagement, collective exchange, and participatory action. In these tender places, we invite people to experience what freedom sounds like and feel their way into a more compassionate society. We are the healers that we’ve been waiting for.
Learn more about The Healing Project
Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for striking intimacy and carefully crafted, radically honest lyrics alongside high-level musicianship. He is also known for using his music to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change, and for working in the tradition of the black surrealists throughout the African Diaspora, who bend word, sound, and image towards the causes of revolution. Pinderhughes is a prison and police abolitionist, an anti-capitalist, and an advocate for process over product.
As an artist, Pinderhughes’ goal is that people will LIVE DIFFERENTLY after experiencing what he makes—that it will affect how they think, how they act, how they relate to others, how they consider their daily relationships to their country and their world.
The Sacred Sounds of Healing series highlights artists, cross-cultural collaborations, and interactive ancillary events that celebrate and promote the transformative power of music and sounds from diverse spiritual and ethnic traditions. This initiative aims to heal and foster peace, joy, and unity through the universal language of music.
Judson Memorial Church seeks to be a just, diverse, vibrant, and worshipping spiritual community through the pursuit of social justice, creative expression, and sacred exploration of its own Protestant church roots and the wisdom of other traditions.
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