Free Showing: Songs from the Hole
Date/Time
Date(s) - March 03, 2026
6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Please join Whites for Racial Equity and the Unitarian Universalist Church (490 Aguajito Rd., Carmel) on Tues March 3, beginning at 6:30pm, for a free showing of the award winning documentary, Songs from the Hole.
The documentary-visual album composed by a young man while he was behind prison bars. At 15, James “JJ’88” Jacobs took a life — only to lose his brother three days later. Having both committed and experienced violent harm, the incarcerated musician explores his identity and untangled his complex emotions through first-person narration and lyrical journal entries, using music as a path to redemption and healing.
The film unfolds like a vibrant tapestry, woven together with music and mixed-media storytelling including animation, re-creations of imagined memories, dreams and spiritual dialogues, all set to JJ’88’s original music.
