Redemption Time is a powerful 70-minute multimedia performance film featuring poet Jimmy Santiago Baca and jazz violinist Christian Howes—two formerly incarcerated artists who reclaimed their lives through art.
Combining spoken word, music, and visual art, the film invites audiences into a shared space of healing and transformation.
With searing honesty and artistic brilliance, Baca and Howes reveal the trauma of incarceration and the redemptive force of art.
Directed by David Gonzalez, Redemption Time is both an emotional journey and a call to reimagine justice, identity, and human potential.
Redemption Time seeks to inspire positive change by raising awareness of the importance of sentencing and prison reform, literacy, mental health, arts in education, trauma and recovery, and social justice.
Even in the face of adversity, redemption is possible, and creativity can be a beacon of hope.
Redemption Time is not only a unique opportunity to witness the convergence and testament of two remarkable artists who have overcome challenges…
“the lessons I learned in prison about life, music and survival, became seeds which bore fruit throughout the past many years of my work as an artist, teacher and mentor”
• For discussion
• inspiring change
• revealing and rewriting stories in your community
After 10 years in development, we are partnering with community organizations and educational institutions.
Let’s create an expansive experience together:
• Live performance
• Screening
• Curriculum-based workshops
• Panel discussions and multi-disciplinary residencies
Get in touch below to brainstorm ways that this project can serve your mission and community.
