CREED MARTIN. Work No. 3435 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT.
2020. Neon. 44 x 1250 cm / 17 3/8 x 492 1/8 inches © Martin Creed.
All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024 Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

19-23 August 2024

About Healing Arts Scotland

19-23 August 2024

Healing Arts Scotland is a country-wide celebration of arts and health by Scottish Ballet and the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization. A week of events will showcase the joy the arts bring to those who take part, and their importance to the nation’s physical, mental and social health. Whether it’s dance classes, choir rehearsals, creative writing workshops or pot throwing, every day in Scotland, fantastic events take place all across the country that help improve people’s wellbeing.

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Featured Events

Healing Arts Scotland Opening Celebration

16:00, 19 August 2024

Scottish Parliament

The Healing Arts Scotland Opening Celebration event takes place outside the Scottish Parliament at 4pm Mon 19th August as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and Festival of Politics, featuring over 250 performers and participants from across Scotland

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Healing Arts Scotland Conference

19 & 20 August 2024

The Hub - Edinburgh International Festival, The National Galleries of Scotland, The National Portrait Gallery. Events in-person and online.

The HAS Conference in Edinburgh on the 19th & 20th August will feature UK and international speakers who are leading innovative practice in arts-in health interventions, including four specially curated panels as part of the Festival of Politics at Scottish Parliament.

Healing Arts Scotland Glasgow Day

All Day 21 August 2024 |

25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE

Healing Arts Scotland in Glasgow brings together communities, researchers, and academics to celebrate and debate the role of the arts in health.

Edinburgh Community Connections at the Portrait

20 August 2024

National Galleries of Scotland: Portrait, 1 Queen St, Edinburgh EH2 1JD

The National Galleries of Scotland and partners invite you to a day of creative workshops, talks and tours.

Healing Arts Scotland  ITAC Relay

January-August 2024

Scotland Wide

Designed and delivered by the International Teaching Artists Collaborative (ITAC), the ITAC Relay is a chance for participatory artists working in Arts and Health contexts to connect and collaborate on a 6-month national activation leading into Healing Arts Scotland Week.

Healing Arts Scotland, Aberdeen

22 August 2024

Aberdeen

Healing Art Scotland will come to Aberdeen University, NHS Grampian and a range of arts organisations based across the city lead a day of performances, workshops, and events.

Healing Arts Scotland Islands Day

19/08/24 - 20/08/2024 |

Orkney, Lewis and Shetland

Healing Arts Scotland will come to Orkney, Lewis and Shetland to amplify the voices from the communities of the Scottish Islands to celebrate the arts in health and wellbeing.

Healing Arts Scotland at The Festival of Politics

19-23 August 2024

Scottish Parliament, Horse WYND, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP

Healing Arts Scotland is teaming up with the Festival of Politics with a series of discussions from leading experts from the worlds of politics, the arts and health on a variety of topics including dementia, mental health and resilience, trauma, ageism and inequality and how engagement in the arts can make a difference to all walks of life.

Online Conference

20-23 August

Online

If you are not able to join our events in person, we have teamed up with Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland to offer an online conference programme covering key areas of discussion across the week and featuring some of our national and international speakers and other guests.

Healing Arts Scotland Wellbeing Concert

18:30, 21 August 2024

Tramway, 25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE

A beautiful and uplifting concert to celebrate Healing Arts Scotland week performed by artists from Glasgow and beyond, both professional and community based.

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