Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Here you can find events that took place such as celebratory performances, exhibitions, public art programmes, workshops and dialogues.
23 August 2024
No17, 17 Boswall Road, Edinburgh, EH5 3RW
Following two all-day drop-in motorbike patch-making workshops delivered at St Columba's Hospice Care, this celebratory evening brought the project to a close.
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23 August - December 2024 (Mon-Fri 9AM-4PM) (Sat-Sun 11AM-2PM)
Orkney Blide Trust, 54 Victoria St, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN
This was a photography exhibition featuring work from people with lived experience of mental ill health who participated in therapeutic activities such as photography.
7, 14, 21 August 2024 12PM-1:30PM
Anyiso, Keal Place, Glasgow, G15 6UZ
Glasgow Life's Singing For Fun was a free and accessible programme delivered by professional musicians and instrumentalists to support anyone who wished to sing for wellbeing.
23 August 2024 10AM-12PM
Glasgow Women's Library, 23 Landressy St, Bridgeton, Glasgow G40 1BP
The ALLIANCE celebrated a decade of the Community Links Worker Programme. This event brought together Community Links Practitioners, communities, GPs, practice staff, and many others to share their experiences from the past ten years.
23 August 2024 2PM-3PM
The Hub, St Columba's Hospice, 15 Boswall Road, Edinburgh EH5 3RW
People came and joined us for a relaxed, acoustic music session with Astro and Stella and the Katey Warran/Jenny Baxley Lee Duo.
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23 August 2024 2:30PM-3:30PM
Portobello Beach, Edinburgh, EH15 2BA
People came and flew a kite with us as we gathered to honour the record-breaking kite flying event by the children of Gaza in 2011. Our family-friendly event, open to all, was a celebration of the strength and joy they found on that day.
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23 August 2024 1PM-2PM
Upstairs Seminar Room, Centre for Integrative Care, 1053 Great Western Rd, Glasgow, G12 0YN
A one-hour talk explored the design of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde therapeutic environments, where artists and designers worked with NHSGGC and the community to enhance mental health and well-being through co-designed art and design.
1-31 August 2024 6PM
Garden Lobby, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh EH99 1SP
Hidden Sanctuary - An exhibition of screenprints created as part of an exciting national arts relay by participants with caring roles in collaboration with Bazooka Arts and Glasgow Print Studio.
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.
11-25 August 11:50AM - 12:50PM
ZOO Playground, High School Yards, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH1 1LZ
make the Bed was a 60-minute solo show that relied on gesture, physicality, and soundscapes as Ariela took the audience along with her on an anxiety-filled downward spiral. In showing her own struggle with mental illness, particularly anxiety, Ariela aimed to create a piece in which other anxious people could see their own experiences reflected. This piece was part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
20-23 August
Online
If you were not able to join our events in person, we 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.
1-31 August 2024 10AM-4PM
Royal Alexandra Hospital, Corsebar Rd, Paisley, Renfrewshire, PA2 9PN
An exhibition of creative responses to the lived experiences of women carers (both paid and unpaid) in the region of Renfrewshire. Artists Audrey O'Brien, Karen Herbison, Kayleigh McGuinness and tsBeall responded to the stories they gathered from the carers with artistic works which are now incorporated into a touring exhibition.