Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization

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Here you can find events such as celebratory performances, exhibitions, public art programmes, workshops and dialogues.

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Celebration closing event - Jacket for a Journey

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 will bring the project to a close.

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The Centre of Things

23 August - December 2024 (Mon-Fri 9AM-4PM) (Sat-Sun 11AM-2PM)

Orkney Blide Trust, 54 Victoria St, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN

This is a photography exhibition with work from people who have a lived experience of mental ill health and who want to participate in therapeutic activities such as photography.

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ALLIANCE Links Worker Programme: 10 Year Celebration

23 August 2024 10AM-12PM

Glasgow Women's Library, 23 Landressy St, Bridgeton, Glasgow G40 1BP

Join the ALLIANCE in celebrating a decade of the Community Links Worker Programme. This event will bring together Community Links Practitioners, communities, GPs, practice staff, and many others to share their experiences from the past ten years. For booking information, email roseann.logan@alliance-scotland.org.uk. Please note that this event has limited spaces.

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Live Country, Folk and Americana at St Columba's Hospice

23 August 2024 2PM-3PM

The Hub, St Columba's Hospice, 15 Boswall Road, Edinburgh EH5 3RW

Come and join us for a relaxed, acoustic music session with Astro and Stella and the Katey Warran/Jenny Baxley Lee Duo. All are welcome! To book your place, please contact us at arts@stcolumbashospice.org.uk"

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Kites in Solidarity

23 August 2024 2:30PM-3:30PM

Portobello Beach, Edinburgh, EH15 2BA

Come and fly a kite with us as we gather to honour the record-breaking kite flying event by the children of Gaza in 2011. Our family-friendly event open to all is a celebration of the strength and joy they found on that day.

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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.

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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.

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Wild and Free

23 and 30 August 2024 5:00PM-6:30PM

The Meadows (by the Pavillion Cafe), Melville Drive, Edinburgh, EH9 1JZ

Connect to your inner wild, through yoga, Mixed Movement and creative play. You will be led on a journey, exploring embodied practices of connection; movement, breath, sound and creative nature play. This event is for all bodies.

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Generation Dance

16 August 2024 10:30AM

5 Rosemount Court, Bathgate, West Lothian, EH48 1QW

A beginners dance class for adults of all ages. Running weekly in Bathgate, this dance class draws on traditional moves from ballet, Latin, tap, world, jazz and contemporary dance to create a class which is uplifting for both body and mind.

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BATSHIT

2-25 August 2024

10 Cambridge Street, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED

BATSHIT draws on personal stories, pop psychology and Prozac-laden humour to explore the myths, fantasies and fears that keep us compliant, and the systems that let us down.

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