Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Healing Arts
This archive offers an overview of the state of the Arts in Health in Catalonia, with activities and projects that extend beyond the Healing Arts Week
Saturday 11 October 2025
PARC DE LES PLANES (L'HOSPITALET DE LLOBREGAT)
La Glòria Factoria d’Art presents an artistic and community event as part of Healing Arts Barcelona: a family mosaic workshop inviting children and adults to participate in collective creation, connection with nature, and care for the environment. The activity will took place on Saturday, 11 October, as part of the Jugatecambiental program at Les Planes Park, a well-established space for play and learning supported by the AMB and the Pla Integral. Families explored the trencadís mosaic technique and its value as a tool for collective expression. The workshop is linked to La Glòria’s community mural projects at the Matacavalls wall and the Canigó tunnel, promoting the upcoming inaugurations of these transformative art spaces. The event also aligned with the goals of the Environmental Pediatrics Promoter Group of the Pla Integral, bringing health and nature closer to the public through participatory actions in green spaces. This workshop encouraged sharing, creativity, and connection, strengthening the bonds between community, nature, and culture in an open, welcoming, and meaningful environment.
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Wednesday 3 December 2024 9:00
Institut Pla de les Moreres (Vilanova del Camí)
The comic project “In My Own Way” was created based on a real-life story, in which the author recounts a family member’s experience to raise awareness about the effects of substance use on mental health. This initiative, born from a collaboration between Primary Care of ICS Anoia and the Department of Education, aims to educate adolescents aged 14–16 on the connection between drugs and mental illness, offering tools to reflect on their beliefs and attitudes. The project combines art as a transformative medium with pedagogy, producing educational materials that include the comic, a learning guide with visual and pedagogical resources, and direct interaction between the author and students. The pilot implementation took place at the Institut Pla de les Moreres in Vilanova del Camí (from 12 March to 25 April 2024), including various sessions: comic reading and discussion, meeting the author, myth-busting activities, role-playing exercises, and creating posters with positive messages on mental health and addiction. The impact has been highly positive for both students and teaching/health teams, highlighting the power of artistic language to connect with young people and encourage critical thinking. Currently, the comic is being digitized into an interactive video format in collaboration with the Igualada City Council to expand its reach and usefulness in new educational contexts. Results suggest the potential to extend the project to other secondary schools in Anoia, consolidating a model that unites art, health, and education to promote prevention and emotional well-being.
Saturday 10 January 2025
CAP Sant Sadurni d'Anoia
The innov’ART project is an initiative by the Espai de Salut Jove that uses art as a therapeutic tool to improve the emotional well-being of young people aged 15 to 20. Led by health and social services professionals, it has been developed in collaboration with local organizations and third-sector entities. The project has worked with youth from the PFI program and with young people with ASD, and is part of the humanization plan of the Basic Health Area. As a lasting legacy, it has left behind a mural and a ceramic exhibition that symbolize the community work achieved through the initiative.
Wednesday 6 May 2026 15:30
CAP Roquetes – Sant Pere de Ribes
A group of caregivers, selected by professionals from CAP Roquetes according to pre-established criteria, will participate in this weekly workshop series over three months, led by a multidisciplinary team from the CAP. The program will conclude with a special Art Therapy session, facilitated by “El Taller dels Sentits”, a Centre for Plastic Expression and Art Therapy. Art Therapy provides a therapeutic space where creative processes are used to support individuals with psychological, physical, social, or emotional challenges, while also fostering their capacities and resources. The closing session will guide participants through an internal listening exercise using clay, followed by an expansive exercise with painting to recognize and strengthen connections within the group. This experience will allow caregivers to consolidate what they have learned, gain additional tools for self-care, and nurture the sense of community and support built during the workshops.
Wednesday 16 October 2025 18:30
L’Enrajolada, Casa Museu Santacana, Martorell
Pau Puig (Batiyaye) and Amparo Treig invite you to a Therapeutic Percussion session, offering a space for collective connection and self-expression. Through rhythm, this experience promotes emotional regulation, group cohesion, and personal well-being. This activity is connected to the exhibition “Les dones que habiten en mi” by Arantxa Pardo.
Saturday 5 October 2025: 11:00 Sunday 2 November 2025: 11:00 Sunday, 7 December 2025: 11:00 Saturday, 4 January 2026: 11:00 Saturday 1 February 2026: 11:00 Sunday 1 March 2026: 11:00 Sunday 3 May 2026: 11:00 Sunday 7 June 2026: 11:00
Museu de Terrassa
The Terrassa Museum and Meraki. Espai amb ànim have joined forces to present this initiative, which invites participants to breathe, meditate, and plant the seed of peace in the heart of the city. The chosen location for this activity is the Seu d’Ègara, a space where calm, silence, spirituality, and inner connection transform into a collective gesture for peace.
Saturday 18 October 2025: 10:00 Sunday 30 November 2025: 11:00 Sunday 21 December 2025: 11:00 Sunday 25 January 2026: 11:00
The Museu de Terrassa and Meraki. Espai amb ànim have joined forces to present an initiative that allows participants to explore the museum’s heritage spaces while enjoying a yoga and meditation session and sharing a healthy snack. The initiative aims to: - Fuse heritage and well-being - Bring historic spaces to life - Promote emotional and physical health - Connect culture, nature, and mindfulness
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Saturday 6 October 2025 10:30
Museu Picasso Barcelona
Using techniques and resources based on the arts, this activity offers dynamics that encourage conversation, reflection, and personal expression. It provides a space to talk both about oneself and about a variety of topics, always from a place of respect and attentive listening. This program is aimed at non-professional caregivers, with the goal of promoting their emotional well-being through the arts. The sessions take place in a welcoming environment where participants can share experiences, build connections, and strengthen a sense of community with others in similar life situations. The workshops are held at the museum, connecting health and culture, and offering the opportunity to experience it as a space for care, inspiration, and shared experiences.
Tuesday 7 October 11:00
Picasso Museum Barcelona
This workshop for older people will invite participants to explore memory through visual language. Each session will offer the opportunity to connect with key concepts of pictorial practice — such as gesture, composition, color, and expressiveness — through activities that combine observation and creation, placing memory at the center as the driving force. The sessions will combine cognitive reinforcement exercises with moments of artistic creation and reflection, drawing inspiration from both the artworks exhibited in the museum and participants’ own life experiences. Designed to prevent memory loss associated with aging, the workshop will foster autonomy, emotional well-being, and creative vitality. It will be a space where enjoyment, care, and challenge come together, linking artistic practice with individual and collective memory. Ultimately, the proposal will explore how art can serve as a tool for health and a source of vitality in later life, nurturing both the mind and the spirit through creative expression.
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October 25, 2025
Espai Obert, Vilafranca del Penedès
Dates: October 26, November 16, December 14, January 18, February 8, March 8, April 12, June 14. Through Expressive Corrective Movement, we facilitate the free flow of vital energy. Each session focuses on the practice of a different energy center, using specific movements and music prepared in advance with the intention of unblocking the portion of the nervous system that corresponds to each energy center. In this way, it is easier to break free from emotional barriers and open oneself to a way of living and understanding life with greater freedom, creativity, and pleasure, connecting with one's own energy. A new way of understanding and living life, from the body and with the body as a tool for social and personal transformation.
September 25, 2025
Auditorium of the Pilarin Bayés Library, Vic
On September 25th, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm, a meeting dedicated to children's and young adult literature as a tool for addressing cultural diversity and social inequalities took place in the Auditorium of the Pilarin Bayés Library in Vic. The event was part of the European project Zoom Out, coordinated by the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), which aimed to explore inequality through children's literature. During the session, the project was presented, and the audiovisual resources developed were shared. La Noria School and the Pilarin Bayés Library presented their experience working with literature in diverse educational contexts. Salah Haddad and Sumia El Bachiri also participated, sharing their personal experiences with reading during their school years, contributing an enriching and experiential perspective to the discussion. The event concluded with a storytelling performance by Bassirou Balde, who invited the audience to connect with stories through oral tradition. An opportunity that served to reflect on the transformative power of literature in contexts of diversity.
September 5 and 25, 2025
Hostafrancs Casino, Barcelona
An exhibition that tells, in two voices, the story of accompanying a person with Alzheimer's: the voice of the person with the illness, and the visual and audio recording of the caregiver. A dialogue where emotion, wisdom, and presence are the last things to fade. An emotional café where experiences of caregiving and self-care can be shared.