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
November 22, 2025
Set Fonts Park and surroundings, and Anton Carrera Library
Activity in nature to connect with the environment and ourselves, with art as the axis of connection.
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October 18, 2025
Civic Centre Convent of San Agustín, Barcelona
This community-focused day invites anyone interested in mental health and well-being to explore engaging and practical activities and information. Participants can learn about creative expression, movement-based practices, and one-on-one information sessions with mental health professionals, gaining practical tools for emotional self-care, resilience, and inclusion. The day is designed to reduce stigma, connect people to local resources, and foster a culture of mutual support and positive mental health within the community.
November 21, 2025
Punt Jove Folgueroles, Can Dachs
This sensory and creative experience will awaken all our senses and allow us to reconnect with the landscape.
December 7, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Schools in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area
HOP is a project carried out by Health Sciences students that seeks to minimize the fear and anxiety that the healthcare world generates in children. Therefore, activities are held in schools where, through six stations, different healthcare aspects are covered, such as medical history taking, nutrition and oral hygiene, antibiotics and vaccines, bandages, X-rays, and operating rooms. During the session, children are introduced to the healthcare world through stuffed animals and role-playing, where they themselves assume the role of a professional, always accompanied by the instructors who coordinate the activity.
November 27, 2025
University of Barcelona, Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Fine Arts
The ZIM-ZAM project—like an unexpected, back-and-forth sound, a quick exchange—establishes a correspondence of letters and artifacts between emerging artists in the Fine Arts degree program at the University of Barcelona and artists participating in the Susoespai Association for Creation and Mental Health. The project aims to mutually explore questions about mental health and creative processes, dismantling stigmas and silences, through Service Learning. Starting with a series of contextualizing questions (“What does normality mean to you? What does care mean to you? What does well-being mean to you?”) and formal interests, exchange groups are formed between students and members of the association. These groups maintain a dialogue and exchange of materials between the university and the association's workshop space throughout the workshops. The activity is complemented by cross-visits to the workspaces, allowing participants to understand the spatial realities of each space, guided by the people involved. In the 2025-2026 academic year, the project continues with the development of a traveling exhibition, co-curated with new students and current staff, and a series of related activities in the various venues where it is displayed. The first exhibition in this series will take place from November 27 to December 5, 2025, in Barcelona.
October 29, 2025
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
In this workshop-visit, we will immerse ourselves in the unique universe of Zush/Evru with the intention of understanding his work and discovering the dialogue the artist establishes between mental health, the arts, and well-being. We will take this as a provocation to enter the studio and embark on an exciting journey into the world of creativity, to give life to the beings that inhabit our imaginary and emotional states.
November 6, 2025, at 6:45 p.m
CAN FALIPA CIVIC CENTER (Bacelona)
Atotaixodansa proposes Dance for Everyone: "Vores i ales", a dance workshop open to all people interested in exploring body movement and self-expression, regardless of age, training and physical abilities. All body movement has the potential to transmit authenticity, emotion and meaning. Different abilities will give different forms, which enrich artistic creation. Community dance is a comprehensive health practice that combines movement, contact and emotional expression in a shared space of collective care. Dancing in a group promotes body awareness, flexibility, coordination and breathing, but also generates emotional well-being and a sense of belonging. Contact, gaze and mutual support transform movement into an experience of connection and trust that reduces stress, improves self-esteem and strengthens mental health. Body care, understood as a shared and sensitive action, thus becomes a way of also caring for the community.
Friday 17 October 2025 10:00
Centre Civic Convent de Sant Agusti (Barcelona)
This event, aimed at professionals, brings together mental health specialists, social workers, educators, community leaders, and activists to deepen the conversation about mental health in Barcelona. Through keynote lectures, a panel discussion, personal testimonies, and participatory workshops, participants will collectively explore ways to reduce stigma, improve access to care, and promote a more inclusive and supportive culture of well-being.
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26 November 2025 16:00
Facultat de Psicologia Ciències de l'Educació i de l'Esport. Blanquerna (Universitat Ramon Llull)
The interdisciplinary conference reinforces art as a tool for well-being, mental health, and community cohesion. The Faculty of Psychology, Education, and Sport at Blanquerna-URL will host the third edition of the FacultART Conference, titled this year “Art and Community: Building Connections.” This initiative has become an interdisciplinary meeting space bridging art, mental health, and education, highlighting the power of artistic expression as a path to care, awareness, and collective transformation.
November 23 at 10:00
Parking lot of the old Rasos de Peguera Ski and Mountain Resort, Castellar del Riu
Natural·Ment is a monthly cycle of body expression and dance activities in nature that invites us to explore the relationship we have with ourselves, and with the environment —human and natural— from the presence and listening of the body. Each meeting takes place in a natural space in Berguedà —forests, rivers, meadows or paths—, where each landscape and season become an active part of the practice, contributing its uniqueness and elements to enrich the experience. The theme of each session is related to the place and time of year in order to enrich individual and collective research and experience.
October 30, November 20 and December 11, 2025 17:00 - 19:00
National Museum of Catalonia (MNAC)
A feminist dialogue-visit through the museum’s rooms, exploring the works from the perspective of women’s knowledge and experiences during climacteric and menopause. This activity is coordinated by the Poble-sec Community Health Board, which promotes a cycle of events aimed at making these traditionally silenced and often medicalised issues more visible.
2 October 2025 10:00
Centre Cívic Drassanes
LinkArt in Raval is a project that promotes long-term emotional well-being through self-care for adults in the Raval neighborhood, using art, culture, and the strengthening of community bonds