Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
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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
September 26, 2025
Great Liceu Theatre
The Henka project was born from the collaboration between San Juan de Dios and the Z Zurich Foundation as a universal mental health prevention program that promotes emotional well-being through actions that strengthen resilience, with the aim of preventing the onset of mental health problems in adolescents and young people between 12 and 25 years of age, as well as in their communities.
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Wednesday 16 October 2025 16.30
FÀBRICA ESTRELLA DAMM (Barcelona)
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Pallapupas is organizing a special event in Barcelona to highlight humor as a tool for transformation and well-being in the hospital environment. This celebration recognizes the role of patients, families, professionals, and collaborators, and marks the beginning of a new phase of innovation, partnerships, and growth in emotional care. The event will combine an institutional and healthcare meeting with spaces for reflection and networking, followed by a second part open to the public with a more festive and community-oriented atmosphere. Additionally, the event will serve as a prelude to Healing Arts Barcelona, where new projects and initiatives will be presented to continue promoting the humanization and sustainability of the healthcare system through arts and emotional well-being.
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October 16, 2025
Assembly hall of the Monastery of Sant Feliu de Guíxols
From October 18th to 19th, 2025, the third edition of the Museus, Espais de Benestar (Museums, Spaces of Well-being) project will take place, uniting the six registered museums and the five Basic Health Areas of Baix Empordà to promote health and emotional well-being through culture. Based on social prescription and saludogenesis, it proposes artistic, therapeutic, and community activities that transform museums into spaces of care, self-knowledge, and social cohesion, and highlights these facilities as assets in health.
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January 16, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Escornalbou Castle Monastery (Tarragona)
This first guided tour is specifically designed for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). During the activity, new tangible materials for self-use will be presented, designed to promote interaction with the environment and make the experience more experiential, structured, and accessible. The materials are based on an interactive dossier that accompanies the tour and on various tactile stations distributed throughout the tour, which also act as decompression spaces to facilitate a more comfortable and inclusive experience.
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.
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.
Tuesday 9 July 2024 (continuing project)
HTVC Tortosa
The Tortosa Verge de la Cinta Hospital (HTVC) promotes reading as a tool for well-being and humanization through two initiatives aimed at inpatients and oncology patients. On one hand, the free library project on hospital floors, led by the Humanization Committee, offers patients books and magazines they can read during their stay. Users may take them home if they haven’t finished reading, or continue enjoying them at the hospital, accompanied by bookmarks designed by the ICS Terres de l’Ebre communications team. This initiative helps make hospital stays more pleasant, strengthens the connection with healthcare professionals, and encourages moments of distraction and entertainment.
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Sunday 19 October 2025 10:30
Entorn natural de Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Punt de trobada: Escola Gaziel)
Join Josep Pla and Ibèria Soler for a guided walk through the natural and heritage surroundings of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, near the town center. This gentle exercise combines light physical activity with the discovery of local vegetation. During several stops, participants are invited to identify different plants and learn about their culinary and medicinal uses, often overlooked in our immediate environment.
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
4 September 2025 11:00
Fundació Mas Miró (Tarragona)
“The Masia with the Five Senses” is an activity designed for various groups, especially people in vulnerable situations, offering a sensory and synesthetic experience of the Masia. Participants take a tour of Mas Miró, the gardens, and the artist’s studio, making several stops where the senses are engaged in relation to Joan Miró’s work and the elements of the Mont-roig landscape that inspired him.
Friday 5 September 2025 17:00
Teatre Municipal Banyoles
As part of the Unwanted Loneliness project, weekly cultural and physical activities are scheduled from September to December. The program includes: magic workshops, a visit to the Museu Darder, music therapy, book reading sessions, astronomy sessions, tavern song singing, and performing arts shows.