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.
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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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.
Sunday 31 May 2025 12:00
Rambla of Girona
Community Art and Social Transformation (h)Ovo is a community art project centered on women and people who menstruate who are experiencing the climacteric period. Developed from February to May with a group of women from the Pla de Palau neighborhood in Girona, the project explores the life transitions of bodies that are ceasing to menstruate. Through an artistic and participatory installation, (h)Ovo gives visibility to these often-silenced processes of change — transforming personal experiences into collective expression and reflection. The project was presented at the Inundar’t Festival, celebrating creativity, community, and the power of shared storytelling. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZaMll1Wods&feature=youtu.be
Saturday 21 March 2026 20:00
La Planeta Theater (Girona)
Performance and Discussion Experience a powerful documentary performance that explores menstrual health during the climacteric period and menopause, shedding light on a topic often left unspoken. The show is followed by a discussion with the creators and experts, inviting open conversation about body awareness, health, and lived experience. An honest, moving performance that transforms personal stories into shared understanding.
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.
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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