Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Healing Arts
Explore the full programme of events; from performances, exhibitions to interactive public art, hands-on workshops, and thought-provoking symposia and policy panels.
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Wednesday 22 October 12:00 to 13:00
Maricel Museum, Sitges
The Sitges Museums offer a tour of their places of well-being. This itinerary invites you to connect art with health.
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Wednesday 22 October 12:00 - 14:00
Municipal Special Education Center Vil·la Joana
Art therapy is a powerful tool for promoting inclusion and emotional well-being for all adults and children. Our approach is an experiential workshop where education professionals, artists, healthcare workers, teachers, and peers will have the opportunity to experience how art can help unlock emotions and promote expression and communication with children and young people with emotional difficulties, ASD, or other mental health needs. Through this art therapy approach, participants will be able to reflect on their emotions and experience how art, from an art therapy perspective, is a powerful resource for improving understanding, support, and inclusion of children and young people.
Wednesday 22 October 19:00 - 20:00
Sitges Museums
The Sitges Museums invite you to explore a methodology widely used in museums, education, and mediation. In this session, we will focus on how it can be applied to promote health and well-being.
October 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
La Bòbila Athenaeum, Barcelona
This project aims to offer young people a creative platform to share their graphic works and spark conversations about sexual health and care culture. Art is used as a transformative tool, not only to express personal perspectives but also to foster dialogue and collective reflection. Participants experiment with different techniques—drawing, digital illustration, collage, or comics—to explore themes such as consent, body diversity, gender identities, and the importance of relationships based on respect and mutual support.
Wednesday 22 October
Biblioteca i CAP d'Avinyó
An exhibition of mobiles created by users of mental health organizations as part of the Natura és Cultura project, under the direction of multidisciplinary artist Quim Moya, held at the CAP and the Avinyó Library. The project also includes a participatory activity with local residents, students from Barnola School, and mental health organizations, supported by the Avinyó City Council. The objectives are to improve the emotional well-being of people living with mental health conditions, raise awareness among the general population, identify at-risk students, and combat the stigma associated with mental illness.
October 23, from 20:30 to 22:00
Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB)
Three prominent Basque authors, Uxue Alberdi, Miren Amuriza and Nerea Ibarzabal, present a spectacle of improvised verse, bertsolarismo, a centuries-old tradition very popular in Euskal Herria. In this session, included in the Kosmopolis festival, the three bertsolaris have the challenge of imagining more livable futures.
Wednesday 22 October 17:00 - 18:30
Classroom 404, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bellvitge Campus
Christian Budgen, director of Pallapupas, will present a vision of how art can act as a strategic tool for health and well-being in the healthcare setting in a lecture at the University of Barcelona. Through his experience documenting and studying the impact of the arts on healthcare, Budgen will share evidence demonstrating how artistic initiatives can improve both the patient experience and the well-being of healthcare professionals.
Wednesday 22 October 15:00 - 17:00
Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona
Intensive one-day session to discover how humor can become a powerful tool for well-being and self-care. Through participatory dynamics, theatrical games and creativity exercises, we will explore clowning, laughter and human connection as resources to improve mood, reduce tension and promote emotional well-being. An experiential and participatory day, where all exercises are done with respect and at the personal pace of each participant. No previous experience is necessary: just a desire to play, laugh and share.
October 23, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Garden of Silence, Barcelona
Through a brief practice of connecting with nature through the senses, we will enter the garden to listen, observe, and feel our part of it. Guided by Les Trenades and the Wake Up, Art and Nature project, this activity aims to be a brief pause from the daily rhythm, a space to breathe, reconnect, and be inspired by the wisdom of change that nature offers us as a source of well-being.
Wednesday 22 October 18:00 - 19:00
Gothic Room of the Maricel Museum, Sitges
The Maricel Museum in Sitges will host the conference "Art and Aesthetic Experiences as a Tool for Promoting Health and Well-being," by Vincenza Ferrara, professor at Sapienza University of Rome. In this presentation, Ferrara will highlight the role of the arts and aesthetic experiences as essential tools for improving health and well-being.
Wednesday 22 October 16:00 - 18:00
Osonament, Vic
Artistic Couples, creative experiences for mental health, consists of the creation and subsequent exhibition of works made by artistic couples formed by an artist linked to mental health resources and an artist external to mental health services. The production process takes place in the community context. The exhibition is the public presentation of the works and the culmination of the work carried out. Project supported by BBVA and Fundació Antiga Caixa Manlleu
Wednesday 22 October 12:30 - 14:00 PM
Gran Teatre del Liceu La Rambla, 59, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona
ESMUC is holding a special event reviewing ten years of the International Arts and Health Conference. It will review the project and present the program for the next edition of the Arts and Health Conference, which will take place on November 14 and 15. Finally, it will feature a performance by the chamber ensemble from the Supercapacitats project.
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