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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October 24, from 8:15 to 9:30 p.m.
Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB)
Art Spiegelman is an essential figure in comics, known worldwide as the author of Maus, a work that revolutionized the perception of the genre as a literary and artistic form. In this session, part of the Kosmopolis festival, he talks with another master of comics, artist Max.
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Friday 24 October 9:30 - 14:30
Pedralbes Monastery, Barcelona Limited places >> registration open
The Monastery of Pedralbes will host a day dedicated to cultural mediation in the field of arts in health on Friday, with project presentations and experiential workshops.
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Thursday 23 October, 6 PM - 7.30 PM
La Escocesa, Espai M, Barcelona
Intra-actions is a co-creation project in arts, community health, and public education that activates artistic methodologies and interventions to improve adolescent well-being—one of the groups most affected by psychosocial distress in our post-pandemic reality. The initiative is carried out in collaboration with the Poblenou Primary Care Center, Institut Maria Espinalt, and the contemporary art center La Escocesa. It worked with 3rd-year ESO students during the third term of last school year and continues with 4th-year ESO students in the current school year.
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October 23 and 24 11:00 - 15:00
Lobby of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute
This panel presents a selection of Arts in Health initiatives promoted by Vall d'Hebron, developed in collaboration with artists, cultural institutions, and healthcare teams, where art—through music, exhibitions, itineraries, or drawings—becomes a space for connection, empowerment, and recognition. Each project demonstrates how art can open doors, imagine new worlds, reframe experiences, and build community. The initiatives presented here are living examples of a strategy that puts people at the center.
October 24, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Geneva Business School, Barcelona
ENGLISH SESSION - This workshop for creative individuals, such as artists, designers, architects, writers, and entrepreneurs, reveals strategies for overcoming stress, with a focus on overcoming creative blogging. Through brief meditative and reflective exercises, participants gain simple yet effective tools for restoring openness, focus, creativity, and overall well-being.
Friday 24 October 19:00 - 21:00
Park of the Studies, Vic
Open-air Lindy Hop dance and initiation workshop open to everyone, located in the Vic studio park. Our organization is a non-profit association that organizes dances to promote swing dancing and improve health.
October 24, from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Can Framis Museum, Barcelona
"A New Door to Art" is a series of cross-disciplinary activities that invites the public to interact with the art world through various artistic disciplines: from music, film, gastronomy, and feminism to new technologies and wellness and health.
Thursday 23 October 11:00 - 12:00
Can Amat Museum - Viladecans Museum
We invite you to an open session of the AMAT Project: Health and Heritage, designed for cultural agents and professionals interested in arts in health initiatives. The session will explore the historical events, demographic shifts, and urban changes of our city, beginning with a visit to the immersive audiovisual experience in the Celler room on the ground floor of Ca n’Amat – Viladecans Museum Center. The goal is to share the project methodology so other cultural organizations can learn from it and adapt this arts-in-health initiative to their own municipal contexts.
Friday 24 October 16:00 - 17:30
La Font Space, Barcelona
We invite you to a talk and workshop introducing Artepaliativo, a foundation that for nearly ten years has supported people living with illness through art and art therapy in hospitals, residential homes, and home-care settings. Join us to explore this inspiring field: discover our methodology, learn from real case studies, and experience first-hand how creativity can become a tool for care, connection, and emotional well-being.No previous artistic experience is required. Places are limited to 25 participants. To reserve your spot, please contact info@artepaliativo.org or register through our website. Attendance will be confirmed by email.
Friday 24 October 19:00 - 20:00
Atlantis, Vic
The Narinan Choir is a choir for people with Parkinson's and their companions. We invite you to sing with us in an open rehearsal, to experience the health benefits of singing and making music with a choir. You'll also learn more about how and why singing can help people with Parkinson's. We sing to work on voice and speech, but above all, to accompany each other and enjoy it. It's a therapeutic choir facilitated by a music therapist. You don't need to know music to sing, you don't need to sing to come; everyone is welcome.
Friday 24 October 17:00 - 18:30
Auditori de La Model, Barcelona
The SMC presents the project “Culture Connects Us”, which aims to place culture at the center as a tool for social transformation and empowerment, framed within the mental health recovery model and the rights and citizenship framework. The presentation will be accompanied by one of the cultural experiences from an SMC entity: “Los Complejos”, a poetry group from CS Espai 3 in Cornellà del Llobregat. This group works on poetry and performance poetry in collaboration with Pabloswky, European Poetry Slam Champion.
Friday 24 October 19:00
Marès Museum, Barcelona Limited places >> registrations open
Carmen Cabezas and Rafael Cofiño talk about the impact of art on public health at the Frederic Marès Museum.