CREED MARTIN. Work No. 3435 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT.
2020. Neon. 44 x 1250 cm / 17 3/8 x 492 1/8 inches © Martin Creed.
All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024 Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

19-23 August 2024

About Healing Arts Scotland

19-23 August 2024

Healing Arts Scotland (HAS) 2024 was a nation-wide festival celebrating and advocating for improved physical, mental and social health through the arts. Spearheaded by Scottish Ballet as part of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab’s global ‘Healing Arts’ campaign in collaboration with the World Health Organization, the one-week activation was launched as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and produced in collaboration with a national coalition of organisations and communities across Scotland.

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Impact Report

The aim of HAS 2024 was to catalyse and strengthen a network of communities that could positively address current health concerns and inequalities across Scotland, with a focus on five priority areas where the arts can have a measurable impact:

1. Loneliness & isolation
2. Mental health in younger people
3. Dementia
4. Creativity in confinement
5. Social Prescribing

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Healing Arts Scotland Films

View our films celebrating and advocating for improved physical, mental and social health through the arts.

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Featured Events

Healing Arts Scotland Impact Evening

21 January 2025

The Scottish Parliament, Horse Wynd, Edinburgh EH99 1SP

The evening highlights key insights and recommendations from the Healing Arts Scotland 2024 impact report and evaluation findings.

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Healing Arts Scotland Opening Celebration

16:00, 19 August 2024

Scottish Parliament

The Healing Arts Scotland Opening Celebration event took place outside the Scottish Parliament at 4pm on Monday, 19th August, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and Festival of Politics, featuring over 250 performers and participants from across Scotland.

Healing Arts Scotland Conference

19 & 20 August 2024

The Hub - Edinburgh International Festival, The National Galleries of Scotland, The National Portrait Gallery. Events in-person and online.

The HAS Conference in Edinburgh on the 19th and 20th August featured UK and international speakers who were leading innovative practice in arts-in-health interventions, including four specially curated panels as part of the Festival of Politics at Scottish Parliament.

Healing Arts Scotland Glasgow Day

All Day 21 August 2024 |

25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE

Healing Arts Scotland in Glasgow brought together communities, researchers, and academics to celebrate and debate the role of the arts in health.

Healing Arts Scotland  ITAC Relay

January-August 2024

Scotland Wide

Designed and delivered by the International Teaching Artists Collaborative (ITAC), the ITAC Relay is a chance for participatory artists working in Arts and Health contexts to connect and collaborate on a 6-month national activation leading into Healing Arts Scotland Week.

Healing Arts Scotland, Aberdeen

22 August 2024

Aberdeen

Healing Arts Scotland came to Aberdeen University, NHS Grampian, and a range of arts organisations based across the city, leading a day of performances, workshops, and events.

Healing Arts Scotland Islands Day

19/08/24 - 20/08/2024 |

Orkney, Lewis and Shetland

Healing Arts Scotland came to Orkney, Lewis, and Shetland to amplify the voices from the communities of the Scottish Islands and celebrate the arts in health and wellbeing.

Healing Arts Scotland at The Festival of Politics

19-23 August 2024

Scottish Parliament, Horse WYND, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP

Healing Arts Scotland is teaming up with the Festival of Politics with a series of discussions from leading experts from the worlds of politics, the arts and health on a variety of topics including dementia, mental health and resilience, trauma, ageism and inequality and how engagement in the arts can make a difference to all walks of life.

Online Conference

20-23 August

Online

If you were not able to join our events in person, we teamed up with Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland to offer an online conference programme covering key areas of discussion across the week and featuring some of our national and international speakers and other guests.

Healing Arts Scotland Wellbeing Concert

18:30, 21 August 2024

Tramway, 25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE

A beautiful and uplifting concert to celebrate Healing Arts Scotland week performed by artists from Glasgow and beyond, both professional and community based.

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