Healing Arts Scotland Aberdeen 2026

Monday, 15 April 2026, 10:30- 16:00

Suttie Centre for Teaching and Learning in Healthcare, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZN

You are warmly invited to join us in Aberdeen for the launch of Healing Arts Scotland, for a day celebrating Healing Arts featuring panel discussions, Q&As, keynote speakers, spotlight speakers, workshops and creative wellbeing activities connected to the themes of Healing Arts Scotland 2026.

ACHWS Online Conference 2026

15th - 19th June 2026

Online

If you are not able to join our events in person, we’ve teamed up with Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland to curate an online conference programme featuring discussions with key speakers from across the week.

An Lanntair Creative Connections Exhibition

Monday 15th June 2026, 3:00pm

Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2DS

This exhibition showcases paintings, textiles, printmaking and collage made by participants in Creative Connections workshops over the past year.

An Lanntair Creative Connections: Healing Plants Cyanotype Workshop

Monday 15th June 2026, 1:00 - 2:30pm

An Lanntair art room

An Lanntair’s Creative Connections project supports the mental health and wellbeing of older adults in the Western Isles of Scotland through sociable visual arts workshops.

Healing Arts Scotland Dundee Day 2026

16th June 2026

V&A Dundee, Juniper Auditorium

As part of Healing Arts Scotland, Dundee will showcase and explore creative and collaborative work that connects arts and health across the lifespan.

Healing Arts Scotland Roundtable 2026

17th Wednesday June, 2026 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Chaplaincy Centre, Borders General Hospital

A gathering of practitioners, healthcare professionals and partners to explore creative health work in the Scottish Borders and reflect on the learning from a new local research report. Spotlighting local good practice, connecting across sectors and highlighting future opportunities.

Shetland Arts: Wellbeing Day

Tuesday 16th June 2026

Mareel, Shetland

Shetland Arts invites you to a free day of workshops, nature and community at Mareel. Come along to explore, reflect and connect in a warm and welcoming space.

SCO: Dementia-friendly Concert

18th June 2026, 02:00pm - 03:00pm

V&A Dundee, 85 - 89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG

These relaxed afternoon concerts by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra feature classical favourites and familiar tunes, introduced and performed by SCO musicians, along with tea and biscuits that can be enjoyed as part of the concert experience.

Generation Arts

15th June 2026 - 19th June 2026

Livingston United Parish Church, Craigsfarm Community Hub, EH54 8AX
& Rosemount Gardens, Bathgate, EH8 1QW

Generation Arts provides an inclusive programme of arts activities provided by professional artists from creative movement and dance, visual arts to music projects, and remote cinema screenings.

Comfy Ceilidh

17th June 2026, 11:00am - 12:30pm

13-29 Nicolson St, Edinburgh, EH8 9FT

Comfy Ceilidh is a seated dance offering, delivered by Capital Theatres’ award-winning dementia friendly programme, featuring live ceilidh music throughout.

Trauma Attuned Change

16th June 2026, 10:00 - 16:00

Stockbridge Music Hub, Stockbridge Parish Church,
7b Saxe Coburg Street, Edinburgh, Lothian, EH3 5BN

In a world motivated to use our innate creativity to address the harm caused by trauma, what more can we do? This event will launch a new trauma attuned arts framework co-created by a team of artists, practitioners and academics from across the UK and Ukraine.

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SET Sing Exercise & Tea Classes

15th & 19th June 2026, 11:30am

Moray Sports Centre, Linkwood Road
Elgin, Moray, IV30 8AR

SET, Seated dance exercise classes delivered in partnership by Dance North Scotland and Health & Social Care Moray.

What's On

Healing Arts Scotland Aberdeen 2026

ACHWS Online Conference 2026

An Lanntair Creative Connections Exhibition

An Lanntair Creative Connections: Healing Plants Cyanotype Workshop

Healing Arts Scotland Dundee Day 2026

Healing Arts Scotland Roundtable 2026

Shetland Arts: Wellbeing Day

SCO: Dementia-friendly Concert

Generation Arts

Comfy Ceilidh

Trauma Attuned Change

SET Sing Exercise & Tea Classes