Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization

What's On

Here you can find events that took place such as celebratory performances, exhibitions, public art programmes, workshops and dialogues.

Before and after Healing Arts

The Centre of Things

23 August - December 2024 (Mon-Fri 9AM-4PM) (Sat-Sun 11AM-2PM)

Orkney Blide Trust, 54 Victoria St, Kirkwall, KW15 1DN

This was a photography exhibition featuring work from people with lived experience of mental ill health who participated in therapeutic activities such as photography.

Samantha Baird Dance Co. & Sandra M Yoga, Wellness Workshop

24 August 2024 10:30AM-12:30PM

Klass Studios, Stonehouse, Udston Road, ML9 3FL

This unique event blended the arts and health, offering a holistic approach to fitness and wellbeing through dance fitness, ballet, and yoga.

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make the Bed

11-25 August 11:50AM - 12:50PM

ZOO Playground, High School Yards, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH1 1LZ

make the Bed was a 60-minute solo show that relied on gesture, physicality, and soundscapes as Ariela took the audience along with her on an anxiety-filled downward spiral. In showing her own struggle with mental illness, particularly anxiety, Ariela aimed to create a piece in which other anxious people could see their own experiences reflected. This piece was part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Wild and Free

23 and 30 August 2024 5:00PM-6:30PM

The Meadows (by the Pavillion Cafe), Melville Drive, Edinburgh, EH9 1JZ

Connect to your inner wild, through yoga, Mixed Movement and creative play. You will be led on a journey, exploring embodied practices of connection; movement, breath, sound and creative nature play. This event is for all bodies.

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The Show for Young Men

2-24 August 2024 5:30PM-6:30PM

Dance Base, 14-16 Grassmarket, Edinburgh , EH1 2JU

Directed by Eoin McKenzie in collaboration with Robbie Synge and young performer Alfie, this is a funny and tender new contemporary dance performance for audiences aged 8+ that considers familiar and unexpected ideas about masculinity and friendship.

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In Two Minds

1-25 August 2024

10 Cambridge Street, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED

Explored through the dynamic of a mother-daughter relationship, In Two Minds is deeply personal, inventive, funny and life-affirming.