Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Healing Arts
Discover New York-based events, concerts, dialogues, receptions, symposiums, workshops, and more.
Opens June 6 2026
1220 5th Ave, New York, NY 10029
The exhibition celebrates the rescue and decades-long restoration of Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York, a major New Deal–era mural cycle created for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital between 1938 and 1940.
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Tuesdays thru August 25 2026 | 7-8PM
32-01 Vernon Blvd, Astoria, NY 11106
Mindful Astoria brings the art of mindfulness meditation to Socrates Sculpture Park, designed for all experience levels.
Friday 25 July | 5 & 6PM
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, 4140 Broadway, Studio #2, NY 10033
Set around a four-top table in Washington Heights, this bilingual one-act play captures the sharp wit, buried trauma, and unbreakable bonds of lifelong brotherhood.
Friday 31 July | 6PM
Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio, David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, NY 10023
Bringing together voices from music, neuroscience, public health, and community practice, this event explores how collective singing can be understood not only as cultural expression, but as a scalable public health resource.
Friday 7 August | 6PM
Bringing together artists, clinicians, and scholars, this conversation traces the enduring relationship between music and mental health, from Schumann’s era to contemporary practice.
9 September - 4 October 2026 | 2 & 7PM
Theatre of the 14St Y, 344 E 14th St, NY 10003
ReproEco is theatrical storytelling by about our health, our bodies, communities, our future, and the need for air, soil, and water that is free of toxins.
Saturday and Sunday 19-20 September 2026
Brooklyn to Manhattan
A breathtaking herd of 50 life-size buffalo puppets will gather in New York City. Part spectacle, part ritual, you're invited to join the herd, encountering live music, poetry, ceremonies, and performances along the way.
Sunday 20 September | 10AM
Francesca Beale Theater, Film at Lincoln Center, 144 West 65th Street, NY
As part of UNGA Healing Arts Week, this program situates NYC within a growing global movement that recognizes arts participation as a vital resource for health, wellbeing, and social inclusion in later life.
Sunday 20 September | 4 - 6PM
The Creative Center, 184 Eldridge Street, New York, 10002
Participants who are interested in learning how art therapy and creative expression can support their health are invited to this guided sensory exploration and visual narrative workshop.
Monday 21 September | 6:30 – 8:30PM
Gibney Dance Theater, 280 Broadway, Entrance at 53A Chambers Street, NY, 10007
Presented by Changing Minds as part of the UNGA Healing Arts Week, join us for a special screening of the 2026 Changing Minds Young Filmmaker Festival!
Tuesday 22 September 2026 | 1:30 - 5:30PM
Skirball Center For The Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012
The annual research symposium presented as part of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab’s UN General Assembly Healing Arts Week.
Tuesday 22 September 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30PM
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 5th Avenue, New York, 10029
Join NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine for a panel at the City Museum of New York to imagine the hospital of the future: one where the arts are a vital and normal part of quality care.