Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Monday 13 April 2026 | 7 - 9PM 126 St Felix St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
The Brooklyn stop on the Healing Arts New York Network Boro Tour
The Healing Arts New York Network is proud to announce the next stop of the 2026 Healing Arts Boro Tour at the historic Brooklyn Music School on April 13, 2026.
Hosted at one of the longest-running performing arts organizations in Brooklyn, together we will gather artists, administrators, clinicians, and public health workers to highlight Brooklyn-based opportunities and programs.
A conversation, "The Healing Power of the Arts" will feature a discussion aimed at examining the healing properties that music and community building can create in society. Featured panelists include Daoud Abeid, Facilitator, Men at Work Healing; Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Deborah Douek; Brooklyn Arts Council Executive Director Rasu Jilani, and Artist and Creative Consultant, Stephen Sheffer. There will be time for refreshments, networking, and an experiential offering featuring Katie Down, LCAT, MT-BC and Jane Rigler, Ph.D., Co-directors of the Arts & Wellbeing Gathering: a consortium of professional artists and healing arts practitioners. Each will offer an experience focused on the theme of “Whole Listening for Wellbeing.”
Daoud Abeid, Facilitator, Men at Work Healing
Deborah Douek, Team Lavender Peer Support Manager with Miamondes Health, A Creative Arts Therapist with 25+ years of leadership in the arts and health field
Rasu Jilani, Executive Director, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brings 15+ years advocating for the Brooklyn cultural and creative community
Stephen Sheffer, Creative Health Consultant with Improv for Work & Wellness; Brooklyn-based, award-winning improviser, actor, and writer
Jane Rigler, Deep Listening® facilitating Artist expanding the concept of music and community collaboration through explorations in sound and well-being
Katie Down, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Sound Practitioner, and organizer using music and sound for trauma informed community care
Brooklyn Music School views music and performance as the birthright of all people—an essential way human beings connect with each other and explore their creativity. The study of music enhances academic learning and helps develop healthy habits and confidence that will serve students throughout their lives.
Brooklyn Music School is a community school for the performing arts, founded in 1910 as the Brooklyn Music School Settlement. The school was founded by immigrants for whom music performance and appreciation was an essential part of life, and who wished to spread music and performance to a broader audience of new Americans.
Today, Brooklyn is a magnet for people from around the world, both musicians seeking new audiences and families seeking a better life. Our organization continues to stay true to our heritage of building communities through the joy and appreciation of music.
We own and operate a historic four-story building in the Fort Greene neighborhood that contains twenty-four classrooms, three dance studios, and a professional 266-seat Spanish-style theatre. Brooklyn Music School is a long-standing member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts.
In recent years, Fort Greene has become recognized as a cultural hub of Brooklyn and the home to some of the most innovative music and performance in New York City. Demographically the Fort Greene neighborhood is a diverse and vibrant community with various ethnic groups established near the school.
BMS's student population is representative of our community and includes students from a wide variety of racial, cultural, and economic backgrounds. Our organization provides financial aid to make musical instruction affordable to families and children regardless of their resources. All students are given a solid foundation and develop healthy habits and self-confidence.
For some of our students, our programming provides the only exposure to music education that they will receive. For others, BMS serves as a launch pad to professional careers in music and performance, and many of our alumni have gone on to attend some of the most competitive conservatories in America and abroad.
Renowned mezzo soprano Risë Stevens began her career BMS and the Brooklyn Music School Playhouse was also the home of the Little Theatre Opera company in the 1920’s.
