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

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Festival Orchestra Pre-Show Discussion: Arts for Personal Wellbeing

Friday 8 August 2025 | 6 - 7PM Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York

Free Entry | As part of Lincoln Center's Summer for the City program

How do artistic practices support emotional regulation, self-expression, and mental health? 

Join leading artists, researchers, and lived experience experts in a 3-part series of conversations exploring the intersection of arts and healing, presented as part of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab’s global Healing Arts initiative in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). 

This conversation will be curated and moderated by Dr. Nisha Sajnani, Professor and Director of the NYU Steinhardt Graduate Program in Drama Therapy, Chair of the NYU Creative Arts Therapies Consortium, Co-Director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, and co-founder of Healing Arts NYC, a city-wide arts and health network. 

 

Panelists

Moderated by Dr. Nisha Sajnani, Dan Cohen, Jonathon Heyward, Ewelina Swierad, Camille Zamora

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