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.
Friday 25 September | 3PM
Riverside Public Library, 127 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10023
Bring a Memory to Life is a hands-on stop-motion animation workshop for children ages 6–12 that explores memory, creativity, and well-being through art.
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Friday 25 September | 2 - 3:30PM
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029
In gallery conversations and hands-on artmaking activities, Arts & Minds opens a window to creativity and well-being for people with dementia and their caregivers.
Friday September 25 2026 | 2-6 PM
MoMA, Celeste Bartos Theater, 4 W 54th St, New York, 10019
The roundtable will bring together currently and formerly incarcerated artists, correctional leaders, researchers, and allied practitioners to explore global case examples of creative practice within and in response to spaces of incarceration.
Friday 25 September | 5PM
Union Square, 13 E 19th St, New York, NY 10003
Aphotography-based aesthetic experience designed to expand the way we see and interact with the world, and our selves.
Friday 25 September 2026 | 5:30 - 8:30PM
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53rd St, New York
MoMA is now open late every Friday night, and admission is free for all New York State residents!
Friday 25 September 2026 | 7:00PM
Kumble Theater, Long Island University, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
A night of music, the spoken word, and magic towards an endowment at The Carter Center to support stipends for interns at The Carter Center in the areas of Human Rights, Mental Health, and Inform Women, Transform Lives.
35 W 4th St, 11th Floor, New York, 10012
Participants will explore sounds associated with climate change—the wind, rain, thunder, fire, falling trees, floods, ice, snow, or earthquakes—and discover what these sounds evoke personally and collectively.
Friday 25 September | 7:15PM
59E559 Theaters, 9 East 59th Street, NY 10022
Part comedy and part tender drama, Lean-To explores the human desire to connect and the shadow of loneliness that lurks within all of us.
Saturday 26 September | 2PM
NYU Steinhardt,Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
This active workshop will introduce students to some of the skills and tactics that clown doctors and teaching artists use to inspire joy and laughter within vulnerable populations.
Saturday 26 September 2026 | 2 - 5PM
Mount Zion A.M.E. Church, 1765 Madison Avenue, NY 10029
An intergenerational workshop series exploring the many ways we experience and express gratitude — through conversation, craft, creative writing, and the meditative art of ikebana.
Saturday 26 September | 5:30-7:30PM
In-person: Brooklyn, New York
Enjoy cocktails, conversation, and community, while supporting Bellevue Literary Review's Art in Medicine program. Meet BLR’s founding editor-in-chief, Danielle Ofri, and the creative team behind this innovative program.
Sunday 27 September | 2 - 5PM
Midtown Manhattan, Details Provided to Registered Participants
This workshop invites participants to explore how tableaus and gesture can reveal power, relationships, and unspoken dynamics within an ensemble.