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
Tuesdays, 10 October - 23 December 2025 | 12:30 - 1:45PM Queens Center for Gay Seniors, 37-06 77th St., Jackson Heights, NY 11372
An hour of dance and storytelling championing LGBTQ+ elder and ally voices, and celebrating community.
Join DanceStream Projects’ dance artists Magda Kaczmarska and Jamie Robinson for an hour of dance and storytelling championing our voices and celebrating community.
In this interactive dance class, we will progress through a warm up, combining dance and fitness activities to prepare our minds and bodies for movement and join together to share our stories through words and movement.
DanceStream Projects brings together artists, researchers, and communities as active collaborators in creative and educational projects that build spaces of belonging and amplify collective stories. We work together to build new systems and structures that maximize our agency and fortify our collective wellbeing.
Inspired by the concept of upstreaming* health, DanceStream Projects provides direct allyship and empowerment to communities bridging the arts and health. We believe that dance is a universal language and that the arts, and specifically dance, are an integral part of the healthcare ecosystem. By engaging in co-creative arts practices, we are expanding our capacity and agency for promoting our individual and community health. By engaging in the arts, we are putting our brain health into our hands and our bodies.
*Upstreaming health is a concept which recognizes that the root causes of ill-health are systemic and especially within the western model of medicine propagate a culture of crisis. Upstreaming health addresses supporting individuals and communities through a focus on prevention and empowerment. Upstreaming places health outside of the river – catching people before they fall in, invoking cooperation and interdependence in the larger healthcare ecosystem of housing, nutrition, green spaces, urban and rural design, legal assistance, immigration, education and social engagement.
