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

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Discover New York-based events, concerts, dialogues, receptions, symposiums, workshops, and more.

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Key: Dance/Movement Design Festival Music Theatre Visual Art Film/Multi-Media Healing Arts Network Event Workshop/Participatory
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Well-Being Concert 2026 featuring Somi

Thursday 24 September | 7:30PM

Weill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall, 154 W 57th St, NY 10019

An uplifting and unifying Well-Being Concert led by Grammy-nominated and NAACP Image Award–winning jazz, soul, and pop vocalist Somi.

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Another Wonderland

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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Inside the Orchestra Artists As Athletes

Inside the Orchestra: Artists As Athletes

Friday 10 July | 6PM

Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio, David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, NY 10023

Amidst this summer’s celebrations of the global spirit of soccer and the intersections of arts and sport, Erin Lunsford Norton (Associate Director, Classical Programming) and her guests will explore how musicians are athletes too.

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Global Goals

Global Goals: A New Score for the Arts and Public Health

Friday 17 July | 6PM

Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio, David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, NY 10023

Bringing together voices from the arts, sports, public health, and policy, this event examines how creative participation can advance World Health Organization global health targets while aligning with NYC's priorities around prevention, equity, and neighborhood-level wellbeing.

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Dirty Little Secrets Improv Show

Monday 20 July | 7PM

67 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003

(Ages 16+) Experience your secrets turned into comedy gold: where your anonymously-submitted confessions serve as inspiration for improv performers.

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Uptown Boys

Friday 18 and 25 July | 5 and 6PM

Inwood Art Works Studio, 112 Seaman Ave, NY 10034

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.

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Raising our voices

Raising Our Voices: Collective Singing, Wellbeing & Global Health

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.

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From Schumann to Today

Sound Mind: Music & Mental Health From Schumann to Today

Friday 7 August | 6PM

Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio, David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, NY 10023

Bringing together artists, clinicians, and scholars, this conversation traces the enduring relationship between music and mental health, from Schumann’s era to contemporary practice.

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Lean to

Lean-To: Performance and Talkback

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.

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Changing Minds with Young Filmmakers

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!

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Creative Aging: From Inspiration to Implementation

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.

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