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.
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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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.
Friday 7 August | 6PM
Bringing together artists, clinicians, and scholars, this conversation traces the enduring relationship between music and mental health, from Schumann’s era to contemporary practice.
9 September - 4 October 2026 | 2 & 7PM
Theatre of the 14St Y, 344 E 14th St, NY 10003
ReproEco is theatrical storytelling by about our health, our bodies, communities, our future, and the need for air, soil, and water that is free of toxins.
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.
Sunday 20 September | 4 - 6PM
The Creative Center, 184 Eldridge Street, New York, 10002
Participants who are interested in learning how art therapy and creative expression can support their health are invited to this guided sensory exploration and visual narrative workshop.
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!
Tuesday 22 September 2026 | 1:30 - 5:30PM
Skirball Center For The Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012
The annual research symposium presented as part of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab’s UN General Assembly Healing Arts Week.
Tuesday 22 September 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30PM
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 5th Avenue, New York, 10029
Join NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine for a panel at the City Museum of New York to imagine the hospital of the future: one where the arts are a vital and normal part of quality care.
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.
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 | 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.