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

What's On

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

Key: Dance/Movement Design Festival Music Theatre Visual Art Film/Multi-Media Healing Arts Network Event Workshop/Participatory

Before and after Healing Arts

Copy of Champanier Alice In Wonderland 3925

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.

Dirty Little Secrets Improv Show

Monday 22 June 2026 | 7:30PM

67 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003

(Ages 16+) Born and raised in NYC’s East Village, the Dirty Little Secrets Improv Show celebrates 10 years of hilarious improv comedy all made up on the spot & inspired by your anonymously shared secrets.

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.

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.

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.

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.