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

What's On

Here you can find events that took place such as celebratory performances, exhibitions, public art programmes, workshops and dialogues.

Before and after Healing Arts

Form of Clouds Celebration Event

12:00, 25 June 2026

Perrott's Folly, Waterworks Road, Birmingham, B16 9AL

Form of Clouds Celebration Day is a celebration of our long-standing arts-based social prescribing program, the Form of Clouds. Form of Clouds works with local people referred through the NHS Social Prescribing Program, Adult Social Care and Community Referrals using art as a vehicle to improve mental health and wellbeing, as well as combating social isolation and loneliness.

Extending Nature: Beyond the tech — creative, clinical and community perspectives

12:00-14:00, 25 June 2026

Sir Arthur Sullivan Hall, Birmingham and Midland Institute, (BMI), 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 3BS, United Kingdom

An open gathering to discuss the exciting potentials and important risk factors when developing new technologies across creative, clinical, and community settings. How do we navigate the needs, commitments, and concerns of these different groups when designing new software and media?

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Creative Health Region: Policy and Practice

13:30-16:00
25 June 2026

x+why Foundry, 6 Brindley Place
Birmingham , West Midlands, B1 2JB

Led by the West Midlands Combined Authority, Culture and Creative Industries Team, this event will explore Creative Health practice at a regional level

Art, prisons and health symposium

Thursday 25 June 2026
2.00pm–6.00pm

Library of Birmingham, The Gallery, 3rd Floor, B1 2ND

Organised by Ikon in partnership with Agder Kunstakademi and Culture Forward as part of Healing Arts Birmingham (HABrum), this symposium considers the impact of art on health in prisons. In showcasing initiatives from the UK and Norway, it highlights contrasting philosophies of criminal justice and criminal care whilst reflecting on the role of creative practice within the prison and probation systems.