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

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Before and after Healing Arts
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Celebrating 100 Years of the No. 11 Bus Route

Thursday 25th June 2026

Yardley, Erdington and Acocks Green

No. 11 Arts marked the 100th anniversary of Birmingham's iconic No. 11 bus route with a unique creative journey. At 26 miles long, the No. 11 Outer Circle is the longest urban bus route in Europe.

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Health Economic Evaluation for Creative Health

Thursday 25th June 2026

Online

This webinar explored how creative health is valued, turning wellbeing and community impact into evidence that shapes funding and policy. It introduced the qualities of both health economic evaluations and creative health that needed consideration when designing national guidance for how to value complex, non-market outcomes.

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Live at B:Eats featuring Kris Halpin

Thursday 25th June 2026

B:Eats Cafe at Symphony Hall, Centenary Square. Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA
United Kingdom

Free live music was performed by Kris Halpin at B:Music's B:Eats Cafe at Symphony Hall. As part of the popular Live @ B:Eats lunchtime concert series, this performance by award-winning artist Kris Halpin marked the final day of a Healing Arts Festival takeover.

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Our Health, Our Stories - an evening with Women & Theatre

Thursday 25th June 2026

Moseley Hive, 93 Alcester Road
Birmingham, West Midlands, B138DD

Attendees joined Women & Theatre, one of the city's most established and recognised theatre companies, as they revived a small number of monologue pieces from the wealth of work in their back catalogue, showing how the purpose of HABrum – demonstrating how art builds a healthier, fairer and more resilient community – had been at their heart all along.

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Healing Arts Birmingham: Neighbourhood programme

Attendees learned more about The Healing Arts Birmingham Neighbourhood programme, which provided grants to support a diverse range of community-led projects taking place across the city during Healing Arts Birmingham.

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Art, Prisons and Health Symposium

Thursday 25th June 2026

The Gallery (3rd Floor), Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2ND, United Kingdom

This Art, Prisons and Health Symposium is organised by Ikon in partnership with Agder Kunstakademi and the University of Birmingham’s Culture Forward initiative as part of Healing Arts Birmingham (HABrum). In showcasing initiatives from the UK and Norway – Art at HMP Birmingham, Agder Kunstakademi and Project Phoenix & Project Athena – it highlights contrasting philosophies of criminal justice and criminal care whilst reflecting on the role of creative practice within the prison and probation systems.

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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.

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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

Thursday 25th June 2026

Online

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

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Art, prisons and health symposium

Thursday 25 June 2026

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 considered the impact of art on health in prisons. In showcasing initiatives from the UK and Norway, it highlighted contrasting philosophies of criminal justice and criminal care whilst reflecting on the role of creative practice within the prison and probation systems.

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