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

Mothership Exhibition: Contemporary Art, Children's Activities & Wellbeing Space

24, 25, 26, & 27 June
10:30am - 3:30pm

Stryx Play Gallery Cafe, 90 Vyse Street. Birmingham, Jewellery Quarter, B186JZ

Mothership is a residency and exhibition programme supporting mother-artists through creative development, peer support and family-inclusive approaches to artistic practice.

Healing Arts at Centrala Creative Workshop, Exhibition & Film Screening

27 June
1:00pm - 4:00pm

Centrala, Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RT

Healing Arts at Centrala brings together a creative wellbeing workshop, exhibition and film screening exploring themes of identity, migration, belonging personal resilience. Led by Roo Dhissou, the creative workshop invites participants to create their own personalised pocket object using collage, drawing and craft techniques.

Community Mapping Through Islamic Art

25, 26 & 27 June
12:30PM - 6:00PM

MIAH Foundation, 496 Moseley Rd, Balsall Heath. Birmingham, West Midlands, B12 9AH

MIAH is hosting a special 3-day community arts project where together we will create an illuminated Ottoman-style map of Balsall Heath, inspired by traditional Islamic artistic practices, including geometric design, illumination, biomorphic patterns, decorative drawing, and Ottoman-style visual motifs.

What We Carry

27 June
1:00pm - 4:00pm

Legacy Centre of Excellence, 144 Potters Lane. Birmingham, Newtown, B6 4UU

Join Legacy Centre of Excellence for a free creative wellbeing workshop exploring the stories, memories and emotional legacies we carry.

Healing Arts Birmingham: Neighbourhood programme

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

Healing Arts - No 11 Creative Networking Morning

10:00-13:00, 27 June 2026

Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, West MIdlands, B12 9QH

Join Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) and No. 11 Arts for a creative networking morning as part of Healing Arts Birmingham. Designed for emerging creatives, freelancers and early-career practitioners, What Next? is a space to connect, reflect and explore the realities of building a creative practice in Birmingham and the wider West Midlands.