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

Windrush Voices: Sound and Memory Lab

11:00-12:00, 22 June 2026

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

Windrush Voices: Sound & Memory Lab is an immersive workshop exploring the power of voice, memory, storytelling, and sound. Drawing inspiration from Caribbean oral traditions, participants will discover the rich heritage of lullabies, church hymns, storytelling practices, and the rhythms of everyday life.

Clare Hewitt and participants lumen prints

Everything in the forest is the forest - Photography, Connection & Ecology - A Symposium

9:30-17:00, 19 June 2026

MAC, Birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, West Midlands, B12 9QH

The symposium is being shaped around the values of the forest, thinking about how these might be embodied in an event of this nature. We are bringing together different disciplines to exchange knowledge and skills, share a community meal, and create space for collective discussion.

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.

Healing Arts: Brum Rising Special

18:00-20:00, 26 June 2026

Midlands Arts Centre, Canon Hil Park, Birmingham, West Midlands, B129QH

Join us for an evening of live music in the Outdoor Theatre as part of Healing Arts Birmingham, celebrating emerging talent from across the city. This special edition of MAC’s Brum Rising series brings together some of the most exciting emerging artists from Birmingham’s music scene.