Healing Arts Scotland: Online Conference Programme 20-23 August

Healing Arts Scotland is a week-long celebration of arts and health initiatives across the country that help improve people’s wellbeing. Forming part of the global outreach campaign of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), it is the first ever countrywide Healing Arts Week.

Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland is hosting an online conference programme as part of Healing Arts Scotland Week, sharing discussions, insights and provocations from a range of local, national and international experts.

20 August | The Role of Culture in Health – Trauma, Conflict and Displacement
As many people are affected by traumatic events, we discuss how arts and culture play a powerful role and the health and wellbeing impacts on those involved – Book Now

21 August | Can Creative and Cultural Engagement Transform our Brain?
We explore impact of creative engagement in the body, brain, and behaviours, to improve and support the lives of people with neurological and other long term health conditions – Book Now

23 August | The Future of Social Prescribing
We take a look at the future of Social Prescribing and the role that culture has to play with a panel of experts offering local, national and international perspectives – Book Now

23 August | What the Research Tells Us
We take a look at why culture plays such an important part in our health and wellbeing and discuss recent groundbreaking national and international research – Book Now

23 August | Nurturing Healthy Island Communities through Culture
We explore how different island communities across Scotland are mobilising and embedding local community-based cultural assets to improve health and wellbeing – Book Now

Further information: https://www.healingartsscotland.org/