Healing Arts Scotland 2024

Luminate is delighted to be a partner in Healing Arts Scotland 2024, a country-wide week-long programme celebrating and advocating for improved physical, mental and social health through the arts.  The programme is spearheaded by Scottish Ballet, as part of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab’s global ‘Healing Arts’ campaign in collaboration with the World Health Organisation. Healing Arts Scotland is co-ordinated by a national coalition of organisations working across culture, science, health, education and government.

Activities will get underway on Monday, 19th August 2024 as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, and will include celebratory performances, exhibitions, public art programmes, workshops and conversations.

Alongside Scottish Ballet and the Edinburgh International Festival, the partners helping to shape the week include Luminate, Health and Social Care Alliance (ALLIANCE), Intercultural Youth Scotland, Scottish Opera, Sistema Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, International Teaching Artists Collaborative, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Imaginate, Indepen-dance, Mental Health Foundation Scotland, Tonic Arts, The University of Edinburgh, Arts Culture Health & Wellbeing Scotland.

If your group or organisation would like to run an event as part of the programme, you will be able to register your proposed activity, project or event in November 2023.  You can sign-up via an online portal or send your details in hard copy, and more information about this process will be available as soon as the portal opens in early November.

Other partners include: Health and Social Care Alliance (ALLIANCE), Intercultural Youth Scotland, Scottish Opera, Sistema Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, International Teaching Artists Collaborative, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Imaginate, Indepen-dance, Mental Health Foundation Scotland, Tonic Arts, The University of Edinburgh, Arts Culture Health & Wellbeing Scotland.