UNGA Healing Arts Week 2024

Synopsis

On the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Jameel Arts & Health Lab hosts UNGA Healing Arts Week 2024, a week-long programme celebrating innovative approaches to global health and wellbeing through the arts.

Produced in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, UNGA Healing Arts Week 2024 features:

  • a research symposium at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University (NYU Steinhardt),
  • a policy panel at the Lincoln Centre, and
  • a wellbeing concert and healing arts reception at Carnegie Hall.

For more details, visit ungahealingarts.org.

WHERE?
New York City
FORMAT
RSVP
WHEN?
📆
18
September
2024
25
September
2024
DETAILS
Watch livestream

Participants

Maria Rosario Jackson

Chair, National Endowment of the Arts

Renée Fleming

Goodwill ambassador for arts and health, WHO; Artistic advisor, Kennedy Centre

Harry Johnson

Assembly member

Ashwin Vasan

NYC Commissioner, Department of health and mental hygien

Linda Mills

President, New York University

Jack H. Knott

Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, NYU Steinhardt

Jeremy Nobel

Founder, Foundation for the Arts & Healing

Sunil Iyengar

Eve Byrd

Larissa Trinder

Assistant vice president, NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine

Shanta Thake

Chief artistic officer, Lincoln Center

Cris Scorza

Julia Hotz

Journalist, Author of 'The connection cure'

Jill Sonke

Director of national impact and research, One Nation/One Project

Ian Koebner

Christopher Bailey

Co-director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Nisha Sajnani

Co-director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Nicole Fleetwood

James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Carlos Chirinos-Espin

Assistant professor, director of NYU Music and Social Change Lab

Marygrace Berberian

Clinical assistant professor of art therapy, NYU Steinhardt

Constantina Theofanopoulou

Herbert and Nell Singer Research Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University

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About the event

UNGA Healing Arts Week 2024 programme

  • 18 September 2024, 09h00-15h00 | Symposium on the art and science of social connection | NYU Steinhardt
  • 18 September 2024, 17h00-19h00 | Art and health policy panel | Lincoln Center
  • 19 September 2024, Evening | Wellbeing concert and healing arts reception | Weill Roof Terrace, Carnegie Hall
  • 20 September 2024, 12h30-14h30 | HHArt of medicine: Art observation workshop | The Whitney Museum of American Art
  • 25 September 2024, 9h00 - 10h30 | Visual art in hospitals: Community of practice | Virtual

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