About Healing Arts Singapore

Healing Arts Singapore is Asia's first national-level arts and health initiative. Launched in December 2025, it brings together academic research, policy, and practice to advance evidence-based arts interventions, improving wellbeing across Singapore and the wider Western Pacific region.

Co-led by the National University of Singapore's Centre for Music and Health (Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music) and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (University of the Arts Singapore), it forms part of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab global Healing Arts campaign, in collaboration with the World Health Organization.

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Pilot Project Application

Healing Arts Singapore is calling for Pilot Project applications. If your organisation is doing bold, innovative work at the intersection of arts and mental health, we would love to hear from you.

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Events Map

Find out where Healing Arts Singapore will take place across the country

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Healing Arts Singapore Films

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Healing Arts Singapore Pilot Projects 2026-28

Applications open 18th May 2026

Healing Arts Singapore Pilot Project Applications are now open! Be part of Asia's first national arts and health initiative, helping to strengthen mental wellbeing through the arts and inform policy in Singapore and across the Western Pacific region.

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Healing Arts Singapore Artists Commissions

The Healing Arts Singapore Artist Commissions are supporting four Singapore-based Artists / Collectives to create new or innovate existing, site-specific works exploring Arts and Mental Health.

Gateway Arts Scaredy Kat Presents Key Visual Landscape

Artist Commission: Gateway Arts

Gateway Arts makes theatre that matters. The Singapore-based charity creates bold, socially conscious productions for young people - provoking thought, sparking dialogue, and inspiring change.

Artist Commission: Maya Project

Since 2007, Maya Dance Theatre (MDT) has been using dance to tell the stories that matter - creating socially conscious, multi-disciplinary work that provokes conversation and drives change in Singapore and beyond.

Artist Commission: National Gallery Singapore & The Teng Company

National Gallery Singapore, home to the world's largest public collection of Singapore and Southeast Asian modern art, has partnered with The TENG Company - a Singapore-based not-for-profit pushing the boundaries of Chinese music to enrich lives and inspire lifelong learning.

Artist Commission: Xiao Chang

Singapore-based artist Xin Xiaochang (b. 1982) works at the intersection of art and design -mixing ceramics with sculpture, installation, and finely crafted media to create works that are as conceptually rich as they are materially precise. Exhibited widely across local and international stages, her work is held in private and corporate collections around the world.