Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Thursday 10th September 2026, 13:00 - 14:00 Lab 5 - Suntan Convention & Exhibition Centre
ONE Impact Week isn't just a conference, it's where bold ideas turn into action, forging partnerships and pledges in service of a Well-being Economy. At the heart of it, the Jameel Arts & Health Lab is redefining what art can do: not just a creative outlet, but a health behaviour — something we can practice to support attention, expression, connection, and care.
Across Singapore, artists and cultural organisations are working alongside communities, health partners and funders to create new spaces for reflection, connection and care. Healing Arts Singapore in Practice brings this work into one shared experience, demonstrating how the arts can move from an inspiring idea into meaningful public health practice.
Through a series of short artist showcases and a moderated discussion, the session will explore the development and impact of the Healing Arts Singapore Artist Commissions, alongside the role of cultural institutions, artists and cross-sector partners in advancing arts and health. It will also introduce the next phase of the Healing Arts Singapore Pilot Projects, which will support locally led approaches across community, healthcare and cultural settings.
This session will introduce Healing Arts Singapore and demonstrate how artists, cultural organisations, health partners and communities are already putting arts-and-health practice into action. It will be discussion-led, supported by short experiential sound, music and visual examples of the Healing Arts Singapore Artist Commissions.
It will:
• Introduce Healing Arts Singapore and its wider aims.
• Platform selected work from the Healing Arts Singapore Artist Commissions.
• Introduce the Healing Arts Singapore Pilot Projects.
• Demonstrate the arts as both a health-promoting behaviour and a form of cultural infrastructure.
Maya Dance Theatre is redefining what healthy ageing looks like through their 'Body In-Motion' programme. Bringing seniors, older volunteers, and dancers with disabilities together through movement, music, and storytelling - experience building connection in communities through the arts.
Maya Dance Theatre
Xin Xiaochang presents Shared Spaces, Shared Futures, a programme is transforming a dementia ward through the arts. Patients, caregivers, healthcare workers, and young people collaborate through workshops, storytelling and participatory design, to strengthen social connection and support care environments.
Xin Xiaochang
Gateway Arts showcases Scaredy Kat Presents, bringing youth mental health to the stage. Through the story of Kathryn, an eleven-year-old navigating anxiety and isolation, the theatre production gives young people aged 10–14 a space for honest conversations around mental wellbeing.
Gateway Arts
Music for Mindfulness by The Gallery Collection turns art into immersive sound experiences. A new series of mindfulness compositions for National Gallery Singapore's Calm Room, blending Chinese, Indian, and Malay musical traditions to support reflection, sensory respite, and wellbeing.
National Gallery Singapore & Teng Company
