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UNGA Healing Arts Week 2024

18 September 2024 - 25 September 2024
New York City

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.

Participants

Constantina Theofanopoulou

Herbert and Nell Singer Research Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University

Marygrace Berberian

Clinical assistant professor of art therapy, NYU Steinhardt

Carlos Chirinos-Espin

Assistant professor, director of NYU Music and Social Change Lab

Nicole Fleetwood

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

Ian Koebner

N/A

Julia Hotz

Journalist, Author of 'The connection cure'

Cris Scorza

N/A

Shanta Thake

Chief artistic officer, Lincoln Center

Larissa Trinder

Assistant vice president, NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine

Eve Byrd

N/A

Sunil Iyengar

N/A

Jeremy Nobel

Founder, Foundation for the Arts & Healing

Linda Mills

President, New York University

Ashwin Vasan

NYC Commissioner, Department of health and mental hygien

Harry Johnson

Assembly member

Maria Rosario Jackson

Chair, National Endowment of the Arts

Jill Sonke

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

Renée Fleming

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

Jack H. Knott

Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, NYU Steinhardt

Nisha Sajnani

Co-director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Christopher Bailey

Co-director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab

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