Healing Arts Scotland: Impact Report
January 21st, 2025
Scotland, United Kingdom
This report highlights the impact and legacy of the world's first national arts and health week, held across Scotland in August 2024 and encompassing 376 events which attracted over 11,000 participants.
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Healing Arts Scotland (HAS) 2024 was a nation-wide festival
celebrating and advocating for improved physical, mental
and social health through the arts. Spearheaded by Scottish
Ballet as part of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab’s global
‘Healing Arts’ campaign in collaboration with the World
Health Organization, the one-week activation was launched
as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and produced
in collaboration with a national coalition of organisations
and communities across Scotland, with contributions from
partners from around the world across culture, science,
health, education and government.
The aim of HAS 2024 was to catalyse and strengthen a
network of communities that could positively address
current health concerns and inequalities across Scotland,
with a focus on five priority areas where the arts can have a
measurable impact:
1. Loneliness & isolation
2. Mental health in younger people
3. Dementia
4. Creativity in confinement
5. Social Prescribing
celebrating and advocating for improved physical, mental
and social health through the arts. Spearheaded by Scottish
Ballet as part of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab’s global
‘Healing Arts’ campaign in collaboration with the World
Health Organization, the one-week activation was launched
as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and produced
in collaboration with a national coalition of organisations
and communities across Scotland, with contributions from
partners from around the world across culture, science,
health, education and government.
The aim of HAS 2024 was to catalyse and strengthen a
network of communities that could positively address
current health concerns and inequalities across Scotland,
with a focus on five priority areas where the arts can have a
measurable impact:
1. Loneliness & isolation
2. Mental health in younger people
3. Dementia
4. Creativity in confinement
5. Social Prescribing
