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14 November 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and World Health Organization Arts and Health Program presented this free symposium as the culmination of Healing Arts New York.
How are the arts a vital investment in our physical, mental, and social health across the lifespan? Join leading voices from healthcare, cultural organizations, government, and the United Nations to discuss the arts as a necessary partner in health, care, and wellbeing.
Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Lead, World Health Organization comments, "With a growing body of evidence that embedding the arts into systems and places of healing can improve health outcomes, lower costs and support recovery from illness, our vision is to lead a Healing Arts revolution that improves the physical, mental and social wellbeing of millions of people worldwide.”
The day-long symposium was produced by CULTURUNNERS in partnership with the Creative Arts Therapies Consortium at NYU Steinhardt, the NeuroArts Blueprint,, an initiative of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Health, Medicine, and Society Program at The Aspen Institute, and the Open Mind Project positions the arts as necessary to physical, mental, and social health across the lifespan.
Symposium Organizing Committee: Christopher Bailey, Heidi Holder, Susan Magsamen, John Blaffer Royall, Nisha Sajnani, Stephen Stapleton.
Welcome
Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director, The Met
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO
Audrey Azoulay, Director General, UNESCO
Heidi Holder, Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chair of Education, The Met
Live Painting
Almigdad Aldikhaiiry, Artist
Performance: Choir
GuavaTones, Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School
Healing Arts Leadership
Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Program Lead, WHO
Nisha Sajnani, Founder, Arts & Health @ NYU; Chair, Creative Arts
Therapies Consortium; Associate Professor and Director, Program in Drama Therapy, New York University
Stephen Stapleton, Founding Director, Culturunners / The Future is Unwritten
Performance: Searching-Supporting-Becoming
Da Hyun Kim, Karli O’Connell, Kiana Robinson, Jonathan Flores, Dancers
Rafailia Bampasidou, composer
Choreographed by dancers and Deborah Damast, Director, Dance Education, NYU
Invited Speaker
Patrick J. Kennedy, Former Congressman and Mental Health Advocate
Panel: Guiding Policy to Advance the Arts and Health
Susan Magsamen, (Chair) Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab,
Johns Hopkins University, Codirector, NeuroArts Blueprint
Ernesto Ottone, Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO
Aduke Gomez, Chair of the Steering Committee of Art4Life, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Nigeria
Lisa Colley, Manager of Cultural Strategy, City of Sydney, Australia
Renée Fleming, Soprano and Arts and Health Advocate
Sunil Iyengar, National Endowment for the Arts, United States
Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Program Lead, WHO
Performance: Live and In Color
Devanand Janki, Artistic Director
Julianne B. Merrill, Music Director
Andréa Burns, actress and singer
Jonathan Burke, actor
Riki Stevens, musician and singer
Global Examples of Arts and Health
Music Interventions for Depression and Dementia in Elderly Care, Australia
Centre for the Arts in Human Development, Canada
Common Threads Project, Bosnia-Herzegovina, DRC, Ecuador, Nepal
Slow art for hospitals, IkonoTV
Contagion, Science Gallery Bengaluru, India
Dia Mehta Bhupal & Neha Modi's Corona Quilt Project, The Art Lab Studio & Nila House, India
Hamwe Arts and Global Health, Rwanda
Arts for the Blues, United Kingdom
Vanessa Williams and Black Theatre United, Stand For Change, United States
Arts and Health Stories, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Agnes Denes’ The Future is Fragile, Handle with Care
Project Presentation
Rashad Salim's Ark Re-Imagined, introduced by Navina Haidar, Chief Curator of Islamic Art, The Met
Panel: Measuring the Health Benefits of the Arts
Nisha Sajnani, (Chair) Founder, Arts & Health @ NYU; Chair, Creative Arts Therapies Consortium; Associate Professor and Director, Program in Drama Therapy, New York University
Daisy Fancourt, Institute of Epidemiology and Health, University College London
Raquel Chapin Stephenson, Department of Graduate Expressive Therapies, Lesley University
Rainbow Ho, Department of Social Work, University of Hong Kong
Joke Bradt, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University
Emmeline Edwards, Director of the Division of Extramural Research of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Project Presentations
Tim Shaw and Niamh White, Founders, Hospital Rooms
Dr. Alberto Cucca and Dr. Marygrace Berberian, Art Therapy and Parkinson’s Disease
Brian Harris, MedRhythms
Dr. David R. Johnson and Dr. Hadar Lubin, Miss Kendra Program
Performance: Synchrony
Mercy Sanni, Eva Rayas-Gribben, Sean McGowan, Students
Adam Stevens and Idalmis Garcia Rodriguez, Drama Therapists
Jasmine Edwards, Music Therapist
Max Durrant, Drama Therapy Intern
Panel: The Art of Care
Heidi Holder, (Chair) Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chair of Education, The Met
Chhaya Chhoum, Director, Mekong NYC
Ana Bess Moyer Bell, Artistic Director, 2nd Act
Mohamad Hafez, Syrian-American Artist and Architect
Project Presentations
Campfire Project: Jessica Hecht, Katie Flahive, Colette Cavenagh, Orlando Pabatoy, Dave Hugo, Nezih Antakli, Mohamad Eldebek
Joe Salvatore and Keith Huff, Verbatim Performance Lab
Isabel Toledo, Aristeo Mora de Anda, Mariana Gándara, Cartas Sonoras Para Cuerpos Celestes, Catedra Bergman
Looking Ahead
Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Lead, WHO
Healing Arts Houston 2022, Andrew Davis, Dean, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, University of Houston
Closing Remarks
Heidi Holder, Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chair of Education, The Met
This events was produced in accordance with institutional and City COVID-19 protocols to ensure the health and safety of presenters.
Producer
Academic Partners / Co-Producers
Opening Remarks
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO
Opening Remarks
Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director, The Met
Performance: Synchrony
Mercy Sanni, Eva Rayas-Gribben, Sean McGowan, Students
Adam Stevens and Idalmis Garcia Rodriguez, Drama Therapists
Jasmine Edwards, Music Therapist
Max Durrant, Drama Therapy Intern
Performance: Synchrony
Mercy Sanni, Eva Rayas-Gribben, Sean McGowan, Students
Adam Stevens and Idalmis Garcia Rodriguez, Drama Therapists
Jasmine Edwards, Music Therapist
Max Durrant, Drama Therapy Intern
Performance: Synchrony
Mercy Sanni, Eva Rayas-Gribben, Sean McGowan, Students
Adam Stevens and Idalmis Garcia Rodriguez, Drama Therapists
Jasmine Edwards, Music Therapist
Max Durrant, Drama Therapy Intern
Performance: Synchrony
Mercy Sanni, Eva Rayas-Gribben, Sean McGowan, Students
Adam Stevens and Idalmis Garcia Rodriguez, Drama Therapists
Jasmine Edwards, Music Therapist
Max Durrant, Drama Therapy Intern
Opening Remarks
Audrey Azoulay, Director General, UNESCO
Performance: Choir
GuavaTones, Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School
Performance: Choir
GuavaTones, Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School
Introduction to Panel: Guiding Policy to Advance the Arts and Health
Ernesto Ottone, Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO
Panel: Guiding Policy to Advance the Arts and Health
Susan Magsamen, (Chair) Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab,
Johns Hopkins University, Codirector, NeuroArts Blueprint
Aduke Gomez, Chair of the Steering Committee of Art4Life, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Nigeria
Lisa Colley, Manager of Cultural Strategy, City of Sydney, Australia
Renée Fleming, Soprano and Arts and Health Advocate
Sunil Iyengar, National Endowment for the Arts, United States
Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Program Lead, WHO
Panel: Guiding Policy to Advance the Arts and Health
Susan Magsamen, (Chair) Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab,
Johns Hopkins University, Codirector, NeuroArts Blueprint
Aduke Gomez, Chair of the Steering Committee of Art4Life, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Nigeria
Lisa Colley, Manager of Cultural Strategy, City of Sydney, Australia
Renée Fleming, Soprano and Arts and Health Advocate
Sunil Iyengar, National Endowment for the Arts, United States
Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Program Lead, WHO
Performance: Searching-Supporting-Becoming
Da Hyun Kim, Karli O’Connell, Kiana Robinson, Jonathan Flores, Dancers
Rafailia Bampasidou, composer
Choreographed by dancers and Deborah Damast, Director, Dance Education, NYU
Performance: Searching-Supporting-Becoming
Da Hyun Kim, Karli O’Connell, Kiana Robinson, Jonathan Flores, Dancers
Rafailia Bampasidou, composer
Choreographed by dancers and Deborah Damast, Director, Dance Education, NYU
Welcome
Heidi Holder, Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chair of Education, The Met
Live Painting
Almigdad Aldikhaiiry, Artist
Live Painting
Almigdad Aldikhaiiry, Artist
Live Painting
Almigdad Aldikhaiiry, Artist
Invited Speaker
Patrick J. Kennedy, Former Congressman and Mental Health Advocate
Healing Arts Leadership
Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Program Lead, WHO
Healing Arts Leadership
Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Program Lead, WHO
Healing Arts Leadership
Nisha Sajnani, Founder, Arts & Health @ NYU; Chair, Creative Arts
Therapies Consortium; Associate Professor and Director, Program in Drama Therapy, New York University
Healing Arts Leadership
Stephen Stapleton, Founding Director, Culturunners / The Future is Unwritten
Performance: Live and In Color
Riki Stevens, musician and singer
Performance: Live and In Color
Andréa Burns, actress and singer
Performance: Live and In Color
Jonathan Burke, actor
Performance: Live and In Color
Julianne B. Merrill, Music Director
Panel: The Art of Care
Heidi Holder, (Chair) Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chair of Education, The Met
Chhaya Chhoum, Director, Mekong NYC
Ana Bess Moyer Bell, Artistic Director, 2nd Act
Mohamad Hafez, Syrian-American Artist and Architect
Panel: The Art of Care
Heidi Holder, (Chair) Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chair of Education, The Met
Chhaya Chhoum, Director, Mekong NYC
Ana Bess Moyer Bell, Artistic Director, 2nd Act
Mohamad Hafez, Syrian-American Artist and Architect
Panel: The Art of Care
Heidi Holder, (Chair) Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chair of Education, The Met
Chhaya Chhoum, Director, Mekong NYC
Ana Bess Moyer Bell, Artistic Director, 2nd Act
Mohamad Hafez, Syrian-American Artist and Architect
Project Presentations
Tim Shaw and Niamh White, Founders, Hospital Rooms
Project Presentation
Navina Haidar, Chief Curator of Islamic Art at The Met introduces Rashad Salim's Ark Re-Imagined
Panel: Measuring the Health Benefits of the Arts
Nisha Sajnani, (Chair) Founder, Arts & Health @ NYU; Chair, Creative Arts Therapies Consortium; Associate Professor and Director, Program in Drama Therapy, New York University
Raquel Chapin Stephenson, Department of Graduate Expressive Therapies, Lesley University
Rainbow Ho, Department of Social Work, University of Hong Kong
Joke Bradt, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University
Emmeline Edwards, Director of the Division of Extramural Research of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Panel: Measuring the Health Benefits of the Arts
Daisy Fancourt, Institute of Epidemiology and Health, University College London
Panel: Measuring the Health Benefits of the Arts
Nisha Sajnani, (Chair) Founder, Arts & Health @ NYU; Chair, Creative Arts Therapies Consortium; Associate Professor and Director, Program in Drama Therapy, New York University
Raquel Chapin Stephenson, Department of Graduate Expressive Therapies, Lesley University
Rainbow Ho, Department of Social Work, University of Hong Kong
Joke Bradt, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University
Emmeline Edwards, Director of the Division of Extramural Research of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Project Presentation
Dr. Alberto Cucca and Dr. Marygrace Berberian, Art Therapy and Parkinson’s Disease
Project Presentation
Dr. Alberto Cucca and Dr. Marygrace Berberian, Art Therapy and Parkinson’s Disease
Live Painting
Almigdad Aldikhaiiry, Artist
