Learn about best practices, model programs and cutting-edge research at the most comprehensive arts in healthcare event!
This conference will help you to:
Understand how research and evaluation support and sustain the development of arts in healthcare programs
Gain strategies to successfully position arts in healthcare programs in hospitals and hospices, medical education, arts and social service organizations
Explore model arts in healthcare programs and built environments in a wide range of traditional and non-traditional healthcare settings throughout the world
Develop the leadership skills and best practices necessary to excel in today’s new area of healthcare innovation and accountability
This conference will present Opportunities to:
Network with your colleagues around the globe – Africa, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the US
Discover world class arts in healthcare programs and research from a spectacular array of over 100 presentations, posters and performers featuring music, dance, drama, visual and literary arts – the healing arts in hospitals, healthcare and arts centers that support patients, their families and communities.
Soak in the culture on the Avenue of the Arts, known to locals as Broad Street.
Pick an art form – music, dance, theater – and you’ll find it here.
Take in a performance by the world-famous Philadelphia Orchestra or an emerging world music artist at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
Enjoy a Broadway show or a jazz performance at Zanzibar Blue.
And just a few blocks away is the internationally renowned Philadelphia Museum of Art with the steps that Rocky made famous. So go ahead and dash up those steps. Just don’t forget to head inside and enjoy one of the world’s great art collections.