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Arts and Health Week Summit
At the Intersection of Arts and Health
ARTS & HEALTH SUMMIT POSTPONEMENT
To our arts and health leaders, practitioners, researchers, artists, and everyone who is learning with us about the power of the arts to benefit and uplift our communities, thank you for allowing us the space to be responsive to the needs of our community during this difficult time.
After careful consideration and conversations with our city and county leaders and co-presenters, LA Opera made the difficult decision to postpone this year's LA County Arts and Health Week Summit (date to be determined) to better support our public leaders who are needed elsewhere at this moment.
We want to thank all of our partners, colleagues, and community members who have come together to help create the momentum behind these initiatives, and we look forward to continuing them at a later date.
In the meantime, we invite you to visit our Wellness Resources webpage at LAOpera.org/Wellness to explore videos, podcasts, digital zines and workbooks, research articles, and more tools to help you use the arts to support your physical and mental health.
With warm wishes and gratitude,
LA Opera Connects
Able ARTS Work provides creative arts education and therapies for adults with developmental disabilities.
We offer free programs and services to families affected by dementia.
Our mission is to transform lives through the innate power of the arts, guided by mental health practices, to foster healing, connection, and resilience for all.
Dancing Through Parkinson’s (DTP) offers live classes and virtual programming, designed specifically to aid people living with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative, mobility, and age-related conditions.
The Prevention Unit is our School based Community Access Point (SBCAP) program. Generated to provide technical assistance to school districts to assist with mental health services. Our team also participates in creating and disseminating mental health resources, flyers, tip sheets and psycho-educational workshops.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health protects health, prevents disease, and promotes the health and well-being for all persons in Los Angeles County. Our focus is on the population as a whole, and we conduct our activities through a network of public health professionals throughout the community.
LA County Library is one of the largest library systems in the US. It offers free public resources including books, music, multimedia materials, computer and internet access, and more.
LA General Medical Center provides world class care and education for all in our community. We lead the nation in building healthy communities, have one of the largest Level 1 trauma centers in the US, and handle 1/3 of all trauma cases in LA County.
LA Opera strives to serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, pioneering spirit and artistic sensibility unique to Los Angeles. As the company's Learning and Community Engagement department, LA Opera Connects works to make opera accessible to everyone and build a collaborative, engaged, and healthy community through our shared musical experiences.
Music Heals Minds
Music Heals Minds (mhmla.org) is a Pasadena-based nonprofit that harnesses the transformative power of music to support individuals living with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and traumatic brain injury. The organization offers engagement-centered programs designed to stimulate memory, foster connection, and promote emotional well-being, through both virtual and in-person sessions.
Music Mends Minds is an eleven-year-old, LA-based, global nonprofit that creates free music therapy and engagement groups for seniors, especially those with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, dementia, and other neurodegenerative illnesses and challenges.
Founded in 1981, the nonprofit Opera League of Los Angeles is the primary volunteer support organization, and co-founder, of LA Opera, the resident opera company for the City of Los Angeles. The Opera League produces an array of educational programs including seminars, gatherings, musicales, master classes, and much more.
For more than 125 years, the clinicians at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (Rancho Los Amigos) in Downey, California, have been on a mission to restore health, rebuild life, and revitalize hope for persons with a life-changing illness, injury, or disability. Rancho Los Amigos is recognized as an international leader in rehabilitation medicine and clinical research.
The Actors’ Gang mission is to present new, unconventional and uncompromising plays and dynamic reinterpretations of the classics, to restore the ancient sense of the stage as a shared sacred space, to introduce theater to children and help them find their own creative voices, to bring the freedom of self-expression to the incarcerated.
Our mission is to inspire women and build community through arts, culture, education, service, and stewardship of our historic campus and collections.
The University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine (UF CAM) is a national leader in advancing the arts in health through education, research, practice and policy. As part of the University of Florida’s College of the Arts, the Center promotes interdisciplinary collaboration to enhance health and well-being through the arts.
Urban Voices Project amplifies artistic expression through community singing to improve well-being, strengthen social networks, and inspire individuals to be their own best advocates.
The USC Center for Music, Brain, and Society is dedicated to advancing the application of the knowledge we gain from research in music science to promote human well-being and societal flourishing. Our center assembles a diverse and accomplished group of experts from various disciplines within the University.
2023 Summit Recap
Explore the second annual Arts and Health Week Summit with recorded presentations.
To get in touch with questions, connect with us at Connects@laopera.org or call us at 213.972.3157.
Generous support for the LA County Arts and Health Week Summit provided by
The Music Man Foundation
LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District
Kaiser Permanente
L.A. Care Health Plan
The LA County Arts and Health Week Summit received additional funding from
Civic Practice Grant from OPERA America’s Opera Fund.
LA Opera Connects is generously supported by
The Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund
The Green Foundation
The Music Man Foundation
LA County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan
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