Arts and Health Week Summit
At the Intersection of Arts and Health
Registration is now open for the 2025 Arts and Health Week Summit.
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Hosted by LA Opera in collaboration with LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District; Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; and Healing Arts—an initiative of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab—and the World Health Organization, this unique summit offers conversations and participatory experiences, and promotes creative ways to approach wellness.
Thought leaders including arts practitioners, medical experts and administrators, policymakers and researchers will gather at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for discussions and presentations exploring how the arts can increasingly, and equitably, support health and wellbeing.
This year’s summit will highlight how the arts can uplift LA's most vulnerable communities, and—through conversations and participatory experiences—we will explore how the arts are vital to individual and collective healing.
Presenters and Presenting Organizations will include:
LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District
Renée Fleming – Special Projects Advisor, LA Opera and WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health
Kristin Sakoda – Director, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture
Dr. Assal Habibi – Associate Research Professor of Psychology, USC Brain and Creativity Institute
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Music Mends Minds, Alzheimer’s Los Angeles, Able ARTS Work, Arts & Healing Initiative, and more to be announced
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
Health Net
Kaiser Permanente
L.A. Care Health Plan
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