Upcoming Events
Stay connected with the latest arts in health events in the Netherlands, and contribute to the growth of the field! This section features upcoming conferences, workshops, and (international) online events. We update this list regularly with new opportunities to engage, learn and collaborate. This agenda focuses mainly on events in the Netherlands, so if you want to also keep an eye on opportunities around Europe, you can check out the CultureAndHealth Platform.
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March 27 – October 5, 2025 | Exhibition: Small Gestures, Big System | Rotterdam
The exhibition Small Gestures, Big System explores design and artistic practices that examine the current healthcare system with the aim of reimagining its future. The exhibition presents alternative perspectives on existing innovations and emerging changes in healthcare research, with the hope of restoring a sense of simple humanity to hospitals.
June 12, 2025 | Symposium Art for Care: Innovation and Connection through Culture | Assen | NL
This symposium, organized by Dans op Recept, explores how cultural participation and care can reinforce one another. The programme of lectures, workshops and worksessions includes a presentation by Arts in Health Netherlands programme director Kirsten Krans on cultural participation as a healthcare innovation. The afternoon concludes with networking drinks, a buffet, and a dance performance, performed by a 100 people with Parkinson’s.
June 12-13, 2025 | June 16-20,2025 | Knowledge Meet-Up Art & Care | Amsterdam | NL
During this meet-up, healthcare organization Cordaan invites you to explore how the arts and culture can contribute to people’s wellbeing, and discuss how Amsterdammers with vulnerable health can participate more in such initiatives in the future. The programme will feature the exhibition Choice for Art, and a series of activities including lectures, creative sessions, performances, and a party.
June 19, 2025 | Symposium: Anticipate and Act: Prevention and Strengthening Mental Health in the Netherlands and Beyond | Groningen, UMCG | NL/ENG
This symposium at the UMCG brings together (inter)national leading experts, policymakers, healthcare professionals, and people with lived experience to engage in dialogue and advance meaningful policy change in mental health prevention. The programme includes keynote presentations, interactive breakout sessions, and roundtable discussions. In the breakout session 'The Arts and Mental Health' - session leaders Kirsten Krans and Ferdinand Lewis - directors of Arts in Health Netherlands - will explore how arts in health programmes can contribute to (mental) wellbeing across healthcare and social domains.
October 9, 2025 | Symposium 'Strengthening Through Culture: Sustaining Social-Artistic Collaborations' | Arnhem | NL
This symposium presents the results of a study by Amphion and Cultuurkust, led by Prof. Marcel Canoy (Vilans), which explores the societal value of their social-artistic projects and how this value can be linked to existing funding schemes. Since arts and culture contribute to social cohesion, self-reliance, and prevention, such initiatives may as well be eligible for financing beyond the cultural domain. The symposium offers a platform to exchange cross-sectoral knowledge and support the development of sustainable funding models for collaborations between cultural, healthcare, and welfare sectors.
