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Creating Healthy Communities 2025
Oct 14 – 16, 2025
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, NJ
Registration is now open for the 2025 Creating Healthy Communities Convening: Arts + Public Health in America, presented by the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC).
The Creating Healthy Communities Convening will bring together over 500 people from across the United States who are thinking, working and innovating at the intersections of arts and culture, public health and community development.
Set against a vibrant backdrop of arts and cultural practices, the two-and-a-half-day convening will begin with opportunities to engage in arts activities across Newark from NJPAC’s ArtsRx partner organizations, followed by two days of proceedings that will inspire bold ideas and advance progress while highlighting diverse and effective practices, research and policy models from around the world.
Designed to foster connection, dialogue, strategic thinking and learning — Creating Healthy Communities is a place for artists, arts organizations, public health and healthcare professionals, civic leaders and community organizers to come together to envision a healthier tomorrow through arts and culture.
Convening highlights include:
- Energizing keynotes from speakers including Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and Marc Bamuthi Joseph
- Creative engagement through activities at local ArtsRx partner organizations
- Expert panels and interactive breakout sessions to spark cross-sector dialogue around timely themes, including:
- The intersections of arts and culture, public health and community development
- Understanding arts participation as a health behavior
- Access to arts and culture as a social determinant of health
- The economics of arts in health
- Emerging models of arts prescribing in the U.S.
Register now and save $70 with code: EARLYBIRD
Early bird pricing ends July 18, 2025.
Reduced and No-Fee Registration: We are offering over 200 reduced and no-fee registrations, made possible by support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and The Pabst Steinmetz Foundation. Find more information and the application here.
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