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International Health and Art Festival (iHeArt Festival)

The International Health and Art (iHeArt) Festival is all about health and art. This festival is trying to incorporate two disciplines of Health and Art. It is using art as an approach for health, health education, health literacy, and health promotion. It highlights the significant roles that art and artists can play in community health.

Every day, numerous professionals in the field of health are using various types of art to convey their messages to the public. At the same time, many artists are aiming to use their art to promote daily habits that improve the quality of life for people in their communities. However, despite this worldwide effort for incorporating art in health and using art to improve health, there have been no international opportunities to bring these producers together to share their experiences and learn from each other in a collective and collaborative way. The International Health and Art (iHeArt) Festival will set the stage for this opportunity.

About the festival

The International Health and Art (iHeArt) Festival is all about health and art. This festival is trying to incorporate two disciplines of Health and Art. It is using art as an approach to health, health education, health literacy, and health promotion. It highlights the significant roles that art and artists can play in community health.

Every day, numerous professionals in the field of health are using various types of art to convey their messages to the public. At the same time, many artists are aiming to use their art to promote daily habits that improve the quality of life for people in their communities. However, despite this worldwide effort for incorporating art in health and using art to improve health, there have been no international opportunities to bring these producers together to share their experiences and learn from each other in a collective and collaborative way. The International Health and Art (iHeArt) Festival will set the stage for this opportunity.

Goal and objectives

The iHeArt festival is focused on achieving the following goals:

  1. Global health promotion
  2. Improving worldwide health literacy
  3. Promoting interdisciplinary approaches for health education, health literacy and health promotion around the world
  4. Advocating for Health and Art (HeArt)

The iHeArt Festival is following these specific objectives in order to reach its goals:

  1. Improving knowledge, attitudes and behavior of different groups of people in the world including children, the youth, middle aged and elderly people
  2. Advocating for population health at the global level
  3. Providing an infrastructure for sharing knowledge, experience and products about the Health and Art
  4. Advocating for interconnection of the two disciplines of Health and Art
  5. Calling for support from all stakeholders for Health and Art at the global level
Strategies

In order to achieve these goals and objectives, the iHeArt festival will adopt a variety of strategies that include:

  1. Engagement:
      Engaging representatives of community members from various age groups including children, the youth, middle aged and elderly people
  2. Engaging stakeholders from various disciplines with special focus on Health and Art
  3. Engaging governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and the private sector
  4. Advocacy:
      • Advocating for Health
      • Advocating for Art
      Advocating for integration of Health and Art
  5. Liaison:
      Liaising with various organizations for achieving the goals of global health promotion
  6. Education:
      • Providing various educational events for different groups of the public
      Providing a variety of educational events for Health and Art professionals
Location

Where: The iHeArt festival is going to happen in Vancouver, Canada at UBC, Vancouver Campus (To be confirmed sooner)

Registration guidelines

Before everything please consider that all the works that will be submitted to the Festival, will be accepted, published in the iHeArt Festival Book and included in the CD/ USB key developed for this purpose. This publication, CD/ USB will be included in the package that you will receive in your registration.

For registration, first, make your decision about the package that you are going to register. The iHeArt Festival includes basic package ($699.99) that encompass participation in the presentations of the festival for two days, refreshments and food for these two days of the festival. Next level is upgrading your basic package by adding educational workshops into your basic package. These workshops will include Developing Efficient Media for Improving Health Literacy ($109.99), Digital storytelling ($109.99), and Advanced Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis ($175.99). You can also add iHeArt Banquet ($79.99) to your package. The most complete package is the Full Package. We will waive the fees for the banquet if for those that are registering for the Full Package (you will pay only will have a bonus of 79.99 Full package will include  ($ 1096 versus $1175.95).

Now, for the purpose of registration, visit our Shopping page and select your packages/ product(s) and add them to your Shopping Cart and pay your fees. Then, fill the following registration form and submit it to IIHR. Contact us at info@iihr.ca or 1-778-551-0340 if you need help or more information.

Registration Form