Art Therapy in Hospitals

The Art Therapy project by Create.Act.Enjoy is a long term initiative, which started in 2012, and implies socio-cultural interventions carried out in 6 hospitals in Cluj-Napoca and Zalau, Romania. The project aims at improving the physical, mental and emotional health of people from hospitals. The recurrent project implies itinerant artistic moments and art therapy workshops carried out with the help of professional actors. Alongside artistic interventions based on improvisation and creativity, they organized 4 live music concerts in the hospital courtyards and photo exhibitions in hospital spaces. During the years, the project developed, enlarging their networks of hospitals from 1 to 6, diversifying the type of artistic means used in delivering the initiatives created especially for patients and the medical staff of the hospitals included in their network.