Healthcare and arts meet at 'Healing Arts Atlanta' conference

A gathering of community leaders, artists, public health advocates and healthcare professionals, is filling Atlanta with art, conversation and suggestions for action from October 7th through 11th. (John Lewis mural by Marcel W. Foster)

A gathering of community leaders, artists, public health advocates, and healthcare professionals, is filling Atlanta with art, conversation and suggestions for action from Oct. 7 through 11.

Healing Arts Atlanta is a conference and event series that focuses this year on systemic racism and healing the inequities in our communities through connection with the arts.

Dr. Eve Byrd, Director of the Mental Health Program at the Carter Center and Georgia State Representative Kim Schofield recently sat down with “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes to share more about the upcoming events, discussions and workshops featured at the conference.