Monday 16 March 2026 and Tuesday 17 March 2026
St Bartholomew’s Hospital (West Smithfield London EC1A 7BE)

Monday 16 March 2026 9.30am to Tuesday 17 March 2026 5pm at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (West Wing Conference Room). This two-day festival celebrates the meeting of art and medicine as partners in healing, learning and thriving. Programme features workshops on the intersection of visual art, poetry, music, live performance and medical encounters, histories and speciments, and emotion. Organised by cardiothoracic anaesthesiologist Dr Giampaolo Martinelli. Registration General £50+Eventbrite fee; Student £10+fee (includes admission to performance; see below)

Performance: Key Changes, Medicine, Music, and Transformation

Tuesday 17 March 2026 7pm-8pm at the Great Hall, St Bartholomew’s Hospital (North Wing). An interdisciplinary event featuring performances exploring transformations through sound, music, and storytelling at the intersection of medicine, patient experience, and contemporary art. Presented by Mark Lee, Rob Godman (with Kate Romano), Elaine Chew and actor Seb Harcombe. Tickets General £10+Eventbrite fee; National Art Pass £8+fee; NHS staff & Blue Light, student, unwaged, senior £8.

Rob Godman – Toggle Dance and Pulse Dance for Solo Eb Clarinet and Live Electronics
Elaine Chew – Abnormal Heart Beats (Little Etudes and Arrhythmia Suite by EC; and, Heartbeats of COVID-19 Heart Transplant Medical Team by Emma Frid, Michele Orini, Giampaolo Martinelli, EC)
Seb Harcombe (Elysium) – Coming Out of Coma
Mark (Hun Sik) Lee – I See You, I Hear You