Arts & Hearts Association

11/30/2024

Arts & Hearts Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization focusing on healing, educational and inspirational dimensions of the arts. We achieve this by promotion and training of artists who share our mission.

10/02/2024

04/12/2024

The focus of the 7th Virginia Arts & Music Festival (9/7/24) is arts and wellness, festival will also include an Arts & Wellness Conference, for the first time. The beautiful Alexandria, VA has so many places to appreciate the natures beauty and take care of your wellness while taking a walk.

04/12/2024

Arts & Hearts Association (AHA) presents the
7th Virginia Arts & Music Festival (VAMF 2024) and its
1st Arts & Wellness Conference.

AHA is a non-profit organization that focuses on healing, educational and inspirational dimensions of arts and their role in the quality of life and especially health and wellness of individuals and communities.

The focus of this year’s events is on Arts and Wellness, especially arts and meditation. Program includes visual art exhibition - featuring Torpedo Factory artists and various Virginia artists, classical music concerts by renowned classical pianist and upcoming Shenandoah conservatory graduates, a poetry and poetical story readings and movie tasting. First time the festival hosts the Arts and Wellness Conference dedicated to share experiences of people and organizations who have been active in the field of arts and wellness, exchange and polishing of ideas and concepts related to the subject of the conference.

For the second time the festival will take place in beautiful Alexandria, VA, which we chose as it’s known for its charm, richness of the art/cultural scene and the promotion of multicultural, multiethnic and international dimensions of the arts, with a diverse community open to new ideas.

AHA is in collaboration with local government, business associations and non profits.

Festival and Conference are free of charge and open to the public, the target audience are artistic communities, teachers and students of the arts & wellness and members of local government agencies and business association members.

Location: Alexandria History Museum at the Lyceum, a noble Greek Revival style building in Old Town Alexandria - well recognized and attractive location, with 100 seat capacity.

12/18/2023

The 2024 festival will feature a new addition, the Arts and Wellness Conference. And as always, a day of free artistic events, including visual art, live music, poetry, and movies.

A full, detailed program coming in the middle of 2024. We will keep this page updated so check back soon.

11/29/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B_M34hRVM0 Sadly not a very good quality recording but we couldn't resist to share a snippet of the amazing concert by Lynne Mackey from 2023 Virginia Arts & Music Festival