Festival Clinic
The O+ Festival Artist Clinic is the heart of this event. It’s a safe, affirming space where artists and volunteers access a wide range of preventive and therapeutic health services and spend quality one-on-one time with doctors, nurses, and wellness practitioners – precious time and care that our current healthcare system doesn’t often allow for.
In addition to basic preventive care, each year’s O+ Festival Artist Clinic is tailored to the specific needs of its many participants. Ahead of participating in the O+ Festival, all artists fill out a form letting us know their healthcare needs so the O+ team can source the necessary specialists. At the Artist Clinic, a nurse helps each patient navigate available services, from routine preventive care to complementary wellness modalities.
Some examples of the types of health and wellness services O+ providers offer include:
- Primary care
- Dentistry
- Mental health services
- Cervical cancer screening
- Vocal cord Screening
- Dermatology
- Physical therapy
- Chiropractic care
- Podiatry
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Naturopathy
- Massage
- Reiki
- Acupuncture
- Herbal remedies
- Clinical Hypnotism
- And more!
We are so grateful to the hundreds of doctors, nurses, acupuncturists, massage therapists, and other health and wellness practitioners who make the O+ Festival Artist Clinic possible, and for all that they contribute to the collective well-being of our community.
In 2023 we opened the O+ Exchange Clinic, a year-round, exchange-based health clinic for artists in Midtown Kingston. Inspired by the O+ Artist Clinic, we are currently expanding the services we provide during the O+ Festival into a sustainable model for care available 365 days a year.
Interested in learning more? Visit our Year-Round O+ Exchange Clinic page.
“Most of us are really eager to work outside of the system in any way that we can, to really have no threat of a bill, or insurance, or fear. [Participants are] in a nice casual setting where everyone’s really friendly and where we honestly truly appreciate one another”
– Shannon Donnell, RN
