Each programme responds to a different context, but all are connected by the same inquiry: how can creative practice contribute to health on a personal and social level.
Curare Studio develops creative health programmes across four interconnected areas:
Healthcare: Creative practice within therapeutic environments
Communities: Participation, belonging and collective wellbeing
Children and young people: Co-creation, education and cultural participation.
Organisation/Workplace: creativity, connection and workplace culture.
Creative Health Programmes
MatriART is a creative health programme exploring how arts and cultural participation can support women during periods of transition and change.
Developed through participatory research, the programme brings together creative practice, intergenerational dialogue and collective inquiry within carefully designed spaces of encounter.
MatriART invites participants to shape the process through storytelling, movement, drama, textiles and photographis history, writing, drawing and shared reflection.
Initially developed as a pilot model for Creative Health and Arts on Prescription in Malta, the programme investigates how creativity can strengthen social connection, emotional wellbeing and community resilience.
Arts, Culture & Wellbeing Program for Women | MatriArt 2o26
We asked: how can creative practice support women navigating periods of personal and social transition?
This participatory arts program is supported by the Culture and Health Platform (Culture Action Europe) in collaboration with Arts Council Malta and ARC Research & Consultancy.
Sensory Art Programme | Spero 2017 0nwards
We asked: how can multi-arts participation as a pathway for expression boost cognitive engagement and confidence?
Visual artists, sculptors, musicians, dancers, writers and poets have contributed to yearly art programmes that allows for an exploration of the various art forms. We focused on how auditory and emotional stimuli could inform visual and tactile outcomes whilst creating a scope for discussions around thematics chosen.
Examples of work produced include charcoal drawings which translated into relief and clay forms, music, storytelling, poetry, movement, clay work and printing focusing.
Child Advisory Board (CAB) | ŻiguŻajg Festival 2025-2026
A participatory programme that gives children a voice within the arts. Through creative workshops, artist encounters and shared reflection, children engage with the festival as active contributors, exploring imagination, self-expression and the value of their perspectives in shaping cultural experiences.
This year's programme (2026) continues to create spaces where children can connect, create, question and be heard.
We asked: how can a participatory program give children a voice to advise, co-create and curate with artists?
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Created in collaboration with healthcare professionals, artists and support services, the programme offered patients, survivors, relatives and staff opportunities for reflection, expression and connection through visual art, storytelling, music, poetry, aromatherapy and shared creative experiences.
The initiative formed part of a wider arts and health research inquiry investigating the role of creativity and visual language in therapeutic environments and patient-centred care.
Collaborations with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and Inizjamed evolved in the wards by the bedside and in communal spaces such as corridors, kitchens and waiting areas.
We asked: how can arts-based and sensory practices support emotional wellbeing within experiences of illness, treatment and care.
Six & Connect workshops | Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre, 2025-2026
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