Our Programme Areas
Curare Studio develops creative health programmes across four interconnected areas:
Care: Creative Health within healthcare environments
Community: Building connection, belonging and wellbeing
Voice: Participation and co-creation with children and young people
Workplace: Creativity, reflection and team connection
Curare Studio develops culture and health programmes that use arts and cultural participation as pathways for wellbeing, connection and meaningful engagement.
Working across healthcare, community, educational and organisational settings, each programme is shaped in response to the people, environments and questions it encounters. Through creative practice, participants are invited to reflect, connect, contribute and explore new ways of relating to themselves, others and the world around them.
The programmes below illustrate different applications of the Curare Studio Framework, from healthcare innovation and community wellbeing to youth participation and workplace connection.
Creative Health Programmes
MatriART is a creative health programme exploring how arts and cultural participation can support wellbeing during periods of transition and change.
Designed by women for women, the programme combines creative practice, intergenerational exchange and participatory research to create supportive spaces for reflection, connection and shared experience.
Through storytelling, movement, writing, drawing, dialogue and sensory-based practices, participants explore new ways of understanding themselves, their relationships and the transitions they are navigating.
Developed as a pilot model for Creative Health and Arts on Prescription in Malta, MatriART investigates how creativity can strengthen social connection, emotional wellbeing and community resilience.
MatriArt 2o26
Arts, Culture & Wellbeing Art Program for Women
What becomes possible when women are given the time, space and creative support to reconnect with themselves and with each other?
The project explores how creative engagement can:
strengthen social connection
support mental wellbeing
foster empowerment during life transitions
create meaningful spaces of belonging and expression
create new narratives, relationships and ways of being
connect us to ancestral and nature-based wisdom
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.
This programme created for Spero explores multi-arts participation as a pathway for expression, confidence and social connection.
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. Individual and group-based sessions included music, storytelling, poetry, movement, clay work and printing focusing on creating opportunities for personal expression, social interaction and cognitive engagement.
Sensory Art Programme
Child Advisory Board (CAB) | ŻiguŻajg Festival 2025-2026
Child-centred cultural participation and co-design.
A participatory programme that gives children a voice within the arts. Through creative workshops, artist encounters and shared reflection, young people 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.
Developed within Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre, this creative health programme explored how arts-based and sensory practices can support emotional wellbeing within experiences of illness, treatment and care.
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 in therapeutic environments and patient-centred care.
Art Programs within Oncology Care
Six & Connect
with an extended art programme using music performances, poetry reading and storytelling within Oncology 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.
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