Each programme responds to a different context, but all are connected by the same inquiry: how can creative practice shape the conditions for healthier relationships between people, place and community?
Creative Health Programmes are one way in which Curare Studio explores how artistic practice can contribute to health, participation and social connection. Each programme becomes a site of inquiry, developed in response to a particular context, community or question.
Together these programmes demonstrate how the Curare Studio practice responds to different environments, participants and forms of collaboration.
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, creativity and cultural participation.
Organisation/Workplace: Reflection, creativity 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.
Rather than offering predetermined outcomes, MatriART invites participants to shape the process through storytelling, movement, 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.
MatriArt 2o26
Arts, Culture & Wellbeing Art Program for Women
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.
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, 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.
Gallery
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
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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