MatriART is an intergenerational arts and wellbeing program designed by women for women, exploring how creativity can support wellbeing during periods of change, transition and personal transformation.
Held within safe, supportive spaces, the program unfolds through a series of participatory workshops where creative expression becomes a pathway to reflection, connection and shared experience.
Through drawing, writing, movement, storytelling, sound, dialogue and sensory-based practices, participants are invited to reconnect with themselves, with others and with the cultures that shape them. Each voice contributes to shaping the process, creating a collaborative space grounded in care, listening and mutual exchange.
The name itself reflects this intention:
Matriarch — the figure who nurtures, guides and holds community
Matrix — a space of creation, support and transformation
Together, they form a living framework:
a network of women supporting one another through life’s transitions with creativity, care and collective wisdom. .
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.
Child Advisory Board (CAB) | ŻiguŻajg Festival 2025
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.
Both these art programs were developed as part of an ongoing arts and health initiative within Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre, exploring how creative practice can support emotional wellbeing, reflection and connection within experiences of illness and care.
Designed collaboratively with healthcare professionals and artists the workshops created gentle, supportive spaces where patients, survivors, relatives and staff could engage creatively beyond the language of diagnosis and treatment.
Sensory Art Programs within Oncology Care
Held within support services and palliative care settings, the sessions brought together art, storytelling, poetry, music, singing, aromatherapy, reflection, presence and sensory experience.
For many participants, creativity became a way of sharing experiences that could not easily be spoken because of fear, uncertainty, grief and stories where participants shared hope and acts of resilience.
At the heart of the programme was the understanding that:
even within illness, people continue to seek meaning, beauty, intimacy and moments of recognition.
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.
Music performances, poetry reading and storytelling within Oncology Care
Over a number of years, I have engaged visual artists, sculptors, musicians, dancers, writers and poets to create a yearly art program 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 thematic 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.
Spero Art Program
Centre of the blind & visually impaired
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