Careful Matter – Past Beneficiary of the Culture&Health Platform for the Maltese Islands 2025

Careful Matter is a creative spatial intervention project held at Casa Antonia residential care home. Through reflection and tactile workshops, residents collaborated in shaping elements of their shared space, while exploring the role of creativity in supporting wellbeing and social connection.

Here is what Marcon Borg Caruana, creator of Careful Matter, had to say:

“This fund allowed me to explore the intersection between culture, space, and care in a practical way. It supported multi-disciplinary collaboration and helped translate an initial idea into a meaningful intervention across the care and creative sectors.”

This project is a beneficiary of Strand 2 of the 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬. This strand supports projects and/or programmes which bring together professionals and organisations across the arts, health, and social sectors that aim at supporting creative projects designed to deliver health and well-being benefits. Projects could include: participatory art programmes, arts in healthcare environments, productions in healthcare settings, artist residencies in healthcare or social care settings and practice-based research activity.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to develop your practice on an international platform

Application deadline: 7 April 2026 at 12:00pm.

Careful Matter photo credit: Elisa Von Brockdorff

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐚.

𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨-𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 

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