Curiosa Ltd is a company based in the UK, with operations internationally, that runs arts and music-based workshops, retreats, camps, residencies and courses, with the aim of bringing people together across culture and discipline to cultivate self-development, creative community, and regenerative culture. 

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Curiosa Ltd is the passion project of singer, composer, and facilitator, Kate Smith. Kate got her start running music retreats as the program administrator of the International Vocal Arts Workshop in Groznjan, Croatia, directed by her voice teacher and mentor, Jane McMahan. There, Kate discovered a passion for curating intensive participatory experiences where artists come together as short-lived families, exchanging, experimenting, and collaborating. As Kate learned from personal experience, these opportunities can be a key to unlocking an essential freedom - of thought, of being - of connection - leading not only to new art-making, but fresh conceptions of self and other. Kate believes that within these temporary frameworks we can imagine -- and enact -- our way towards new models of co-existence, which we then take back to share with our communities in our day-to-day lives. 

 

Curiosa's first independent project ran in China in 2015, in collaboration with Kirk Kenney and Hadi Eldebek. In 2016, Curiosa began running projects in Portugal, often in collaboration with Filipe Sousa and Beatriz Martinez. In 2020, Curiosa Ltd was officially registered as a company and has since expanded to support the growth of the UK Vocal Improv Collective and The Embodied Voice.