Creative Programmes · Workshops · Masterclasses · Education · Worldwide
Iris Jacobs designs multidisciplinary creative programmes, workshops, masterclasses and gatherings for arts institutions, universities, academies, theatres, cultural organisations, creative professionals and private groups.
Each programme can stand alone or be developed together with a carefully selected network of facilitators, educators and practitioners working across performing arts, visual art, music, theatre, dance, acting, directing, film, storytelling and creative practice.
Programme Design by Iris Jacobs
Rather than approaching disciplines as separate worlds, Iris creates programmes in which different artistic practices can meet, challenge and inspire one another.
Depending on the programme, she works independently or invites experienced creative facilitators, artists and educators whose expertise serves the particular group, subject and context.
A programme might move between storytelling and movement, directing and acting, collage and narrative, theatre and music, reflection and making — always shaped around curiosity, participation and meaningful creative exchange.
Signature Programmes
Signature Programme
A multidisciplinary laboratory exploring how creativity can become an active way of seeing, thinking, experimenting and living.
Through exercises drawn from visual art, storytelling, movement, observation, performance and playful research, participants investigate their own creative habits, instincts and possibilities.
Storytelling · With Jonathan Herzberg
A story workshop by Iris Jacobs and Jonathan Herzberg about moving beyond surface mechanics to discover the emotional core, urgency and deeper necessity of a story.
Participants explore the relationship between what they want to say, why they need to say it, and only then how the story might best take form.
Visual Art
A tactile introduction to contemporary collage as a practice of composition, juxtaposition, intuition and visual discovery.
Participants work with found imagery, paper, colour, texture and fragments to create unexpected visual relationships and develop their own way of seeing.
Visual Storytelling
A workshop exploring collage not only as an art form, but as a narrative tool.
Through images, fragments, associations and unexpected juxtapositions, participants discover how collage can help reveal character, atmosphere, subtext, themes and new directions within a story.
Community · Professional Networking
A curated alternative to conventional networking: bringing creative professionals together around conversation, artistic exchange, shared questions and genuine connection.
Formats can include facilitated conversations, creative prompts, performances, guest speakers, thematic encounters and informal networking.
Bespoke
Focused sessions for small groups, creative teams, schools, companies and individual professionals.
Themes can be shaped around storytelling, directing, creative process, visual thinking, artistic development, multidisciplinary practice or a specific challenge within your programme.
Collaborative Programming
Iris can develop a programme specifically for an academy, university, theatre, museum, arts centre, festival, creative company or cultural organisation.
Depending on the brief, she can curate a combination of workshops, masterclasses, conversations, performances and interdisciplinary sessions and assemble the appropriate facilitators and educators around the programme.
The result can range from one focused masterclass to an intensive day, a weekend laboratory, a semester programme or a longer creative learning trajectory.
Creative Network
Each programme begins with a clear creative concept. From there, Iris can work with specialists from her wider artistic and educational network to create a programme with the right combination of disciplines, perspectives and voices.
Teaching & Cultural Experience
Iris has developed and facilitated creative workshops, cultural sessions, mentoring and interdisciplinary programmes in different educational and artistic contexts across Europe.
Recent work includes teaching Creative Living Laboratory in Amsterdam, alongside workshops and programmes in visual art, collage, storytelling and multidisciplinary creative practice.
The emphasis is always on creating an intelligent, generous environment in which participants can experiment, question, make and connect.
For Organisations
Guest workshops, semester programmes, interdisciplinary laboratories and masterclasses for students.
Programmes around acting, movement, directing, story, performance and creative development.
Participatory visual-art, collage and storytelling programmes for different audiences.
Bespoke workshops, creative laboratories, networking formats and artistic team experiences.
Formats
Agenda
Available
Multidisciplinary creative programme
Amsterdam · Europe · On Request
Available
With Jonathan Herzberg
Online · Europe · Worldwide
Available
Contemporary collage workshop
Amsterdam · Madrid · Barcelona · Worldwide
Available
Visual storytelling workshop
Institutions · Film Schools · Creative Teams
Ongoing
Networking for Creative Professionals
Selected European Locations
On Request
Tailor-made for your programme or organisation
Europe · Worldwide
Programme Enquiries
Programmes can be adapted to your audience, location, learning goals and available time — or developed from the ground up around a new creative question.