A learning community focused on creative entrepreneurship & arts education in Malta.
Studio 18 is a community of creative practice and learning, established in 2013. OUR PROGRAMMES
Contemporary Theatre Making (Creative Lab)
Acting
Musical Theatre
Playwriting
1-2-1 Coaching
Individual Audition Prep
Production Arts (in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv)
OUR VALUES
Creativity and Innovation
Quality Learning
Communication and Collaboration
Play
Critical Artistry
Active Citizenship
OUR TEAM
Creative Director | Jean-Marc Cafa`
Director of Learning | Simone Spiteri
Director of Strategy | James Azzopardi Meli
Programme Coordinator | Robyn Vella
Senior Mentor for Wellness | Rebecca Attard
Senior Mentor for Musical Theatre | Rachel Fabri
Mentor for Music | Aleandro Spiteri Monsigneur
Mentor for Movement | Matthew Zammit
Wellness Officer | Nicola Camilleri
International Consultant | Paul Edwards
Learning Consultants | Ian Azzopardi Meli, Learning360 Foundation
Creative Associates | Andre` Agius, Christina Cauchi, Chris Gatt
We’re really proud to share that , a current member of our mentorship programme, will be performing in Margerita: Forget Me Not - a musical theatre performance in aid of cancer support, happening later this month on the 27th and 28th of February 🎤
📣 “I’m super excited to be a part of Margerita. It’s a great opportunity to work with amazing artists whilst also supporting such an important cause 💛”
Big shoutout to Luigi and everyone involved in bringing this meaningful project to life. Go show some love!! 🌼
30/01/2026
Earlier this month, Jean spent a few days in London catching up with collaborators, sitting in on working group discussions, and figuring out how to fit all of these new books on his shelf 😅
Conversations around future directions, time spent in ideation meetings, plenty of moments buried in books and shows, learning approaches, and early production planning for 2027. Can't wait to start telling you all about it later on this year!!! 😉
26/01/2026
A couple of snippets of our CoRES workshops led by last weekend.
Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed. We look forward to seeing the outcomes of the discussions had 🌵
Up next for this project: workshops in Athens 🇬🇷
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25/01/2026
Thank you for showing up for CoRES 🌱
Our KAKTUS CoRES workshops were made meaningful by the people in the room: artists, cultural practitioners, sustainability thinkers, and young voices who brought curiosity, generosity, and care into every conversation.
A special thank you to our partners and delegates from aKTI (Cyprus) and RunOnArt (Greece) for sharing knowledge, perspectives, and solidarity across borders, and to Simone Spiteri and Francesco Grech for their powerful artistic interventions, which opened up new ways of thinking and feeling throughout the day.
From shared questions to collective imagining, these moments reminded us that building more just and sustainable cultural futures starts with coming together.
Thank you all. We’ll be sharing more photos soon.
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22/01/2026
Join us at KAKTUS, a FREE co-creation workshop for 18-30 year olds discussing culture, sustainability, and social justice ❤️
Link in bio to apply, last spaces available ‼️
21/01/2026
On the note of throwbacks and photo dumps… the happiest of birthdays to our very own Jean-Marc Cafà 🎉
This place wouldn’t be the same without you, and neither would the people in it (and I mean this in the best way possible 😛). Your care, curiosity, and commitment to growth has continuously shaped how we learn, lead, and create together, and we really wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Thank you for continuing to influence, guide, challenge, and champion us on such a consistent basis. We’re endlessly grateful for the space you hold, and we hope you know we love you lots.
Now everybody say HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEAN!! 🎂✨
20/01/2026
Art as a catalyst for change 🌵
We’re excited to feature artistic interventions by and as part of CoRES.
Their work will run alongside the workshops, using artistic practice as a way to prompt reflection, challenge our assumptions, and open up new ways of thinking about sustainability in the cultural and creative sector.
They’ll actively shape the conversations helping us connect policy, practice, and lived experience through creative exchange.
👉 Join us at our free CoRES workshops on 24 January
📍 Valletta Design Cluster | 09:30–16:00
Apply via the link in our bio.
19/01/2026
Hopping on the 2016 trend ✌️ So many faces, shows, late nights, first chances, risks taken, lessons learned. Looking back through this archive feels like opening a time capsule of friendships, growth, and moments that shaped who we are today :').
Yes, it was a different time, with different people and different versions of ourselves... but looking at these photos, you start to wonder. Have things really changed that much?
Can you spot some familiar faces? Or recognise a show that still lives in your head? 👀
Lastly thank you for unintentionally giving us the most memed Studio photo of the last decade. It only felt right to let it lead the way in this little throwback x
📸 first photo by Christine Joan Muscat Azzopardi
17/01/2026
We’ve been talking a lot about our upcoming free workshops…but what is CoRES really all about? 🌱
A few months ago, .perini spoke with Creative Europe Desk Malta to break down our Creative Europe project CoRES: why it’s relevant now, how it connects culture and sustainability, and what it’s really like to access EU funding.
Next week, CoRES comes to life through our Kaktus workshops - a full day of participatory sessions bringing together cultural practitioners, sustainability experts, and young people.
• The Living Lab explores challenges and opportunities for sustainable cultural practice.
• The Co-creation Café centres youth voices, translating ideas into recommendations that will feed directly into an EU-level policy report.
The workshops are free, open to all, and your contributions won’t just stay in the room, they’ll help shape future European cultural policies.
An established artist and actor, Izzy’s creative journey spans decades and disciplines - from performance and visual art to design, craft, and experimentation. Guided by her mantra “if you wish to start something - start anywhere,” she embraces the unconventional as a source of freedom, resilience, and possibility.
At CoRES, Izzy will be joining us to explore and demonstrate how art can truly be a means of sustainable change, using creativity as a tool to question, reimagine, and respond to the environmental challenges we face together.
👉 Join Izzy at our free workshops on 24 January
📍 Valletta Design Cluster | 09:30–16:00
10/01/2026
Artists. Environmentalists. Cultural workers.
This one’s for you. 🌱
Join the CoRES Living Lab; a facilitated workshop bringing together creative practitioners and environmental experts to share experiences, challenge existing practices, and co-develop new pathways for more sustainable cultural work.
This is a space for honest conversation, cross-sector exchange, and practical thinking, with outcomes that will contribute to policy conversations at European level.
📍 Valletta Design Cluster
🗓 24 January 2026
⏰ 09:30–12:30
👉 Take part in shaping how culture responds to the climate challenge. Apply via the link in our bio.
This project is co-funded by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission under the Culture strand of Creative Europe 2021–2027 and the Deputy Ministry of Culture in Cyprus.
In collaboration with &
09/01/2026
Got ideas? Opinions? Big questions about culture and the planet? 🌍
Join the CoRES youth workshop and have your say on how culture across Europe can be more sustainable. This is a space to share your perspective, connect with others, and co-create ideas that don’t just stay in the room: they feed into real conversations at European level.
📍 Valletta Design Cluster
🗓 24 January 2026
⏰ 09:30–12:30
👉 Spots are limited, join the workshop and make your voice heard via the link in our bio.
This project is co-funded by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission under the Culture strand of Creative Europe 2021–2027 and the Deputy Ministry of Culture in Cyprus.
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Get inside the box, to think outside of it!
Studio 18 was set up in light of Malta's successful bid to host European Capital of Culture in 2018. Since its inception, the Studio has created work such as #babydaddy and The Brat and That, Limbo and Dear Pete, and performed and collaborated locally and overseas.
The Studio operates in 3 areas:
- training programmes
- performances and projects
- creative learning for schools
Studio 18 activities range from youth projects to individual mentorship, consultancy and services to schools, collaborations with other creative enterprises and ultimately, the Creative Lab. The organisation's unique position at The Box in Mosta and Teatru Salesjan in Sliema allows its members to thrive, collaborate, feed off a host of arts entities which are also resident at this space; this environment is an invaluable stimulus!
Studio 18, an organisation for informal learning, was founded by Creative Director Jean-Marc Cafà, who works with a creative team in consultation with the Board of Creative Associates, has managed the implementation of three highly successful programmes to date.
The Creative Team consists of Jean-Marc, James Azzopardi Meli, Rachel Fabri, Dr Joe Gatt and Ian Azzopardi Meli.
The Board consists of:
- Christopher Gatt (former General Manager of St James Cavalier, freelance director)
- Simone Spiteri (actor, writer, director)
- Daniel Azzopardi (Artistic Director for ZiguZajg Festival and Programme Manager for Spazju Kreattiv)
- Christina Cauchi (Principal of Danza C, Co-Director of RedTape Dance and The Box, choreographer)
Creative Lab
Creative Lab consists of workshops, projects and performances which explore stagecraft and devised work, voice and movement, problem solving, critical analysis and public speaking, among other features. The programme seeks to empower the mind to become insightful, critical, and ultimately creative.
Acceptance is subject to an audition process.
Age: 18+
The Muso Project
A high-energy project which explores Musical Theatre in it's entirety - from song repertoire to musical theatre choreography to acting through song. Members are given the opportunity to participate in workshops and mock auditions, develop a song portfolio, and much more.
Acceptance is subject to an audition process.
Age: 17+
The Actor Project
A programme tailored to hone acting skills, from the basic principles and awareness of voice, body and space to the deconstruction of text, scene studies to physical theatre, improvisation to exploration of methods and practices.
Acceptance is subject to an audition process.
Age: 17+
Mentorship Programme
These sessions cater to the individual's requirements: from audition technique to spoken voice, monologues to the foundations of public speaking.
Actors may also prepare to sit for LAMDA or Trinity examinations at advanced level and diploma level, in acting, performance arts, musical theatre and public speaking.
People interested may set up an appointment with Studio 18. First preference is given to members of the Studio.
Age: 16+
Voice Fit Workshops
Held three times a year, these workshops seek to improve members’ optimum vocal function, sensitivity to text and creativity with sound.
Studio 18 - a creative youth organisation which, by means of the creative and performing arts, is committed to:
1. ensuring that young people can assess their personal qualities, skills and achievements and use them to set goals;
2. empowering young people to explore their options and to encourage them make informed and committed choices;
3. instilling a life-long sense of play and a thirst for knowledge in each member;
4. encouraging social responsibility, active citizenship and an awareness of identity, diversity and legacy in each young person;
5. pushing boundaries with its members, participants, collaborators and audiences;
6. developing new repertoire on a national scale.
CONTACT US
For more information call 79203344, PM us or email info@studio18malta.com.
