Studio 18

Studio 18 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

CONTACT US
For more information call 79881818, PM us or email info@studio18malta.com.

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 ‼️

On the note of throwbacks and photo dumps… the happiest of birthdays to our very own Jean-Marc Cafà 🎉This place wouldn’t...
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!! 🎂✨

Art as a catalyst for change 🌵We’re excited to feature artistic interventions by and as part of CoRES. Their work will...
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.

Hopping on the 2016 trend ✌️ So many faces, shows, late nights, first chances, risks taken, lessons learned. Looking bac...
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.

👉 Apply via the link here https://forms.gle/7kjcfJ2SGN8HAhtt8

Meet our Sustainability Champion: Izzy Warrington 🌱An established artist and actor, Izzy’s creative journey spans decade...
15/01/2026

Meet our Sustainability Champion: Izzy Warrington 🌱

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

Artists. Environmentalists. Cultural workers.This one’s for you. 🌱Join the CoRES Living Lab; a facilitated workshop brin...
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 &

Got ideas? Opinions? Big questions about culture and the planet? 🌍Join the CoRES youth workshop and have your say on how...
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.

In collaboration with &

Two workshops. Sustainability-driven. For the cultural and creative sector. 🌱Studio 18 invites cultural practitioners, s...
06/01/2026

Two workshops. Sustainability-driven. For the cultural and creative sector. 🌱

Studio 18 invites cultural practitioners, sustainability specialists, and young people to come together for a full day of exchange, reflection, and co-creation.

Living Lab: A facilitated workshop bringing together CCS professionals and sustainability experts to unpack current challenges, share practices, and explore policy-level ideas for more environmentally responsible ways of making and presenting cultural work.

Co-creation Café: A facilitated workshop with young people, where insights from the morning are translated into concrete ideas and recommendations; centring future-focused perspectives that will be shared at EU level.

📍 Valletta Design Cluster
🗓 24 January 2026

Join us in shaping fairer, more sustainable futures for culture.

Learn more: studio18malta.com/cores
📩 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.

As we embark unto the new year, we asked our 1-to-1 mentoring students to share one lesson they’re carrying forward from...
02/01/2026

As we embark unto the new year, we asked our 1-to-1 mentoring students to share one lesson they’re carrying forward from 2025. Thoughtful, honest, and very much their own 📝

It's a good reminder that not all lessons come from a textbook.
Sometimes it’s a bone prop.
Sometimes it’s a physical mat.
Sometimes it’s a reminder to maybe keep the Christmas tree up next year, Jean 🎄

29/12/2025

A snippet from our ILMA R&D showing - with some reflections from one of our performers, .

ILMA explores power dynamics, pressure, and safeguarding within Malta’s aquatic sports community. Rooted in local realities, the project is currently in its research and development phase, bringing together artists and members of the sports community to reflect on vulnerability, responsibility, and care within non-formal education spaces.

This work is being developed to premiere in November 2026, creating space for conversation, reflection, and change.

🌊 Supported by Arts Council Malta

24/12/2025

As the year comes to a close, we’ve been looking back at some of our favourite moments from our Young Leaders series 🫂

More stories, voices, and learning to come in the year ahead ❤️

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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.