ABOUT

IIVVSS, a school where street art becomes a tool for transformation.

Very Very Serious Introduction

IIVVSS is NOT your traditional school.
Rooted in Jacques Lecoq’s physical theatre and guided by social therapy methodology, we merge artistic training with empathy, activism, and embodied learning. Here, bodies listen, minds respond, and imaginations rebel, responsibly.

Our training blends resistance and humor, political-poetic tools, and creative risk-taking.
We welcome vulnerability, value lived experience, and teach with faculty who actually work in the field, not theorists who last went to a protest in 1998.

Learning happens in motion: in streets, stories, games, and real encounters with real people.

Students train inside the classroom, test their tools on the streets, and then put them into practice with youth from communities across the country. Those young participants discover a space where serious conversations can happen lightly, creatively, and with a sense of agency. By the end, our graduates walk out as artists, thinkers, community voices, and occasionally the proud caretakers of puppets named Sami. And the community members? They leave with new tools that make speaking up less intimidating and a lot more fun.

How We Shake Things Up

We empower people using performance and open dialogue, through laughter.
We turn street art into a civic language, one that questions, disrupts, and imagines better futures.
No magic wands, just creative humans who know how to move a crowd and who understand that a clown nose can sometimes be more political than a press conference.

Warning: our program may increase your tendency to improvise in public.

The Birth of a Wild Idea

IIVVSS grew out of The Caravan, a Clown Me In project built from real stories of resilience across Lebanon. Those stories became performances that toured locally and internationally, proving that street art is not just entertainment but a civic tool, a megaphone, a mirror.

We asked ourselves: If street art can create this impact, why not build a school around it?
A space for artists and community performers to train seriously, very very seriously, while keeping room for humor, humanity, and play.

Fun fact: no caravans were harmed in the process, but several were emotionally moved.

Very Serious Goals

Vision. Learning to change your context through STREET ART. 

Mission. Train artists and community activists to use street theater, clowning, and participatory performance to drive social change.