Curriculum

Where Art, Society, and the Street Meet

Welcome to a program that teaches you how to think, move, provoke, listen, transform… and ultimately use art to change the world, one street corner at a time.

At the International Institute for Very Very Serious Studies, we take artists, shake up everything they think they know, and drop them into a year-long creative adventure that starts in the classroom… and inevitably spills into the streets.

Our curriculum is a living playground: a blend of theory, physicality, music, puppets, clown noses, community work, and a whole lot of “beautiful stupidity.” It brings together everything an artist-activist needs to tell stories that matter, uplift communities, and make strangers stop in the street and say: “What is happening ?”

Across the year, students move through a full ecosystem of artistic languages and social tools.

Each course builds on the next, and every tool learned inside the classroom is tested in real environments, public squares, narrow streets, unexpected audiences, and communities where stories are waiting to be heard.

The IIVVSS curriculum unfolds in two interconnected phases:

The first phase, completed in Year One, is all about immersion.
Students dive into the full range of learning courses, discovering new languages of movement, voice, storytelling, and theory, and each course ends on the streets. This phase culminates in a collective street performance, an explosion of everything they’ve learned, created, and performed together in public space, where art meets reality, and the audience becomes part of the story.

The second phase, completed in Year Two, shifts the spotlight outward.
Here, students step into their roles as trainers. They work directly with youth, applying IIVVSS methodologies in real settings, co-creating artistic interventions rooted in the lived experiences of the communities they engage with. This journey ends with a final street performance built side by side with the youth participants, an artistic statement shaped by shared voices, shared stories, and shared streets.