Creative Team Events in Amsterdam
Street art workshops around the NDSM wharf, or wherever your team already sits.
The NDSM wharf is the reason most Amsterdam requests come in: an old shipyard, big walls, murals everywhere. It is a good backdrop, but it is not the point. The point is that your team spends two hours making one thing together instead of listening to somebody else.
This page covers how the session runs and what it needs from your side. The bookable formats sit on our team event workshops.
What a workshop day looks like
Three blocks, two to three hours in total. We stretch or shorten them around your agenda, so the workshop fits into a strategy day instead of eating it.
1. Warm-up and technique
A short introduction to stencil, paste-up and freehand work, then straight to a practice surface. No lecture longer than the workshop.
2. Building the piece together
Sketch, agree on a direction, then spray. The interesting part is the negotiation, not the paint.
3. Reveal and group photo
The piece goes up, the group photo happens, and the artwork goes home with you.
Where we can run it in Amsterdam
There is no fixed venue you have to book. Pick the room you already have, and we build the workshop around it.
- Your own office. A canteen, a large meeting room or an empty floor is enough. We bring covers for floors and furniture.
- An event location you booked anyway. Works well when the workshop is one block inside a longer offsite or a company party.
- Outdoors. Yards and industrial spaces around NDSM work well, and so does any courtyard you have access to. We agree a wet-weather plan when we fix the date.
- Online. When the team sits in several countries, we run the creative part as a digital session instead.
We come to you across Europe. We bring the materials and the guides. You tell us the address, the group size and the time slot.
Why teams end up at NDSM
NDSM works as a workshop backdrop for a plain reason: the surroundings already look like the thing you are about to make. Nobody has to explain why a wall matters when there are twenty of them in view.
If you want the context before the paint, we start with a guided walk through the murals in the area and go into the workshop afterwards. That order works better for groups who think they are "not creative" - by the time they hold a can, they have already had opinions about somebody else's wall for half an hour.
Questions we get asked before a Amsterdam booking
How long does a workshop take?
Usually between two and three hours. We adjust the length to your schedule.
Does anyone need previous experience?
No. The workshops are built so that everybody can take part, whatever they have or have not done before.
How many people can join?
Groups start at 10 people. Larger formats work too, up to 1,000 participants.
What do we have to bring?
Nothing. Paint, stencils, protective clothing and canvases come from us.
Can we move or cancel the date?
Yes. Cancellation and rebooking options are part of the booking terms.
Where do I see the actual workshops?
The formats we run in Amsterdam are listed on our team event workshops. Tell us which one fits and we take it from there.
Tell us about your team
Send us the date, the group size and the kind of room you have. We come back with a workshop that fits.