Where we actually turn up
Workshops, trade-show stages and Fashion Week backstage work, internationally. Entry to every one of them is included in the mentorship fee. Travel and accommodation are yours; entry is not.
Dates, venues and who is on stage are listed below so anyone can check them against the organisers’ own programmes. Past events stay on this page rather than disappearing.
Upcoming
17–19 October 2026 · Venice
Venice Fashion Week
Backstage session work
Backstage session styling at Venice Fashion Week.
Recent
Sunday 4 – Monday 5 October 2026 · ExCeL London · Stand W160
Salon International — London Live demos
14 artists · 4 countries · live on the hour, every hour
Fourteen artists from the UK, Malta, Sweden and the Faroe Islands demonstrate live on stand W160 — and talk openly about their journeys: the successes, and the biggest career mistakes nobody usually admits to on a stage. Technical work you can stand close to, and the map of how each of them got booked.
Sunday 4 October — 10am Thomas Mayo (Mayo & Co · Malta) · 11am Gecko Trimz (UK) · 12 noon Olavur Davidsen (Ollis · Faroe Islands) · 1pm Amanda Agius (Malta) · 2pm Tom Darling (Darlin’s Barbers · UK) · 3pm Bradley Taylor (The ShedMK · UK) · 4pm James Massa (The ShedMK · UK) · 5pm Sadeq Yawari (Billdal Barbers · Sweden)
Monday 5 October — 10am The Certified Barber (UK) · 11am Sid Da Barber (UK) · 12 noon Vin Lakhatariya (Roots & Co · UK) · 1pm Brendon Rice (B&S Hair · Malta) · 2pm Todd (UK) · 3pm Cherry Panter (House of CN · UK)
Then at 4:25pm on Monday, JJ Savani headlines the New Trends Stage — men’s trends for 2027 — joined on stage by Tom Darling, Sadeq and Brendon Rice.
What the week produced: a week later, Cocco Hair Pro Malta named Brendon Rice its global ambassador — “sealed around a table in London.” The story.
17–21 September 2026 · London
London Fashion Week
Backstage session work
The GSB team worked two shows: Justin Cassin (JJ Savani, Sid Da Barber, Gecko Trimz, Bailey Bolden) and Lovebirds’ debut collection India IYKYK (JJ Savani, Tom Darling). The full story and credits.
20–22 September 2026 · India
Aakar Hair & Beauty Expo — India
Stage and education
Demonstrating and educating at Aakar Hair & Beauty Expo.
3–5 September 2026 · Paphos, Cyprus
GSB Hands-On Masterclass — Cyprus Advanced technical
Advanced technical skills, on live models
Three days of advanced technical work: advanced cutting, clipper work, sectioning to build movement and shape, and session and editorial finishing — taught hands-on on live models, not mannequin heads. Entry included free for mentorship students. Part of the advanced masterclass programme.
31 August – 1 September 2026 · Bombay Exhibition Centre (NESCO), Goregaon
Professional Beauty India — Mumbai
Main stage: JJ Savani and Tom Darling
Tom Darling demonstrating and educating on the main stage alongside JJ Savani — Tom's second international stage of 2026 after Delhi in June. Official coverage: Professional Beauty India.
19–20 July 2026 · AX The Palace Hotel
LSB × GSB Advanced Technical Workshop — Malta Advanced technical
Two days, hands-on, with the London School of Barbering
Advanced cutting, clipper work, sectioning for movement and shape, and session finishing — hands-on on live models, delivered in collaboration with the London School of Barbering.
1–2 June 2026 · Yashobhoomi Convention Centre
Professional Beauty India — Delhi
Platform and Main Stages
Three GSB students demonstrated and educated across one weekend: Tom Darling (UK), Brendon Rice (Malta) — the first Maltese hairstylist to demonstrate and educate on the Platform Stage — and Ólavur Davidsen (Faroe Islands), the first Faroese hairstylist selected for the MainStage. JJ Savani judged the Modern Barber Challenge.
Two different kinds of event
The hands-on masterclasses are technical. Advanced cutting, clipper work, sectioning to build movement and shape, session and editorial finishing — on live models, not mannequin heads. Advanced tier only: they assume you can already cut and work on everything after that. Malta, Cyprus and India so far. More on what is actually taught.
The stages and Fashion Weeks are the opposite. Students demonstrate, educate, or assist backstage on live sets — usually the first time their name sits on a programme next to people they have followed for years. Access is milestone-gated rather than automatic.
Included, not extra
There is no separate charge for events, no tiering and no upsell at the door. If you want to attend without joining the mentorship — including as a member of The Collective — some events are open at a published rate and some are not, depending on the host — email info@jjsavani.com and we will tell you which.
Events are included in the Mentorship Or start with The Collective