The Holden School was founded in 1994 by five friends, all in their thirties. The idea was to make a school for storytellers.
For twenty years Holden was a rather small school. About sixty students on the main course and a few hundred enrolled in other smaller courses, or scattered throughout Italy. It was based in Turin, in an Art Nouveau building near the Po, in Corso Dante.
Since 2013 Holden has become much bigger. It moved to a beautiful old bomb factory, the former Cavalli Barracks of the Military Arsenal of Turin and is now an important and prestigious storytelling school.