Incubating Impact Storytellers for a Better World
Are you seeking a community of storytellers who are helping to create a better narrative for the world?
Impact Story Lab Sydney could be your new home to connect, dream, and collaborate with other impact storytellers – people who use the art, science and technology of storytelling for a deeper purpose.
Situated in a City of Sydney-supported space just outside the city’s CBD, The Impact Story Lab is now ready to host you!
Our newly-fitted out space can host inclusive hybrid events and workshops, residencies for values-aligned individuals and organisations, and co-working. We’re also building a community of storytelling partners, ambassadors and collaborators, all of whom are collectively working to create new narratives and systemic change in Australia and across the world.
What’s on offer at Impact Story Lab
Residencies
Sick of working from your kitchen table? Get your own permanent space with high speed internet and storytellers to connect with.
Partners
Think of The Impact Story Lab as your organisation’s home in Sydney, with a shared lounge room for you to host meetings and events.
Event spaces
A unique creative space in the City of Sydney for you to gather and share stories.
Meeting Room
Host clients, small group workshops and hybrid webinars.
Pop-up Recording Studio
Draw on the skills of our core residents and get content recorded on a green screen.
Community Convenors
Host co-working days for your community as a convenor or ambassador of The Impact Story Lab Sydney.
Register your interest
Find out more about this exciting initiative and let us know how you would like to get involved.
What’s the background here?
For over a decade, Digital Storytellers has been working with stories and storytellers in service of creating a better narrative for the world. In addition to our core skills in film-making and storytelling (including the workshops we’ve developed in both areas) training, we used the entrepreneurial know-how of social enterprise to both sustain ourselves, but also attain deep experience and knowledge in the business for good movement in Australia and overseas.
Throughout the whole journey, we always had an office to work from, but we never had a permanent home for ourselves and our community. That’s where the Impact Story Lab Sydney concept was born.
After all the disruption brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Sydney awarded a long-term accommodation grant to Digital Storytellers, situated at the William Street Creative Hub in Darlinghurst. We simultaneously secured a further grant with CreateNSW to build out studios and prepare for the delivery of hybrid and in-person events, workshops, and all forms of digital production.
With the completion of the fitout in late 2023, we are now ready to open up Impact Story Lab Sydney to our wider storytelling and impact communities, including many of the organisations who have trusted us to help them find, make and share their good work with the world.
RESIDENTS
PARTNERS
COMMUNITY CONVENORS
HEAR FROM THE IMPACT LAB COMMUNITY
Sponsors
The Impact Story Lab Sydney is proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with the City of Sydney.
