tala storytelling collective

tala storytelling collective

Stories do not exist in a vacuum.

We need them to lead us to each other.

  • All this work has led us to you.

  • From creating immersive art + science exhibits on astronomy to designing intersectional climate storytelling trainings for thousands across the world. From hosting podcasts on musical theater to scriptwriting about environmental justice for TV. From solo musical projects incorporating synths and speech samples to curating reading curricula for the next generation of youth leaders. From producing original reporting about community-led resistance to helping strengthen online/offline communities for social justice.

  • tala in Tagalog both means “story” and “star.” We believe in the power of stories to guide us to just futures.

  • Grounded in our combined two decades of work in science communication, policy advocacy, social change campaigns, and community organizing alongside movements, our dream is to work with mission-driven collectives to co-create and grow narratives that build our sense of people power and possibility.

  • We are devotedly curious and interdisciplinary, fusing storytelling inspired by art, music, poetry & science fiction with narrative change frameworks, science communication research, and trust-based power-with organizing.

  • We are rooted in the Philippines, in solidarity with fights for climate and social justice all over the world.

  • We support movements, organizations, and networks with mapping narrative infrastructure, challenging storylines that uphold unjust power structures, imagining counter-narratives for justice, designing storytelling workshops, building community skills on narrative analysis, co-creating narrative campaigns and strategies, and co-leading creative interventions.

From narrative analysis for new campaigns to co-curating art exhibits and musical installations, from scriptwriting for podcasts and TV to reaching new audiences through storytelling projects, all the way to delivering global workshops to your supporter base and customizing strategic capacity development for your team on how to communicate your impact in compelling ways beyond spreadsheets and end-of-year reports — our dream is to make world-building irresistible.

Our collective

tala is powered by a small founding team. We lean on a collective of cultural workers and artist-collaborators rooted in the Global South.

We take pride in designing tala from the ground up with collective principles in mind: our cooperative model, our commitment to income redistribution, our values, and our mutual aid fund.

Our operations from the very beginning are designed so that every PHP of surplus income from all engagements goes to a solidarity fund for our growing collective of artists, researchers, cultural workers, and community partners.

Get in touch:

hello@talastory.studio

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