tala storytelling collective

tala storytelling collective tala is a narrative organizing studio. Visit our website: talastory.studio tala is a narratives studio guided by brave storytelling and joyful world-building.

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

rative campaigns and strategies, and co-creating creative interventions. We are rooted in the Philippines, in solidarity with fights for climate and social justice all over the world.

We're excited to support this learning series with storytelling workshops! If you know young people in high school or un...
07/05/2026

We're excited to support this learning series with storytelling workshops! If you know young people in high school or university, ask them to register ASAP. The first session will be on Sunday! bit.ly/KabataanPaSIKLABka

✨ a re-introduction: hi, we are tala, a narrative organizing studio guided by brave storytelling and joyful world-buildi...
07/05/2026

✨ a re-introduction: hi, we are tala, a narrative organizing studio guided by brave storytelling and joyful world-building.

Powered by over two decades of combined experience in climate justice organizing and campaigning, movement strategy, science research and communication, and arts-based interventions, our dream is to work with mission-driven collectives and creatives on storytelling campaigns that build our sense of people power and possibility.

From designing exhibits on ethnoastronomy to leading global climate justice trainings for multicultural audiences, from scriptwriting for TV and podcasts on environmental science to leading organizing strategy for political campaigns, from building cross-country alliances to co-creating storytelling strategies with grassroots youth against fossil fuels – our life’s work is devoted to going beyond one-day headlines and fleeting virality.

As a studio, our practice is to fuse narrative strategies with organizing so we can build online-to-offline communities, solidarity networks, and thriving movements for justice.

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

World-build with us. Let’s tell our stories together.
Set up a discovery call via [email protected] 🔭

www.talastory.studio



06/05/2026

Climate change is real and affecting us unequally. In our first episode, our field guide Dr. John Aruta discusses how Filipino youth rank first globally in measures of , and how grief and eco-anxiety in a warming world are actually adaptive, normal emotional responses.

Learn more from Wonder Facilitator and Dr. Aruta. Tune in to the full episode on Youtube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

04/05/2026
02/05/2026

Tonight, we debut the Bulan Listening Room 🌕, a series of full moon gatherings to understand what a night full of stars means for us and our local ecology.

Astronomy talk + Live sound session ✨

Join us later at 5 PM!

For more details about the venue and program, feel free to message us 📩

[ This gathering is organized by GLFx Panay through the collaboration of Dulungan Youth , Ekopraxis, and tala storytelling collective ]

For today’s Labor Day workshop, the invitation was to speculate once more: imagine a life where you don’t have to sell y...
01/05/2026

For today’s Labor Day workshop, the invitation was to speculate once more: imagine a life where you don’t have to sell your body, your energy, your labor, your time, and your life to be able to survive. Imagine you can pursue any slight joy or any other calling to mastery. Imagine you can be as present as you can with your loved ones, free as a bird to take care of them when they are sick or longing for company. Imagine a life beyond the clock, beyond capitalist hours, beyond artificial notions of productivity and value cemented by false narratives of work and profit as king.

The response we got was an astounding reminder of what we all desire: we all wished for rest, responding to our body’s need for sustenance and ample sleep, only waking up with the sun, just in time for breakfast with our mothers. We all wished there was more time spent in nature, listening to birdsong and swimming in rivers. We still want to idle about, to go on long walks, to read big, chunky, physical books. We want to teach and read and sing and live with our best friends and get tea together.

We want a good life — in our own terms, in our own time.

In solidarity with mobilizations in the country, we led a workshop today with .youth and .ph in Culasi, honoring the many hands and the labor of many that make life possible. To close, we asked participants to redesign their relationship with time, labor, care and collective nourishment. These clocks and calendars are reminders of the life we deserve, made new by the stories we will tell together, every single day from now on, until we reap what we sow.

These clock artifacts will be on our Just Futures Library soon. Until then — happy labor day. To class solidarity and our collective liberation — the actual fruits of our labor. ✨

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30 Scout Tuason Street, JGS Building, Brgy. Laging Handa, DIliman
Quezon City
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