Palimpsest
What if a library wasn’t just a place to borrow books - but a living archive, a sacred space, a machine for bending time? This is the concept behind Palimpsest - a collaboration between Story Factory and State Library...
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Special Projects
Our special projects bring students together from different schools to create an exciting public outcome.
Often run in collaboration with other arts organisations, these projects are a rare opportunity for students to take part in something big. All projects have big finishes – culminating in books, exhibitions, publications, films and events. We love them and most importantly, so do our students
Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe?
Who killed Edgar Allan Poe? This question was posed to members of the public by a group of our young writers during their recent poetry-themed murder mystery night. The group wrote the murder mystery during an eight-week after-school program inspired...
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Dome, Sweet Dome
What will your life and community look like in the next 50 years? Year 8 students were tasked to map this out by Story Factory, in collaboration with The Smith Family. The students constructed a radio play by writing and recording poems...
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Free to Fashion
In 2024, Story Factory collaborated with The Social Outfit to deliver a unique project, Free to Fashion, to raise the profile and voices of young women from Birrong Girls and Bossley Park high schools in Western Sydney. Students met refugee and...
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Memory River
Memory River was a project that combined Indigenous history, stories and art with the voices of young people from Western Sydney. The project took place at The Parramatta Female Factory Institutions Precinct, a location with a long and complex history...
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