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Dates:
5th - 9th June '2024 (12 spots open)
STORYTELLERS RESIDENCY
WRITERS EDITION
5 Days x 12 Storytellers
Experience: Ecology x Culinary x Architecture
A first of its kind impact storytelling and creative exchange program
The Impact Society Storytellers Residency is a re-examination of the meaning and value of storytelling. Through workshops, activities, guided sessions and discussions, the residency offers a group of diverse storytellers the opportunity to explore their craft, share perspectives, build narratives and take positive actions.
Dates & location:
5th - 9th June '2024
(Only 4 spots left)
Goa, India.
WRITERS EDITION
We welcome a diverse cohort of storytellers looking to expand their creative boundaries with an aim to inspire collaborative storytelling that goes beyond traditional boundaries, uniting individuals who are passionate about creating positive change through their writing.
Led by Poet, Novelist, and Culture Journalist Siddharth Dasgupta, you’ll be part of a writing voyage that includes workshops, activities, guided sessions, conversations, and the spirit of collaboration.
To add to the enrichment, Goa will be at hand to inspire you, to instigate you. We’ll be taking journeys into the address’s distinctive cuisine, architecture, and culture. You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of storytelling, a stronger grasp of narrative, a window into different perspectives, and an urge to simply write.
DESIGNED FOR STORYTELLERS
Gather, Prosper
Meet your fellow tribe of writers—poets, novelists, essayists, storytellers, cultural changemakers—and revel in the beautiful language of words
Dialogues & Discussions
Engage with Poet, Novelist, and Culture Journalist Siddharth Dasgupta as he steers you through an immersive programme of discussions, readings, workshops, and guided sessions
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The Goa Story
Dive into Goa’s wealth of riches—from culinary treasures and architectural marvels to ecological gems and cultural echoes—emerging with a wealth of inspiration for your writing
The Writer’s Desk
Spend some alone time with your writing in a wonderful sanctuary, knowing that your mentor and a fellow tribe of writers are always at hand to help you with ideas and words
The Manuscript
Have a one-on-one with your mentor, discussing the words you’ve written and the projects you’re embarking on, as this rare 5-day experience draws to a close
Collab Cofab
Enjoy the atmosphere of collaboration in your heritage villa, discovering writing partners, future project cohorts, and fellow travellers for your forthcoming cultural journeys
The Flow
A storytelling experiment that unfolds through nature explorations, field visits, community exchange, creative breakthroughs, photography/film showcases, and discussions with fellow storytellers.
A focus on meaningful engagement through
introductions, icebreakers, story circles, and individual writing/creative practices
Led by
Siddharth Dasgupta
Poet, Novelist & Explorer
A novelist and poet, Siddharth Dasgupta (@citizen.bliss) writes fiction from lost hometowns. Currently the Editor of Visual Narratives with The Bombay Literary Magazine, Siddharth recently published his fifth book, All These Streets We’ve Known By Heart – which was shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2023.
His art burns brightest when he is experiencing, dissecting, and expressing a city, hidden gem, cultural movement, travel experience, dining adventure, city getaway, or luxury hotel stay. For him, it all boils down to the thrill of storytelling and being able to make a profound human connection with another human being i.e. the reader.
Siddharth has published 5 books so far and his articles have landed on the pages of notable publications such as Travel + Leisure, National Geographic Traveller, The Buzz, Harper's Bazaar, and other global publications.
Set in a 100yr-old heritage mansion
Location: Vivenda Dos Palhacos
Vivenda dos Palhacos is a one hundred year old, carefully renovated house, set in a quaint village of Majorda, in South Goa.
The villa has three quite distinct atmospheres - a modest Portuguese Mansion, the older Hindoo house and the main garden.
Set far off the beaten track, the villa offers the perfect space to experience tranquility amidst the rural side of Goa, surrounded by church bells, blue skies and coconut groves.
The Space
Join a collective of change-makers on this unique journey
Oishimaya Sen
Conservation Writer
Johann Binny Kuruvilla
Storyteller - Kochi Heritage Project
Amit Srivastava
Author & Travel Photographer
Manish Saksena
Lead Advisor Aadyam Handwoven and Retail Consultant (TH/CK/Arrow)
Akshay Bapat
Documentary Filmmaker
Kavya Narayanan
Biologist & Science Journalist
What happens
at the Residency?
The residency offers a new perspective on the power of storytelling, and the people who tell them. From workshops with visiting artists and experts to outdoor exploration, every day of the retreat presents a new and intense challenge and is a week-long discovery of modes of storytelling, explored through the lens of language, connection, perception, and place.
At this residency, we will examine ideas and expectations through exercises, visits, research, readings, and discussions on the works of several artists, architects, designers, writers, and poets with the help of guest teachers on different days.
Why should
you attend?
Storytellers are a part of continuum. We work as links between generations, sowing seeds of renewal, steering conversation, expanding constructs. Our central hope should always be propagation.
The program is designed to guide participants toward their goals - from finding fresher perspectives to pivoting or changing direction completely, participants can hope to renew their practices and create new patterns for growth.
Who is it
curated for?
An introspective journey of examination and growth, the Storytellers Residency is designed to reconnect you with your most powerful tools as a storyteller - Your Environment, Body, and Self.
A multi-disciplinary gathering of creatives and storytellers, the residency hopes to reorient the participants in their practice by exploring the relational aspects of interiority and artistic expression and encourage a shift from fixed perception to fluidity. By studying the sensate and the undulations of land, time and memory, we will engage with our own rhythms that can inform stories.
How does it
empower me?
With the goal of orienting and reorienting ourselves in our art forms, the residency is geared towards eliminating binaries and fixed notions to piece together new pathways and possibilities of navigation for our lived experience.
We invite you to ponder the dimensions of self, its projections and extensions, and ways we can strive toward rooted practice.
TRAVEL, INVESTMENTS, FAQ's
Experience Snapshot
Handpicked & Curated Explorations
Discover nomadic folktales, heritage art, environmental co-existence and culture through our thoughtfully picked authentic trails.
Exchange Traditional Knowledge
Immersions designed to help you delve into storytelling in a way that embraces local knowledge systems, and communities.
Travel with a Collective
The Impact Society residencies connects you with a resonating and conscious tribe that yearns to unlearn and explore storytelling with impact.
Learn from
Fellow Storytellers
A carefully built agenda of walks, talks and workshops with inspiring change-makers and local leaders puts you on the path to re-learn the art of storytelling and narrative building.
Immerse in settings connected to local impact
Our residencies are hosted at chosen properties that are shaping social reform, community exchange and positive impact in their regions.
Explore Collaborations
Designed as an explorative journey where you get to exchange thoughts, ideas and collaborate with a like-minded community to co-create Impact.
AUTHENTICALLY DESIGNED FOR CREATIVE EXPLORATION & KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
Over 7 storytelling editions, a travel summit and the wilderness festival, we have hosted some of the finest storytelling mentors, worked on photo projects with local NGO's, documented local issues and have explored some of the most breath-taking & unexplored landscapes, from the vision of discovering life through the lens.
Films and photographs have the ability to engage us both emotionally as well as socially. By incorporating scientific research and relevant themes into films, there is potential for the creation of a new dimension to the spread of scientific ideas by sparkling citizen interest and simultaneously inspiring audiences to further engage in broader discussions on the issue itself.
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We work at the intersection of creative exploration and impact storytelling. Fostering the use of photography, films and art to fuel environmental, cultural and social change.
A melting pot of inspirational storytellers getting together with keen seekers for the cause of building sustainable futures. A space where each attendee, creator, travel brand, conservationist or adventurer is a key influencer towards achieving a sustainable and collaborative way forward.
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