Storytelling Hack Jam
06.03.2026 by Eimear
Collaborate for a weekend with top-notch digital storytellers, web developers and designers on projects that use the web to push the boundaries of interactive storytelling.
Participants in the Storytelling Hack Jam are invited to attend for free; the Anna Higgs Keynote Address, the Digital Storytelling Roundtable, and Hugh Garry's Anatomy of a Film seminar.
Location: BlockT. Date: Friday 25th.
Following this Hack Jam participants will meet the facilitators and each other at the BlockT Hot Desk Studio for an introduction to the workshop and to build the teams.
Visual storytelling has been with us since the beginning of times. With the capability of the web to provide interactive, dynamic and participatory functionality, stories are starting to take new shapes and forms, allowing for engaging experiences around them. This hackathon event brings together digital storytellers, web developers and designers to collaborate on storytelling projects that can only exist on the web. You will team up to brainstorm ideas, create open-source code and demo prototypes of your own web-native stories.
Collaborate, Make, Share
Teams compete against the clock, not against each other. This weekend is a great opportunity to take an idea from inception to implementation and exchange skills in the process. The development of a minimal viable project is central to the event and at the end of the weekend, every team will demo a prototype ready to share with the world. In fact, all the code developed over the weekend will be openly available for others to build on. We’re calling out to Ireland's finest filmmakers, designers and developers to come together and enjoy support of an international team of world-class mentors, including Dan Schultz of Hyperaud.io and Berto Yañez of A navalla suíza.
Apply Now!
Apply here to join the Storytelling Hack Jam. We are accepting four teams (but are open to individual applicants), each of which will receive in-depth technical mentorship and specialist advice on the development of their project. You will wholly own the content and product, but you will openly license the source code that powers the experience for others to study, build on, and adapt.
Throughout the weekend nourishing lunch, delicious snacks and super fast WiFi will all be provided.
You can read about the previous event in NYC and check out the prototypes that were created.
Questions?
Please email us with any questions about the event at darklighthackjam@gmail.com