Welcome to Blacktown is a place-based audio project by Impact Studios, supported by the Paul Ramsay Foundation. The project sought to learn about Blacktown’s many and varied communities, together with the innovative and inspired social change work that is happening there.

Over six months in 2022 and 2023, the Impact Studios team conducted almost 100 interviews with people connected to Blacktown, exploring and investigating the question of how communities thrive. This exercise in deep listening sought to understand the full context of what each person was doing. We listened to them tell stories of their lives, on their own terms: their families, their passions, their work and what motivates them to do it, their challenges and achievements.

From this process, two audio works were created: We are Blacktown and Sink or Swim.