A place for media makers to play and call their own! Offering low-cost media production facilities and independent self-publishing resources.

Octapod launched its Media Space in September 2008 following the closure of TiN Radio, with a short digital storytelling course in partnership with TAFE Outreach. Course participants learnt interviewing and video production techniques, and acted as Octapod's media team at the This Is Not Art Festival in early October: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgV-UTFUFT8

In 2009 we followed up with another digital storytelling course in partnership with TAFE Outreach. This time we focused on the issue of youth homelessness. In 2009 we also assisted the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) to produce a short digital story about responses to natural disaster. The DVD was used as a resource in schools.

In 2010 we received a grant from the Community Relations Commission to work with young people from cuturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to produce a digital story about friendship. This project was run in partnership with the Multicultural Neighbourhood Centre and Waratah High School:. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2cPWRrSLPA

In 2010 Octapod's volunteer media team produced a short digital story about 'walkARTbout', a public art project that took place as part of the This Is Not Art Festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjwdcn_WiLg

In 2011 the Media Space has been used by Tara Jones, one of Octapod's SeedPod recipients. Tara ran a short filmmaking course with women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, called 'In A Minute'.