Arts Impact Society sits at the intersection of art and political action, using creative practice as a tool of resistance, documentation, and solidarity.

    We create across multiple forms, from public installations and documentary to print, digital, and community events, centring lived experience, amplifying voices too often erased, and resisting the forces of colonialism that continue to threaten communities worldwide. 


Projects

Who we are


We acknowledge the the original custodians of this stolen land we live and work on, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. We are based on the land of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples, Blue Mountains, Australia. 


We are entirely volunteer-run. You can help us make our projects possible by supporting us in the following ways. 

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   Arts Impact Society, 2025






PROJECTS




The Question We Should Be Asking
Typographical Art
Sydney, 2026

 Public Poster Campaign

Complete
In collaboration with APAN


This work responds to the Australian Government’s invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog by isolating and amplifying his public statements on collective responsibility—remarks cited in ICJ genocide proceedings. 

Presented without spectacle, the poster collapses the distance between language and consequence, asking viewers to consider how state hospitality can function as moral endorsement in the context of ongoing mass violence.
Names not Numbers

Documentary

 Online Channel


Completed
A YouTube channel and editorial site featuring short documentary works by Palestinian filmmakers and journalists, transforming numbers into individual narratives. Each piece reveals the person behind the data, offering direct insight from those documenting their own communities under siege.

Initial releases showcase work by Ruwaida Amer, presenting four distinct personal accounts from Gaza that counter the abstraction of mass media reporting.

Stories from Gaza (First Edition) will have its international premiere at Palestine House UK on April 9, 2026.

Storyholders: Ayah Al-Sousi, Ramez Al-Souri, Sabreen Budwan, Sami Abu Ameira
Producer/Director: Ruwaida Amer 
Cinematographer: Mahmoud Almashahrawi 
Post Producer: Aprille Asfoura 
Editors: Natasha Akib & Robert Werner 
Motion & Graphics: Robert Werner
Translation: Victor Asfoura

Visit the Names Not Numbers website

Subscribe to the full series on YouTube





Don’t Mention the Children

Typography, Poetry
Arabic / English
2025 Publication, Public Art

In circulation via Instagram | A5 edition and public installation  in-development

A 20-page memorial publication documenting each reported name of a child killed in Gaza during Israel's assault on Palestinians, 2023-2025. The work incorporates poetry by Michael Rosen, layered with the documented names to create a record of loss that refuses erasure.

Initially distributed through digital platforms, the piece is expanding into print: an A5 booklet for intimate engagement and a large-scale public poster for community spaces. The work functions as both memorial and political documentation, transforming individual casualties into collective testimony.



From the Children

Typographical Art
Australia / International
2025 Public Art


In-Development
This poster series centres the voices of children in Gaza, featuring their direct quotes sourced from the Gaza Trauma Centre. Displayed in public urban spaces, the campaign transforms streets into powerful sites of witness, connection, and reflection.

In a time when public opinion is crucial to ending the genocide in Palestine, these physical interventions reach beyond digital echo chambers—engaging those who may never seek out Palestinian perspectives online.

Children’s words carry a rare emotional truth. Their lived experiences cut through political noise, disarming audiences with raw, human clarity. These voices are not abstract—they’re urgent, undeniable, and impossible to ignore.

Post For Palestine (Flood the Post)
Website/Physical Postcards
 Digital Post Platform

In development 
A digital platform that transforms online activism into physical political pressure by enabling Australians to send postcards directly to their elected representatives. Building on existing community-led postal campaigns, the website streamlines mass participation through an automated mail service that converts digital messages into physical postcards delivered to Federal politicians.

Users select from available designs, compose personal messages or choose pre-written text, and target specific politicians—all for the cost of postage. The platform removes logistical barriers while maintaining the tangible impact of physical mail, amplifying individual voices into collective political action.

The work bridges digital convenience with analog persistence, recognising that physical mail carries political weight that emails cannot match.

Beyond the Ceasefire

February 2025
 Storytelling/Fundraising Event

In partnership with Our Race

Community event held in Surry Hills, Sydney. The evening consisted of documentary screenings by Palestinian filmmaker and journalist Ruwaida Amer and a panel discussion with Sara Saleh, Amed Alabadla, and Assala Sayara. Music by Zeadala. The event was held just after the announcement of the ceasefire in early 2025.



From Here to There

30 August, 2025 Community Fundraiser Art Market/
Film Screening












‘From Here to There’ was a one-day cross-cultural and solidarity event that brought 
the local Blue Mountains community together. 

The event includes a public screening of ‘Motherhood in the Colony’, local art exhibition and sale, mutual aid markets, food, and music. The event is co-organised with Mountains for Palestine, with all proceeds going to Palestinian families in Gaza and Sisters Inside, a First Nations run organisations supporting First Nations women in prison and their families.  This was a grassroots community organised event which was organised with no budget in place but the time and contributions of all involved.



Resistance Handbook
In-Development
 Digital Resource

An online resource for activists seeking to find ways to impact an end to the genocide on Palestinians. The guide will be a collaboration between multiple human rights organisations documenting research and current information on impactful ways to engage and take action.
Echoes of Destruction
In-Development
 Interactive/3D














An interactive website featuring 3D scans from Gaza combined with poetry and typography overlays. Users navigate digital reconstructions of physical spaces, with text appearing within the virtual environment to create layered meaning between place and language.

The work preserves architectural and geographical memory through digital documentation, creating immersive testimony that transcends physical destruction.





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who we are  
                  Founded in 2025, Arts Impact Society was born from a refusal to remain silent. As parents and artists, Aprille and Robert are committed to using their skills to challenge the narratives that enable injustice and to stand in solidarity with those resisting oppression, locally and globally.


Aprille Asfoura | Co-founder & Director,
Strategy, Project Development & Partnerships

Aprille is a Palestinian-Australian documentary filmmaker and impact producer who has spent over fifteen years working across the arts and screen industries, including at Screen Australia and through the Documentary Australia Impact Producer Program. 

She co-founded Arts Impact Society to create work that resists colonial erasure. At AIS, Aprille develops strategic partnerships, leads communications, and initiates projects that harness storytelling as a tool for political mobilisation. Her work centers Palestinian voices and builds the cross-cultural solidarity necessary to challenge colonial systems and shift policy.



Robert Werner | Co-Founder & Director,
Creative Direction, Project Dev & Design

Robert Werner is a Berlin-born creative director and media artist with over fifteen years of experience designing and art directing multimedia and cultural projects, leading creative teams across advertising, cultural production, and political activism. 

His work has been shaped by his family's Polish migration story and collaborations with groups like Led By Donkeys and The Syria Project. He co-founded Arts Impact Society out of a belief in using art as a tool of resistance. As creative lead, Robert designs the visual language across AIS projects—from typographic interventions to public installations—creating urgent campaigns that challenge injustice and open up public dialogue around colonial violence and solidarity.