Arts Against Vaping: Influence Lab
Influence Lab is a creative, youth-led program that supports students to critically explore the influence of vaping culture and misinformation through storytelling. The program equips young people with the tools to analyse messaging, question influence, and create their own informed narratives. Delivered by The Literature Centre in partnership with Healthway, schools and artists, the program equips young people with the tools to analyse messaging, question influence, and create their own informed narratives.
Through creative residencies, artist-led workshops, and a student-curated exhibition, Influence Lab places student voice at the centre of health conversations, using the arts as a platform for learning, reflection, and peer-to-peer engagement.
What the Program Involves
Influence Lab is delivered across the school year and includes:
- Creative Residencies introduce critical thinking, media literacy, and storytelling skills
- Artist-led Workshops across visual, written, digital, and performance-based formats
- A Creative Challenge, where students develop either an anti-vaping campaign or myth-busting work
- Student-curated Exhibition presented in a community space
The program is designed to be preventative, strengths-based, and responsive to young people’s lived experiences.
Why Influence Lab Matters
Young people are increasingly exposed to targeted and misleading messaging around vaping. Influence Lab supports students to:
- Identify and decode persuasive messaging
- Challenge misinformation and social influence
- Build confidence, agency, and creative voice
- Lead conversations about health and wellbeing in their own communities
By centering creativity and critical thinking, the program encourages informed decision-making rather than directive messaging.
Student Work and Creative Outcomes
Throughout Influence Lab, students create original works that explore influence, identity, health, and the impact of vaping on young people and their communities.
Selected student works will be presented as part of the Influence Lab: Arts Against Vaping exhibition, allowing students to share their ideas and creative responses with the wider community.
Creative outcomes may include:
- Visual campaigns and illustrations
- Short films and digital stories
- Written pieces and spoken word
- Performance, sculpture and installation works
Further exhibition details, including dates, locations and viewing times, will be added as they are confirmed.
Contact Us
If you are an educator, school, artist, or community organisation and would like to learn more about Influence Lab, please get in touch using the form below. We welcome enquiries, media requests, partnership opportunities, and expressions of interest.
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Acknowledgements
Influence Lab is proudly delivered by the Literature Centre in partnership with Healthway – creating a healthier WA together through Clear the Air.
