Home for your
messy middle
Come test our latest prototype and learn about data storytelling.
Saturday, Nov 28, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 PM
Common Ground Civic Centre, Atrium
21 Bedok North Street 1 Singapore 49659
Event lineup
This November 28th, come and try it out for yourself and meet others just as curious about data storytelling as you are!
Test our whiteboard
Be some of the first to test out our whiteboard, with guidance from our team members. Tell us what works for you and what doesn’t—we are eager to hear from you!
View showcase stories
Hear from our partner organisations and the stories they made with our new features.
Learn data storytelling
Attend our popular data storytelling workshop (for free!) and learn how you can build a similar piece from scratch.
This event is for you if you are:
stuck while writing your stories
looking for a home for your stories
a storyteller
data-curious
curious about what goes behind the scenes at Kontinentalist
willing to try a new product and give feedback
Lapis has something for you, no matter what layer of the data journey you are on.
Agenda
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Registration
Feel free to arrive early and mingle with your fellow storytellers.
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Data storytelling workshop
Kick off an eventful day with our data storytelling workshop from our teammates at Kontinentalist, where we share our guiding principles and best practices based on years of experience. Limited space available. If you’re interested, please register for the Workshop on the ticketing page.
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Breaks & snacks
Take a breather! Have some light snacks, mingle for a bit, and check out what we have on display around the space. (More on that in a bit!)
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Diary study showcase
Watch our partner organisations present their stories made on the Lapis Playground, all of which are based on topics and advocacies close to their hearts.
4:30 - 5:15 PM
Lapis Playground demo
Witness our full extent of the playground’s capabilities through a guided demonstration by one of our team members. Feel free to follow along on your own devices or take down notes and save them for later.
5:00 - 18:30 PM
Booths
Get the chance to try Lapis Playground under the guidance of our team members. Learn more about our partner organisations’ finished products as well by perusing our mini-exhibit.
6:30 - 7:00 PM
Slow and natural ending
Wrap things up and maybe head out for dinner and drinks with friends new and old.
Excited already?
Take the first step as early as now! Answer our character quiz and find out what kind of data storyteller you are.
Note: This will come in handy later!
About Lapis Playground
Here at Lapis, we want to be not just a home for your stories, but for your messy middle too.
As storytellers, we work so hard towards the final product that we forget to fall in love with the process. The one-off concepts, the stray statistics and figures, and everything else we find down the rabbit hole. That’s why we’re launching the Lapis Playground, a whiteboard built by the data storytellers at Kontinentalist, compiling all our experience into one sense-making platform. This feature allows users to make sense of their raw ideas and find the perfect framework for its many moving parts.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Lapis?
Lapis is an all-in-one platform that allows users to blend text, data, and visuals into impactful stories. Think of it as a combination of Canva and Medium, or like Flourish but for long-form, more research-intensive work.
What is this festival for?
We are in an intensive and iterative research phase to further develop our product. This festival is not only a celebration of what we’ve been able to achieve, but an unveiling of the landmark feature we’ve been working on for the past few months: the Lapis Playground! And of course, we’d also love to stage more discussions as well as solicit feedback and suggestions around Lapis, so this festival would be a space to facilitate those conversations. Kontinentalist is a recipient of the Good Design Research Grant by Design Singapore.
What exactly is the Lapis Playground?
The Lapis Playground is our newest feature, dedicated to the messy middle of the story-storming process. As the name suggests, it’s a space to play around with the information gathered during the research stage and experiment before getting down to business. It takes inspiration from our creative process at Kontinentalist and brings in features specific to data storytelling such as connections, story structures, clusters, and more.
Why Lapis Playground?
Our extensive user research pointed us to a clear direction that sense-making, structuring narratives, and having a space to pool your resources is as important as having a platform to build and host the story. Hence, we looked internally at our own writer’s creative processes to come up with Lapis Playground to build a whiteboard tool specifically tailored for data storytellers.
Is the event free?
Yes, it is!
How about the platform itself?
Yes! Lapis is free and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. (If ever anything changes, you will be the first to know.)
Who is welcome to join the event?
Everyone who is interested to learn more about our product and our latest offerings! We’re expecting a mix of beginner to mid-level data practitioners across industries like media, nonprofit communications, research, and the academe.
Home for your
messy middle
Come test our latest prototype and learn about data storytelling.
Saturday, Nov 28, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 PM
Common Ground Civic Centre, Atrium
21 Bedok North Street 1 Singapore 49659
Event lineup
This November 28th, come and try it out for yourself and meet others just as curious about data storytelling as you are!
Test our whiteboard
Be some of the first to test out our whiteboard, with guidance from our team members. Tell us what works for you and what doesn’t—we are eager to hear from you!
View showcase stories
Hear from our partner organisations and the stories they made with our new features.
Learn data storytelling
Attend our popular data storytelling workshop (for free!) and learn how you can build a similar piece from scratch.
This event is for you if you are:
stuck while writing your stories
looking for a home for your stories
a storyteller
data-curious
curious about what goes behind the scenes
at Kontinentalist
willing to try a new product and give feedback
Lapis has something for you, no matter what layer of the data journey you are on.
Agenda
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Registration
Feel free to arrive early and mingle with your fellow storytellers.
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Data storytelling workshop
Kick off an eventful day with our data storytelling workshop from our teammates at Kontinentalist, where we share our guiding principles and best practices based on years of experience. Limited space available. If you’re interested, please register for the Workshop on the ticketing page.
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Breaks & snacks
Take a breather! Have some light snacks, mingle for a bit, and check out what we have on display around the space. (More on that in a bit!)
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Diary study showcase
Watch our partner organisations present their stories made on the Lapis Playground, all of which are based on topics and advocacies close to their hearts.
4:30 - 5:15 PM
Lapis Playground demo
Witness our full extent of the playground’s capabilities through a guided demonstration by one of our team members. Feel free to follow along on your own devices or take down notes and save them for later.
5:00 - 18:30 PM
Booths
Get the chance to try Lapis Playground under the guidance of our team members. Learn more about our partner organisations’ finished products as well by perusing our mini-exhibit.
6:30 - 7:00 PM
Slow and natural ending
Wrap things up and maybe head out for dinner and drinks with friends new and old.
Excited already?
Take the first step as early as now! Answer our character quiz and find out what kind of data storyteller you are.
Note: This will come in handy later!
About Lapis Playground
Here at Lapis, we want to be not just a home for your stories, but for your messy middle too.
As storytellers, we work so hard towards the final product that we forget to fall in love with the process. The one-off concepts, the stray statistics and figures, and everything else we find down the rabbit hole. That’s why we’re launching the Lapis Playground, a whiteboard built by the data storytellers at Kontinentalist, compiling all our experience into one sense-making platform. This feature allows users to make sense of their raw ideas and find the perfect framework for its many moving parts.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Lapis?
Lapis is an all-in-one platform that allows users to blend text, data, and visuals into impactful stories. Think of it as a combination of Canva and Medium, or like Flourish but for long-form, more research-intensive work.
What is this festival for?
We are in an intensive and iterative research phase to further develop our product. This festival is not only a celebration of what we’ve been able to achieve, but an unveiling of the landmark feature we’ve been working on for the past few months: the Lapis Playground! And of course, we’d also love to stage more discussions as well as solicit feedback and suggestions around Lapis, so this festival would be a space to facilitate those conversations. Kontinentalist is a recipient of the Good Design Research Grant by Design Singapore.
What exactly is the Lapis Playground?
The Lapis Playground is our newest feature, dedicated to the messy middle of the story-storming process. As the name suggests, it’s a space to play around with the information gathered during the research stage and experiment before getting down to business. It takes inspiration from our creative process at Kontinentalist and brings in features specific to data storytelling such as connections, story structures, clusters, and more.
Why Lapis Playground?
Our extensive user research pointed us to a clear direction that sense-making, structuring narratives, and having a space to pool your resources is as important as having a platform to build and host the story. Hence, we looked internally at our own writer’s creative processes to come up with Lapis Playground to build a whiteboard tool specifically tailored for data storytellers.
Is the event free?
Yes, it is!
How about the platform itself?
Yes! Lapis is free and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. (If ever anything changes, you will be the first to know.)
Who is welcome to join the event?
Everyone who is interested to learn more about our product and our latest offerings! We’re expecting a mix of beginner to mid-level data practitioners across industries like media, nonprofit communications, research, and the academe.
Home for your
messy middle
Come test our latest prototype and learn about data storytelling.
Saturday, Nov 28, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 PM
Common Ground Civic Centre, Atrium
21 Bedok North Street 1 Singapore 49659
Event lineup
This November 28th, come and try it out for yourself and meet others just as curious about data storytelling as you are!
Learn data storytelling
Attend our popular data storytelling workshop (for free!) and learn how you can build a similar piece from scratch.
View showcase stories
Hear from our partner organisations and the stories they made with our new features.
Test our whiteboard
Be some of the first to test out our whiteboard, with guidance from our team members. Tell us what works for you and what doesn’t—we are eager to hear from you!
This event is for you if you are:
stuck while writing your stories
a storyteller
looking for a home for your stories
data-curious
curious about what goes behind the scenes at Kontinentalist
willing to try a new product and give feedback
Lapis has something for you, no matter what layer of the data journey you are on.
Agenda
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Registration
Feel free to arrive early and mingle with your fellow storytellers.
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Data storytelling workshop
Kick off an eventful day with our data storytelling workshop from our teammates at Kontinentalist, where we share our guiding principles and best practices based on years of experience. Limited space available. If you’re interested, please register for the Workshop on the ticketing page.
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Breaks & snacks
Take a breather! Have some light snacks, mingle for a bit, and check out what we have on display around the space. (More on that in a bit!)
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Diary study showcase
Watch our partner organisations present their stories made on the Lapis Playground, all of which are based on topics and advocacies close to their hearts.
4:30 - 5:15 PM
Lapis Playground demo
Witness our full extent of the playground’s capabilities through a guided demonstration by one of our team members. Feel free to follow along on your own devices or take down notes and save them for later.
5:00 - 18:30 PM
Booths
Get the chance to try Lapis Playground under the guidance of our team members. Learn more about our partner organisations’ finished products as well by perusing our mini-exhibit.
6:30 - 7:00 PM
Slow and natural ending
Wrap things up and maybe head out for dinner and drinks with friends new and old.
Excited already?
Take the first step as early as now! Answer our character quiz and find out what kind of data storyteller you are.
Note: This will come in handy later!
About Lapis Playground
Here at Lapis, we want to be not just a home for your stories, but for your messy middle too.
As storytellers, we work so hard towards the final product that we forget to fall in love with the process. The one-off concepts, the stray statistics and figures, and everything else we find down the rabbit hole. That’s why we’re launching the Lapis Playground, a whiteboard built by the data storytellers at Kontinentalist, compiling all our experience into one sense-making platform. This feature allows users to make sense of their raw ideas and find the perfect framework for its many moving parts.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Lapis?
Lapis is an all-in-one platform that allows users to blend text, data, and visuals into impactful stories. Think of it as a combination of Canva and Medium, or like Flourish but for long-form, more research-intensive work.
What is this festival for?
We are in an intensive and iterative research phase to further develop our product. This festival is not only a celebration of what we’ve been able to achieve, but an unveiling of the landmark feature we’ve been working on for the past few months: the Lapis Playground! And of course, we’d also love to stage more discussions as well as solicit feedback and suggestions around Lapis, so this festival would be a space to facilitate those conversations. Kontinentalist is a recipient of the Good Design Research Grant by Design Singapore.
What exactly is the Lapis Playground?
The Lapis Playground is our newest feature, dedicated to the messy middle of the story-storming process. As the name suggests, it’s a space to play around with the information gathered during the research stage and experiment before getting down to business. It takes inspiration from our creative process at Kontinentalist and brings in features specific to data storytelling such as connections, story structures, clusters, and more.
Why Lapis Playground?
Our extensive user research pointed us to a clear direction that sense-making, structuring narratives, and having a space to pool your resources is as important as having a platform to build and host the story. Hence, we looked internally at our own writer’s creative processes to come up with Lapis Playground to build a whiteboard tool specifically tailored for data storytellers.
Is the event free?
Yes, it is!
How about the platform itself?
Yes! Lapis is free and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. (If ever anything changes, you will be the first to know.)
Who is welcome to join the event?
Everyone who is interested to learn more about our product and our latest offerings! We’re expecting a mix of beginner to mid-level data practitioners across industries like media, nonprofit communications, research, and the academe.
Where do we start?
Register through the link here, and feel free to take the character quiz. Your answers will come in handy during the event itself!
Will there be food?
There will be light refreshments throughout the event.