The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is inviting members of the public to their community festival which will take place in October.

Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline is brought to viewers by Dani Admiss, who joined the Stanley Picker Fellowship at Kingston University in 2020. Her approach is framed by world-making practices and community-based research prioritising these as lenses to explore alternative forms of curatorial practice.

The project is a collaborative literacy and climate justice project in search of transformative and regenerative repair. A coalition of art workers, agitators, dream weavers, growers and caregivers have co-created a holistic and ever-growing decarbonisation plan for the art sector and beyond.

It aims to ask questions such as how can intergenerational wealth help communities in the face of climate change? What would it mean if we took museums "to the orchards"? What configurations of life are possible after restitution? Is it possible to replace carbon literacy with love? Together we call for solutions to the climate crisis that not only reduce emissions but create a fairer and more just world in the process.

The 'Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline' festival will be hosted by the local gallery on October 7th which will include teach-in talks, performances, film screenings and music.

Full details of the festival and the schedule for the day can be accessed here.

Established in 1997 with the ongoing support of the Stanley Picker Trust, the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is one of the leading university galleries and commissioning venues in the UK, working with artists, designers, students, academics and members of the local community to encourage creativity, learning, research and innovation.

From its island location on the Hogsmill River, the venue is a creative hub, a production site and a presentation space that functions as an "expanded studio" dedicated to commissioning and curating contemporary art and design practice, generating a dynamic programme of exhibitions, events and participation activities staged onsite, offsite and online.

Appointed each year through public open call, the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design and Fine Art support a diversity of contemporary practitioners to research, create and premiere ambitious new work, by providing generous grants, free studio space, professional expertise and valuable access to the world-class workshop facilities at Kingston School of Art.

Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline is brought to viewers by Dani Admiss, who joined the Stanley Picker Fellowship at Kingston University in 2020.