Welcome to your weekly What's on in Kingston.  

Every Thursday we round up all the eye-catching events occurring in your area over the weekend. 

Read on for Kingston's not to be missed outings this week, and remember, you can add your FREE event using the Nub It button! 

Saturday 23 September 



Surbiton Festival, Claremont Rd and St Andrews Square, 10am-4pm 

It's that time of year again: the annual Surbiton Festival. A fantastic community event run by volunteers, weave your way through countless stalls and browse what artisanal pieces the local businesses have to offer. Celebrate community groups at the midday parade and discover new local artists at the music stages.   

Global Threads Exhibition, Rose Theatre, 10am-6pm 

Find out about the different communities living in Kingston and their colourful and inspiring textile heritage. The exhibition will explore the clothing traditions of Kingston's communities. Come and see real garments, photographs, and textile-inspired artworks made by local groups. Learn about block-printed borders, knots that become buttons, and the meanings behind the motifs and symbols within their textile traditions. 

Craft Afternoon for Adults, CornerHouse Surbiton, 2pm,-4pm 

Bring your craft projects along to this workshop to finish in an encouraging group. Power, tables, light, heat, support, encouragement and a cuppa all available. Recent users have included textile artists, collage practitioners and card makers. 

Sunday 17 September 

Come along to support local artists' work and find unique crafts and gift you won't find anywhere else! (Photo: Emily Dalton)

Kingston Market Makers, Kingston Marketplace, 10am-4pm 

Discover and buy all kinds of art pieces including ceramics, jewellery, postcards, and more. Come along to support local artists' work and find unique crafts and gift you won't find anywhere else! 

Including pieces by students from the Kingston School of Art and other local talented craftspeople. 

Last Day for A World of Islands, Stanley Picker Gallery, 11am- 5pm 

A World of Islands considers the movement of indigenous knowledge, practices, materials and people, and historical and current fabrications of tropical utopia and dystopia. Locating the 'tropics' as both a mythological and real place with shared colonial and ecological trauma but wildly divergent histories and cultures, the exhibition unpicks some of the clichés and relocates agency in the 'tropical' narrative. 

This exhibition explores these themes in the context of one of the largest diasporic tropical populations, dispersed in over 100 countries through forced, government-sanctioned and voluntary movement across oceans. Here, A World of Islands brings together artistic perspectives and research on the Philippine archipelago, its climate, its people and their movement over seas and oceans. 

Having a Crack: Comedy, Ram Jam Records The Grey Horse, doors 7:30pm