Climate Storytelling: Power Station screening & discussion with Q&A

Power Station follows Daniel Edelstyn, Hilary Powell and their neighbours as they attempt to turn their street and local schools solar, building a grassroots energy cooperative from the ground up. It's a film about what's possible when ordinary people stop waiting for someone else to act.

But it's also something else: a live example of impact production in practice. The campaign built around Power Station — community screenings, a DIY toolkit, a crowdfunder — was designed from the start to extend what the film begins. The story doesn't stop at the credits.

Join us for a screening followed by a discussion and Q&A bringing together the film co-directors Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell, with Lucy Stone from Climate Spring to discuss climate storytelling and how to move people to act. This is a conversation about craft, evidence, and what it actually takes for a story to create change.

Doors open 17:45. Screening 18:00. Q&A 19:30

Co-presented by the AKO Storytelling Institute at UAL and Sonic Screen Lab.

The AKO Storytelling Institute is part of the University of the Arts London (UAL). Established in 2023 with the support of the AKO Foundation, the Institute works at the intersection of storytelling, social change and narrative research. It runs fellowships, labs, public events and undergraduate teaching, and produces foundational research into how emotionally resonant stories can be guided by clear impact goals to drive real-world change.

Sonic Screen Lab is a research hub at University of the Arts London that interrogates and experiments in moving image and sound-based practices and their relationship with culture, environment and social change.