Shifting Realities
Nam Huh, Itzel San Roman Pineda
25 June | Time: 17:30 | Venue: Showroom Cinema
ABOUT THE SHOW
Shifting Realities: Migration, Identity, and the Boundaries of Belonging is an interdisciplinary event exploring migration’s impact on cultural identity and belonging. Through short film screenings, a panel discussion, and an immersive sound performance, the programme amplifies underrepresented narratives, particularly from East and Southeast Asian and Latin American migrant communities in Northern England.
The event fosters dialogue on media representation, creative contributions, and lived experiences of migration. A participatory Body Mapping activity invites audience reflections, ensuring an interactive exchange. By blending moving image, sound, and discussion, Shifting Realities reimagines migration as a space of struggle, transformation, and collective resilience.
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Nam Huh is a doctoral researcher at Loughborough University, specialising in ESEA migrant representation in documentary film, has curated multiple arts events focusing on time-based media in Seoul, Frankfurt and Northern England.
Her recent research-based exhibition examined ESEA migrant narratives in the UK, incorporating film and 3d mapping to engage audiences with complex identity issues. Nam’s recent projects include the 2025 Fringe Arts Bath screening series(upcoming) and the FSAS International Curator Residency, focusing on global diaspora and marginalised communities.
Navigating borderlines and identities in diverse societies, Nam is also experimenting with her practices between academic research and interdisciplinary presentation, such as lecture performances.
Dr Itzel San Roman Pineda is a critical human geographer based at the University of Leeds. Her work bridges grassroots movements, decolonial praxis, and climate justice, using participatory methodologies to amplify Global South voices in addressing inequalities.
Her PhD pioneered the "tourism from below" framework, using Indigenous ontologies to contest top-down development paradigms. Currently, she applies this approach to climate adaptation, co-producing people-centred early warning systems across Africa that bridge meteorological science with deep community and institutional engagement.
She co-founded the Network of Women Doing Fieldwork (250+ members), advocating for creating safer spaces for women and gender-diverse researchers in academia.
EVENT INFO
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£5 | £3 | £1
For more information about our ticketing approach, please visit: https://www.migrationmattersfestival.co.uk/festivalpasses
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Doors Open: 17:00
Running Time: 17:30 - 20:00 -
Showroom Cinema is wheelchair accessible. If you require a wheelchair space, please contact the Showroom cinema team via email or phone to reserve:
The building has an accessible toilet, ramp access to the side of the building and lifts inside the building.
For more information, please visit: https://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/info/accessibility
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Migration Matters Festival
Image Credit: Hyunjin La, 선생님께 [Dear who lived before] [Dear you] [Dear my teacher] [Dear S], 2025, 1080p single channel video, B/W, sound, 8min 59sec.