New Home Makers
Date & time
22 October - 23 October 2025 | 18.00-22.00
Event format
Attend event in person
Event type
Installation
Event topic
Family relationships, Migration, My local area
Audience
All
Academic discipline
Venue
Outside 3-9 Cavendish Rd, School of English, University of Leeds
What's on offer?
Free drop-in installation as part of the Leeds Light Night programme on campus.
An intriguing small village of colourful tiny homes has appeared among the trees. These are the houses of the “new home makers”. Open the door of each glowing house to hear stories and songs of migration; sharing the joys and challenges of making a new home in Leeds.
Created by award-winning international theatre director Joyce Nga Yu Lee through interviews with people with lived experience of recent migration. Joyce is a PhD student in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries.
What's it about?
This installation has the shared humanity and creativity of diverse people as its focus, providing an alternative lens to think about how migration or displacement affect individual people, families and their communities.
Through concrete stories, imaginatively retold, it examines concepts that might otherwise seem theoretical or hard to connect to, around the potential of migration to destabilise individuals, identities and the default. It also looks at how this destabilisation is not just a threat to stability but could be an opportunity for innovation.
Who's leading the event?
Joyce Nga Yu Lee
Theatre maker and PHD student in the School of Performing and Cultural Industries
Open to
All welcome
Of particular interest to
Suitable for all ages, and enjoyable for families
Event Booking details
Drop in art installation, no tickets required.
Scheduling information
22nd and 23rd October 6-10pm
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