Film Screening: Aloha ʻĀina

About the Event

Join us for the screening of Aloha ʻĀina (50mins), part of the Shifting Landscapes Film Series presented in partnership with Emergence Magazine.

This powerful documentary follows Native Hawaiian poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio as she explores ancestry, resistance, and love for land. Through poetry, activism, and storytelling, the film invites us to rethink our relationship with place and history.

Following the screening, we will host a facilitated reflection and discussion using the Shifting Landscapes Engagement Guide, offering space to connect the story of the film with your own landscape and community.

The Film

Aloha ʻĀina tells the story of acclaimed poet Jamaica Osorio, who works to protect sacred Hawaiian sites and create a future rooted in aloha ʻāina—“love for and of the land.”

As a teenager, Jamaica found her voice through slam poetry, using performance to share personal experiences and the history of Hawai‘i’s colonisation with growing audiences. Today, her work challenges linear and reductive histories and dismantles fantasies of Hawai‘i as a tourist playground.

The film calls us instead toward an embodied understanding of land, ancestry, and relationship—inviting us to imagine what becomes possible when we live with care for both the Earth and each other.

Shifting Landscapes Film Series

Aloha ʻĀina is one of four films in the Shifting Landscapes series, which explores the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time. Each film follows an artist responding to profound changes in their landscape—from a melting glacier in Iceland to the vanishing song of the nightingale in southern England—offering new ways of seeing and being in connection with the Earth.

What’s On the Same Day

Make a day of it at Modern Painters, New Decorators:

• Food by Corita – Fresh bakes and seasonal drinks, served from 10AM until sold out.
• Chimera Island by Jessica Ashman – A solo exhibition in the Gallery Space.

Details & Access

• The Project Space is wheelchair accessible with step-free entry.
• An accessible toilet is available onsite.
• Seating with back support is provided.
• Full closed captions are available on request — please let us know when booking if you would like captions enabled at the screening.
• For more information, visit our Access page.
• If you have any access requirements, please let us know when booking.
• Children are welcome to attend, but please note this is not designed as a family activity.

Getting Here

By train: 15-minute walk from Loughborough station (direct services from Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and London St Pancras). By bus: Aumberry Gap bus stop is directly opposite the venue (services from Leicester, Nottingham, Derby). By car: Short-stay parking directly outside (2-hour limit, 8am–6pm). By bike: Public racks on Jubilee Way (bikes not permitted inside the building).

Tickets
This event is free, but booking is required. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket so someone else can take your place.