We are excited that the Costco Connection has written a story about mixed race artists and the Mixed Remixed Festival. The reporter Hana Medina really captured what the Festival is all about!–Heidi Durrow, Festival Founder
You can also download a copy of the article here.
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Adoptive Parent Siana-Lea Valencia Gildard
Siana-Lea Valencia Gildard
Transracial Adoption: Parents and Adoptees Talk
June 13, 2015 4pm-4:50pm
Siana is a writer, fundraiser and mixed up Californian. Born and raised in Southern California with a Mexican-American Mom and Anglo East Coast Dad, Siana knows the difference between Menudo and New England Clam Chowder, and likes them both. After writing the bilingual children’s musical The Adventures of Mr. Coconut / Las Aventuras de Senor Coco (performed at the Ford Amphitheatre and VVC Performing Arts Center) Siana and her husband Edgar figured it was time to have kids. Thus began the Lord of the Rings adventure of adopting two children from Mexico, who they brought home in October of 2014. If Siana thought she was confused being a “White Mexican”, being the mother of two “Real Mexicans” only adds to it all. Hilarity ensues…
MIXED HERITAGE BONE MARROW REGISTRY DRIVE AT MIXED REMIXED FESTIVAL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Heidi Durrow
Phone: 213-293-7077
Email: heidi@mixedremixed.org
Website: www.mixedremixed.org
MIXED HERITAGE BONE MARROW REGISTRY DRIVE
AT MIXED REMIXED FESTIVAL
(Los Angeles, CA) The Mixed Remixed Festival will register bone marrow donors with the help of Mixed Marrow on Saturday, June 13, at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles (100 N. Central Street).
Mixed Marrow strives to inform, educate, and register more minority/multiracial donors so that people of all races and colors can have an equal chance at finding a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Mixed Marrow, founded in 2009, recruits donors for Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches, Be The Match, and the National Marrow Donor Program. Mixed Marrow is currently working on a documentary film, Mixed Match, to help bring awareness.
Mixed Marrow founder, Athena Mari Asklipiadis, shared the importance of the cause, stating, “Patient-donor matches rely heavily on inherited genes so similar ancestry (race) is usually the case which is why it is important all communities register as donors.”
About 70% of patients in need of a transplant do not have a matching donor in their family. They depend on the Be The Match Registry® to find a match. Siblings with the same two parents only hold a 1 in 4 chance of matching. Because ethnicity is a determining factor in finding a match, patients will most likely find a donor within their racial and ethnic community. Yet, of the 6 million people on the registry, less than 7% are of Asian/Pacific Islander descent, less than 6 % are of Hispanic descent, and only 7.6 % are African Americans. Of the 11 million donors on the registry, only 4% are mixed race (all possible combinations).
Prospective donors between the ages of 18-44 can register in only 10 minutes at the Festival by filling out a registration form and having their cheek swabbed for a sample. All donors will be placed on the National and Worldwide registry so that every patient can have a fair chance to look for a match.
The Mixed Remixed Festival, which takes place June 13, celebrates stories of the Mixed experience and stories of interracial and intercultural relationships, blended families, and anyone who identifies with having mixed roots.
A free public event, the Mixed Remixed Festival brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists, and multiracial families and individuals for workshops, readings, film screenings, a special series of family events Saturday afternoon, and a dynamic live performance of music, comedy, and spoken word Saturday evening. Registration is strongly encouraged.
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Lucky 100: Miss Jessie’s Multicultural Curls for Festival Attendees
We’re so excited to share Miss Jessie’s Multicultural Curls with our first 100 Festival attendees. Celebrate your curls with the help of the Miss Jessie’s experts! Don’t miss out. Register NOW!
The Center for the Mixed Voice Signs On as Sponsor of Mixed Remixed Festival
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We are very excited to announce that The Center for the Mixed Voice has signed on as a sponsor of the Mixed Remixed Festival 2015!The Center for the Mixed Voice is an emerging nonprofit organization committed to serving the multiracial community. Located in the heart of the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore, the center will provide on-site resources for mixed individuals, families, and their advocates, including a browsing/lending library, workshops, community forums, creative and expressive arts projects, and referrals to “mixed-competent” licensed therapeutic services. Learn more about the organization here: www.mixedvoice.org
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Writer Anoosh Jorjorian
Sound Off!: Parents of Multiracial Kids Talk about Books, the Media & the Race Talk
June 13, 2015 3:00pm-3:50pm
Anoosh Jorjorian writes on the politics of parenting. Her work has been published at Salon, Time.com, the Huffington Post, and Black Girl Dangerous, and she blogs at www.aranamama.com. Follow her on Twitter @aranamama.
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Writer Liz Dwyer
Sound Off!: Parents of Multiracial Kids Talk about Books, the Media & the Race Talk
June 13, 2015 3:00pm-3:50pm
Liz Dwyer is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, and mom. She has written about race, parenting, and social justice for several national websites and print publications and on her own blog, Los Angelista. Dwyer is also a breast cancer survivor and believes in fangirling about Depeche Mode.
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Filmmaker Wade Allain-Marcus
Feature Film: French Dirty
June 13, 2015, Tateuchi Democracy Forum, 3pm-5pm
The distant past, the recent past and the present collide in French Dirty a meditation on love, loss and growing up as a millennial.
WADE ALLAIN-MARCUS graduated with a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Theater. Immediately following graduation Wade booked roles in Friends With Money, Take Me Home Tonight, Waist Deep, and co-starred with Ethan Hawke in Antoine Fuqua’s Brooklyn’s Finest.
He has also had guest appearances on tv shows such as Gossip Girl and Burn Notice. Additionally, he has been invited to be a part of the Sundance Theater Lab in a play that opened at New York’s Fringe Festival. From 2009-2011, he studied under the great acting instructor, William Esper, at the William Esper Studio.
After moving to Los Angeles three years ago, he began his journey as a writer/director, starring in over 10 feature films and plays, and having directed a series of short films including You’re Fucking Nothing, Open House, and Una Y Otra, Y Otra Vez.
In August 2014 he was invited into the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program where he worked with a series of current showrunners, Sony Executives, and highly established television directors like How I Met Your Mother’s, Pam Fryman.
On the heels of finishing his first feature, French Dirty, that he starred in, co-wrote, and co-directed, he is doing the same for his second feature which is currently ramping into pre-production. Presently untitled, it explores similar themes and is described as a modern take on “the 7 year itch.”
Mixed Remixed is so ecstatic to have such a goal-oriented creative mind on this year’s line up!
FUN FACT: He’s also the older brother of Jesse Allain-Marcus!
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Writer David Greer
Panel: Writing the Mixed Experience Professionally
June 13, 2015 11am-12:20pm
David Greer is a playwright, actor, and Tony-nominated producer. His work has entertained and enlightened audiences and raised funds for not-for-profit projects.
David online:
Website http://www.emersontheatercollaborative.org/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/HOUR-FARTHER-A-NEW-AMERICAN-THEATRICAL-PLAY/1609700449264888
By Keri Wilborn
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Scholar and Writer Marcia Dawkins
Panel: Mix Mesh Blend: How Diversity, Tech & Creative Storytelling Are Changing Everything
June 13, 2015 1pm-2:20pm
Mix Mesh Blend: How Diversity, Tech, & Creative Storytelling Are Changing Everything offers a innovative perspective on how today’s blending technologies are updating tomorrow’s mixed identities. Offering four ways that changing demographics and emerging technologies are contributing to our future selves, MESH — Mix, Education, Share, Help – develops a deeper understanding of a story through supplementary context and sensory experiences, allows consumers to become part of the narrative and possibly influence its outcome, have a seamless connection among all platforms being used and goes beyond just replicating content on different devices. Our MESHed perspective will tell you exactly how to share strategies for blurring barriers between story, content, and lived reality with a layered yet cohesive execution.
Dr. Marcia Alesan Dawkins is a tech-loving, diversity-oriented intellectual entrepreneur from New York City and communication professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles. Dawkins — known to “tweeps” as @drdawkins09 — has been sought out by Google, NPR, AOL Originals, WABC-TV, TIME Magazine, The New York Times, HuffPo Live. Her first book, “Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity,” was released in August 2012 to rave reviews. Most notable among these is Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President, who remarked, “Clearly Invisible is a thought-provoking analysis… that challenges the way we view race and culture in our society.” Thanks to Ms. Jarrett’s endorsement “Clearly Invisible” was nominated for the 2015 Grawemeyer Award For Ideas that Improve World Order. Dawkins’s second book, “Eminem: The Real Slim Shady,” was a finalist for the 2013 USA Best Book Award and was submitted for consideration for an NAACP Image Award. Her most recent ebook, co-edited anthology “Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age” is about how diversity, technology and creative storytelling are changing who we are and how we communicate. When she is not writing or teaching, Dr. Dawkins travels throughout the US and abroad, speaking and advising on the subjects of our diverse, digital future and the art of storytelling. She has spoken at over 20 Universities as well as organizations including UNESCO, The Leadership Alliance, The Mayo Clinic, The Nashville Public Library Foundation and The Public Relations Society of America, among others.
Marcia online:
Website www.marciadawkins.com/aboutme
By Keri Wilborn
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