Mixed Remixed Festival

Good Black News Word Search in Celebration of the Mixed Remixed Festival

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Left to Right: Lori Lakin Hutcherson, Marissa Jo Cerrar, Heidi Durrow, Ernessa Carter, Julie Buxbaum at Mixed Remixed Festival June 14, 2014
Left to Right: Lori Lakin Hutcherson, Marissa Jo Cerrar, Heidi Durrow, Ernessa Carter, Julie Buxbaum at Mixed Remixed Festival June 14, 2014

Thank you Good Black News and Lori Lakin Hutcherson for sharing these wonderful word searches made exclusively for the Mixed Remixed Festival.  Download the e-book here.–Heidi Durrow2014-07-08 10.50.01

Want to buy a Mixed Remixed Festival t-shirt?

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For a donation of $50 this t-shirt (and a lot more) can be yours! Please donate now!
Mixed Remixed Festival T-shirt

Want to buy a Mixed Remixed Festival t-shirt?  We’re thinking about putting them on-sale on-line.  Your purchase of a Festival t-shirt would help support the Festival you love.  Leave a comment below if you’re interested or email info(at)mixedremixed.org.–Heidi Durrow

Mixed Remixed Festival Storyteller’s Prize Presentation 2014 PHOTOS

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Heidi Durrow, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan PeeleI can’t stop smiling when I think about the wonderful performances and speeches at the Mixed Remixed Festival Storyteller’s Prize Presentation.  We’ll share some of the video with you as soon as we can so stay tuned and follow our social media networks for updates.  In the meantime, enjoy these photos from a most amazing night!  Are you in any of the photos?  And don’t forget to check out this gallery of photos to0!–Heidi W. Durrow  (Having trouble viewing the photographs?  See the photo gallery here.)

Mixed Remixed Festival Photos 2014

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_DSC1198We are so excited to share these awesome photos from the Festival! Check them out!  And don’t forget to check out these photos too.-Heidi Durrow  (Having trouble viewing the photos?  You can view the photo gallery here.)

What an Amazing Festival!

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Keegan-Michael Key, Festival Founder Heidi Durrow, Jordan Peele
Keegan-Michael Key, Festival Founder Heidi Durrow, Jordan Peele

The Mixed Remixed Festival was amazing! Thank you to everyone who came out! We’ll start to gear up for 2015 once we rest up a bit. But we want to hear from you! What did you like most about the day? What could be improved? Please fill-out our quick 3-question survey and help us make 2015 even bigger and better!-Heidi Durrow

 

What I Thought About the Festival!

Be a part of the Festival Public Service Announcement!

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Daphnee Duplaix and Terrell Tilford in studioWe’re making a public service announcement for the festival.  Film and television star Terrell Tilford will make his directorial debut with this short film and we need your help.  Stop by and tell us on camera what the festival means to you.  We’ll be filming from 1pm to 4:30pm at the festival on 6/14!  See you there!–Heidi Durrow

Meet Cam, a Festival Attendee with a great heart!

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photo (3)I had a chance to do an email Q & A with Cam who is super excited to attend the Mixed Remixed Festival.  I love his story!  He’s traveling all the way from Illinois to join in on the fun!  Check out what he had to say.–Heidi Durrow
Q: You’ve probably heard it all your life, but I have to ask: What are you?

A: I’ve been asked so many times and I still don’t know the best way to answer the question. The simplest answer is half white on my mom’s side and half black on my father’s.

Q: Was there a moment in your growing up you realized that you or your family were “different”?  How old were you?  What happened?
A: I distinctly remember in kindergarden drawing pictures of my family and ALWAYS using a different crayon when I had to draw myself.  Everyone was “Peach” while I was “Tan”.  I grew up in a pretty diverse suburb of Chicago and all my peers were of various backgrounds.
Q: What did your parents tell you about being mixed?
A: My mom always emphasized not having to choose between being black and being white.  This helped a lot when my mom and I moved to a predominantly white suburb and it was difficult not to be a token.  I was always just told to be myself, because I’m more than just my ethnicity.  This way of thinking helped me to embrace white and black cultures and live my life not fitting into stereotypes.
Q: Why is the Festival important to you?
A:  I’ve been coming to Mixed Roots for a few years and now Mixed Remixed and I remember the first year I walked in and was so shocked by how many beautiful people were there.  This festival for me is a glimpse of how much tolerance and unity can be achieved if we celebrate everyone’s cultures coming together.  That’s what the festival stands for in my eyes, a celebration of cultures coming together as one community.
Q: The mayor of LA calls himself a “kosher burrito” because he has a mixed Mexican and Jewish background.  What would your “mixie food name” be? 🙂 #mixiefoodname
A: My mixed background is a little bit of everything so I’d have to be a “Thanksgiving leftover sandwich” Some of all of it in every bite!

Panel: KPCC’s #Multicultivate: Can diversity really be taught?

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SCPR logoWe’re very excited that KPCC will produce a panel at the Mixed Remixed Festival 6/14 at 1pm.  Join us for this special discussion moderated by KPCC’s Josie Huang.

 

Title:
#Multicultivate: Can diversity really be taught?

Description:
The interracial Cheerios commercial. The Swiffer ad with a mixed race family and a dad who lost a hand and part of his arm. The Honey Maid #ThisIsWholesome campaign featuring a range of families, including a gay couple and their two sons. All three use a marketing strategy that speaks to our increasingly diverse populations in Southern California and around the country.

 

These commercials reflect the realities of many kids’ lives, and have sparked conversation about diversity right in our living rooms or at our kitchen tables. But how effective is talking, really? Are there other ways parents and caregivers can broach discussion about diversity? And if it’s actually “teachable,” what approaches make the message stick?

 

Saturday afternoon, June 14, from 1:00 – 2:30pm, KPCC emerging communities and immigration reporter Josie Huang takes the Crawford Family Forum on the road to the Japanese American National Museum. She’ll talk with a special panel about how we can help kids understand and appreciate the diversity of their own families and communities… and what they see in other kids – and adults – around them.

This conversation and Q&A is part of the Mixed Remixed Festival’s day of programming.

An exciting new festival, the Mixed Remixed Festival brings together film and book lovers to celebrate stories of multiracial, mixed and hapa individuals with workshops, readings, film screenings and live performances for the largest West Coast celebration of Loving Day.

 

*Please note that RSVPs for this event will be collected by The Mixed Remixed Festival, and may be placed here: https://www.artful.ly/store/events/3413

PANELISTS:

Heidi Durrow: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (New York Times bestseller, PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction winner) author; Mixed Remixed Festival founder; Ebony Magazine Power 100 Leader.

Sonia N. Kang: Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) vice-president; The Mixed Up Blog writer, Modern Mom contributor; Multiculti Cuties co-founder.

Terrence Franklin and Jeffrey Moline: Trust and estates litigation attorney, Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise, LLP founding partner; has two teenage daughters with former wife, who is also African American; partner of songwriter, musician and filmmaker Jeffrey Moline.

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