Mixed Remixed Festival, a film, book & performance festival, will take place at the Japanese American National Museum, 100 N. Central Avenue on June 10-11, 2016 in downtown Los Angeles. Mixed Remixed Festival celebrates connection across race and culture through stories. The festival will present several film screenings, readings, workshops, panel presentations, family activities and a live perfor
mance focused on Mixed racial and cultural experience including in*******al and intercultural relationships, transracial and transcultural adoptions, and individuals who identify as multiracial, multicultural, Hapa or mixed. The 2015 festival will bring together innovative artists, film and book lovers, multiracial individuals and families, the country’s fastest growing demographic according to recent Census reports. Events are free and open to the public. The festival is spearheaded by Heidi Durrow, a New York Times best-selling author and a founder of the original mixed roots film and book festival, which showcased many talented filmmakers, writers, and performers including Comedy Central’s comedic duo Key & Peele, Rebecca Walker, Danzy Senna, Angela Nissel, Kip Fulbeck, Erica Gimpel, Karyn Parsons, and Maya Soetero-Ng. Durrow and the original festival have been featured in the New York Times, NPR and Ebony Magazine and many other media outlets. Durrow Founder/Executive Producer is the New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin Books), which received writer Barbara Kingsolver’s PEN/Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky has been hailed as one of the Best Novels of 2010 by the Washington Post, and a Top 10 Book of 2010 by The Oregonian. Ebony Magazine named Durrow as one of its Power 100 Leaders of 2010 along with writers Edwidge Danticat and Malcolm Gladwell. Durrow was nominated for a 2011 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut. Durrow has been featured as a leading expert on multiracial and multicultural issues and identity by the NBC Nightly News, the New York Times, CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC, Ebony Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is an occasional contributor to National Public Radio and blogs for the Huffington Post.
