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Mixed Remixed Festival
Mixed Remixed Festival
Mixed Remixed Festival
Mixed Remixed Festival
3 Campaigns |
Los Angeles, United States
$12,025 USD 147 backers
120% of $10,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Mixed Remixed Festival
June 14, 2014
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
www.mixedremixed.org
ADMISSION AND EVENTS FREE

A film, book and media festival celebrating stories of the Mixed experience and racial and cultural connectedness through stories.

The Story
What are you?
I remember people started asking me that question on a pretty regular basis when I was about 11 and we moved to a racially divided town. At first I'd say: "I'm the best speller and my favorite color is blue. I'm also someone who likes to write poems."

I soon learned that what people wanted to know was: why do you look like you do? Why do you have curly brown hair and light brown skin and blue eyes?

"I'm black and white." It was the only answer that satisfied people.

It seemed like such a silly answer to me. It didn't tell you anything about me. Wouldn't it be more interesting to know something about my life?

What are you?

Now, almost 35 years later I'm beginning to learn how to answer the question because I've found a "home" community.

I'm the daughter of an African-American Air Force serviceman and a white Danish immigrant.  I'm Mixed.  I'm an original Afro-Viking.  And/or all of the above!

I founded the Mixed Remixed Festival because of my own need to find a place where I could tell my complicated story; I know there are other people who want to share their complicated stories too.  The Festival is a "home" to showcase stories of the Mixed experience through film screenings, readings, performance and workshops.  As a founder of the original mixed roots film and book festival that showcased many talented filmmakers, writers and leaders including Rebecca Walker, Danzy Senna, Kip Fulbeck and President Obama's sister Maya Soetero-Ng, I'm excited that the Mixed Remixed Festival will be even bigger.  The Mixed experience is the American experience and the numbers keep growing!

Is the festival about mixed-race pride?  No. It's simply a forum to tell stories about the Mixed experience, whether you're the parent of a Mixed kid, part of a blended family or relationship or a transracial adoptee.

Now when people ask me, "What are you?" I like to say: "I'm a story: I bet you are too."

The 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 and live performance including music, comedy and spoken word.

The Festival also hosts the largest West Coast celebration of Loving Day, a nationwide celebration of the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that affirmed the right of different races to marry. We will present the Storyteller’s Prize and produce a live show for Loving Day this year. The Storyteller’s Prize is awarded each year to artists, scholars and activists who have shown a dedication to celebrating and illuminating the Mixed experience including stories about multiracial individuals, interracial relationships and families of transracial adoption. This year the festival will honor Comedy Central’s hit comedic duo Key & Peele with the Festival’s Storyteller’s Prize who have confirmed their attendance as well as award-winning writer/visionary Susan Straight.  A dessert reception will immediately follow the prize presentation.

The line-up includes an appearance by Comedy Central's hit comedic duo Key & Peele;  films by Nicole Gomez Fisher (Sleeping with the Fishes), Amani Starnes (United Colors of Amani), and Bryan Tucker (Closure); readings by Krista Bremer, author of the much-anticipated memoir, My Accidental Jihad (Algonquin Books) and Chris Terry; workshops by poet Aaron Samuels and award-winning actors Khanisha Foster and Rayme Cornell, and Victoria Platt Tilford. There will also be a complete schedule of activities for Target Free Family Day.  For a complete festival schedule click here.
Skylight Books is the festival's official bookseller.

The Need
Did I mention that this event is produced by an all-volunteer team?  And that the event is completely FREE--all of it!  Even the dessert reception with wine and drinks is FREE!  So that's where you come in.  We need you to make a donation to help us pay for everything that we can't beg for, barter for, or borrow.  That includes:
  • program printing
  • signage
  • food for our volunteers
  • Loving Day Dessert Reception catering
  • video & still recording
  • website design
  • festival t-shirts
  • seed money for 2015 and non-profit incorporation

We expect 1200 to 1500 festival attendees this year.  If everyone who attends donates just $10 we'll make our fundraising goal! 

The Opportunity
We also need you and your special skills!  If you are a graphic designer, web designer, videographer, film editor, we need your help.  Please email info@mixedremixed.org and join the festival team.  If you are in LA, we could use your help to set-up, usher, and welcome attendees on June 14.  Please email info@mixedremixed.org and let us know when you are available on June 13 and 14.




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Cards in Color Two-Pack

$6 USD
You'll get all the perks above PLUS 2 Cards in Color greeting cards the first card company celebrating the multiracial family and experience.
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Proud Supporter Digital Badge

$5 USD
We'll give you a shout-out on our social media networks AND email you a Proud Festival Supporter digital badge so you can let folks know you put your money where your heart is.
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Personal Thank You

$10 USD
We'll publicly recognize you on our social media networks. You'll also get a personal thank you card from Festival founder and best-selling novelist Heidi Durrow.
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Cards in Color Five-Pack

$11 USD
Not only do you get a social media shout out, a proud supporter digital badge, & you'll receive a 5-pack of Cards in Color greeting cards, the only greeting card company that celebrates the multiracial family and experience.
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A Call from the Stars

$15 USD
You'll be publicly recognized on Twitter and/or Facebook AND Festival favorite Victoria Platt and current star of CW's Starcrossed call you with a personal thank you.
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Mixed Remixed Festival T-shirt

$50 USD
You'll get a coveted Mixed Remixed Festival t-shirt! Not to mention a social media shout out, a personal thank you card, and your name listed in the program. How cool is that?
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PEN/Bellwether Book Set

$150 USD
You'll get a set of bestselling PEN/Bellwether Prize books published by Algonquin Books: Mudbound by Hillary Jordan, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow, Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron & Good Kings, Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum. Plus a shout-out, a personal thanks, your name listed in the program & a Festival t-shirt.
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Scripts & Call from TV Star

$300 USD
You will get the signed scripts of VH1's Single Ladies Star Terrell Tilford, a Festival t-shirt, AND a personal phone call from the talented leading man himself.
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Co-host The Mixed Experience

$500 USD
You'll co-host an episode of The Mixed Experience, Heidi Durrow's new podcast. Plus some of the perks above: a shout out, a personal thanks, your name in the program & 2 Festival t-shirts!
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Name Character in a Novel

$1,000 USD
You get to name a character in Heidi Durrow's novel-in-progress! And don't forget you will also get a shout out, a personal thanks, your name in the program, a signed copy of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky & a Festival t-shirt.
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Signed Award-Winning Book

$25 USD
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Mixed Up Clothing Gift Card

$100 USD
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VIP Seats-Prize Presentation

$100 USD
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MoviePass for Movie Lovers!

$200 USD
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Bestsellers from Fiction Co-op

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A 5-Course Gourmet Dinner

$500 USD
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