3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary FestivalPosted in Live Events, New Media, United States on 2010-06-06 02:27Z by Steven |
3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival
2010-06-12 through 2010-06-13
Japanese American National Museum
69 East 1st Street
Los Angeles, California
The 3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will take place at the Japanese American National Museum, 369 East 1st Street, June 12-13, 2010, in downtown Los Angeles.
In the Obama age, this free public event celebrates storytelling of the Mixed racial and cultural experience including that of transracial/cultural adoption and interracial/cultural relationships.
The Festival, a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a non-profit organization, brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists, and multiracial families and individuals for two days of workshops, readings, film screenings and live performance including music, comedy and spoken word.
Today, 7 percent of all marriages are interracial, according to the Census. More than 6.8 million individuals identify as Mixed.
The Festival highlights include:
- The largest West Coast Loving Day party, a nationwide celebration of the Supreme Court decision which affirmed the right of people of different races to marry
- Family fun
- Mixed Unplugged: Comedy, Music, Performance and Spoken Word, a live performance
- Loving Prize Presentation honoring celebrated storytellers and community leaders