{"id":31176,"date":"2013-06-29T18:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T18:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31176"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:33:59","slug":"solo-show-at-2013-hollywood-fringe-festival-examines-notions-of-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31176","title":{"rendered":"Solo Show at 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival Examines Notions of Racial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Solo Show at 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival Examines Notions of Racial Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/a>
\nEmail: onedropoflove@gmail.com<\/a>
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.com\/<\/a>
\nMay 2013<\/p>\n

(Los Angeles, Calif.) \u2014 When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/a> married the love of her life in 2006, her father did not walk her down the aisle. In fact, he declined to attend the wedding altogether.<\/p>\n

Seeking to understand why he chose not to participate, DiGiovanni began a trek through family history \u2014 and time and space \u2014 that ultimately led to her M.F.A. thesis project: the multimedia one-woman play, \u201cOne Drop of Love: A Daughter\u2019s Search for Her Father\u2019s Racial Approval<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

DiGiovanni will perform the hour-long show on Friday, June 21st at 2:30 p.m., Friday, June 28th at 4:15 p.m. and Sunday, June 30th at 6:00 p.m. at the Lounge Theatres (www.hollywoodfringe.org\/venues\/11<\/a>). The cost of the two Friday perrformances is $12 per ticket. The Sunday show is a fundraiser for MASC \u2013 Multiracial Americans of Southern California (www.mascsite.org<\/a>) \u2013 all proceeds ($15 per ticket) will go to MASC. This show is also a Los Angeles celebration of Loving Day (www.lovingday.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Incorporating filmed images, photographs, and animation DiGiovanni tells the story of how the notion of race came into existence in the United States, and its effects on her relationship with her father. To tell her story, DiGiovanni travels back in time to the first US census in 1790, to cities across the United States, and to West and East Africa, where both father and daughter spent time in search of their racial roots. A leading activist on issues related to mixed cultures and ethnicities, DiGiovanni is an actor, comedian, producer, and educator. She developed \u201cOne Drop of Love\u201d as the thesis project for her Master of Fine Arts degree in film, television, and theater from California State University Los Angeles. She will use footage from her performances\u2014the most recent was at the University of California, Santa Barbara<\/a>\u2014to produce a documentary film. DiGiovanni, who appeared in the Academy Award-winning film \u201cArgo,\u201d is also the co-creator, co-producer, and co-host of the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat, and co-founder and co-producer of the Mixed Roots Fm & Literary Festival\u00ae<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Read the entire press release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Solo Show at 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival Examines Notions of Racial Identity Contact: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Email: onedropoflove@gmail.com Website: http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.com\/ May 2013 (Los Angeles, Calif.) \u2014 When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni married the love of her life in 2006, her father did not walk her down the aisle. In fact, he declined to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13,8,20],"tags":[118,12646],"class_list":["post-31176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-fanshen-cox-digiovanni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46721,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176\/revisions\/46721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}