You know how much we love and adore these guys. And you know how long we’ve been waiting for this new season to begin of Comedy Central’s Key & Peele? ANSWER: since the end of the last season! So it is with great delight that we’ll be watching our guys for the season premiere on 9/24. See you on the couch then!-Heidi Durrow
We were very excited to learn about this photo project called Color of Love that features Mixed Remixed kind of folks! Check out the video and make sure to Like We Be One’s Facebook Page too!-Heidi Durrow
It’s official! Join us for the 2nd Annual Mixed Remixed Festival on June 13, 2015 at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles. We’re planning our programming now so if you have any ideas you’d like to share please email info(at)mixedremixed.org. SAVE THE DATE!–Heidi Durrow
I was reminded this weekend of how much I love the group Pink Martini headed by my childhood friend Thomas Lauderdale when I heard his wonderful voice on NPR in an interview with Scott Simon. He and the band including the ever-amazing China Forbes have collaborated with the Von Trapp Family singers and are on tour. You can check out the great multicultural mash-up of music they have created in their latest CD Dream a Little Dream.–Heidi Durrow
If you haven’t read The Good Lord Bird by Mixed Remixed Festival favorite James McBride, get it now in paperback. The National Book Award winning book is the kind of story we like to celebrate at the Mixed Remixed Festival. This is how the National Book Award f
olks describe it: “James McBride’s novel takes a pivotal, troubled sequence in American history—John Brown’s abolitionist campaign—and retells it in a voice as comic and original as any we have heard since Mark Twain. The narrator is one Henry Shackleford, aka Onion, an escaped teenaged slave who accompanies Brown while disguised as a girl. Fondly portraying Brown as a well-meaning but unhinged zealot, The Good Lord Bird is daringly irreverent, but also wise, funny, and affecting.” I just call it darn good.-Heidi Durrow
We thought as the kids head back to school we’d share some of our favorite kids’ books for multiracial children and families for all those book reports that will be due soon. Check some of these out and let us know what you think!
Oh, and we’re also kind of partial to our Festival founder’s book which is written for adults but skews YA and is taught at high schools across the country: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow
I’m excited to read this new book by Jess Row, Your Face in Mine. It’s about a white Jewish man who undergoes racial re-assignment surgery and becomes a black man. It puts me in mind of one of my favorite books by George Schuyler called Black No More. You can read a little about the book here in a New York Times story by Felicia Lee. And read Festival favorite writer Emily Raboteau’s New York Times Book Review take on the book here. —Heidi Durrow
UPDATE: THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD ON OCT. 25, 2014 AT 11AM. SAME LOCATIONS! We’re excited to have our very first write-in. Now you can meet-up in Los Angeles and the Seattle Area. Bring your neglected work-in-progress and laptop or paper and pen and get energized by your fellow Mixed Remixed writers. And please let us know that you’re coming so we can save some tables together! RSVP here.
Los Angeles: at the Coffee Connection, 3838 S. Centinela Avenue, LA, CA.
Seattle: Third Place Books, Lake Forest Place, 17171 NE Bothell Way, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
See you then! – Heidi Durrow
What do you think guys? What is the best interracial love story on the big-screen? We’ll tally your votes and then see if we can screen it for a special Valentine’s Day event with all of you! Let us know your favorites here.
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