Author and storyteller CP Chang speaks about the challenges of interracial relationships and the challenges of telling those stories. CP is with the Chicago storytelling collective,2nd Story, and a contributor to the anthology, “Briefly Knocked Unconscious By A Low Flying Duck”. Interviewed and produced by Andrew Yeh.
Author: Storyteller
Americanah
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel explores the Mixed experience as a Nigerian woman who returns to Nigeria after spending over ten years in academia in the U.S. This REVIEW from the LA Times calls it one of the best novels ‘you’ll read all year.’
Amazon Studios Developing Movies and TV Series
Amazon Studios has a first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures, which means that they’ll be presenting the top projects to Hollywood’s biggest studio for consideration as theatrical feature films! Click HERE to go to their website.
One Drop of Love
One Drop of Love is a solo-show about a culturally Mixed daughter and her Pan-African father, both of whom are searching for their ‘racial’ roots. Currently playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Click HERE for tickets and info.
Word on the Street: Image, Language, Signage
Featuring work by mixed roots visual artist Laura Kina.
Opening Reception: Friday, June 14, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Exhibit runs June 14-August 10, 2013
Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts
1104 South Wabash Ave. 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.This exhibition considers the expressive potential of image and language through signage: how do artists use the visual and physical characteristics of signage, along with its often site specific cultural currency, to create realms of poetic or political meaning in public space or the gallery? With a focus on forms of permanent and ephemeral signage this exhibition will consider artists’ billboards, marquees, street signs, banners and posters among other forms of infrastructural signage.
For more info visit: http://www.colum.edu/
Pictured above is one of the new works I’ll be showing – Laura Kina “Okinawa – All American Food” 30 x 45 in., oil on canvas, 2013. See more new works at:http://www.laurakina.com/
The Neurochemistry of…Storytelling…
A favorite site for all things eclectic about what makes us tic can be found at www.brainpickings.org. The most recent gem focuses on the how and why the brain is wired for storytelling. The title is:
The Neurochemistry of Empathy, Storytelling, and the Dramatic Arc, Animated | Brain Pickings
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/03/paul-zak-kirby-ferguson-storytelling/
Enjoy!
Black, White & Awesome
This is a blog by Khanisha Foster – Actor/Writer/Producer/Educator, and she posts on everything from being a mom to activism to media forays into the Mixed experience. Follow her here: khanishafoster.tumblr.com
Jeff Chiba Stearns – Filmmaker
Jeff Chiba Stearns is a multi award-winning animation and documentary filmmaker. Born in Kelowna, BC, of Japanese and European heritage, he graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a degree in Film Animation in 2001. Soon after he founded Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., a Vancouver based boutique animation studio specializing in the creation of animated, documentary, and experimental films aimed at both children and adults that combine different philosophical and social elements together to create humorous, entertaining, and inspiring stories. The studio also specializes in the creation of innovative stop motion and classically animated commercials and has created broadcast spots and viral videos for Sharpie, Anythink, Living Blueprint, Generali, Ministry of Health BC, 3M International, and Post-it Note. His animated shorts, Kip and Kyle (2000), The horror of Kindergarten (2001), What Are You Anyways?(2005), Yellow Sticky Notes (2007), and Ode to a Post-it Note (2010) have screened in hundreds of film festivals around the world, garnered 32 awards, and broadcast on the CBC, Discovery Latin America, Sundance Channel, Movie Central, Encore Ave., Shaw, and Movieola.
“Kin” or (킨)
“Kin” or (킨) is a short film that tells the story of 21 year old Afro-Korean Jake. Jake’s African-American mother sends him to Korea soon after he turns 16 in hopes that he will learn more about his “other” culture and finally meet his Korean father. Five years later, Jake still remains confused about his identity, relationship with his father, and struggles with feeling isolated in the homogeneous society of Korea. Here’s their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Kinthemovie?ref=hl
Loving Day Celebrations 2013
There are a number of Loving Day celebrations scheduled for 2013. Loving Day is a global movement for a new holiday that builds multicultural community. It commemorates Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage and other relationships in the United States. Loving Day is celebrated by thousands of people in dozens of cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. Loving Day has been featured in Time, the Washington Post, NPR, MTV, BBC World
Here are the local celebrations being planned for 2013: