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Mixed Roots Stories Partners with The Big Mix

 

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Mixed Roots Stories is excited to be partnering with The Big Mix! (see our Partners page!)

The Big Mix (www.thebigmix.org) is a family, entertainment and education focused event featuring all forms of entertainment, celebrity appearances, media events, kids activities, mixed cultural cuisine, education platforms and public interest vehicles celebrating diversity and inclusion for all people.

The first Festival takes place August 22-24, 2014 in Richmond, VA. It will be a “major multicultural event, celebrating diversity, with a specific focus on the mixed American and blended Families. In subsequent years, more cities will be added, for a nationwide, simultaneous celebration.”

Mixed Roots Stories will be collaborating with The Big Mix and contributing to their cultural and family programming.

Spread the word, Visit their site, Plan to attend – The Big Mix!!

CMRS Conference Call for Proposals

CRITICAL MIXED RACE STUDIES CONFERENCE 2014

GLOBAL MIXED RACE

Conference Description: Global Mixed Race, the third biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be hosted at DePaul University in Chicago, November 13th-15th, 2014. It will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines around the world to facilitate a global conversation about the transnational, transdisciplinary, and transracial field of Critical Mixed Race Studies.

Proposals: We invite panels, roundtables, and papers that address the conference theme, although participants are also welcome to submit proposals that speak to their own specialized research, pedagogical, or community-based interests. The primary criterion for selection will be the quality of the proposal, not its connection to the conference theme. Proposals might consider the ways different disciplines approach or provide methodologies for critical analyses of mixed race issues. Proposals might also consider the following ideas as related to this year’s themes:

– tracing the history and historiography of mixed race in academic, popular, and legal discourses in a global context;

– identifying and measuring the impact of global migration, settlement, and sociocultural encounter and interaction on these mixed-race histories and historiographies;

– encouraging broad, interdisciplinary debate connecting different historical periods and seemingly disparate or far-flung regions of the world, such as comparative racial ideology in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia or the study of comparative anti-miscegenation laws.

Panels, papers, and roundtable proposal submission deadline: January 15th, 2014

Please send inquiries to cmrs@depaul.edu or Camilla Fojas cfojas@depaul.edu

Please visit the CMRS website and Facebook page for updates: http://criticalmixedracestudies.org

https://www.facebook.com/criticalmixedracestudies

WE WILL SEE YOU THERE!

Mixed Roots Stories Partners with CMRS

MIXED ROOTS STORIES and CMRS Conference Partner

Mixed Roots Stories is partnering with Critical Mixed Race Studies in bringing arts and cultural programming to the 2014 conference. We are seeking submissions from performing artists and filmmakers whose work explores stories of racial and cultural mixing as a central theme. The overall theme for the 2014 conference is “Global Mixed Race,” and submissions that reflect this will be given special consideration.

 

We will be screening short films on Thursday evening, November 13, 2014, and holding a live performance showcase on Friday evening, November 14, 2014.

 

Films: 
We are looking for short films under 15 minutes. Your submission should include an online link to your film (private link is fine), a press kit, and a short statement (50 words or less) on how the film addresses the mixed experience and fits the theme “Global Mixed Race” (trailers for feature films will be accepted).

 

Live performance showcase: 

 

We are looking for stand-up comedy, spoken word, dance, short scenes, monologues, vocalists, musicians – or other forms of live performance. Your piece for the showcase should not be longer than 8 minutes. Your submission should include an online link with no less than a 2 minute preview of exactly what you will present, and a short statement (50 words or less) on how the piece addresses the mixed experience and fits the theme “Global Mixed Race.”

 

 

Mixed Roots Stories submission deadline: January 15th, 2014
Please e-mail Mixed Roots Stories submission materials to: cmrs@depaul.edu

 

Visit the CMRS website and Facebook page for updates:

http://criticalmixedracestudies.org

https://www.facebook.com/criticalmixedracestudies

 

We look forward to seeing you in November 2014!!

 

 

 

 

1918 Interracial Love Story

 

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Do you live in AZ or know someone who does? Make sure to check out The Black Theater Troupe’s production of Wedding Band. There are shows Sept 19 at 2pm, Sept 20 at 8pm, Sept 21 at 2pm and 8pm and Sept 22 at 3pm.

Wedding Band is the story of an interracial couple in 1918. Near the end of World War 1, Julia a black woman and Herman a Jewish baker are deeply in love. They have been together for 10 years, despite the very real threat of arrest and criminal punishment under the laws of South Carolina for any interracial couple who marry or live together.

WB poster

 

Here is the website to reserve tickets:

 

http://blacktheatretroupe.org/

 

3MW Collective

We are really excited about 3MW Collective –  created by three Canadian women (Jordan Clarke, Ilene Sova and Rema Tavares) whose mission is to use “visual art to deconstruct mixed-race identity.”  They’re located in Toronto Ontario, but we expect their beautiful and thought-provoking art will soon be seen elsewhere.

Upcoming showings:

  • Location: Brockton Collective Inc, 442a Dufferin St., Toronto, Canada
  • Dates:
    • October 3rd, 2013, 7pm – 11pm (Opening Reception)
    • Open October 4th & October 6th, 2013 by appointment only

Check their website frequently for more events: 3MWCollective.org

Exhibit of Bi/Multicultural-Identified Los Angelenos at PMCA

Somewhere in Between: Los Angeles

August 11, 2013 – January 5, 2014

In this video installation, Los Angeles artist Bia Gayotto investigates how people respond to navigating and inhabiting two or more places and cultures. Through an open call, she invited Los Angeles-area residents living along Route 66 who identify as bi- or multicultural to participate in an interview and video shoot that examines life in fourteen neighborhoods along the route from Pasadena to Santa Monica, including Chinatown, Little Armenia, Echo Park, and Thai Town.Somewhere in Between: Los Angeles is the third iteration in a series that previously centered on Silicon Valley and Chicago. The questions Gayotto asked of the participants were designed to stimulate a dialogue reflecting the pluralities of place, identity, and belonging. By juxtaposing cityscapes, architecture, and domestic settings with images of the participants performing simple, everyday actions and a soundtrack that consists of abstract music and ambient sound, Gayotto explores the experiences of those who live in an intercultural space and offers a broader, multilayered portrait of the greater Los Angeles area.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, and is supported by the Board of Directors of the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Bia Gayotto is a recipient of an ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation.

Bia Gayotto, still from Somewhere in Between: Los Angeles, 2013. Two-screen video installation with sound. TRT 20 min. Courtesy of the Artist.

A Reading with Janet Stickmon and Laura Kina

WHEN: Sunday, July 14, 2013 4:30PM-6:00PM

WHERE: Women and Children First

5233 N. Clark St.

Chicago, IL 60640

Prof. Janet C. Mendoza Stickmon, author of Crushing Soft Rubies, is a teacher, writer, and performer.  Stickmon has taught ethnic studies, social justice, history of Christianity, spoken word and algebra at Salesian High School in Richmond, CA.  She is currently a professor of Humanities at Napa Valley College, teaching Filipina/o-American Heritage, American Mind I and II, and Intro to Africana Studies.  She is the founder and facilitator of Broken Shackle Developmental Training–a program that promotes the use of  healing techniques to help reduce the effects of internalized racism.  Stickmon’s memoir,Crushing Soft Rubies, has been used as a course textbook at U.C. Berkeley, San Francisco State University, Santa Rosa Junior College and Gavilan College. She is also a spoken word artist who has performed at several venues across the country.  Through her literature and performances, she explores issues of love, motherhood, resilience, ancestral connection, and joy. She anticipates the release of her latest collection of work in October 2011 entitled, Midnight Peaches, Two O’Clock Patience.  Stickmon holds a Master’s of the Arts Degree in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University, a Master’s of the Arts Degree in Religion and Society from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from University of California, Irvine. Her work has influenced thousands of adults and adolescents for the last seventeen years.

HERE’S a link to more on Laura Kina

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.

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:

06/06/2013 – 6:00pm 3rd Annual New Orleans Loving Festival New Orleans
06/08/2013 – 12:00pm Loving Day Luau by Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) Cerritos
06/08/2013 – 1:00pm LOVING DAY GEORGIA / ATLANTA Griffin
06/09/2013 – 3:00pm Loving Day: Detroit’s 2nd Annual Loving Day Celebration Detroit
06/09/2013 – 3:00pm Denver In Color presents 2nd Annual Loving Day Celebration Denver
06/09/2013 – 5:00pm Loving Day In Birmingham – Celebrating 50 Years of Civil Rights Birmingham
06/12/2013 – 12:05am Loving Day Blog Hop
06/12/2013 – 6:00pm Idaho Falls Loving Day Celebration and Progressive Awards Banquet Idaho Falls
06/12/2013 – 7:00pm ATX Loving Day Celebration Austin
06/14/2013 – 7:00pm MAVIN’s Loving Day reading of “Standing on Both Feet” by Cathy J. Tashiro Seattle
06/15/2013 – 3:00pm Twin Cities Loving Day Celebration
06/15/2013 – 3:00pm Loving Day Flagship Celebration 2013 New York
06/15/2013 – 3:00pm Philly Asian Men/Black Women Rock! New York
06/15/2013 – 5:00pm Chicago – 9th Annual Loving Day Event! Chicago
06/16/2013 – 3:00pm Loving Day Indy Indianapolis
06/21/2013 – 1:00pm LOVING DAY CAMP OUT GEORGIA Flovilla
06/30/2013 – 6:00pm One Drop of Love MASC Fundraiser and Loving Day Celebration Los Angeles