Mixed Remixed Festival
is a 501(c)(3) founded by Heidi Durrow who also serves as the Executive Director.
our mission
The Mixed Remixed Festival is the nation's premiere cultural arts festival celebrating stories of mixed-race and multiracial families and individuals through films, books and performance.
Established in 2013, the Mixed Remixed Festival brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists, and multiracial families and individuals, Hapas, and families of transracial adoption for workshops, readings, film screenings and live performance including music, comedy and spoken word.
The Festival is the largest gathering of mixed-race and multiracial families and people in the nation. It has been featured by NBC News, National Public Radio, and the Los Angeles Times among others.
The Festival also awards the nation's only prize for artists, scholars, community leaders and activists who celebrate and illuminate the Mixed experience in their life's work with the Storyteller's Prize. Past Storyteller's Prize honorees include Comedy Central's hit comedic duo Key & Peele, Cheerios, TV and film star Taye Diggs and illustrator Shane Evans, New York Times Bestseller Jamie Ford, The Daily Show's Al Madrigal, Honey Maid, and award-winning writer Susan Straight.
films, readings, workshops & performance
Through film screenings, readings, workshops and performance, the Mixed Remixed Festival highlights previously untold stories of our connectedness as a community and a nation across cultural, racial and religious divides; provides a safe, positive forum for honest discussions about race and culture; creates a platform for emerging storytellers’ careers; and promotes the Mixed experience as a valuable prism with which to view issues of social justice and change.
Writer Barbara Kingsolver has written that stories have a unique “capacity for invoking moral and social responsibility.” It is through the “imagined possibilities” of story that a movement toward “a more peaceful and humane world” begins. Simply put, the Mixed Remixed Festival goal is to dismantle racism and prejudice and foster communication and connectedness in a unique way—through storytelling.
The Mixed Remixed Festival is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization. Donations are fully tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. You can send a check to Mixed Remixed, Inc. c/o H. Durrow PO Box 66848, LA, CA 90066. Or donate on-line here.
when is the next festival event?
Due to Covid-19, we will have to adjust our future plans. Please stay tuned.