Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival
In 2008, Fanshen Cox and I created the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, an annual free public event, to celebrate storytelling of the Mixed racial and cultural experience including transracial/transcultural adoption and interracial/intercultural relationships.
Each June, the Festival, a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (a non-profit organization), brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists, and multiracial families and individuals for two days of workshops, readings, film screenings and live performance including music, comedy and spoken word. Our featured artists have included Angela Nissel, Kip Fulbeck, Kim Wayans, Rebecca Walker, Danzy Senna and many more.
The Festival also hosts the largest West Coast party for Loving Day, a nationwide celebration of the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that affirmed the right of different races to marry.
The 2012 Festival
The 2012 Festival will be held June 16-17 at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles. Learn more about the Festival at www.mxroots.org.
