Images from the Lovings – Now showing (January 20, 2012 – May 6, 2012) at the International Center for Photography.
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet
Hapa-Palooza Festival: September 7-10, 2011
Hapa-Palooza Festival: September 7-10, 2011
A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts + Ideas
Hapa-Palooza: A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts and Ideas is a new cultural festival that celebrates the city’s identity as a place of hybridity, synergy and acceptance. A vibrant fusion of music, dance, literary, artistic and film performances, Hapa-Palooza places prominence on celebrating and stimulating awareness of mixed-roots identity, especially amongst youth. (more…)
Kissing Outside the Lines – An Author Event
Author Event
Actress and comedian Diane Farr (Rescue Me) will be at Barnes & Noble Tribeca in NY to discuss her introspective and outrageous memoir Kissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After.
Diane Farr at Barnes & Noble Tribeca
Wednesday, July 6th at 6:30pm
97 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007
About this Author
Diane Farr is a television actress, TV and magazine writer, nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of The Girl Code. She is the female lead on CBS’s most-watched Friday night drama, Numb3rs, starred on the critically acclaimed FX series Rescue Me, and played a supporting role on Showtime’s Californication in its third season; and she contributes to Glamour, Esquire, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Jane, Parents, Los Angeles, Gotham, Self, and O magazine.
Farr lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband and three children.
About the Book
Diane Farr—Numb3rs star, Loveline veteran, and FunnyorDie.com contributor—always took for granted that she could love anybody she chose. But when she, a white woman, fell in love with a Korean-American man, she quickly learned a tough lesson: When it comes to navigating the landscape of interracial love in America today . . . you’re going to step on some landmines.
At turns introspective and outrageous, Kissing Outside the Lines is Farr’s unapologetic—often hilarious—look at the complexities of interracial/ethnic/religious/what-have-you love, told through the lens of her own experience of dating, marrying, and creating a family with someone from a race and culture different from her own. Along the way, she exposes the many ways in which prejudice rears its ugly head—whether subtly or overtly—when you dare to love “outside the lines,” and she shares the stories of other multiracial couples from different corners of the U.S. who have made a similar leap.
Kissing Outside the Lines tackles love, family, and prejudice head-on. With sharp wit and deft humor, Farr confronts the fears and reservations that come with loving outside of one’s race, and she emerges with a powerful message: Love is love and family is family.
4th Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival
The 4th annual “Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival” is only weeks away. If you will be in the Los Angeles area June 11-12th, definitely check out this free 2-day event that celebrates stories of interracial relationships, transracial adoptions and Mixed identity.
Films being showcased this year include: Multiracial Identity, Yelling to the Sky and One Big Hapa Family.
June 11-12, 2011
Los Angeles, California
Japanese American National Museum
The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival is a two-day free public event, showcasing stories of multiracial families, individuals and relationships to encourage a dynamic conversation about the connectedness of all races and cultures. Through film screenings, readings, workshops and performance, the Festival provides a safe, positive forum for honest discussions about race & culture; encourages emerging storytellers’ careers; and promotes the Mixed experience as a valuable prism with which to view issues of social justice and change.
The Festival, a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, is an inclusive event which brings together film and book lovers, innovative artists, and families interested in the Mixed racial and cultural experience. The Festival also hosts the largest West Coast Loving Day celebration with music, food and fun.
Call for Papers for the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference
CRITICAL MIXED RACE STUDIES CONFERENCE
“What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?”
NOVEMBER 1-4, 2012
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO, IL
Conference Description: What is Critical Mixed Race Studies? will be hosted at DePaul University in Chicago, November 1-4, 2012. The CMRS conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines nationwide. Recognizing that the diverse disciplines that have nurtured Mixed Race Studies have fostered different approaches to the field, the 2012 CMRS conference is devoted to the general theme “What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?”
Proposals: Organizers 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. (more…)
Canadian Conference on the Mixed-Race Experience
The “Centre for Diversity in Counselling & Psychotherapy” is hosting a conference on the mixed-race experience. The conference is being held at the University of Toronto in Canada.
The 5 keynote presentations are as follows:
- Race and Culture Issues in Mental Health and Some Thoughts on Ethnic Identity
- Contemporary Multiple Heritage Couples, Individuals, and Families: A Generation with Diverse Views and Varied Experiences
- To Be Indivisibly Indigenous: the Choices of Mixed-Blood Native People
- Homogamy Outlaws? Interracial Couples’ Dominant and Subordinate Discourses in Response to Racism and Partner Differences
- Negotiating Mixedness in the Danish Context of ‘Homogeneity’: Intermarried Couples, Children of Mixed Parentage & Psychosocial Well Being
Registration
Early Bird Registration (deadline: April 30, 2011): $100; $50 students
Late Registration (May 1, 2011 and later): $125; $75 students
Registration fee includes two lunches and coffee/tea refreshments. A refund of 80% the registration fee is available until May 20, 2011.
For more information, visit the CDCP’s website here: http://cdcp.oise.utoronto.ca/2011_Conference.html
The Tribeca Film Festival Presents “The Loving Story”
The Tribeca Film Festival Presents “The Loving Story” – Thursday, April 21, 2011 – Friday, April 29, 2011
Director Nancy Buirski says “The Loving Story is first of all a love story. It’s a story of a modest, humble couple who triumph over all odds to reverse decades-old anti-miscegenation/anti-interracial marriage sentiments and bigotry. The Lovings were a couple who wanted the right to love whom they wanted to love, and felt that it was important for other people to have that same right.”
Free Film Screening of “One Big Hapa Family” in New York
Join Columbia University Hapa Club, Columbia Japan Society, and Loving Day for a free film screening of
ONE BIG HAPA FAMILY
a film by Jeff Chiba Stearns
A documentary exploring Japanese Canadian interracial marriages and identities.
Q&A with Filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns following the screening!
PLUS FREE FOOD!
Sushi, Wasabi-Sesame & Honey-Sesame Popcorn & Hapa Club’s Famous Sean Lennon Italian Sodas
When: Tuesday, April 19th at 8:00pm
Where: Columbia University, Hamilton Hall 517
(take the uptown 1 to the 116th St.-Columbia University stop)
OPEN to the PUBLIC, no RSVP needed
Learn more about the film here: www.onebighapafamily.com
2011 SWAYA Conference
In the Boston area and looking for something to do this weekend? The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its third annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26, 2011 on the Harvard University campus. The event is open to the public and will feature an array of exciting guest lecturers who will speak on issues involving multiracial identity. Find more information at http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/harvardhapa/swaya/?page_id=2
Lifetime Movie “Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story”
On Monday, January 31 at 9 pm et/pt, Lifetime premieres the movie “Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story.”
The film recounts Tiffany’s rescue of her 7-year old Blasian (1/2 Black and 1/2 Asian) son, Kobe, after he is abducted by his biological father and taken to Seoul, South Korea. Tiffany seeks out the help of Mark Miller and his organization, The American Association for Lost Children. With Mark’s help, Tiffany travels to Korea to bring back her son.
View the trailor for the film here: http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/taken-from-me-tiffany-rubin
