Through film screenings, readings, workshops and performance, the Fest 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; encourages 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 Fest’s goal is to dismantle racism and prejudice and foster communication and connectedness in a unique way—through storytelling.
