Los Angeles, CA – The Mixed Remixed Festival has launched its annual crowdfunding campaign to finance the nation’s only cultural arts festival that celebrates stories about multiracial and mixed-race people and families through films, book and performance.

The Festival—which is free and open to the public—will take place at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles (100 N. Central Avenue), June 13, 2015. An all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization, the Festival is seeking to raise $10,000 on Indiegogo to shore up the budget for this year’s event. The Indiegogo campaign can be viewed here.

“It’s exciting to finally see mixed people and families in mainstream media and to connect with each other on-line,” says Festival founder and New York Times bestselling author Heidi Durrow who calls herself an Afro-Viking because she is African-American and Danish. “But the Festival is the only nationwide cultural arts event where we get to meet each other and network.” The Festival has lined-up an impressive list of perks to encourage donations to the campaign. Perks include sharing a meal with Keegan-Michael Key (half of the hit comedic duo Key & Peele), a day sail on the Pacific with the Cruise Invictus, a subscription to The Black List, a 5-course gourmet dinner with wine prepared by a personal chef recently featured in Food Republic, and many more excellent products and experiences.

Last year, the Mixed Remixed Festival attracted close to 700 people from across the country and featured dozens of writers, scholars and performers including Comedy Central’s hit comedic duo Key & Peele. This year the Festival will present the Storyteller’s Prize to The Daily Show’s Al Madrigal and New York Times best-selling writer Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost) as part of a dynamic live show featuring comedians, spoken-word poets and soulful songstress Donn T, Questlove’s sister, who will perform songs from her highly anticipated album Flight of the Donn T.

Festival sponsors include: Japanese American National Museum, Zerflin.com, The Black List, Cruise Invictus.