I just bought a ticket to An Evening With Raffi and I am so freaking excited about it. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which is a non-profit outlet of the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston, is presenting Raffi with the Fred Rogers Integrity Award, and he's going to do a presentation about his philosophy of "child honouring" (yeah, he spells it with a U), which sounds super aligned with Fred Rogers' philosophies.
Raffi! It's going to be such a thrill!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea
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Ironically, contractual obligations require Raffi to where a Coca-cola shirt and read a Pampers commercial every 15 minutes.
aww, my house loves raffi - we had one video of one of his concerts, and my brother would watch it over and over and over and over again when he was home sick.
Dude, Raffi is famously anti-commercialism: "In his 3 decade career, Raffi has refused all commercial endorsement offers, and his triple-bottom-line company has never directly advertised or marketed to children. He is a passionate advocate for a child’s right to live free of commercial exploitation. Recently, he sent an open letter to Rogers Wireless urging they stop marketing cellphones to kids, and turned down a Baby Beluga film proposal whose funding depended on direct advertising to children."
(That's from Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, by the way, not Raffi's personal website.)
Also, that would be "wear" a shirt, not "where" a shirt. Boo-yah!
dude. DUDE! can you bootleg this for me? i wonder what kind of audience this will attract? mostly nostalgic young people? or children with parents? do you think there'll be hippies?
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