An Evening with Raffi - Annual Fred Rogers Integrity Awards
| Hours: | 10/26/06 7:30-9:30pm |
| Cost: | $$ see below |
| Category: | Special Events |
Join us for a presentation- in word and song- by Raffi on his Child Honoring philosophy. Raffi will also be available to sign copies of his recently published anthology, 'Child Honoring: How To Turn This World Around' (co-edited with CCFC summit presenter Dr. Sharna Olfman).
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration. We support the rights of children to grow up – and the rights of parents to raise them – without being undermined by rampant consumerism. CCFC is headquartered at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston.
CCFC will present Raffi Cavoukian with the Fred Rogers Integrity Award at the opening reception of our 5th annual summit: Consuming Kids: Marketing in Schools and Beyond. Tickets for the reception are $25; $10 for students and free for summit registrants.
Raffi Cavoukian is a renaissance man known to millions simply as Raffi: a renowned Canadian troubadour, record producer, systems thinker, author, entrepreneur and ecology advocate, once called “the most popular children’s entertainer in the western world” (Washington Post). President of Troubadour Music, among the most successful independent record labels, Raffi was a pioneer in music for children and families: his CDs, tapes, videos, and DVDs have sold over 14 million copies in Canada and the US, and his books, more than 3 million copies. A generation saw him in concert and grew up singing Down by the Bay and Raffi’s signature song Baby Beluga. “Beluga “grads” often tell him they’re now raising their own kids with his songs.
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.
A recipient of the Order of Canada and the United Nations’ Earth Achievement Award, Raffi has recently been awarded two honorary degrees: Dr of Music, from the University of Victoria, and Dr of Letters, from the University of British Columbia. He is associated with many NGOs, including the Council of Human Development, the Darwin Project Council, the Center for Partnership Studies, the Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Raffi has become a “global troubadour”, lecturing and networking to help create a viable future: a restorative, child-friendly world for ourselves and for those to come. His original philosophy, Child Honoring, is gaining support among eminent thinkers as a systemic remedy for addressing the major issues of our time. His Covenant for Honoring Children is widely circulated among child development, education, ecological economics and environmental health circles.
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$25, $10 for students
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.commercialfreechildhood.org/events/raffi.htm
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53 Parker Hill Avenue, Boston, MA, 02120 map
Phone: 617-278-4172
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- To register or for more information, visit the CCFC website, www.commercialfreechildhood.org.
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