TEDxYYC - Raffi Cavoukian - Beluga Grads Connect The Dots
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Raffi Cavoukian discusses "Beluga Grads Connect The Dots" at TEDxYYC 2012.
Raffi is Founder and Chair of the Centre for Child Honouring on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, to serve as an education hub for the advancement of Child Honouring as a universal ethic.
With Child Honouring, Raffi is a catalyst for change at a defining point in human history-with an idea whose time has come.
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I lay here holding my foster baby, born heroin addicted, while we both listen to songs from my youth of values and love rarely seen in our fast-paced society. As she slumbers i am directed to Raffi's message here and i fear hope is so far lost adrift in a sea of hatred and woe. I pray we can turn this world around. I see almost too much sadness daily, but i hold out for hope. Hope that one saved child can be the pivotal point of a much needed change. Change created with the right question at the right time.
raffi is another one of those guys, like fred rogers, who's just remained entirely pure in message my entire life...I'll always remember him from my childhood as a beacon of honesty and friendly innocence, even as life gets really, really intense...I'm not 100% onboard with the whole "child worship" thing (as george carlin put it) but I love raffi to death for his genuine ability to keep from condescending to kids...every generation should have a raffi
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Grew up with one of the most pleasing children's musicians ever! As a grown man, I am happy to see this video.
So refreshing, Raffi. You have shone your light yet again on the children of humanity. They are our hope and our future, if we will but honour them.
Raffi succeeds once again to eloquently speak of the values that make us human, inspiring us to embody them, while he also has us joyfully tapping our feet and swaying to his melodious and warm voice. Beautiful! Thanks Raffi for your persistent good work in trying to change the world into a world fit and safe for children.
Adela
His respect and understanding for children is right up there with Mr. Rogers and Jim Henson. No wonder Raffi ended up being one of my childhood heroes!! :)
Your message is perfect for our times. Respect and love, starting with our children and our earth, should be common sense. Thanks for your inspiration.
We need more Raffi singers in this planet.
I grew up wearing out all my Raffi cassette tapes and VHS tapes. He was one of the primary reasons I took up the guitar at a young age. Not Hendrix, not Stevie Ray, not the Beatles. It was Raffi!
I just love Raffi and i started to tweet with Raffi and I love him i grew up watching him on his sunshine concert VHS video and I grew up watching Mr Rogers too and I miss and love Mr Rogers i know that he's in heaven
He's a great speaker. I never knew anything about him other than that he was a children's entertainer
Turn, turn, turn, turn this world around for the children, turn this world around. Turn, turn,turn, turn this world around, for the children, turn this world around. Now you've grown and you're on your way. Making waves in the boundless bay. With your shining light and your dreams alive, for the young you'll have one day. Doo doo doo doo doo. Grown up beluga, grown up beluga, sing a song of peace, sing with all your friends, we need to hear you!
I never knew Raffi was divorced from his wife. If you watch his video in concert from 1988, he references her by name before singing Everything Grows. I just found this interesting.
Jamie Craighead I highly recommend you read his autobiography Raffi: The Life of a Children's Troubadour. It goes into enormous detail about how unexpected fame and fortune was pulling Raffi away from Debi constantly in all different directions which absolutely took a toll on their marriage , even though ironically she was the one who is just as much to thank for his children's music career. Very little has been written about Debi other than by Raffi in this book, but without giving it all away, their divorce came right around the time of the 1988 Rise and Shine Band Concert which other than a farewell concert at Carnegie Hall would be the final family concert Raffi would give for the next 5 years. He would turn to environmental activism releasing his ecology album for the 90s Evergreen Everblue and refused to sing any longer his famous children's songs including Baby Beluga. TIME Magazine attacked him personally in their article "No More Clapping Hands", accusing him of having a mid life crisis. It would take until 1993 for Raffi to return to family entertainment when the opportunity of a lifetime opened for Raffi to celebrate his triumphant "return" and take his new ecological message to the heart of the big city, becoming the first family entertainer to ever perform on Broadway with a six show five day sold out run at the Gershwin Theater in New York April 7 - 11 of 1993. By that point, Debi was long out of Raffi's life. But I would say that us Beluga Grads owe Debi Pike a wave of gratitude for introducing Raffi to children in the first place, wherever she may be today! I hope I didn't spoil anything for you, but please read his book The Life of a Children's Troubadour. It will give you a better idea of the man behind the harmonious, warm, and friendly voice.
Thank you Raffi for everything you do!! 💛🌎
Thank you so much Rafi always a class act
He’s such an incredible human being
Raffi paraphrasing Leonard Cohen?! Too good to be true!! Rock on, Raf!! :D
Great talk, Raffi!
Agree with it. Can't argue with it. 'Turning around' perhaps has many definitions. But the message is hard to refute. Simplistic and blindly optimistic, some might say. It is hard to fathom how numerous and complicated the specifics of 'turning the world around' may be. We all externalise. But we are all _the Earth;_ what do the specifics of 'turning the world' around actually constitute? We really shouldn't be getting on aeroplanes. We really shouldn't be passing gun laws. We really should be entering auto-mobile vehicles of any hybridity. But our neighbours, our politicians, our in-laws, we ourselves, just do. We 'must'. We are hard-wired to seek *the accelerated nature of all form*, these days.
May Poseidon help us. May Helios help us.
You honour the child and all of society benefits