{"id":4254,"date":"2007-11-15T13:06:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/cher-charitable\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:43:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:43:55","slug":"cher-charitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2007\/11\/cher-charitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher Charitable Foundation Says Hello"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chercastle\"<\/a> Great news: Cher issued a press release Monday!  Her new Charitable Foundation is doing a fundraiser…finally. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

(photo right: Cher at a Charity at LA’s Magic Castle in 1973; taken by Kim M. Lynch)<\/em><\/p>\n

The shindig will go down November 28 in Century City and will include a VIP reception, dinner and a short film screening.  The movie will be Love Sees No Color<\/em> (here’s the 4 minute YouTube version<\/a>) \u2013 which is described as something like a music-based peace film running at 12 minutes. I hope discussions will follow because that short program might send you to bed before Letterman comes on.<\/p>\n

The press release alludes to \u201cthe screening and celebrity performance\u201d but what exactly that celebrity performance is or which celebrity will be performing seems vague at this point. Remember Cher sometimes doesn\u2019t show up to her own parties. I guess I know a hyper (and set-up) Cher fan or two who will post bank to find out. The event costs $500 for a plebeian ticket and 1k for the V.I.P. treatment.<\/p>\n

Although I live here I must pass. If I had $500 spare dollars I\u2019d own a third of a Bob Mackie sketch right about now. I propose five of us pick a presentable Cher fan to sponsor for $100 each. Their only obligation will be to obsessively report on the event to other poverty-stricken (in a relative European-US sense, that is) fans.<\/p>\n

But seriously, this is really great news. Cher is amping up her charity profile and<\/em> not making it Cher-centric \u2013 which fulfills a requirement that her charity work not be self-celebrity-obsessed. It\u2019s perfect!<\/p>\n

The movie actually highlights musician and peace activist Nassiri<\/a>. You can read his vision statement<\/a> and you can listen to his music online<\/a>. It sounds uplifting. Allmusic.com describes it as lush, literate, hypnotic world fusion.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a pretty substantial review in the press release of Cher\u2019s philanthropic efforts to date which include:<\/p>\n