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I'm Josh Rachford. This is my blog.
I'm an actor living in Los Angeles. I am a Story Pirate.
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Please take 5 minutes to give $5 to Story Pirates!
Here are the top 5 reasons (in no particular order) to donate $5 to Story Pirates RIGHT NOW:
- What we do is simple: we bring kids’ ideas to life. Right now, think of a kid you love. Now imagine that kid sitting in an auditorium full of their schoolmates as they hear the words: “this next story was written by someone in this room. put your hands together for [kid you’re thinking of]!!!!!” Now imagine hundreds of that kids’ friends and acquaintances cheering and clapping for that kid. Now imagine 6 professional performers bringing the words that kid wrote, to life. Now imagine that kid taking a bow in front of all of his or her peers, thinking that writing just may be pretty cool. Mission accomplished.
- Jon Stewart and his lovely wife Tracey are the co-chairs of our upcoming benefit on May 20th. He thinks our show is “crazy entertaining,” and values the work that we do. Would he steer you wrong? NO.
- We also do bilingual programming. Can you imagine being an ESL child in a school where few people speak your language and then seeing a story you wrote, completely in Spanish, being performed (completely in Spanish) in front of all of your peers, showing them that you are a complete rock star?! Ask 8-year-old Carmelita Armenata who wrote one of our favorite stories, “Dreaming of Bread.” It was a proud moment for her.
- All of the money donated will go toward bringing arts education to underfunded schools. I’ve walked into quite a few schools where “recess” consisted of kids sitting silently and without moving, in a cafetorium, while a teacher or administrator screams at them to “sit down and shut up!” for 40 minutes. When we walk in with our puppets, bright shirts, songs, and encouraging them to make a little noise, we’re changing the way they think about adults and show them that learning can actually be fun. Donating will help us keep doing that.
- CAGLOSH! ”Caglosh” is a word a kid made up to signify the sound a volcano makes when it erupts. Is CAGLOSH not the most amazing word ever? Also, “jazzled” (meaning excited and frazzled) is pretty awesome, too. Donating $5 to Story Pirates right now means helping us continue to show kids that their words, CAGLOSH and JAZZLED to name two, are awesome and worthwhile so that they grow up to be self-actualized, confident, good writin’ adults.
Those are just a few reasons why Story Pirates is so vital to kids’ lives and education. Please, if you have the ability, consider donating just $5 to Story Pirates so we can keep making kids laugh, smile, and feel good about themselves. To learn more about us, you can watch this short documentary about what we do. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
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Check this out on Sunday! It’ll be awesome!
And come to the kick-off event When Harold Met Maude, Saturday at 10pm! Stay until the end of the night, and you can be one of the few to bear witness to the SUPER-HAROLD!
Are you ready to have your mind incinerated?
