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| Born This Way Foundation launch event – live | Born This Way Foundation launch event – live |
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| 4.27pm: I believe that Lady Gaga just told Oprah, "This is not an anti-bullying foundation. This is a youth empowerment foundation." The crowd applauds heartily. | |
| 4.26pm: A measure of the ardor of Lady Gaga's fans may be in the comment stream developing on YouTube of would-be viewers ticked off that they will not, indeed, be watching a livestream of the Born This Way Foundation launch event. Much of what they are writing cannot be quoted here, politely. But in sheer number the stream of comments is fantastic. | |
| 4.21pm: Now audio is back up. Oprah Winfrey just introduced Lady Gaga. The inexplicable echo effect is still going on. There's a lot of clapping, although it's hard to tell exactly how much clapping because it's doubled. | |
| Let's "listen" to Lady Gaga! | |
| 4.19pm: Gaga with a fan outside the event. | |
| 4.16pm: Whoops. Now the bad audio is gone too. Our apologies to those following along – or trying to follow along – at home. Surely the problem will soon be repaired. Meanwhile some poor Harvard tech is screwing up the Lady Gaga / Oprah event. In the spirit of the Born This Way Foundation, our deepest empathy and heartfelt, nonjudgmental support goes out to that person. | |
| 4.13pm: They're having some trouble with the live feed. Currently audio but no video. And the audio is haunted by an eerie, Gaga-goth echo. We just heard an administrator mention Lady-ady Ga-ga-ga-Ga, to loud applause. | |
| 4.09pm: Still waiting for the event to start. As you can see from the above image, Lady Gaga has arrived to the building. In the build-up to today's event the Harvard Crimson ran a story introducing readers to Oprah. Think you already know everything about Oprah? Did you know she's afraid of chewing gum? That's Oprah fact No. 4. Oh wait I think it's starting! | |
| 3.40pm: And this from @LadyGaga herself. | 3.40pm: And this from @LadyGaga herself. |
| The chef at hotel made me a surprise. So awesome to see the message spreading already. One cookie at a time. twitpic.com/8pyxyj | The chef at hotel made me a surprise. So awesome to see the message spreading already. One cookie at a time. twitpic.com/8pyxyj |
| — Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) February 29, 2012 | — Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) February 29, 2012 |
| 3.35pm: To supplement our live coverage of the Lady Gaga / Born This Way Foundation launch event, you can follow the BTWF Twitter feed -- or you can watch the event here. | 3.35pm: To supplement our live coverage of the Lady Gaga / Born This Way Foundation launch event, you can follow the BTWF Twitter feed -- or you can watch the event here. |
| Sanders Theatre is filling up!We'll be live tweeting the event @BTWFoundation starting at 4:00pm EST. #BTWFlive twitter.com/BTWFoundation/… | Sanders Theatre is filling up!We'll be live tweeting the event @BTWFoundation starting at 4:00pm EST. #BTWFlive twitter.com/BTWFoundation/… |
| — Born This Way (@BTWFoundation) February 29, 2012 | — Born This Way (@BTWFoundation) February 29, 2012 |
| 3.30pm: The last time there were this many celebrities in a room with Oprah Winfrey was when Oprah Winfrey staged her farewell shows. | 3.30pm: The last time there were this many celebrities in a room with Oprah Winfrey was when Oprah Winfrey staged her farewell shows. |
| Tom McCarthy here. We're getting set to live blog the launch event of the Born This Way Foundation, a youth empowerment project started by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta. As youth outreach goes, this is way beyond after-school-special territory: BTWF is big. Oprah-big. Plus Harvard. Attending today's launch at Harvard's Sanders Theatre are Ladies Gaga and Winfrey; Deepak Chopra and the US health secretary, among other luminaries. | Tom McCarthy here. We're getting set to live blog the launch event of the Born This Way Foundation, a youth empowerment project started by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta. As youth outreach goes, this is way beyond after-school-special territory: BTWF is big. Oprah-big. Plus Harvard. Attending today's launch at Harvard's Sanders Theatre are Ladies Gaga and Winfrey; Deepak Chopra and the US health secretary, among other luminaries. |
| Participating in the foundation are Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the California Endowment. | Participating in the foundation are Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the California Endowment. |
| We'll see just how they've chosen to introduced Born This Way (@BTWFoundation) to the world soon – it's due to start at 4pm ET. Meanwhile let's note the foundation's stated mission, which is "to foster a more accepting society, where difference are embraced and individuality is celebrated." From the BTWF website: "We believe that everyone has the right to feel safe, to be empowered and to make a difference in the world. Together, we will move towards acceptance, bravery and love." | We'll see just how they've chosen to introduced Born This Way (@BTWFoundation) to the world soon – it's due to start at 4pm ET. Meanwhile let's note the foundation's stated mission, which is "to foster a more accepting society, where difference are embraced and individuality is celebrated." From the BTWF website: "We believe that everyone has the right to feel safe, to be empowered and to make a difference in the world. Together, we will move towards acceptance, bravery and love." |
| Maybe you're following our coverage in the company of a person who makes her residence under the proverbial rock. This would be a good time to lean over and tell her that the foundation takes its name from the smash hit Gaga album and single, which sounds nothing like Madonna's Express Yourself. | Maybe you're following our coverage in the company of a person who makes her residence under the proverbial rock. This would be a good time to lean over and tell her that the foundation takes its name from the smash hit Gaga album and single, which sounds nothing like Madonna's Express Yourself. |