The Golden Hat Foundation

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Elles sont géniales ! C'est marrant de voir toutes ces personnalités avec me même chapeau. Comme Eloïse, je suis étonné de voir qu'ils portent TOUS sans exception le chapeau de Kate ! Je suis impatient de voir les autres. C'est dingue le monde qu'elle a pu amasser...

Kate Winslet was at the Good Morning America today to talk about her Golden Hat Foundation. I hope to find a video on youtube!

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Merci beaucoup Franca ! C'est génial que Kate soit aussi impliquée dans son association, je vois qu'elle a son fameux chapeau dans les mains !

ah oui tiens! J'avais pas fais gaffe au premier coup d'oeil
C'est clair qu'elle est vraiment investie pour cette association! C'est bien!
Je disais ca a Agathe justement, hier aux infos ils ont parlés de l'autisme! Plus particulièrement des écoles qui les acceuillaient et s'adaptaient a eux pour les aider. Ca m'a fait penser à Kate du coup

Two more pictures from the book:





Also, an email that Kate sent to Margret:

Ah super ! Merci !
Kate s'est mise à utiliser Internet apparement Elle qui disait qu'elle ne savait pas comment envoyer un email avant!

Eloïse a écrit:

Ah super ! Merci !
Kate s'est mise à utiliser Internet apparement Elle qui disait qu'elle ne savait pas comment envoyer un email avant!

Ses enfants ont du lui apprendre comment faire

Here is the first review of the book! Short and sweet.

Actress Winslet compiled this book in an effort to raise awareness about autism as well as raise funds for her autism nonprofit, the Golden Hat Foundation. After narrating A Mother’s Courage: Talking Back to Autism, a documentary about Margrét Ericsdóttir and her nonverbal, ASD-diagnosed son Keli, Winslet was inspired by Keli’s story of learning to communicate via a letter board after years of silence. The titular “golden hat” of Winslet’s book and foundation comes from one of Keli’s poems. Pictures of celebrities wearing this special hat comprise a large percentage of the book. What is most moving, though, are the photos of young people with autism wearing the same hat. Proceeds from sales of this book will be used to pay for long-term living and working arrangements for adults with severe autism. VERDICT Readers will come away with an understanding that although children with autism cannot always speak, they have much to say. In addition, photos of many of today’s most popular stars will have broad appeal.

http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/02/books/nonfic/soc-sci/short-takes-autism/

Interesting article about Kate's bond with Margret and Keli:

Margret Ericsdottir, of Iceland, has a 14-year-old son named Keli. Keli has severe autism and cannot speak. (That’s Keli in the photo.) In 2010, Margret made a documentary about her son and her quest to understand what’s happening in her son’s mind and other children like him. You can watch the trailer here.

Through a stroke of luck—or fate—involving both the First Lady of Iceland and the wife of the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair—”A Mother’s Courage: Talking Back to Autism” ended up being narrated by Kate Winslet. As Kate says in the March issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, “I knew I couldn’t just lend my voice to this documentary and go home.” She forged an immediate friendship with Margret and Keli, and together they created the Golden Hat Foundation to raise awareness about children and adults with autism—specifically those who are nonverbal and whose abilities are mistakenly believed to be severely limited.

I was honored to meet Margret yesterday at an event hosted by Ladies’ Home Journal (our sister publication) to spread the word about the Golden Hat Foundation. Its first high-profile project is a book called The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism, out March 27. The book was all Kate’s idea and the premise is simple: She’d send one of her favorite hats to celebrities, who had to take a self-portrait with it and provide one quote that was important to them. She got everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Conan O’Brien to Leonardo DiCaprio to Michael Phelps to Meryl Streep to participate.

The book contains a breathtaking section featuring the first thoughts communicated by nonverbal children, which were articulated on a letterboard used to spell out words. Keli’s: “I am real.” An 11-year-old girl named Carly’s: “Teeth—hurt—help.” Keli now writes poetry on his letterboard, and among his poems is one about a hat who speaks for a boy with autism who cannot talk. It’s called, of course, “The Golden Hat.” (And in a bizarre coincidence, Kate didn’t know about that particular poem when she came up with her book idea.)

Margret was effusive in her praise for Kate Winslet, calling her “a light in the darkness.” She said that with Kate’s help, the Golden Hat Foundation is progressing rapidly (“nothing moves slowly with her”). She also shared a wonderful video clip from a visit Kate and her children made to Margret’s home in Austin, Texas; they spent Thanksgiving together in 2010. In the clip, Kate is meeting other nonverbal children with autism, mostly teenage boys. One boy, thanks to his letterboard, tells her she’s beautiful; she gives the camera a wink and a thumbs’ up, and repays the compliment right back to him. We saw footage of Kate giving Keli a big bear hug when he told her he loved her—and we all laughed, since Margret had told us that Keli really, really doesn’t like being hugged. She said it was a struggle for Kate not to embrace Keli for their book cover shoot—but if you look closely at the photo above, you’ll see that Keli reached out to hold Kate’s hand.

Aside from helping society understand how intelligent nonverbal kids with autism can be, Margret and Kate have a more tangible goal: to build assisted-living campuses where children and adults with autism can live, learn, and work. I don’t know if anyone at yesterday’s event wasn’t in tears when Margret read an email to Kate that said, in essence, “I cannot leave this place until I know that my son has somewhere to go.”

If you’d like to help support the Golden Hat Foundation, click here. You can pre-order the book here. And for those of you who will be in NYC on World Autism Day, Monday, April 2, you can meet Margret and Keli at the United Nations Bookshop for a book signing. (Wondering how Keli will sign books if he can’t write? His mom wondered the same thing. His answer, via letterboard: “Stamp.”)

Source:
http://www.parents.com/blogs/goodyblog/2012/02/a-mom-you-wont-forget/

That's interesting ! Thank you vodianova
I love this part :

Margret was effusive in her praise for Kate Winslet, calling her “a light in the darkness.” She said that with Kate’s help, the Golden Hat Foundation is progressing rapidly (“nothing moves slowly with her”). She also shared a wonderful video clip from a visit Kate and her children made to Margret’s home in Austin, Texas; they spent Thanksgiving together in 2010. In the clip, Kate is meeting other nonverbal children with autism, mostly teenage boys. One boy, thanks to his letterboard, tells her she’s beautiful; she gives the camera a wink and a thumbs’ up, and repays the compliment right back to him. We saw footage of Kate giving Keli a big bear hug when he told her he loved her—and we all laughed, since Margret had told us that Keli really, really doesn’t like being hugged. She said it was a struggle for Kate not to embrace Keli for their book cover shoot—but if you look closely at the photo above, you’ll see that Keli reached out to hold Kate’s hand.

More pictures from the book:

http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/03-2012/photo-exclusive-george-clooney-daniel-craig-meryl-_52965.html#2

The book will be released on March 27th. I already pre-ordered my copy onto my iPhone.

Thank you !

On avait déjà vu la plupart des photos. Mais ... je rêve ou... sur la photo de Jude Law, c'est du PQ a droite ?

Eloïse a écrit:

Mais ... je rêve ou... sur la photo de Jude Law, c'est du PQ a droite ?

Non, non, tu ne rêves pas, il est en mode "number 2" !!!

Eloïse a écrit:

Mais ... je rêve ou... sur la photo de Jude Law, c'est du PQ a droite ?

Ca casse le mythe, hein ? Jude Law en mode number two ! Moi qui pensais que les stars ne faisaient pas caca mais juste des paillettes !

Ah ca pour casser le mythe... Drôle d'idée de faire sa photo au toilette xD

Yaaaaaay!!!

Also, an updated list of all the people involved.

Angelina Jolie
Anna Wintour
Ben Stiller
Brigitte Lacombe
Christina Aguilera
Conan O’Brien
Cynthia Nixon
Daniel Craig
Daniel Radcliffe
David Souffan
Demi Moore
Diane Von Furstenberg
Don Cheadle
Elijah Wood
Ellen Page
Elton John
Emily Blunt
George Clooney
Gwyneth Paltrow
Hugh Jackman
James Cameron
James Franco
Javier Bardem
John C. Reilly
Johnny Depp
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Jude Law
Julia Roberts
Julianne Moore
Justin Timberlake
Kevin Bacon
Kim Catrall
Kobe Bryant
Kristin Scott Thomas
Kyra Sedgwick
Laura Dern
Leonardo DiCaprio
Liev Schreiber
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maria Sharapova
Marion Cotillard
Matt Damon
Meryl Streep
Michael Caine
Michael Phelps
Michael Kors
Naomi Watts
Oprah
Pedro Almodovar
Peter Sarsgaard
Reese Witherspoon
Richard Branson
Ricky Gervais
Rosie O’Donnel
Steven Spielberg
Sting
Tim Robbins
Tom Hanks
Vera Farmiga
Woody Allen
Zac Efron

And many more! I can't wait to see all the pictures.

Wow !!!! Thank you very much, vodianova !

Aaaaa j'aime beaucoup celle là moi tiens !!! Ca termine bien Merci beaucoup Vodianova

Là par contre, je suis sûre et certaine que c'est bien le chien de Léo ! Il a fait plusieurs photoshoots avec lui !

Oui Agathe, tu as raison ! Il y a même une photo où ils sont sur la plage, je crois.