Primarily for Vancouverish peeps: Eurovision party

[jawnbc]

I know you're just as excited as I am to know that the 51st annual Eurovision Song Contest is a mere one month from today! *squee*

For those out of the loop, Eurovision has 30+ countries "in Europe" (including, this year, Israel, Armenia and Turkey) competing. Each sends a 3 minute (or less) song, has to perform it live with live singing (no lyp synching). Then people in Europe televote to select a winner. There are brilliant, banal, daggy, and sometimes downright disturbing entries. But the challenge of making an impact in 3 minutes- with only a 1 minute break between songs - makes for a very entertaining event. It's become so huge that there's now a semi-final (23 countries vying for 10 slots in the final), and a final (with the 4 richest countries and next 10 best finishers from 2005) on 18 and 20 May.

I'll assume most folks work on Thursday afternoons, so I won't organize anything major for that. But for the final, scheduled to start at 12 noon on Saturday 20 May (that's Vancouver time), I know some of you will want to watch it together. Unlike Australia and Asia, no Canadian network carries the show anymore (TV5 used to). So we'll be streaming it live over the net. I watched it this way last year from Oz and it worked very well.


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Comments

[garpu.livejournal.com]

That would be a blast...but it's finals time for me, and I've still got this damn paper from last quarter to do...

[jawnbc]

Aw, that's too bad....

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

I've just booked my airline reservation

[feygele.livejournal.com]

If I'm in Vancouver for wahtever reason on May 20th, and if I'm out of synagogue by noon, I would totally love to crash, er, join your Eurovision party.

(Also, hasn't Israel been considered part of EV's "Europe" for many years now?)

[pythagorarse.livejournal.com]

Yup would love to come and watch. I watched last year's in Melbourne and a couple of years back I watched in Dublin so it's time to add North America to the list of continents.

[jawnbc]

woo hoo! You're in!

[lusty-librarian.livejournal.com]

me too please! my fond eurovision memory is when i was on an island in scotland and i watched eurovision with a hot butch german biker (!). we uhm...didn't catch the end of the broadcast because we were...uhm...very tired. as the paper didn't arrive until the 12 o'clock ferry i called the operator and she told me who won.

good times! bring it on jawn!

[schillerium.livejournal.com]

Would do it, if I lived closer or could afford to fly there...barring a financial miracle, though, I don't foresee it.

[jawnbc]

well we must try to meet when I"m there the week after

[ruralrob.livejournal.com]

Not about Eurovision, but the good news is my scholarship to the IAC has been approved. Yippee! See ya in Trauma, jawn!

[jawnbc]

Woo hoo!

you've already heard? from the conference directly? Or is someone else funding you?

[ruralrob.livejournal.com]

My scolarship was provided by the AIDS Bureau, a branch of the Ontario Govermnment's Ministry of Health and Long Time Care.

I also applied to other bodies but havent heard from them yet, but iut realy doesnt matter now. The word on the scholarships from the IAC isn't out yet, although I heard they had over 1,000 applications for Canadian scholarships and over 16,000 for international.