U.S. & Canadian club shows, benefits & galas, 2017 edition

[Sylvia]

Starting my annual thread with these 4 shows (near Chicago, Denver & in San Francisco) and Kanata/Ottawa, Canada this weekend...

6th annual ONE SKATE AT A TIME benefit show organized by Jordan Moeller
Saturday, April 29th at 7:00 PM at the Southwest Ice Arena in Crestwood, Illinois
Skaters scheduled to perform include: Moeller, Alissa Czisny, Timothy Dolensky, Courtney Hicks, Tomoki Hiwatashi
Local article: https://patch.com/illinois/alsip-cr...an-moeller-friends-return-southwest-ice-arena
Donation page: http://cosil.convio.net/site/TR/Events/General?pg=entry&fr_id=1260
ETA that more Chicago area singles skaters/pairs are listed in this local article: https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/2-time-u-s-national-champ-headline-one-skate-april-29

SHOWTIME ON ICE (45th production) at the South Suburban Ice Arena in Centennial, Colorado
http://www.showtimeonice.com
2017 Guest Stars: Starr Andrews, Ryan Bradley, Max Aaron
Performances:
Friday April 28 – 7:00PM
Saturday April 29 – 1:30PM
Saturday April 29 – 7:00PM
Sunday April 30 – 1:30PM

Thanks to @Willin who posted in the U.S. Ladies thread that Polina Edmunds, along with Alysa Liu (2017 U.S. Novice Ladies pewter medalist), are scheduled to perform at the Silicon Valley Ice Skating Association's gala in San Francisco, CA.
https://siliconvalleyskates.org/gala/
Saturday, April 29, 2017 | 6:00-8:30pm
Yerba Buena Ice Skating Center, San Francisco
https://www.facebook.com/siliconvalleyskates
ETA:

...Based on the poster I saw today it was a big ambiguous. It seems [Kristi Yamaguchi & Tim Goebel] will be there and doing skating sessions associated with the [San Francisco] gala, but it didn't say they were performing.

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Skate Canada's National Team Athlete Appearances page: https://skatecanada.ca/national-team/athlete-appearances/

Alaine Chartrand is listed to perform on Friday, April 28 in a Tribute to Teslin Russell Charity Event at Bell Sensplex in Kanata, ON.
Ticket info: https://signedevents.com/canada/ottawa/tribute-to-teslin-russell/

 

[Sylvia]

Courtney Hicks shared this group photo from Jordan Moeller's fundraiser show in Chicago last night: https://www.instagram.com/p/BThL-BbhqhM/?taken-by=courtneynhicks&hl=en
Timothy Dolensky shared this photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTfvEt3AEyG/
ETA clip of Hicks and Dolensky performing side by side triple flips in practice: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTfa3M9BX2V/

Starr Andrews tweeted this photo with Max Aaron from "Showtime on Ice" in Colorado this weekend: https://twitter.com/Skating_Starr/status/858524520189054979
ETA a few more off-ice photos: https://twitter.com/Skating_Starr/status/858854233432391680

Alaine Chartrand shared this photo (with Matthew Markell, Tugba Karademir, Chris Berneck) from the Teslin Russell charity show: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTe5GWjhEal/
Matt Markell's photo montage: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTe7W0wF7cS/?taken-by=matt_markell&hl=en

 

[Sylvia]

SKATE IT FORWARD benefit show on Saturday, May 6, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio - shows at 2:30pm & 5:30pm with headliners Alexa & Chris Knierim, Joshua Farris, Mariah Bell, Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker, Roman Ponsart, Livvy Shilling.
Website: https://skateitforward.co & https://www.facebook.com/SkateItForward/
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/skate-it-forward-tickets-32868376198

 

[HeatherC]

SKATE IT FORWARD benefit show on Saturday, May 6, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio - shows at 2:30pm & 5:30pm with headliners Alexa & Chris Knierim, Joshua Farris, Mariah Bell, Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker, Roman Ponsart, Livvy Shilling.
Website: https://skateitforward.co & https://www.facebook.com/SkateItForward/
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/skate-it-forward-tickets-32868376198

My mom and I are going to this show this coming weekend (we're seeing the 5:30 PM show) and I'll try to post a review of it once we get home that night. Its got a really nice cast!

 

[TanithandBenFan]

My mom and I are going to this show this coming weekend (we're seeing the 5:30 PM show) and I'll try to post a review of it once we get home that night. Its got a really nice cast!

SO JEALOUS! Requesting a detailed report on Josh's skating please.

 

[Sylvia]

World class figure skaters come to Park City [Utah, May 5 & 6]: http://www.parkrecord.com/sports/world-class-figure-skaters-come-to-park-city/

Headliners [Angela] Wang and [Jordan] Moeller ... "Extra, Extra!" also features Park City's own 2017 U.S. Championships Juvenile Competitor Samantha Bray, the first competitor from FSCPC to break into national competition.
Directed by coaches Morgan Irvin and Haley Smith, performances will be held at the Park City Ice Arena, 600 Gillmor Way, Park City, UT 84060 on Friday, May 5 at 7 p.m., and Saturday, May 6 at 2 p.m.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/extra-...-of-park-city-spring-show-tickets-33168710506

https://www.facebook.com/events/947965505305872/
May 12th and 13 at 7pm - Cleveland Skating Club's 80th anniversary Ice Show titled "Freeze Frame the 80s!"
This year's show [in Shaker Heights, Ohio] features:
-US Ladies Bronze Medalist and World Team Member Mariah Bell
-US Junior Dance Silver Medalists and World Junior Dance Bronze Medalists Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko
-Junior Ladies Regional Bronze Medalist and Cleveland Native Cristina Rackley
& more

 

[Sylvia]

SKATE FOR HOPE (benefit show to raise funds for cancer awareness/research) returns this year on Saturday, June 17, 2017 in a new rink location - the brand new Florida Hospital Center Ice in Wesley Chapel, Florida.
https://www.facebook.com/skateforhope/
Headliners as of today: Jeremy Abbott, Dan Hollander, Caydee Denney & John Coughlin, Vanessa James & Morgan Cipres, Haven Denney & Brandon Frazier, Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue, Olivia Smart & Adrià Díaz, Karen Chen, Emily Hughes and Andrew Torgashev.
Tickets: http://www.skateforhope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=BuyTickets

I can start a separate GSD thread when the event gets closer.

 

[Sylvia]

Mirai Nagasu (who will perform and still represents the Pasadena FSC) tweeted a code to use for half price tickets:
https://twitter.com/mirai_nagasu/status/860118571619237888
I believe Sean Rabbitt also is scheduled to skate in this show on Monday, May 8 in Pasadena, CA.

https://muse-ique.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1600000m8GqgEAE

mingling 6pm
music 7pm
Location: Pasadena Ice Skating Center

Zambonis and Xylophones!

In this adventure in sound, Artistic Director Rachael Worby will guide us through an intimate, behind-the-scenes journey with Southern California's most amazing artists. FREE/SKATE explores the unique beauty and strength of figure skating, highlighting how hard work, determination, and displine make art.

This is figure skating and live music like you've never seen before!

Join us Monday, May 8, 2017 at the Pasadena Ice Skating Center for an intimate evening of creative expression. It's your last chance to don your coats, scarves, and gloves before the summer sets in!

 

[Sylvia]

The Magical World of Colonial
Colonial Figure Skating Club presents the 2017 Annual Ice Crystals Show in Boxborough, Massachusetts:
Featuring guest skater Shawn Sawyer!
Saturday, May 6, 2017 @ 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 7, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m.
Tickets/rink location on map: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ice-crystals-2017-the-magical-world-of-colonial-tickets-33634306115

 

[barbarafan]

The Magical World of Colonial
Colonial Figure Skating Club presents the 2017 Annual Ice Crystals Show:
Featuring guest skater Shawn Sawyer!
Saturday, May 6, 2017 @ 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 7, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ice-crystals-2017-the-magical-world-of-colonial-tickets-33634306115

So glad Shawn is going....you can't do better

 

[Sylvia]

Ohio native Livvy Shilling was featured in this preview article for "Skate It Forward": http://www.thisweeknews.com/news/20170504/johnstown-native-shilling-to-skate-it-forward-may-6

A short clip of Shilling's "L-O-V-E" (her well-received Senior Ladies SP at 2017 U.S. Nationals) from the Saturday 2:30 show is on the benefit show's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/SkateItForward/videos/vb.1726536770924445/1902726433305477/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/SkateItForward/
Headliners pose on the ice (L to R: Farris, Shilling, Hawayek, Baker, Alexa & Chris Knierim, Bell, Ponsart): https://www.facebook.com/SkateItFor...536770924445/1902652799979507/?type=3&theater
Larger photo: https://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn....=f443f668dca02416a8c4b9a673c66722&oe=59BBE2DD

I think these clips are from the 2:30 show and/or rehearsals: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTxFLTwDtHR/?taken-by=chillericerinks

Alexa Scimeca Knierim shared this clip from the beginning of their new exhibition to "I Will Follow You" by Toulouse (includes 3twist): https://www.instagram.com/p/BTxQQ_LlWwb/?taken-by=alexa_knierim

Skate It Forward's Instagram has many photos & a few clips: https://www.instagram.com/skate_it_forward/
Clip of the headliners' group number to "Handclap" by Fitz and the Tantrums: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTxDW16h99G/?taken-by=skate_it_forward

@HeatherC, can you confirm that Josh Farris performed to "Give Me Love"? Did he skate a second solo?

Doug Mattis was the show's emcee - photos from the cookie decorating event yesterday at Ronald McDonald House in Columbus, Ohio:
Smiling Josh Farris and Livvy Shilling: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTu7L2vhjOC/?taken-by=sk8rmattis
Mariah Bell and Romain Ponsart with their cookies: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTu7lrph-yA/
Alexa Knierim and a young boy decorating cookies: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTvmtPyBKkF/
Jean-Luc Baker, Chris Knierim looking "evil" & Josh looking on: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTvnz-5BdTx/
Mattis' selfie with Kaitlin Hawayek: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTvnWQIhY57/?taken-by=sk8rmattis

ETA link to Mattis' cast photo posted on Sunday, May 7: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTy5ZZ1BQOl/?taken-by=sk8rmattis

 

[HeatherC]

I can officially confirm that Josh skated to "Give Me Love" for his solo at the 5:30 PM show and I may or may not have it on video. I'll upload that one along with my other videos of the headliners tomorrow (I need to sleep tonight, LOL). All of the headliners did one solo although Mariah Bell and Romain Ponsart also skated a cute little duet number early in the show that I stupidly forgot to video. I really enjoyed the Skate It Forward show and I was glad to hear that they're hoping this becomes an annual event. They all ready have working plans for next year's show!

 

[misskarne]

I can officially confirm that Josh skated to "Give Me Love" for his solo at the 5:30 PM show and I may or may not have it on video. I'll upload that one along with my other videos of the headliners tomorrow (I need to sleep tonight, LOL).

*grabs tissue box*

Right, I'm ready.

Glad you had a great time! (And sleep well!)

 

[HeatherC]

Here are my Skate It Forward videos and I apologize for some of the quality. I had some heads in my way and there were also spots in the rink that I couldn't see very well. Hope you enjoy them!

Joshua Farris: https://youtu.be/IjxeNBt6_6E

Mariah Bell: https://youtu.be/y6YIQOjZklg

Knierims: https://youtu.be/T46G37s5J34

Hawayek & Baker: https://youtu.be/T7MSu4ZfjtA

Finale: https://youtu.be/KoVfor_Esl8

 

[YukiNieve]

　Joshua Farris: https://youtu.be/IjxeNBt6_6E　

Thanks so much, HeatherC!! So happy to see him back on the ice! !

 

[Firedancer]

Thank you HeatherC! So happy to see Josh on the ice again!

 

[misskarne]

Joshua Farris: https://youtu.be/IjxeNBt6_6E

I'mnotcryingI'mnotcryingI'mnotcrying

*bawls*

He's back. He's really back. Those beautiful spins. That footwork. Even rusty, his skating is still so beautiful. I've missed him so much.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

Thank you, thank you, Heather!!!!!! It's such a dream to see Josh on the ice again!!

In looking at the new layout of the program, I wonder if Josh will be doing a quad Sal combination at the beginning. So wonderful to see his gorgeous triple Axel.

 

[dinakt]

Thank you, thank you, Heather!!!!!! It's such a dream to see Josh on the ice again!!

This!

 

[Lanie]

Josh! Thanks SO much heather!

 

[Spiralgraph]

Josh looks great and his skating is swoon worthy.

 

[misskarne]

And I forgot to say, thankyou, thankyou so much HeatherC! I hope you enjoyed the show and didn't spend all of it behind a camera for us tragic souls!

 

[HeatherC]

I'm so glad you guys enjoyed the videos! I had a great time at the show and Josh was indeed swoon worthy in person! So glad to see him back on the ice. They are doing this show again next year so I hope he gets asked back!

 

[clairecloutier]

Here's my review of the Ice Crystals club show this past weekend: https://adivinesport.com/2017/05/09/ice-crystals-2017/. Shawn Sawyer was the special guest star for this show, with appearances from Smith/Reiss, Aimee Buchanan, and lower-level U.S. competitors Iris Zhao, Kassandra Carpentier, Julia Kierul, and Petterson/Carey.

 

[Sylvia]

^^^ Thanks so much, Claire!

Mirai Nagasu (who will perform and still represents the Pasadena FSC) ...
I believe Sean Rabbitt also is scheduled to skate in this show on Monday, May 8 in Pasadena, CA.

Jonathan Cassar also performed last night - Nagasu's photo of the 3 of them: https://www.instagram.com/p/BT26d5zBBQp/?taken-by=mirainagasu&hl=en

 

[Sylvia]

All of the headliners did one solo although Mariah Bell and Romain Ponsart also skated a cute little duet number early in the show

Here's a clip of their duet: https://www.instagram.com/p/BT3yW4HBn4l/?taken-by=skate_it_forward

Sounds like there eventually will be a DVD of the "Skate It Forward" benefit show to purchase with "behind-the-scenes extras": https://www.instagram.com/p/BT1Tzt7h14I/

 

[Sylvia]

If anyone lives near Skokie, Illinois, Mirai Nagasu tweeted that she is performing in shows at the Skatium ice arena through Sunday afternoon, May 14: https://twitter.com/mirai_nagasu/status/862800694503505920
https://www.skokieparks.org/node/8670

Also this weekend:

https://www.facebook.com/events/947965505305872/
May 12th and 13 at 7pm - Cleveland Skating Club's 80th anniversary Ice Show titled "Freeze Frame the 80s!"
This year's show [in Shaker Heights, Ohio] features:
-US Ladies Bronze Medalist and World Team Member Mariah Bell
-US Junior Dance Silver Medalists and World Junior Dance Bronze Medalists Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko
-Junior Ladies Regional Bronze Medalist and Cleveland Native Cristina Rackley
& more

Sunday, May 13 at 7 pm - 2017 Margaret Garrison Awards Ceremony and Ice Show at the Powerade Centre in Brampton, ON: http://www.skatecanada-centralontario.com/
Nam Nguyen is scheduled to perform.

 

[Sylvia]

I changed Sunday to Saturday (bolded below is correct):

Saturday, May 13 at 7 pm - 2017 Margaret Garrison Awards Ceremony and Ice Show at the Powerade Centre in Brampton, ON: http://www.skatecanada-centralontario.com/
Nam Nguyen is scheduled to perform.

If anyone lives in or near Arvada, Colorado, here's info on Columbine FSC's exhibition show, starring Courtney Hicks and Camden Pulkinen, on Saturday, May 13 from 6-8 pm:
http://www.columbineskating.org/events/2017-ice-show
Map/location: http://www.columbineskating.org/home/find-us

 

[TanithandBenFan]

Tim Dolensky is skating at the Galleria in Dallas today:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BT_yu2YhdTs/

 

[shutterbug]

Also this weekend:

Sunday, May 13 at 7 pm - 2017 Margaret Garrison Awards Ceremony and Ice Show at the Powerade Centre in Brampton, ON: http://www.skatecanada-centralontario.com/
Nam Nguyen is scheduled to perform.

The Margaret Garrison (COS) ice show took place last night. A handful of fancam videos:

Paul/Islam: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5m7h8e
Nam Nguyen: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5m7lwy_nam-nguyen-2017-cos-ice-show-fancam_sport
Roman Sadovsky: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5m7e6x_roman-sadovsky-2017-cos-ice-show-fancam_sport
Conrad Orzel: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5m7fft_conrad-orzel-2017-cos-ice-show-fancam_sport
Boys Only number: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5m7ioj_boys-only-2017-cos-ice-show-fancam_sport