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[tisaqueen]

A LIVE Event Uniting the Global Skating Community to Fight COVID-19

Two ice dancers, Olympian Kaitlyn Weaver and skating cinematographer Jordan Cowan, unite the figure skating world from their apartments in New York City, with an intimate, one-time live broadcast benefitting the United Nations COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization.

The event, beginning at 2pm EST on Saturday, April 25th, features an extensive list of figure skating legends, past and present, all willing to donate their time, energy, and talent to the cause.

Scott Hamilton, Michelle Kwan, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Kurt Browning, Adam Rippon, Javier Ferrnadez, Ashley Wagner and more promise there isn’t a moment to be missed. Games, interviews, and impromptu performances vary the pace of warm and heartfelt sharing, with entertainment and unscripted moments of unbridled spontaneity.

“I wanted to create something that empowers and mobilizes the vast skating community for good. Together, from our own small corners of the world, we can do great things for people who really need help” says Weaver. “I’m uplifted and excited to experience what we can do just by tuning in and reaching out. And I’m extremely honored to share these stories amongst the legends of my sport.”

Produced by Weaver and Cowan entirely over the web, Open Ice aims to entertain, engage and give hope to a skating community in self-isolation.

The planned three-hour show will air LIVE on Open Ice’s official website, and on On Ice Perspectives’ YouTube Channel.

Fans will have the chance to interact through live chat, with select comments being read aloud on the livestream. Donations to the U.N Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund will be handled by Tiltify, a U.N. Foundation-partnered charity platform.

[findthatsynchronicity]

Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje

Always Remember Us This Way

[xjuliajkx]

Booked my flights to Germany to see WeaPo

🤗🤗🤗

[xjuliajkx]

Kaitlyn “ I don’t know what pattern dance is” Weaver managed to teach her partner some Yankee Polka, and it is pretty impressive

[tallshipandstar]

Apparently I need to worry about BOTB nearly as much as I did about WP’s actual competitions. That’s... great news.

[swizzlesandtwizzles-deactivated]

Is BOTB going out on Canadian TV right now too?

[xjuliajkx]

Yes

[splurges-blog]

My hair when I take off my mask

What I think I look like…

What I actually look like...

[thankyoukaitlynandandrew]

In recognition of the many years of joy Kaitlyn and Andrew have given so many people around the world, this feels like a fitting time to say thank you.

From now until approx 8pm UTC on the 8th of August, the ask and submission boxes on this blog will be open for any thoughts, photos, art or anything you’d like to share with them. (The submission box does require an email address if you don’t have a tumblr but feel free to use a fake one.) Then we’ll take the blog private for a few days to get everything posted and looking shiny before making it public and sharing the link with Kaitlyn and Andrew.

If you have any questions/queries/concerns feel free to DM me over @tallshipandstar on Tumblr, or at aintabeauty on Twitter/IG.

(inspired by @bouquetdamourwp)

[tallshipandstar]

Sooo… because I am clingy and have trouble saying goodbye to things, and also because WeaPo as skaters and people have given me so much joy (and the odd bout of agony) over the last few years, I don’t want their skating career to just fade into the shadows without a little bit of celebration of everything they’ve meant to so many people.

I want to do something like the @bouquetdamourwp that @theweaverpojelove used to arrange, and by ‘like’ I mean ‘basically the same concept’. It allows people to submit things in the format they feel most comfortable with (writing, art, gifs, whatever), isn’t tied to a hashtag that trolls can co-opt, and is (I hope) relatively easy to put together.

At the moment, my plan is to have a blog up for people to make submissions to within the next day or two, and to aim to close off submissions on August 7th simply because i have a few free days then to hopefully put it together. I would love some help, especially with making the blog look pretty (uh, have you seen my blog? ‘Pretty’ is not my strength) and getting the word out on twitter and IG, because a lot of people are steering clear of the weapo tags at the moment due to the whole ‘pit of vipers’ thing going on.

Any suggestions, any ideas of anything else we can do, yell at me. Or DM. Whatever.

[swizzlesandtwizzles-deactivated]

This is a great idea!!!!

[xjuliajkx]

I really like this idea. I’ll help with whatever I can

[weapoprotectionprogram]

what happens to their joint twitter now?

[swizzlesandtwizzles-deactivated]

Twitter is so gross anyway who needs it.

[xjuliajkx]

Tumblr isn’t much better. Can’t help but wonder how one fandom can fit that much 💩

[sleepydrummer]

En Garde Killing Eve James White for EW

[nevidimkaposts]

[swizzlesandtwizzles-deactivated]

I wonder if he is still studying his same course or is starting a new one? No idea when he finds the time?!!

[xjuliajkx]

He said at the comments that he took a break, so it’s probably still the same one

[sharlatapdancer]

She is so beautiful. #KaitlynWeaver

[shigerusky]

[swizzlesandtwizzles-deactivated]

I made my donation to Andrew’s team because honestly, the lip-synching dance act deserves it. Eric’s juggling was pretty good too, but I’m completely biased here. 

[xjuliajkx]

I decided to split my donation equally between Andrew’s team and Kaitlyn’s team.

[swizzlesandtwizzles-deactivated]

That’s probably a pretty equitable choice! 

I’m thinking that because Kaitlyn motivated me to support World Vision, I could justify playing favourites with Andrew here ;) That’s my excuse anyway. 

[xjuliajkx]

Fair enough ))

[swizzlesandtwizzles-deactivated]

I made my donation to Andrew’s team because honestly, the lip-synching dance act deserves it. Eric’s juggling was pretty good too, but I’m completely biased here. 

[xjuliajkx]

I decided to split my donation equally between Andrew’s team and Kaitlyn’s team.

[swizzlesandtwizzles-deactivated]

Team Canada for World Team Trophy