Air Guitar Week!

An excellent opportunity to practice your dance and improvisation skills is coming to you this week.

Thursday, April 21: come to a free screening of the film Air Guitar Nation with the star, Björn Türöque, who will be on hand to answer your questions. Critics raved about this 2007 film, calling it "hilarious" (Variety), "a riff-roaring experience" (BBC), " a sort of Buddhist singularity" (Salon.com), and "tough to resist" (New York Times). Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea32R_2jSxg
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: SU Campus, HBC building, Gifford Auditorium

Friday, April 22: Syracuse's first annual Air Guitar Competition! Winners will take home fabulous prizes (provided by the makers of Air Guitar Nation and Syracuse's own Sound Garden) and the top finisher gains a spot on the US Air Guitar Regional Championship in Boston. Björn Türöque, also known as author and musician Dan Crane, will host and celebrity judges will officiate. Competitors will have to throw all their creativity and love for music into a one-minute performance judged on technique, stage presence, and airness to win the coveted first place title.
Entrance is free.
Time: 8 PM (doors at 7:30)
Competitors: arrive at 7 PM
Location: The Red House

Competitors: Space is limited!! Pre-register by email to salsasydney AT gmail DOT com and bring your 1-minute songs on CD.
Rules and more information on competitive air guitar: http://www.usairguitar.com/rules/

Dan Crane/Björn Türöque is known as "The Ryan Seacrest of Air Guitar" for his hosting of air guitar competitions around the country as well as the world championships held annually in Oulu, Finland. He also writes for the New York Times and is the author of To Air is Human (Riverhead, 2006). Get to know Dan here: http://www.dancrane.com/Site/Who.html