.. to help me out this weekend.

The Vancouver Thrill the World dancers will be at the Zombie Walk this Saturday to dance and hopefully generate interest in the main Thrill the World event this October. I’m looking for photographers and video people to capture the group collectively shaking our undead asses so we can show everyone how incredibly awesome we are.

Thrill the World is an annual worldwide simultaneous dance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Shan and I did it last year, and this year I’m a volunteer assigned to wrangle up some pictures and videos of our dance. Last year we had 69 Vancouver zombies dancing, and we raised $1400 for the Vancouver Food Bank. This year we’re hoping for a LOT more zombies – Vancouver needs to represent – and as people around the world do the same dance at the same time, we’re hoping to set and break some World Records.

This weekend is the annual Vancouver Zombie Walk, in which people get dressed up as zombies and .. well, walk. Thrill the World Vancouver will be there doing the dance a couple times to generate interest, recruit zombies, and make spectacles of ourselves for fun.

If you can help me out by either photographing or videoing the event, here are some details:

• I’ll need you for an hour or so this Saturday afternoon (August 15th), from 2-3pm
• You’ll receive full credit for any picture of video we use
• It’ll be a great deal of fun
• I would be extremely grateful (not naked grateful though) (okay, maybe naked grateful)
• ZOMBIES!!!

Email me or leave a comment below if you want to help out!

Screw pictures, I want to DANCE

We need dancers, too. The official Thrill the World event is in October, and official rehearsals haven’t started yet (the two we’ve had were just for the Zombie Walk). If you want to dance, check out the Thrill the World Vancouver website, join us on Facebook, and come learn the moves when the rehearsal schedule is released (or start learning in advance via these videos!). You don’t need to be any sort of dancing professional to do it – the dance is very easy to learn and anyone can do it. Look at me! I’m the best example of someone who shouldn’t dance in public, yet I do anyway. If I – so painfully shy and terrified of social interaction – can do it, then you would completely rock the universe.

Come out and dance!

And if you don’t want to dance, come out and take pictures of dance!

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