Linguavision 2015: A Showcase of Student Talent in Music and Language!

If you had stopped by the Fenn Lounge last Wednesday, you would have been treated to a fantastic afternoon and evening of song, the Linguavision Song Competition, featuring students from Carleton’s modern languages, ESLA, and French programs singing in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.  Songs included: sound tracks to Japanese anime, opera, oldies from the 60’s, Russian folk songs, and more.  As well, five participants had written their own songs for the event in French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish.  And it wasn’t only karaoke style. More than half of the 21 entries played their own instruments: guitar, ukulele, bass, and piano.

Prize winners were:

• 1st Prize (Deanna Ponnuthurai, Italian) – “O Del Mio doche Ardor”
• 2nd Prize (Skander Belouizdad, Russian) – “Я Люблю Тебя, Жизнь / I Love You Life”
• 3rd Prize (Jesse Laprade & Jordan Siadat, Mandarin Chinese) – “我知道 / I know”
• Special Mention: Best Original Song (Jesse Laprade, Mandarin Chinese)
• Special Mention: Best Multilingual Performance (Mariline Buvat, Spanish/Italian)
• Audience Choice (Erin Newman-Grigg, French)

Many thanks to the more than 100 people who attended, to the CATL (Carleton Applied and Theoretical Linguistics Academic Society) fundraising bake sale folks for providing intermission snacks, to our awesome volunteers, and to our panel of multilingual and musical judges drawn from Carleton and the Ottawa community.

The event was co-sponsored SLaLS, FASS, and the Department of French.