The Elephant Project is currently auctioning off nearly 50 different items for their holiday round of auctions to help benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. Included in the round are pictures of members of the Glee cast holding Elephant Project’s beanie baby mascot (because “elephants never forget”), and signed elephants from all of them. Among the Glee cast members are: Cory Monteith, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Dianna Agron, Naya Rivera, Jonathan Groff, Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Dijon Talton and creator Ryan Murphy. Jenna even wants to send you a thank you Tweet if you win her auction!

On her Facebook page, Dianna Agron wrote, “I don’t know if you’ve ever lost someone to Alzheimer’s, but I have. Both of my grandmothers. If you feel compelled, and have the money to share… As my Nana used to say, ‘The sun WILL come out tomorrow.’ And then she’d sing the song to me. She couldn’t carry a tune, but it made me smile every time and I love that we will always have our song.”

We want to help raise awareness of the Elephant Project’s amazing charity auctions, so we are giving away a pack of 5×7 pictures of all 10 of the Glee participants. You can view the watermarked pictures of the Glee cast on the pages of their eBay auctions, but our prize pack will include the un-watermarked versions of the photos.

All you have to do to enter to win is:

1) Tweet the following for an entry:
I just entered to win photos of the Glee cast from @ElephantProject & @GleekRob here: http://bit.ly/tDA8oi
2) Get an entry by leaving a comment telling us why you love Glee.
3) Both send out a Tweet and leave a comment, getting you two entries and doubling your chance to win!

Our contest will end Thursday, December 8th at 11:59pm. Be sure to use your real email address if you leave a comment, and be sure to be following the @ElephantProject & me (@GleekRob) on Twitter so that we can contact you directly if you win!

Now check out the auctions, and help support a great cause!

Happy Thanksgiving from everyone at GleeFan.com!  Enjoy spending time with your family and eating tons of turkey (or tofurkey if you’re Rachel Berry)!

We have teamed up with Red Vines to give away a ton of goodies for Thanksgiving, because really, who can’t love them and what can’t they do?! Simply tweet what you’re thankful for and be sure to include the following in your tweet to be eligible:

@GleekMaryP and @GleekRob
@RedVines
#averygleefulthanksgiving

We will pick the best 10-12 tweets to get some goodies to chomp on!  Also, be sure to check out Naya Rivera‘s top 5 things about Thanksgiving below!

Thanksgiving is almost here, so it’s time to get into the holiday spirit! We were fortunate enough to get two copies of the new Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2 to give away to two lucky readers!

To win, do the following:

1) Follow me and Rob on Twitter:

@GleekMaryP /@GleekRob

2) Tweet the following:

I want to win the @GleeOnFox Christmas CD from @GleekMaryP and @GleekRob: http://bit.ly/v0bcu1

The contest is open internationally and you have until Friday, December 2nd at 11:59 PST to enter!

Good luck!

If you want to win an autographed The Glee Project photo, read on! I was fortunate enough to receive a Glee Project photograph signed by The Glee Project winners Lindsay Pearce and Samuel Larsen along with contestant Hannah McIalwain, and I am giving it away to one of you lucky readers!

Here is all you have to do to win:

1) Follow me and Rob on Twitter:
@GleekMaryP / @GleekRob

2) Tweet the following:
I want to win a @TheGleeProject autograph from @GleekMaryP and @GleekRob! http://bit.ly/t3hjcR

You have until Friday, November 11th at 11:59 EST to enter!

Good luck to everyone!

Attention all singers, dancers, and actors! Do you want to be the next Samuel, Damien, Lindsay, or Alex and be on Glee? Now’s your chance! The Glee Project is back for a second season and open casting calls are now underway!

You can apply online by uploading a video or attend an open casting call in Chicago, New York, or Nashville (dates TBA). The only rules are that you must be 18 years or older to apply and be able to convincingly portray a high school student.

To learn more about the process of auditioning and what songs you can audition with, visit The Glee Project casting website!

We cant wait to see what you guys have got! If you audition online, make sure to share your videos with us in the comments. Good luck!

How would you like to see Jane Lynch, known by many Glee fans as the “outspoken” Coach Sue Sylvester, live in person? Next month, Jane will be discussing her new memoir, Happy Accidents, at Club Nokia at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles.

Here’s some more information from the event page on LiveTalksLA.org:

Sunday, October 2, 2011
7:00pm (Reception 5:30pm-6:30pm)

An Evening with Jane Lynch
in conversation with Adam Scott
discussing her memoir, Happy Accidents

PURCHASE TICKETS

Club Nokia at L.A. Live
Downtown Los Angeles

Though she’s one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood today, Jane Lynch is anything but an overnight success. At age 50, she didn’t come into her own until the last decade. Before she landed her role in Glee, she’d battled alcoholism and anxiety, learned to embrace her sexuality, and accepted that life is sometimes a series of opportunities that come after what seem, at the time, like disappointments. Funny, poignant and brutally honest, her book Happy Accidents is one part comic-memoir of behind-the-scenes-Hollywood and one part inspirational-narrative about self-acceptance.

“If I could go back in time and talk to my twenty-year-old self, the first thing I would say is: ‘Lose the perm.’ Secondly I would say: ‘Relax. Really. Just relax. Don’t sweat it…Be easy on your sweet self. And don’t drink Miller Lite tall boys in the morning.” — Jane Lynch

Read more event details at LiveTalksLA.org…

We’ve partnered up with Live Talks Los Angeles to send ten of our readers to the 7pm show for free! If you live in the LA area and would be free to attend on the evening of October 2nd, then enter our giveaway before Sept. 27th at 11:59 PST.

All you need to do is leave a comment below with your favorite Jane Lynch or Sue Sylvester quote. Be sure to use the email address you check most when leaving the comment so that we have the best way of contacting you. Alternatively, you can send us an email at Rob@GleeFan.com with your contact information. If you choose to send an email instead of leaving a comment, please make the email subject line read: “Entry to see Jane Lynch in LA” (without the quotations).

We look forward to receiving your entries, and good luck!

Fox and Glee have teamed up with the National Association for Music Education to hold an amazing competition that will put funding back in to the arts programs of 73 schools across the United States.

High school glee and drama clubs, as well as other high school arts programs, are invited to enter the competition by submitting videos to GleeGiveANote.com, explaining why their school deserves a grant. Starting in October 2011, voting will begin on the site for approved videos. In December, after 2 rounds of voting, Fox will announce the 73 winning schools who will then receive grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000.

Already, Glee has pledged $1 million from the sales of the show’s season 2 DVD/Blu-ray release. Visit www.GleeGiveANote.com to find out what you can do to get involved and donate to this worthy cause.

What a wonderful thing to see one of TV’s top shows, using their powers of influence for such a great cause. Good luck to all of the entrants from everyone here at GleeFan.com!

Source: Glee Gives Back! Promises To Grant $1 Million To Arts Program Across The Country!

If you want to win some rare autographed Glee merchandise and help me pay my college tuition at the same time, read on! I’m currently in competition at bublaa.com, and if I can have the largest “bubble” by July 15, then I’ll win $10,000 to help pay for college! Joining my “Gleeks” bubble is quick and easy, and if you help me win the contest, I’ll give away a Glee prize pack of merchandise that I’ve collected over the past two years of running GleeFan.com!

Update (7-14-11): With all of your help and a Tweet from the amazing Jenna Ushkowitz, I’m currently in 2nd place! If I can get back into 1st before 1pm EST Friday, I’ll definitely be mailing out the prize package to one very lucky Gleek.

The prize package includes:
1) A cast photograph signed by Chris Colfer (Kurt), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina), Kevin McHale (Artie) and Amber Riley (Mercedes)!
2) A Glee calendar signed by Broadway legend Idina Menzel, known on Glee as Rachel Berry’s mother, Shelby Corcoran. She’s also known for originating Maureen in RENT and Elphaba (the lead) in Wicked.
3) A rare writer’s draft of the pilot script from September 26, 2008, including unaired scenes and original character descriptions. This script was given to me directly from Fox, and they are extremely rare. You can see a couple pages of it here.
4) A rare red Glee hat, also direct from Fox’s publicity staff.
5) Glee, The Music: Volume 1 on CD. Own the very first Glee soundtrack, including songs like “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

Here’s all you have to do to be entered to win:
1) Signup for free at bublaa.com. You can even make an account using Facebook Connect to make a speedy process even quicker!
2) Join my “Gleeks” bubble. (This is important because I’ll need to have the biggest bubble by the time the contest ends to win.)
3) Go to the Gleeks bubble’s conversations section and find my “Win rare signed Glee merch! Details inside…” topic! Then leave a reply with some way that I can contact you. It can be your Twitter, Facebook URL, email address, etc. Just so long as I can use it to get in touch with you, you’ll be entered to win!
4) Check back on July 16th to see if I won! If I win, then I’ll be randomly selecting a lucky winner to receive my Glee prize package.

Right now I’m neck in neck with another bubble, so EVERY member is extremely important! When you’re done entering, please get a friend or family member to join as well, because a few extra people will make or break the competition at this point! I’ve seen the Glee fandom come together in the past, and I cannot express how thankful I would be if I actually won the competition. As anyone in college can tell you, student debt is the worst, so I would be incredibly grateful if you guys could help me out! You have no idea how much it would mean to me.

If you want to keep up with my progress in the competition, you can follow me on Twitter @GleekRob as I’ll be Tweeting how things are going. Remember that I’ll only be giving away the prize pack if I win, so if I win, you could win too!

Thank you all so much. Please don’t let this amazing opportunity pass you by!

Hey, Gleeks! Want to win a signed CD?

Tomorrow night Lea Michele, who plays Rachel Berry, will be singing Christina Perri’s “Jar Of Hearts” in the Glee episode, “Prom Queen.” The song is from Christina’s debut album Lovestrong. which is coming out tomorrow as well!

Come to find out Christina is a big Gleek herself, so we’re running a Twitter contest for you to win a signed CD from her. All you have to do to enter is Retweet this Tweet from my Twitter account, @GleekRob!

Good luck, and remember to tune in to hear Lea Michele sing Christina Perri’s “Jar of Hearts” tomorrow night!

Update: Lovestrong. is now available on iTunes! Click here to purchase.

Today, April 22nd 2011, I’m having a Follow Friday Giveaway on Twitter! One lucky winner will receive a Glee calendar signed by the amazingly talented Broadway legend Idina Menzel and a copy of Glee: Totally Unofficial, a fantastic guidebook to our favorite show and its cast!

All you have to do to enter is make a #FollowFriday Tweet with 3 things: mention @GleekRob (me!), mention @IdinaMenzel, and include a link to this post, http://bit.ly/hhRgiF! It’s really important that you include all three of these things for your entry to be counted. Also, in order to win, you must be following both @GleekRob and @IdinaMenzel!

The calendars were signed by Idina Menzel exclusively for us, and you can see my book review of Glee: Totally Unofficial here.

Good luck to everyone who enters!

Update: Everyone has been asking, so just to clarify, this is an international contest. You do not have to live in the USA to enter!

Lea Michele, Amber Riley and Dianna Agron take on the May issue of Marie Claire magazine with four different covers — one for each actress and one with all three ladies looking stunning and posing in matching navy dresses:

Watch a video from the photoshoot where the girls share what they can’t leave the house without, what they’d take with them on a desert island and their worst fashion period:

Visit the Marie Claire website to see how you can win a VIP trip to see the Glee Tour in Los Angeles this summer as well as other awesome Glee prizes!

For the first time ever, GleeFan.com is having a Thanksgiveaway! The new year is just around the corner, and with a little help from Glee’s Idina Menzel, we are giving away ten 2011 Glee Calendars! These calendars feature a new Glee character for every month, complete with some of our favorite quotes! Best of all, the copies we are giving away were signed by Broadway legend Idina Menzel, who you probably know as Rachel’s mother Shelby Corcoran.

Entering to win couldn’t be any easier. All you need to do is check out each of the following posts, leave a comment, and then check your email in a week to see if you won! When leaving a comment, please use your real email address since that is how we’ll be contacting you. Be sure to leave your comments by December 1st, 11:59pm EST before the contest ends.

1) GleeFan Thanksgiveaway: Glee 2011 Calendars Signed by Idina Menzel!

2) GleeFan Exclusive: Idina Menzel Q&A

3) Exclusive: Idina Menzel talks Glee, Wicked, and her Upcoming Cabaret Tour

Remember, please do not spam. Only one comment per post listed above will be counted towards an entry, for a total of three entries. At the end of the week, we will select our 10 lucky winners and send out the congratulatory emails!

Calling all animal-loving Gleeks! What would you give to meet Sue Sylvester in the flesh?

Join us in Los Angeles at Race For The Rescues, a 5k/10k run benefitting 10 animal rescues in the area. The event takes place on October 24th, 2010 at the Rose Bowl. Jane Lynch will be co-hosting along with Carrie Ann Inaba and Danielle Fishel. You can join the race by visiting registering for team Gleek! The top individual fundraiser will win a meet and greet with Jane Lynch along with other cool prizes.

Not ready to jet to Los Angeles? Never fear. The Rescue Train is teaming up with GleeFan.com to hold an exclusive online raffle for some Glee-tastic prizes.

Prizes include all sorts of official Glee merch, including Glee Mugs, Glee Baseball Caps, a copy of “The Power of Madonna” signed by Jane Lynch, and more! Plus we will have a super secret Sue Slyvester prize to be announced later this week!

All raffle proceeds go directly to the Race for the Rescues!

How to enter the “Gleek for the Rescues” raffle:

Step 1:
• CLICK THIS LINK to get to our official team page and enter the amount of money you would like to donate.

$5=Five tickets

$100=TWO HUNDRED tickets!

You can buy as many tickets as you like to enter in the Raffle! The Raffle will close at 11:59 Pacific Time on October 23rd, 2010. Winners will be announced on GleeFan.com.

Step 2:
• Forward your donation confirmation email to us at: gleeksfortherescues(at)gmail.com with the subject line: RftR entry – Your Name/Reference ID.

Step 3:
• Spread the word. Get together a group of friends and head out to the Rose Bowl on October 24th. Or tweet about our raffle. Together, Gleeks can unite to give abandoned animals a family again.

In addition to this raffle, @GleekShelly has teamed up with @therescuetrain to bring you a special Gleeks for the Rescue Twitter contest! Details will be announced later this week via tweets, so make sure you’re following both accounts if you aren’t already.

ExperienceLA is giving away 2 VIP passes to the unveiling of Jane Lynch‘s Sue Sylvester wax figure at Madame Tussauds Hollywood! You have to act quickly because the contest ends this Friday, July 30th. The event is at Madame Tussauds Hollywood on 6933 Hollywood Blvd, on August 4, 2010 from 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM. If you’re interested, you can enter the contest at ExperienceLA’s promotions page.

Here’s more info on the event from ExperienceLA:

Enter to win a pair of tickets and VIP passes for the star-studded event on August 4th at 11am!
Ever wish you had a minute with Sue Sylvester to tell her exactly how you feel about her outbursts, one-lines and track suits? Now you have the chance! Madame Tussauds Hollywood is GLEEking out over their newest figure, the character we all love to hate, Sue Sylvester!

On August 4, 2010 at 11am, Jane Lynch will be launching her infamous character on the Madame Tussauds Hollywood courtyard! With a performance by the John Burroughs High School Power House Choir (as seen on Oprah) and other surprises, you won’t want to miss out on the GLEE!

When I was in NYC to see the Glee concert, my family went to the Madame Tussauds there, and it was a ton of fun! For more information on how Jane Lynch will be unveiling the figure (and for some fun pictures of her being measured), check out Madame Tussauds Hollywood – “Glee Star Jane Lynch Gets Waxed”.

Jane is up for a NOW award at tv.com! She’s been nominated for the award aptly named “Makes Me Laugh Just By Showing Up.” Click the photo and scroll down to vote for her until your arm cramps up!

Edit: As it turns out, MORE of the Glee actors are up for awards! Kristin Chenoweth is up for Guest Star We Wish Stayed Around Longer, Jane again for Most Quotable Character, Mark Salling for Most Epic Hair (LOL), and Glee in general for Funniest New Show! Okay, now you SERIOUSLY have to vote. :)