Thanks to Jennifer over at Charity Buzz for bringing this amazing opportunity to our attention! As we tweeted earlier, Sara Canning and Zach Roerig will be donating their time for a lunch date with a fan via the 2nd Annual Do Something Online Auction. Here are the details!

Get sucked down to Atlanta and have lunch with two of the stars of the CW’s, The Vampire Diaries, Zach Roerig (Matt Donovan) and Sara Canning (Jenna Sommers). Who better than these two to enjoy lunch with?!

Bidding on this lunch date ends August 18^th.

Proceeds from this auction will benefit Do Something. It is their aim to inspire, support and celebrate a generation of doers: people who see the need to do something, believe in their ability to get it done, and then take action. Be part of a generation of doers.

Bidding starts at $500. Place YOUR bid now!

Winnipeg Free Press has a great article on Sara Canning and the director of Sara’s feature film Black Field. She talks about what it was like shooting the Gothic flick and how she had just finished when she got word that The Vampire Diaries had been picked up.

In creating the frontier drama, Esterhazy (who has a BA in history from the University of Winnipeg) steeped herself in the writings of Canadian pioneer women such as Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr-Traill. “I wanted to get a sense of what their voices were like. Women writing in the 19th century presented a good opportunity to study how women wrote and thought in that period.”

The resulting lead character required Canning to likewise immerse herself in a world where she was obliged to spend much of her work day in wind, rain and mud on a Manitoba prairie. This would be the second time Canning had to rough it in Manitoba, the first being her work on the TV movie Taken in Broad Daylight, in which she played a kidnap victim.

“In that one, we were out in the middle of the night, filming in a ditch,” Canning says with a laugh. “But I really like working that way.

“I really love waking up in the morning, and saying: ‘OK, I’m stepping outside of the hotel right now and stepping into the storybook.’

“It really felt like that every day,” she says. “I remember one night shooting the scene around the campfire with Mathieu (Bourguet) and Ferron (Guerreiro) and myself and looking at them and saying, ‘How cool is this? How odd is this to be actually sitting out here in the middle of a field?’

“It really felt like something from another time. Not a lot of imagination is required,” she says. “Obviously when you’re an actor, you’re always using your imagination, but just to be surrounded and immersed in that world made things so much easier for us.”

Read the rest of the article.

Sara Canning stopped by Pix 11 Morning News today. She shares her thoughts on what’s in store for Season 2 and plays a Love Sucks matching game! Check it out!

Zach Roerig and Sara Canning stopped by WGN Morning News out of Chicago. They talk about the vampire pop culture and how they are so happy to be a part of the phenomenon. A HUGE shoutout goes to my good buddy @SafiTaffy99 for giving us the heads up on this!

Sara Canning looks absolutely stunning in these photos! She attended the Nyx Cosmetics Decade +1 Anniversary last night. I love her makeup, the colors are perfect for her!

Source: Wire Image

For those of you that don’t know, Sara Canning stars in a feature film called Black Field that premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival back in the Fall of 2009, but is being released Canada Wide in June 2010. Here are some promotional photos from the film, a brief summary, and a couple of trailers. It looks really good, can’t wait until it’s released on DVD! Here’s the link for the official website, Black Field Movie and the Facebook Page as well, with all the information you need for premiere dates, plus lots of extra promotional photos, check it out!

Inspired by the Gothic novels of the Brontës, Danishka Esterhazy’s dark and captivating first feature is a suspenseful drama unfolding on a bleak Canadian prairie landscape in the 19th century. Maggie McGregor (Sara Canning) and her sister Rose (Ferron Guerreiro) have no remaining family to help with the physical farm labour and generate income. Maggie is a stoic, dutiful young woman who has spent her youth taking care of Rose, while providing for the household by living off the land. Rose is a friendly, vivacious and somewhat naive 14-year-old, not yet hardened by the challenges of their circumstances. The two sisters’ lives are forever changed when a mysterious and charming man named David Latouche (Mathieu Bourguet) arrives at their isolated farm. As the mesmerizing French-Canadian trapper wins the sisters over and is permitted to stay, questions emerge about his past and his intentions.

Sara Canning is featured in Elle Canada’s June 2010 issue. In it she talks about her movie Black Field. The film is premiering Canada wide in June 2010 and I’ll have more details on that in an upcoming post.

Check out these adorable photos from the Young Hollywood Awards Party courtesy of The Digital Photobooth, you can view the rest at the link provided. I’ve just included a fiew of my favs. Great pics featuring Nina Dobrev, Candice Accola, Sara Canning, Michael Trevino, Matt Davis, Steven R. McQueen and Zach Roerig.