Screening at the Cameron Art Museum

The anime screening at the Cameron Art Museum will be held on Friday, November 2. The museum is located at 3201 South 17th Street, in Wilmington, NC. For more information on the museum, you can visit their website, or see a map of this address here.

Our selections for this screening currently include Blame! and Spring and Chaos. We will still have free promotional materials available, and Fanboy Comics will be present as well. The museum cafe, Sweet & Savory, will be open during the event making food and drinks available. The schedule for this event is as follows:

• 6:45 pm - Begin seating, place orders at cafe, etc.
• 7:00 pm - First feature, Spring & Chaos by Shoji Kawamori.
• 8:00 pm - Intermission
• 8:10 pm - Second feature, Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei.
• 9:00 pm - Screening concludes.

Admission for this screening is by donation, with donations going to support future public events such as this one at the Cameron Art Museum.

Cosplay Tour at the Cameron Art Museum

A tour of the current exhibition of costumes will be held at the Cameron Art Museum for cosplayers and cosplay fans on Friday, October 5. It will begin at 3:15 pm, and arriving a few minutes early is recommended.

The exhibition is titled Between Taste and Travesty: Costume Designs by William Ivey Long. Long is currently the premier costume designer for Broadway. He has been nominated for eleven Tony Awards, and has received five of those. Also, he has designed costumes for close to sixty different Broadway productions which include Crazy for You, Cabaret, Contact, Hairspray, The Producers, and Grey Gardens just to name a few.

The exhibit is only available by guided tour on account of heightened security with an exhibition of this magnitude. The tour itself is between one hour and one and a half hours long. Admission cost for this tour is $10 per person (discounts are only available for museum members).

Any anime fans that are also cosplayers or fans of costumes in general would find this exhibition inspiring to say the least. If any cosplayers are wondering whether making or designing costumes can lead to the possibility of a career, your proof lies in this exhibition.

After the tour we are going to have a cosplay photo-shoot which will take place in the courtyard of the museum. If weather is not permitting, we can take pictures inside as well. As of this time, we are still looking for any photographers willing to participate in the photoshoot. If you are a photographer, or know anyone who is, please contact us for further details.

We are limited to a maximum of 25 people for the tour. In order to make this work, you must register for the tour to reserve your place on it.

To register, submit your name via email by clicking here: Send Email.

6 People have registered for the tour, with 19 spaces still available.