Cosplay Picnic & Photo Shoot

The first day of Aniwave for this year will kick off with the Cosplay Picnic at the Cameron Art Museum. The Cosplay Picnic will be held on Saturday, October 24, at 11:00 AM. The Cameron Art Museum is located at 3201 South 17th Street, in Wilmington, NC. Click here for a map of this address.

A Photo Shoot will follow the picnic at 1:00 PM, which should give us enough time to get everyone's picture taken before the anime screening at 2:00 PM.

Come dressed as your favorite anime character, and make sure to bring friends! The more the merrier! And it wouldn't be a picnic without some food, so please bring a snack or dish of your choice (use your best judgment of course). Japanese food is always a great fit for the festival...

Notice: Due to concerns from the Health Department and the persistence of the H1N1, and flu viruses, we must inform you that "store-bought food items are encouraged and preferred if at all possible."

Current List of Food Being Brought:

• Cake
• Yakitori
• Riceballs
• Chicken Dumplings
• Green Tea Cake
• Pocky
• Cookies
• Candy Sushi
  
• Chips
• Soda
  

In order to gauge attendance, and the amount of food we will still need, please register for the picnic. You can register in two ways. First, you can RSVP to the event on Facebook...

RSVP to Cosplay Picnic on Facebook: Event Page

Or send your name, contact information, and food you plan to bring, by using the following contact form...

Send Cosplay Picnic Registration:

Current Registration List:

1. C. Amezcua (+1)
   
2. A. Bell
3. C. Bell
   
4. E. Boswell (+2)
   
5. C. Brown (+1)
6. C. Boulware
   
7. P. Calame
8. K. Camelio
9. A. Canosa
10. S. Canosa
    
11. A. Castillo
12. C. Catron
    
13. R. Comer
14. W. Denton
15. A. Elandt
16. A. Emery
    
17. V. Ewok
18. M. Ferreri (+4)
    
19. S. Fritcher
    
20. G. Galgano
21. K. Gaster
    
22. B. Gay
23. C. Van Gilder
    
24. S. Gilley
    
25. S. Grissom
26. R. Hamilton
27. H. Houston
    
28. A. Houvouras
29. L. Keffer
30. N. Kisabeth
    
31. T. Lang
32. S. Lynn
    
33. K. Mallner
34. A. Marlow
35. P. McDonald
36. B. McKeithan (+2)
    
37. K. McLiverty
    
38. K. McLung
    
39. O. Morales
40. F. Moreira
    
41. N. Murphy
42. S. Murphy
    
43. E. Neale
    
44. A. Penny
    
45. S. Perry
46. K. Peterson (+3)
    
47. W. Reese
48. D. Riggs
    
49. W. Rooks
    
50. K. Russell
    
51. T. Russell
    
52. C. Ryan
53. S. Santos
    
54. B. Schoonover
55. C. Schoonover
    
56. S. Schoonover
57. C. Scott
58. A. Sellers
    
59. A. Silverwood
60. J. Tandy (+4)
    
61. S. Tsubame
    
62. C. Vo (+5)
63. N. Watson
64. A. Westmoreland
    
65. N. Wisniowski

Cosplay Picnic & Photo Shoot

On the third day of Aniwave for this year we will have a Cosplay Picnic at the Cameron Art Museum. The Cosplay Picnic will be held on Thursday, October 30, at 4:00 PM. The Cameron Art Museum is located at 3201 South 17th Street, in Wilmington, NC. Click here for a map of this address (please be advised that Google maps does not always accurately represent this location).

A Photo Shoot will follow the picnic at 6:00 PM, which should give us enough time to get everyone's picture taken before the anime screening at 7:00 PM.

Come dressed as your favorite anime character, and make sure to bring friends! The more the merrier! And it wouldn't be a picnic without some food, so please bring a snack or dish of your choice (use your best judgment of course).

In order to gauge attendance, and the amount of food we will still need, please register for the picnic by sending your name, contact information, and food you plan to bring, by using this link:

Send Cosplay Picnic Registration Email

Current Registration List:

1. P. Calame (+2)
2. K. Camelio
   
3. E. Denton (+5)
4. A. Foland
5. K. Jernigan
   
6. K. Mallner
7. W. Rooks
8. K. Russell
9. A. Schoonover (+2)
   
10. A. Sellers (+1)
11. A. Silverwood (+1)
12. A. Willis
    
13. N. Wisniowski

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.