Post Aniwave '07 Report

With the conclusion of this year's Aniwave, I have written up a small report. You can view it at by following this link:

Post Aniwave Report [via Mentisworks]

Big thanks again to everyone who came out to support us. Hope to see you again next year!

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.

Screening at Jengo's Playhouse (I.A.C.)

The anime screening at Jengo's Playhouse (a part of the Independent Art Company) will be held on Saturday, September 22. Jengo's Playhouse is located at 815 Princess St., in Wilmington, NC. Click here for a map of this address.

We will start the event with some snacks and time for everyone to hang out and familiarize themselves with our vendors. Free items have been provided by our sponsors, and will also be available at this time. In addition, we will be raffling off t-shirts and complete box sets of Urusei Yatsura OVAs, Bubblegum Crisis, and You're Under Arrest.

The screening will begin with two shorts, Fata Morgana and She And Her Cat. The first feature we will show is Cat Soup, followed by an intermission. The second feature will be Voices of a Distant Star.

Here is a breakdown of the schedule for this event:

• 12:00 pm - Snacks served and vendors available.
• 01:00 pm - Short film: Fata Morgana [Saben Kane].
• 01:05 pm - Short film: She and Her Cat [Makoto Shinkai].
• 01:15 pm - Cat Soup [Tatsuo Sato, story by Nekojiru].
• 01:50 pm - Intermission.
• 02:00 pm - Voices of a Distant Star [Makoto Shinkai].
• 02:35 pm - Raffle winners announced.
• 02:45 pm - Screening concludes.

That is all, and we hope to see you there!

Aniwave Poster

The Aniwave poster is finished and is now at the printers. We were expecting it to be done Friday, but some delays have pushed it back to Monday. This means that we will begin distribution early next week. Our target areas are downtown, the CAM, and UNCW. Other relevant locations, such as Fanboy Comics of course, will receive them as well.

Special Thanks

I would like to extend a big thank you to our sponsors! Fanboy Comics has been very supportive in helping us to cover part of the event's costs as well as spreading the word in their popular newsletter. AnimEigo generously covered part of the event's costs as well, and was kind in providing prizes for our attendees.

Additional thanks go out to the UNCW Anime Club, who have enthusiastically distributed our posters on campus, and advertised for us via email also.

Thank you everyone for your help, and I hope to see you soon!