News and updates for the 2009 Anime Evolution convention
Registration for Anime Evolution 2009 is now open!
Please check out the new registration page for details.
The first deadline is Jan. 17th, 2009 for the 35.00 3 day pass.
Con passes make great belated Christmas gifts. For more information please look under the registration page.
All attendees please be aware that Anime Evolution will be occuring in June instead of our regular month of August.
Rules for the 2009 Anime Music Video Contest are now available on the Programming page. The submission form will be available later this week.
Best of luck everyone!
The Communications Department presents the first Anime Evolution YouTube Commercial Contest.
Members of the AE community are invited to compete by creating brief, family-friendly, videos to promote the convention. Selected videos will be uploaded on to YouTube via the official Anime Evolution video channel.
Continue reading ‘Anime Evolution YouTube Commercial Contest’
International Manga artists have two months to enter their works for the Third International MANGA Award.
The award honours international MANGA artists who have contributed to the promotion of MANGA overseas. Entries, including works already published, are accepted from both commercial and non-commercial artists.
Up for grabs is one grand prize (The Golden Prize) and three runner up prizes. All winners are invited to attend the 2009 awards ceremony in Japan.
The New Asian Film Festival Society sponsors a monthly film series. On Saturday Nov 22 (from 7pm – 10:30pm), they will be having a Japanese Animation night at the following location:
Address: Richmond Cultural Centre, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond BC.
Most of the animated films are by Japanese-Canadian film makers. Some of the Canadian Film Makers will be in attendance for a Q&A. Also to be shown will be several episodes of the TV series Mushi-shi as an example of anime.
Presented by
Richmond Cultural Centre
Cinevolution Media Arts Society
Special Sponsors
The City of Richmond
National Film Board
Anime Evolution
Program guide is located here.
Press release is located here.
Admission is free to Film Festival Society Members. You can buy a membership for $2, which is good until March 31, 2009.
Are you an artist and a fan of Death Note? This contest might be right up your alley.
VIZ Pictures is donating three pairs of tickets (valid at Empire Theatre’s Granvile location) for the Canadian screening of Death Note II, The Last Name and we want to give them away.
Death Note II: The Last Name will be screened on December 3, 2008, at various Empire Theatre locations across Canada.
Show times are 7:00 p.m. with tickets available online or at theatres.
Vancouver’s 12th annual Asian Film Festival is taking place at the Cinemark Tinseltown Theaters on 88 and West Pender Street.
The four-day festival, running from Nov. 6 until Nov. 9, features independent Asian films produced in North America.
Continue reading ‘The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (Nov. 6 to Nov. 9)’
Monkey Majik is a Japanese rock band, consisting of two Canadian brothers and two Japanese musicians. They will be performing in Vancouver on Monday November 3 at Richards on Richards. Tickets are $12 through Tickmaster (19+ years admission).
Info on the band can be found here.
Band web page can bee seen here.
Press Release about the band and their concert can be downloaded here.
Vancouver Concert Poster can be downloaded from here.
Some of their YouTube videos can be seen here: Akari, Change , Together
I’d like to announce the winner of the Judges Choice for the AE 2009 Mascot Contest: Naruru!! Congratulations!!
It was a close decision, which took awhile to sort out in a second voting process among the judges. Her design will be used for all AE 2009 promotional material along with being the main character design on the official AE 2009 Staff t-shirt.
Here is the winning design:
Now that’s done, we can rest until we start up the AE 2010 contest. The 2010 contest will be announced before the end of 2008.
