Posted Saturday, 27 August 2011 - 4:54pm
We're very pleased to announce the total amounts donated to charity from the various convention charity events and collection. A massive thank you is due to everyone who kindly donated, resulting in a fantastic donation of £4305.68 to the British Heart Foundation and £160.00 to the Japanese Red Cross.
Full details can be found here: http://www.ayacon.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1432.0
We will be running a whole variety of events over the course of the weekend. What's listed below is not exhaustive but should give you a sample of the great activities going on over the course of Aya.
You can also now download our Full Event Schedule.
These will be some of the biggest and most popular events we'll be running over the course of AyaCon.
Our two bands Unicorn Table and Unshin will both each be performing live in concert in the Student Union building over the course of the weekend.
Our two American guests Michael Sinterniklaas and Matt Mercer will be hosting a variety of informative and entertaining panels on a host of topics.
Hundreds of attendees will be dressing up as whole variety of characters from anime, manga and video games. The masquerade will be your chance to the amazing work and attention to detail people have been putting in.
In 2009 Raven brought us a beautiful piano concert mixing in a whole medley anime, gaming and geek music. She will be returning once again but this time with a vocalist to make the show even more awesome.
Back once again, your chance to take the spotlight and entertain the rest of the Ayacon attendees, either by yourself or in a group.
One of the biggest highlights of the con for many is the evenings line-up. Once the days activities are over it's time to let loose and have some fun.
The ever popular karaoke session will be your chance to get up and give us your best singing voice in front of a room full of slightly drunk people. We'll have a huge selection of anime themes and jpop songs to choose from.
Each night of the event will include a late night party for you to drink and dance the night away. Including the Time Traveler's Dance on the final night where anything goes in regards to costumes and music choice.
Irreverent, rude and often borderline offensive the anime pub quiz is often more about how much you can stomach as much as it is how much you know.
These are places you visit all weekend long each serving a different niche.
A huge room will be packed with a weird and wonderful set of products from lots of different retailers as well as fan run tables. With everything from bizarre Japanese snacks to huge Gundam model kits.
Each year we work with UK distributors to bring you the very best line up of new anime and Asian cinema. A constant stream of new titles will be running throughout the convention.
A dedicated room is put aside for cosplayers featuring photography studios, galleries, self repair tools and more.
Our games room is usually packed full of music games such as SingStar, RockBand and DDR along with all the latest popular fighting games such as Super Street Fighter IV.
For the first time ever we'll be setting up a dedicated area for artists to setup a table and sell their prints or sketches to attendees.
Over the course of the weekend there will be a huge selection of interesting panels and workshops. Most are fan run events by attendees themselves each showing something they're passionate about and want to share. Listed below are just a handful of panel titles we've picked from our absolutely packed schedule.
We've got so much cosplay material going on there's a dedicated panel room just for these and they'll be running all weekend long. Again here are a handful of those you'll be seeing.
