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ASAHiCon is a convention run by students of Antioch High School’s Anime Club. This convention is held on the campus on March 31st, 2012.

Location: Antioch High School, 700 W. 18th St., Antioch
Admission: $7, or $5 w/student ID
Website: http://www.asahicon.org/

The Bay Area’s largest anime con is coming up soon!

Location: San Jose McEnery Convention Center
150 W. San Carlos St., San Jose, CA 95113
(between Almaden Boulevard and Market Street)

Registration: $60 until 11:59pm PST May 15, 2011 (register online at: http://registration.fanime.com)
Single day pricing will be available on-site at the con only! Pricing is TBA.

For more information: http://www.fanime.com

Location: Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco Japantown
Pre-reg ($25 for both days) ends February 5th!

Website: http://www.aodsf.org

Saturday, 2/5 @ 1:30pm at Viz Cinema, San Francisco’s Japantown
Exclusive PRE-SALE of the Blu-ray Disc Box will be available
Website: http://www.newpeopleworld.com/films/films-2-2011/#gardenofsinners

Fremont Teen Center
39770 Paseo Padre Parkway
Fremont, CA 94538

$9 for one or two people!
More info at http://www.holidayanimefaire.com

art contest – get your entry in now!
lots of fun to be had!

Amazing Arts & Crafts
• Glass Ornament Decorating
• Fabric Ornament Making
• Handmade Cards
• Button-Making
• More at the show!

Visit with Manga Artists
• Bay Area Artists Unite
• Manga Start

Manga Drawing Room sponsored by Sakura of America

Anime & Manga Goods Vendors
• PMBQ Studios
• Anime 101
• Anime Palace
• Collectors Universe & Anime
• Serenity Dream
• and more!

Anime Viewing Lounge
Holiday/Anime Music
Snack Bar

San Francisco Film Society Fall Season
SF International Animation Festival
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

The San Francisco International Animation Festival celebrates the region’s preeminence as a hub for one of the most creative forms in cinema. Join us for an enticing mix of the latest FX-based features, anime, family-friendly cartoons and wonderfully unclassifiable shorts from around the world, and a fabulous Opening Night party. This year’s festival includes Hayao Miyazaki protégé Sunao Katabuchi’s Mai Mai Miracle, the Decemberists-inspired Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, six wildly diverse shorts programs and a live animation and musical performance by artist duo Semiconductor.

For tickets and full program information, visit:

http://www.sffs.org/Screenings-and-Events/Fall-Season/SF-Intl-Animation-Festival.aspx

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA

Featuring:
Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka
& San Francisco Taiko Dojo
San Francisco Taiko Dojo Rising Stars
Sacramento Taiko Dan
Kaminari Taiko of Houston
Mui & The GRRRL Brigade

Special Guests from Japan:
Osuwa Daiko
Kasumi
Makoto
(Grand Master Daihachi Oguchi’s Successor)

TICKETS:
$45 & $39
For tickets, call 415-978-2787 or visit ybca.org

For more info 415-928-2456 & www.sftaiko.com

CAAM and the Japantown Merchants Association partner up once again to bring you a very special presentation of Hayao Miyazaki’s HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE . Join us at the Japantown Peace Plaza on Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 8:30pm for this free event. Early arrival is highly suggested as seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE follows the story of Sophie, 18-year-old girl who toils in the hat shop opened years ago by her late father. Often harassed by local boys, one day Sophie is unexpectedly befriended by Howl, a strange but flamboyant wizard whose large home can travel under its own power. However, the Witch of the Waste is displeased with Sophie and Howl’s budding friendship, and turns the pretty young woman into an ugly and aged hag. Sophie takes shelter in Howl’s castle, and attempts to find a way to reverse the witch’s spell with the help of Calcifer, a subdued but powerful demon who exists in the form of fire, and Markl, who protects the four-way door which can instantly take visitors to other lands and dimensions.

Sunday, September 19, 2010 | 8:30PM

FREE FOR EVERYONE!
Peace Plaza in Japantown
Post Street at Buchanan Street
San Francisco, CA

Early arrival highly suggested. Seating is first-come, first-served.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145790608775671

Following last summer’s thrilling engagement, Grammy® Award-winning conductor Arnie Roth returns to the San Francisco Symphony for two electrifying concerts of music from the video game Final Fantasy. These special events will feature music not heard at last summer’s concert, including the North American premiere of Final Fantasy IX: Prima Vista and music from the upcoming CD Distant Worlds II: music from Final Fantasy.

http://www.sfsymphony.org/season/Event.aspx?eventid=41972

http://www.sfsymphony.org/season/Event.aspx?eventid=41978

Due to a number of factors I will no longer have the time to update this site on a regular basis. Rather than continuing to operate it in a sub-par manner, I’d like to give anyone and everyone in the Bay Area anime community the opportunity to volunteer their time and efforts to contribute and help to maintain the content of the site. I am more than willing to continue providing hosting and with technical maintenance of the site; however anyone wanting to provide technical assistance is also welcome!

With increased participation, I am sure both this site and the community surrounding it will continue to flourish! I look forward to hearing from you and hope to see BayAnime continuing to provide for all of us in the future.