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LOS GATOS, CA — Pacific Media Expo presents its’ first free event in Northern California by hosting the NorCal Holiday Anime Swap Meet on Saturday, December 11, 2010 in Nordahl Hall in Los Gatos, CA. This event will feature a hall cosplay contest, hourly raffles sponsored by Bandai Entertainment and PMX, a swap meet/artist alley, and concession stand. This event offers free onsite parking and free admission to the general public.

“The Bay Area always had a variety of wonderful conventions to make anime fans happy throughout the year but free events are rare. Thank you very much to Pacific Media Expo for providing a free and wholesome event for anime fans in the Bay Area,” says Nordahl Hall member Kathy Whitesel.

Artist and swap meet tables are still available in limited quantities. For more information regarding this free community event or to secure an artist/swap meet table, please go to http://pacificmediaexpo.com/NorCalHoliday2010.html.

About Pacific Media Expo:
As America’s first major media trade show dedicated primarily to Asian-Pacific popular culture and entertainment, Pacific Media Expo (PMX) is an industry event sponsored by the Pacific Media Association. Pacific Media Expo was recently held on November 12-14, 2010 at the Pasadena Hilton. The convention featured honored guests, live performances, panel discussions, autograph sessions, Asian cinema and animation video rooms, and art exhibitions at one of the country’s only exhibit halls dedicated solely to Asian media and pop culture. The date and location for PMX 2011 will be announced soon.

For media inquiries contact:
Victoria Chan, PMX Press Manager
Allison Thater, PMX Press Assistant Manager
408-634-2554
Press@PacificMediaExpo.com

This post was submitted by Victoria Chan.

Anime Palace
2352 Walsh Ave.
Santa Clara, CA, 95051

Come by and mix with fellow fans, pick up some new goods and partake in some of our events like Gaming and our first Gundam Model building event! Cosplayers welcome!

http://www.animepalace.com/

http://forums.fanime.com/index.php/topic,13282.0.html

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175253319527&index=1

This post was submitted by EdOfNoName.

Our Halloween Cosplay contest will be held at our meeting on October 26th! Rules are here:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~animage/contestrules.php

This week’s showing will be Umineko at 7:00 in a location 2060 VLSB. Our weeklies are Bakemonogatari and Spice and Wolf Season 2.

Location: UC Berkeley, 2060 VLSB [View Map]

Organizer: Cal Animage Alpha

Website: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~animage/

The Holiday Anime Faire is a one-day celebration for Holidays, Anime, and Arts and Crafts! Join us for our fourth year of family fun!

NEW for this year is a Bay Area-wide Art Contest! Details on the Holiday Anime Faire website: http://www.holidayanimefaire.com/art-show-contest/

Activities include:

* Manga Artist Demonstrations
* The Finest in Bay Area Anime Shopping
* Arts and Crafts
* Gift-making – Cards, Plushies, and Ornaments
* Anime & Holiday Music

Pre-register online for only $5!

Website: http://www.holidayanimefaire.com

To welcome its first audience, VIZ Pictures is going to giveaway 10 free tickets to the premiere screening of 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End, which has a limited run beginning 8/15. For a chance to win a free ticket, email your full name with “Tickets to 20th Century Boys 1″ in the subject to info@vizcinema.com. Winners will be picked and notified by Monday, August 10th.

Source: http://www.newpeopleworld.com/upcoming-events/win-a-free-ticket-to-the-premiere-screening-of-20th-century-boys/

Harajuku Kawaii Experience is running a makeover contest and offering a free ticket to Tokyo as the grand prize! The top 5 contestants will be featured in a pageant to choose the winner during the J-Pop Summit Festival event at Peace Plaza in Japantown, San Francisco on Saturday, August 15th, 2009.

Contest details at the New People website.

FanimeCon is offering two free guest admissions to the VAMPS J-Rock show at the Grand Ballroom in San Francisco on the 25th of July. To enter, just fill out a form on the FanimeCon website with your info by June 13th.

Sign Up Wars: The Online Registration Menace

Out of 35 total spots for this year’s Fanime Karaoke Contest, 25 were made available for online pre-registration about 3 weeks before the convention. The word around town was that pre-registration for the Karaoke Contest grows more and more competitive each year. This year, looking at how the online sign-up system closed about 20 minutes after going live, I’d say “competitive” could be an understatement. On the evening of Sunday, May 3rd, 2009, hordes of eager contestants sat at their computers with their eyes glued to the Fanime Forums and the Karaoke Twitter page, waiting to sign up at the first sign of a registration form. How do I know this? Well I was one of those people! I believe that I only managed to obtain the last spot available because two other registrants before me didn’t fill out their forms correctly. Here’s hoping that everyone who missed out on the online sign-ups still managed to get a spot on the day of the contest. I knew that I had caught a lucky break that night. I was happy! But whenever I catch such a glimpse of good fortune, fate somehow never fails to come back and bite me in the toes with its twisted sense of humor.
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