Kumoricon is excited to announce its next mini-event, Dance Dance Kumoricon! Dance Dance Kumoricon is a celebration of gaming culture. Join us for an evening of video game and video game-inspired music spun by a live DJ from CMD Productions. Cosplay as one of your favorite game characters to compete in our costume contest. Social [...]

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Post update: Updated dates to reflect cancellation of July 4-5 weekend. Kumoricon will be running stage activities and an exhibitor table at the Dragon Moon Festival the weekends of June 6-7 and August 1-2. We have a half-hour cosplay skit planned Sunday afternoon but are looking for more skits. If you are a cosplay skit [...]

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The May General Meeting will be held on Sunday, May 17, from 1pm-5pm, at the Eugene Water & Electric Board: Eugene Water & Electric Board Training Room 500 E 4th Ave Eugene, OR 97401 Google Maps Driving directions (EWEB web site) Please note that the date has changed. The meeting has been moved to Sunday, [...]

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The April General Meeting will be held on Sunday, April 26, from 1pm-5pm, at Clark College: Clark Community College Gaiser Hall 1933 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver, WA 98663 Campus Map Parking Map Google Maps General meetings are open to the public. Meet and plan with other staff, join staff or become a volunteer, and learn [...]

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Death Note: L, change the WorLd will be screening at select theaters nationwide for two days: Wednesday and Thursday, April 29-30. It will be shown subtitled on Wednesday, April 29 and dubbed on Thursday, April 30. As a special Kumoricon offer, we’ll be giving away four tickets in a drawing this week. Email publicity@kumoricon.org and [...]

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An interview with Brian Mathews, Assistant Registration Manager. “I’d be happy to go over all of what it takes for attendees to get their badges. First, the attendee has to have ordered their badge through the website or the mail-in form available on our website. Once we get that information, either online or through the mail, we enter it all into a database, in which we run a program that pastes that information onto the badges attendees receive. We have ‘reg meetings’ every couple of weeks or so, where we print out anywhere from fifty to several hundred of these badges, as well as envelopes for them. We then package the badges onto the letter they come with ourselves, pack them into the envelopes, stamp them, and deliver them to the Post Office.”

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An interview with Andie Letourneau, Cosplay Coordinator. “This year, I’m really looking forward to having our Guests of Honor, Todd Haberkorn, Chris Cason, and David Vincent, judging the skits. Since all three of them are voice actors, they bring with them a tremendous amount of experience and acting knowledge, which they will use in assessing the skits entered this year. Another highlight is that this year is the first year that we will have an ‘Audience Choice’ winner for Cosplay.”

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Kumoricon is just around the corner, but there are plenty of geek events happening in Portland to keep you busy in the meantime. Read on to see just a few highlights to add to your schedule over the next few weeks.

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An interview with Ash Butler, a new Yojimbo and Con Suite staff member. “There’s a lot of satisfaction in knowing you’re helping make the convention you enjoy so much better for everyone. So if you like helping people, it’s a great way to do it on a large scale. As staff, you can have a lot of input on the convention. It’s been proven to look good on most resumes. And it’s also cheaper to be staff for Kumoricon than it is to merely attend … If you’re not sure what you want to do for the con, there are a lot of jobs, so you should look them over and find one that suits your interests.”

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An interview with David Reynolds, our Volunteer Manager. “Kumoricon exists to bring people together to have a good time, to make great memories, and that goes for everyone. We don’t want people to help because they feel obligated; we want them to help because they enjoy the experience and find it rewarding. That can mean anything from working in their favorite department, to helping only before con; or from volunteering only a couple of hours, to putting in so many hours that we make them honorary staff.”

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