Upcoming Event: Harufest

Coming up this Saturday (May 1st) is Harufest! A great little high school anime convention that has been running for a few years now. Here is some pertinent information on the event:

Time: May 1st from 9am - 6pm
Location: W.P. Wagner Senior High School (6310 Wagner Road NW, Edmonton, Alberta)

Cost: $3.00

Interesting factoid. During the event's first year it was called Fuyufest, and was done in February. In their second year they had to move the event to May. Fuyu translated to winter however and so the event was renamed Harufest to better represent the springtime in which the event is now held.

Things that are interesting about this year is that Harufest has two improv groups that will be preforming as well as a voice actor who will be running a panel. Should make for an interesting event. I wish I could see but I'll be in the Artist Alley/Vendors Room probably throughout the entire event.

Below you'll find a list of events and what's showing in the viewing rooms but if you want to keep up better with what's going on check out Harufest's FB page, or the Anime Alberta forums.

Events:

• Maid & Butler Cafe
• 99 Yen Challenge
• Synaptic Chaos Theatre
• Will Wood Voice Acting Panel
• Cosplay Chess
• Haru no Koe
• SSBB Tournament
• Japanese Panel
• The 404s
• Ouran High School Host Club
• Cosplay Contest
• Karaoke
• Games Room

Viewing Rooms are to include:

• xxxHolic Movie
• Tsubasa Movie
• Gurren Lagann movies 1 & 2
• Hetalia - Axis Powers (eps being shown currently unknown)
• Shugo Chara eps 1-4
• Clannad eps 1-4
• Dragon Ball Z (eps being shown currently unknown)
• Pokemon (eps being shown currently unknown)
• Naruto (eps being shown currently unknown)