For those of you who could not attend the club meeting here are the meeting
minutes.

During this weeks club meeeting we watched the following Anime:
Read or Die TV Series
The Tale of Saiunkoku
Boys Over Flowers
Beck

In other news:

Making DC Anime Club Better:


What can we the Officers of DC Anime Club do in order to make your experience
with DC Anime Club more enjoyable?

Keep the ideas coming people.

Also we the Officers of DC Anime Club request that no one get's upset or angry
if their idea get's shot down. Just dust yourself off and try again. We the
Officers of DC Anime Club have to think what the club as a Whole wants and not
just what one individual wants.

Overall without you the club members we don't have a club. In fact DC Anime Club
is more than "just a club".


Katsucon
http://www.katsucon.org
Febuary15-17,2008
The Omni Shoreham Hotel 2500 Calvert St Nw, Washington, DC 20008.
Yet another con where we are still waiting on flyer to promote the
con. We the DC Anime Club will be promoting ourselves at Katsucon 2008.
The following have volunteerd to help with the DC Anime Club table at Katsucon
2008.
Michaelangelo Bostic
Victoria Cruz
Kofi Bolden
Craig Vaughn
Latrice
Brandon Briscoe
The running of the table will last from 12pm-6pm. With the exception of Sunday.
Shifts per person will last for two hours.
All volunteers MUST arrive at Katsucon at 11am. Shifts will be given soon.
If their are activities at Katsucon you wish to attend I suggest looking at the
program guide for Katsucon:
http://www.katsucon.org/files/katsucon14_schedule.pdf


Who: Japanese Information and Culture Center and DC Anime Club.

What: Monthly Anime Screenings

When: Fourth Thursday of Every Month Starting January 24,2008 6:30pm

Where: Japan Information and Culture Center
Lafayette Center III
1155 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-3308


Nearest Metro Station: Foggy Bottom GWU Blue and Orange Line Subway Station.


In an effort to bring more Anime/Live Action Premiers to
Washington, DC we the DC Anime Club will collaborate with the Japanese
Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan to bring more Anime/Live
Action Movie premiers to Washington, DC. Whenever the US distributors bring
anime to movie theatres Washington, DC the Nations Capital is skipped so we the
DC Anime Club will change this and work hard to bring the Anime/Live Action
Premiers to Washington, D.C. Not Maryland. Not Virginia but Washington, D.C. On
our movie list we have Love Com(Lovely Complex) XXXholic the movie, Tsubassa
Chronicles The Movie, One Piece and much more!!!



DC Anime Club and the Film Festivals:
In order to furthur our purpose of educating people about East Asian
Culture through Anime and Manga we the DC Anime Club will team up
with the US Distributors as well as the Film Festivals in
Washington,DC to show Anime.
We are trying to work with the following Film Festivals for 2008:
DC International Film Festival: The way things are looking with the DC
International Film Festival is that we may end up promoting the anime movie 5
centimeters per second via the DC Anime Club Street Team.
DC Independent Film Festival: DC Anime Club and will bring in guest such as
Steve Bennet and Sharvonique Studios to the DC Independent Film Festival and
show the First Lum Movie.
Time and Dates of the above events are still in the works.


National Cherry Blossom Festival(NCBF)2008:


Here is the link to the NCBF:
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
Alright folks here comes the big one. This is when we the DC Anime
Club start to work our butts off.


Who : DC Anime Club, Otakorp Inc and Smithsonian Freer Art Gallery
What: Smithsonian Anime Marathon
When: April 5, 2008 11am-9pm.
Where: Smithsonian Freer Art Gallery Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20560
Nearest Metro Station: Blue Line Smithsonian.

Once again we the DC Anime Club will be Cosplaying on
Stage at the Smithsonian Anime Marathon on April 5, 2008 at the
Freer Art Gallery Meyer Auditorium. We need members of DC Anime Club
to Cosplay on Stage. MEMBERS OF DC ANIME CLUB ONLY. This is our idea
so members of DC Anime Club to back up our claim.We will also do a
Cosplay Presentation via power point by Terrence Briggs in a big
room provided by both the Smithsonian Freer Art Gallery and Otakorp.
So again WE NEED MEMBERS OF DCAC TO COSPLAY. Members who will
cosplay on stage at the Smithsonian Anime Marathon are asked to show
up at the Smithsonian at 10am for set up and such.
Please say if you can help out via e-mail at
president@dcanimeclub.org.

The following are asked to help with the Cosplay Presentation at the Smithsonian
Anime Marathon:

Chris Wanamaker
Joane Brown (Maybe)
Linda Chen(Maybe)
Matthew Green
Kyocs Chen
Moe Palmateer
Jonny Gross
Lauren Edwards
Victoria Cruz
Jade Mayo
Theressa Weller
Janeia Prentiss




Japanese Street Festival:
Who: DC Anime Club
What: Japanese Street Festival
When: April 12,2008 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Where: Downtown DC - Pennsylvania Ave. between 14th & 10th streets;
and 12th Street between Pennsylvania & Constitution avenues

THIS HAS CHANGED. What exactly we will be doing is still a little
up in the air since we are still waiting on our sponsors.
We plan to have a Cosplay Presentation at a table at the Street Festival but
there is a fee to pay. So in short we are working on this. We as in the DC
Anime Club Officers.


DC Anime Club Convention Tour:

In an effort to promote DC Anime Club we the DC Anime Club will
have a table to promote DC Anime Club at the following local or at
least close to Washington,DC Conventions for the 2008 Convention
season. We NEED members of DC Anime Club to volunteer to help
promote DC Anime Club at the conventions below.


Otakon
http://www.otakon.com
August 8-10,2008
Baltimore,MD
Still waiting on word from these cats as well. We'll see if DC Anime
Club can help to promote this con. Yeah right like they need it but
it does not hurt to try.


T-MODE
http://www.t-mode.org/
September 12-14,2008
Arlington,VA
We will have a table at T-MODE and promote the living
daylights out of DC Anime Club.Again we need members of DC Anime
Club to volunteer at the cons we attend.

Small Press Expo
http://www.spxpo.com/
Exacct Date: October 4-5, 2008
Dates for 2008 Small Press Expo
have yet to be announced
however we will work to see
if we can do cross promotion between Small Press Expo and DC Anime
Club.


Anime USA
http://www.animeusa.org
Exact Date: October 10-12, 2008
We will see if we can do some cross
promotion between AUSA 2008 and DC Anime Club. AUSA is still
working on AUSA 2007.