It’s that time of the year again– elections! We’re looking for enthusiastic weebs who want to help keep this club alive and run for executive positions next academic year. Know anybody, or think you’re up to the task? Fill out the nomination form below before March 19th, 2021, with who you think would fit the bill- your friend, your enemy, yourself, anyone! Our AGM (Annual General Meeting) and the elections will be held on Friday, March 26th, 2021!
Nominees are expected to have a short presentation prepared and sent to us via email at ubcani@gmail.com before the AGM. More information is available on the form in terms of what positions are available + what they entail, and what is expected of you! Questions? Suggestions? Feel free to message any of the execs, this page, or even leave a comment below.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 4 arts and crafts workshops over the last 4 months. We hope you had a good time and learned a lot! This is a reminder announcement that the overarching event of our collaboration with UBC PRINT Arts and Crafts is an art/crafts contest from December 23rd, 2020 to January 2nd 2021 at midnight. Submissions will be accepted via Google form that will be added here at a later date. Please join both our Discord server and the UBCAni x PRINT Collab Discord server for the live events and discussion.
Contest Categories
Most Popular/Fan Favourite: For this category we will have publicly open voting on which one people like the most.
Best Application ofWorkshops: This category is based upon which submission the judge’s think used the most elements from each workshop.
2D media: This category is for whichever 2D created piece the judges think is best (ex. a drawn piece of art or a painting).
3D media: This category is for what piece of 3D art piece the judge’s think is best (ex. a sculpture or craft).
Prizing
For the winner of our Most Popular/Fan Favourite we will be giving away a Huion Graphics Tablet valued at $80!
For our 2D media prize, we have an exclusive Demon Slayer key frame art print from the Ufotable Cafe in Tokyo valued at over $50 USD!
For the 3D category, we have an anime figurine and keychains TBA!
And finally, for the Workshop category, we have an 80 piece marker set!
To kick off the new school year, we are pleased to announce our annual UBC Anime Club icebreaker event!!! Join us on our Discord server for 2 whole nights of anime-themed games and fun! This year we’ll be hosting our icebreaker online on our club’s Discord server over two evenings on Friday, September 25th and Saturday, September 26th. Please RSVP to our Facebook event for an additional raffle ticket by 11:59pm on Thursday, September 24th and press going!
General Itinerary (please note that all times are PST)
Friday, September 25th 6:45pm VC in talk and chill with executives to get to know the club more 7:00pm Intros and video 7:30pm *UBC Anime Club “awards” (kinda like waifu wars but with a twist) 8:30pm Anime based team trivia. Favorites such as Um, Actually and others! 9:30pm A screening of Makoto Shinkai’s Kimi No Na Wa Saturday, September 26th 7:00pm Intros again for anyone who missed the first night 7:30pm Are you funnier Than a UBCAni Exec? 8:30pm Jackbox. Go to https://jackbox.tv/ in your browser and enter the code in the stream to join in 9:15pm Mafia. We will be holding this via https://mafia.gg/ 10pm A screening of studio Madhouse’s masterpiece Redline
What are the UBCAni “Awards”? Think the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, but the people’s vote is the only one that actually matters, contestants pitted against the next revealed contestant one after the other until one rises above the rest, king of the hill style. Will your waifu make it through all the rounds to win the awards? Vote to ensure victory, and debate is highly encouraged- the saltier, the better.
What is “Are You Funnier Than a UBCAni Exec?” Adapted from Jacksfilms’s YIAY Live series with the same title, think Cards Against Humanity but all the cards are fill-in and the audience are the voters of the funniest answer- least funny is eliminated each round. Respond to weeb-related prompts with the funniest answers you can think of and face off against the host. May the funniest weeb win!
Prizing
This year we are holding a member-exclusive raffle where the grand prize is an EXQ Rimuru Tempest figure!
Despite the insanity of the last few months, UBC Anime Club is determined to continue on with weekly weeby activities, and the newsletter alongside that. We’ll be using Discord as our main platform for all online activities, so be sure to join if you haven’t already, and weeklies take place every Friday from 7:00PM to 10:00PM or later. Updates on what we’ll be doing each week will come through our Facebook group and #events channel in Discord. Give yourself the activities role in our Discord server by typing:
.iam events
to get notified and pinged when we start and other related announcements. The weekly online activitiy will take place from 7:00PM-9:00PM.
Artist meetups in the form of remote Drawpiles are still happening, starting from 9:00PM Fridays! Check the pinned post in the Artist Facebook group or the #art-discussion channel in our Discord server for pings, updates, and our finished canvases (also found in our website’s gallery)! Don’t know what Drawpile is? Find out more and a tutorial here. Give yourself the “artist” role in our Discord server by typing:
.iam artist
Weekly anime showings are also still happening and also starting from 9:00PM, streamed through our Discord. Shows are hand picked each week by our librarian for you to enjoy. Give yourself the “viewings” role in our Discord server by typing:
.iam viewings
This Week’s online Activity: Jackbox
After last week’s successful trial run of Skribblio, we will be running Jackbox games such as Tee K.O., Trivia Murder Party 2, Push the Button, Patently Stupid, and other games from Jackbox 5 and 6! Once again, for specifics on joining the game, please watch our Discord’s #events channel or our Facebook group and join the events role!
Schedule: 7:00 – 9:00PM: Jackbox Games 9:00 – 10:00PM: Showings 9:00 onwards: Artist meetup Drawpile
As we’re reviving our weekly newsletter (sign up for it here) for our online club activities, with fewer events we have more newsletter real estate to fill. Do you have an anime-related artwork, cosplay, video, or any kind of content you’ve made and are proud of? Email us, or contact us either through our Facebook page or @exec on Discord to submit your work and social media links so we can feature you!
On behalf of the 2019 executive team we would like to congratulate you on finishing finals and the conclusion of another academic term. With this comes a goodbye as well from the 2019-2020 executive team. We would like to thank you for the wonderful year, from heroes and villains at Halloween, icing gingerbread men at Christmas, finding your knight at Valentine’s (via otome game style) and finally the wonderful memories from our weekly events.
We would like to thank each member of the 2019-2020 executive team for their hard work, creativity and time. We would also like to thank every volunteer and everyone who made it possible. With that, we wish you all well and welcome the new 2020-2021 executive team.
The Cineplex Events Anime Series is bringing My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising to big screens across Canada! Enter to win a pair of passes to see it at a participating theatre near you during its run between February 26th to March 5th!
Thanks to Cineplex, we have a pair of My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising movie tickets to give away! The deadline to enter is Saturday, February 29th at 11:59 PM. Winners will be contacted via email shortly after the form closes.
Note: You must be a member of UBC Anime Club to enter this giveaway.
