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Thank you and see you next year!
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone for your awesome generosity. Your kind donations have resulted in a total donation of £2000 which will go to our two charities this year, British Heart Foundation and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). A special thank you goes out to Joe 'Granny Gertrude' Sutton for offering his hair for such a wonderful cause and everyone who participated in the charity auction. Joe, you've shaved at least 10 years off your age!
We hope you had a fabulous time at Minami Con 18 and we hope to see you again next year. An all round thank you to all you members, gophers, event organisers, dealers, DDR:UK and everyone who has helped us this year. We really do appreciate it and just can't thank you enough.
Minami Con 19 will be held at the same venue next year from the 1st-3rd of March. We will be opening up for registration later this year around September/October. So stay tune later this summer for more information.
Almost there!
Last minute reminder! Don't forget to bring your ID for registration and also travel safe. See you and remember to have fun!
PR Release and Schedule
The PR is now online and so is the schedule!
Please go through the PR especially if this is your first time at the con as there is important information about what you need to do when you get there. We look forward to seeing everybody at the con on Friday (or possibly even Thursday)!
Dealers, Events & Masquerade Entry Form!
The dealers and events pages have been updated on the website. We're still updating the events page and it's no way complete as yet but it'll give you a peek at what will be happening at Minami Con this year!
Also, if you haven't done so, you can send in your Masquerade entry to us online. Just fill in the Masquerade Form.
Maids, Piñatas & Snacks!
Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a good break over Christmas and New Year's. We have a few fabulous announcements to make regarding events this year!
This year's Maid Café will be run by the incredibly kawaii Maids of England.
Keep an eye out for Cassis and her team around the con!
Also, Tofu Cute are running the Japanese Snack Tasting panel this year. Come check out what weird and wonderful flavours they'll be serving up!
This year we have a special competition for those with artistic, yet violent tendencies - build a Piñata! Yes, you can make your own work of cardboard and tissue paper art that will be promptly destroyed with a baseball bat, scattering sweets to the crowd. Do send us photos of your piñata to , finished or close to completion so that we can put them on Friday for voting!
Minami Con 18 Conbook Articles and Artwork
The Minami Fairy need your help!
Every year we have a conbook; but often we are short of articles and artwork to grace its pages. Indeed, the committee have to write most of the articles themselves (and the Fairy tells us we’re getting worse in our old age!). So please, if you can do, help your local fairy by submitting an article or artwork for everyone to enjoy!
Please remember we are a family friendly con where cuteness rules :)
All submissions can be sent to
by the 20th of February 2012.
Payment Updates And Forms
Thank you to everyone who have signed up for Minami Con 18! I've just done a payment update and we'll try to keep it up as frequently as possible.
Also, in case you didn't already know, you can download the Bring & Buy and Hotel Booking forms from the menu above under 'Forms'. And if you would like to propose an event for the con, do fill in the Event Proposal form.
Registration Opens
We're now open for registration so fire away. We'll try to update payment details in the next couple of days so don't panic if it hasn't been reflected on the members list yet as this is a manual process for us.
Minami Con 18
It's been a long summer hiatus and here we are back again ready to get back to work for Minami Con 18! We will be opening for registration next Monday on the 24th of October at around 20:00.
Please bear with us as we follow up with more updates over the week. Thank you!
Thank you & Charity
A big thank you to everybody for making Minami Con 18 a success! We hope that you have all enjoyed yourselves. As ever, we are always humbled by the generosity of the attendees and are pleased to announced the final amount that we have raised for both our con charities this year.
The breakdown of the charity figures are as follows:
Bring & Buy - £515.65
Charity Auction - £965
Charity Collection - £556.82
Standee Auction - £75
As such, we have decided to round up the charity amount to £2200. That means that British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal and British Heart Foundation will be receiving £1100 each. Thank you so much once again!
Image artwork courtesy of Phil Laskey