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Anime Evolution is an Anime Convention held at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia , Canada . It is put on by the AE Convention Corporation. It has traditionally been held in August since 2004. Before that point, it was held in July. HISTORY ''Anime Evolution'' was originally known as ''Anime Showcase''2, and was held in 1998 by the SFU ARC club. It was a two-day showing of anime that was supposed to be held annually, with the help of the Vancouver Japanese Animation Society, the UBC Anime Club, and V-SWAT. In 2001 it was renamed ''Anime Evolution'' and in 2003 became a full Anime Convention . It has grown each year since 1999, and had attendance of over 4,200 people in 2007.3 In 2006 ''Anime Evolution'' held its first convention concert, featuring Japanese band ZZ on the convention's Saturday night. Japanese band BACK-ON played at the convention in 2007 in addition to local bands such as Moo-ve. EVENTS
EVENT COMMITTEE Anime Evolution is comprised of volunteered staff who work most of the year prior to the convention. The convention itself is lead by a nine member elected executive board, which includes four top-level executives and five directors. Under these directors, there are managerial staff, then there are coordinators, ending with volunteered staff. The current board structure was introduced in the 2006 elections. These elections are held one month after the convention has completed. AKA KON AND ITS RELATION TO ANIME EVOLUTION AKA Kon was an anime convention that took place in November in 2000 and 2001 . Since the convention was disbanded, Anime Evolution has had to shrug off comments that relate the convention directly to AKA Kon. The two conventions were run separately, and although some of the staff from AKA Kon did come over to help out with Anime Evolution, the main staff were and have never been involved. Because of the debts left with the area hotels, and the relationship damaging that the former convention had done with guests and industry, Anime Evolution has slowly been working to get the former problems resolved. While the convention has been rapidly expanding, and there has been discussion of moving to another location. This discussion has also been fueled by rumors of bad management of the event on the part of the Simon Fraser University organization staff doing things such as double booking rooms/venues, scheduling exams next to loud events (such as the Karaoke room) in order to generate complains, and closing off accommodations by using false excuses of renovation. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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