http://www.nom-con.com/

WE HAVE NOW MOVED TO NEW WEBSITE!

Hi all and welcome to the website of Nom-con 2010. Standby for updates!!

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Nom-con is proud to annouce that our charity of choice for this year's convention is Brainwave Ireland, the Irish Epilepsy Association. Your support will be highly appreciated if possible! =)

WE HAVE NOW MOVED TO NEW WEBSITE!

Hi everyone just to let you know if you didn't already that nom-con has moved to a shiny new website at

www.nom-con.net

Reasons for the move and all information can be found in our old forums here.

The new website contains all the latest information and new integrated forums so hope you enjoy!

Thanks for all your support and hope to see you at next August's convention

NEWS UPDATE 20/01/11

Hi all once again! Once again it's coming around to that time of year when nom-con's gears start turning in the run up to next August's event, which shall be on the first weekend of the month this time (Aug 5th - 7th 2011).

Thanks again to all who attended last August in D4 hotels and to all the amazing people who aided us last time. Over the course of the weekend we had about 1,000 people in attendance making it a crazy weekend for all. Also we raised over €1,700 for Brainwave, the charity we choose, and they asked us to convey their heartfelt thanks for the generous donation that everyone helped contribute to.

In the coming weeks we're hoping to launch an overhaul of the current website and if all goes well we'll have pre-reg open sometime next month. Before and after that we'll be announcing even more guests, traders and events than ever before! ^^

Anyway please bear with us over the next few weeks and we'll release more information on this years event soon!

Thanks!!

Nom-Con Committee 2011

NEWS UPDATE 23/08/10

Hi everyone! Hope you're getting excited as Nom-con is finally upon us and happening next weekend in D4 Hotels! Thanks to everyone who have support this event as this is your con and who knows maybe you'll be organising it someday! ^_^ Well this announcement has both good and bad news and we pray that you won't be too disappointed.

Event Schedule!

Some of you may have noticed that the event Schedule is now up on our events page of the website! ;) Click Here

Guests!

Chris Patton:

Ok here's the main bad news =( Chris Patton can no longer attend the convention. Last week Chris informed us that he could no longer come to Ireland due to a combination of impending work commitments and poor health. He loves attending conventions in the UK and had being really looking forward to meeting each and everyone of you and had every intention of being here but now sadly he has to stay at home and work on several audiobooks while being tortured with the knowledge that he could be here relaxing all of you. Trust me he feels really bad about it and sends his best wishes to everyone and hopes you enjoy the weekend regardless! John Swasey, our other amazing Voice Actor/Director is still attending and packing for his trip as we speak!

Sweatdrop:

Sadly there is one other piece of bad news. Sweatdrop artists Ruth Keattch and Chloe Citrine can't attend either. All the members of Sweatdrop do it on a part-time basis and have other jobs and sadly in this case their work for Sweatdrop and their other jobs just got was more than they could handle and they had no choice but to cancel for this year. They have however vowed that they will do their very best to attend next years event!

Beez Entertainment:

Here's the good news and when I say good news I mean it! =) Beez Entertainment, official licencer of many of the best anime titles out there, will be attending next weekend! This will the first time Beez have come to Ireland so be prepared to snatch up some great deals on their DVD range at their trade stand in the main hall! Click HERE for more info in our guest section!

NEWS UPDATE 05/08/10

Pre-Registration has ended!

Pre-registration has now ended, but to those of you who have not registered, don't fret! You can still pay for entry on the weekend of the convention, at the same prices of €35 for a weekend pass and €20 for a day pass. Anyone who had pre-registered and not paid will not receive a personalised con-badge or free tee-shirt on the day of the convention, and will have to pay at the doors.

To avail of the discount room rates for the on-site accomodation for the weekend of the convention your reservations must be made by the 8th of August. Anyone who fails to book with the hotel after this time will be charged the full rate. To avail of the discount rates all you need to do is mention Nom-Con when making your room reservations.

NEWS UPDATE 17/07/10

D4 Hotel Acommodation Price Reduction!

You'll all be delighted to hear that D4 hotels has graciously reduced accommodation by €10 per room per night! =D Anyone who has already booked their accommodation will of course also be charged this new rate. Prices for the rooms can be found HERE.

To book a room you just pre-register with the convention and Lorraine will send you out the details within a few days. Remember these are double and twin rooms so ideally suited for 2 people which makes the accommodation very cheap for a very nice hotel in Dublin's city centre during the summer time. Even hostel accommodation isn't much cheaper! Plus you won't have to even leave the building for the duration of the weekend. ;) But please be quick as pre-reg is due to close in 2 weeks!

Sweatdrop Studios To Attend!

We are delighted to announce two more guests for this years Nom-con! =) Sweatdrop Studios is a UK-based independent publisher and comic collaborative creating original manga-styled comics and Ruth Keattch and Chloe Citrine, two of their members, shall be attending. For more details view their guest page HERE

Calling All Artists!

We are looking for fanart of our mascots Casey, Corey and even Mr.Riceball Man if you must XP

Our debut seems to be approaching at breakneck speed and our brains keep coming up with new idea's for competitions! This round Alison's come up with having a collage of the best fanworks in our Convention Booklet so that you guys can be part of it :3

Theres only over 6 weeks until the convention but the booklet itself needs to be edited and printed before this so theres not an awful lot of time... soooooo we have to set a rather tight deadline.

You have until TUESDAY 3rd AUGUST!!! to submit your artwork to Deviantart! Good luck and for more details click HERE

Just a reminder to any artists that sadly Artist Alley is completely full but please come along and show your support and sure there's always next year =)

Akemi Solloway and the Japanese Art Festival!

The wonderful Akemi Solloway, who is responsible for organising the Japanese Art Festival in the UK and also for providing special guided tours to Japan has kindly offered all nom-con attendees a 5% discount on any of her tours! Sadly Akemi can't attend Nom-con this year but sends her best wishes to all attendees and hopes to attend next year. For more information on Akemi and the Japanese Art Festival please click on the images below ;)

NEWS UPDATE 17/06/10

Hi Everyone!!

We have the Registration Form back up and Running!! There was a small bug in the system for a few days and that has been resolved

Just To let Everyone know, Registration will be closing on the 31st of July!! and a Week before that for anyone paying with Postal order or cheque. So get your skates on and pre-register while you can! Remember only pre-registered weekend passes will get a Free T-shirt!

NEWS UPDATE 01/05/10

NOM-CON'S POTLUCK COSPLAY PICNIC!

Greetings all! This coming Saturday we'll be throwing a cosplay picnic in Merrion Square Park not far from St. Stephen's Green in Dublin! Should be a laugh and you'll get to meet the committee too ^^

For more info try the forums or go to the facebook event page ^^

MILKY TEA PUBLISHING TO ATTEND!

We are delighted to announce that Milky Tea, a local doujinshi publisher will be in attendance =)

NEWS UPDATE 01/05/10

REGISTRATION FOR ARTIST ALLEY IS OPEN!!

Please email, Tree trionaspeak@gmail.com with your details.

You must provide your full name that you registered with, and just to remind you, you need to have paid to apply for artist alley. if you have a postal order sent, mention it in the email and a place will be held for you, but if we have not received it in a week of your registering for the artist alley, your place will be given to the next in line, as it is only fair, I hope you understand.

And don't worry! if you do not make it onto artist alley, we are willing to sell your goods at the bring and buy section under bring and buy rules.

NEWS UPDATE 28/04/10

Hey everyone!!

Another quick update for you all concerning Events registration!! Anyone on the forums will be receiving an email in regards to this, So if you have not joined to forums, you might want to think about doing so, just to keep up with latest events, and without further ado!!

Registration for artist alley will be open at 9.00am on the 1st of may!!

Now it is VERY IMPORTANT that you have REGISTERED and FULLY PAID, other wise you will not be eligible for artist alley, the reason for this is it would not be fair to give a place away to a person that has not registered and paid in advance, when there are people who have already registered and paid just in the hopes of getting onto artist alley.

We are also hoping to open events registrations at the same time, there will be forms put up for Skits and Masquerade.

And last but by no means least the Maid Cafe! We are looking for Volunteers! you can find Information about it Here!! And again, if you are a member of the forums, you will receive an email about it ^_^

NEWS UPDATE 13/04/10

Hi all and once again there's some pretty sweet updates here for you all!

More Guests Confirmed!

More guests confirmed and possibly more to come yet ;) Firstly we are once again delighted to be able to bring over the ever talented voice actor and Director John Swasey. He's voiced many characters including Gendo from Evangelion and Death from Soul Eater and he's just such a sound guy! Really looking forward meeting him! Also we have the privilege of having UK skit artists Team Giblets attend! We're very lucky to have them and they'll be helping us out, selling t-shirts and performing on the weekend! Thanks guys! For more info go to our Guest page!

Cosplay!

If you look on the site you'll now see a page dedicated to cosplay rules and information. Also we are proud to announce that Nom-con will be taking part in the Euro Cosplay Competition hosted at London Expo! More details on the cosplay page.

Dealers!

The dealers page has been updated once more and including Team Giblets we'll also be having Zenpop publishing attend. They're a new local manga publishing group so be sure to help support local talent

Pre-registration!

Thanks to all who have already pre-registered with us. Your support is greatly appreciated! If we can get another 180 pre-regs in between now and the 1st of June, as a thank you we'll add a special secret gift in the con bags ;) It's pretty cool and we already got great ideas on next years gift ^___^

Just to let everyone know currently we have most of the accommodation in D4 hotels on hold for just nom-con attendees. Be advised to book soon as rooms are booking up and the rest will be released to the general public at some stage.

Registration For Events And Artist Alley!

Just to let everyone know that we hope to be accepting registration for some of our events including Artist Alley as of May 1st. Artist Alley in particular is pretty limited in space and registrations will be taken on a first come first serve basis. NOTE: Only pre-registered con goers can register for events online so get your skates on and pre-register. For anyone who doesn't get a place on Artist Alley we'll be setting up a special section in the bring n buy where we will sell your goods for you as per bring n buy rules. (they should be up soon)

Ok that's it for now! Thanks and talk again soon!

Note from Our Director

I'm delighted and honoured to be able to be the convention director for this new anime convention and have a group of highly skilled, motivated, professional, and generally awesome group of individuals helping me bring this convention together in what will be a major Summer Anime Convention in Ireland for this year and hopefully many years to come.

We started this idea last summer and recieved a huge amount of interest in it. The lack of more anime cons in Ireland had been noticeable especially more recently with the rise in popularity in anime and so we aim to fill that void so people will have another con to go to. ^_^

An enormous amount of work has gone into this convention even before we could announce it in order to ensure things were definitely going ahead and that all the right elements that make a great anime convention were in place. Since we started this many months back when it was just a mere twinkle in our eyes everyone involved has gone above and beyond in bringing this idea to life. We have many exciting and new ideas which we'll be bringing to this convention and hope that you'll stay tuned to the site and forums and support us in an epic celebration of Anime in Ireland!

Nate Smithson

Con Director.

Expect more updates on the site in the near future so watch this space! ;)