Anyone who pre-registers tickets for Anime Blues Con 2024 between November 1st and December 21st will receive a free pass to Anime Blues Winterfest Remix 2024!

Landers Center

4560 Venture Drive

Southaven, MS 38671

•Panelist and co-host must be at least 16 years old

•Directly involve anime, manga or other Japanese culture. For example, a well-planned proposal that features an anime will take priority over an equally well-planned proposal that features an outside fandom, such as American comics or movies. Having said that, we do have a certain amount of leniency, especially if the fandom is large (in other words, we’ve received a lot of proposals for it) or overlaps ABC’s main fandoms in some way, for example: Anime, or Comics.

•Are well-planned and have supporting materials. The proposal is our first glimpse of how you communicate and what you want to do at ABC Winterfest. Make sure it’s well-written and try to include evidence that the panel will be successful.

•Are engaging and interactive. We like lectures, too, but a proposal that introduces a creative way to communicate with the audience really catches our eyes.

•Are more than dressing in character and showing up. You can certainly submit “in-character” panels, but we’d like to see more than, “come ask your favorite character a question” in the description. If you have support for your panel going well in the past, such as videos, we’d like to see that, too.

•If you plan to submit an Ask-a-Character panel, we require a video audition of your panel/characters acting in-character.

•Don’t involve aggressive physicality. We know that “battle chess” and other such games are super fun, but we don’t have the room or oversight to make sure they run safely, unfortunately. However, panels that are yoga based, or dance workshops are completely okay, and we welcome them, and we might even join in!

•Aren’t speed or blind dates. You can definitely submit a proposal, but please know that we’re pretty strict with planning these sorts of events. We have to make sure that all our guests are comfortable and safe, after all. That being said, Anime Blues Con is a huge gathering of people with interests just like yours – any event could be the place you meet your new best friend!

•All panels must be suitable for all ages.

•Please include a presentation or detailed outline with all panel submissions. We will place your panel on Tentative if the description does not support the panel idea. This will delay your panel acceptance, as we will email asking for more information.