POWA Lazy Day & Zone Bowling Outing, 16th August, 2026

Location for Bowling: Zone Bowling Joondalup

In the greatest oxymoron of at least this week’s post, this is not only one of our laziest days on our calendar, it’s also a day where we actually leave the library and go do some actual sport.

Yes, I think that’s weird, too. 

Sport.

Well, with the Pixel Expo on this weekend, it stands to reason that some – or a bunch – of our membership might want to check it out, and we don’t want people to feel too put out in missing POWA this sunday. So, instead of our normal lineup, we are instead going to be using the Library room for the best kind of thing: lazy things.

There’s no real plan, let alone a schedule, its really just an excuse to use the space for whatever we want – board games, video games, chatting, lunch, what-have-you. The laptop will be present, we might chuck on some random stuff for the screen, or might get stuck into a really long board game we don’t finish, it really depends on the mood.

Effectively, we are giving people an opportunity to not miss out on our lineup of anime, but also giving people the opportunity to come along for a Sunday hangout.

It is noted that there wont be a raffle prize or food shop like our normal screenings – lazy be as lazy does, and we be lazy. 

Now if youre shaking your head picturing us lazy people, how about after the normal scheduled event, we go play a sport? And a real sport, at that! Not a fake sport, like American Football, either. 

Zone Bowling is just around the corner from POWA’s meeting room at the Library, and from 6:00pm we are gonna meet there and have a couple rounds of throwing heavy things, aimed badly, at things really far away in a building where the music is entirely too loud. We have purposely scheduled bowling to take place an hour after POWA ends – so there’s enough time to grab some food, have a drink, feed the cat – that kinda thing – before rocking up. It is pay-your-own-way, and will cost the individual about $28 for two games if you’re keen, though there’s no requirement to pay for both (or at all, if you just wanna hang out.)

We hope to see you there!


This week’s Schedule:

1:00 – Doors at the Library Open, we veg out

4:45 – Door at the Library Shut, we uproot ourselves and leave

6:00 – Hey, POWA, Lets go Bowling (At Zone Bowling, Joondalup)

POWA Summer Seasonal Preview, July 26th, 2026

Location: Joondalup Library, Upstairs Meeting Room

Despite Australia’s best attempts to freeze us all off, it is time for the Summer season of anime!

It feels like there’s a bit more variety in the shows coming out this time around, or at least, a bit more than just a standard Isekai. We have our eyes on everything from Kaiju-girl romcoms and cute-girls-doing-cute-warcrimes to steampunk alternate histories and remakes of classic scifi series this season.

So lets all get alongside what is brand new, or old-but new, or just old, but also new in this quarter’s offering of anime!

Like all our seasonal previews, this event will be free, but no raffle prize will be on offer.

We hope to see you there!

This week’s schedule:

1:30 – Summer Seasonal Anime (Episode 1)

2:00 – Summer Seasonal Anime (Episode 1)

2:30 – Summer Seasonal Anime (Episode 1)

3:00 – Short Break

3:15 – Summer Seasonal Anime (Episode 1)

3:45 – Summer Seasonal Anime (Episode 1)

4:15 – Summer Seasonal Anime (Episode 1)

POWA Tabletop RPGs Day, 20th June, 2026

Location: Beaumaris Community Centre

POWA continues its absolutely on-schedule quarterly games days with something of a scene change for POWA in recent years in this Tabletop RPGs Day!

POWA has run events with Tabletop RPGs before, but they’ve always been a part of another event – a POWAthon or general board games day – and those always felt like they were cut short. So, instead, we are doing a focused event. 

There are going to be three different games on offer for attendees to enjoy – and they are listed below, but first, the scheduling and such.

Most notably, this event is not being hosted at our regular space. We have booked the Beaumaris Community Centre, a larger space that offers broader booking times, for this event. It’s located not much further down the road from the Joondalup Library, but please double check your route before leaving and ending up at the wrong place. 

Secondly, this is a Saturday event, run on the 20th, Midday to late. How late? Well, we have the room booked till 10pm, but we don’t really expect games to still be running at that time, we just grabbed more time just in case. As for when the games actually start, we would hope to have them running by 1pm – but that is really up to the whims of setup times and the volunteer Game Masters themselves.

Finally, there will be no cost of entry to this event – it will be free, though to save us the effort of having to watch it, there will be no entry table, shop or raffle on offer. Thankfully, the location is located in the same complex as an IGA, Kebab shop, and Fish and Chips joint, so breaks to go grab a snack are going to be nice and easy.

Also, since people keep asking me, there is no minimum age requirement for this event – young attendees are welcomed, as are everyone’s friends and families.

We hope to see you there!

The Games:

Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion

Hosted by Leigh

A fantasy world of adventure in which players will play through premade scenarios as one of a selection of characters, each unique and with their own abilities. Kill monsters, dodge traps, loot bodies and work together. A more tactical game than a roleplaying game. Recommended for people who don’t want to have to roleplay a character.

Root: The Roleplaying Game

Hosted by Drago

Players take the role of a wandering woodland creature adventurer, wandering from clearing to clearing and taking on small jobs to earn their living. Players decide on how to interact with the world – sneaking, fighting, negotiating – and letting dice and the scenario determine your successes and failures. Recommended for people who want to roleplay heavily in a freeform, fantastical adventure.

Alien: The Roleplaying Game

Hosted by Glen

Explore abandoned colonies, derelict space stations and infested ships, fixing broken systems, tracking down missing corporate suits and fighting – or fleeing – whatever might be the cause of the situation. Slow tension can lead to sudden explosions of action, and it is quite possible not all of you make it out alive… or are on your side. Recommended for people who can roleplay at least a little bit, enjoy sudden dramatic entrances, tough encounters and the dice deciding your fate.