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!

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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!

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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.

POWA Lazy Week, 10th May, 2026

Location: Joondalup Library, Upstairs Meeting Room

Time for another slow and easy weekend for POWA – this time due to the most matronly of days, Mothers Day. 

Under the assumption that at last a couple of our regulars might be wanting to spend time with the family this Sunday, POWA has decided to once again not screen our regular lineup. 

But for those who don’t have other plans, or their schedules don’t conflict nearly as badly, at least some of us will still be meeting at the Joondalup Library meeting rooms. 

There is no real major plan or schedule in place – we have both projectors, some of us are bringing consoles (At least one Steam Deck and Switch 2 will be present) and there will be a whoooooole bunch of board games on offer as well. 

There is no shop, entry or raffle on offer though/either, simply because we are lazy and it is the week to be so. 

Doors open when the Library does, and doors close with the Library’s – that is, 1:00pm to 5:00pm. 

We hope to see you there, or otherwise, have a nice weekend!