Category: Screenings

Screenings

POWA Return Screening, 15th January 2023

Location: Joondalup Library, Upstairs Meeting Room

POWA’s regular weekly screenings continue with our first screening of 2023!

POWA makes its long awaited return on January 15th. As we welcome the New Year, POWA is also celebrating 15 years of existence! During the past 15 years, numerous celebrations of our history and anime in general have taken place. Whether you’re a long time member, new, or guest; We hope to share more wonderful memories with you into the future.

We hope everyone’s had a great summer holiday break. POWA is ready to welcome everyone back in strong form with a return to our weekly line-up of six awesome anime shows. This week will include a heavy round of voting on FOUR shows. ‘Hinomaru Sumo’, ‘Comic Girls’, ‘Kanon’ and ‘Claymore’. With ‘Fruits Basket Season 2’ surviving it’s most recent and final vote.

A new anime season has also been welcomed in, Winter 2023. That we will be previewing later this month on January 29th. So stay tuned for that!

Entry for our weekly screenings is $4 for members and $5 for guests. However, your first time is free! Every entry prior to our break receives a raffle ticket for a weekly prize. We will be in the upstairs meeting room, of Joondalup Library. Our doors will open at the same time as the library – 1:00PM and we will start screening at 1:30PM, leaving you time to find the room and settle down with some drinks and snacks.

This Week’s Schedule:
1:00PM – Library Doors Open
1:30PM – Comic Girls – Episode 4 (Comedy, Voting)
2:00PM – Fruits Basket 2nd Season – Episode 21 (Slice of Life/Romance)
2:30PM – Log Horizon – Episode 13 (Fantasy)
3:00PM – Break & Raffle draw
3:15PM – Hinomaru Sumo – Episode 16 (Sports/Games, Voting)
3:45PM – Kanon – Episode 4 (Drama, Voting)
4:15PM – Claymore – Episode 12 (Mature/Horror/Thriller, Voting)

We hope to see you there!
The Facebook event can be found here.

Happy New Year 2023!

Events, Screenings

POWA 2022 Year-End Screening and Retro, 11th December 2022

Location: Joondalup Library, Upstairs Meeting Room

To help us cool off in the heat and close out the year. POWA is hosting a special Summer screening. We will be taking a high dive into 4 shows with a Summery vibe. Who doesn’t enjoy a good beach episode?

Along with the Summer shows there will be a big announcement on the day so stay tuned for that. With another year passing by in the blink of the eye, its time we look back at POWA 2022 with a retrospective. With close to an hour’s run time! It’ll be a good one.

POWA members have nominated their favourite moments from the anime we completed during 2022. From the funniest moments to the most heart-wrenching feels. It’s been a great year for anime and POWA. We hope to celebrate with you and keep the ball rolling in 2023!

Since it’s the season of giving. POWA has organised a special pass the parcel, with a whole bunch of anime goodies. Thanks to our brand new sponsor Crossfire Collect who donated these awesome prizes! You can check them out here: https://crossfirecollect.com/

POWA will be back in January 2023, where we’ll be voting on shows to keep in our current lineup, as well as continuing our goal of building a great community through our love of anime. Stay tuned to our social channels to see the date of our return. Stay safe, enjoy the holidays and we’ll see you real soon!

Entry for our weekly screenings is $4 for members and $5 for guests. However, your first time is free! Every entry prior to our break receives a raffle ticket for a weekly prize. We will be in the upstairs meeting room, of Joondalup Library. Our doors will open at the same time as the library – 1:00PM and we will start screening at 1:30PM, leaving you time to find the room and settle down with some drinks and snacks.

This Week’s Schedule:
1:00PM – Library Doors Open
1:30PM – The Squid Girl – Episode 1
2:00PM – The Aquatope on White Sand – Episode 1
2:30PM – POWA 2022 Retrospective
3:00PM – Break, Announcement and Pass the parcel
3:15PM – A Lull in the Sea – Episode 1
4:15PM – Natsume’s Book of Friends – Episode 1

The Facebook event can be found here.

We hope to see you there!

Screenings

POWA Screening, 4th December 2022

Location: Joondalup Library, Upstairs Meeting Room

POWA’s regular weekly screenings continue with our penultimate screening of the year!

Along with a special FINAL screening planned for the week after. Where we will showcase Summer/Christmas themed shows and episodes. Also as a BONUS treat, we will watch POWAs 2022 Retrospective. Where we celebrate the anime we completed during the year. Including Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor who made it to the round of 16.

We’re still taking suggestions from members on a variety of categories to celebrate each and every series we finished watching in 2022. The form to do so will be open until midnight Friday, December 9 https://forms.gle/biVmk2XfNLvBtmin7. Please ask the Committee if you have any questions.

While the year is drawing to an end, voting at POWA has not. This week we will be voting on TWO shows: Fruits Basket S2 and Log Horizon. Due to technical issues the previous week, Comic Girls and Hinomaru Sumo episodes were delayed. So they will avoid voting, until we return in early January 2023! Where they will join both Kanon and Claymore.

Entry for our weekly screenings is $4 for members and $5 for guests. However, your first time is free! Every entry prior to our break receives a raffle ticket for a weekly prize. We will be in the upstairs meeting room, of Joondalup Library. Our doors will open at the same time as the library – 1:00PM and we will start screening at 1:30PM, leaving you time to find the room and settle down with some drinks and snacks.

This Week’s Schedule:
1:00PM – Library Doors Open
1:30PM – Comic Girls – Episode 3 (Comedy, Delayed)
2:00PM – Fruits Basket 2nd Season – Episode 20 (Slice of Life/Romance/Arthouse, Voting)
2:30PM – Log Horizon – Episode 12 (Fantasy, Voting)
3:00PM – Break & Raffle draw
3:15PM – Hinomaru Sumo – Episode 15 (Sports/Games, Delayed)
3:45PM – Kanon – Episode 3 (Drama)
4:15PM – Claymore – Episode 11 (Mature/Horror/Thriller)

The Facebook event can be found here.

We hope to see you there!