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What: Film screening and panel for Isao Takahata’s World War II anime film, Grave of the Fireflies. This event is free and open to the public.

Where: Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch [View Map]

Tickets: The box office will open at 1pm. The free tickets will be distributed day of show and are on a first come, first serve basis. Seating begins 20 minutes before the start time.

Panelists:
Susan Napier, author of Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle
Frederik Schodt, author of Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics
Ian Condry, author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
Roland Kelts, author of Japanamerica
Dan O’Neill, UC Berkeley, Moderator

Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization)

For more details visit: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2008.09.27.html

The second Manga Social Night will be 5:30 on September 25th at the free speech cafe before game night. We will be discussing Mirai Nikki, Kuroshitsuji, and Bokurano book club style. For more info there is a thread on the forums.

Location: UC Berkeley, free speech cafe [View Map]

Cal Animage Alpha website: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~animage/

The third game night will be on Thursday, September 25th from 7:30 to around 10 on the second floor of Dwinelle (look around, you’ll find us).

Cal Animage Alpha website: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~animage/

Our third showing will feature The Daughter of 20 Faces, and more Kurenai and Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.

Location: UC Berkeley, 2040 VLSB [View Map]

Cal Animage Alpha website: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~animage/

The second game night will be this thursday September 18th from 7:30 to around 10 on the second floor of Dwinelle (look around, you’ll find us).

Cal Animage Alpha website: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~animage/

Cal Animage Alpha is UC Berkeley’s anime club. They hold anime showings every Monday from 7-10 pm, and gaming events every Thursday at 7:30pm that run throughout the school year. These events are free and open to the public.

For a $10 fee you can become a CAA member and acquire various benefits such as library access, entitlement to their weekly newsletter, entry into raffles (6th and 13th week), and pizza during their anime marathon at the end of the year.

Website: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~animage/

The first Manga Social Night will be 5:30 on September 18th at the free speech cafe before the second game night. We will be introducing ourselves and talking about our favorite manga, as well as deciding what to read for future manga socials.

Location: UC Berkeley, free speech cafe [View Map]

The second showing of the school year, featuring Macross Frontier and more Kurenai and Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.

Location: UC Berkeley, 2040 VLSB [View Map]