Otafest moving to Calgary Convention Centre in 2016!
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 12:53 am
It was announced at the Closing Ceremonies on the last day this year (yesterday), that Otafest, Calgary's anime festival since 1999, will *finally* be moving out of the U of C in 2016, to the Telus Convention Centre downtown. The time will also go back to later in the year; on the Canada Day weekend, from July 1-3. The reason given was that it was outgrowing it; however, this pertains not just to lack of space, but the difficulty in securing it and on a consistent basis, and also particularly in dealing with the U of C. It's the end of an era.
This decision was just recently made by the Otafest Board, Executive and Staff very recently; and while the announcement to move was obviously embargoed, this is not a new development, as it was mentioned and discussed before, along with a presentation at Otafest a couple of years ago.This change of venue is overdue. It has now been belatedly recognized that it had become not optimal.
This decision was just recently made by the Otafest Board, Executive and Staff very recently; and while the announcement to move was obviously embargoed, this is not a new development, as it was mentioned and discussed before, along with a presentation at Otafest a couple of years ago.This change of venue is overdue. It has now been belatedly recognized that it had become not optimal.