Anime Club and Nintendo Night this week!

Tomorrow is Anime Club at Sellers Library, and we'll be watching the very entertaining and very weird Assassination Classroom! It's at 3:30 and open to all teens in grades 6-12, so stop on by!

Stop by Sellers #Library tomorrow for #Anime Club at 3:30! We'll be screening Assassination Classroom!

A video posted by @sellerslibraryteens on Feb 16, 2016 at 11:49am PST

And this Friday night we'll be hosting a Super Smash Bros. Wii U tournament during Nintendo Night! There's still room, so come in to the library to sign up, and get a permission slip (which will be required to enter the tournament).

Don't miss the upcoming Anime Club meeting!

I'll be posting the schedule for the next few  months here tomorrow, but in the meantime, I wanted to let everyone know that tomorrow is Anime Club! From 3:30 to 5:00 We'll be watching the comedy The Devil Is A Part-Timer! We'll also have a trivia contest of Who's That Pokemon!

#Anime Club tomorrow at Sellers #Library! We'll be screening the comedy The Devil Is A Part-Timer! Don't miss it!

A video posted by @sellerslibraryteens on Jan 19, 2016 at 8:23am PST

Random-A-Thon and other upcoming programs!

Our big fundraiser for Sellers Library teen programs, the Random-A-Thon, is just a week away! Next Saturday from 10 to 3 we'll be hosting all sorts of events, from anime to Connect 4, from papercrafts to Super Smash Bros, there's something for everyone to check out! It's a $10 minimum donation to enter.

On Wednesday, March 5, we'll be doing temporary tattoo crafts at 3:30. I'll have some designs on hand for anyone to use, such as the Deathly Hallows symbol and the Hunger Games Mockingjay, but you're welcome to bring in your own or just freehand it if you're feeling brave!

On Wednesday, March 12 we'll be making 6-second book trailers for Teen Tech Week! We'll have some iPads on hand to use, or if you've got a Vine-enabled device you can use that too. We'll plan out and make some 6-second book trailers, then at the end we'll show them on the projector for a mini-marathon! Come with a book in mind, and if you have any props you'd like to use, feel free to bring them too.

March 19th is the third Wednesday of the month, and that means it's the Anime Club! Each month we vote on a title to watch while we hang out and talk manga, anime and anything else!

Pokemon Night will be Friday, March 21 from 6 to 8. We'll be having a tournament for the X and Y Pokemon games, as well as free play on older console Pokemon titles. Come in costume for a chance at a prize!

March 26 will be the Tabletop Gaming event, a personal favorite of mine, where for two hours we'll be offering a ton of board games to choose from! From classics to new titles, we'll have a little of everything. You're welcome to bring your own games as well!

I hope to see lots of you at all these upcoming events! And if you're around Saturday, make sure to stop by the Random-A-Thon fundraiser, which helps us raise money to do all these teen programs!

Upcoming Winter programs!

Winter schedule brochures are available to grab here at the library, but here's some of the upcoming events:

The next three dates for Anime Club are Wed, Jan 29, Feb 19, and March 19 from 3:30 to 5:00. Come in and vote on an anime show to watch, enjoy some snacks and hang out with teens who share your interests!

Next Friday, January 31, join us at the library for a screening of Pixar's Monsters University at 4:00!

We'll be having a trivia contest on Wednesday, February 5 from 4 to 5. Come in and have fun competing for fun and prizes! 

On Wednesday, February 12 we'll be making blackout poetry by taking old books, magazines, newspapers and anything else we can find and marking them up to make new passages! 

Anime Club and our movie are drop-in, but registration is now open at the library for Teen Trivia Day and Blackout Poetry!

Upcoming November events

This Wednesday will be our Explosion Box craft at Sellers Library from 3:30 to 5:00! I've started an example box, which you can see below. The outside is blackout poetry, the inside is cut up manga!

Next week on Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:00 will be our Anime Club meeting! We'll have snacks and vote on an anime to watch and play some anime bingo!

Friday the 29th will be our Hunger Games Night! From 6:00 to 8:00 we'll be playing Hunger Games related ...well, games, as well as trivia and crafts! Signups are currently open for the Explosion Boxes and Hunger Games Night. The Anime Club does not require registration. 

Anime Club! Candy sushi! Anime Jeopardy!

Last Wednesday, 13 teens showed up for our first Anime Club meeting of the fall! We started things off with making some yummy candy sushi, then we broke off into four teams to play a few rounds of Anime Jeopardy! The winning team each got a box of Pocky to enjoy while watching the day's selected anime. The group voted from five choices, and Sword Art Online juuuuust won, making it by one vote! We watched the first two episodes before we ran out of time. It was a fun afternoon that was over much too quickly! Also, I was kicking myself for forgetting my phone, so I don't have any pictures of the event! Boo! For anyone that wants to play the home version of Anime Jeopardy, click the link below! It'll let you enter teams, and keep track of the score. You can even edit it to make your own custom game!
Click here to play!

Anime Jeopardy!

Candy sushi! Fruit Roll-Up "nori" wrapped around Rice Krispy treats and gummy worms!

The next Anime Club meeting isn't until November, and I hope to see everyone there again! We'll have more snacks, more trivia and more anime watching!

September Anime Club Art Challenge

Our drawing theme for the September meeting was pirates.  Check out the excellent drawings below.  I picked our usual four winners to get this month's prize, a Hello Kitty Pez dispenser.  It was a little girly, but I couldn't resist the Pez.  If you would like to join our Anime Club, we meet on the fourth Friday of the month.  The next meeting is October 22, so register now!

August Anime Club Meeting

Today was the August meeting of the Anime Club, right on the eve of everyone returning to school. Tim showed us some clips from the Sonic the Hedgehog anime movie, clips from the Japanese video game it was based on, and some bonus Japanese Sonic commercials! Our manga drawing theme for the meeting was back-to-school, so we also watched some school-themed anime clips. I had super-cute school supplies--piggy pencil sharpeners and panda/frog erasers--for the four winners. (I got them at the dollar store by H-Mart, if you want to track down some for yourself.) Here are all of the drawings:

Actual school supplies!

Kelliann had the most beautiful shading in her picture of a schoolgirl. It was my first choice for a winner.

A schoolgirl

Another schoolgirl

Yet another schoolgirl

For a change of pace...a schoolboy! OK, he's looking at a schoolgirl, but it's a start. Max won a prize for being the only person to draw a schoolboy.

A schoolgirl with talking school supplies

Kathy drew a really cute comic about a school of fish! I gave it a prize for originality.

Still another schoolgirl

Out of all the schoolgirls, I deemed this one the cutest, so Lynn won a prize.

The last schoolgirl

July Anime Club Drawing Challenge

Sorry I'm a little late on this, but here are the manga drawings from our most recent Anime Club meeting! Our drawing theme for the month was "androids." I chose four winners, who got Pocky and fancy chopsticks. Also, thanks to Billy's mom, I selected the best contributor to win a giant kit of drawing tools.

Max was one of the winners.

Tracy's cartoon made us all laugh, and won her a prize!

Leave it to Nikki to draw the cutest robots! She won one of the prizes, too.

Tommy's picture tried to persuade me that he should win the drawing supply kit.

Eric's android

A robotic maid

Awwwww.

Another robotic maid

This android spoke Japanese! Laurel won the drawing kit for this entry. It was simple, but skillful.

Anisa's android schoolgirl

June Anime Club Drawing Challenge

The Anime Club met last Friday for the first time this summer. There were several new members, so that's always good. This month's random drawing theme was kawaii ("cute") animals. We had a lot of entries! Here are all the pictures:

by Nitha

by Nikki

by Madi

I forget who made this one. Sorry!

by Tracy

by Christine

by Laurel

by Kathy

by Genni

by Eric

by Christelle

by Max

by Sara