Awesome Omni Con!

We just hosted Omni Con at Martin Library and it was really fun and awesome! A con is a big event that people gather to and participate in, a few examples in case you are unfamiliar are: Comic- Con and CatCon for Omni Con, we collaborated with other libraries and librarians within the system to organize different workshops and crafts. For workshops we had face painting, comic drawing, crochet, and an author talk with Jessica Eppley. For crafts we had Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) with artist Kate Hufnagel, fuzzy tails, yarn beards, bottle cap pins, and a coloring contest with rejected Pokemon drawn by our staff member Ross.

Read on to see some of the great photos from the event!

We also had a video game tournament featuring Smash and Mario Kart and an all day anime showing with a manga lounge. In addition to these things, we had a cosplay contest, and an instant cosplay contest, which was so cool! Cosplay is when people dress like characters from different things, like animes or movies. The instant cosplay was for those who did not show up in costume. They could pull together a costume with some very simple props and still have a chance to enter and win prizes! (And seriously, with prizes like LootCrate, CrunchyRoll Memberships, Zelda pendants, and GameCube to name a few, who wouldn't want to be creative and throw together a costume for a chance to win a prize!)

Please email me for more information on any of these activities, contest rules, crafts, or for clarification on anything involving Omni Con! dstates@yorklibraries.org Check out some pictures from Omni Con! Dawn states: I really want to go to CatCon! 

Face paint from the Face Painting workshop!