[Mar 15] UTAMA March Free Karaoke Night

UTAMA is back once again for March with our monthly karaoke event using the joysound.tv app on the PS4. 

The event will take place from 18:00 - 21:00 in OISE 5270. You better believe that is again going to be fun night of singing ranging from your favourite anime songs to Taylor Swift or despacito, or whatever else is on joysound.tv's catalog. 

The event does not require membership so feel free to drop out to our event and have some crash-minding fun.

Hope to see you all there!

[Mar 9] UTAMA Dodgeball

Hey everyone!

UTAMA will be hosting its second sports outing for the academic year and it's going to be dodgeball!

So come on out in your gym clothes and be ready for some fun physical activity. Get ready to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge in some fun games of dodgeball. 

Hope to see everyone there.

[Mar 8] UTAMA X UTMAS: Riichi Mahjong Games Night

On Friday, March 8th, UofT Anime and Manga Association, and UofT Mahjong Society will be hosting a Japanese Mahjong (also known as Riichi Mahjong) Games Night at OISE5160. The event is free and open to everyone interested in Mahjong. No experience will be required as we will be teaching new players at the event. Hope you can come by and play with us!

[Mar 1] UTAMA "February" General Meeting

Hello everybody! 

It's time for UTAMA's monthly GM for February... Except it's on March 1st. As usual, the event will take place from 18:10 to 21:00 in room 313 in the Claude T. Bissell building. 

For this month, the entire assortment of activities will be based on making connections between seemingly unrelated concepts. For our icebreaker, in a bit of a twist from an earlier game you will all be assigned characters and have to find your groups based on some shared trait; your characters are known and you have to find the rest of the group with matching traits. 

Afterwards we will move on to our next game: Anime Connect where there will be 4 images to be shown one at a time and you have to guess the common idea between said images. Making a correct guess with less images shown will award you more points. After cutting for our food break, we will then proceed to our final game of the night, Anime Sequences. Similar to Connect there will be 4 images shown but this time, you have to guess the 4th image in a sequence rather than guess the common idea (but you'll still need to figure out the common idea to be able to figure out what the 4th image might be).

As usual, doors will open at 17:45 for anyone who wants to come by early on with the event itself beginning at 18:10 barring any last minute stragglers at the front door.

[Feb 17] Liz and the Blue Bird Screening Meetup

Hey everyone!! This info is for all those interested in going to the Liz and the Blue Bird Screening as a group on Sunday. The film will be held at the Japanese Canadian Culture Centre (6 Garamond Court) and will begin at 1pm. For more info, please visit their website: https://jccc.on.ca/event/movie-liz-and-the-blue-bird/
So, you can either meet up with us at St. George station where we will TTC there together, or you can meet up with us at the JCCC before the film starts. 
* If meeting at St. George station, please arrive exactly at 11:45am (at the St. George entrance).
* If meeting at the JCCC, please meet us at the reception desk near the front entrance at 12:45pm.
Please feel free to message me if you have any trouble finding us or if you are running late.
Also, really important, just to save us time with ticket purchases, please buy your tickets online at: https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/liz-and-the-blue-bird-japanese-canadian-cultural-centre-tickets/9059295?pl=jcccevents
Thanks and I hope to see you guys there!!

[Feb 14] UTAMA Bakesale at Sidney Smith

UTAMA will be hosting its first bakesale of the year (and probably the only one) this upcoming Thursday February 14th from 1 PM to 3 PM in the lobby of Sidney Smith. Come and enjoy some delicious sweets from the talented bakers of the UTAMA executive team.

We will have the following items available:
- Donuts ($3)
- Chocolate Chip Cookies ($2)*
- White Chocolate Macademia Nut Cookies ($2)*
- Totoro cookies ($2)
- Brownies ($2)

*these cookies will also be sold at 2 cookies for $3, what a steal!


Hope to see everyone there!

[Feb 8] "This Art Club Has a Problem" Marathon Screening

Some folks may recall us sending out a survey asking asking people what anime they would like to watch in anime club and well.... By some miracle the winner was "This Art Club Has a Problem". 

As such, we will be screening all 12 episodes of "This Art Club Has a Problem". The screening will be in RT157 and begin at 4:00 PM until the show has concluded. Come out and enjoy this 2016 comedy classic.

"Mizuki Usami is a passionate member of her school's art club, but the club has a problem—Usami is the only member who takes her craft seriously! The lazy club president constantly sleeps through activities and Collette hasn't regularly attended club activities in quite some time. Uchimaki Subaru, despite being an exceptional artist who could win an award if he tried, is obsessed with drawing the perfect 2D wife.

Light-hearted and comedic in tone, Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! follows Usami as she struggles to do art club-like activities, often obstructed by her motley crew of good-for-nothings and her distracting crush on Subaru."

[Feb 5] UTAMA Panel #5: Anime Themes

 

What's up, people (get it? like the Death Note OP? cuz it's a panel on anime themes...)! The next panel will be about anime opening and ending themes, if you didn’t get that from the reference! This is gonna be more of an open discussion-type of panel with a bit of trivia sprinkled in, so come in with your favorites and let's talk a bit about some good music. There will also be a mini anime music quiz at the end, so y'all better be prepared.

The panel will take place in the same time and place as the previous ones (5-7 pm. on Tuesday, February 5, @ the UTAMA clubroom, 21 Sussex Ave. Room 532).