Events
Returning Events:
AMV Contest
Test your editing skills with our AMV Contest. Entry forms and rules are available on the Contests Page of the website.
Bishounen Date Auction
Back for another year is our Bishounen Date Auction, where we auction off the hottest guy characters and crossplayers! Bidders bring cash for their favorite characters. You support the con and get a great catered lunch date out of it! How awesome is that?!
If you are interested in being a bishie for the auction, please fill out this form and send it to Mad_as_Hatter99@yahoo.com. All bishies must be male characters, but entrants may be females dressed as male characters.
Closing Ceremonies
There's never been a better reason to stick around on Sunday! We throw tons of candy, t-shirts, and other prizes into the audience and make you do silly things for the biggest ones.
Kawa Kon Swap Meet
Got some fandom-related junk lying around that you'd like to trade for even better fandom-related junk? Bring a box or bag with you, and grab a spot at a table. You have one hour to make as many trades as you can.
Fan Fiction Contest
Can you write fabulous fan fiction? Check out our fanfic contest on the Contests Page.
Iron Road Warrior
We'll give you two hours to turn a pile of junk into armor for your post-apocalyptic road warrior! Put together a team, and sign up at registration. Entries will be presented at the masquerade. Hosted by the Apocalypse Survival track.
Karaoke
New to Kawa Kon is open karaoke! Sing your heart out to your friends or simply come to have some fun with karaoke favorites, from Avenue Q to ZZTop.
Kawa Kon SNAP!
The Kawa Kon photo scavenger hunt has returned! Take pictures of the items on our list for a Sunday presentation and prizes for creativity and completion.
Kawa Kon's signature event, the masquerade is a showcase of great costumes and skits by our talented attendees. The masquerade has its own page where you can read more about it and fill out a pre-registration form.
Masquerade Show & Tell
The entrants from the masquerade bring their costumes back on Sunday morning to show you what they did, up close and personal. Any questions you have after the masquerade can also be answered by the masquerade director at this event.
Opening Ceremonies
Join us as we start off Kawa Kon with a bang (if you were here in 2009, you know we sometimes take that literally)! This year's Opening Ceremonies will introduce you to the guests and staff in a fun way.
Quidditch House Cup
As part of our Potterverse programming track, Quidditch is returning! Join us for this down-to-earth version of the wizarding world's favorite sport.
Repo Interactive Movie
It's a twisted sing-along at this interactive movie where the Repo Man might just take your body parts back if you're bad!
Rocky Horror Interactive Movie
Take a jump to the left and step right into Frank N. Furter's lab. Your fabulous hosts will play along with the show, but beware: you might get asked to come up and join them!
Loot bags will be available at the door for $3.
Tea Ceremony with Three Rivers Okiya
Experience the art of Chado, the "way of tea". Three Rivers Okiya will present three ceremonies with limited attendance. Tickets are $5 and will be available both on the website starting in January and at the registration desk at the convention.
Saturday Night Rave
The famous Kawa Kon rave features a laser light show, three DJs, and thumping music. It's an event you can't miss!
Our DJs for the Kawa Kon rave are local DJs L-Des and Ataru as well as our staff sound & lighting engineer Eric Johnson, who brings his fabulous equipment and laser show.
Whose Line Is It Anime?
Late at night, our best and brightest improv actors take to the stage for a series of games where the points don't matter and the only, well, point... is to make the audience laugh.
YukaPon Concert
YukaPon is back to perform more beautiful Japanese songs during the half-time of the masquerade.
Zombie Host Party
The Kawa Kon Host Club (consisting of cosplayers from many favorite series) pampers you with a themed party. Our party theme for 2012 is zombies. That means some of your favorite characters will be coming back from the dead to bring you snacks and fanservice!
Tickets will be available for $5 on the website starting in January as well as at the convention registration desk and are very limited. After registration opens, tickets will be available online. Some will also be held for at-con registrants. Get yours when you pick up your badge. The party will be at 8:00 p.m. on Friday of the convention.
New Events:
The Adventurers' Society Social
The Steampunk track presents a meeting of cultured and traveled ladies and gentlemen, a chance to revel in past adventures and find teams for new explorations all while enjoying fine tea, light Victorian-style snacks, and parlor games.
Art Trade Party
I'll draw something for you if you draw something for me. Trade your wildest dreams with other artists, and come away with cool new stuff for your walls. Presented by the Art and Writing track.
Ball-Jointed Doll Unbirthday Party
Is it your unbirthday too? Bring your doll and celebrate with snacks and tea. Tickets are $5 (includes you and your doll) and will be available on the website starting in January or at the registration desk at the convention.
Cosplay Wedding
The vows aren't real, but your characters can say "I do" to each other in a mass fairytale wedding complete with a reception.
Doctor Horrible Interactive Movie
Sing along with Doctor Horrible at the Evil League of Evil's annual party!
Doctor Who-lympics
Where can you bowl for Daleks, call for the Doctor, and take a trip in the TARDIS? The Doctor Who-lympics! In a series of mini-games, we'll find out who is the biggest Doctor Who fan at the con.
Game Show: Don't Forget the Lyrics
How well do you really know the lyrics to theme songs and pop songs? If you think you can fill in the blanks once the song stops playing, you might just win!
Game Show: The Match Game
Can you think like our panel of strange celebrity and cosplayer guests? Match answers with them for your chance to win!
Good vs. Evil Tea
It's the end of the world, and everyone is taking sides. Choose good or evil and play games for the fate of the world all while enjoying a nice cup of tea. Presented by the Apocalypse Survival track.
Hyrulean Ball
The Hyruleans STL host a Zelda-themed ball with music and special character guests!
Kawa Kon Write-a-thon
Our expanded Art and Writing track will include many events and panels focused on writers and artists. The Write-a-thon challenges you to pen your very best work in only two hours... but beware! You have to use OUR words in your stories!
Learn to make Bento
This workshop will give eight lucky participants the chance to make their own bento to take home. Others may come and watch too. Tickets for the workshop (the eight who get their own bento) are $15 and will be available on the website starting in January as well as at the registration desk during the convention (if there are any left). Hosted by the Japanese Culture track.
Project Cosplay for Dolls
As part of our Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival) track, you will have a chance to make a costume for your doll. We'll provide materials (and dolls if you don't have one), and you'll have an hour-and-a-half to turn them into a stunning doll-sized outfit for our runway competition.
Steampunk Fashion Show
Our Steampunk track will be hosting a fashion show as part of the Friday night concert. Sign up to participate or come to watch some clockwork creations cross our stage.
Triwizard Champions' Ball
Hosted by the Potterverse track, the Triwizard Champions' Ball is our annual Friday night formal dance. Join the students of Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang for music, light snacks, and more!
Try-wizard Tournament
Test yourself with these wizardy athletic challenges for the glory of the Potterverse track's Triwizard Cup.
Traditional Japanese Ghost Stories with Three Rivers Okiya
Three Rivers Okiya, in their third year as guests at Kawa Kon, will scare you out of your wits... Japanese-style. Pull up a straw mat and hear a tale of horror!
and more to come!
All content on this website is © 2009 Kawa Kon LLC. Bishie Con, Kawa Kon Chibi, and Kawa Kon are trademarks of Kawa Kon LLC.
