Anime Ireland

March will witness the IFI start a month long weekly course into the history of animation to be given by the NCAD's James Armstrong called Drawing Pictures.

Eirtakon and Nom-Con are delighted to announce a one-day anime event in Dublin, with date, venue and price confirmed.

Created by Nom-Con and Eirtakon, the two largest anime conventions in Ireland, Anime Dublin is a special one day event taking place this April 14th 2012 A.D.

Doors will open at 10.30am and events will go on into the night.

Events at Anime Dublin will include:

The Coca-Cola Cinemagic International in association with We Love Anime will be showing several screenings in the ODEON, Belfast.

Eirtakon will be opening this weekend, November 11th – 13th, at The Helix, DCU in Dublin.

Check out their website for the schedule and forums and more!

The 4th Japanese Film Festival runs from November 6th till the 20th. The event is organized by the Embassy of Japan, access>CINEMA and the Ireland Japan Association.

The Galway Technical Institute are running a introduction class to manga drawing that is running from Wednesday September 28th.

The class is being run by John Jennings and the class will run for 10 weeks with a registration cost of €120.

The Cartoon Forum - the biggest European Annual event for animation, announced the winners today and Ireland came up spades!

• RTÉ - Broadcaster of the Year
• Monster Animation - Producer of the Year
• Julie Fox - Best Investor/Distributor

Cork Institute of Technology will be hosting their Societies Day on Tuesday the 20th of September - CIT Anime Society will be registering new members for the society.

University College Cork has created the Irish Institute for Japanese Studies (IIJS) which will host a number of cultural events such as presentations of Japanese film, music, theatre, and other arts.