Sawa Con

07/22/2021

We want to wish MechaCon Anime Convention an awesome final weekend! We are happy to see so many people attending this great convention and hope the send off is everything that it should be. Mechacon has been a beacon of the local and regional convention scene and we will work hard to carry on the hard work of love and care they have shown this great community.

Sawa Con has a big (good) announcement coming down the pipe, with the challenges of covid and then Copeland changing over their business model, we had some challenges but if we haven't proved it before we are resistant to getting thrown some curve balls. Sawa is alive and will be in New Orleans.

Stay tuned, Have fun at mechacon, and enjoy spending time with the friends we have all longed to see again!!

05/22/2021

So just to give a small update. Atm we are working out the details with our new venue. With covid etc makes it interesting but we hoping to have some news very soon. Copeland Towers coverting into apartments was rough but hey nothing we havent been through before.

As it stands now there is no event in June and it will be pushed out. 2021 is not out of the picture if we get all the details ironed out

10/12/2020

We arise from our hibernation. Sawa has officially began to work on 2021, we will be keeping a close eye on Covid and the developments throughout 2021. Sawa always believes in the total safety of our patrons, guests and staff so coming into Spring we will make sure to keep you all updated!

Here we go.

06/13/2020

Tomorrow would have been it!!!!...saaaad times

03/14/2020

So i wanted to take a moment and come to you all about the situation that is currently going on with the Coronavirus.

Many of you may not know many conventions have postponed their events. I want to say this now we do not have any plans at this moment of canceling Sawa Con or postponing as our event is Scheduled in June and we hope that this virus is quelled long before our event BUT we will keep everyone posted if such a need does occur due to public health arises.

Now i want to have a heart to heart. I spent 8 years in the military working in the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear field attached to a civil affairs battalion that dealt with many situations across the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Germany during smaller situations like H1N1 and a TB strain that arose out of the blue.

I will say to you all you need to take this situation seriously and appropriately, follow the measures of cleaning your hands frequently, staying home if you feel ill, and avoiding large gatherings it is critically important that you do your part not only for yourself and your family but the others around you. What we need to avoid is the chances of this virus impacting those that have underlying conditions that may prove fatal if they are exposed and hopefully prevent this virus from getting stronger.

Doing this will not only allow events like sawa to happen but other events you enjoy as our agencies work around the clock to silence this monster and keeping all events from having to take measures to keep you safe and not be hives.

I appreciate all your excitement for sawa and we work everyday to make this event bigger and better than last year!!!!

James
Sawa, Con Chair

03/05/2020

We are happy to finally beable to announce our main VA guest this year!

Austin Tindle is joining us this year for Sawa Con 2020!

Austin has been the voice behind many notable roles such as Neito Monoma from My Hero Academia, Ken Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul, Marco Bodt from Attack on Titan, Alzack from Fairy Tail, Oz from Divine Gate, Rin Matsuoka from Free! and much more! You can see all his roles here at https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Austin-Tindle/

Come and see him plus all of our other guests (some being announced today!) at Sawa Con 2020!

02/14/2020

We are happy to announce that Take One Improv will be joining us again this year at Sawa Con 2020, June 13th-14th

If you missed the chance to see them last year do not miss out on coming to see their live hilarious performances!

For over ten years Take One has been performing improv comedy at cons and festivals across the country.

Based out of Oklahoma City and Dallas, T1 has continuously packed out venues with their unique brand of quick, energetic, quirky Whose Line Is It Anyway?-style short-form games.
Each show is a celebration of weirdness & absurdity as Take One and the audience work together to create new and dynamic shows full of hilarious moments, reckless promises, and surprising discoveries every time.

Sawa Con tickets will be going live this weekend!!!!!

01/15/2020

Artist and vendors can go ahead and Resubmit your forms over at https://www.sawa-con.com/artist-vendor-registration/ prices have been updated and form data wiped so we will be starting fresh. If you have any questions please reach out to me at [email protected] or belle the expo hall coordinator at [email protected] !!!

Artist & Vendor Registration for SawaCon 2020 Artists will pay for 6′ tables, multiple tables are able to be purchased. Artists are required to follow the artist code of conduct which will be sent out to all applicants. Vendors will be in a 8×8 area with a 8′ Table. Vendors can purchase multipl...

01/13/2020

We are happy to announce that the Room block is open! Do not worry the hotel is actually 2 hotels linked together so our main block is in the Comfort inn attached to the convention area.

Please follow the link to get your room reserved now!

The Comfort Inn & Suites at Copeland Tower hotel in Metairie, LA is located near downtown New Orleans and the French Quarter. This hotel offers free WiFi and meeting space.

01/10/2020

Sawa-Chan got a new look for 2020!

01/10/2020

So theres been some hub bub about artist alley and the pricing structure we set.

Last year we canvased and had a public survey that we received feedback. Several artists/vendors i spoke to pointed out significant issues that they experience or wish they didn't have to experience with the scramble that we had last year.

Of the feedback the majority of requests were:

- Lockable room
- Larger space
- Better security (to prevent non pass holders from window shopping and or blocking)
- Power drops
- Earlier setup times (like day before)

and multiples of other comforts that we are going to address

This puts a further significant cost to meet the demand on the convention and frankly put, we shoulder the burden as well. To clear up some statements about us "not thinking" we did, we have reformatted our programming entirely to adjust for costs and since October we have been weighing what needs to go and what gets to stay to make sure the convention can be a success while improving on last year. Our CFO took all the financials into account and bills that will be paid when we began to look at what prices need to be raised and we will agree, we were awful at preparing people for price changes and hikes and for that.

I and the director team are sorry, we were not on an intent to flush out anyone but it must be understood we look at everything and decisions aren't made easily.

As many of you know I believe in transparency and will say now, the prices will be changing as we grow and we are sorry for those that will not be able to purchase artist/vendor tables in the future but we will make any effort we can to keep people included. Sawa con takes on a alot of the burden to keep the prices low and we will continue to do so as much as we can so you all can have a enjoyable convention to call home.

So over the next couple days we will be lowering the prices we have set for tables and passes allocated for those tables.

We will be lowering the cost of the Artists tables to 90 and offering artists that did work with us last year a special rate for ONLY this year for artists that did stick around after the venue lost last year.

This will require us to dump and reset submissions so if you have applied already please stand by as we reset and be prepared to resubmit.

Again I do apologize, many of you were upset that is never the goal with my team or Sawa Con and hopefully we can fix it!