Hello anime fans! Today's finally the day--it's the first official hybrid meeting of the UMBC Anime Society for Fall 2021! This is our first in-person meeting in over a year and a half, and we are thrilled to welcome any and all new and returning members to the club.
For those of you who wish to attend the meeting in-person, we will be meeting in Sherman Lecture Hall 003 from 6-11 pm tonight. Proper face masks are REQUIRED for this event and all subsequent meetings. For those who are uncomfortable with meeting in a large group or cannot make this time in-person, feel free to join our Discord server and watch along virtually during the same time frame! Here's the link to join if you haven't already joined the server:
Browser: http://m0e.me/o39
We will be discussing club policies including COVID-19 requirements for in-person meetings, future events, and showing all attendees how a typical meeting goes. There will also be a surprise movie for the end of the meeting, so stick around to the end if you want to check it out!
As a future heads up, next week will probably be Nomination Night, where we watch the first episodes of 10 different anime and vote on which ones we will be watching throughout the semester. More details will be explained at the beginning of the meeting tonight, but if you have anything you'd think would be good for the club to watch, feel free to submit it it via our Nomination Form which will be posted tonight in the Discord server. You have a week or so to nominate any titles, so get your ideas rolling now!
Finally, to make the club more inclusive and help understand the needs of our attendees, we have made an anonymous feedback form that you can find here. This is totally private and is just to help us know what we can do better to make the club the best experience it can be for everyone on campus! Feel free to fill out the form here: https://tinyurl.com/uasfeedback21
We may keep saying it, but we really are ecstatic to have meetings even partially in-person again. To all of our new members, we hope you find a sense of community in UAS with your fellow anime fans; to all of our returning members, we hope to be as welcoming to you as we were from your very first meeting. Whether this is your first meeting or your fortieth, we can't wait to get back into watching anime with the fans of UMBC together.
We hope to see you in Sherman 003 or on Discord tonight!