Guests

Amira Sa'id Amira Sa'id is a professional dance performer, instructor and choreographer from Orlando, FL. She holds a BSc in physics, and is an active member of MENSA. Amira has regularly been featured as the lead bellydancer at major tourist attractions including "Universal Studios", "Arabian Nights Dinner Show" and "Disney's MGM Studios Indiana Jones Cairo Dinner Show". Amira is famous for her unique dance fusion style, fusing classic bellydance with many different themes and forms. Her award winning bellydancing tribute to Princess Leia has been in demand at conventions nationally and internationally since its debut and was a featured act at Star Wars Celebration 4 in Los Angeles. Amira is excited to return to Another Anime Con this year to teach Para Para dance panels and will present her "Go West" themed Cowgirl Dance Fusion act as opening act at the masquerade. More info can be found at her website www.amiradance.com!

"Sketch" R. Scholz Sketch is a local New England artist, cosplayer, and con personality. Though holding down a job as a flute maker, he spends his time brainstorming cosplay ventures like a crack addict. Seriously, propose an inquiry about "how to?" to him and his head will rev up like an over clocked computer till it spews out an answer. After his cosplay debut at Anime Boston 2004 as the now legendary "Leathery Vash" cosplayer, Sketch has continued to push the boundaries of the New England cosplay scene with elaborate cosplay after cosplay. Even if it took him three years to still not be done. (HEY!!... Okay, you're right. -Sketch) He followed up with Lynx from the PS1 game Chrono Cross in '05. He's tormented Ed Elrics over countless cons as his Hohenheim of Light, delighted us with his Pervy Sage Jiraiya hosting dating games, quested for Kingdom Hearts as the Organization 13 leader Xemnas, and shadowing these is his creation of the TV headed robot, Canti (FLCL). Sketch's classic training is in illustration, getting his BFA in '04, has been found off n' on in artist alleys showing off his art. But, being a constant student of life he sought out other forms of art in sculpture, sewing, electronics, and basket weaving... wait what? He's known by his convention colleagues as someone who can figure out how to make anything. This is usually found in his ability to craft fantasy into reality with his prop making. His soon to be redesigned site www.SketchedOutLife.com offers the public, free of charge, insight to Sketch's plots of world domination. Or that it's just a growing interactive portfolio. From cosplay to webcomics, it'll someday be updated to share. >.>

Doug Smith