AVCon Anime & Gaming Festival

🔥The temperature is rising, and AVCon After Dark is about to get even hotter! 🔥 We’re turning up the heat by welcoming our 2026 After Dark Cosplay Guest, the amazing: @ZalariaCosplay ! 💋✨ If you thought After Dark was sizzling before, you haven’t seen anything yet! With stunning looks and bold cosplays, Zalaria is ready to light up the night. Expect dazzling performances, tasty drinks, blush-inducing art, gaming content, and plenty of other surprises as we count down to Australia’s most exciting 18+ anime and gaming event. Stay tuned… things are only going to get more heated from here. 🔥✨

Calling all nerdy and pop culture businesses, this is your stage call 🎤✨ Ready to make your business the headline act? Fill out the form here forms.gle/aMxohpSMhnjDrm… Exhibitor applications for AVCon 2026 Exhibitor Hall 'Starfall Market' are officially OPEN, and this is your chance to step into the spotlight. From figures and plushies to retro games, fashion, collectibles, candles, and everything in between, AVCon is where thousands of passionate fans come ready to shop, discover, and fall in love with new brands. Applications won’t stay open forever, so don’t miss your debut!

🎶🌟🎤✨ ARTISTS! The show is about to start!! Grab your chance, take the spotlight, and apply to join the lineup here: forms.gle/6W73amer7ZaxxP… ! ✨🎤 The stage lights are on and applications are NOW OPEN for AVCon Artist Alley 2026! Every year we aim to make AVCon the ultimate destination for incredible anime and game themed art and crafts, and we are thrilled to kick off preparations for an even bigger and DAEBAK 2026. If you’re an artist or craftsperson ready to take the stage and share your work at what’s become one of the most SAIKOU stops on the Australian event calendar, now is your moment to shine. 🎶🌟 #avcon #avcon2026 #avcon26 #artistalley #artists #auscon #australianartists

Hey there @tokyoalleyperth, We still remember the first time we noticed you sitting all the way over in Western Australia. You looked so cute that day, all dressed up in your 2025 Mystery Theme, and we have not stopped thinking about you since. From afar we have been quietly following along, reading every post, admiring all your art, and getting more and more excited as your 10 year anniversary celebration unfolds. Every update just made us smile a little more. Then we realised, this is not just a passing crush. Something real has been growing in our hearts, it has started burning like a flame, and we finally worked up the courage to ask... So, um, if you would do us the honour, and if you feel the same way of course... Will you be our Valentine? ❤️ Art by: sunniyuki_arts (Instagram)

🚨 Join the crew that makes AVCon happen! 🚨 We’re calling for on-the-day AVCon volunteers to join the team that powers Adelaide's biggest and longest running anime and gaming event. Volunteering at AVCon is a great way to build confidence, gain experience in areas like customer service, technical operations, logistics, and event management. Real world experience you can use on resumes or applications. Plus, you’ll become part of an amazing community, have a ton of fun, and maybe even make friends for life. What you get as a volunteer: • Free entry to AVCon • Exclusive volunteer badge, t-shirt and pin • Access to the AVCon Volunteer Community • Invitations to special social events like gaming nights and BBQs • Access to the AVCon After Party • And much more If you want to be part of AVCon and help us make AVCon 2026 the best event ever, apply now at forms.gle/gqtD34QbWLdAxS…

Big news for the cosplay community! Our @CosLeague selection round will go ahead at AVCon 2026 exactly as planned, and it simply means our incredible TEAM AUSTRALIA will have even more time to perfect their costumes and refine their skits before heading to sunny Spain in September 2027. So keep working on those ICL entries for AVCon 2026, and we can’t wait to see the amazing cosplays arriving in Adelaide this July!

COSPLAYERS OF AUSTRALIA, THIS IS YOUR CALL The cosplay world is watching, and it starts at AVCon in Adelaide. Applications are now OPEN for the first ever Australian round of the International Cosplay League and we are looking for the absolute best of the best. Full details and applications here: avcon.org.au/avcon-2026/icl/ Start your builds. Rally your cosplay partner. Australia, it is time to show the world what you can do.

Our final ICL judge is the one, the only Vamprea (she/her)! Vamprea has earned recognition on both national and international levels with awards for her cosplay craftsmanship and performances. Winning a round of Crown Cosplay in Sydney, Madman National Cosplay Competition, and most recently represented Team Australia at the 2024 ECG in France. Vamprea is excited to return to Adelaide as part of Australia's next epic foray into the international cosplay scene! Photographer: instagram.com/studiotsutsu/

Our second ICL judge is non other than the unstoppable @Misstwisteddd (she/her)! Miss Twisted can't wait to get started on a brand new costume to debut at AVCon, and be part of history in the very first ICL pre lims in Australia. Catch her on one of her many online platforms and look out for some special AVCon information soon! Photographer: instagram.com/eye_for_epic/

Our first ICL Judge, as many of you may have suspected, is the Internationally multi award winning costumer @VyeCos (they/them)! Vye was instrumental in helping AVCon to bring the ICL competition to Australia in 2026 and will be on hand all weekend as the lead ICL judge and AVCon's international cosplay advisor. Photographer: instagram.com/studiotsutsu/

Cosplayers! AVCon ICL Week starts TONIGHT. This week we reveal our ICL judges. Then: Sat 17 | 6PM ACDT: LIVE Cosplay Q&A on Instagram. Sat 17 | 7PM ACDT: ICL Applications open. Warm up those sewing machines, 3D printers and plans. Will you represent Australia?

Help us raise money to buy games and consoles for sick kids at the @WCHFoundation mycause.com.au/games4kids25

WE WANT YOU TO JOIN AVCON! Want to be part of the team that brings AVCon Anime and Gaming Festival and all the other AVCon Events to life every year? Apply here - avcon.org.au/get-involved/j… #avcon #avcon2026 #teamavcon #avcon26

Applications open! forms.gle/DoXr2vtPhzsn8x…

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Please welcome our AVCon 2026 Elect team; Mowen, Vicki, Georgia and Harris! Every year the 'Team AVCon Inc.' membership vote in 4 people to lead the organisation for all AVCon events over the next 12 months. Art by @kaeojay

I had such a good time at the @TeamAVCon_ and @rundlemall plaza event last night!!! So excited for AVCon 2026: Rythm Revolution! 🥰 If you have the chance, pop by the mall today to play indie games and win a prize in the scavenger hunt!

i am at @TeamAVCon_ POWER UP!!! in rundle mall plaza today from 10am to 5pm :D lots of cuties ready to be adopted 💖