10-year career: Dragon Con 2011 and the 2012 Cosplay for a Cause Calendar

Celebrating my 10-year career! Here’s a great memory from 2011: attending Dragon Con with my friend Riki and promoting the 2012 Cosplay for a Cause Calendar.

After the tsunami in Japan in 2011, my friend Riki wanted to organise something to help raising funds for Japan. She came up with the idea of doing a cosplay calendar featuring various cosplayers all dressed up in Japanese anime characters. I made my Yoko cosplay especially for this. We all contributed to sell as many calendars as we could and all the proceeds were given to the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Very little people know this, but it’s during Dragon Con 2011 and NYCC 2011 that they filmed a first pilot for the American TV show Heroes of Cosplay. I was part of the pilot, but as a Canadian Citizen without a working visa for the USA, they didn’t keep me for the final show. I was disappointed, but not surprised. TV opportunities would come later in my life.