Cosplay for a Cause: the Environmental Cosplay

Cosplay for a Cause--the Bantay Kalikasan Environmental Cosplay Competition!

The details for October 3rd's Environmental Cosplay competition have finally arrived! Let's all cosplay for a cause--proving that we cosplayers do care and bring to light what we've always done (using recycled, recyclable materials for cosplay), and how we can help save the environment in our own ultra-colorful way!



Date: OCTOBER 3

Location: SM MEGATRADE HALL 1

Rationale:

Environmental Cosplay

All this excitement over cosplay does not come without some flak from those not well acquainted with the hobby, or those who don't see the point. Many people (usually cosplayers' parents and families) see cosplay only as an expensive hobby with no form of payout. Cosplayers' costumes, even a simple one, when specially made by "cosplay tailors", cost upwards of two thousand pesos. Even made with the barest of minimums, cosplaying is still very expensive, with considerations for material, wigs, contacts and other extras such as props and makeup. Considered as rather shallow and pointless, cosplayers have since been fighting to be taken a bit more seriously and be more accepted in the common community.

The Environmental Cosplay aims to bring to light what many cosplayers (in their zeal for cost-cutting) have already been doing—which is to bolster costume-making with the use of recycled and recyclable materials. The Environmental Cosplay con would allow cosplayers to go about their beloved hobby and at the same time help the environment with the contribution they would make for the convention. Cosplaying for good causes would be just what the doctor ordered in terms of bettering the public' opinion of cosplaying, as well as making the youth aware of the status of the environment and what they could do to help out.



THE FIRST BANTAY KALIKASAN

ENVIRONMENTAL Cosplay

Guidelines



1. The First Bantay Kalikasan Environmental Cosplay is open to all cosplay enthusiasts.



2. The environmental cosplay will be an OPEN CATEGORY event where participants could cosplay any character that they want from any genre (i.e. anime, manga, games, comics, movies, western animation, etc.)



3. The COSPLAY competition will be held on October 3, 2009. Original characters allowed.



4. There will be two categories for the Cosplay competition, the Chibi Category (ages 3-12) and Individual Cosplay Category (ages 13 and up).



5. Materials/Props that are to be used by competitors for this event must be made of recycled or completely recyclable materials.



6. Additional Points will be awarded to Original Environmental Characters developed specially for this event.



7. Cosplay competition pre-registration will be from September 16-30, 2009 and on-site registration on October 3, 2009.



8. Cosplayers under eighteen (18) years of age as of cosplay event date must have their parent/s and/or legal guardian/s sign the waiver/image release form which will be distributed at the event.



9. Too revealing, too sexy and scantily clad costumes are prohibited. Bantay Kalikasan reserves the right to determine whether such costume falls under this category and correspondingly disqualify any participant on account of this.



10. All costumes and props must be handled with utmost care and must not cause harm to other cosplayers, event staff and event attendees. Under no circumstance will sharp or bladed objects be allowed as costume/props including all kinds of pyrotechnics/equipment/s that may cause damage to the venue, property and or persons attending the event.



11. The Bantay Kalikasan Environmental Cosplay team, its organizers and staff will not be held liable for any/and all damages, injury resulting from the mishandling, negligence of a cosplayer in the utilization of his/her props/materials throughout the duration of the event.



12. The Bantay Kalikasan Environmental Cosplay judges' decisions are final and can't be appealed.



13. The cosplay organizers reserve the right to disqualify any cosplayer who ignores and/or violates any of the aforementioned guidelines.



14. Registration and participation to the cosplay event constitutes that the cosplayer gives the right and the authority to the organizers/staff, its sponsors and authorized press media to take pictures and/or videos of registered cosplayers, cosplay groups and its members and will be the sole property of the organizers/staff, its sponsors and authorized press media to be used for future publications and/or advertising promotions.



15. The Bantay Kalikasan Environmental Cosplay organizers and its staff and their relatives up to the 2nd degree of affinity or consanguinity are disqualified from participating in the cosplay event.



16. Judges' decisions are final.


For further inquiries about the event: Please call Bantay Kalikasan @ 415-2227, 415-2272 local 4551, 415-5779, 415-5228.

Please look Ruel, Sherwin, Ish, Kaye or Winnie. You can also contact Cosplay.ph for more information. Bantay Kalikasan would also like to thank Cosplay.ph for agreeing to support the event wholeheartedly and for assisting Bantay Kalikasan for free.



Since it's also my mom's group's event--I'm definitely going! 8D Hope to see you there, guys!