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SUMMARY:Anime Weekend Atlanta 2026 (AWA) — Atlanta\, GA
DESCRIPTION:Anime Weekend Atlanta 2026 (AWA) is one of the American South's most beloved anime conventions\, running November 19–22 at the Georgia World Congress Center Building C in Atlanta. Founded in 1994\, AWA draws over 25\,000 attendees annually to one of the longest-running anime conventions in North America — a four-day event that has served as the Southeast's entry point to anime culture for over thirty years.\n\nFour full days of programming — panels\, screenings\, gaming\, cosplay\, dances\, and the Anime Music Video competition that AWA is particularly known for. The convention runs multiple simultaneous programming tracks\, meaning there is always a reason to be in the building regardless of your specific anime preferences. The Masquerade competition draws elaborate cosplay entries from across the Southeast and beyond. The AMV contest is nationally competitive — winning an AWA AMV award carries real weight in that community. The dealer floor and artist alley together span tens of thousands of square feet of licensed merchandise\, independent art\, and convention exclusives.\n\nAWA is the Southeast's definitive anime convention. For out-of-region attendees\, it competes directly with Anime Expo\, Anime Boston\, and Katsucon as one of the events worth cross-country travel. The four-day structure gives it depth that weekend-only cons cannot match: you have time to see everything\, run into people multiple times\, and build the social fabric that makes anime conventions more than a market. Multi-day memberships can be purchased at awa-con.com and mailed to you ahead of time.\n\nWednesday evening offers multi-day badge pickup from 4 to 8 PM\, worth doing to skip Thursday morning lines. On-site membership purchases are cash only. Thursday programming begins the full convention schedule. The Georgia World Congress Center is expansive — wear comfortable shoes and plan for significant walking between halls. Atlanta hotel prices spike during AWA weekend\; book accommodations early\, ideally at the adjacent Marriott Marquis or Hilton Atlanta.\n\nAWA in 2026 will be its 32nd consecutive year — making it older than most of the mainstream media properties that now dominate convention floor merchandise. The convention predates streaming anime in the US\, the American manga boom\, and the global explosion of interest that followed Attack on Titan\, Demon Slayer\, and Jujutsu Kaisen. It was here\, building community\, long before any of that was mainstream. That tenure is the event's identity: not a trend convention\, but the convention that built the trend.
LOCATION:Georgia World Congress Center Building C\, 285 Andrew Young International Blvd NW\, Atlanta\, GA 30313
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