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Otakon
Washington, DC · Arts & Culture
- When
- August 6–8, 2027
- Where
- Walter E. Washington Convention Center · Washington · DC
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
One of the country's largest anime and East Asian pop-culture conventions takes over the Walter E. Washington Convention Center for a weekend of cosplay, industry panels, screenings and concerts. It launched in Baltimore in 1999 and relocated to DC in 2017.
The history within reach
- National Book Festivalsame spot
The Library of Congress fills the Walter E.
- Awesome Consame spot
Pop culture and comic convention founded in 2013, now one of the largest fan conventions on the East Coast with over 60000 attendees, celebrity guests, cosplay and panels..
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association has hosted a lion and dragon dance parade through downtown Chinatown for over 65 years to mark the Lunar New Year, with a firecracker finale and tens of thousands of spectators along H Street NW..
The second Black American to earn a Harvard doctorate ran the Association for the Study of Negro Life from this rowhouse and launched Negro History Week in 1926.
Mary McLeod Bethune ran the National Council of Negro Women from this house and advised Roosevelt as the informal head of his Black Cabinet, the highest-placed Black woman in the federal government..