Ai-Kon is excited to continue welcoming brand new artists to our Marketplace. 🥳 Applications for our New Artists Initiative are now open until January 24th! Check the link in our bio or our website for more details👇 ai-kon.org/exhibitors/a...

Your ringleaders for this year’s circus, it’s our brand new Aiko and Doug! 🎪🎡🤹 Thank you to ALL who submitted for this year’s contest! Winning Aiko: schwa.draws Winning Doug: pastelpaso Runner Up Aiko: ArtofCmcookiez Runner Up Doug: koukyse

WE ARE LIVE NOW!! 🚨 Come see some great art and this year’s AIKO AND DOUG! 🎪 www.twitch.tv/aikonwinnipeg

It’s time to celebrate our community’s art! 🖌️ Our Ai-Kon staff are hosting a special Twitch stream to review this year’s entries to the mascot contest and to announce the winners and runners up of 2026! Find us live at twitch.tv/AiKonWinnipeg on Friday, January 9th at 7PM CST.

July is a long ways away, which is why Ai-Kon is excited to announce that Anime Song Night is BACK!! 🎤 Meet us at The Rec Room January 24th, 2026, 6pm-1am. All ages welcome, 18+ after 11pm. It’ll be a party you absolutely won’t want to miss! 💗

🚨We’re looking for YOUR guest suggestions for Ai-Kon 2026! 🚨 Dream big, because your suggestion could help your favourite VAs or cosplayers come to Ai-Kon to sign all of your totally normal fanart. Comment below who you’d like to see this year! 👇

We’re so excited to see how pumped up everyone is for Ai-Kon’s Mascot Contest! However, per the contest rules, we ask that entries not be posted until the contest concludes and a winning entry is chosen. Entries close Dec 6 so if you haven’t submitted your entry yet don’t miss the deadline!

Calling all artists: the 2026 Ai-Kon Mascot Contest is now open! 🤩 We’re looking for artists to reinvent Aiko and Doug for this year’s theme: Circus! 🎪 Rules and the submission link can be found in our bio. Artists have until Dec 6th, 2025 to submit their designs.