Notes by Patric Hedund

“Cosplay [short for ‘costume play’] is both a practice and a community that one belongs to,” Victoria Hungerford of Lake of the Woods said about the project for teens hosted at the Frazier Park Branch Library (see page 11 for schedule).

It is a part of the library’s imagination-packed summer reading program.

Hungerford’s master’s thesis at California Institute of the Arts was about video games and communities: “Cosplay has very deep roots in the GND (geek, nerd, dork) community. We all create costumes from our favorite novels, comics, anime, movies, video games or fan fictions…. As the creators of the Cosplay, we can add our own spin to the costumes to make them unique,” Hungerford added.

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Costumes are part of the fun on alternating Thursdays at 3 p.m. at the Frazier Park Library. “I was asked to hold a workshop on Cosplay by Scott from Computers and Games (in partnership with the library) to provide a fun workshop for the youth in our community—we have a lot of young geeks up here—and kids love to dress up. I mean, who doesn’t?” asks Hungerford.

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