Live Events Schedule
Thank you for your interest in live events at Sekaicon! Our event schedule for Sekaicon 2026 is not available quite yet. Please keep an eye on our website and social media, or join our email list to be updated when our schedule becomes available. Thanks!
Stitches and Specters Showcase
Rules, Details & More Info
- Stitches & Specters will take place on the Main Events stage at Sekaicon.
- This is an all ages event. Please keep your act PG-13 or below. Performers must be at least 13 years of age.
- This showcase is open to all skill and experience levels of performing.
The hosts will check audio and videos to make sure they are correct on the day, but there is no prescreening or rehearsal.
Performance Guidelines:
- You are welcome to wear costumes, regular clothing, or anything that is all ages age appropriate and does not expose yourself. Refrain from wearing anything that could be a safety hazard in size or has pieces that could create a mess or hazard on stage.
- Everything that enters the stage with you leaves with you, this meant no confetti or anything that can't be picked up. No liquids or food are allowed on stage.
- Do not leave the stage to interact with the audience, bring audience members on stage, throw things off the stage, or do anything that could create a danger to staff, other performers, or the audience.
Media Guidelines:
- This is a primarily kaigai idol/eastern pop/dance music and "idol" focused event, but you are welcome to apply with music from any source, as long as it is appropriate for all ages and can have a performance aspect.
- Your performance can be up to five minutes or up to ten minutes long. This includes all of your songs and time between them and must match your audio/video length.
- If you are performing a vocal performance, please note there will only be two microphones available and they may or may not be corded.
Media submissions will be through Discord or Google Drive.
Deadlines:
- Applications are due Saturday, September 12th, 2026.
- Acceptances will be sent on or by Saturday, September 19th.
- Video/Audio submissions are due September 25th, 2026.
Please email phasmaidols@gmail.com or send a message on the Discord server if you have questions regarding the show or your application.
Sekaicon KPop/JPop Dance Competition
It’s the Kpop/Jpop Dance competition—an exciting event where ambitious dancers compete for a chance to call themselves the best cover dancer of Sekaicon! Hosted by Fantoche Cover Crew, this competition is a celebration of the love of Kpop and Jpop idols and the choreography. You can cheer, scream, and sing along from your seat while watching our talented community of performers bust a move on our stage. Are you interested in participating!?… if so, sign up now! Let’s bring the concert atmosphere to Sekaicon! Bring your own lightstick though…
Rules, Details & More Info
- Submissions for the 2026 K-Pop/J-Pop Dance Competition are "audition based"; performers may submit in both categories (ex: 1 dancer can perform 1 solo/duet entry and within 1 group entry)
- Submissions should be a minimum of 1.5 minutes.
- Submission videos must be a static landscape/horizontal shot in a well-lit wide frame continuous take (no edits)
- Submission routines do NOT have to be the decided routine performed at the event; these are purely to observe skill level and placement within the show
- While we do not have restrictions on when audition videos should have been recorded, we advise interested participants to submit as recent of a video as possible that is both your best take and includes all performers anticipated to perform at Sekaicon should the submission be accepted.
- Accepted participants must plan their at-con performance within the time frame of a minimum of 2 minutes and a maximum of 3.5 minutes.
- Mash-Up routines may have a maximum of 3 songs and original choreography is accepted but shall be judged under the same criteria. Transition audio is accepted and not counted as part of the 3 mashup songs but must be under 10 seconds (transition audio does not have to be kpop/jpop related)
- Accepted routines MUST be from K-Pop, J-Pop, C-Pop, Idol/Anisong, or adjacent. NO WESTERN SONGS OR COVERS. (ex: 4MIX, the Thai idol group, is accepted BUT Wooyoung of ATEEZ’s Artist of the Month is not accepted). If you have any questions after this, please email us!
- Both auditions and event judging are based on the following criteria: Musicality (timing/versatility/dynamics), Artistry (facials/energy), and Technique (isolations/coordination/control/angles)
- There will be a waitlist implemented; each category will have a waitlist of 5 extra performances and competitors and will be contacted 2 weeks before the con at the absolute latest on if spots become available. Otherwise, they will receive priority seating at the event.
- IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE EMAIL US: fantoche.covercrew@gmail.com
SUBMISSIONS WILL CLOSE SEPTEMBER 11, 2026.
ACCEPT/DECLINE/WAITLIST EMAILS WILL GO OUT ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2026
