The only caveat is that you MUST RSVP in order to get food and there is an upward limit of spots available due to changes with how Burnaby parks handles reservations/events at the parks. So be sure to RSVP early in order to ensure your spot.

The event will be happening July 2, 2023 at Confederation Park in Site 2 from 11am-6pm! Bring your own chair or blanket!

Food will be served from 12pm to 4pm. There will also additional fun activities including:

• Fursuit Games
• Face Painting
• Nerf War
• Social/icebreaker Games
• Hang out with other local furs/ponies

Remember to get food you MUST RSVP! Because of Park rules we cannot give food to anyone who has not RSVPed with us!

Cost is FREE! RSVP by June 26 to get your spot and come hang out with the community on July 2!

RSVP NOW!

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• $145 ($168.20 total/night)
• 13373 King George Blvd, Surrey, BC V3T 2T5 | +16045852300 | 9 minutes drive
• Lowest Rate guarantee
• Free breakfast and parking
• Free in room WiFi and access to fitness room

We do realize its a little further from the main hotel than some would like, but that’s why we will be providing Uber vouchers for use to get you to and from the main hotel each day! These vouchers will be sent to the email of the person who’s reserved the hotel room in this particular hotel closer to the con date.

Questions? use our contact form here, or email hotel@vancoufur.org for more information. You can also join our Discord or telegram chat and get help in real time!

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Rahne is dancer, DJ, writer and Twitch streamer, from northern California.

An avid fursuiter, Rahne has been dancing and performing on stage for years across multiple conventions, as well as concerts and music festivals for artists including Arty, Dillon Francis, Showtek, Diplo, Adventure Club, Steve Angello and more.

In addition to DJing at cons, Rahne has played multiple fanclub sets on Anjunabeats’ Twitch channel, as well as the ABGT Weekender music festival at the Gorge Ampitheatre. From the onset of the pandemic, he began regularly livestreaming on Twitch, with long DJ streams and his Barking With podcast, where he has interviewed multiple dancers, photographers, DJs and more, including several artists from Anjunabeats. On his social media, he regularly posts dance videos, skits, and video essays on various topics surrounding the fandom.

See our GOH page for socials and more info.

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We are doing our best to get things back on track for you all as soon as possible and apologize for the inconvenience. We will announce a new date as soon as possible. If you wish to sign up for an email notification of the change, sign up for our newsletter here.

We will promote the new date for at least a week, so we anticipate there will be enough time for everyone to be ready to snag a room again. Again, we are very sorry for this change, but it was out of our hands and we’re doing our best to get things back on track.

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Community Spotlight: Temrin!

We are pleased to welcome TEMRIN as our community spotlight for VF2023!

Temrin is a nonbinary illustrator from Canada who is also a well known event volunteer and event runner in the BC furry community. They are passionate about character design and collaborative projects and responsible for founding Cozycon and Wild Element Studios.

Learn more about our community spotlight here.

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VF2023 will be returning to the Vancouver Sheraton Guildford Hotel this year for an in-person convention as well as continuing to offer a digital experience for those unable to attend physically!

If you are hoping to snag a room at the main hotel to be in the middle of the action, be sure you make note of the time and date in your time zone! The opening will be Oct 15 at noon pacific time! So be ready! We do anticipate the rooms to sell out extremely quickly, especially the elusive double queens. You will need a credit card to register. Please note that Visa Debit is not typically accepted, so be sure the person with the credit card is ready to reserve.

For Volunteers: Volunteer block can be applied for now if you’ve signed up to volunteer and have been hired to a position. Please contact hotel@vancoufur.org if you did not get the newsletter with the link to the form.

For Dealers: If you are a paid and confirmed Dealer for our Dealer’s Den, Dixie should be sending you an email shortly. If you have not received it, please contact vendors@vancoufur.org to get the link.

For room prices and types, please visit our hotel page. Note that room rate does not include taxes and fees.

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Our Artist Alley signups will be opening next on Oct 1st @ 12pm pacific time!

In order to prepare for AA signups, which are ‘first come, first served’, we ask that you make sure you:

• Read the AA rules
• Register ( you don’t have to pay yet)
• Follow all Vancoufur Socials so you know when things are posted
• Make sure you have your information required ready, including things like gallery or social media links.
• Set yourself a reminder of when it goes live adjusted for your time zone. The applications open at 12pm PACIFIC TIME on the website. Since they are “first come, first served”, timing is critical.

We will also be opening our AfterDark signups, and posting information about the Nightmarket soon. Stay Tuned!

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These are old emails from deaddog preregistration that was held at the very end of our last in person event, Vancoufur 2020: Neon City

The short of what happened was that our computer has been ‘offline’ basically since the pandemic started and we weren’t sure what we were going to be able to do for our event. Normally our registration is open very soon after the end of our last event, and these emails would have gone out in March. However, since we’ve opened so late, people are getting their emails now.

But don’t worry! If you are one of the people who have gotten these emails, we can sort it out for you easily. There are options, such as rollover to 2022, donation to the con, and more. Just email us at registration@vancoufur.org and our registration staff will help you out.

Meanwhile, our registration for our virtual event is open now!

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We have been monitoring the situation carefully and following all the recommendations of the BC government, Health Canada, and the BC center for disease control, as well as working closely with our partners in the event industry.

The Government of BC, Canada will not be allowing conventions until “phase 4” of the BC Restart plan, which will not occur until a vaccine for Covid-19 is widely available. Current projections for the vaccine to be widely distributed are currently late 2021.

However, we still want to make sure that you get a chance to have some VF fun and for us to see you all at last virtually, so for 2021 we will be hosting a virtual convention event, featuring a ‘beta’ version of our announced theme ‘Evfurquest Online’ as a preview for when we get to once again see everyone in person (currently projected to be March 2022). The Vancoufur Evfurquest Online “Beta” will be held on March 6-7th.

COVID FAQ

Q. Why did you wait so long to announce you’d be doing a virtual event?

We can all agree that 2020 has been something of a gong show in general. Its been hard on our organization, but its also been hard personally on our volunteers that run this event. We’ve had a lot of unprecedented challenges, unexpected departures of key staff, and  lots of uncertainty. Not only that, but we had to wait in order to sort things out with our existing hotel contract to avoid penalties and reschedule our physical event to 2022.

Q. Why are you charging some fees for your virtual event?

Running even virtual events is not entirely without costs. Vancoufur and our parent organization, the BCAEA has some significant costs associated with running events that go on through the year. Costs include web hosting, licensing (software fees, etc), storage fees, equipment rental, merch, etc). Our events is our main and only revenue source for the most part for these expenses and even virtual events aren’t free to run. (software and music licensing fees anyone?) Normally running our event will sustain us through a year, to the next event, but we do need to try to bring in some revenue in 2021 to sustain us through to 2022. We really appreciate everyone who helps us out by purchasing an sponsorship tier, purchasing a registration add-on, shopping at the constore, or any other money donated to help keep us going until we can see everyone in person again. Every little bit helps and we hope to bring some fun surprises for those who do support us this year at our next in person event in 2022.

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