Our post-Anthrocon 2014 break is over, and we're back, starting with a new 2015 look for the website! Many many thanks to graphic artist dragon Cuprohastes for the artwork, design, and endless tweaks. (Oh, the tweaks...)

Other Anthrocon News

We are in the process of evaluating a new registration system already in use by other conventions which we expect will meet our needs through Anthrocon 2015 and beyond. We will post more information here, and to Twitter and Facebook when registration opens.

Additional Website Details

As our registration software moves forward with new technology, so must our website. For the 0.89% of you who use Internet Explorer 8, I regret to reform you that you may have difficulty viewing some of these pages. For the 71.11% of you who visit this website from other desktop browsers, we have widened the content pane and increased the font size to make this site an easier read as monitors become bigger and bigger. Finally, for the remaining 28% of our visitors from mobile devices, we haven't forgotten about you! We have some ideas of mobile themes for this website which we are currently exploring.

Anthrocon 2015 may be 9 months away, but we are now actively planning for it, and will post future announcements here.

-- Giza

Hey, everyone.

I normally write a long paragraph about this, but let's be honest - we all know the drill by now.

We'll be using the same system I was last year. I'm taking auditions and will be listening to them, but I'm prioritizing people who have stood out playing at other conventions. Please feel free to send in auditions regardless of experience, making sure that they're 45 minutes to 75 minutes in length and hosted on a major website like soundcloud or mixcloud.

This year we have a form to help keep my hair not-gray.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zmfG3UnulkeJ_19hKcwDmwlbkvxB4KTfHRiLTW4hAc8/viewform?usp=send_form

If you have any questions, post here or contact me at

Bear in mind that if you reply with your audition/info here, I will probably not wind up reading it and you won't be in the consideration. Unless it's in the form, I'll probably lose it.

Thanks in advance and good luck, everyone!

Hi, and welcome to the 2014 edition of the Anthrocon Charity Events Followup!

Anthrocon raised a new record total of $32,372 for The National Aviary, our supported charity this year. Thanks very much to Desiree Wienand and all their volunteers from the Aviary who came out to participate - some of whom joined us as existing and new fans!

We also set new records for money raised in the Raffle, the Bucket Brigade, and 2 & Kage's Comedy Show!

More special thanks are in order to the following groups and individuals:

* To all the donors who contributed artwork and merchandise to the auction and raffle, and to all those who both bid at the auction and bought raffle tickets.

* To the Dorsai Irregulars, Anthrocon's security contingent, who contributed the Elevator Golden Ticket for 2015, raised additional funds at the elevators, and acted as the Aviary's security escorts.

* To Dr. Samuel Conway and 2, the Ranting Gryphon, for their charity performance for which all ticket sales were donated to charity. Also, again to Dr. Conway for his annual auctioneering skills.

* To all the fursuiters and their handlers who volunteered their time for fursuit "bucket brigade" duties.

* To the Westin, Omni, DoubleTree, and for the first time the Courtyard, who each generously offered up a four-night stay during Anthrocon 2015.

* To all the attendees who bought merchandise and made cash donations to The national Aviary's donations box at their table, which is always a large percentage of the total funds raised.

* To the sudden generosity of attendees at our Closing Ceremonies, who stepped up to sail us into the record books by donating over $2000 in additional cash in two minutes.

What 1,326 fursuiters look like

Anthrocon 2014 has come and gone, and here are some of the stats:

• Attendance: 5,861 attendees from all 50 states (plus District of Columbia) and 26 countries
  
  
• Total amount raised for The National Aviary: $32,372 [1]
  
  
• Number of fursuits in the Fursuit Parade: 1,326
  
  
• A 3000 pixel wide image of the fursuit group photo can be found here. A giant 17,000 pixel wide image is over here, with a backup copy over here.
  
  
• Not only did we receive a "Gertie Award" from The Toonseum, the Mayor of Pittsburgh declared July 5th, 2014 as "Anthrocon Day":
  
  
  

  Our Gertie Award and "Anthrocon Day" Proclamation

  
  

• We had 3 solid nights of entertainment and dances from some of the best entertainers and DJs this fandom has to offer!

What comes next?

Greetings! It's almost time for Anthrocon 2014 and many of us (including the convention staff) are either on our way to Pittsburgh, or will be heading there soon.

If you need to speak with the convention staff, sending us emails may result in a delay before we reply, so stopping by the Convention Operations office in the Crawford Room of the Westin or Room 309 in the Convention Center is recommended.

Here are some useful links:

• Driving directions and parking information
• Check out our schedule. It is also available on our mobile website
• Be sure to follow us on Twitter:@Anthrocon, @AnthroconDances, @Anthrocon_Alley, @AnthroconReg, @AnthroconDining, and @AC_Dealers_Room
• ...or check in on FourSquare!
• Riding our shuttles? Check the shuttle schedule
• Have photos to share? Please do so in our Flickr photo pool
• Leave us feedback in our post-con survey or our post-2014 forums

Much of this information can also be found on our static website (optimized for speed during the convention):

We'll see you in Pittsburgh.

-- The Anthrocon Staff and Board of Directors

We are very happy to announce that the Anthrocon 2014 Events Schedule has been ported over to MyConbook! (with special thanks @thesaucem for transcribing everything)

There are two ways to access MyConbook from your laptop, tablet, or other mobile device. The first way is for Android users only: download the MyConbook app. The second way is for all mobile users. Point your browser to the mobile website at:

Enjoy the mobile schedule, and we'll see you at Anthrocon 2014 in just a few short days from now.

Hey folks,

While the convention is happening this year, our website will be under substantial load. In the event that it goes down, we don't want attendees to be without convenient access to the schedule. To that end, we once again created a static version of the website with just the bare essentials on it. It sits on a separate machine with just a barebones webserver so that it can serve up files as fast as humanly possible. The URL is:

Please, bookmark it on your laptop or mobile device so that you can get to it during the con if need be.

We also have a copy of our countdown, with zero hour being when opening ceremonies open on Friday morning. It can be found at:

Notice anything amiss in the content of those pages? Please, let us know in the comments below!

We are pleased to announce that for the first time an Anthrocon’s 18 years, we’ll be live streaming our main events and our dances live online.

Be sure to catch 2-Grpyhon, the Dance Competition, all 3 nights of our dances, and tons of other content streamed in full HD.

Check out the full schedule here and watch the events at live.Anthrocon.org

Any questions? Feel free to reply to this thread.

**Please note we have made some changes to our stream schedule.

Now that dust has settled, everyone is confirmed and all the plans are in place, I can officially announce the DJs for this year!

Thursday night:

9pm - Rory

10pm - Rigel

11pm - Firr

12am - Vallyrux

1am - Skroy

Friday night:

10pm - Akonite

11pm - Oddy

12am - Recca

1am - Genki

Saturday Night:

11pm - BigBlueFox

12am - DJ rK

1am - oh!Danger

Thanks to everyone who auditioned, as always, way more awesome DJs than timeslots. I'm very excited about all the new faces out this year and I'm already looking forward to finding spots for some of the awesome folks I couldn't book this year on next year's lineup!

This year, like always, looks to be a stormer