Tag: ScotiaCon

Scotiacon (UK) Numbers

Ahmar Wolf

Charity results

Hey folks! We are pleased to announce that at our convention in February £41,152 was raised for Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue Centre! Thank you to everyone who generously donated and helped to raise our highest ever charity total which will make a real difference to the Centre.

Attendance

Hi everyone! You might have noticed that we were quite busy in February this year and we’re thrilled to announce that a total of 955 of you joined us to make this by far our largest convention yet. We hope you’ll join us next year for an even bigger event!

Scotiacon 2023 Registration Open

Ahmar Wolf

I would guess that there are a lot of you who who go cons and wish getting a room was this easy. Register and get a room.

Now for those not at the hotel

You can Register here

Scotiacon takes place on Feb 3-6 2023 in Gladsgow, Scotland

Scotiacon Update

Ahmar Wolf

Since Scotiacon 2022 ended on Feb 14 they have been slow to release info for their next con as well as numbers for 2022. But here is what I have so far.

Next Year’s theme? Released on April Fools Day it’s a joke

We need to level with some of you. Others were able to spot our ruse and to those of you, well done. However, the theme for the next Scotiacon isn’t Dino Con.

Well, not officially.

Since 2017, our head of Dealers Den has been insistent on the con theme being dinosaurs.

Seriously, this isn’t a game to her.

Slowly but surely, her lone crusade to make Dino Con official has upped the ante year after year.
We are sorry to those who genuinely got excited. However, please do not be upset. We welcome all dino loving attendees and the best part of all this? Dinosaurs would fit in perfectly with our actual theme for the next event!

What is it? Watch this space. We are confident you will like the official theme…

Happy April Fools!

But here is legit info on their donation

We finally have the total amount for the charity, Sunny Harbour Cats this year!

You all helped to raise a whopping…

£11,650!!!

NomandiCon Opens Dealer Sign-ups, ScotiaCon Opens Registration and Dealer Sign-ups

Ahmar Wolf

NomandiCon Opens Dealer Sign-ups LINK

ScotiaCon Registration and Dealers LINK

Scotiacon, FurDu Seeks Panels

Ahmar Wolf

Event submissions are now live. If you want to hold an event at the con, fill in the form on the website: https://events.scotiacon.org.uk/2022/

ScotiaCon Charity Partner Is

Ahmar Wolf

Scotiacon (UK) made the following announcement

We are pleased to announce that for 2022, we will be supporting Sunny Harbour Cat Rescue. They are a pro-indoor, no-kill, family-run cat charity based in East Central Scotland.

Sunny Harbour Cat Rescue’s aim is to ease the suffering of abandoned and stray cats and kittens in and around Edinburgh and Fife. They are a small, family run cat rescue who dedicate their efforts to promoting good welfare practices for cats and to helping those cats and kittens in their care back to health, so that they may find them a new loving forever home.

Their core focus is those cats living stray on the streets, the sick, injured and infirm who need special care to heal. They specialise in the hand rearing of infant and orphaned kittens and are on hand to offer advice on any aspects of cat care to the public through their Advice Line and Cat Care Centre. Sunny Harbour Cat Rescue relies entirely on the generosity of the public to provide vital services to sick, abandoned and unwanted cats and kittens in the region.

Scotiacon Update

Ahmar Wolf

Scotiacon Registration is now open, and from what I can see they are not offering different levels of membership.

Scotiacon Registration Opens – Almost, Furnexion (Mexico) Guest of Honor Changes

Ahmar Wolf

Yes it is true that Scotiacon’s Registration will open today but a 7PM local time, will do an update tomorrow.

To Make the Point Clear

Furnexion (Mexico) change of Guest of Honor

They report

Due to circumstances beyond our control and that were interfering with out special guests Splat and Omnom, they had to cancel their participation in Furnexion 2022, hoping to meet more of the Mexican fandom in a sooner future.

Fur Con News: Brasil FurFest, ScotiaCon

Ahmar Wolf

Brasil FurFest Sets Actual Date for next IN PERSON CON!!!

Brasil FurFest 2022 will be held from July 15th to 17th 2021 at the Sheraton Hotel, in Santos, SP which was changed from Hotel Mercure which has closed LINK to Original Post

Scotiacon Confirms next IN PERSON Con dates

Hello again everyone,

We hope you are staying safe and keeping well. It has been a difficult time and we have wanted to try and make things as easy as possible which makes this announcement very difficult.

Due to some communication errors, the dates we believed we had confirmed for the convention have turned out to be incorrect. We only learned this recently and appreciate this is going to be an inconvenience to those who have booked time off. We can only apologise profusely for this.

The confirmed dates for the convention are 11th-13th February (a week after the formerly announced dates).

We want our 10th convention to be the best it can possibly be and the whole team is committed to bringing the experience so many of you have enjoyed in previous years to a brand new and fantastic venue.

Once again, we apologise for the inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience as we try to navigate through the various obstacles we have been facing in order to put on an event we want as many people to enjoy as possible.

Take care and continue to keep yourselves safe.

The Scotiacon Team

Original post can be found HERE

Fur Con News: Painted Desert Fur Con, ScotiaCon

Ahmar Wolf

Painted Desert Fur Con has set a date for it’s next IN PERSON con

Painted Desert Fur Con 2021 Announcement and Updates

Greetings! Based on the current city of Phoenix guidelines, Painted Desert Fur Con will officially be hosted December 31st, 2021 through January 2nd, 2022.

Per federal guidelines, the state of Arizona, and the city of Phoenix, it was deemed that large public gatherings will be safe to host this coming December, given the projected guidelines. Arizona has limited COVID-19 restrictions and preventions, but Corgi Events will have their own safety measures in place. We are contractually obligated based on the above to host our event; however, this is subject to change as guidelines change.

ScotiaCon Reschedules

Scotiacon will return on

4th-6th February 2022

Please check back later for updates.

Once again, Hello everyone!

There follows another transmission from the good ship Scotiacon:

Once again, first of all we hope that everyone is in good health and doing as best as they can in these uncertain times.

We have continued to monitor the Covid-19 situation and its associated risks and restrictions closely. Our position has remained clear since the outset: If we feel that it is not safe to run the convention at the planned time then we will not run the convention at the planned time.

Although the UK was on course to end all restrictions in June it started to become apparent that there are still a large and increasing number of cases in those people under 30, an age group that have yet to be fully vaccinated. As this age group also accounts for a majority of Scotiacon’s attendee base this concerns us deeply.

Alongside this we had been preparing to open registration for September 2021 as soon as we knew when restrictions would end. As the earliest we are likely to know when restrictions will end has now moved from late June to late July this just does not leave us with enough time to plan and run Scotiacon.

We also visited the possibility of running in November 2021 as Scotiacon traditionally ran in November. Although it appears we would be safe to run in November it is just not fair on the band of volunteers that make Scotiacon possible to ask them to run the convention twice in the space of four months so we have decided not to run in 2021 and concentrate on making February 2022 our 10th anniversary spectacular allowing us both more planning time and time for the vaccination program to be completed.

Please accept this official invitation to join the Scotiacon hype train whose ultimate destination is the Crowne Plaza, Glasgow 4-6th February 2022!

Follow our social media and keep an eye on this website for registration opening in August 2021!

We continue to hope that Covid-19 is sufficiently under control by the end of summer 2021 and hope to see as many people as possible Boogying on down in February 2022!

Thanks once again to all of our attendees and those that plan to attend for the first time in 2022 for your continued support and understanding as well to our band of devoted Staff, Crew and Volunteers. Without all of these people Scotiacon simply couldn’t exist.

In the meantime, please stay safe.

Ceilfox & Silverfoxwolf.