Fursuit Festival

The Festival will be Friday evening, from 6:30PM after the giant group fursuit photo, until 9:00PM. Suiters can begin staging at 6:00PM in the main ballroom, but there won’t be any special fursuit tag giveaways so there’s no need to fall in line – just show up!

Photo shoot and activity areas will be available in BOTH the main stage and second stage areas on the main level of the Grand Sierra Resort. That means a whopping SIXTY THOUSAND square feet of space for fursuiters, photographers, and other people to freely wander and mingle!

There will be EIGHT dedicated photo stations which will have officially scheduled photo shoots taking place, twice the amount of official stations from last year! And the impromptu photo station will be back again this year as well – so even if you’re not on the schedule, you can still get the red carpet treatment! To suggest a photo shoot, fill out our survey.
To get a group photo at the impromptu station, just assemble your group and walk right up!

After the giant group fursuit photo, the festival begins! Suiters and non-suiters mingle across both rooms, creating lots of great interaction opportunities for fursuiters, which means all the one-on-one interaction time you can get without needing to keep up with a parade line!

The Festival will be on Friday this year. Group photo will be taken at 6:30pm, after which the festival lasts until 9pm.

Security will be present around spaces still restricted to con attendees only, such as the fursuit lounge or video game room.

You’ll see a lot of your favorite activities from last year returning, as well as a few new stations to try out. Be sure to stop by all of them to enjoy playing with all of your suiting and non-suiting friends – but please don’t take any props with you!

We’re introducing Selfie Stations this year, where you can borrow our selfie stick! Then, we can tweet out the picture for you to download!

Not sure of where a photo station is or when a particular photo shoot is happening? There will now be information stations available in the main ballroom, second stage area, and fursuit lounge, that will hold lots of useful information to help you plan your festival schedule! We will also have team members from Con Ops floating around able to answer your questions live, and big paper copies of the photo schedule hung up around the rooms.

Powerful fans will be scattered around the Festival, for a quick refresher without having to use the fursuit lounge.

There will be two fursuit lounges available - The main fursuit lounge by second stage, and part of backstage behind main stage will be available as well. But these areas will still be very busy; please keep your visits as brief as you can to make room for others who need it.

This year, we eliminated any reason to form a line: There is no special fursuit tag giveaway. You can mingle in Second Stage if you like until the group photo time. Non-suiters simply mingle in Second Stage until the photo is taken.