Eurofurence 30 checked in 9,139 attendees at the CCH Congress Center Hamburg from August 19 to 23, 2026, the biggest crowd in the convention's history. Ten weeks later the charity total followed: EUR 73,694.96 for Seehundstation Friedrichskoog, a North Sea seal rescue, which Eurofurence called a new EF record.
The 30th edition ran under the theme "Fantastic Furry Festival", with the Denver street-art collective Animal Art Crimes as Guests of Honor. Travel, hotels and the full edition history live on the Eurofurence convention page; this post covers what happened in 2026.
The EF30 website set the scene as a festival rising out of a desert: patchwork tents, towers built from scrap, a fire circle with drummers, and games in "chaotic arenas". The official artwork leaned the same way, with lineup-poster layouts and the mascot Greeny racing to reach the "festival grounds" in time for the opening ceremony.
On Saturday morning the convention posted Greeny trapped inside an "UwU Claw Machine" at the photoshoot in room Y 3, inviting attendees to get their own picture taken on the fairground set. The festival idea also reached the evenings, with a Wednesday night event called "Festival of Frequencies" in the Arena Stage, and with the CODA Club near the Radisson used for a chillout lounge and an alternative Dead Dog party.
Animal Art Crimes is a street-art collective founded around 2020 in Denver, Colorado. Its members mix graffiti, illustration and furry art, and they are known for painting large pieces together, live, in front of an audience. Domino Twist, Kenket, No Fair and WopboL represented the group in Hamburg.
The convention's post-con report says the collective set up camp in the CCH roof garden, where it showed graffiti, fashion and what the report calls artifacts of city life. The centrepiece was "Project Backstreet Car". From Wednesday to Friday, the artists, their friends and any attendee who wanted to join painted an old car until the whole body was one shared artwork.
Uncle Kage then auctioned the result for charity. On November 8 the convention posted that the car sold for EUR 20,000.
"Project Backstreet Car was a success!"
Street art reached the Art Show too. On Friday the official Telegram channel pointed visitors to the "Urban Forest", where street-art pieces were for sale, shown as a thicket of bamboo, traffic lights and painted road signs.
Seehundstation Friedrichskoog is a seal rescue on the Schleswig-Holstein North Sea coast, founded in 1985. The EF30 charity page says harbour seal season alone can bring more than 300 pups to the station in four months, and that more than 90% of them go back to the wild. Eurofurence had never before chosen a charity working with aquatic animals.
The weekend carried several charity events. The Charity Furauction ran on Thursday in Hall 4, the Charity Host Paws Club opened in the Radisson, a ticketed comedy show with Uncle Kage played "for a good cause" on Friday, and the Charity Concert took the Auditorium on Saturday. The Backstreet Car auction alone brought in EUR 20,000.
The cheque is dated Friedrichskoog, October 19, 2026, and Eurofurence posted the result on November 1.
"73,694.96 € for the seals! ... That's a new EF record!"
The total is the highest in the recent run of Eurofurence charity results: EUR 46,461 in 2024 for Wildtierschutz Deutschland and EUR 51,081.88 in 2025 for the Hamburger Tierschutzverein.
The post-con report lists the usual mix of rock concerts, fursuit and puppet theatre and stand-up comedy, plus one new act. The Furry Festival Orchestra premiered with forty musicians playing classical, musical, film, game and pop pieces, joined by singers Chester the Geroo, Fox Amoore, JD Puppy, Sheera and WHSPRS. The report also singles out the percussion group TAIKO BASTARDS, which it says made the CCH shake.
Saturday ran late. The convention added an additional overflow screening of the closing ceremony in the Arena Stage so more people could watch, and the Pawpet Show, "The Truest Crime", moved to 19:30 after it. Earlier that day the fursuit dance battle Paws on Fire started half an hour late. If you have not seen a European dance contest before, our fursuit dance competition guide explains the formats.
Eurofurence's social media team signed off for the convention itself and moved live announcements to the Eurofurence Notifications channel on Telegram. Read in order, those posts show what a convention of this size looks like from the operations desk:
With queues like these, a plan matters at EF. Our first con survival guide and convention budgeting guide are good starting points for a first trip.
The registration statistics page that Eurofurence publishes showed 9,139 people checked in when the convention closed, the same figure as the official history and the post-con report. Of the 9,532 registrations on that page, 5,024 came from Germany, 735 from the United Kingdom, 665 from the Netherlands and 401 from the United States. 3,928 registrants marked themselves as fursuiters. Fans who fly in from outside Europe can read our international travel guide for fursuiters before booking.
Eurofurence announced EF31 on August 29 with a lab-themed video: "Midnight at the Lab", August 18 to 22, 2027, at the CCH Hamburg. Guest of Honor and charity are not announced yet. Our hotel block guide explains how convention room blocks work before EF31 hotels open, and the Europe cons 2026 guide shows where EF sits in the European season.
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Browse the Full CalendarEurofurence 30 had 9,139 attendees, according to the association's history table, its post-con report and the live registration statistics. That is up from 6,455 at Eurofurence 29 in 2025.
EF30 raised EUR 73,694.96 for Seehundstation Friedrichskoog, a seal rescue on the North Sea coast. Eurofurence called it a new EF record. EUR 20,000 of it came from the auction of the Backstreet Car painted by the Guests of Honor.
Animal Art Crimes, a street-art collective from Denver, Colorado, were the Guests of Honor, represented by Domino Twist, Kenket, No Fair and WopboL.
Yes. The 2026 convention was Eurofurence 30, the 30th edition, held August 19 to 23, 2026. EF29 was the 2025 edition, "Space Expedition".
Eurofurence 31 runs August 18 to 22, 2027, at the CCH Congress Center Hamburg, with the theme "Midnight at the Lab". Prices, Guest of Honor and charity are on the Eurofurence convention page once the convention announces them.
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