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VancouFur (VF) 2027 is scheduled for Mar 4-7, 2027 in Richmond, Canada. The announced theme is Nightfall.
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The advertised early rate, held until 1 November 2026
ONLY THE BASE RATE IS PUBLISHED for 2027. The convention advertises 95 until 1 November on its own front page and puts everything else behind a Convention Master login, so the sponsor rungs cannot be read yet. Do NOT promote the 2026 ladder recorded in this file's notes - Basic 85, Supporter 140, Sponsor 260, Patron 420, Wonderland 1,800 - because the base has already moved from 85 to 95, which is proof the rest has moved too. The 2026 Wonderland tier sold out and carried a guaranteed four-night hotel room outside the normal booking queue, so expect the 2027 top rung to close early as well. Re-check after the sponsor tiers are announced.
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2027
Mar 4-7
Theme
Nightfall
2026
Mar 5-8
Theme
WONDERLAND
2025
Mar 6-9
Theme
Digital Ocean
2024
Mar 7-10
2023
Mar 2-5
2022
Mar 3-6
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VancouFur 2025 drew 2,298 attendees to the Richmond Conference Centre. The event raised $14,016.90 for Qmunity, with Ivycomb as Guest of Honor.
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Tier-priority hotel queue with a guaranteed-room tier outside the queue
Hotel booking opens by registration tier in dated waves: Patron (must pay by Nov 1) gets the first booking-link email, then Sponsor (Nov 8), Supporter (Nov 15), general pre-reg (Nov 22, pushed to Nov 29 in 2026), and everyone (Nov 29, pushed to Dec 6). Sheraton main hotel enforces a 4-night minimum; Marriott and Hilton overflow blocks 2-night. The $1,800 CAD Wonderland top tier (sold out) sidesteps the queue entirely, it carries a 100% guaranteed 4-night main-hotel room as a built-in perk. Volunteers who work 16 or more hours earn priority hotel booking the following year, work converts to lodging priority without paying for it. The tier-priority queue is the same operational doctrine BCAEA also uses for its sibling event Tails of Summer, confirming this is society-wide infrastructure, not a single-con quirk.
Custom VRChat worlds + on-domain Minecraft server as a Digital Attendance track
VancouFur runs three parallel attendance modalities: physical (Richmond Conference Centre), VRChat, and Minecraft. The VRChat track ships a custom themed world built per edition, 2025's Digital Ocean edition launched a VancouFur Pirate world with a vendors hall and live-streaming portals that broadcast the physical Thursday/Friday/Saturday dances at 10pm-2am PST plus a Saturday two-way Social VR Meetup. The Minecraft track runs a persistent server named EvfurQuest with a public dynmap tile-viewer hosted on the con's own domain at vancoufur.org/dynmap. Most furcons either skip digital tracks or post a passive YouTube stream; VancouFur builds engineered infrastructure on its own domain for both VR and Minecraft, and rebuilds the VR world to match each year's theme.
BCAEA Society three-event portfolio with a $60,000+ QMUNITY ledger
VancouFur is run by the British Columbia Anthropomorphic Events Association (BCAEA), a registered not-for-profit incorporated under the BC Societies Act in 2015 and an FCLR member. BCAEA also runs Vanhoover Pony Expo (the largest Canadian MLP-fandom convention, January) and Tails of Summer (2026 inaugural, July, 19+). The portfolio shares its registration platform (CivetSolutions Convention Master), its web designers (LinuxAvali / ShadowsMyst / inconsnova), and its AUP boilerplate (including the BCAEA-Society-level $10,000 CAD damages clause for unauthorized media licensing). VancouFur has partnered with QMUNITY, the Vancouver 2SLGBTQIA+ resource centre, since 2021, and has raised over $60,000 cumulative for QMUNITY across that partnership. Funded initiatives include queer proms, expanded free gender-affirming garments for youth, expanded counselling for LGBTQ2SAI+ families and youth, and expanded QMUNITY staffing hours. The 2026 figure is a $20,000 CAD matched-donation commitment, timed to QMUNITY's 45th anniversary.
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