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Furry Party scheduled at ConJose
Mon 29 Jul 2002 - 20:14

The ConFurence Group is planning a Furry Party for Friday Night, August 30th at ConJose's host hotel, the Fairmont Hotel San Jose (170 S. Market Street)

Exact times and the room number will be announced as soon as they are known. Look for fliers at the convention.

It's also possible that ConJose will be enforcing convention memberships on the Party Floors of the hotel... Keep that in mind.

Darrel L. Exline
The ConFurence Group

Stalking Cat (Dennis Avner) to appear at CritterConDiego 3
Tue 9 Jul 2002 - 13:19

Stalking Cat (his lakota name; really Dennis Avner, aka "Cat man" "Cat" or "Tiger Man") recently sent us a message to let us know that he will be attending CritterConDiego 3.

Stalking Cat has recently appeared on several programs like Ripley's Believe it or Not, the Larry King Show, and several others because he is surgically and cosmetically altering his self into his totem animal. Visit stalkingcat.com for more information and to view pictures of his current state of trans-fur-mation.

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New stuff at ConFurence 2003
Thu 27 Jun 2002 - 06:18

New stuff at ConFurence 2003 (April 25-27, 2003, Burbank Hilton)

Here's just a few notes on things that are different at this coming
year's ConFurence convention:

* Theme: The Furry West
* Hotel Party Floor
* Children's Programming
* Not one, but TWO filk contests.

CritterConDiego3 is a Go!
Wed 12 Jun 2002 - 21:11

The ConFurence Group is pleased to announce that plans for CritterConDiego3! are going ahead full steam.

If you're going to be in San Diego for Comic-Con International, be sure not to miss out on the annual nighttime furry activity, Friday and Saturday nights, from 6pm to 1am (or later!).

CCD3 will take place at the same hotel as the last two years, the Holiday Inn on the Bay, and in the same meeting space (Coast Ballroom) as last year.

Admission is only $8 and covers attendance for both nights. Dealer's Tables are availble at $25 for both nights, or $15 for just one night. (Note: Dealers who are going to sell merchandise must have a valid California Seller's Permit)

Dealers: Contact Darrel L. Exline at [email protected] to reserve your space early.

Stuart Little 2 Trailer Online
Fri 10 May 2002 - 09:51

The new trailer for the sequel "Stuart Little 2" is now online at www.apple.com/trailers/columbia/stuart_little_2, viewable with Quicktime 5.

Stuart Little 2, opening July 19, will again be directed by Lion King's Director, Rob Minkoff (who for the 3rd year in a row was sorry for not being able to attend ConFurence, this time because of his current work on Stuart Little 2) and will be starring the voices of Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane in their recurring roles as Stuart and Snowbell.

ConFurence 2002 Program Schedule now online
Tue 23 Apr 2002 - 11:33

The Schedule of events at ConFurence 2002 is now online in Adobe PDF Format.

You can download, view, and/or print the CF2002 schedule grid at confurence.net/cf2002/ProgramGrid.pdf if you have the free Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your system.

ConFurence needs Videographers
Sat 20 Apr 2002 - 09:33

(Posted from CFStaff forum. Original message by David Bliss on 4/16/2002)

Are you planning to come to ConFurence 2002 armed with a video camera? I am again attempting to coordinate video taping for the official highlights tape.

As I am also running a dealers table there is only so much I can cover myself. Not to mention there will be up to five tracks of programming running at any one time. It would be nice to know that others are covering important events such as Meet the Guests and the Artist Jam.

If you just want to wander around grabbing shots of whatever catches your eye that is fine too. But please give me a chance to copy your tapes either at the con (there will be equipment on site) or afterwards.

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Materials needed for CF2002 Tribute Room
Tue 16 Apr 2002 - 14:18

As part of our programming for ConFurence 2002, we will be hosting a 'Tribute Room' for folks within and around Furry Fandom who have left us since last year's convention, and for that, we would like to make a request:

If folks who're coming to the convention (or live near it) have material of an interest to the folks we're remembering, we'd like to borrow it for our display.

Do you have books, pictures, tapes, or other materials relating to (in no particular order):

*Chuck Jones
*William Hanna
*Maurice Noble
*Poul Anderson
*Gordon R. Dickson
*Tove Jansson [Creator of the Moomin Trolls]
*Eve Titus [Creator of Basil of Baker Street]

If you do, could we make use of it?

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ConFurence SURPRISE Guest!
Fri 12 Apr 2002 - 08:52

Just confirmed today, ConFurence 2002 is pleased to announce a surprise guest for this year's Convention:

Booth Colman, Movie and Television Actor

Booth Colman is best known as the antagonist orangutan Protector of the Faith, "Dr. Zaius," in the Planet of the Apes TV Series.

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CF2002 At-door Registration Discount!
Mon 8 Apr 2002 - 17:53

If you are staying at the Hilton Burbank Airport in the ConFurence 2002 room block, you can still buy your at-door membership at the pre-registration price of $35.

At-door memberhsips are normally $45 per person, but to send a SPECIAL THANK YOU to all the people who have been booking rooms at the hotel, we will roll back the At-Door registration price for Hotel guests at ConFurence 2002 to only $35 per person.