Time to be the change you want to see in the world and start one!
It’s okay to start small. You’d be surprised how easy (and cheap) it is to start a local meetup group. And if even two or three show up, you can call it a resounding success. If a lot more show up, you could start to consider selling tickets in order to afford a bigger, better venue. And if a lot of people show up to that one, then more expensive tickets for an even bigger venue, more planning, multi-day schedule, etc … and then your little meetup has become a convention!
Or … maybe there’s just not many (public, sociable) furries in your area, so you never see this growth and always just have a handful of guests. But that’s fine, too. Now you’ve got some friends!
I did dabble with event handling many moons ago, for anime stuff instead of furry - helped a buddy that was more into it. Running around, making calls, asking people for space, trying to work out schedules and prices, making promos. I don’t want to deal with that again anytime soon, especially as the promos and advertising part nowadays has to use instagram/tiktok to have any significant reach :/
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Imagine when you don’t even live in a country that has any conventions
Time to be the change you want to see in the world and start one!
It’s okay to start small. You’d be surprised how easy (and cheap) it is to start a local meetup group. And if even two or three show up, you can call it a resounding success. If a lot more show up, you could start to consider selling tickets in order to afford a bigger, better venue. And if a lot of people show up to that one, then more expensive tickets for an even bigger venue, more planning, multi-day schedule, etc … and then your little meetup has become a convention!
Or … maybe there’s just not many (public, sociable) furries in your area, so you never see this growth and always just have a handful of guests. But that’s fine, too. Now you’ve got some friends!
I did dabble with event handling many moons ago, for anime stuff instead of furry - helped a buddy that was more into it. Running around, making calls, asking people for space, trying to work out schedules and prices, making promos. I don’t want to deal with that again anytime soon, especially as the promos and advertising part nowadays has to use instagram/tiktok to have any significant reach :/
like maybe South Africa or smth? :\