Anthrocon 2024: Full Schedule

5:30pm EDT

Steven Esso Project

Thursday July 4, 2024 5:30pm - 7:00pm EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

8:00pm EDT

Otherworld Stories with Alkali and Crew

D&D is one heck of a game! Well we have a fur that has been playing D&D in the forest with 100s of other people for years at our very con! Come on out to this panel and hear about all the times he got his ass kicked.

Speakers

Sparf

Sparf is a writer, actor, storyteller, LARPer, podcaster and voiceover artist working as a full-cast audiobook director in the DC Metro area. He has had stories published in Fang 6 and 7, Roar 7, Trick or Treat vol. 2, Bleak Horizons, and served as the co-editor on FANG vol. 10 alongside... Read More →

Alkali Bismuth

Thursday July 4, 2024 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
DLCC 319-321

Performance

8:30pm EDT

Atha Fox - Keep My Muzzle On: Album live performance

"Keep My Muzzle On" is Atha's 3rd solo singer/songwriter album. This album is a journey through questions of self-confidence, gender identity, acceptance, change, destruction, and how to exist in a complicated world. The album will be performed front-to-back along with some selections from Atha's second album, "I Will Be Whoever the FOX I Want".

https://athafox.bandcamp.com

Thursday July 4, 2024 8:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, Musical

8:30pm EDT

Bakertoons Cartoon Show

Lots of laughter to be had with a collection of animated cartoons created by Charles Brubaker (Bakertoons), shown on the big screen!

Speakers

Charles Brubaker

Smallbug Studio LLC

Cartoonist and animator from Japan! My titles include "Lauren Ipsum", "The Fuzzy Princess", and "Ask a Cat". I have also worked for MAD Magazine, SpongeBob Comics, Pencilmation, and more.

Thursday July 4, 2024 8:30pm - 10:00pm EDT
DLCC 316

Performance, Animation

10:00pm EDT

MST3K (18+)

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 – furry style! Come join Alkali as we (and probably the whole room full of people) verbally rip a movie of our choosing to shreds! Hopefully this year’s movie will NOT have center screen wipes.

Speakers

Alkali Bismuth

Thursday July 4, 2024 10:00pm - Friday July 5, 2024 12:00am EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, Charity

12:00pm EDT

Anthrocon Presents: Sardyuon

Friday July 5, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EDT
DLCC Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom

Performance, Acrobatics

12:30pm EDT

Open Mic & Comedy Basics

Have a stand-up routine you want to try out? Want to tell a story you think will give us a chuckle? Come try it out at AnthroCon Open Mic! One could not ask for a friendlier atmosphere. After your act, be ready to receive some helpful good-natured critiques from the panel hosts. All performers are limited to 3 to 5 minute sets depending on the panel turn out.

Speakers

Alkali Bismuth

Friday July 5, 2024 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
DLCC 319-321

Performance, Educational

1:30pm EDT

I've Made Too Much Pasta

A live performance of the raccoon-centric indie rock band "I've Made Too Much Pasta". Just like regular other rock bands, but with fursuits. A loud thing you can go to and flail your cold arms.

Friday July 5, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, Musical

3:00pm EDT

Anthrocon Jazz Big Band

Back for another performance, and hot on the heels of the success of 2023 is the Anthrocon Jazz Big Band!! With us this year is an ensemble of twenty talents from all walks of life and species of every kind, assembled together for your listening pleasure.

Following a similar approach to music as the venerable 8-Bit Big Band, the AJBB is proud to present musical selections from musical greats such as Duke Ellington, Louie Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Koji Kondo, and many more.

Come join us for a dynamic performance, experience riveting solos and spine-tingling vocals, and see the very best that Anthrocon has to offer with the Anthrocon Jazz Big Band.

[The Anthrocon Jazz Big Band is organized by the Furry Jazz Experience]

Speakers

Director Shy

Friday July 5, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
DLCC Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom

Performance, Jazz

3:30pm EDT

Voice of Dog Live recording

Speakers

Rob MacWolf

Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker, is a writer, and host of The Voice of Dog podcast. He lives somewhere in North America, waiting for the world to end. You can find his work in anthologies from the Furry Historical Fiction Society and in two upcoming novels from Fenris publishing... Read More →

Friday July 5, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
DLCC 335

Performance, Podcast

3:30pm EDT

DreamStates

DreamStates is an all-trans pop rock/pop funk band in their sixth year of sonic triumph. Powerful songs and fun, memorable lyrics and dances make the quartet especially captivating. Come and shake your tails!

Friday July 5, 2024 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, Musical

4:00pm EDT

Boozy's Legal Funhouse

Boozy and his legal layman, Alkali Bismuth, discuss legal news, with an explanation of how the legal principles are truly messed up. The pair look at an actual legal case, current or historical, in a lighthearted and profane manner as Boozy tries to get Alkali to understand the law really can be made up as one goes along.

Speakers

Boozy Badger

Attorney/Law Talking Guy, L&L

Boozy is a lawyer and comedic performer who has a bad habit of being shouty and enjoys the occasional libation. That’s about it.

Alkali Bismuth

Friday July 5, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
DLCC 319-321

Performance, Comedy

4:00pm EDT

Floor Wars Preliminaries

It's time for the Annual Floor Wars Prelims! If your team has signed up online, you must compete in the preliminaries in order to qualify for the main event. There are NO sign ups in-person. For group performances and pre-approved exceptions for the Fursuit Dance Competition, they will be covered in this event.

Speakers

Ronnie

Director of Digital Services, Anthrocon, Inc.

Just a tasty noodle!

Friday July 5, 2024 4:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
DLCC 403-405

Performance, Competition

5:30pm EDT

"Ony, the Runaway Circus Bear" - A Rock Opera!

Written by RhubarbTheBear, "Ony, The Runaway Circus Bear" is an original rock musical for kids and kids-at-heart, performed live onstage!

Circus life is all Onesimus The Great (call him Ony; it saves time) has ever known. When Ringmaster Phil’s demands become too strict, the acrobat bear escapes one night for his first taste of mundane life. Will he be drawn back into show business, or find deeper meaning beyond the great tent?

Featuring Cosmik as Ringmaster Phil, Bennie as bandleader James King, Buddy Goodboy as Paul the ex-lawyer, Pepper Coyote as pediatrician Dr. Lucas, Sue The Deer as 8 year old Tabitha, and Rhubarb The Bear as “his famous and more talented dad, Ony”.

Friday July 5, 2024 5:30pm - 7:00pm EDT
DLCC Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom

Performance, Musical

6:30pm EDT

Iggy's Eggciting Im-paw-visation

Iggy's dear society for cruel tricks on dear friends is about to perform a challenging improv show for your consideration. An improv show featuring both short and long form improv games. The focus is on challenging games that allow us to explore scenes and games you typically would not see at an improv show. It could be funny or sad, but all I can promise is a completely unique experience each time off the top of our heads!

Speakers

Iggy

Song and Dance Dino, Fur Squared

Hey I'm a dinosaur! Let's have some fun and play some games!F2 Guest of Honour 2019MCFC Guest of Honour 2023FurReality Guest of HonouriFC Featured Guest 2022

Friday July 5, 2024 6:30pm - 8:00pm EDT
DLCC 319-321

Performance, Comedy

8:30pm EDT

Furry Jury

Speakers

Boozy Badger

Attorney/Law Talking Guy, L&L

Boozy is a lawyer and comedic performer who has a bad habit of being shouty and enjoys the occasional libation. That’s about it.

Friday July 5, 2024 8:30pm - 10:30pm EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, comedy

11:00pm EDT

Convention War Stories

Come out and see what happens behind the closed doors of conventions. Sit back and listen to the stories that you were never meant to find out about from our panel of convention staff and board members. Enjoy the stories and find out why that cop was shaking his head while laughing.

Speakers

Sparf

Boozy Badger

Attorney/Law Talking Guy, L&L

Boozy is a lawyer and comedic performer who has a bad habit of being shouty and enjoys the occasional libation. That’s about it.

Alkali Bismuth

Friday July 5, 2024 11:00pm - Saturday July 6, 2024 12:00am EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, Comedy

11:00pm EDT

Contacts Plus, Live!

The Contacts Plus Podcast from Resonite is now LIVE at Anthrocon! You seen them in VR, now join Wolf, Glitch, Noot, Matorin, and Raspberry in person as they sit down and talk about their con experiences! There may even be a special guest appearance! 18+ Show (Content may not be suitable for minors)

(Chaos and ADHD Guaranteed)

Speakers

Wolf Seisenbacher

Host/Creator, Contacts Plus

Host and creator of the Contacts+ Podcast within Resonite! Join us every week Thurs-Saturday 8-10p eastern for community games, long format playthroughs, and our weekly podcast!

Friday July 5, 2024 11:00pm - Saturday July 6, 2024 12:30am EDT
DLCC 319-321

Performance, Podcast

1:30pm EDT

Painting Dragon Feathers Reading: Cryptozoo

Join Painting Dragon Feathers for a reading from her debut Young Adult novel, CryptoZoo, where the creatures of the X-Files meet the 4th wall wit of Deadpool as the plucky, bloodsucking Chupacabra, Cleo, teams up with the one and only Jersey Devil to search for her adoptive Sasquatch father, who has disappeared in New York City at the hands of cryptid hunters. Setting aside their differences, the two cryptids disguise themselves as humans to find the lost Sasquatch and stop a prophecy from the Mothman that threatens all cryptidkind.

Speakers

JD Donnelly

Painting Dragon Feathers

JD Donnelly was born on a beach where dolphins played, grew up in an enchanted forest filled with deer, and received a BA in Studio Art and Creative Writing at Hollins University, home to many squirrels.Her artwork and stories have been featured in literary magazines such as Strangelit... Read More →

Saturday July 6, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
DLCC 319-321

Performance, Reading

6:30pm EDT

Anthrocon Tonight

Anthrocon's annual variety and talent show makes its triumphant return! Please come out and support your fellow furries!

Saturday July 6, 2024 6:30pm - 8:00pm EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance

8:30pm EDT

Whose Lion Is It Anyway? (PG-13)

Based off the popular TV show “Whose Line is it Anyway,” this is everyone’s chance to get up on stage and improvise with their fellow furs! A completely interactive panel, Whose Lion will feature such games as: Questions Only, Who’s Line, Party Quirks, and even World’s Worst. Hosted by Alkali, this panel is sure to be a good time for all; so come on out, get up on stage, and show everyone how quick your wit is. People with a heart condition should not have a heart attack during this panel as we will think you are acting. Panel has been known to cause uproarious laughter, fits of giggling, and diarrhea. See you there!

Speakers

Alkali Bismuth

Saturday July 6, 2024 8:30pm - 10:00pm EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, Charity

9:00pm EDT

Lex's Story Power Hour

Adventure in a tale of humility and fun. Lex recalls stories of conventions passed. Diving into moments of triumph and moments of embarrassment. All for fun and possible education.

Speakers

Lizard Lex

Saturday July 6, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
DLCC 335

Performance

10:00pm EDT

TFTuesday Podcast - Live! (After Dark) (18+)

Come on down to a live recording of the TFTuesday podcast! This podcast focuses on the concept of transformation, mainly in the niche of the furry community, and what the theme of transformation and interest in it means as it relates to its fans. Our live recording will delve into a few specific topics before taking some audience Q&As!

Speakers

Zilepo

Photomanipulator & Podcaster

Saturday July 6, 2024 10:00pm - 11:30pm EDT
DLCC 406

Performance, Podcast

10:30pm EDT

The Late Show with Boozy Badger

It’s the Late Show — furry style. Come pull up a chair and join us. You never know what will happen on The Late Show with Boozy Badger.

Speakers

Boozy Badger

Attorney/Law Talking Guy, L&L

Boozy is a lawyer and comedic performer who has a bad habit of being shouty and enjoys the occasional libation. That’s about it.

Saturday July 6, 2024 10:30pm - Sunday July 7, 2024 12:00am EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, Comedy

12:00pm EDT

Furry Disco Studio

Organized by Ian the Skiger with support from Tech E. Silver.

Discord group available for Disco Appreciation and Discussion: https://discord.gg/Q5S2799T

Speakers

Ian the Skiger

A 22 year old furry with a skunk/tiger hybrid as a sona! I’ve played piano for 12 years, and have played piano, as well as french horn and violin in professional settings. I love all kinds of music from the 70’s, especially disco, and would love to maybe open up my own authentic... Read More →

Director Shy

Sunday July 7, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, Musical

12:00pm EDT

Mass Debation

A charity debate panel where you vote with your dollars. Three debates on irrelevant topics picked from the audience, argued irreverently by the panelists, with the audience picking the winner

Speakers

Boozy Badger

Attorney/Law Talking Guy, L&L

Boozy is a lawyer and comedic performer who has a bad habit of being shouty and enjoys the occasional libation. That’s about it.

Alkali Bismuth

Quotation Marks

Sunday July 7, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
DLCC 319-321

Performance, Comedy

3:00pm EDT

MIDI Bunny

Furry emo band MIDI Bunny will be performing at Anthrocon 2024, on [date]. Cecily Renns (Bunny) and Biddy Fox (Cat) will be playing a set for 50 minutes. Special guests will include InkyFirefly, (Bug) Stomach Book (Bunny) and Jeff Burgess (Fox). Setlist will include their hit single "ILY, Ramona!" and "Cecily finds the Antichrist in her heart". It'll be their first ever live show, so don't miss out on it!

Sunday July 7, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Westin - Allegheny Ballroom

Performance, Musical