Until the Fun begins!

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Hello friends,

As you may have heard, the Fort Magruder Hotel suddenly closed, to be turned into apartments. This has left us without a home for our 2026 convention. While we have not been idle, our search for another location that could meet our needs and timing has failed. With this unfortunate news, we have to share that we will need to pause ConVivial until February 26-28, 2027. This will allow us to ensure that we get the best possible location and provide you the experience you have come to expect from us.

Thank you all for your continued support and patience. This was a difficult decision for us as we were looking forward to another successful year as much as you were. For those with whom we had already engaged, we would like to apologize for the inconvenience of the shift in timeline, but we hope to come back stronger in 2027 with the extra time to find our new forever home. Please keep a look out for future updates here, where we will make announcements as soon as we’re able to confirm a venue for 2027.

If you have already purchased tickets for 2026, we will automatically transition those to our 2027 roster. If that doesn’t work for you, and you need a refund, please reach out to flunky@convivialva.com with your confirmation details, and we will work to process that for you.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me at Chair@convivialva.com

Your friends in geekdom,

ConVivial

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Theme for 2026 – The Adventure Continues…

The theme this year is “The Adventure Continues…” which is DnD themed. So roll for initiative, applications are live!! Programming Guests, Fan Tables, Game Masters, and Volunteers don’t wait, hurry to fill your application out today!!! We can’t wait to see you all at ConVivial year 3!

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What about the hours of all the stuff and things?

	Vendor Room	Programming	Fan Tables*	Con Suite	Peaceful Retreat
Friday	2026 hours	coming soon
Saturday
Sunday

*Fan tables may open earlier or stay open later if they would like to. These hours are only a guide.

What is ConVivial?

ConVivial is a convention designed by fans for fans. It’s an event meant to highlight geek enthusiasm for all things pop culture, from Science Fiction in all its forms to fan-centric music to tabletop gaming and cosplay. All with the idea that we’re all here to have fun. In short, a weekend-long celebration with other geeks.

ConVivial focuses on music and cosplay, but has strong accents on authors, podcasters, and gamers. With over 150 hours of programming, ConVivial strives to provide fun programming as an escape from your everyday schedule.

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Why ConVivial?

When looking for a name for our gathering, we had a lot of interesting ideas come up, but the one that resonated the best with us came from some Thesaurus searching. We were looking for something to capture what we are trying to bring uniquely to the convention scene; that being a focus not on one or more specific areas of Fandom, but one of getting together to have fun.