Parramatta turned out to be a winning location, so FurJAM decided to organise the whole weekend there for 2024, hosting the weekend at Club Parramatta and Parramatta Park. With everything nice and close, the venue locations were an easy walk for the 365 furries that had to travel between them! As always, FurJAM was a nice and chill weekend with plenty of smiles, sausages and dance moves.

FurJAM started to explore new places this year, venturing out to Parramatta to hold our Friday Night pub meet at Club Parramatta! While the reliable Cahill Park and accompanying Novotel were quite a distance away, that didn’t discourage anyone from having a good time with games, grooves and g-… prizes! FurJAM was also proud to facilitate Johari in their announcement of Floof Doof, a new furry group dedicated to hosting DJs and Dances throughout NSW and Australia!

After the struggle of the COVID pandemic that shut down furry events state-wide, FurJAM was keen to get back into the swing of things! Returning to old favourites like the Harlequin Inn, Cahill Park and the Rowers on Cooks, over 300 furs showed up just to have a good time after the long drought of social events!

With COVID continuing to stop FurJAM from running, we decided to host an online event for the weekend showcasing local talents and providing a place for the community to gather for the weekend online.

COVID happened, and we believed the most responsible thing to do was not run FurJAM these years. Keeping our fellow furs safe is more important!

Following up from 2018, we all returned to our roots, with trash being our theme for 2019’s TrashJAM, a true low budget event! Art for the T-Shirt was provided by Chel (a lovely local artist!). This was the year that the FurJAM team were proud to announce that the following year (2020) would be the first year of a new convention running in July called “Aurawra”.

We broke our previous record for attendees to the point where we capped out the capacity at the Rowers Club at 240 people with a total of over 300 people over the course of the weekend!

This year stayed true to past events, returning to the same venues, all of who were happy to have us again. The staff at the Rowers Club were especially taken by us and all the colourful and wonderful suits that showed up. The shirt design this year was especially popular, featuring a variety of Australian birdlife, the theme we chose. Thanks to all the Laughing Kookaburra, Swooping Magpies and Regal Bin Chickens that showed up!

We smashed our registration numbers this year with over 275 people registering in total, and almost 200 rocking up to the Rowers Club! Amazing! We can’t wait to see you all again next year!

For the first time ever and due to record numbers the previous year, FurJAM this year began to look into expanding to larger venues for its attendees. While it was a gamble to add much larger expenses, the organisers were amazed when the final tally came to 247 registered attendees (not including minors), a truly wonderful show of support from the Australian furry community! The ever popular Harlequin Inn was the destination for Friday night party goers, followed by an all new riverside venue for Saturday’s infamous BBQ.

Cahill Park proved a good choice and quickly gained widespread approval from attendees. The main event was held at the Mercure Sydney International Airport Hotel on Saturday Night, with a massive ballroom and dance floor, open plan bar, chill out area for gaming and relaxation and possibly the largest headless lounge of any Australian event!

Sunday rounded off the year with a return to the Palace Hotel for farewell drinks and M9 Laser Tag and Bowling for those with the energy for a last hurrah for FurJAM 2016.

This was the first year FurJAM introduced a new Pre-registration system and although tentative to start, the organisers were pleasantly surprised by how easily the community embraced the concept, with a mammoth 224 registrations by the end of the event and a new and improved FurJAM website!

Once again, we were hosted by Harlequin Inn on Friday night and returned to Sydney Park on Saturday for a massive BBQ. Saturday Night saw us at the King Street Brewhouse in prime position on Darling Harbour, and after Sunday’s choose your own adventure day, furries made their way the the Helm Bar in Darling Harbour for a few last drinks and a farewell to FurJAM 2015.

This year saw the Friday night event shift to the Harlequin Inn in Pyrmont, who graciously gave up their entire top floor for FurJAM revellers, and after a quiet start were pleasantly surprised when by 10pm the bar was packed by close to 170 furs!

The following day, furs once again descended on Sydney Park for the all important BBQ and fursuiting, and then made their way to Mascot to the Saturday night venue, the Manhattan Bowling centre. What followed was the first ever FurJAM bowling competition followed by a night of good pizza, dancing and games.

Sunday was the first year the choose your own adventure day was trialled, with some furs opting to lie in and reflect on partying the previous night away and others simply enjoying Sydney or hitting up the MTG comp and games day in Roseville.

Finally, events were brought to an end at the Palace Hotel in the very heart of Sydney with a quiet drink and a few farewells.

The Occidental this year was cram packed, everybody packing in to meet and enjoy each others company, once again absolutely destroying the minimum spend.

A huge shaking up of locations didn’t stop a big showing of furry bodies to Sydney Park on saturday morning either, for a day of fun and games in the sun!

Following that, everyone made their way to this years’ – albeit rough at first – saturday night location, Marrickville Bowling club, where everyone enjoyed a bistro dinner followed by some games and dance.

Brushing off the dust from the night before, a few came on sunday to bowl and relax on darling harbour before the entire weekend was wrapped up at the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel for a night of free pool, drinking and balcony farewells.

120 furs crammed into the ESLC for FurJAM’s 8th year, making it another record breaking attendance!

Also, the best display of fursuit dancing endurance, with 2 hours of non stop rave. But not before we packed The Occidental on friday night. Then following that up with a huge day of suiting and the traditional bbq at the park.

All in all, another relaxed meet, greet and catch up for Sydney’s furry community. Not forgetting a few cold beers on the side!

Another FurJAM followed through successfully for this year organised by Ray Liehm with some assistance from the community.

A gathering for a booked room at the Rose began the enticing weekend from within a calm and friendly atmosphere. The weekend rocked off with fun and games in Centennial Park with a cooked lunch followed by the numbers flowing into ESLC for some dinner, fursuiting, card games and even raving. Sunday was committed to some morning laser tag, a successful and adventurous scavenger hunt, and some drinks and dinner at the docks, all based at Darling Harbour.

The 2009 FurJAM meet was again organised by Aussie Husky, and saw the development of an improved website.

Events included ten-pin bowling in Darling Harbour, dinner at Pancakes on the Rocks, a trip to Taronga Zoo and a room party at the University of New South Wales.

The meet was well received by attendees, and proceeding without major incident despite several earlier organisational disruptions, including the loss of all website registrations in the previous June.

After Flaydramon and Anakaine decided not to organise FurJAM’07 AussieHusky stepped in and began planning altering the layout of the event to match other Australian meets by making it a three day event.

Events included Taronga Zoo, Newtown Food Festival, a tour of The Rocks, and a picnic in the Botanical Gardens with just over 40 attendees.

FurJAM did not occur this year, Flaydramon and Anakaine initially began planning but due to personal commitments had to withdraw from the event.

Originally a one day event organised by Anakaine and RubberFox, FurJAM’04 had 46 attendees with events including Paddy’s Markets, The Rocks and Darling Harbour with the evening ending at RubberFoxes house.