Featuring: ThunderCon Description: Ever wonder what it takes to keep ThunderCon running every year? Have questions you want to ask the people on the back end? Well this panel is your chance. Join us in the Paradox Pavilion to sit down and talk with some of the current and former members of ThunderCon's team and take a look at the cogs behind the machine.
Featuring: The Northern Dragon, Devon Phillips Description: As Creative Director and Fire Performer of Northern Dragon Fire Performers, Devon transforms his journey with mental health into breathtaking artistry, turning struggle into sparks of beauty. Get ready to feel the heat and the heart behind the flames when Devon takes the stage at ThunderCon 2025!
INTERACTIVE EVENT ALERT! Featuring: Star Wars Costuming Club Description: Join the Thunder Bay Star Wars Costuming Club for a bit of a march about. See Mandalorians, Jedi, Sith, Rebels and more. Follow them or just watch as they march past.
Featuring:Â Rosemarie Sarno Description:Â Join Rosemarie Sarno of Red Barrels Games as she plays through some of the first-person survival-horror series Outlast, where you assume the role of a reporter investigating a psychiatric hospital which has become overrun by patients with homicidal tendencies and must sneak around to survive. Since its original release in 2013, the franchise has expanded to include a sequel, a prequel, and is currently being adapted for the big screen by Lionsgate Films. This event is an 18+ activity due to the horror elements of the game.
Featuring: Thunder Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra Description:Â Some of your favourite fandom classics with a time-warped twist. Listen to members of the Thunder Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra perform a set of music from diverse fandoms and pieces imagined in styles from different time periods.
INTERACTIVE EVENT ALERT! Featuring: Northern Ontario Klingons Description: HUMANS! Bring your tiny humans to us so that we may train them in honour and the arts of war, as a Klingon. Kids, tell your parents you want to be a Klingon and join the Northern Ontario Klingons for a lesson in doing just that.
Featuring: Jeremy K., Ryan G., and Geared Up Games Description: Have you ever wanted to try running your own TTRPG? Join the Game Mastery panel to ask long-time Game Masters questions about running their favourite games, including Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, the World of Darkness, Exalted and more. Get some of the tricks of the trade from some of ThunderCon's favourite GMs.
GAMING EVENT! This is a tournament-style event and will require prior sign-up. Description: Get ready for Raising Rabbits - A Board Game Tournament, where we'll hop into some fierce competition and have a blast playing. Raise rabbits in this Euro-style economy and auction-based engine-building board game. To enter the tournament, sign up here.
Featuring: The Northern Dragon, Devon Phillips Description: As Creative Director and Fire Performer of Northern Dragon Fire Performers, Devon transforms his journey with mental health into breathtaking artistry, turning struggle into sparks of beauty. Get ready to feel the heat and the heart behind the flames when Devon takes the stage at ThunderCon 2025!
INTERACTIVE EVENT ALERT! Brought to you by: Hot Diggety Dog Description: Kids, join ThunderCon outside on the Wibbly Wobbly Way (or, in front of the main stage if it rains) to show off your cosplay and get prizes just for coming out!
Featuring: Northern Ontario Klingons, Star Wars Costuming Club, ThunderCon Description: Who will take the prize and make the opposing team eat Da' Bomb? You get to decide, and for a good cause. Join the Northern Ontario Klingons and the Star Wars Costuming Club in supporting the Kidney Foundation of Canada. Donate both Saturday and Sunday, and watch the event live on Sunday afternoon, to see who gets the most donations and which team gets to suffer.
Featuring: Shire of Mare Amethystinum of the SCA and Superior HEMA Description: Watch fighting and weapon demonstrations by members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) and Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), and learn a bit about each of these organizations. Don't forget to visit the Medieval Encampment set up all weekend just behind the demo area, to learn more and see other aspects of the SCA.