{"id":21143,"date":"2026-04-03T13:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?post_type=wfsu-news&#038;p=21143"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:41:19","slug":"tallahassees-22nd-annual-freecon-is-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"wfsu-news","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/tallahassees-22nd-annual-freecon-is-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee&#8217;s 22nd annual FreeCon is this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahassee&#8217;s annual FreeCon event, is happening this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The anime, gaming, and pop culture event is hosted by the Japanese Animation Club of Tallahassee. Taylor Torres is one of the people helping to organize the convention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Effectively we offer the same convention experience that you would typically receive at a paid convention expect its totally free to the public. That includes FSU students and non-FSU students,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The event features 30 panels, artists and other vendors. Its speakers this year include Patrick Pedraza, a voice actor most known for voicing Scaramouche in the video game Genshin Impact.<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place on Saturday and Sunday at the Florida State University Student Union, starting at 11 am both days. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WFSU<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[1137,1135],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tallahassee&#039;s 22nd annual FreeCon is this weekend - WFSU Local Routes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/tallahassees-22nd-annual-freecon-is-this-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tallahassee&#039;s 22nd annual FreeCon is this weekend - 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