A friend of mine (Chair of Howloween), who has been running conventions in some capacity for over a decade, has started up a Brony event in the area, Vanhoover Pony Expo! BronyCan was held locally for 5 years but decided to end their run. However there are a lot of Bronies here who are missing local brony events so my friend has decided to try to fill that gap.
We had a long meeting with the Howloween staff last night about our own stuff and we ended up chatting about this at the end of the meeting. I saw the mascots and decided to end my evening with some art of them, because i haven't drawn ponies in a long time. Was fun and they are pretty cute mascots.
Check out Vanhoover at https://twitter.com/VanhooverPE