{"id":458325,"date":"2026-10-06T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458325\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:30:10","slug":"dream-con-2027-houston-convention-returns-for-third-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458325\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Con 2027: Houston convention returns for third straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by RDCWorld \u2014 a group of Texas natives known for comedy videos about anime, sports, memes and other pop-culture topics \u2014 Dream Con will return to Houston June 18-20, 2027, for \u201cDreamTeenth,\u201d which coincides with Juneteenth weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as the convention celebrated its highest attendance to date, with more than 45,000 people flocking to the George R. Brown Convention Center in June, according to a release by the organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouston has embraced Dream Con in a way that has allowed us, our community and our partners to keep imagining what this event can become,\u201d said Johnathan Newton, Co-Founder of Dream Con, in a written statement. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to break the curse, come back for year three and make DreamTeenth a weekend to remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People looking to purchase Dream Con&#8217;s Early Badge can do so on Oct. 16, with weekend badges starting at $150. Guests, programming and special events will be announced in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founded by RDCWorld \u2014 a group of Texas natives known for comedy videos about anime, sports, memes and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-458325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}