Autographs
Your program guide will have a page dedicated to collecting autographs, messages, doodles and stamps from the people you meet at the con. Who will you get to write in your book?
Stamp Collecting
Let’s go on a STAMP COLLECTING ADVENTURE! Play our convention stamp collecting game to win a prize! Have your own stamp? Stamp, sign, or doodle in the program guides of your con friends.
GARB GIVEAWAY
Clear out your trunks and wardrobes of old garb you don’t need anymore… and replace it with new garb from other people’s collections! Bring your surplus steampunk gear for our free swap event.
2026 Musical Guests: The Forgetmenauts
The Forgetmenauts weave folklore and mythology into a strange, fresh, and rich soundscape. Their musicality is orchestral, folksy, alternative, and punk all at once. Their lyrics spin old tales and new into exciting and poetic songs that weave together love and queerness, longing and revenge. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, they have a …
2026 Musical Guests: Field of Embers
Field of Embers is a rock band based in Providence, RI that plays primarily queer, pagan, cryptid jams. With two vocalists trading the lead spot they sing about love, community, myth, and whimsy. Expect everything from extended funky jams to piano ballads, with a healthy dose of heavy rock and roll thrown in for good …
2026 Musical Guests: Avalon Rising
Avalon Rising has been delivering its unique blend of Celtic/Medieval progressive rock for many years at science fiction conventions, festivals, and other venues from Northern California to Jinan, China. Their rich acoustic/electric sound has been called “shimmeringly original”, “a refreshing new approach to an old world style, and “wets the mind like Irish mist” — …
Call for Content, Art, and Costumes
Clockwork Alchemy is accepting proposals for panels, lectures and workshops, as well as art and costumes for our Artists’ Gallery and Fashion Show. If you have content or a craft, or a creation you’d like to share with the steampunks at Clockwork Alchemy, please follow one of the links below. Please Share These Links With …
2026 Musical Guest: Unwoman
Unwoman (Erica Mulkey) is a solo cellist-singer-songwriter-producer based in Northern California. She has performed all over the US at steampunk, goth, horror, and sci-fi events. Her powerful sets feature stand-up five-string electric cello and vocals, with deeply immersive live looping. Unwoman’s tenth original album IF YOUR RAGE CAN’T BE BEAUTIFUL was released January 1, 2026; …
2026 EmCee: Jaime Jessup
Jaime Jessup is a comic EmCee, Horror Enthusiast and Screenwriter with over 30 years of professional entertainment experience under her many weird belts. Her most recent work can be seen for Apple TV’s “WIDOW’S BAY” launch parties portraying a live version of the show’s iconic Sea Hag at theHollywood Forever Cemetery. When she’s not performing …
Commemorative “Brad” Pin
Attendees of Clockwork Alchemy 2026: Rogue Makers & Air Pirates will receive a free, 1 inch enamel pin. This year’s pin features our clockwork parrot Brad, peeking out of an airship porthole. Brad is wreathed in radium green light, and inquisitive adventurers will detect that the pin glows under the right conditions. We are looking …
Author Guest: Gail Carriger
ATTENTION: Gail Carriger will not be selling books at Clockwork Alchemy. If you’d like to get an autograph from Ms. Carriger, please bring your own book to sign or use the autograph section of your program guide. New York Times bestselling author and ex-archaeologist Gail (G.L.) Carriger writes to cope with being raised in obscurity by …
2026 Featured Lecturer: Andrei Pischalnikoff, AKA “Doctor R. Snick”
Andrei Pischalnikoff, AKA “Doctor R. Snick”, has been a storyteller using various media for several years. He began his journey speaking about 19th and 20th century subjects in December, 2022. He delivers captivating presentations about patent medicines, snake oils, medicine shows, oddities and Memento Mori while focusing on the audience’s interests. In addition to ongoing …
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