Projects for kids of all ages. Or use the materials to make something new!

I proved a kit of brass parts. Then go over how to assemble a Steampunk Sonic Screwdriver. And go over best praises of use in public settings. The kit cost $8.00 A must for Who-v-i-end traveling attire.

Can't find the right size box to protect your latest creation or treasured acquisition? Make one to measure! Using a kit of all the needed parts, you will make a hat box during the workshop, and leave with the skills to make a perfect box for every hat that crosses your path. Limit 8 participants.

This is a quicker activity, but can include a few projects. Copper tape circuits on paper, good to do at least 2 projects to have some practice in learning the skill! I have a fun wearable tech pin they can wear around the event, and a 2nd project of a light up throne or a light up greeting card.

Victorians used small containers to carry their apothecary items in. Come decorate your own container. This is a tips driven event suitable for all ages.

EVA foam is one of the building blocks of cosplay. Use adhesive glitter foam to make a light up bracer with conductive fabric tape and LEDs and learn about parallel circuits.

Make a mini hat in a variety of shapes while learning the basics of working with buckram and wire. Learn millinery techniques and create your fascinator using all hand sewing with no glue. Kit includes everything you need to make your hat except scissors, which will be available in class.

In this lively and participatory talk, Sabrina will give you tips and tricks for presenting memorable panels that will be interesting, entertaining, and energetic. Sabrina shares her twenty-plus years of experience in teaching and giving presentations to help you become a better presenter.

HG Wells, Jules Verne. They are great. But who else should we read? Which authors who wrote a century back should be in the canon? We will look at Golden Age and pre-Golden Age science fiction to discuss the greatest nuances of its start and all the dead ends and occasional successes.

It has been a crazy season this year in particular. We are really excited about the return of *****. Not to mention ******. And, oh, what will happen next? In this moderated free-for-all, bring your loves, complaints, and certainly spoilers. While we’re at it, we’ll make sure to tackle Victorian eps too

Lets look at the many myths, hoaxes, fakes and mysteries that were in the Victorian era. People on the Moon? Airships over California? Vikings in Minnesota? A UFO crash before Roswell? Sometimes its "I wouldn't see it if I didn't believe it." What is true, what is false, and what is Bull.

Freemasonry is peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols: in this presentation, the philosophy and linked symbology of Masonry will be revealed. Connections to alchemy will be discussed. The reasons why Freemasonry practices secrecy will be addressed.

A overview of Steampunk books, films, television shows, comics and games from before the year 2000.

Using improvisational theater techniques, you’ll briefly interact as each of a series of characters that you will generate using a simple chance-based system. No costume or prior acting experience is needed. Participation is encouraged, but those who are just curious" are welcome to watch the fun."

How care for your hats including storage, cleaning and shaping

For the beginner and the enthusiast. Practical application of the saber to include cuts, thrusts and false edge cuts. Guards and target selection. Scenarios for the students to DEFEND YOUR AIRSHIP!!!

This is a place for you to try your skill in a fun and playful zone. Choose your weapons, foam against foam in a controlled environment. Bouts are to five points, one touch is one point, cut or thrust to the waist or above, nothing aimed at the back of the head. Masks and gloves provided by EnGarde Foamworks.

A handshake may be your deadliest opportunity when you know the scientific art of Small Circle Jujitsu! When one seeks to manage ruffians with elegance and efficiency through joint locks instead of crude bludgeoning, messy knives, or nasty death rays. Learn the fundamentals of submission joint locks and how to safely practice with a partner.

Pick up a lightsaber and bring out your inner Jedi or Sith! Learn the basics of our choreography system and an introductory fight scene! Visit saberguild.org or facebook.com/PorgTemple/ for more information.

The Vidalia Sandbar fight made Jim Bowie famous, but what about the knife he used? We'll go over the basics of the Bowie knife and how it might be used in combat.

Come learn the finer details of Lycanthropy and Vampirism and how to ward off the beasts - or at least hold them at bay! Do you know the difference between a Vampiric Thrall and a Vampiric Lord? Do you know the effectiveness of Garlic? Do you know if a werewolf can change in times other than the full moon? Learn which weapons really work, what to avoid, and how to prepare against the creatures of the night.

The 2020 Aetherblade Open, here again at Clockwork Alchemy, is hosted by The Saber Legion (TSL) Steampunk Charter. Join us for the first Northern California Saber Legion Tournament of 2020. All are invited to come and watch, however participation is for active TSL members. Anyone that has attended any of the War Room classes on LED Saber Flourishes and Choreography will enjoy seeing these skills taken to full contact combat levels. Saber Legion armor requirements will be in effect. Rules and video from previous tournaments can be found on the Saber Legion Facebook and Youtube pages.

Artists' Bazaar is open!

Join Unwoman, Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands, and Marquis of Vaudeville for a rocking good night of music along with MC Strangely Doesburg

Artists' Gallery is open!

Whether you self-publish or publish through an indie establishment, you will need to promote yourself and your book in order to generate significant book sales. When should you start promoting yourself and/or your book, and how? What are the chances of success?

Characters are the heart of story. Are you a cosplayer wanting to explain why you're wearing that nifty costume? A writer looking to deepen your characterization? Come and learn about compelling characters then everyone will have an opportunity to workshop their own character.

"Victorian Era builders erected buildings which incorporate features which today would be considered steampunk: functional, yet beautiful structures, sometimes with the aesthetic almost, but not quite, overpowering the functionality. This presentation will show many examples of both historic and modern Steampunk architecture. "

Come and find out why today's young readers are so enchanted by the whimsical adventures of steampunk, as well as how the underlying themes of steampunk speak to our society.

Ideas are everywhere! Authors are often asked where they get their ideas. Panelists will work through pictures provided by the moderator, generating (hopefully creative) ideas. Panelists will also be offered the opportunity to share their own slice-of-life pictures for story idea generation.

The perennial dilemma: You have a sci-fi/fantasy idea. But the world is so different from our own, you feel lost. How and where do you start? What do you include and what do you leave out? Join our cast of historians, writers, and occasional ne’er-do-wells for a World Building Workshop and Q&A.

The panelists discuss what viewpoint is, why it’s important, and how to use it.

Sci-fi singer-songwriter Aaron J. Shay is a balladeer who blends old-world banjo twang with modern melancholy. His performances are highly interactive experiences, featuring many sing-alongs and stomp-alongs, all punctuated by his funny and heartfelt musings on relationships, creativity, magic, and the future of humanity. Influenced heavily by punk and Americana, his songs fall in some strange realm between Pete Seeger, David Bowie, and The Mountain Goats.

Award winning singer/songwriter, ethnomusicologist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, Crystal Bright, has played over 1000 shows from Canada to San Diego, Florida to Seattle since 2010. Bright performed with the North Carolina Symphony in 2011 on an arrangement of her song "Toy Hammer," and has performed at various festivals around the country (SXSW, Savannah Stopover, FloydFest, DragonCon, Midpoint Music Fest, The Steampunk World's Fair, Shakori Hills, and many others.) She took Runner Up for On the Rise at Floydfest 2013 for a return set in 2014, and was named Best Singer in 2012, Best Songwriter in 2014, and Best Musician in the Triad in 2015 by Greensboro's Yes Weekly. Bright has an eclectic, haunting but yet whimsical, carnivalesque world folk sound, dubbed "kaleidophrenic cabaret." She plays accordion, musical saw, concertina, piano, Taiko drum, adungu (Ugandan harp), and various others, leaving people captivated with her operatic & soulful vocals and virtuoso command of her exotic instruments. Her albums (a visual collaboration with DividingMe Photography, "The Absolute Elsewhere" (Jan. 2015) as well as "Muses and Bones" (2012)) received press and glowing reviews in the US & Europe, as well as radio airplay in the US, UK, & Canada, including NPR and BBC appearances.

Unwoman (aka Erica Mulkey) is a San Francisco-based solo cellist-singer-songwriter. Her sets feature stand-up electric cello with live looping. She received two Steampunk Chronicle Reader’s Choice Awards in 2015, for best solo musician and best album. Unwoman has performed with Amanda Palmer, Voltaire, Abney Park, Rasputina, Stripmall Architecture, Vernian Process, The Nathaniel Johnstone Band, and many others. She is active on Patreon and has run over a dozen successful kickstarter campaigns.

Pilot House is a podcast where two friends watch the pilot episodes of TV shows they’ve mostly never seen before, and try to figure out where the show was headed from there. Listen to us recap everything from beloved dramas to cheesy sitcoms and long-standing procedurals, lovingly picking apart every detail.

Sarah Shay is a musician and podcaster from Seattle. She sings nerdy folky songs that are usually funny but sometimes sad, interspersed with her insights into pop culture and storytelling. A keen observer of all manner of modern fiction, Sarah writes songs that dance between a variety of subjects, from rock star poets to time-traveling adventurers, every show inspiring in the audience some new perspective on age-old tales.

Come enjoy a nice little “cuppa” as a respite from the convention. Discover the Alchemist Tea Parlour here.

You were probably thinking you didn’t have enough accordion and singalongs in your life right? We have the medicine you need with Strangely Doesburg!

Sci-fi singer-songwriter Aaron J. Shay is a balladeer who blends old-world banjo twang with modern melancholy. His performances are highly interactive experiences, featuring many sing-alongs and stomp-alongs, all punctuated by his funny and heartfelt musings on relationships, creativity, magic, and the future of humanity. Influenced heavily by punk and Americana, his songs fall in some strange realm between Pete Seeger, David Bowie, and The Mountain Goats.

Wandering Magician Happenstance Comes to Tea!

Come learn your fate with our esteemed fortune tellers!

Makers' Market is open!

View an amazing selection of sewing machines and a demonstration of maintenance, use and projects. Simple fabric basket kits will be available for purchase, and these machines will be availabe to use with the kits.

Peruse the Art Cars of Obtanium Works!

Registration and Info Desk are open!

Send a real life Telegraph to a friend absolutely free!

Come take a test drive or practice your moves at the Tea Pot Racing Driving School!

Projects for kids of all ages. Or use the materials to make something new!

Sturdy lidded paperboard boxes, with a magnetic latch, in your choice of several sizes and a couple of colors. First come, first choice. Decorate with rubber stamps, glue on bits, stencils and paint, markers, etc. Sizes would suit storage for fans, gloves, watches, probably not big enough for corsets or blasters.

In the first part of this two-part workshop, you will get the chance to hold in your hand a real insect…and then pin it in the position you desire! A variety of insects will be available to choose from. After you pin your insect, leave it to dry, then come back the next day for part two!

In the second part of this two-part workshop, you will mount the insect that you have already pinned into a shadowbox. A variety of frame choices will be available as well as patterned paper for the background. After this workshop, your insect will be ready to adorn the walls of your home!

Prototyping circuits with sewable, washable LEDs. 1) We use alligator clips, 2) we draw the circuit, 3) we prototype with the thread on paper or the table, 4) we sew the circuit into fabric. This workshop is best if we have 1.5+ hours, but sometimes I find people won't want to sign up for a workshop that is too long, but 1 hour is sufficient if I keep the pace up! The result - a few lights sewn into fabric, students can sew more lights later, but we focus on the learning process while I have them!

No sew leather pouches.

Learn the basics of cosplay foam construction foamsmithing". In this workshop we will learn how to read foam patterns and transfer onto EVA foam

Learn to make your choice of several beginner projects including a leather rose. This is a tip and donation driven workshop suitable for ages 16 and up. Younger students may have parental assistance and supervision.

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, sounds like a party to me! Lets look at how Victorian partied , the drinks and customs, What they smoked and how other things that a Good Gentleman and Lady did to enjoy themselves.

A look at some of the top travel destinations for steampunks, from France to New Zealand, and London to Transylvania.

In this fun-filled genre, there is a beloved steampunk canon for book lovers. Beyond this, however, there are more obscure titles that deserve plenty of fan love but are nott getting as much notice. Some are children’s, young adult, or even found in other genres. Bring your recs and walk away with more

This presentation will trace the history of vaudeville from 1880 to 1910, when it was the dominant form of entertainment in America. We'll look at Tony Pastor, who cleaned up the acts, making vaudeville suitable for families

Latino Freemasons of the Old West: A presentation on the forgotten history of 19th Century American Latinos who experienced true Brotherly Love in the Fraternity of Freemasonry, enabling them to overcome the challenges of racial prejudice in that era, and find success in the new American order.

A review of Steampunk, Victorian and California Gold Rush places and experiences in the Bay Area and Northern California

A look at new uses for Victorian technology

The Naginata, a long-handled weapon used by samurai, dates back to the 9th Century. Focusing on balance and leverage rather than brute force. The sweeping movements of the Naginata develop physical balance and poise.

November - year of our lord 1888 Greeting and well met, all you steampunks! That ancient, noble and historic sport, Croquet has for many years been ever so slightly tedious and slightly boring - but thanks to the Nonsuch Guild, and a meeting held somewhere deep in Surrey, in Great Britain, Mssrs. Conrad Quast and Sir Angus Poisselampe made a pact that Battle Croquet would prove to be the phoenix that rises from the ashes of Association Croquet. From the website: http://bumpandthumper.wixsite.com/battle-croquet However, we will be using the US version of the rules as we did last year. The Royal Airship Kamahamaha greatly thanks, Battle Mistress Brigit Kent, for teaching all of us this zany new variation.

The discerning Chrononaut seeks at all times to blend thoughtfully into the timeline, but what to do when a Cutpurse threatens? Marleaux Smithwithy, Temporal Adventurer and Armorer to Royalty, guarantees the most scientifically historical methods for defeating the Medieval Cutpurse with Steampunk Accoutrements at hand (not limited to the Walking Stick or Umbrella, the Fan, the Teacup, and the Cloak), using the Methods of the Era. Retain your health, gold, and dignity without revealing your provenance!

Pick up a lightsaber and bring out your inner Jedi or Sith! Learn the basics of our choreography system and an introductory fight scene! Visit saberguild.org or facebook.com/PorgTemple/ for more information.

From the Gentry to the Suffragettes, women of the 19th century had to be prepared for anything. Learn how to defend yourselves using everything from parasols to teacups and boots to hatpins. These proven techniques are practical in any time period, from the past to alternate timelines.

A fan favorite for many years at Gaslight Gathering, CombatCon and Clockwork Alchemy every year! Learn what every airship crew member needs to know when defending against an aerial attack and repealing a boarding action. We will study close combat use of Singlestick, 19th Century Saber, Steampunk longsword, Cutlass, war clubs, and boarding axes on land, sea and air in our Steampunk universe.

Join Instructor Henry Hill as he reveals insights into the mysterious ways of the ancient Egyptian Khopesh. Start with basic blocks and attacks and learn the fighting style that caught the world’s eye and keeps them coming back for more.

For the benefit of all gentlefolk traveling under adverse circumstances, a short course of instruction will be held in dueling and military Sabre. Useful in solving personal duels of honor and dissuading the advances of those unfortunates whom have become zombified. Equipment will be provided. The prudent adventurer is advised to come adorned with attire appropriate for active participation.

La Defense dans la Rue is a term applied to various systems of personal combat developed in France around the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, and is part of the same developing interest in urban street defense that spawned the similar art of Bartitsu in England. Developed to defend against the dreaded Parisian Apache street gangs.

For the beginner and enthusiast...Why a duel? The convention of the duel. Practical use of the rapier and dagger in a duel. Practical application for students...

Artists' Bazaar is open!

Fashion Show Featuring Kij Greenwood The Clockwork Alchemy fashion show will once again be returning! Clockwork Alchemy Members will be the featured designers in the 2020 Fashion Show using the theme: ’Marvelous Makers’ to inspire their designs. Designers will pull travel ideas from across space and time to arrive at Clockwork Alchemy.

A perfect class for beginners to get their feet moving in classic waltz fashion!

Taken a few turns around the ballroom! Learn more advanced technique to showcase at Emperor Norton's Ball!

Please join us for Emperor Norton's Ball! We begin the night with waltz and contra dancing called by James and Cathleen Meyers then enjoy hours (yes hours!) of swing swing swing provided by the estimable Lee Presson and the Nails!

Artists' Gallery is open!

From the Three Fates, who spin, weave, and cut the threads of life, to Rumplestiltskin spinning straw into gold, fiber arts have been a part of humanity’s concept of magic, even as they have been crucial historically in different cultures. Why does clothing, cloth, and the making of it turn up so often in fantasy?

Whether you’re writing a young adult novel, a comic book series, or a fantasy epic, the plot of anything longer than a short story can get hairy! In this workshop, we’ll demonstrate a technique called plotbreaking which can get your story out of your head and into the open so you can debug it.

It’s more than parry and thrust. Authoring a sword fight that keeps the reader enthralled and engaged, as well as entertained, takes skill. Our panel of authors will arm you with the knowledge you’ll need as a duel-describing hack.

Steampunk is more than brown, boots, and buttons: our adventurers must travel the world in style! Learn about the science behind the leviathans of the skies. From how they stay up to how they crash down, explore how the physics of flight gives distinctive shapes to airships past, present and future!

Join Harry Turtledove, Patricia Wrede, Shelley Adina and Madeleine Holly-Rosing to discuss the tipping points of history; those moments where if you change one thing, you change everything. Bring your own ideas and questions to banter with the authors.

Let's tell a story together in a workshop for kids and kid like adults. We'll provide story prompts, you provide the imagination.

The authors of “The Adventures of Drake & McTrowell” will lead featured author Harry Turtledove, Shelli Frew, and the audience in a madcap improvisational writing game show reminiscent of their signature “Hot Potato” team writing style.

Bring something to make some noise with and get ready to hold that beat! Sarah Shay leads you through the basics of percussion!

Caravan Tent Bellydance

Enjoy an hour with Strangely and Friends! Who knows what might happen in this crazy fun filled hour!?!?

In the far-flung future, a graduate student uncovers the classified records of a vanished scientist/poet sent to explore alternate Earths and document his findings in strange stories and original songs.​ Over the course of the show, you will hear about many fantastical places, from sunken towers under monstrous seas, to ​cyber-punk rock clubs in foggy super-cities. An interactive show for all ages, Apocalypse Songs delivers a message that the end of everything is just the beginning.

Having the ambitious wish to propel the entire world into a melodic vortex, Marquis of Vaudeville emits an extraordinary sound that spirals listeners on an utterly imaginative, musical merry-go-round. Listeners never know what moodswung journey they’ll embark upon once these musical highwaymen hijack their consciousness. With imagination at its core, the theatrical flair and intriguing nature of their songwriting have grasped the attention of music lovers from the most critical of music elitists to the average radio listener. Although performing frequently at pop-culture and steampunk-fandom conventions and festivals, the musical menagerie is widely known for their own extravagant Vaudevillian inspired sold-out spectacles such as A Clockwork Wonderland: Through Aether & Mysterium, Gadgets & Gobstoppers: The Twisted World of Wonka, and the show that shares the grandiose title of their ambitious debut album, The Great Promenade of Fools & Ghosts. The group is known the world over for their progressive, psychedelic, punk-cabaret stylings fusing timeworn elements of the old world with newfangled innovation. Due to the music’s mysterious, yet playful nature, they have befittingly dubbed the style ‘melodic mischief.’ The act has composed and licensed music for a variety of film projects and television shows, such as the syndicated series Charmed & Showtime Network’s hit series Dexter. They’ve also been featured in such steampunk publications as Race Point Publishing’s book Anatomy of Steampunk, as well as Gearhearts Steampunk Glamor Revue. Hate them or love them, they demand the world take notice, and merely desire to incite something genuine, to inspire sincere emotion despite the world’s mind numbing mediocrity and generic mass production. Marquis of Vaudeville is a tantalizing flavor for even the most finicky musical appetite.

Lord and Lady Vanderlitton host a night of art and science. As a guest representing an adventuring guild you'll view the latest marvels, and compete for their favor with puzzles and games. Everyone has a secret, what's yours? (No acting or gaming experience needed. Great for 1st-time RPers.)

Come enjoy a nice little “cuppa” as a respite from the convention. Discover the Alchemist Tea Parlour here.

Unwoman (aka Erica Mulkey) is a San Francisco-based solo cellist-singer-songwriter. Her sets feature stand-up electric cello with live looping. She received two Steampunk Chronicle Reader’s Choice Awards in 2015, for best solo musician and best album. Unwoman has performed with Amanda Palmer, Voltaire, Abney Park, Rasputina, Stripmall Architecture, Vernian Process, The Nathaniel Johnstone Band, and many others. She is active on Patreon and has run over a dozen successful kickstarter campaigns.

Award winning singer/songwriter, ethnomusicologist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, Crystal Bright, has played over 1000 shows from Canada to San Diego, Florida to Seattle since 2010. Bright performed with the North Carolina Symphony in 2011 on an arrangement of her song "Toy Hammer," and has performed at various festivals around the country (SXSW, Savannah Stopover, FloydFest, DragonCon, Midpoint Music Fest, The Steampunk World's Fair, Shakori Hills, and many others.) She took Runner Up for On the Rise at Floydfest 2013 for a return set in 2014, and was named Best Singer in 2012, Best Songwriter in 2014, and Best Musician in the Triad in 2015 by Greensboro's Yes Weekly. Bright has an eclectic, haunting but yet whimsical, carnivalesque world folk sound, dubbed "kaleidophrenic cabaret." She plays accordion, musical saw, concertina, piano, Taiko drum, adungu (Ugandan harp), and various others, leaving people captivated with her operatic & soulful vocals and virtuoso command of her exotic instruments. Her albums (a visual collaboration with DividingMe Photography, "The Absolute Elsewhere" (Jan. 2015) as well as "Muses and Bones" (2012)) received press and glowing reviews in the US & Europe, as well as radio airplay in the US, UK, & Canada, including NPR and BBC appearances.

Come learn your fate with our esteemed fortune tellers!

Makers' Market is open!

View an amazing selection of sewing machines and a demonstration of maintenance, use and projects. Simple fabric basket kits will be available for purchase, and these machines will be availabe to use with the kits.

View an amazing selection of sewing machines and a demonstration of maintenance, use and projects. Simple fabric basket kits will be available for purchase, and these machines will be availabe to use with the kits.

Peruse the Art Cars of Obtanium Works!

Join Major Catastrophe for a guided tour and explore the Art cars and other creations from Obtanium Works!

Registration and Info Desk are open!

Send a real life Telegraph to a friend absolutely free!

Official Clockwork Alchemy Photo

Come meet your favorite Guests of Honor!

Come take a test drive or practice your moves at the Tea Pot Racing Driving School!

Construct a motor, design a robot body, and experiment with the finished build to produce different artsy results. Then explore the wonderful world of generative art - art made using machines and even mathematical methods - to get a look into the history behind your drawbot design. Children under 8 will need adult assistance.

Have you admired those jewelry pieces made of tiny watch parts and wished you could add that kind of intricate clockwork to your own projects? Well, now you can! Here, you will learn how to assemble tiny watch parts to make an accessory which you can add to a hat or gun, or wear as a necklace!

Turn an empty lipstick container into a handy, safely portable pin cushion or needle case. All materials to make one case will be provided.

This is not your usual feather fascinator! In this workshop, you will make a headpiece that features gears, lace, and ribbon. The gears are cut from cardboard and painted to provide the look of real metal without the weight! You will attach your gear and lace design to an elastic band for easy wear.

Learn about circuits and simple electronics. Using copper tape, LEDs and a coin cell battery make and decorate a simple circuit.

A fast and fun project to make a circuit with a small motor, then design and engineer the rest of the robot so that it "buzzes" around the table. Multiple materials provided and students can make, unmake, remake, add, subtract materials and see what works best. Then the BumbleBots can battle or race each other.

What can you do with those small scraps? Make small projects like pouches and key chains. Many little projects like hat bands, embossed leather projects, bracers, or even gloves. I will have a few scraps and hides of various leathers. Some trinkets and baubles to put on the items.

No sew leather pouches

There are few other fields in human endeavors that has produced the strange , dumb ,insane and just plain weird as War. Round battleships? Guns that shoot around corners? Aircraft that are more dangerous to the crew then the enemy. Tanks that fly and even weirder things.

A demonstration of Magical gimmicks and self-working card tricks. Coins, Boxes, Rings and Rope, Magic Deck, Magical Toys, Math Magic, and balancing.

This panel will describe the process of building a small, drive-able art car and what is involved from design to completion. Bring your questions about vehicles that you've been thinking of building!

Cowboys & Aliens, Firefly, and that oldie but goodie Wild Wild West have filled our screens. How has the old west stood up to punking? What about magic, extraterrestrials, and superheroes? It was already a rough and ready time of inventions and hastily contrived gadgets, while shotguns and leather took the place of drawing rooms and tea. What does this particularly aesthetic allow storytellers to do? What’s the fascination? And which great stories beyond these should we be reading and watching?

Did you see the Aetheric Etherblade tournament on Friday and think “I want one of those”? Then this is the workshop for you. Join Albert Bodenhamer as he walks attendees through the intricacies of sourcing parts and building their own Aetheric Etherblade. Topics covered include safety, skills needed, types of sabers, components overview and planning your own custom masterpiece.

Having the ambitious wish to propel the entire world into a melodic vortex, Marquis of Vaudeville emits an extraordinary sound that spirals listeners on an utterly imaginative, musical merry-go-round. Listeners never know what moodswung journey they’ll embark upon once these musical highwaymen hijack their consciousness. With imagination at its core, the theatrical flair and intriguing nature of their songwriting have grasped the attention of music lovers from the most critical of music elitists to the average radio listener. Although performing frequently at pop-culture and steampunk-fandom conventions and festivals, the musical menagerie is widely known for their own extravagant Vaudevillian inspired sold-out spectacles such as A Clockwork Wonderland: Through Aether & Mysterium, Gadgets & Gobstoppers: The Twisted World of Wonka, and the show that shares the grandiose title of their ambitious debut album, The Great Promenade of Fools & Ghosts. The group is known the world over for their progressive, psychedelic, punk-cabaret stylings fusing timeworn elements of the old world with newfangled innovation. Due to the music’s mysterious, yet playful nature, they have befittingly dubbed the style ‘melodic mischief.’ The act has composed and licensed music for a variety of film projects and television shows, such as the syndicated series Charmed & Showtime Network’s hit series Dexter. They’ve also been featured in such steampunk publications as Race Point Publishing’s book Anatomy of Steampunk, as well as Gearhearts Steampunk Glamor Revue. Hate them or love them, they demand the world take notice, and merely desire to incite something genuine, to inspire sincere emotion despite the world’s mind numbing mediocrity and generic mass production. Marquis of Vaudeville is a tantalizing flavor for even the most finicky musical appetite.

Simple ways of adding color to your steampunk wardrobe

People have had some rather unique ideas how to cure various maladies over the decades and some are still with us.

Even Steampunks need to exercise. Experience the exercises that British Expeditionary forces used to expand the Victorian Empire. Indian clubs were exceptionally popular during the health craze of the late Victorian era, used by military cadets and well-heeled ladies alike, and even appeared as a gymnastic event in the 1904 and 1932 Olympics.

Most War Room attendees are familiar with the ways of fighting with a cane, something that was not meant as a weapon. Here we teach an African style of cane and spear work.

For those of us who choose to sit while dueling . . . using fencing gear approved by Clockwork Alchemy. Weapons provided by Tom Badillo, safety gear provided by EnGarde Fencing. More information about the history of wheelchair fencing can be found via this link: https://www.paralympic.org/news/sport-week-history-wheelchair-fencing

Mensur German Dueling is really neither a duel or a sport - it is a style of fencing promoting character without winners or losers. Participants face off one pace away from each other and try to smite the other with a sword without moving their feet. Flinching and dodging are not allowed as a matter of honor. Historically, scars from Mensur German Dueling were seen as a badge of honor.

There are several cane fighting traditions: from the French La Canne to the use of Prof. Vigny's cane in Bartitsu. The use of the cane is widespread for self defense. Instead of a specific style we will look at what we hope are some of the simplest and most effective methods of self defense with a cane.

A workshop for adventurers, writers, choreographers and martial artists: What do you do if you find that you brought a knife to a sword fight? Or a sword to a spear fight? Here you will learn strategies for unmatched weapons. Your best strategy will depend on your reach, strength and speed.

The 1904 Olympic Games had four styles of fencing: foil, epee, saber and singlestick. We will explore the rules and fencing techniques of the martial art of singlestick, using the source material found in Winn and Wolley's book, Broadsword and Singlestick, circa 1881. We’ll go over the footwork, parries, cuts, and thrusts needed to compete in our steampunk version

Introduction to Modern Arnis (knife and stick) and Wing Chun (kung fu), two close quarter fighting systems well suited for the narrow alleys of old cities and the tight gangways and corridors of battling airships. Participants will learn fundamental fighting techniques of the two systems, and a fighting sequence that they can take home to practice.

The pole arm — a perfect weapon for defending your airship. In this class, Coach Paul Tosetti will be teaching Italian Pole Arm techniques originally taught by the masters of the 1500's. Let the lessons of the past protect you in the future.

Artists' Bazaar is open!

Learn to waltz with esteemed instructors James and Cathleen Meyers of PEERS!

James and Cathleen Meyers invite you to an afternoon waltz!

Artists' Gallery is open!

Go on a general tour of Wild West history, discussing reality vs. fiction. Then together, we will design a world based on the whims of the participants. Each person wishing to do so will create a quick elevator speech version of a storyline.

Yes, Virginia, there was a Victorian Santa Claus. But, no, there were no tighty whities. And there were no hooligans until the late 19th century. This panel explores historical inaccuracies that sometimes creep into our writing.

As genre writers, we need to create the world that our characters live in. We will discuss the nuts and bolts of world building. Does it start with your character or with your story? And does it need a “universal truth” to anchor it and make the unbelievable, believable.

If you write military fiction, but haven’t been in the military or know anyone who has, then this session is for you. We’ll talk shop, decipher the alphabet soup, drop slang—and possibly f-bombs—and help you get your writing ship shape and fit for formation.

The 19th Century was a time of audacious engineering endeavours and most interesting engineers and scientists. A combination of imaginative builders, new materials, and scientific discoveries led to unprecedented building projects, from transatlantic cables to railroads, and skyscrapers to bridges.

Sci-fi singer-songwriter Aaron J. Shay is a balladeer who blends old-world banjo twang with modern melancholy. His performances are highly interactive experiences, featuring many sing-alongs and stomp-alongs, all punctuated by his funny and heartfelt musings on relationships, creativity, magic, and the future of humanity. Influenced heavily by punk and Americana, his songs fall in some strange realm between Pete Seeger, David Bowie, and The Mountain Goats.

Learn the basics of making a saw sing with Crystal Bright!

Tell Tale Theater with Lee Presson

Sarah Shay is a musician and podcaster from Seattle. She sings nerdy folky songs that are usually funny but sometimes sad, interspersed with her insights into pop culture and storytelling. A keen observer of all manner of modern fiction, Sarah writes songs that dance between a variety of subjects, from rock star poets to time-traveling adventurers, every show inspiring in the audience some new perspective on age-old tales.

Caravan Tent Bellydance

Q&A with Aurelio Voltaire

Come enjoy a nice little “cuppa” as a respite from the convention. Discover the Alchemist Tea Parlour here.

Come learn your fate with our esteemed fortune tellers!

Makers' Market is open!

View an amazing selection of sewing machines and a demonstration of maintenance, use and projects. Simple fabric basket kits will be available for purchase, and these machines will be availabe to use with the kits.

View an amazing selection of sewing machines and a demonstration of maintenance, use and projects. Simple fabric basket kits will be available for purchase, and these machines will be availabe to use with the kits.

Peruse the Art Cars of Obtanium Works!

Join Major Catastrophe for a guided tour and explore the Art cars and other creations from Obtanium Works!

Registration and Info Desk are open!

Send a real life Telegraph to a friend absolutely free!

Come take your place at the line with your finest Tea Pot Racer and see how you measure up!

The Finals of our glorious Tea Pot Racing Series and Awarding of the Prizes!