The Symposium 2020 Program invites you to a presentation on Repurposing; a discussion, and idea sharing for making award winning Steampunk props, weapons, and accessories for cosplay. Presented by Justilien Landry. Explorations of how to find and repurpose ordinary and unusual items into one of a kind Steampunk props, weapons, and accessories for cosplay. Among […]
From thrift store finds to the trunk in the attic, hidden fashion is all around. Presented by Sabrina Pullen – Minutiae Burke. Welcome to Dressed For Steam. Your place for inspiration and help on how to create your perfect Steampunk look. From thrift store finds to the trunk in the attic, hidden fashion is all […]
The Symposium 2020 Program invites you to learn how to make holsters for all your steampunk weaponry. Presented by David Rose. Learn how to make a holsters from various materials for any type of your steampunk weaponry. Bring your notebook, quill, and imagination as David Rose gives a fun lesson on the art holsters. You […]
The Symposium 2020 Program invites you to join Mark Twain for a talk about the old West as he knew it as a young man. Presented by Steampunk Mark Twain (AKA Quine Brengle). Mark Twain’s account in his own words of his adventures in Nevada during the silver rush. As he would put it: There […]
The Ripper has returned to London to continue his bloody work after a five-year absence. Games Master – Randy Price. “Return of the Ripper” is an 1890s scenario for the “Cthulhu By Gaslight” version Call of Cthulhu that takes place in London, beginning in late summer to early autumn of 1893. It involves a new series […]
New to Steampunk? Need a primer? Or maybe a refresher course? The 2020 Symposium Program invites you to join Steampunk author and editor Phoebe Darqueling for an overview of this quirky subgenre that we love so well. Presented by Phoebe Darqueling. The term Steampunk was coined in April 1987 by American author KW Jeter, but the genre stretches back […]
The Steampunk Symposium 2020 Program wishes to entertain you with True Tales of the Real Weird Wild West told in Two Cocktails . . . Presented by Baba Teddy & Lady Kate Henriott. In more True Tales & Cocktails, Baba Teddy and Lady Kate share the true stories, history and cocktails behind who the ‘Cowboys’ really […]
Shocking! Women who wore pants, and why they wore them! Presented by Dannyn (Dash) Qualls-Gibeau. From Bloomers and harem pants to overalls, Levi’s, chaps, and slacks, women have found any number of reasons for mannish garb, even in times when fashion and social propriety dictated that the female form be confined in acres of skirt […]
The Steampunk Symposium 2020 Program invites you to hear True Tales of Ancestors, Spirits and Releasing the Ghosts of Deadwood Gulch . . . Presented by Lady Kate Henriott & Baba Teddy. Lady Kate Henriott tells of her real life experiences talking to the dead and her life as detailed in her book ‘Talking To The […]
The 2020 Symposium Program invites to play the best Steampunk board game that we’ve ever played. Presented by Kevin Wing. The World of SMOG: Rise of Moloch is a Victorian adventure board game, for 2 to 5 players, set in an alternate England, where magic and technology have taken an extraordinary turn. Playable as a campaign […]
The Steampunk Symposium 2020 Program invites you to partake in some Absinthe: Histories, Mysteries, Intrigue & Murder! Presented by Lady Kate Henriott & Baba Teddy. Absinthe is the most misunderstood of all drinks. Shrouded in mystery, a controversial history and it is without match, the most feared of all aperitifs. Join Lady Kate and Baba Teddy […]
The Steampunk Symposium 2020 Program invites you to a late night presentation of “fancy profanity” from Grandiloquent Word of the Day. Presented by Jason Travis Ott. Join us for an indecorously risqué divertissement that is rife with ribaldry and erudite aspersions. Learn the mot juste to succinctly eviscerate the self esteem of anyone on your naughty […]