Watch City Steampunk Festival

Centered on Waltham’s beautiful Common at the corner of Main and Moody Streets, the Watch City Steampunk Festival is the great outdoor festival of the Steampunk genre—a cultural and social movement melding elements of Victorian-era history and fashion with retro-futuristic technology.

Watch City 2015 will featuring a broad array of theatrical and musical performers as well as clothing, jewelry, art, and food vendors. The Festival is will also include kids programming, making this most definitely a family friendly event, as well.

 
 

Join us on May 11, 2024!


We will return for the Saturday of Mother’s Day Weekend, May 11th, 2024.

The theme is “Mad Tea Party”!

Help make the Watch City Steampunk Festival happen! We need volunteers to help us the day of the event. Sign up via: https://www.watchcityfestival.com/volunteer

The Watch City Steampunk Festival is a free outdoor community festival held in historic Waltham, MA.

Learn more via our Frequently Asked Questions page.


Join our Mad Hat Contest!

If we're going to have a Mad Tea Party, then we need some mad hats! Please join us for the Mad Hat Contest, where our judges will award prizes in three categories: the Maddest Hat; the Largest Hat; and the Best Not-a-Hat Hat, that being something perched upon your head which is not what one would traditionally consider to be a hat. You have between now and May 11th, 2024 to prepare your most splendiferous hat. Hats off to all the competitors!


The Watch City Steampunk Festival is a non-profit event,
with daytime festival activities presented FREE to the public!

Donate

If you are interested in helping us keep it that way, please consider donating!

100% of your donation goes directly to support the Watch City Steampunk Festival,
a project of the Downtown Waltham Partnership, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.
Your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. 

Thank You!


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The Watch City Steampunk Festival is presented by:

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All Rights Reserved.

"Watch City Steampunk Festival" and the "Winged Watch" logo are trademarks of the Downtown Waltham Partnership

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Waltham Cultural Council,
a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Jones Partnership Fund.