Watch City Steampunk Festival

Waltham, MA

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.

Ask a Steampunk: What is Steampunk?

April 13, 2023  /  Melissa Honig

Steampunk is a literary and artistic movement that melds elements of Victorian-era history and fashion with modern technology and fantastical fiction. What if the seminal science fiction adventures of authors Jules Verne and H.G. Wells described our world today? What if we could fly in airships, sail in submarines like the Nautilus, and enjoy a good cup of tea while we're at it?

Steampunk has exploded in popularity as an artistic and lifestyle movement as well as a literary one. Steampunk artists and makers, fed up with plastic and streamlined designs, have been looking to the Victorian, Edwardian and Industrial eras for inspiration.

See how these steampunks answered the question!