Saturday, April 9th, 2016 – Symposium Schedule
Please note that this schedule may be subject to change.
Printable Pocket Schedule
8AM to 10AM
Curiosity Room Open (Registration Only) (Sicily)
10AM to 6PM
The Curiosities Exhibit (Sicily)
10AM to 11AM
Adopt a Pet Octopus (Ages 10 and Under) with Pixie Sue Schmid (Milan)
Octopus participants must sign up at Registration. No Fee.
Creating a Character through Costume and Manner with Lucretia Strange (Naples)
Kid’s Coloring and Crafts (Lower Terrace) to 9PM
Writer’s Workshop 2: The Boiler Room with Emilie P. Bush (Pompeii)
10:30AM to 11:30AM
R/C AirShip Design with Claude Mcdonald & Co. (Palermo)
Tea Dueling hosted by Peter B. Slayer & Kitty Kim (Upper Terrace) to 12PM
sponsored by Dobbylyn Art Works
So You Want to Edit an Anthology? with Sarah Hans (Verona)
11:00AM to 12PM
11:30AM to 12:30PM
Ethical Representation of Characters in Female-Centered Stories with Taversia (Naples)
Wonderland Kids’ Carnival Games with Professor Genevieve Kemp
(Milan) to 1PM
12PM to 1PM
Dance Basic Waltz with Don Dodson (Ferrara)
Get Your Chignon with Rachel Turner (Verona)
Mad Tea Party (ticketed event) with Governess Sebastian (Pompeii) to 2PM
Androids, Automatons, and Robots, Oh My! AND Robotics and Punked Stuff with Brett King AND Sir Kenneth Pioforte (Palermo)
12:30PM to 2PM
Bocce Game hosted by Tony Ballard-Smoot & Peter B. Slayer. (Upper Terrace) sponsored by Fiendish Wear
1PM to 2PM
Steampunk Music with Sir Ernest Suszczynski (Naples)
1:30PM to 2:30PM
Propping Up Your Costume with Brett King (Palermo)
Costume Contest hosted by Edwina Tweed (Ferrara)
Sponsored by Simply for You & War Pony Candy Forge
Art of the Short Story with Sarah Hans (Verona)
Tea Time with Gandersnitch (Milan)
2:30PM to 3:30PM
Crime and Punishment in Victorian Britain with Lucretia Strange (Naples)
Moustache & Beard Contest hosted by Guy Dillon (Ferrara)
Nerf Dueling hosted by Tony Ballard-Smoot & Peter B. Slayer. (Upper Terrace) to 4PM – sponsored by Fiendish Wear
Passementerie in the Victorian Era with Richard Harper (Pompeii)
3PM to 4PM
Alice’s Family Scavenger Hunt with Heidi Geiselman (Milan) to 4:30PM
Badass Clockworks with Steampunk Eddie (Palermo)
Steampunk in Anime: Ciel in Wonderland with Max Reeves (Verona)
4PM to 5PM
Dance Basic Polka with Don Dodson (Ferrara)
Iron Tailor Competition hosted by Barb Kelsay & Peter B. Slayer (Pompeii) to 6PM – sponsored by Sylvan Creations
Welcome to The Asylum with Eric Brewer, M.D. (Naples)
4:30PM to 5:30PM
Leather Mask Making with Karianne Gottschalk (Palermo)
Fee required for materials.
Mad About Hats with Mark Gist, M.D. (Verona)
Penny Farthing Races hosted by Brett King & Peter B. Slayer (Upper Terrace) – 6PM – Sponsored by Milton’s Emporium
5PM to 6PM
Make a Pet Octopus (Ages 11 and Up) with Pixie Sue Schmid (Milan)
Sign up at Registration. No fee.
5:30PM to 6:30PM
Valentine Wolfe in concert (Ferrara)
Local Dieselpunk/Steampunk Film Showcase with Nyx R. Grabe (Milan)
6PM to 7PM
Cigar Nerds Podcast with Joe Harris (Palermo)
Iron Tailor Judging hosted Barb Kelsay & Peter B. Slayer (Upper Terrace) to 6:30PM – sponsored by Sylvan Creations
Recycled Cities Workshop with Quill (Milan)
Sassy Steampunk Makeup with Zady (Verona)
6:30PM to 7:30PM
Absinthe: Your Portal Wonderland Awaits (21+) with Greg Bogard (Athens)
Tailored Sleeve Setting with Richard Harper (Pompeii)
7PM to 8PM
Dirigible Race hosted by Oswin McGuinness & Peter B. Slayer (Upper Terrace) to 8:30PM – Sponsored by Adventure Scents
Lobster Quadrille and Set Dances with Don & Leah Dodson. (Ferrara)
Victorian Medicine to Modern Fetish (18+) with Nordic Lovegod (Naples)
7:30PM to 8:30PM
Century of the Beard with Zebulon Pike (Verona)
Gothic & Gaslamp Fantasy in Steampunk – Leanna Renee Hieber (Palermo)
Victorian Swimsuit Contest with Oswin McGuinness & Peter B. Slayer (Pool)
8PM to 9PM
Mad Bubble Science (Ages 11 and up) with The Bubble Troll (Milan)
Mixology Madness (Ages 21 and up) with Calamity Labs (Athens)
Torchless: A Multisensory Dungeon Crawl with Jennifer Howlett (Pompeii)
8:30PM to 9:30PM
Why I Almost Left Steampunk and Why I Stayed with Thomas Willeford (Naples)
9PM to 10PM
The Jabberwocky: Interactive Theatre with Quill (Upper Terrace)
The Symposium Ball (Formal Dance) hosted by Travis Fessler (Ferrara)
10PM to Midnight
Gaming (Upper Terrace)
Bring your table top games and challenge other attendees.
Sir Reginald Pikedevant Esq. in concert (Ferrara) and then . . .
Symposium Ball (Informal) with Dr. Q
Teen Party hosted by Madison Kollig (Athens)