A Three-Day Expedition into Yesterday’s Future!

As announced in May, the Steampunk World’s Fair will be returning, the weekend of May 20-22nd, 2011!    We’re making final venue choice now.

Hey everyone! We just wanted to let you all know that, with your help, The Steampunk World’s Fair 2010 had a warm-body count of 3000 folks! That means that, over the course of 3 full days of activities and events, 3000 people wandered the halls, vendor rooms, event spaces, and courtyard of the Radisson and the grand ballroom of the Embassy Suites.

With over 350 performers, 250 vendors and assistants, 75 press folks wandering around interviewing and taking pictures of you lovely folks, a wonderful staff and dedicated group of volunteers, this year’s SPWF was an amazing experience for all of us. We greatly look forward to upping the ante for next year as well.

In the coming weeks, we shall announce plans for opening the vendor application process, and opening our performer pool in August! Vendors remember: we sold out of spots in slightly more than 2 months last year. We expect spaces to fill just as fast this time around!
(06/07/10)

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THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the first ever Steampunk World’s Fair! We’re all in recovery/celebration mode right now, but want to make sure you know you can post any pictures and videos over at our flickr photo pool:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/steampunkworldsfair/pool/

And feel free to join up on the forum to find your new friends at the forum on http://ssicarus.com and over on the facebook group!

Don’t forget to tag your YouTube videos with “Steampunk World’s Fair 2010″ or “SPWF 2010″ so everyone can find them!

All staff, volunteers, performers, tech crews, the hotels, the town, the local businesses, and especially the attendees- you all deserve a great big hug! SPWF 2010 was an amazing time for everyone.

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Special Announcement to the steampunk community!

We had a number of people believe that the theme announced for Steampunk World’s Fair would be restrictive. This was never our intention. Quite the opposite; we wanted to have as many people included in SPWF as possible. We thought the theme would nudge people to join us in bringing in a wide variety of retro-futuristic anachronisms. You all have told us differently. The steampunk community “does not want any nudging, prodding, pushing or guiding.” We hear you loud and clear.

And we’re going to listen. As of this point, SPWF will be returning to what it started as: an event for people to bring their kind of steampunk- and their ideas- to bear. We will make the space and you can bring whatever you want! This is not to say there won’t be a speak-easy next year. What it does mean is that if you aren’t into a speak-easy, you can go to the High Tea, or The Big Brass Ball (it’s free after all!), or learn how a steam engine actually works. We don’t want to tell you what steampunk is or isn’t. You tell us. Bring whatever you want to the table and we will have a space for it, without trying to limit your imagination or put you in a box.

After all, isn’t using our imaginations in new and extraordinary ways the reason we all do this?

All the best,

Cap, Jeff, Josh and Whisper
The Steampunk World’s Fair Partners
(5/17/10)

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For previous news and updates, click here. We update 2-3 times a week.

Last updated: 06/07/10

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The Fair is a collaboration between

Jeff Mach, of Wicked Faire

Josh Marks, of the former SalonCon

and Cap and Whisper, of S.S. Icarus

Did you attend SPWF 2010? We want your feedback! Please message us at steamfairdevelop@gmail.com.