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Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th June 2010
The Little Marlborough Theatre
Brighton, UK
Ever since the second-ever Steampunk Soiree in December last year, we’ve all been keen to put on another event even better than the last, and now – at long last – we are!
For a full weekend in June of this year, SteamPunk Magazine is taking over the Little Marlborough Theatre in Brighton to bring you a whole host of steampunk seaside wonders. For starters, you need to roll up your trousers and dig out your stripy bathing suits, because we will be rewarding the person or persons we deem to be the best dressed for a weekend beside the seaside with something suitably steampunky. Depending on the undependable British summer, we may even be encouraging you all to head down to the seafront to take the waters!
Speaking of competitions, all of you artists and photographers should prepare yourselves for a contest of a different kind as we attempt to decorate the inside of the Marlborough Theatre with artwork on the theme of ‘What the Butler Saw’. Entrants should bring their offerings to the SteamPunk Magazine stall during the daytime on Saturday, as prizes will be awarded during the night’s festivities.
And do we ever have some festivities.
Not only do we have music from the frankly wonderful Trousseaux who have helped us in organising this whole event, but we will also be playing host to Bitter Ruin – if you haven’t heard of them, then go and fix that right away because they’re one of the best bands that we’ve discovered in quite some time.
Also taking to the stage on the Friday night is Marc Burrows, otherwise known to most steampunks as one of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing. Marc will be treating us to some standup, and will also be performing acoustic versions of a couple of the Men’s songs and his own material.
We will have burlesque from the fantastic Buck Fast, and are lucky enough to have Hooray Henry as our compere for the entire evening.
On Saturday, there will be a number of dance classes for those of you who enjoyed Lady Jillian Spagthorpe’s lessons in Oxford, as well as for those of you that weren’t fortunate enough to be there! Once again she will be teaching the waltz, the polka and a Regency set dance, all of which are friendly for newcomers and Oxford-veterans alike.
And stalls! There will be stalls over the whole weekend. In our little seaside marketplace, you will be able to get your hands on copies of SteamPunk Magazine and any other new releases from the Vagrants Among Ruins collective, including (we hope) the Winterlands collection of steampunk short stories. We hope to have a number of things on offer from various friends and co-conspiritors, and of course, no dirty weekend at the seaside would be complete without our very own Doctor Geof. We have also asked Sydeian to join us in offering his wares to the masses, and will doubtless have more traders confirmed a little closer to the time. In the meantime, we shall be offering a swaps and give-away stall so please do bring along anything that you no longer need which may be of use or interest to other steampunks. Finally, we will have a table for readable matter for any good or otherwise useful causes that we adopt between now and then.
And if all of that isn’t enough for you, then we will will be having a speaker’s-corner-come-open-mic-come-variety-performance on the Sunday where anyone can come along and perform, rant, rail, sing, dance or otherwise show us what you can do.
If you would like to register bright(on) and early for the Sunday’s show, if you would like to nominate a good (or otherwise useful) cause to us, or if you have any other questions or queries then please feel free to contact us at collective[at]steampunkmagazine[dot]com
Also, while we have tried to keep the ticket price for the whole weekend as absolutely low as humanly possible, we wouldn’t want to exclude anyone who can’t manage it. So, if you would really like to come along but really cannot afford it then drop us a line at the above email address. Chances are that there are various bits and pieces that we could do with some help with, and we may be able to work something out with you.
Last but by no means least, when ordering tickets please be sure to keep the transaction number and name under which the tickets were ordered somewhere safe, as you shall need them to pick up your tickets on the day.
See you there!
