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.

 
 

The Watch City Steampunk Festival Returns!

Saturday, May 8th, 2027, from 10:00am to 5:00pm

We are pleased to announce that the Watch City Steampunk Festival will return to Waltham Common in Waltham, MA for a full day of music, entertainment, shopping, whimsy, and shenanigans! Stay tuned for announcements on when we will open applications for vendors, performers, and community tables. Huzzah!

The Watch City Steampunk Festival logo with the date and location, with the tag line "Let the Games Begin!"

LOST AND FOUND: We have two items in our lost and found collection - a pair of sunglasses, and a green metal water bottle with a name written on it. If you think one of these items is yours, contact us and describe the details to us.

The Watch City Steampunk Festival is a one-day outdoor community festival, presented for free to attendees, that uses the theme of “steampunk” to explore music, art, fashion, and technology. “Steampunk” refers to a Victorian-era styled version of science fiction, as if we lived in a world where everything H.G. Wells and Jules Verne dreamed of became true. This festival features vendors with unique wares; musical entertainment; panel discussions and lectures; childrens' activities; and displays of history, art and science.

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

Learn more via our Frequently Asked Questions page.

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

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!

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.