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.

 2024 Event Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page to learn about transportation, parking, hotels, and other questions about the event. If your question isn’t answered, please feel free to contact us!

List of Vendors

Check out our complete vendor list here!

Blood Drive

The Red Cross will be hosting a blood drive at the nearby First Parish Church, 50 Church Street, from 9am to 2pm on Festival Day, May 11th. Sign up here: https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=Waltham

Schedule

The official schedule is still subject to additions, changes, cancellations, and interference from time-travelling mad scientists, but right now it looks something like this!

Please note that the schedule is always subject to last-minute changes. The event runs rain or shine and there is no rain date.

2024 Featured Performer

Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys

Based out of Boston, Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys are, according to Boston Survival Guide, "Musically sophisticated and immensely talented, wildly unusual and diverse in material and presentation, a Dada-esque circus carnival run amok, and just plain good 'not-always-so-clean' fun."

http://armyoftoys.com

2024 Performers

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2024 Community Groups

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