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.

 Perfomers at the 2026 Watch City Steampunk Festival

These are the fantastic performers you’ll see either on stage or out on Waltham Common. Click the group’s name to be brought directly to their website.

  • Athena School of Arms

  • Baechtold and Abel Aerial Artistry

  • Carousel Organ Music

  • Consuelo's Revenge

  • Dr. J.R.-King of the Impossible

  • Harmonographica

  • Kalilia Dance and Friends

  • Keith Engle - Phonofiddler

  • Lucretia's Daggers

  • Museum of Interesting Things

  • New England Lego User's Group

  • Prospect Hill Forge

  • Queen Mercy

  • Rosalita’s Puppets

  • The Catnip Junkies

  • The Cropper Lads

  • The Harlot Queens

  • The Wayward Witches

  • TREVOR "The Games Man"

 Community Tables at the 2026 Watch City Steampunk Festival

These are local nonprofit or steampunk community groups who will have a table on Waltham Common during the festival. Click the group’s name to be brought directly to their website.

  • Artisans Asylum

  • BILT, Inc.

  • Boston Area Steampunk Gatherings

  • Endangered Dungeons

  • Independent Order of Oddfellows

  • Lyman Estate, Historic New England

  • Rose Art Museum

  • The Cat Connection

  • The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

  • The Second Step, Inc.

  • Theatre with a Twist

  • Waltham Historical Society