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.

 How to Participate

Thank you so much for your interest in being part of the 2024 Watch City Steampunk Festival! Vendor, Performer, and Community Table applications have closed. However there are several other ways to be part of the show.

Volunteer for 2024

We always need volunteers the day of the festival! See https://www.watchcityfestival.com/volunteer for more information.

Be a Sponsor for 2024

Sponsors are always welcome! We offer ads in our handout and also spaces for sponsor tables during the event. Potential sponsors can click here to learn more about sponsorships.

Join Our Mad Hat Contest

If we're going to have a Mad Tea Party, then we need some mad hats! Please join us for the Mad Hat Contest, where our judges will award prizes in three categories: the Maddest Hat; the Largest Hat; and the Best Not-a-Hat Hat, that being something perched upon your head which is not what one would traditionally consider to be a hat. You have between now and May 11th, 2024 to prepare your most splendiferous hat. Hats off to all the competitors!

An image of a steampunk hat, with the Watch City Steampunk Festival logo.