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Programs, Presentations, and Workshop Listings

Programming Schedules are now posted! Please see each day’s schedule for details.
We shall be offering the following Presentations, Panels and Workshops:

(Please note that programs, individual workshops times and compositions are subject to change.

Please check signage at the Exhibition for any last minute changes.)

AMERICAN DREADNOUGHT

Patrick McKercher presents a brief overview of [...]

A Frightening and Powerful Alt History: The Marionette Unit

How does one write a review for a movie that has yet to happen? Can you do it?

I have just been introduced to The Marionette Unit. A fledgling project still only in the concept phases, and being produced in an innovative and “nonlinear” manner, this promises to be a profound and chilling film. The [...]

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Aetheric Messaging Delivery at Nova Albion!

The dream of wireless printing telegraphy has at last been achieved!

The Aetheric Message Machine Company, Ltd., will be demonstrating its printing telegraph machine at the Exhibition.  The Machine receives wireless messages sent to it, and automatically prints them.

According to John Nagle, from the Aetheric Message Machine Co, Ltd., “

The first printing telegraph was developed in 1841. By [...]

Dark Garden Corsetry Unleashes Dollymop Line on Unsuspecting Public!

Dark Garden Dollymops by Russ Young

In an exclusive steam-powered Fashion Show at Nova Albion’s Party at the Center of the Earth, Dark Garden Unique Corsetry will officially launch their fantastic new line: Dollymop for Dark Garden – a Steampunk Collection! The Dollymop Collection is a hot, neo-Victorian and steam culture-inspired collaboration between Dark Garden [...]

A reminder to all our attendees…

The Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition is proud to host the Maker’s Interactive Workshop & Evil Genius Activity Center.

Experts will be on hand both at different times during the day on Saturday & Sunday in a special area doing demonstrations but also eager to answer your questions and help you out with your [...]

Get a Charge Out of Our Tesla Coil!

Maker Guest of Honor Jon Sarriugarte will be firing up a vintage Hogan High Frequency Apparatus at the Steampunk Exhibition!

I did a little research, and it seems that this was a popular a medical device! There is a scan of a 1922 manual for the High Frequency Aparatus, explaining its many medical uses, background, design [...]

Girl Genius Radio Theatre-on-the-Go

Girl Genius authors Kaja and Phil Foglio, along with a “hand-picked cast of several”, invite you to what they refer to as “an irreverent (and not especially canon) live radio theater presentation of the continuing adventures of Agatha Heterodyne: Girl Genius”!

From the [GirlGeniusOnline] site:

For the last few years, Studio Foglio has been performing Girl Genius “radio dramas” live at Science Fiction conventions [...]

Delightful and Whimsical

Johnny Payphone is a self-proclaimed “Contraptor, metalworker, global activist, (and) steampunk”. He is a member of the Neverwas Haul crew and spends a good deal of his time, well… contrapting! Especially vehicles of the pedaled persuasion, of which he seems to have many.

Enter, the Pennyfakething.

Bartitsu! Victorian Martial Arts at the Steampunk Exhibition!

Teachers and pupils of the esteemed Botta Secreta School of Bartitsu shall be presenting a thrilling and informative demonstration of Victorian Single Stick Fencing and other self-defense techniques of the period at the Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition at 8:00pm on Saturday evening, the 13th of March.

Says self-titled “vested student and ardent promoter” Thomas H.D. Strange [...]