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Brass Pass Tickets available thru May 31st!
 The Brass Screw Confederacy
convenes
every year in the Victorian seaport of Port Townsend, Washington. Join
us June 6-8 as we Octopi Port Townsend! We're expanding to
embrace Fort Worden, an 1897 military post replete with weathered
bunkers, military parade grounds and (shockingly
affordable)
barracks accommodations. Here's a peek wet your whistle. Answer
the call to join the Confederacy!
Guest of Honor Diana Vick | Artists
in Residence Kaja & Phil Foglio
- Expanded Hootenanny - Saturday
night enter the
Building 202: Evacuated Barracks to experience a Steampunk haunting.
Bands, burlesque and fire
galore. Join us Saturday for a transcendent, trans-temporal,
trance-inducing night. Tickets limited. (More)
- Steampunk Den of Iniquities
- Friday night dance and
delight on deck or on land in the heart of dowtown Port Townsend at a
saloon meets ballroom with live music
and livelier patrons. (More)
- Brass Screw Chautauqua -
Lectures, performances, music and
mayhem. Author readings, steampunk technology, mysteries and music
ensembles to educate and entertain. (More)
- Bazaar of the Bizarre -
The
region's best bodgers and artificers purvey their magnificent wares.
Purvey their wares in a shuk that'll shake loose your imagination. Free
Admission! (More)
- Inagural Tactical Croquet Tourney
- An absinth-inspired
entertainment for the sophisticatedly deranged. Croquet meets miniature
golf meets Alice in Wonderland. Starts with a "tea off" (miniature
tea-cups provided) then play a game of croquet seen only in your
dreams. (More)
- Rise of Aester - Step into a
Steampunk world where the skies filled with a mysterious substance
called Ęster and adventure is the order of the day. - Dixcover a
world where you guide the survival of mankind
itself. (More)
- Grande Promenade - Strut
your stuff as a steam-powered fashionista as you
stroll the main drag. A judges panel, prizes, bribes offered &
bribes
taken, and photographers for mug shots. (More)
- Fashion Follies - The return of
our extraordinary fashion
and fantasy experience featuring equal parts mystery drama and
sartorial extravagance. Open to the public (donations accepted) in Pope
Marine Park. (More)
- Guest of Honor Steampunk needs historical
accuracy like a dirigible needs a goldfish Diana Vick coined this
phrase the very first time she dressed up in steampunk attire and it
has endured.
Meet this indomitable First Lady of Northwest Steampunk at noon on
Saturday at the Chautauqua or
during the Grande Promenade on Water St.
as she adjudicates the masses gathered for the
Confederacy. Her award winning steampunk costumes and
props are some of her proudest accomplishments. Currently she is
working on a steampunk coloring book, several short
stories and a myriad of other projects. You can visit her blog at www.dianavick.com.
- Featured Artists The Brass Screw Confederacy
proudly
welcomes guest artists, Phil and Kaja Foglio. Winners of
multiple
Nebula awards, the Foglio's web comic and novel series, Girl Genius,
looms tall over gaslight fiction.
With a predisposition for
disaster and accidental dishabille, heroine Agatha Heterodyne embodies
the courageous and quirky adventurer-scientist in us all.
The Foglios
will appear in the Bazaar of the Bizarre
and will present their extraordinary Live Radio Show in the Steampunk
Chautauqua on Saturday at 3:30-5pm in the Key City Public Theatre. (More)
- Airship Apprentice - The Brass Screw
Confederacy's very own collectible card game. Explore the city to
discover cards sequestered within the shops of our merchant sponsors.
On Sunday, at 11am-1pm, duel with your fellow Airship Apprenti to rule
the
skies! (More)
- Pirates Aplenty - With our
theme
of Piracy across the seas and through the skies, there will be special
opportunities for the piratically appointed Steampunk. Get your costume
ready NOW! (More)
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