Thursday, June 17, 2010

Important Update!

There has been an important change to the schedule Sunday June 20th. The line up affected is as follows:

11am Wonders of the Mind [Main Theatre]
11:30 Thimblerig [Main Theatre]
12pm Terminus Steam Meetup [Porch/Lobby]
Vauxhall Garden Variety Players [Porch/Lobby]
12:30
1pm The Game is Afoot: The Phantom Chippendale [Main Theatre]

Basically The Game is Afoot and Thimblerig have switched times. Please make note and come join us for coffee and a great time Sunday morning. The rest of the schedule for the day is the same. Thank you!

UPDATED SCHEDULE!!

Please check times as some things have been shifted slightly! We don't want you to miss anything!

Also remember you can follow the link on this page and go ahead and order your tickets online! Passes are selling like hotcakes!


Comprehensive Schedule for STEAM Fest SATURDAY June 19th

8am Building opens for vendors/artists/staff

9am

10am Festival opens!

10:30

11am Artist and Vendor's Room opens! [Dance Studio]

Writer's Discussion: H.G. Wells [Main Theatre]

11:30 Screening of Glass Fleet by Funimation [Classroom]

12pm Wonders of the Mind with Nick Compise [Main Theatre]

Vauxhall Garden Variety Players [Porch/Lobby]

Steampunk Makeup and Costuming Demonstration [Classroom]

12:30

1pm Games Afoot: The Phantom Chippendale [Main Theatre]

1:30

2pm The Complete Cant Primer Workshop [Classroom]

The Extraordinary Contraptions [Porch/Lobby]

2:30 Thimblerig! [Main Theatre]

3pm

3:30 Steampunk Literary Discussion [Classroom]

Nick of Time [Main Theatre]

4pm

4:30 Industriously Yours [Main Theatre]

5pm Thimblerig [Main Theatre]

5:30 Screening of Desert Punk by Funimation [Classroom]

6pm

6:30 Karma Lingo [Main Theatre]

7pm

7:30 Artist and Vendor's Room closes [Dance Studio]

8:30 The True History of Henry Rayne and the Airship Pirates! [Main Theatre]

10:30 Notchyomama's Modern Project

11:00 Costume Contest

11:30

12:00 After party and the James Joyce Pub!


Comprehensive Schedule for STEAM Fest SUNDAY June 20th

9:00am Building opens for vendors and staff.

10am Festival opens! Artist and Vendor's Room open [Dance Studio]

10:30 Screening of Airgear by Funimation [Classroom]

Industriously Yours [Main Theatre]

11am Wonders of the Mind [Main Theatre]

11:30 Games Afoot:The Phantom Chippendale [Main Theatre]

12pm Terminus Steam Meetup [Porch/Lobby]

Vauxhall Garden Variety Players [Porch/Lobby]

12:30

1pm Thimblerig [Main Theatre]

1:30

2pm The Extraordinary Contraptions [Main Theatre]

2:30 The Complete Cant Primer Workshop [Classroom]

3pm Nick of Time [Main Theatre]

High Tea Workshop [Porch/Lobby]


3:30 Thimblerig![Main Theatre]

4pm Karma Lingo [Main Theatre]

4:30 Screening of Last Exile [Classroom]

5pm Dinner break!

5:30

6pm The True History of Henry Rayne and the Airship Pirates [Main Theatre]

9:00 Notchyomama's Modern Project

Monday, June 7, 2010

Update and Information

Boy are we getting close! It's getting exciting as things are starting to fall into place! Wednesday June 9th 7-9 we are having a meeting with ALL volunteers for the festival to go over procedures and schedules and such. If you are interested in helping us out please let me know and I will get you in touch with our Volunteer Coordinator Patti Ward. Other than that we are putting the final touches on the plays that you will see, the acts, the schedules, and accomodations. We have talked to the Holiday Inn in Decatur and they say if we can gurantee ten rooms they can drop the price from $129 a night to $89 a night. This includes a shuttle to an from the hotel to the theatre. If you have a two day pass and don't want to travel please let us know so we can set that up! Also we will be out and about at the Art-B-Que June 12th talking up STEAM Fest. It is a great event full of good music and art. Feel like dressing up in your finery and coming out? Please come find us! Our complete list of vendors will be up soon! Thanks, and tickets are still for sale online, get yours today!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Schedule of Events!

Without further ado I give you: the schedule of events--subject to some minor changes here or there. There will also be juggling and such fun things going on throughout the day outside of the building.

SATURDAY June 19th


8am Building opens for vendors/artists/staff


10am Festival opens!


11am Artist and Vendor's Room opens! [Dance Studio]

Writer's Discussion: H.G. Wells [Main Theatre]


11:30 Screening of Glass Fleet by Funimation [Classroom]

12pm Powers of the Mind with Nick Compise [Main Theatre]

12:30

1pm Games Afoot: The Phantom Chippendale [Main Theatre]

1:30

2pm Thimblerig! [Main Theatre]

2:30 The Complete Cant Primer Workshop [Classroom]

3pm Nick of Time [Main Theatre]

3:30 Steampunk Literary Discussion [Classroom]

4pm Jo Mama Dance Troupe [Main Theatre]

4:30 Industriously Yours [Main Theatre]

5pm Thimblerig [Main Theatre]

5:30 Screening of Desert Punk by Funimation [Classroom]

6pm

6:30 Karma Lingo [Main Theatre]

7pm

7:30 Artist and Vendor's Room closes [Dance Studio]

8pm The True History of Henry Rayne and the Airship Pirates! [Main Theatre]

11:00 Costume Contest

11:30

12:00 After party and the James Joyce Pub!



SUNDAY June 20th


10am Festival opens! Artist and Vendor's Room open [Dance Studio]

10:30 Screening of Airgear by Funimation [Classroom]

11am Industriously Yours [Main Theatre]

Vauxhall Garden Variety Players [Porch/Lobby]

11:30

12pm Terminus Steam Meetup [Porch/Lobby]

12:30

1pm Games Afoot [Main Theatre]

1:30 Thimblerig [Main Theatre]

2pm

2:30 The Complete Cant Primer Workshop [Classroom]

3pm Nick of Time [Main Theatre]

High Tea Workshop [Porch/Lobby]


3:30 Thimblerig![Main Theatre]

4pm Karma Lingo [Main Theatre]

4:30 Screening of Last Exile [Classroom]

5pm Dinner break!

5:30 Artist and Vendor Room Closes [Dance Studio]

6pm The True History of Henry Rayne and the Airship Pirates [Main Theatre]

8:30 Closing ceremonies! Head to the James Joyce!



Tuesday, June 1, 2010

New Workshop!

"The Complete Cant Primer"
or How to make oneself understandable to thieves, tinkers, boxers, and other disreputable persons.

This workshop will teach the participant how to make light conversation with the lower orders of mankind, and includes hands-on lessons in Thieves Cant (circa nineteenth-century), with an emphasis in Cockney (rhyming slang and back-slang), and including Romany and boxing dialects. The participant will receive elocution lessons in the Cockney accentand proper Cockney pronunciation, work with particularly useful expressions concerning activities involving the police force as well as practices of slightly questionable morality, and will commence with a lively dialog of useful, everyday phrases and translations, such as: "One of the Fancy put the down on me with the copper 'bout the dumps what I Fawney-dropped last week," or "I say, I believe one of my fellow sportsmen may have informed the police of an incident in which I may have sold an item that was not originally mine, for more than its exact market value." Etc...

This workshop does not require any extra materials or preparation other than a willingness to learn, a good ear, and a certain penchant for mischief. Will available both Saturday and Sunday, times to be determined!

It is also kid-friendly.

No Jacks, Toffs, or Swells need apply. Irish welcome.