Come and join our Delightful Madness at our 9th ANNUAL Steampunk Festival Run over 4 days from the 7-10th November. We offer Fun, Entertainment, Competitions, Dancing, Prancing, Gears and Gadgetry. A great opportunity to unleash your creative side and GET AMONGST IT!! Bring the family, there’s fun for every one!!
STEAMPUNK YOU THERE!!
Meet N Greet
Come one come all, we would love to see you!! catch up with old friends and make new one before we kick off the totally MAD weekend and head down the rabbit hole. enjoy a beverage play some bowls and sample some snacks, It wont be the same with out you!! Steampunk you there!!
Thursday 7th November, 4pm – 7pm – Thames Bowling Club, 405 Court street Thames
Free Event – Costume required
High Tea
Tarrant Hightopp AKA (The Mad Hatter) invites you to partake in High Tea with a side of.. totally MAD Tea Dueling, with delightful treats. So shine those buckles up, Brush off that hat, steady those Shakey hands and join the Madness and claim the top spot as the tea duelling Champ!!!!
Friday the 8th November From 3pm-5pm – Thames Civic Center, 200 Mary street Thames
Tickets $60.00 Per person
Quizz Night
The time has come, to talk of other things–of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. Calloo, Callay, no work today, we’re the cabbages and kings.(The Walrus) Stretch your mind and awaken those brain cells Absolom invites you to fascinate and destroy your opponent, in a challenge beyond all wonders, claim the prize for the biggest head… I mean Brains. Grease those Gears and get amongst it.
A quiz night to delight and entertain.
food available till 8pm, licensed premise
Friday the 8th of November 7pm till its over…Thames Bowling Club , 405 Court street Thames
Teams of up to 6 people – Costume required
Steampunk Parade
The Wanderers, The Wonderers, Mad Hatters and Cheshire Catters, Come and Join us for our annual Steampunk Parade. see some amazing costumes, vehicles, contraptions and adaptions. Bring your wonderland inspired steampunk creations and lets put on a show!!
Saturday 9th November – Parade start at 11am
11am muster at The corner of Willoughby and Pollen street (outside of number one shoes) Parade procession then will travel down Pollen Street to Cochrane Street and then back to Pahau street for the Entertainment.
After Parade Entertainment
Music and entertainment after the parade Out side on the grounds of St James Church (Thames Union Parish) There will be a Punk my Ride competition for vehicles and a float competition for vehicle floats followed by entertainment to be confirmed. Fun for the whole Family.
12pm – 2pm Pahau street
Steampunk Fashion Show
Strutt your stuff and show off those FANTABULOS creations you have worked on, thrown together, brought, borrowed, begged or winged it with.. enter to win and remember – You cant spell style without Steampunk!!
Saturday 9th November 2pm-3pm
Thames Civic Centre, 200 Mary Street Thames
Adults $5.00, Children 12 and under gold coin
Victorian Style Ball
Adjust your wigs, tighten your corsets and check your watches you don’t want to be late for a very important date!
Starring, Dance mistress- Fiona Murdoch, accompanied by Bourach Mor Band for an evening of Victorian dances
light supper provided Dance the night away from 7:00pm-12, cash bar on site
Early bird tickets $60.00 Per person Until September 30th
Thames Civic Centre, 200 Mary street Thames – R18
Dance lessons for ticket holders between 3 and 4pm on the Saturday afternoon at the Thames Civic Centre.
Steampunk Futterwacken
Come join the Crazy Chesire Cat (Chester Bartholomew Whiskers III) for a night of fun and frivolity, Live bands – Noise and Electric Blue all the way from SOUTHLAND NZ great atmosphere, Nibbles and Cash bar on premise.
Early bird Tickets available $60.00 Per person until September 30th
Bella street Pump House, 212 Bella street Thames. 7pm-12 SEE YOU THERE! R18
Sunday in the Park
Join in the Wonders of our Steampunk Wonderland at Victoria Park Thames, 200 Albert Street Thames, 10am till 3pm Market stalls, food vendors, Teapot Racing, Punk My Pet, Face Painting, Music and more…. fun for the whole family.
Punk My Pet – Dress your pet up in Steampunk and let them strut their stuff on our red carpet runway.
Teapot Racing – Build your Steampunk/Teapot inspired remote controlled contraption and take on our racecourse.
Come and join our Delightful Madness at our 9th ANNUAL Steampunk Festival Run over 4 days from the 7-10th November. We offer Fun, Entertainment, Competitions, Dancing, Prancing, Gears and Gadgetry. A great opportunity to unleash your creative side and GET AMONGST IT!! Bring the family, there’s fun for every one!!
STEAMPUNK YOU THERE!!
Meet N Greet
Come one come all, we would love to see you!! catch up with old friends and make new one before we kick off the totally MAD weekend and head down the rabbit hole. enjoy a beverage play some bowls and sample some snacks, It wont be the same with out you!! Steampunk you there!!
Thursday 7th November, 4pm – 7pm – Thames Bowling Club, 405 Court street Thames
Free Event – Costume required
High Tea
Tarrant Hightopp AKA (The Mad Hatter) invites you to partake in High Tea with a side of.. totally MAD Tea Dueling, with delightful treats. So shine those buckles up, Brush off that hat, steady those Shakey hands and join the Madness and claim the top spot as the tea duelling Champ!!!!
Friday the 8th November From 3pm-5pm – Thames Civic Center, 200 Mary street Thames
Tickets $60.00 Per person
Quizz Night
The time has come, to talk of other things–of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. Calloo, Callay, no work today, we’re the cabbages and kings.(The Walrus) Stretch your mind and awaken those brain cells Absolom invites you to fascinate and destroy your opponent, in a challenge beyond all wonders, claim the prize for the biggest head… I mean Brains. Grease those Gears and get amongst it.
A quiz night to delight and entertain.
food available till 8pm, licensed premise
Friday the 8th of November 7pm till its over…Thames Bowling Club , 405 Court street Thames
Teams of up to 6 people – Costume required
Steampunk Parade
The Wanderers, The Wonderers, Mad Hatters and Cheshire Catters, Come and Join us for our annual Steampunk Parade. see some amazing costumes, vehicles, contraptions and adaptions. Bring your wonderland inspired steampunk creations and lets put on a show!!
Saturday 9th November – Parade start at 11am
11am muster at The corner of Willoughby and Pollen street (outside of number one shoes) Parade procession then will travel down Pollen Street to Cochrane Street and then back to Pahau street for the Entertainment.
After Parade Entertainment
Music and entertainment after the parade Out side on the grounds of St James Church (Thames Union Parish) There will be a Punk my Ride competition for vehicles and a float competition for vehicle floats followed by entertainment to be confirmed. Fun for the whole Family.
12pm – 2pm Pahau street
Steampunk Fashion Show
Strutt your stuff and show off those FANTABULOS creations you have worked on, thrown together, brought, borrowed, begged or winged it with.. enter to win and remember – You cant spell style without Steampunk!!
Saturday 9th November 2pm-3pm
Thames Civic Centre, 200 Mary Street Thames
Adults $5.00, Children 12 and under gold coin
Victorian Style Ball
Adjust your wigs, tighten your corsets and check your watches you don’t want to be late for a very important date!
Starring, Dance mistress- Fiona Murdoch, accompanied by Bourach Mor Band for an evening of Victorian dances
light supper provided Dance the night away from 7:00pm-12, cash bar on site
Early bird tickets $60.00 Per person Until September 30th
Thames Civic Centre, 200 Mary street Thames – R18
Dance lessons for ticket holders between 3 and 4pm on the Saturday afternoon at the Thames Civic Centre.
Steampunk Futterwacken
Come join the Crazy Chesire Cat (Chester Bartholomew Whiskers III) for a night of fun and frivolity, Live bands – Noise and Electric Blue all the way from SOUTHLAND NZ great atmosphere, Nibbles and Cash bar on premise.
Early bird Tickets available $60.00 Per person until September 30th
Bella street Pump House, 212 Bella street Thames. 7pm-12 SEE YOU THERE! R18
Sunday in the Park
Join in the Wonders of our Steampunk Wonderland at Victoria Park Thames, 200 Albert Street Thames, 10am till 3pm Market stalls, food vendors, Teapot Racing, Punk My Pet, Face Painting, Music and more…. fun for the whole family.
Punk My Pet – Dress your pet up in Steampunk and let them strut their stuff on our red carpet runway.
Teapot Racing – Build your Steampunk/Teapot inspired remote controlled contraption and take on our racecourse.