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28 Weeks until the Exposition!

The “Curse of Cthulhu”

The 1893 Exposition has several odd artifacts from around the world on display, but perhaps the strangest is a statue reported by one publication as a “monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.” Shortly after this statue was revealed to the public a series of strange events began to occur, mysterious hooded figures were seen flitting through the midnight shadows of the Exposition grounds, and a couple of night ago the Cold Storage Building burst into flames, engulfing the building in an inferno that killed 13 firefighters and four other unfortunate souls. Investigations into the fire have resulted in the puzzling discovery of strange unidentifiable substances and bizarre symbols scorched into the walls . . .

Beginning next week, a series of weekly clues will be released as part of your investigation into the fire and what forces lie behind this unearthly inferno.

Program Updates

This week we began filling in some of the details about presentations that will be part of the program in May 2025.

If you have a presentation, workshop, or some other fun activity that you would like to propose for the 2025 Exposition Program, please fill out our PRESENTER APPLICATION FORM. We are also looking for GAMES MASTERS to run tabletop games, and we are always on the search for talented PERFORMERS.

Exhibitor Updates

Exhibitors at the Exposition are divided into three main locations: The Underground Market (Sienna), The Palace of Fine Arts (Slate), and The Midway Plaisance (Atrium Lobby).

This week we featured the following exhibitors:

Tickets & the Exclusive Pin

Badges and Tea Tickets are already on sale for the 2025 Exposition! Until the end of this year, ALL badges are $10 off the regular price AND the first 100 Weekend Badges sold will receive an EXCLUSIVE brass colored Exposition 2025 pin that matches the theme. The pin design is almost done and we should be able to reveal it in our next countdown update, but we can describe it as the Exposition Ferris wheel and of course . . . tentacles!

Click on the Box Office image below to purchase your tickets today! Please note that for 2025 we will be printing your name (in a fancy font) on the badge, so include “badge names” in the “Order Notes” section of the check out form. In addition to your name, badges will also be labeled with your order number for reference in case lost badges get turned into Registration; that said, however, please remember that lost badges that are not turned in can not be replaced and a new purchase will be required.

Afternoon Tea Parties & Banquets

New for 2025, the Exposition will offer a limited ticket banquet on Friday and Saturday evening. We are currently working on the menu and pricing, but this meal will also offer patrons the opportunity to sit with one of our guests of honor for a meal and pleasant conversation. Details coming in our next countdown update, but meanwhile tickets for our Afternoon Tea Parties are on sale now.

Get Involved!

We are looking for Presenters, Performers, Games Masters, and other people to run sessions for the 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition program. Applications are now live; please click on the appropriate image to access the form.

Hotel Rooms

For April 2024, the Exposition hotel was actually sold out. Admittedly not all the people staying at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg that weekend were there for the Exposition, but nonetheless the hotel was sold out. To avoid getting locked out in 2025, we recommend booking your room early (you can always cancel later if needs be) which you can do starting at the end of this month (needs to be 13 months out from the event).

Social Media

On the Horizon . . .

  • More programming!
  • Who is Steampunk Stanley?
  • Exposition 2025 Design Contests.
  • The new Steam & Sorcery adventure!

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Seven Months until the Exposition

Journey to the Kraken Island!

This coming weekend (November 8th to 10th, 2024) the Crew of the Exposition will be venturing to Madison, Wisconsin for Teslacon’s “The Mystery of Kraken Island” adventure! If you are there as well, please visit our display table to learn more about the party and the games that we shall be running that weekend.

After this year’s Teslacon has concluded, the Exposition will launch into its “full steam” campaign of weekly updates as we countdown the remaining six months leading up to the 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition.

Meanwhile, please review the already extensive information that we have already posted about next year’s Exposition:

Tickets & the Exclusive Pin

Badges and Tea Tickets are already on sale for the 2025 Exposition! Until the end of this year, ALL badges are $10 off the regular price AND the first 100 Weekend Badges sold will receive an EXCLUSIVE brass colored Exposition 2025 pin that matches the theme. The pin design is almost done and we should be able to reveal it in our next countdown update, but we can describe it as the Exposition Ferris wheel and of course . . . tentacles!

Click on the Box Office image below to purchase your tickets today! Please note that for 2025 we will be printing your name (in a fancy font) on the badge, so include “badge names” in the “Order Notes” section of the check out form. In addition to your name, badges will also be labeled with your order number for reference in case lost badges get turned into Registration; that said, however, please remember that lost badges that are not turned in can not be replaced and a new purchase will be required.

Afternoon Tea Parties & Banquets

New for 2025, the Exposition will offer a limited ticket banquet on Friday and Saturday evening. We are currently working on the menu and pricing, but this meal will also offer patrons the opportunity to sit with one of our guests of honor for a meal and pleasant conversation. Details coming in our next countdown update, but meanwhile tickets for our Afternoon Tea Parties are on sale now.

Get Involved!

We are looking for Presenters, Performers, Games Masters, and other people to run sessions for the 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition program. Applications are now live; please click on the appropriate image to access the form.

Hotel Rooms

For April 2024, the Exposition hotel was actually sold out. Admittedly not all the people staying at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg that weekend were there for the Exposition, but nonetheless the hotel was sold out. To avoid getting locked out in 2025, we recommend booking your room early (you can always cancel later if needs be) which you can do starting at the end of this month (needs to be 13 months out from the event).

Social Media

On the Horizon . . .

  • More programming!
  • Who is Steampunk Stanley?
  • Exposition 2025 Design Contests.
  • The new Steam & Sorcery adventure!

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Eight Months until the Exposition

More Cucumber Sandwiches?!

As we continue to countdown to May 2025, the Exposition is hosting several smaller (mostly) FREE* events throughout the year, and the latest one, on October 19th, is another picnic, but this time we are getting spooky and eating in a Pet Cemetery!

Hinsdale Animal Cemetery has graciously invited us to use their Butterfly Garden in their Pet Cemetery to host the latest of our free events.

This event is BYOP (bring your own picnic), but picnickers are encouraged to bring food that can be shared. We shall provide a long table that will be set up in the Butterly Garden, but it also BYOC (bring your own chair) to gather around the Mad Hatter style set up.

To learn more and RSVP, please CLICK HERE for the Facebook Event Page.

* ~ Some of the Exposition events are within other ticketed events run by other organizations.

Tickets & the Exclusive Pin

Badges and Tea Tickets are already on sale for the 2025 Exposition! Until the end of this year, ALL badges are $10 off the regular price AND the first 100 Weekend Badges sold will receive an EXCLUSIVE brass colored Exposition 2025 pin that matches the theme. The pin design is almost done and we should be able to reveal it in our next countdown update, but we can describe it as the Exposition Ferris wheel and of course . . . tentacles!

Click on the Box Office image below to purchase your tickets today! Please note that for 2025 we will be printing your name (in a fancy font) on the badge, so include “badge names” in the “Order Notes” section of the check out form. In addition to your name, badges will also be labeled with your order number for reference in case lost badges get turned into Registration; that said, however, please remember that lost badges that are not turned in can not be replaced and a new purchase will be required.

Afternoon Tea Parties & Banquets

New for 2025, the Exposition will offer a limited ticket banquet on Friday and Saturday evening. We are currently working on the menu and pricing, but this meal will also offer patrons the opportunity to sit with one of our guests of honor for a meal and pleasant conversation. Details coming in our next countdown update, but meanwhile tickets for our Afternoon Tea Parties are on sale now.

Get Involved!

We are looking for Presenters, Performers, Games Masters, and other people to run sessions for the 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition program. Applications are now live; please click on the appropriate image to access the form.

Hotel Rooms

For April 2024, the Exposition hotel was actually sold out. Admittedly not all the people staying at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg that weekend were there for the Exposition, but nonetheless the hotel was sold out. To avoid getting locked out in 2025, we recommend booking your room early (you can always cancel later if needs be) which you can do starting at the end of this month (needs to be 13 months out from the event).

Social Media

On the Horizon . . .

  • More programming!
  • Who is Steampunk Stanley?
  • Exposition 2025 Design Contests.
  • The new Steam & Sorcery adventure!

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Nine Months until the Exposition

Martians, Wells, and Cucumber Sandwiches!

In the countdown to May 2025, the Exposition shall host several smaller (mostly) FREE* events throughout the year, such as the upcoming Steampunk Picnic at the Museum of Science and Industry to celebrate the 158th birthday of Steampunk founding father HG Wells.

This event is BYOP (bring your own picnic), but picnickers are encouraged to bring food that can be shared. We shall provide a long table, but it also BYOC (bring your own chair) to gather around the Mad Hatter style set up.

Parking is very nearby: take Lake Shore Drive to Science Ave and turn left to the south side of the parking lot (it’s cheaper than the north side).

Learn more about our (mostly) free events by clicking these links to our Facebook event pages:

* ~ Some of the Exposition events are within other ticketed events run by other organizations.

Tickets & the Exclusive Pin

Badges and Tea Tickets are already on sale for the 2025 Exposition! Until the end of this year, ALL badges are $10 off the regular price AND the first 100 Weekend Badges sold will receive an EXCLUSIVE brass colored Exposition 2025 pin that matches the theme. The pin design is almost done and we should be able to reveal it in our next countdown update, but we can describe it as the Exposition Ferris wheel and of course . . . tentacles!

Click on the Box Office image below to purchase your tickets today! Please note that for 2025 we will be printing your name (in a fancy font) on the badge, so include “badge names” in the “Order Notes” section of the check out form. In addition to your name, badges will also be labeled with your order number for reference in case lost badges get turned into Registration; that said, however, please remember that lost badges that are not turned in can not be replaced and a new purchase will be required.

Afternoon Tea Parties & Banquets

New for 2025, the Exposition will offer a limited ticket banquet on Friday and Saturday evening. We are currently working on the menu and pricing, but this meal will also offer patrons the opportunity to sit with one of our guests of honor for a meal and pleasant conversation. Details coming in our next countdown update, but meanwhile tickets for our Afternoon Tea Parties are on sale now.

Get Involved!

We are looking for Presenters, Performers, Games Masters, and other people to run sessions for the 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition program. Applications are now live; please click on the appropriate image to access the form.

Hotel Rooms

For April 2024, the Exposition hotel was actually sold out. Admittedly not all the people staying at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg that weekend were there for the Exposition, but nonetheless the hotel was sold out. To avoid getting locked out in 2025, we recommend booking your room early (you can always cancel later if needs be) which you can do starting at the end of this month (needs to be 13 months out from the event).

Social Media

On the Horizon . . .

  • More programming!
  • Who is Steampunk Stanley?
  • Exposition 2025 Design Contests.
  • The new Steam & Sorcery adventure!

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Ten Months until the Exposition

48 Hours of Non-Stop Steampunk!

The 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition program officially starts at 4PM on Friday, May 30th and does not stop until after 4PM on Sunday, June 1st. We have additional “unofficial” programing on Thursday evening, Sunday evening, and even Monday morning, but the main bulk of the weekend fun is literally 48 hours of non-stop program that runs through both nights of the Exposition. We are currently in the progress of building this program, but meanwhile here is a preview of what we already have ten months out from the convention:

Entertainment & Special Events
Panels & Presentations
  • The Cosmic Horror Next Door
  • Emotion, Chaos, and Madness in Gilded Age Art: Expressonism, Dada, and Surrealism
  • European Corpse Medicine
  • Integrating Character, Plot, and World Building
  • Monsters of the Great Lakes
  • Real Lost Cities
  • Scott Westerfeld Q&A
  • A Seminar Illuminating the Safe Operation of the Sliding Rule
  • State of the Art: What Scientists Knew in 1893
  • Steampunk Economics
  • Triangle House and Hull House: Chicago’s Jane Addams in Fiction and Fact
  • More to be added . . .
  • CLICK HERE if you want to present at the Exposition!
Contests & Gaming

 

Other Exposition Events!

In the countdown to May 2025, the Exposition shall host several smaller (mostly) FREE* events throughout the year, such as the upcoming Steampunk Picnic at the Museum of Science and Industry to celebrate the 158th birthday of Steampunk founding father HG Wells.

Learn more about our (mostly) free events by clicking these links to our Facebook event pages:

* ~ Some of the Exposition events are within other ticketed events run by other organizations.

Tickets & the Exclusive Pin

Badges and Tea Tickets are already on sale for the 2025 Exposition! Until the end of this year, ALL badges are $10 off the regular price AND the first 100 Weekend Badges sold will receive an EXCLUSIVE brass colored Exposition 2025 pin that matches the theme. The pin design is almost done and we should be able to reveal it in our next countdown update, but we can describe it as the Exposition Ferris wheel and of course . . . tentacles!

Click on the Box Office image below to purchase your tickets today! Please note that for 2025 we will be printing your name (in a fancy font) on the badge, so include “badge names” in the “Order Notes” section of the check out form. In addition to your name, badges will also be labeled with your order number for reference in case lost badges get turned into Registration; that said, however, please remember that lost badges that are not turned in can not be replaced and a new purchase will be required.

Afternoon Tea Parties & Banquets

New for 2025, the Exposition will offer a limited ticket banquet on Friday and Saturday evening. We are currently working on the menu and pricing, but this meal will also offer patrons the opportunity to sit with one of our guests of honor for a meal and pleasant conversation. Details coming in our next countdown update, but meanwhile tickets for our Afternoon Tea Parties are on sale now.

Get Involved!

We are looking for Presenters, Performers, Games Masters, and other people to run sessions for the 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition program. Applications are now live; please click on the appropriate image to access the form.

Hotel Rooms

For April 2024, the Exposition hotel was actually sold out. Admittedly not all the people staying at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg that weekend were there for the Exposition, but nonetheless the hotel was sold out. To avoid getting locked out in 2025, we recommend booking your room early (you can always cancel later if needs be) which you can do starting at the end of this month (needs to be 13 months out from the event).

Social Media

On the Horizon . . .

  • More programming!
  • Who is Steampunk Stanley?
  • Exposition 2025 Design Contests.
  • The new Steam & Sorcery adventure!

Categories
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Eleven Months until the Exposition

Leviathan is Coming to Netflix!

We are thrilled to no longer have to keep this a secret . . . Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan series has been made into an anime show and will be streaming on Netflix in 2025! The entire book trilogy will be animated by Orange, best known for Beastars. The composers are Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi, with some songs by Joe Hisaishi. The style of the animation remains close to the books’ illustrator, Keith Thompson, who was brought onto the team at the start. Westerfeld is very involved in the production, consulting on the scripts, designs, and continuity with the adaptation.

The Exposition is very excited and honored to host Scott Westerfeld in May 2025 to celebrate his vast writing achievements, and now celebrate his outstanding Steampunk trilogy reaching a whole new audience on Netflix.

As an author of twenty-five novels, five for adults, and the other twenty for young adults, Westerfeld’s work is expansive and he is widely known for the Uglies quartet, set in a future where cosmetic surgery is compulsory at age sixteen. Additionally, he has penned the Zeroestrilogy, written with Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti, about six teens with strange powers in a small city in California; and the Midnighters trilogy, about five teenagers for whom time freezes every night. My standalone works include four novels set in contemporary New York: So Yesterday, Peeps, The Last Days, and Afterworlds.

Westerfeld’s books have won the Philip K Dick Special Citation, the Aurealis Award, the Victorian Premier’s Award, and have been named NY Times Notable Books and BBYA Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year. I have contributed nonfiction to Nerve, BookForum, the scientific journal Nature. He claims, however, “My greatest accomplishment is, of course, my three Powerpuff Girl choose-your-own-adventure books.” ????

Learn more about Scott Westerfeld at ScottWesterfeld.com

Other Exposition Events!

In the countdown to May 2025, the Exposition shall host several smaller (mostly) FREE* events throughout the year, such as the upcoming Time Travel Pub Crawl at Bristol Renaissance Faire.

Set your time machines for July 13th, 1574 and land outside Bristol’s Absinthe Bar around noon. We’ll gather, take pictures, and then see how many bars we can visit as we complete a circle of the faire together. (Please note, this is an informal pub crawl and is NOT part of the official Bristol Pub Crawl)

Learn more about our (mostly) free events by clicking these links to our Facebook event pages:

* ~ Some of the events are ticketed, but we are not the ones selling the tickets.

Tickets & the Exclusive Pin

Badges and Tea Tickets are already on sale for the 2025 Exposition! Until the end of this year, ALL badges are $10 off the regular price AND the first 100 Weekend Badges sold will receive an EXCLUSIVE brass colored Exposition 2025 pin that matches the theme. The pin design is almost done and we should be able to reveal it in our next countdown update, but we can describe it as the Exposition Ferris wheel and of course . . . tentacles!

Click on the Box Office image below to purchase your tickets today! Please note that for 2025 we will be printing your name (in a fancy font) on the badge, so include “badge names” in the “Order Notes” section of the check out form. In addition to your name, badges will also be labeled with your order number for reference in case lost badges get turned into Registration; that said, however, please remember that lost badges that are not turned in can not be replaced and a new purchase will be required.

Afternoon Tea Parties & Banquets

New for 2025, the Exposition will offer a limited ticket banquet on Friday and Saturday evening. We are currently working on the menu and pricing, but this meal will also offer patrons the opportunity to sit with one of our guests of honor for a meal and pleasant conversation. Details coming in our next countdown update, but meanwhile tickets for our Afternoon Tea Parties are on sale now.

Program Updates

We are looking for Presenters, Performers, Games Masters, and other people to run sessions for the 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition program. Applications are now live; please click on the appropriate image to access the form.

Hotel Rooms

For April 2024, the Exposition hotel was actually sold out. Admittedly not all the people staying at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg that weekend were there for the Exposition, but nonetheless the hotel was sold out. To avoid getting locked out in 2025, we recommend booking your room early (you can always cancel later if needs be) which you can do starting at the end of this month (needs to be 13 months out from the event).

Social Media

On the Horizon . . .

  • Music act announcements!
  • Vendor applications!
  • The new Steam & Sorcery adventure!

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One Year until the Exposition!

The Countdown has Begun!

This weekend marked 52 weeks until the 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition and despite being a year away so much is already in place to make this next one even better than the last! In May we announced our headline band Charming Disaster, and this month we announce a second band (see below) and the expansive number of exhibitors already confirmed for May 2025!

“Bellhead”

Post-punk male-female duo band. Two basses and a drum machine. No Guitar, No BS. MADE IN CHICAGO 

 

Bellhead is a post-punk, goth, and industrial duo from Chicago, Illinois who perfectly capture the frantic descent into madness that will be rampant at the Exposition with the “Curse of Cthulhu.” The duo is made up of Karen Righeimer (low bass, vocals) and
Ivan Russia (high bass, vocals, drum programming).

“Bellhead literally rumble, causing your speakers to buzz at times, in a very good way. Having the two bass married to a drum machine makes for an ever so tight rhythm section, also giving you the melodies as well. This definitely gives the music a dirty post-punk groove to each track, and this new EP leans more into pop rock. The Good Intentions of Bellhead is fun, nostalgic and rocking… in that fabulously gloomy way.” (Adele Sinnamon – Onyx Music Reviews)

 

Learn more at bellheadband.com

We shall have more featured presenters and performers to announce next month as we continue our monthly countdown!

Exhibitor Updates

For 2025 we shall have three main exhibitor spaces:

We are a year away from the Exposition, but the Underground Market is already over half full with these confirmed Exhibitors:

Deborah Olson
Milliner Extraordinaire

And in the Palace of Fine Arts you will find the following exhibitors . . .

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Other Exposition Events!

Twelve months is a long time to wait, but don’t despair, the Exposition is hosting several smaller (mostly) FREE* events throughout the year, such as the International Steampunk Day Picnic (a day late) on June 15th, 2024 on the grounds of the only remaining building from the 1893 Chicago Exposition! What is now the Museum of Science & Industry was originally the Palace of Fine Arts. Jackson Park surrounds the hall and it is there that we shall set our blankets and picnics to dine, converse, and play croquet.

Learn more about our (mostly) free events by clicking these links to our Facebook event pages:

* ~ Some of the events are ticketed, but we are not the ones selling the tickets.

Tickets & the Exclusive Pin

Badges and Tea Tickets are already on sale for the 2025 Exposition! Until the end of this year, ALL badges are $10 off the regular price AND the first 100 Weekend Badges sold will receive an EXCLUSIVE brass colored Exposition 2025 pin that matches the theme. The pin design is almost done and we should be able to reveal it in our next countdown update, but we can describe it as the Exposition Ferris wheel and of course . . . tentacles!

Click on the Box Office image below to purchase your tickets today! Please note that for 2025 we will be printing your name (in a fancy font) on the badge, so include “badge names” in the “Order Notes” section of the check out form. In addition to your name, badges will also be labeled with your order number for reference in case lost badges get turned into Registration; that said, however, please remember that lost badges that are not turned in can not be replaced and a new purchase will be required.

Afternoon Tea Parties & Banquets

New for 2025, the Exposition will offer a limited ticket banquet on Friday and Saturday evening. We are currently working on the menu and pricing, but this meal will also offer patrons the opportunity to sit with one of our guests of honor for a meal and pleasant conversation. Details coming in our next countdown update, but meanwhile tickets for our Afternoon Tea Parties are on sale now.

Program Updates

We are looking for Presenters, Performers, Games Masters, and other people to run sessions for the 2025 Chicago Steampunk Exposition program. Applications are now live; please click on the appropriate image to access the form.

Hotel Rooms

For April 2024, the Exposition hotel was actually sold out. Admittedly not all the people staying at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg that weekend were there for the Exposition, but nonetheless the hotel was sold out. To avoid getting locked out in 2025, we recommend booking your room early (you can always cancel later if needs be) which you can do starting at the end of this month (needs to be 13 months out from the event).

Social Media

On the Horizon . . .
  • Music act announcements!
  • Vendor applications!
  • The new Steam & Sorcery adventure!

Categories
Exposition Updates

Two Weeks until the Exposition!

“Vampires of London.”

There is now merely a fortnight until the Exposition once more opens its portals to imagination and immersion of an alternate 1893 World’s Fair! It is a time of finalizations: schedules firmed, food and beverage orders placed, printing, stitching, and more . . . We are excited to see you all again! 🙂

We are also nearing the launch of our annual Steam & Sorcery LARP mystery game that places you at the heart of the investigation into “The Shadow of Nosferatu.” Solve the enigma, save the day, and win prizes! This week we present to you the penultimate clue card in this story.

These clues cards can be used in our immersive live action role-playing game (LARP) Steam & Sorcery; see below for details of the game. Click HERE for the previous clue cards.

Also this week, we reveal the long awaited Steam & Sorcery LARP “Vampire” Archetype card . . .

Afternoon Tea

We are entering the final days to purchase your tea tickets! Please note, tea tickets will not be sold onsite,

Both Saturday and Sunday afternoon of the Exposition, we offer you the opportunity to relax with cups of tea, delicious finger foods, and, for some, delightful conversation with our guests of honor.

Each tea party table is offered a choice of teas: English Breakfast Tea, Earl Grey, Assam, or Darjeeling. Food served  to accompany the tea consists of: British scone with jam and clotted cream, 2 cucumber sandwiches, 2 egg salad sandwiches, 2 mini eclairs, 2 lemon tartlets, cup of fruit, and 2 Chessmen cookies (for Tea Dueling).

Saturday – 2pm
Saturday – 4pm
Sunday – 2pm

 

Tickets are limited and tend to sell out quickly, especially for the tables sharing tea with one of our Guests of Honor, so don’t delay.

Program Updates

The full schedule! There might be a few edits and alterations in the next couple of weeks, but for the most part this will be the order of events for April 2024

In our final rush to get all the descriptions on the schedule, we added TEN new presentations this past week!!!

For our full list of presentations, activities, and special events, please visit our PROGRAM page.

 

Social Media

On the Horizon . . .
  • The Mysterious Fixers
  • Steampunk Fashion Show
  • . . . and more!

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Three Weeks until the Exposition!

“Chicago Rogues.”

Just three weeks remain before the Exposition once more opens its portals to imagination and immersion of an alternate 1893 World’s Fair, and the schedule is now available!!! There will be a few minor edits and alterations in the next four weeks, but for the most part this will be the order of events next month.

As you may notice, there are several Steam & Sorcery LARP game “Chapters” spread throughout the weekend’s schedule for those who wish to immerse themselves into the plot and solve the various mysteries. Here is our latest clue . . .

These clues cards can be used in our immersive live action role-playing game (LARP) Steam & Sorcery; see below for details of the game. Click HERE for the previous clue cards.

Afternoon Tea

Both Saturday and Sunday afternoon of the Exposition, we offer you the opportunity to relax with cups of tea, delicious finger foods, and delightful conversation with some of our guests of honor.

Each tea party table is offered a choice of teas: English Breakfast Tea, Earl Grey, Assam, or Darjeeling. Food served  to accompany the tea consists of: British scone with jam and clotted cream, 2 cucumber sandwiches, 2 egg salad sandwiches, 2 mini eclairs, 2 lemon tartlets, cup of fruit, and 2 Chessmen cookies (for Tea Dueling).

Saturday – 2pm
Saturday – 4pm
Sunday – 2pm

 

Tickets are limited and tend to sell out quickly, especially for the tables sharing tea with one of our Guests of Honor, so don’t delay.

Exhibitor Updates

This week we added our actual final artist to the list of exhibitors you will find at Artists’ Alley & Printers’ Row . . .

For a full list of exhibitors please visit our Underground Market page and the Artists’ Alley & Printers’ Row page.

Program Updates

This week we published full schedule! There might be a few edits and alterations in the next four weeks, but for the most part this will be the order of events next month.

For our full list of presentations, activities, and special events, please visit our PROGRAM page.

 

Social Media

On the Horizon . . .
  • The Mysterious Fixers
  • Steampunk Fashion Show
  • . . . and more!

Chicago Steampunk Exposition

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One Month until the Exposition!

“The Ides of March.”

Exactly four weeks remain before the Exposition once more opens its portals to imagination and immersion of an alternate 1893 World’s Fair, and the schedule is now available!!! There will be a few minor edits and alterations in the next four weeks, but for the most part this will be the order of events next month.

A full printable grid version of the schedule will also be available at the beginning of April 2024.

As you may notice, there are several Steam & Sorcery LARP game “Chapters” spread throughout the weekend’s schedule for those who wish to immerse themselves into the plot and solve the various mysteries. Here is our latest clue . . .

These clues cards can be used in our immersive live action role-playing game (LARP) Steam & Sorcery; see below for details of the game. Click HERE for the previous clue cards.

Afternoon Tea

Both Saturday and Sunday afternoon of the Exposition, we offer you the opportunity to relax with cups of tea, delicious finger foods, and delightful conversation with some of our guests of honor.

Each tea party table is offered a choice of teas: English Breakfast Tea, Earl Grey, Assam, or Darjeeling. Food served  to accompany the tea consists of: British scone with jam and clotted cream, 2 cucumber sandwiches, 2 egg salad sandwiches, 2 mini eclairs, 2 lemon tartlets, cup of fruit, and 2 Chessmen cookies (for Tea Dueling).

Saturday – 2pm
Saturday – 4pm
Sunday – 2pm

 

Tickets are limited and tend to sell out quickly, especially for the tables sharing tea with one of our Guests of Honor, so don’t delay.

Exhibitor Updates

This week we added our final artist to the list of exhibitors you will find at Artists’ Alley & Printers’ Row . . .

For a full list of exhibitors please visit our Underground Market page and the Artists’ Alley & Printers’ Row page.

Program Updates

This week we published full schedule! There might be a few edits and alterations in the next four weeks, but for the most part this will be the order of events next month.

For our full list of presentations, activities, and special events, please visit our PROGRAM page.

 

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On the Horizon . . .
  • The Mysterious Fixers
  • Steampunk Fashion Show
  • . . . and more!

Chicago Steampunk Exposition