Saturday, June 8, 2013

Classic Mariners Regatta

 Classic Mariners Regatta








Port Townsend Steampunk Festival

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Entertainment to amuse the masses and delight the most jaded of carnivale officianado. Hijinx in store for the member-in-good-standing at our Boudoir Saloon, venues through the day, and the Steampunk Hootenanny Saturday night!

The Blue Crows, featured in the saloon, are an Early American Music group focusing on Ragtime, Blues and Jazz from 1900 through 1930. The band features John Morton an clarinet and George Rezendes on resonator guitar. Friday 7-10pm, Cotton Building. Admission to non-ticket holders is $10.

Master Payne, Steampunk sorcerer, will meanwhile be featured in the Pope Marine Buidling Friday 8pm. Payne has been skillfully entertaining audiences in and around the Pacific Northwest with his award winning magic show for over thirty-five years. Hurry, Hurry Hurry! Step right up and Witness the Marvel Of the Modern Age. You've heard about them on the radio, you've read about them in the magazines, now see one for yourself up close and personal. This is a real trooper and he again performs his feats of wonder Saturday 2:30pm and 7pm. Pope Marine Building. Admission to non-ticket holders is $5.

Velvet Revolution presents interactive sculptures, fortune telling, glass walking, fire dancing stilting and...? Look for the Oracle of anami Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Pope Marine Park. Catch pyrotechnic phonetics at the tail end of the Salon on Friday. Join us outside during the intermission of the Hootenanny for more fantastic flaming fantasies Saturday night. Keep your eyes peeled for Impedimenta the 8 foot tall clockwork contraption doll!

Cellar Door Masquerade

Continue after the Boudoir Saloon on Friday evening with a special invitation. Join your new crew mates at the Brass Screw Masquerade Soirée from 10pm-1:30am at Cellar Door (940 Water St - entrance on Tyler St). Port Townsend’s newest underground restaurant and lounge features unique specialty cocktails, a few featuring Swiss and Czech absinthes, along with excellent wines, beers and ciders from the Olympic Peninsula and around the world.

Ticket holders will receive discounts on many of our beverages. Don your best accoutrements, masks, outfits and accessories, and hope to win our costume contest at midnight sharp! Cellar Door is an eclectic restaurant and bar offering food, beer, wine and cocktails. Enjoy primarily locally-sourced, seasonally available produce, meats, cheese and more, purchased direct from area farms and purveyors. Hosted in a unique ambiance blending romantic Victorian and rustic industrial décor, serving small plates and craft cocktails using house-made infusions, sodas, adjuncts and tonics. To salute the Brass Screw Conspiracy weekend, a pair of barrel-aged cocktails will be released along with a variety of specials for ticket holders.

Fashion Show

Out of the aether and onto the catwalk! Come one, come all and see chrononauts, time travelers and modern steamers strut their fantastical, contraptional styles for your pleasure and amusement. Come listen to the music and thrill to the varied array of hats and spats, leather and lace, bustles and brass and more. A fashion show to tickle the imagination and thrill the senses, brought to you by local merchants and fashion designers, as well as some designing folks from the far reaches of the Seattle area. Join us at the Uptown Theatre (1120 Lawrence St). The doors open at 11:30am Saturday and the show begins at High Noon. Admission to non-ticket holders is $5.

Black Pearl Cabaret KREEPSHOW is a fast-paced musical comedy depicted as cabaret absurdity most macabre. Presented at the Pope Marine Building (603 Water St) Saturday at 3:30pm. Admission to non-ticket holders is $5.

Magic Lantern Film Show

The movie madness is happening at the Pope Marine Building (603 Water St) Friday 9pm, Saturday 12:30pm and late night Saturday. Admission to non-ticket holders is $5.

“Dr. Grordbort presents, The Deadliest Game,” from New Zealand featuring scientific research, err, sport hunting in the untamed wilderness of the Venusian landscape. Produced by the Media Design School. Dr. Grordbort’s Infalliable Aether Ossilator; don’t leave the confines of Earth’s atmosphere without it!
“Arms Race: Escalation,” a webseries from the United Kingdom reimagining of the Crimean War had both sides enjoyed advanced Steampunk weaponry including robotic bugs and a thrilling airship battle.
“The Wars of Other Men,” an ambitious and stunning independent short film by director Mike Zawacki filmed in Detroit by a gifted, passionate volunteer crew. An immersive Steampunk-inspired period film set in a city torn apart by war.
Saturday Night Hootenanny

Saturday Night's Hootenanny at the American Legion Hall (209 Monroe St - entrance on Water St). Admission to non-ticket holders is $25. This is the culmination of our annual confederacy:

Mistress Jezebel Vandersnatch - MC
The Low Ones - low-fi what you want.
A delectable selection of dancing girls includign:
Sailor St. Claire
Mitzy Sixx
Sister Piston
Whisper De Corvo
Scarlett O’Hairdye
Sister Piston - nerdelicious dancing girl
Circus of Industry - All the clowns chaos and calamity a marching band with death rays can handle. Did we mention the deathrays?

Low Ones is comprised of Chris Gunn (vocals, guitar), Caveman Cyborg (guitar sounds & samples), Dave Hendrickson (stand-up bass) and Josh Dylan Peters (drums). They play an original spooky blend of rock, folk and spaced-out blues. With songs full of rocket ships, satellites, submarines, time travel and haunted Victorian houses, Low Ones music takes listeners on journey.

Sound and Fury Morris Dancing

While the gentry flirt with gentlemanly sciences and spend their silver on fancy gadgets with purported fantastical abilities, poor lads and lasses dig the coal that fires the fancy machiner. But never-you-mind, they have fun too, turning everyday objects into something right magical through the power of Morris dancing.

Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee was so graced with Morris dancers – thus ensuring the protection the Empire and its continued stability. It will bring good luck, fertility, stability and longevity, and is also rumored to fend off attack by giant Pacific octopi, zombies, and other nefarious foe. Of course, this guarantee is only provided with sufficient quantity of good ale. On the green outside the Pope Marine Building (603 Water St). Sunday 1pm. Admission is free."

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