[BCMA] Event Submission: Victoria Steam Exposition III

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Subject:	Re: Event Submission: Victoria Steam Exposition III
From:	Jordan Stratford <jordan at jordanstratford.com>
Date sent:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:00:04 -0700


STEAMPUNKS RETURN TO VICTORIA

The third annual Victoria Steam Exhibition is a weekend celebration of 
steampunk art & culture at Victoria's Empress Hotel, April 20-22nd.

Steampunk is the collision of history, technology, imagination, and attitude. 
Nineteenth-century sensibilities with impossible Jules-Verne-inspired 
technology. Teak-panelled computers, corsets and jetpacks, top hats and 
rayguns.

The year's literary headliners are Hugo Award winner Ann Vandermeer, and 
The Steampunk Bible's Hugo and Nebula nominee Jeff Vandermeer, along 
with Abney Park's Kristina Erickson and Captain Robert Brown, author of 
The Wrath of Fate.  Our featured artist is Victoria's own Ian Finch Field, 
whose incredible leather and brass works have been featured in 1000 
Steampunk Creations and a Justin Bieber music video.

The $50 weekend pass gives you access both Saturday and Sunday to 
steampunk jewelers, tinkerers, milliners, leather and glassworkers, artisans 
and anachronists. Additionally there are continuous panel discussions on 
costuming, history, literary readings, and prop-making.  Your weekend pass 
also  admits you to the Saturday Evening Steampunk Cabaret Burlesque, a 
dance party to the haunted gypsy folk antics of The Tailor and the boisterous 
Buan Buan.

The Friday Night Absinthe Tasting and History Presentation is at the Union 
Club.  Tickets are an additional $50 for Friday evening's festivities, which 
includes a flight of three absinthes, a history lecture on its culture and 
appreciation, and a tour of the club's magnificent 1884 architecture.

Not your typical "con" or convention, Canada's premiere steampunk event 
VSE III is more intimate; a living art-show with evocative venues, and more 
oriented around conversation and sharing in an authentic Victorian 
atmosphere.

Tickets are now available at victoriasteamexpo.com  for both the Absinthe 
Tasting ($50) and the Weekend Pass ($50).

*Please note: Children under 13 are free when accompanied by a ticketed 
adult and you must be 18+ to attend the Cabaret Burlesque.

For more information please visit victoriasteamexpo.com or contact 
Impresario Jordan Stratford at 250 537 6650

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