The Key City Steampunk Convention is the yearly gathering of Steampunk enthusiasts.  Beginning in 2016 in Frederick Maryland, the convention has continued to grow and evolve into one of the most prominent events on the East Coast, and with attendees traveling from far and wide to join in the festivities.

Currently hosted at the Wyndham Gettysburg, in Gettysburg Pennsylvania, the event continues to feature award winning makers and panels, vetted and unique vendors, workshops, and most importantly, the opportunity for those in the community to interact and share their love of all things Steampunk.

2023 promises to continue this tradition, as well as striking out into new and exciting avenues for our attendees to explore and interact with each other and the event.

Schedule:

Friday August 11, 2023

Lincoln Writing     
3:30PM-4:30PM: How to get the costume you want: Commisioning Makers with Steampunk Xena
5:00PM-6:00PM: Monologue Competition
6:30PM-7:30PM: Steampunk D and D Session with Brett King
9:30PM-10:30PM: Poetry Salon with Lady Gotham
11:00PM-Midnight: Who's History is it Anyway with Jackie LaMattina and Special Guests

Eisenhower   
3:30PM-4:30PM: Masculine Fashion for the Masses with Tony Ballard-Smoot
5:00PM-6:00PM: Mocktails! With Calamity Dawn
6:30PM-7:30PM: Stitch in Time with Lady De L'Etoile
9:30PM-10:30PM: Ghosts, The Victorians and Us with Leanna Renee Hieber
11:00PM-Midnight: Cons Against Humanity with Unlockable Content

Panel Room C
3:00PM: Opening Ceremonies
3:30PM-4:00PM: Guest Meet and Greet
4:00PM-4:30PM: Aljamaea
5:00PM-6:00PM: Tea Dueling with The Baroness Alexandra
6:30PM-7:30PM: Decide Your Personal Endangerment - Paolo Garbanzo
8:00PM-9:00PM: Charming Disaster
9:30PM-10:00PM: The Indestructible Lady - Crystal YoungLove
10:00PM-10:30PM: Flow Jam with Steampunk Xena
11:00PM-Midnight: Cedric Whitaker - VIP Ghost Tour

Panel Room B   
3:30PM-4:30PM: Pie-Reg Required - $$ Secret Identity Mask Workshop with Design by Night's-Kolleen Kilduff
5:00PM-6:00PM: Tea Dueling with The Baroness Alexandra
6:30PM-7:30PM: Decide Your Personal Endangerment - Paolo Garbanzo
8:00PM-9:00PM: Charming Disaster
9:30PM-10:00PM: The Indestructible Lady - Crystal YoungLove
10:00PM-10:30PM: Flow Jam with Steampunk Xena
11:00PM-Midnight: Cedric Whitaker - VIP Ghost Tour

Panel Room A   
3:30PM-4:30PM: The Azure Dragon: The Unintended Consequences  of Onentalism in Steampunk with Bolin Hsu
5:00PM-6:00PM: Tea Dueling with The Baroness Alexandra
6:30PM-7:30PM: Decide Your Personal Endangerment - Paolo Garbanzo
8:00PM-9:00PM: Charming Disaster
9:30PM-10:00PM: The Indestructible Lady - Crystal YoungLove
10:00PM-10:30PM: Flow Jam with Steampunk Xena
11:00PM-Midnight: Cedric Whitaker - VIP Ghost Tour

VIP and Other Events   
3:30PM-4:30PM: Air Race (By Escape Room)
6:30PM-7:30PM: Fireside Chat with Erik and Re Teague
9:30PM-10:30PM: VIP - Speakeasy - see Registration for Password
11:00PM-Midnight: Steamcordia Sing Along

Saturday August 12, 2023

Lincoln Writing  
10:00AM-11:00AM: Kesho Kage Makeup Kingdom wilh Kesho Kage
11:30AM-12:30PM: Using History to Inform your Build with Donald Dodson of Dodson Designs
1:00PM-2:00PM: What Do I Do wilh All this New Tech with Doc Stone
2:30Pm-3:30PM: An Intro to Tarot lor Rogues & Rebels with Madam Onea
4:00PM-5:00PM: The Mad Science of the 19th Century Soda Fountain wilh Jason Merrill
5:30PM-6:30PM: Stab Them With the Pokey Endl. First Hand Accounts of Hand to Hand Combat with Bolin Hsu
7:00PM-8:00PM: Ask Me Anything with Erik and Re Teague
9:30PM-10:30PM: Boiled Leaves: A Beginners guide to Tea with Tony Ballard Smoot
11:00pm-Midnight: The Dreadnought: A Brief History of Shanties with Bolin Hsu

Eisenhower 
10:00AM-11:00AM: EVA foamsmithing with Tobias McCurry. BF Designs and Mirabella Took
11:30AM-12:30PM: Electronics 101 with Dave Lee and HCS
1:00PM-2:00PM: Tea Mixing with Kylene Roberts of Clockwise Tea Traders
2:30Pm-3:30PM: Thrifty Making with Sasami_Sbou
4:00PM-5:00PM: Pictonary Airship with Unlockable Content
5:30PM-6:30PM: Confidence Beyond the Con with The Baroness Alexandra, Lady Gotham, and Leah Blaydon of Silverwolf Leather
7:00PM-8:00PM: "Just A Minute" at Key City Steampunk with Josh Widdowson
9:30PM-10:30PM: Writing Real Women of History in Fiction-Montgomery Harris
11:00pm-Midnight: We Do The Weird Stuff Key City Edition pt. II with Calamity Dawn

Panel Room C
10:00AM-11:00AM: Sarah Winchester: The Woman, The Myth, The Legend with Leanna Renee Hieber
11:30AM-12:30PM: Fashion Show
1:00PM-2:00PM: Costume Contest
2:30Pm-3:30PM: Tea Dueling with the Baroness Alexandra
4:00PM-4:30PM: Guest Meet and Greet
4:30PM-5:00PM: Aljamaea
5:30PM-6:30PM: Whirling Blades of Death Juggling Show with Paolo Garbanzo
7:00PM-7:30PM: Krystal Younglove the Indestructible Lady
7:30PM-8:00PM: Intermission
8:30pm-9:30PM: This Way to the Egress
9:30PM-10:30PM: Karoke Tribute
11:00pm-Midnight: Cedric Whitaker -  VIP Ghost Tour

Panel Room B 
10:00AM-11:00AM: Build a Beard Workshop with Leah Blaydon of Silverwolf leather
11:30AM-12:30PM: Newtonian Car Build Workshop with Doc Gus
1:00PM-2:00PM: Pre-Reg Required-$$ Curiosity Cabinet in a Jar Workshop with Shannon McWilliams of Unclaimed Treasures
2:30Pm-3:30PM: Pre-Reg Required-$$ Watch Workshop with James Neathery
4:00PM-5:00PM: VIP Only-Pre-Reg Required Dodson Workshop
5:30PM-6:30PM: Whirling Blades of Death Juggling Show with Paolo Garbanzo
7:00PM-7:30PM: Krystal Younglove the Indestructible Lady
7:30PM-8:00PM: Intermission
8:30pm-9:30PM: This Way to the Egress
9:30PM-10:30PM: Karoke Tribute
11:00pm-Midnight: Cedric Whitaker-VIP Ghost Tour

Panel Room A
10:00AM-11:00AM: World Building - A Narrative Approach with Marshal Hunter
11:30AM-12:30PM: Making Mistakes wilh Gears n' Beers
1:00PM-2:00PM: Gustaf Danielsson and the Masters of the Multiverse with Brett King
2:30Pm-3:30PM: Stupid Deaths: The Steampunk Edition with Shannon McWilliams of Unclaimed Treasures
4:00PM-5:00PM: Ghost Talk with Cedric Whitaker
5:30PM-6:30PM: Whirling Blades of Death Juggling Show with Paolo Garbanzo
7:00PM-7:30PM: Krystal Younglove the Indestructible Lady
7:30PM-8:00PM: Intermission
8:30pm-9:30PM: This Way to the Egress
9:30PM-10:30PM: Karoke Tribute
11:00pm-Midnight: Cedric Whitaker -  VIP Ghost Tour  

VIP and Other Events
10:00AM-11:00AM: Fireside Chat with Doc Stone
11:30AM-12:30PM: Fireside Chat with Tobias McCurry
1:00PM-2:00PM: Fireside Chat with James Neathery
2:30Pm-3:30PM: Sea Race (By Escape Room) /Fireside Chat with Tony Ballard Smoot
5:30PM-6:30PM: Fireside Chat with Brett King and Dave Lee
7:00PM-8:00PM: Teapot Racing
9:30PM-10:30PM: VIP Speakeasy - see Registration for Password

Sunday August 13, 2023

Lincoln Writing  
10:00AM-11:00AM: A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts with Leanna Renee Hieber
11:30PM-12:30PM: Twirlies The Chorus Woman Podcast with Sascha Newberg and Soffia Gurassi
1:00Pm-2:00PM: The History, Myth and Magic of Mead with the Alchemeadist
2:30PM-3:30PM: Tea Dueling with the Baroness Alexandra  

Eisenhower     
10:00AM-11:00AM: Bearded Ladies Meet Up with The League of Beared Ladies
11:30PM-12:30PM: Leather Working Q&A with Silverwolf Leather, Doc Stone, Dodson Designs
1:00Pm-2:00PM: Thrifty Making with Sasami_Shou

Panel Room C  
10:00AM-11:00AM: Steam cordia
11:30PM-12:30PM: Intro to Dancing with Silk Fans with Shannon McWilliams
1:00Pm-2:00PM: This Way to the Egress Stripped Down
2:30PM-3:30PM: Kesho Kage Makeup Kingdom with Kesho Kage
4:00PM-5:00PM: Closing Ceremonies

Panel Room B    
10:00AM-11:00AM: Newtonian Land Race with Doc Gus
11:30PM-12:30PM: Pre-Reg Requited - $$ Haberdashered Hat Bands with Laura Becraft of Gadgetometers
1:00Pm-2:00PM: Make Your Own Cybug with Toni Gildersleeve of Madetecha  

Panel Room A
10:00AM-11:00AM: How Many Steampunks does it take to tell a story: All the Steampunk Subgenres with Montgomery Harris, Donald Dodson and Nanci Smith
11:30PM-12:30PM: Big Builds with Michael Parodi, Dave Lee. and Sherri Lembeck
1:00Pm-2:00PM: More than Gears and Goggles - What is Steampunk with Marshal Hunter, Tobias McCurry and Bolin Hsu
2:30PM-3:30PM: Ghost Talk with Cedric Whitaker

VIP and Other Events 
11:30pm-12:30pm: Teapot Racing

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Date: Friday August 11, 2023 - Sunday August 13, 2023

Location: various venue in Gettysburg, PA

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