Steps taken forward...

(Crossposted from Violet DeVille)

I cannot wait for this show. In just 3 more days, Gears, Pasties, and Other Curios: A Steampunk Cabaret comes to the Re-Bar!

That may sound like some expensive hyperbole but it's true! I've been working on a new act that's been buring up my brain. This act is going to be so hot!

Come stroll with down the cobblestone streets around Lion’s Square with Purple Devil Productions for an evening of entertainment out of the fog from a history that never was...

Gears, Pasties, and Other Curios
A Steampunk Cabaret

This evening of fine entertainment for ladies and gents, scoundrels and scientists includes performances that will delight and amaze! To make the evening even better, we are welcoming some very special guests!

From the great state of Hawaii comes the renowned UltraViolets, celebrating the 1852 discovery of fluorescence by turning on the black light and teasing the night away.

Gears, Pasties, and Other Curios features the talents of such Seattle luminaries including…

Solange Corbeau, Miss Violet DeVille, Morgue Anne, Alexa Perplexa, Dahlia Ste. Cyr, Ophira, Inara Echo, Marcus DeBoyz, and Ariel Echo.

Miss Pinky Shines, our absinthe soaked mistress of ceremonies, will guide us down the Long Water to our curio shop at the base of the Serpentine Bridge full of the amazing, the interesting, and the sometimes a frightening collection of items.

Tickets are $15 at the door, $13 online!

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the show starts at 7:30 pm on July 13st!

www.violetdeville.com/gearsandpasties 

(Crossposted from Violet DeVille)

Come stroll with down the cobblestone streets around Lion’s Square with Purple Devil Productions for an evening of entertainment out of the fog from a history that never was...

Gears,
Pasties,
and Other
Curios

A Steampunk Cabaret

This evening of fine entertainment for ladies and gents, scoundrels and scientists includes performances that will delight and amaze! To make the evening even better, we are welcoming two very special guests!

From New York City comes the Charming Trickster himself, Nelson Lugo and he's bringing his love of steampunk to our stage.

From an only slightly smaller distance away in the great state of Hawaii comes the renowned UltraViolets, celebrating the 1852 discovery of fluorescence by turning on the black light and teasing the night away.

Gears, Pasties, and Other Curios features the talents of such Seattle luminaries including…

• Solange Corbeau
• Miss Violet DeVille
• Lana Milk'n'honey
• Morgue Anne
• Alexa Perplexa 
• Ophira
• Inara Echo
• Marcus DeBoyz
• Ariel Echo

Miss Pinky Shines, our absinthe soaked mistress of ceremonies, will guide us down the Long Water to our curio shop at the base of the Serpentine Bridge full of the amazing, the interesting, and the sometimes a frightening collection of items.

Tickets are $15 at the door, $13 online at brownpapertickets.com. Premium seating is $25 and VIP is $40.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the show starts at 7:30 pm on July 13th, 2013!

Gears, Pasties, and Other Curios
A Steampunk Cabaret

July 13th at the Re-Bar
1114 Howell St, Seattle

Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 7:30

(Crossposted from Violet DeVille)

Good evening, my lovelies!

Now that Bullets and Dames has been put to bed--and it was a fabulous show if you missed it--it is now time to start working on July's show, Gears, Pasties, and Other Curios: A Steampunk Cabaret. The show is on July 21st at the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater.

If you would like to submit an act, please follow this link to the form!

Help me twitterverse! I need some #steampunk innuendos, terms of endearment, lustful double entendres. My brain's frozen and needs a jump...

• Lighting Your Filament
• Greasing Your Gears
• Pumping Your Bellows
• Cranking Your Drive Train
• Driving Your Gears
• Working Your Crank Case
• Moving the Aether
• Steamy Relations
• Bawdy Experiments

I am really excited for this next show, The Cog Days of Summer, on the 11th of June!

Rusty L'Orange, our master of ceremonies, will guide you through the gas light streets and cobblestone back allies to show you the finest entertainment this side of Yessler's Wall. He'll show wind up dolls and mad scientists seeking to cure the ills of hysteria. Perhaps he will even introduce you to a time traveler and procurer of scientific supplies, though she may be a touch shady in her dealings.

This evening of fine entertainment for ladies and gents, scoundrels and scientists includes performances that will delight and amaze!

• Katana
• La Petite Mort
• Chesty LaRue
• Deseo Carmin
• Dahlia Ste. Cyr
• Scarlett O'Hairdye
• Miss Violet DeVille
• Beatrice Belladonna

Are you going to follow Mr. L'Orange's lead? He'll keep you safe from the ruffians who walk the cobble streets. Free range automatons and clanks are another story entirely. ;)

www.violetdeville.com/CogDays

Note: This is a cross-post from Through the Shutter

On May 8th, 2010, a large collection of steampunks descended on the Museum Of History And Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle, Washington, with the sole purpose of raising funds to help fix the Carrols Clock. On December 26th, 2009, vandals stole the clock's inner workings and brass pendulum. Initial estimates placed the repair work for the 97 year old clock at $10,000.

Ericka sent an e-mail to the Seattle Steamrats Google Group detailing the results of these efforts:[more]

I'm overwhelmed by the success of this Saturday's fund raisers, Steampunk University and the Seattle Steampunk Film Festival.  It all started on *this* discussion group with the first post about the clockwork theft back in late Dec.  And we all stepped up as a community to make this fund raiser happen.

I am so grateful to our big donors: Steamcon, Studio Foglio, Renovation SciFi Convention, and Steambaby.  But I'm also blown away at the number of smaller donations that poured out from so many!  We never imaged we'd have so many goodies for our silent auction  It really touched my heart to see how people just stepped up to chip in (and dress up for a party!)  And to all of the volunteers.  So many people helping out on so many levels.  And we did it!  We raised enough to restore the clock!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Oh, and the folks at MOHAI love you too!  The exact subject line of the email we got this morning was "THANK YOU!!!!! I heart Steampunk!"

from MOHAI's fund raising coordinator.  I think we've left a mark on the museum in more ways than one.  (They know carry Boneshaker in their gift shop.)

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