If you’re interested in attending steampunk events, check out the following listings:
- AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND STEAMPUNK (ANZS) DIRECTORY
- Steampunk Fashion Guide (Australia listing)
- Steampunk South Australia
Check out Steampunk Road Trip Blog post 2018 – including videos of past events: Time Travelers’ Picnic and Port Adelaide Steampunk Festival - Steampunk Australia
- Steampunk Tasmania
- Steampunk Community Queensland
- Steampunk Sunday Queensland. Australia
- New England Steampunk NSW
- Steampunk Oamaru (New Zealand)
- Steampunk Hands Around the World – a world-side online event, held each February. 2018 showcases various steampunk events around the world in the Steampunk Road Trip.
Also check out my Steampunk Grand Tour Wish List
- March: Steamfest Tasmania, Sheffield, Tasmania.
- March: Steampunk Victoriana Fair, Goulburn, NSW (new website, 2022)
- March: Wild Wild West Con, Tucson, Arizona US. (Attended virtually 2021)
- April 22-23, 2023: Wimmera Steampunk Festival – Dimboola, Victoria. (inaugral event was 2022)
- April: Maitland Hunter Valley Steamfest, Maitland, NSW
- April: Ironfest 2018 Wild West, Lithgow Showgrounds cancelled 2022
- May-June: Steampunk NZ Fair – Oamaru, New Zealand (Attended 2019)
- August: Lincoln Asylum Steampunk, Lincoln, UK. (Attended virtually 2020)
- September: Adelaide Steampunk Aetherfest Port Adelaide, South Australia
(replacing Adelaide Steampunk Festival,) (Attended since 2014)
and other advertised Australian steampunk-related events (dates last confirmed). Please check links for updates/cancellations.
- March: Thirlmere Festival of Steam (2019)
- April: Wimmera Steampunk Festival Dimboola, VIC. (2022)
- April/May: Nimitabel Steampunk at Altitude (2022)
- May: Mt Victoria Great Train Weekend (2019 – postponed)
- June: Menangle Time Traveller’s World Fair (2019 – postponed)
- June: Steampunk Tasmania Festival, George Town, Tasmania
- July 27-28th: Teslafest. Wilberforce, NSW. (2020) Cancelled
You can find a comprehensive list of events at The Unorthodox Society for the Elucidation of Retro-futurism .Flight of the Olympia Adelaide 2009Safari at Adelaide Zoo 2011Time Travellers’ Picnic 2014Adelaide Steampunk Festival 2016
Adelaide Steampunk Festival 2017Time Travellers’ Picnic 2017Adelaide Steampunk Festival, 2018
NZ Steampunk Festival, Oamaru, 2019
Adelaide Steampunk Festival 2019.
Adelaide Steampunk Festival 2020
Adelaide Steampunk Festival, National Railways Museum, Port Adelaide 2021
Adelaide Steampunk Aetherfest, Hart’s Mill, Port Adelaide. 2022
Photos ©2009-2019 Karen Carlisle
Time Travellers’ Picnic 2017 ©2017 D. Ruwodlt
Adelaide Steampunk Festival 2019 ©2019 Janet Tanzi.