Steampunk Ball
Date and Time
Saturday Aug 20, 2016
10:00 AM - 10:00 PM MDT
Location
Historic Homestake Opera House, PO Box 412, 313 West Main St, Lead, SD 577
Fees/Admission
Admission is $15 for daytime pass, $20 for an evening pass, or $25 for an all-day pass. Prices are for all ages, with a suggested admission age of 16+.
Steampunk Ball
Description
Victorian Day schedule
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Outdoor courtyard
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Outdoor courtyard
If the weather is inclement, event will continue in the theater.
- Theater tours and archival Interpretive Exhibit walk-through- Guesswork: View early historic archival mining/science items on display from the Black Hills Mining Museum and guess the items. The winner will be announced in the evening and receives Steve Mitchell's book, "Nuggets To Neutrinos", and H.G. Wells' book, "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow".
- Photos with costumed characters in an old fashioned car in the courtyard
- 1:00 pm: John Higgins, Victorian Phrenology presentation (intelligence and character based on the study of the skull)
- 1:30 pm: Tea Time: a presentation on early 1900s etiquette with tea and cookies
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: concert by strings -n- tuba (Americana/acoustapunk, Chris Cady, guitar; Joel Adams, tuba; Ben Lemay, fiddle)
Steampunk Ball Schedule
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
- 6:30 pm: Mining to science/old technology to new: presentation by Sanford Lab
- 7:00 pm: James Van Nuys & Carrie Bartsch: 1890s -1920s guitar/violin/vocals concert
- 8:30 pm: Costume Best of Show announced and attendee group photo for media.
- 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm: Dance to electroswing DJ music and lighting with vintage Steampunk film on the big screen
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