The Steampunk Beginners Guide #4 - The Steampunk Community

After far to long, here is the fourth episode of the Steampunk Beginners Guide. Special thanks to Niels Dijkstra for taking the time to film the Dankaert bits. 

Report on T.I.M.E. - The Illuminating Mechanical & Extraordinary 2017

Took one day to refuel and now I have a mayor headache, so I am keeping it short. But I will do a video on the event, so don't worry you miss anything.

Radio Retrofuture was on T.I.M.E. - The Illuminating Mechanical & Extraordinary 2017 this weekend in Roden. This Steampunk fair was part of another outdoor Fantasy-fair Fantasiafest Leeft! in the Dutch town of Roden on estate Mensinge. Didn't spend to much time on the Fantasy/ peagan part of the event, but they had some great bands and the atmosphere was relaxed despite the weather.

Niels and I had a great time on...T.I.M.E. despite the rain. Still we were lucky,as we missed the storm that raged in the rest of the country. The water did trow a wrench in our plans, but improvisation is kinda what we are known for so that is exactly what we did. All day we played music and films in between the many acts and I got the answer questions about steampunk both to visitors and novice Steampunks, which is exactly what we set out to do.  

The Aviator organised a workshop Teadueling en a Teapotrace. The Royal Seahorse Riders have numerous races during the day and we tried our new activity R.A.T.-racing attracted a lot of attention by the audience, so expect more on that in the future.
On sunday Bubblica gave a very entertaining and beautiful performance with their huge soap bubbles. But the main acts were preformed by Deuce Events themselves with pyrotechnics and magic-shows.
What I realy enjoyed was that the entire program was set in an actual newspaper for the event, which I hope will be done next year   

But the rain scared of many of the visitors away that created some dead moments. But as soon the sun return they flocked back onto the field. But in the end visitor-attendance was low. But those present did enjoy themselves, so T.I.M.E. will return in 2018 and some other groups and bands already let me know they intend to be there for the next edition, so I am already looking forward to it.

I think it is great we have another Steampunk event. It was wonderfull to speak with new, great people and there were a lots of new acts to enjoy. Tested our new game we call R.A.T.-Racing, what is basically miniature teapot racing in a box. It was to bad about the weather but everybody was in good spirit regardless.


Thank you Adam Boutiche and Elenore Blackwood for the invitation and hospitality. Thank you Bep Welters for the great meals. It was a godsend with this weather

Here is my interview with the organizers.