Performers and events - Daytime
Saturday 6th August 2022
In the Courtyard
11:00-12:00 pm -Hobbyhorse dressage
Every bit as silly and fun as it sounds. Children are welcome. Hobbyhorse provided or bring your own.
12:00pm-1:00pm- (small) cheese rolling on a (small) hill.
Children welcome, also, prizes!
1:00pm-2:00pm- Jessica Law
Performance and launch of her new album -Ghostwatching.
2:00pm-3:00pm-Steven C Davis
with performative malevolence.
3:00pm -4:00pm-Tea duelling!
Novice to seasoned veteran of the biscuit.
4:00pm-5:00pm Meet the dustcat!
Life sized dustcat puppet for you to meet and be photographed with.
In the Collections Room
11:00 am till noon.
Steampunk author Mark Hayes talks about the writings of H P Lovecraft.
Noon till 1:00 pm
Lecturer, Archaeologist, Historian and Steampunk Adventurer, Artist and Author Mat Mcall talks on world creation.
2:00pm -3:00 pm
F R Maher aka Tink bell on the mysteries of the Cottingley fairies.
3:00pm -4:00 pm
Herr Döktor- Inventor, mad genius and maker extraordinaire will take you through a day in the life of a maker of marvels.
In the garden pavilion all day
Gregg McNeill and Dark Box photography
11:00-12:00 pm -Hobbyhorse dressage
Every bit as silly and fun as it sounds. Children are welcome. Hobbyhorse provided or bring your own.
12:00pm-1:00pm- (small) cheese rolling on a (small) hill.
Children welcome, also, prizes!
1:00pm-2:00pm- Jessica Law
Performance and launch of her new album -Ghostwatching.
2:00pm-3:00pm-Steven C Davis
with performative malevolence.
3:00pm -4:00pm-Tea duelling!
Novice to seasoned veteran of the biscuit.
4:00pm-5:00pm Meet the dustcat!
Life sized dustcat puppet for you to meet and be photographed with.
In the Collections Room
11:00 am till noon.
Steampunk author Mark Hayes talks about the writings of H P Lovecraft.
Noon till 1:00 pm
Lecturer, Archaeologist, Historian and Steampunk Adventurer, Artist and Author Mat Mcall talks on world creation.
2:00pm -3:00 pm
F R Maher aka Tink bell on the mysteries of the Cottingley fairies.
3:00pm -4:00 pm
Herr Döktor- Inventor, mad genius and maker extraordinaire will take you through a day in the life of a maker of marvels.
In the garden pavilion all day
Gregg McNeill and Dark Box photography
Booking for daytime event are not necessary but all attendance will be on a first come first served basis.
Authors/Performers in the daytime programme
Mat McCall
Mat McCall is a fifty-something educationalist specialising in Adult Education, a History and Archaeology lecturer, art tutor and an award winning Steampunk artist. He has been a well known character in the Steampunk community for the last ten years, during which time he created the FB pages Steamcycle, the Steampunk's freecycling page and The Steampunk Community Bookshop, to support Steampunk authors and readers. He is passionately committed to the idea of Steampunk as a familial community. Mat published the first book of his Steampunked Science Fiction book series, The Dandelion Farmer in 2017 and will be publishing the second part this summer.
Ian Crichton a.k.a. Herr Döktor
Herr Döktor has been making things his entire life, and has been actively mistaken for an 'Artist' for the last ten years.
From an early age he was fascinated by science of all disciplines, and aesthetics of all kinds, allowing him to hop about time and space and style.
He has exhibited in such prestigious environs as the History of Science Museum in Oxford, alongside the Chapman Brothers and Grayson Perry in the Guildhall Museum in London, and was one of six Steampunk artists invited to 'answer' the Longitude Problem and celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the start of the Longitude Act for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; most recently, prints of his work have been exhibited at the 'ODD BEAUTY: The Techno-Eccentric World of Steampunk' at the Southampton Gallery, New York.
www.herrdöktor.com
From an early age he was fascinated by science of all disciplines, and aesthetics of all kinds, allowing him to hop about time and space and style.
He has exhibited in such prestigious environs as the History of Science Museum in Oxford, alongside the Chapman Brothers and Grayson Perry in the Guildhall Museum in London, and was one of six Steampunk artists invited to 'answer' the Longitude Problem and celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the start of the Longitude Act for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; most recently, prints of his work have been exhibited at the 'ODD BEAUTY: The Techno-Eccentric World of Steampunk' at the Southampton Gallery, New York.
www.herrdöktor.com
Tom and Nimue Brown
Tom and Nimue Brown share a love of gothic decay, poetry, wild landscapes and strange creatures. They have been collaborating for years, brought together initially by a publishing house. In the summer of 2009 they launched The Hopeless Vendetta – a weekly newspaper charting life on the fictional island of Hopeless. Many new members of the Hopeless, Maine creative family have since joined them there. The Hopeless, Maine graphic novel series is now published by Sloth Comics. The Hopeless, Maine RPG (Travels in Hopeless) is being unleashed on an unsuspecting world as this is written and their tentacles continue to spread... The Browns are collectively influenced by Robert Holdstock, Lord Dunsany, the pre-Raphelites, folklore, the modern Druid tradition, Steampunk and things gothic and gaslit. Both have worked separately in their respective fields. Tom has created covers for Professor Elemental and Steven Saville (among many others) Nimue writes pagan nonfiction, poetry, songs and fantasy novels.
You can find them at Hopelessmaine.com
You can find them at Hopelessmaine.com
Artwork courtesy of Tom and Nimue Brown - Hopeless Maine