Ann Vandermeer is a Hugo Award winning editor. She is the fiction editor for Weird Tales magazine and is also serving as one of the guest editors for the new Best American Fantasy series from Prime Books. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. She has also partnered with Jeff for such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award winning Leviathan series and the Hugo Finalist The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. Recent collaborations include The New Weird, Steampunk, and Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, from Tachyon Publications. In Autumn, 2011, the two founded Weird Fiction Review.
Hugo and Nebula nominee Jeff Vandermeer is an author, editor and publisher. He is the author of the best-selling City of Saints and Madmen, set in his signature creation, the imaginary city of Ambergris, in addition to several other novels from Bantam, Tor, and Pan Macmillan. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, an NEA-funded Florida Individual Writers’ Fellowship, and, most recently, the Le Cafard cosmique award in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland, both for City of Saints. He has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, IHG Award, Philip K. Dick Award, and many others. Novels such as Veniss Underground and Shriek: An Afterword have made the year’s best lists of Amazon.com and others. His work, both books and short stories, have been translated into over twenty languages. The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases may be his most famous anthology, and is considered a cult classic. Of note to attendees is his landmark The Steampunk Bible.
Kaja Foglio is an author best known for Hugo Award winning Girl Genius comic series, and co-author of Agatha H. and the Airship City, and Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess.
Abney Park is a Steampunk band based in Seattle that mixes elements of industrial dance, world music, and steampunk influenced lyrics in their work; their look and sound and has come to be known by some as the "quintessential" steampunk band. Keyboardist Kristina Erickson will be in attendance, as will band-founder and author Robert Brown, here to promote his new novel Wrath of Fate, the backstory to many of Abney Park's lyrics.
VSE III FEATURED ARTIST:
Ian Finch-Field is a master leatherwork and steampunk artist whose work is sought by collectors around the world. His pieces have appeared in music videos and the book 1000 Steampunk Creations.
SATURDAY NIGHT CABARET:
Your $50 weekend pass also admits you to the Saturday Evening Steampunk Cabaret Burlesque (19+), a dance party to the haunted gypsy folk antics of The Tailor and the boisterous Bučan Bučan, with a delicious burlesque presentation by the lovely Cherry Poppins.
The first thing you notice in the music by The Tailor is the texture, it's sensual, wound with found sounds swept from a dusty floor.
One part porch rocking chair stomp, one part strange blues, one part dream folk, he has toured both acoustic main stages and underground electronic music festivals.
Some highlights are the Shambala festival in Canada, the Fusion festival in Berlin and various folk festivals across North America.
The Tailor is the main musical project of Tarran Gabriel, a man from the westcoast of Canada. He has released 3 albums and one Ep.
The new album *The Salt* is an ocean fairy tale, about a man who leaves to cross the sea and a begin a new life for his family, but goes down in a storm, and can only return after a long dance with the siren queen.
It blends elements of Balkan Beat, orchestral folk, and ambient sound, into a dark blue sea of an album.
Made up of nine musicians, each having their own unique musical performance background, ensembles and projects, and together they bring a wonderful spirit to the group! Bučan Bučan's instrumentation includes percussion, accordion, stroh violin, tuba, euphonium, baritone, trombone and trumpet.
This high energy is often seen moving around a venue while performing, making use of the different features and situations of any given performance space, giving the audience a great up-close and personal experience with live music.
Cherry Poppins has been performing burlesque for four and a half years. She was first a member of the Cheesecake Burlesque Revue and last year decided to go solo to pursue different styles of burlesque and more alternative events.
A comedian and musician in Victoria, Jacqueline McLaughlin, has dubbed her "Victoria's firecracker" with numbers that range from sultry and sexy to comedic and cute. A Steampunk enthusiast, Ms. Poppins is putting together 2 numbers geared towards the VSE.
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For Media enquiries please contact co-producer Jordan Stratford
Website: www.victoriasteamexpo.com
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