It's a movement, it's a genre, it's so much more than you ever knew.
With a scene present in the local area, I thought I would experiment with a few ideas surrounding this underground phenomenon.
First I set up a display of Steampunk Literature. This included a booklist, books, a captains hat with goggles, some large gears, an old book from the early 1900s and a technical steampunkesqe drawing.
This actually attracted a lot of attention. One woman checked out a majority of the display moments after I had set it up. While checking out she mentioned that she was glad to see the display and get a booklist because she was having a discussion with a friend about the "Steampunk Genre" and her friend didn't believe that it existed.
I also threw a little steampunk into a program we were doing. My co-worker found a great program idea on another blog and we did our own version of A Great and Terrible Tea.
The idea is loosely based on the Libba Bray books A great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and A Sweet Far Thing. I promoted the event with tea bags. I just stapeled our event information on the end of the string and put them out in a mug.
My co-worker also made a great flyer that a few teens mentioned caught their attention in the evaluation.
The event was a blast! We had a quiz on which Great and Terrible Beauty are you. I had a blast making the quiz. (Which I can email anyone who wants to have an event like this.)
We then talked about Victorian Calling Cards and the teens made their own calling cards using an assortment of supplies.
Here are a few:
We then had tea (in our own favorite teacup)
and homemade scones (lovingly baked by my wonderful co-worker and amazing supervisor). I played my Sleepy Hollow Soundtrack and one of the teens borrowed it from me. We then played this amazing version of Mystery Date Gemma Doyle style that my co-worker created. Watch her blog for details about her fabulous creation!
We also awarded prizes for costumes. I love costumes and dressing up, so we have these at programs a lot. Here are the winners:
6 comments:
Wow! That looks amazingly fun. What is your coworkers blog? The Mystery Date game sounds cool.
Her blog address is
http://zeesays.blogspot.com/
Looks like great fun! I am a high school library media specialist and we read "A Great and Terrible Beauty" last year in our book club. Wish I had had this info then. Would love the Which Beauty Are You quiz.
My Co-Workers blog should be linked in the text..
but it's www.zeesays.blogspot.com
That looks like fun time!
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