NEON Retrofest
Fri, Apr 14
|Tampa
NEON is your portal to 80s Retro Culture through live Retrowave music; a huge classic arcade (all on free play!); a vintage interactive console museum; curated vendors; luminary guest speakers; a cult film festival; the "Aesthetic Lounge" chill space, and much more!


Time & Location
Apr 14, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:40 PM
Tampa, 5303 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33609, USA
About the Event
ABOUT NEON
In 2018, NEON Retrofest charted new event terrain as a hybrid festival convention hyper-focused on a specific cultural wavelength that was prominent during the 1980s and adjacent decades. Part sci-fi/cyberpunk, part campy cult horror, part Miami Vice, part liminal Deco aesthetic (glass block, softly swaying palm trees, pastel stucco, a shimmering pool at dusk), and part Ferrari Testarossa night drive, the NEON wavelength can be difficult to articulate but, as our supporters say, “You know it when you see it.” They also often say, “I thought I was the only one into this stuff.”
Don't get us wrong; if you come to NEON because you love the 80s and want to have a killer time dancing to Synthwave music, watching so-bad-they're-good movies, shopping with specialty vendors, and playing retro games you loved on vintage cabinets and consoles with friends, NEON will fully live up to your expectations and…