Autonomadic Bookmobile

2003 Summer / Fall Tour Schedule

What Is It?

The Autonomadic Bookmobile is a travelling "medicine show" of small press publications. It consists of a brightly painted truck stocked with books and zines, touted by two sideshow performers, and is a project of two nonprofit arts organizations: the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, a circus and variety troupe which tours nationally, and Autonomedia, a New York book publishing collective.

The Bookmobile began in 1994 as a table at venues where the Cirkus played, and in 2001 moved into the truck, in which it tours both independently and with the Cirkus.

Carrying books and zines from a number of independent publishers, the Bookmobile has brought radical cultural theory into the Florida swamps and the Nevada desert, and self-published statements of dissent to smalltown streets across the country.

The Show

Drs. Henceforth Flummox and Okra P. Dingle frequently perform a full sideshow. They have performed at clubs, colleges, collective spaces, and festivals, sometimes with the Bookmobile open to all the world, and sometimes far away from its good holdings.

The show lasts anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes and includes classic sideshow feats including glass walking, knife throwing, fire eating, the human pincushion, and the bed of nails, with the musical accompaniment of the accordian and the musical saw.

The Tour

Just because you don't see a listing here for your town, that doesn't mean the bookmobile won't be stopping there. only certain gigs are listed. if you see that the bookmobile will be nearby, look for it on a heavily pedestrian street in your own town. better yet, email bookmobile@bindlestiff.org with questions and suggestions.

Further dates and locations will be posted later. Let us know if you're on the route and have a suggested venue: email a_nomadic@yahoo.com

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Take me to the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus.
Drop me off at Autonomedia

Tour schedule follows below:Friday, July 25, New Orleans

The Ark, 511 Marigny, 9pm, $5

Thurs, July 31, Pensacola, FL

End of the Line Cafe, 610 East Wright St., 8pm, $5. Info: 850-429-0336

Saturday, Aug. 2, Gainesville, FL

Civic Media Center, 1021 W. University Ave, 9pm, $5 suggested. Info: 352-373-0010

Sunday, Aug 3, West Columbia SC

New Brookland Tavern, 122 State St., 8pm, $5

August 5 through 7

Bookmobile in Athens, Georgia. Keep your eyes peeled!

Friday, August 8, Liberty, TN

Pumpkin Hollow Festival. Info: 615-536-5022

Saturday, August, 9, Nashville, TN

Rule of Thirds, 1507 Bernard Ave., 8pm. Info: 615-298-3515

Sunday, August, 10, Knoxville, TN

The Pilot Light, 106 East Jackson Ave, 9pm, $5. Info: 865-524-8188

Tuesday, August 12, Ashville, NC

Asheville Community Resource Center, 63 Lexington Ave., 7pm. $5 sug. Info: 828-252-8999

Thursday, August 14

Bookmobile in Chapel Hill, NC. Who will find it first?

Friday, August 15, Greensboro, NC

The Green Bean, 341 South Elm, 8pm. Free, info 336-691-9990

Saturday, August 16, Charlotte, NC

Fat City (with Helios Creed), 3127 N. Davidson, 9pm, $7

Sunday, August 17, Richmond, VA

Holy Chow. Details TBA

Wednesday, August 20, Baltimore, MD

Copycat Building (with Black Forest Black Sea), 1511 Guildford Ave. Info: 410-727-8197

Thursday Aug 21, Philadelphia PA

Robot House. Barbecue! 621 North 35th, 3pm.

August 23, Brooklyn NY

Galapagos Art Space, North 6th Street, 7:30pm, $5

Friday, August 29, New York City

ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington, 8pm, $5

Saturday, August 30, Hudson Valley, NY

details tba

Sunday, August 31, Woodstock, NY

details TBA

Tuesday, Sept. 2, Albany NY

Albany Free School, 8 Elm St., 8pm, $3

Wednesday, Sept. 3, Northampton, MA

Bookmobile on Main Street

Thursday, Sept. 4, Easthampton, MA

Flywheel Arts, 2 Holyoke Street, 8pm. $3-5. Info: 413-527-9800

Friday, Sept. 5, New London, CT

Station 58 (with Lo-Beam), 58 Brainard St., 9pm. Info: 860-443-5858

Saturday, Sept. 6, Providence, RI

AS220 (with Mirra, Jason Liebman, and Ryan Fitzsimmons), 115 Empire St., 9pm, $6

Sept 7-11

Bookmobile rolling through the hills and dales of MA, stopping every which way and possibly in Burlington VT

September 12-13, South Glover VT

Brementown Festival

Tuesday, Sept. 16

Bookmobile in Ithaca, NY

Wednesday, Sept. 17, Pittsburgh, PA

Project 1877, 4805 Pennsylvania Ave., 8pm $4, info: 412-802-8575

September 18-19, Cleveland, OH

TBA

Saturday, Sept. 20, Ypsilanti, MI

Dreamland Theater (with Naia's puppets, Misha Gray's mentalism, and more!), 44 East Cross St., 8pm, $5

Sunday, September 21, Ann Arbor, MI

Bookmobile at the Diag.