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

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

Tour schedule follows below:

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"PlaythingSymposium:

Choose Your Weapons!"

Digital Games Symposium: October 10-12, 2003

Location: Sydney University, Eastern Ave Auditorium

dLux media arts in association with University of Sydney present

Future Screen 2003:


Plaything is a major international symposium focusing on current and
future trends in the field of digital games, featuring key Australian
and International game designers theorists and artists.

Anonymous Comrade submits "The Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, and United for a Fair Economy present:

"Ruck U: Global Justice Advanced Action Camp"

October 10-17, 2003, Arcadia, Florida

The Free Trade Area of the Americas will hold its 2003 annual ministerial meeting in Miami in November... and they’ll have company. Social and economic justice activists, environmentalists, and people of conscience will confront the ministers, nonviolently challenging their legitimacy right where it counts… in the schools, the community centers, the union halls, and in the streets.

jim submits:

"Powerful Collaborations:

Building a Movement for Social Change"

October 16-19, 2003

The Audubon Center of the North Woods

Sandstone, Minnesota

Register now for this year's Community Research Network (CRN)
Conference, sponsored by the Loka Institute. The CRN works for
social change through Community Based Research by acknowledging,
honoring, accepting and following the voices of all stakeholders,
including those historically oppressed.