Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Update - September 20 , 2010
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus' summer included producing NYC's first Unicycle Festival (nycunifest.com), participating in the International Juggling Conventions public shows (produced by Bindlestiff co-founder Keith Nelson), producing Cirkus Cabaret in the Spiegeltent at Summerscape, and offering circus skill summer camp programs in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Hudson. Although Bindlestiff is packing the seersucker suits away for the season, the Cirkus is ready to rock the fall:
This update includes:
* Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at Virgin Mobile Festival, Maryland.
* Bindlestiff at Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY.
* A Vixen driven Bindlestiff Halloween at the Highline Ballroom, NYC.
* Bindlestiff's Open Variety Stage Show, Brooklyn, NY.
* Cirkus Skill Workshops, Hudson and Chatham, NY
* Other Upcoming Bindlestiff Family Cirkus productions
* Support the Variety Arts
For the most up to date info visit
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at Virgin Mobile Festival
September 25, 2010
Virgin Mobile FreeFest
Merriwather Post Pavillion, Baltimore, MD
All Day Event
Look for the red and white striped canvas, the towering aerial rig, and the pretty blue Cirkus Ring at FreeFest this year, your friends from The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus will be delivering an amazing spectacle. Featuring aerial artistry on the rope by Kendra Greaves; Hula hooping, contortion and trapeze by Harvest Moon wire walking by Michael Richter; Ringmistress Philomena's flaming tongue of fire, sizzling whipcracking, and Peter Bufano's live Cirkus tunes. Shows will alternate thru the day with THOSE TWO GUYS Unicycle Stunt Team, performing the ridiculous AND the sublime on one wheel.
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Bindlestiff at Dumbo Arts Festival
September 26, 2010
All Day Event
Sunday 9/26, 1pm & 4pm,
Main Street and Plymouth Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Imagine artists working in their studios, musicians and street performers appearing out of nowhere, artists creating murals before your eyes, poets reciting to passers-by, kids enjoying puppetry and music, DJs spinning in the streets, wildly creative art installations everywhere, and Bindlestiffs performing in the street. The Dumbo Arts Festival takes place on September 24th, 25th and 26th and attracts 150,000 visitors over 3 days and includes 150+ studios, 35+ galleries, 40+ arts organizations and a host of family friendly venues. The festival strives to offer something for everyone with artists and audiences of all ages and backgrounds. It strives to be accessible and sophisticated, to reflect New York’s creative community, to be real and flavorful, to show some grit and some polish, to be smart, creative and high quality – it is the Dumbo Arts Festival.
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A Vixen driven Bindlestiff Halloween at the Highline Ballroom
October 31, 2010, Halloween Night
Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St, New York, NY
Showtime 7pm. Tix: $20 adv / $25 day of show
($5 off at the door if you come in your Cirkus finery: Vixens with Whips, Beast Tamers, Siamese Triplets, Sad, Bad, or Naughty Clown, Gender-Bendy Ringleader, etc. all qualify!)
Join Ringmistress Philomena Bindlestiff on and an all-star, all-girl cast of femme fatales on Halloween Night for an estrogen-powered evening of circus thrills, sideshow chills and vaudevillian virtuosity. Live, real, and undeniably exciting! Stay tuned for more information.
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Bindlestiff Open Variety Stage Show
Next show October 4
Galapagos Arts Space, 16 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
First Monday of Every Month
Coming Shows: October 4, November 1, December 6...
Door $5
Showtime: 8 pm
A First Look at NYC's Finest Emerging Variety Talents
And An Intimate Experience with Circus Stars from Around the World
Circus * Sideshow * Vaudeville * Burlesque * Dance * Music
Come to Dumbo Brooklyn for a spectacular night of variety entertainment that will include much more than a simple song and dance. Hosted by Bindlestiff Family Cirkus co-founder Keith Nelson, Bindlestiffs Open Stage Variety Show is a non stop variety show experience that may include The Heavy Metal Magician, Kung Fu juggling, trained rats, clown bands, aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, stripping clowns, living cartoons, physical comedy, a cougar contortionist and a cowboy from the Bronx. Every show offers amazing sights, quirky surprises, and some of the best variety artists working New York and the world. Always entertaining.
Every month you can expect a different line up of emerging artists and world class entertainers. Galapagos Art Space has dedicating the one Monday of every month to New York City's variety, vaudeville, aerial, and circus artists. Celebrating works in progress, emerging artists, and professionals trying something new, this night promises many surprises.
For more information and to buy tickets go to
If you would like to be on the stage, email keith@bindlestiff.org. Write 'Open Variety' in the subject line!
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Cirkus Skill Workshops
Hudson Juggling Club
Monday nights, 6-9pm
John L. Edwards Elementary School - basement level gymnasium, 400 State Street, Hudson, NY
Meetings every Monday night that school is in session, no meetings on the following dates:
October 11, December 27, January 17, February 21, April 18, May 30
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Juggling and Cirkus Arts Workshop for Ages 8 - 10
Wednesdays starting October
Morris Memorial, Chatham NY
Juggling and other arts from the circus tent are an active, non-competitive way for kids to engage the physical realm of movement with the creative impulse. Participants will learn juggling and prop manipulation, along with cool stunts like stilt walking and tightwire walking. A public show on May 25 will feature the new skills learned in Chatham's own Mini-Cirkus!
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Other Upcoming Bindlestiff Family Cirkus productions
* Ghost Walk continues to haunt Hudson, NY. November 5. ghostwalkhudson.com
* Bindlestiffs Cavalcade of Youth at Coney Island USA on November 7.
* Bindlestiff Family Cirkus returns to Millbrook for First Night. Millbrook, NY New Year's Eve.
Stay tuned for more upcoming Bindlestiff events.
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Support the Variety Arts
We ask for your contribution in support of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and our mission to promote, develop and sustain the variety arts.
If you feel a connection to Bindlestiff—if our unconventional vision and values speak to you, if you consider yourself a Bindlestiff at heart, or if you just love coming to our shows—we invite you to deepen that connection this year by making a tax-deductible financial contribution.
We need your help to continue creating provocative, thrilling performances, conducting youth programs that develop skills and self-esteem, and cultivating a vital community of variety artists, all while keeping ticket prices accessibly low.
Tax-deductible donations can be made at
or by sending a check or money order
to Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc., PO Box 1917, New York, NY 10009.
Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit
organization devoted to the preservation and evolution of the variety
arts.
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
PO Box 1917
New York, NY 10009
1-877-BINDLES