Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Update - November 4, 2010
This update includes:
* Bindlestiff Cavalcade of Youth, Coney Island, November 7
* GhostWALK Hudson, NY, November 5
* Bindlestiff's Open Variety Stage Show, Brooklyn, NY.
* Other Upcoming Bindlestiff Family Cirkus productions
* Bindlestiff mentions on the internet
* Support the Variety Arts
For the most up to date info visit
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Bindlestiff Cavalcade of Youth
The Performers of Tomorrow Steal the Stage Today!
Sunday, November 7, 2010 Showtime: 4 pm
Sideshows by the Seashore, 1208 Surf Ave., (Coney Island), Brooklyn, NY
Admission: $10 youth / $15 adults (21+)
A special showcase for young variety performers, ranging from amateurs to world-class professionals. Juvenile jugglers, diminutive dancers, adolescent acrobats and a host of other moppets and mummers present a full show of vernal vaudeville. Acts range from debuting amateurs to world-class champion performers—all under the age of 21.
Starting its seventh year, the Bindlestiff Cavalcade of Youth continues to feature an amazing array of young talent. These are the future stars of Cirque du Soleil, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Coney Island Sideshow, and television. Where else can you see juvenile unicyclists, tap dancers, magicians, clowns, and contortionists sharing the stage with Broadway-bound singers and classically trained musicians? All the performers are under 21, but audience members of all ages love this show! A Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc. and Playful Productions production.
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GhostWALK Hudson
Friday, November 5, 2010
Tour starts at Cannonball Factory, 359-361 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY
Registration starts at 5:30 pm
Admission: $10
For the second year, Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc. presents GhostWALK Hudson: Ghost Story Walking Tour, in partnership with Walking the dog Theater. On Friday, November 5, 2010, you can stroll on Hudson's historic Columbia and Warren Streets, and visit spooky locations where original ghost stories collected in the GhostWALK Writing Contest will be told by young actors from Walking the dog Theater's Afterschool Drama Program.
The box office, located at the Cannonball Factory at 359-361 Columbia Street, will open at 5:30 pm. Enter at the rear of the building, alley between Warren and Columbia Streets at 4th Street.
The first tour departs at 6pm. box office closes at 6:30 pm. This walking tour involves several blocks of gentle strolling. Not all Ghost Story sites are wheel-accessible. GhostWALK will take place rain or shine! No one under age 8 admitted.
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Bindlestiff Open Variety Stage Show
Galapagos Arts Space, 16 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
First Monday of Every Month
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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Other Upcoming Bindlestiff Family Cirkus productions
* Bindlestiff Family Cirkus returns to Rhinebeck, NY for Sinterklass on December 4
* Buccaneer Bindlestiff's Swashbuckling Cirkus will appear at Rocking Horse Ranch in Highland, NY on December 25.
* Buccaneer Bindlestiff's Swashbuckling Cirkus is coming to Millbrook for First Night. Millbrook, NY on New Year's Eve.
* 2011 Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Winter Cabaret is coming back to Dixon Place (NYC) on April 1 and April 2.
Stay tuned for more upcoming Bindlestiff events.
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Bindlestiff mentions on the internet
Bindlestiff performers in action at Park Avenue Armory Carnival
And with the US midterm elections just ending, the 2012 Kinko for President campaign is heating up. Word is getting around:
London Guardian calls Keith Nelson/Kinko the Clown "leading US Clown"
Elections Likened to Circus? Clown Takes Offense
Angry Clowns. Don't Call Washington a Circus
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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