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Wednesday, August 23th, 7:00 - 10:00pm “Mill Town / Mall Town Tour”

Hi Friends,

A TROUPE of 15-30 artists/art collectives/activists/performers and a puppy from providence/boston/balitmore/milwaukee are touring the northeast by BICYCLE and they’re landing at THE CHANGE YOU WANT WANT TO SEE space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this WEDNESDAY for a VARIETY SHOW + WORKSHOPS.

A shabby synopsis that does no justice, we must confess.

See below for MORE.

Hey, COME!!!!!!!!!!

*Wednesday, 7-10pm*

• *84 Havemeyer St, @ Metropolitan Ave*
• *L to Beford, J/M/Z to Marcy, G to Metropolitan
• * Home cookin’ and dance party (bicycle sound system) to follow.

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 “Mill Town / Mall Town Tour”

• Bicycle Traveling Show
• August 2006 variety!
• possibility!

MUSIC PERFORMANCE PRESENTATIONS ACTIVITIES SERVICES the least predictable show of the summer!

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The idea for the tour is to bring together artists, activists, & performers who share a love for community–building, experimentation, performance, & collaboration. The tour is a variety show of sorts: throat singing, touch synthesizers, collaborative theater, shadow play, acoustic music, & more. Basically, it is a caravan of people who are excited to share their art & make connections in this northeastern corner of our world. We are excited to make connections through art, conversation, performance, & service. We will be traveling & offering our skills & services as performers, musicians, workshop facilitators, & workers in varied community spaces in big cities as well as small towns. Tour participants are coming together from the Boston/Providence area as well as from Milwaukee & Baltimore. We will be performing in different venues in the region as well as volunteering in community organizations &/ events. For example, we will be doing work–trade at a few organic farms in MA & RI as well as helping with a children’s puppet parade in Wakefield, RI. Also, the tour will be bringing a variety of artwork (posters & zines) to exhibit, sell, or trade. The mega–list of participants is below.

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• Lucky Dragons (Providence) – Luke Fishbeck http://hawksandsparrows.org/
• Larkin Grimm (Providence) http://www.larkingrimm.com/
• Katt Hernandez (Boston) http://katthernandez.com/
• Jacob Berendes (Worcester) http://fujichia.com/
• Wind-up Bird (Providence) – Joe Grimm http://www.thewindupbird.com/
• members of What Cheer (Providence Marching Band) http://www.providencestreetband.com/
• Haley O’Connor (Providence) http://glaciersofnice.com/
• members of The Institute for the Study of Things (Providence) www.pipsworks.com/contact/projects/studythings.html
• Deer Tick (Providence) - John Mccauley www.myspace.com/deertickwww.geocities.com/deertickmusic
• Sophia Dixon (NYC) http://sophiadixon.com/
• Jacob Berendes (Worcester) http://fujichia.com/
• Mike Leslie (Worcester) www.fujichia.com/terribles
• Secret Door (Providence) – Jean Cozzens www.artinruins.com/merch
• Work/Death (Providence) & BSR Live Block (www.bsrlive.com/archives) – Scott Reber
• members of Dream House (Boston) & the Stick and Rag Village Orchestra (Boston) http://stickandrag.org/
• MC KC (Providence) – Kasey Henneman http://some-pig.net/

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other participants (without webpages):

• 4/32? (Providence)
• Rob Coggeshall Blue Shift (Providence)
• Cybelle Collins Val Allen & Zach Christensen (Providence)
• Paul Mccarthy (Providence)
• Tom Van Buskirk (Providence)
• Keith Waters (Boston)
• Miles Huston (Boston)
• Ali Dennig (Providence/Boston)
• Sarah Clover, Tara & Mary Hastings (Providence)
• Mike Riley (Worcester) Jim Frain (Providence) Two Shoes (Milwaukee)
• Xav Leplae Kim Miller (Milwaukee)
• Archaeology of the Recent Future (Providence/Milwaukee)
• Polina Malikin Aytan Yonah Luck (Milwaukee)
• Theresa Columbus (Milwaukee/Baltimore)
• Miss Money Money (Milwaukee/Baltimore)
• Stephanie Barber

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Tour dates for August 2006

• tue 8 CRANSTON: Scratch Farm work party/swimming
• wed 9 PAWTUCKET
• thu 10 (carr’s pond) wakefield
• fri 11 WAKEFIELD: giant puppet making
• sat 12 WAKEFIELD: parade puppet party w/WCMB
• sun 13 NEWPORT (narraganset beach)
• mon 14 rehoboth or new bedford or?
• tue 15 BOSTON w/What Cheer + Hungry March Bands
• wed 16 BOSTON http://dancefreedom.org/
• thu 17 WORCESTER: (walden pond)
• fri 18 WORCESTER: gogo/mansion/hbml/block party
• sat 19 PROVIDENCE: building 16 w/Eats Tapes
• sun 20 PROVIDENCE: cemetery st
• mon 21 NORTH CONWAY: Natural Roots work day/show
• tue 22 EASTHAMPTON: Flywheel/Mt Tom
• wed 23 NYC thu 24 nyc/philly: visit friends
• fri 25 PHILADELPHIA
• sat 26 BALTIMORE

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15 to 30 people, ranging from 6 to 40 years old from providence, boston, milwaukee, baltimore, and more

• -one puppy
• -bicycle trailer sound system dance party
• -distributing tons of zines, tapes, posters, etc
• -video of earlier in the day
• -teen angst magic tricks
• -performances examining various views on gentrification -utopian visionary speeches
• -giant tent made of scavenged plastic heat sealed together
• -musical collaboration
• -many acoustic musicians, some experimental electronic
• -shadow theater
• -participatory art car decorating
• -free one on one help making a web page
• -throat singing, beautiful meditative droning sounds
• -spontaneous shows at beaches, retirement communities, summer camps, malls, karaoke nights, hospital waiting rooms, anywhere!
• -work days at organic farms, weeding, working soil, etc
• -electronic touch sensitive participatory music
• -big group collectively choreographed dance routine
• -synchronized group bicycle riding
• -performing collected handshakes from around the world
• -swimming, trampoline, badminton, tiny skateboards, hula hoops, ice sliding, cardboard slide, big card games, battle strategy games, victorian parlour games, communal kitchen
• -and lots more!