Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc. prides itself on being an integral part of New Yorkıs outstanding traditions of circus, sideshow, vaudeville, and burlesque. BFVA hosted its first "Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Winter Cabaret" in 1995 in Brooklyn, New York. In seven years, that weekly variety show has grown into a year-round public exhibition for variety artists, musicians, comedians, actors, clowns, dancers, novelty acts, circus performers, and sideshow acts. The 2001 Winter Cabaret Season welcomed over two thousand audience members during an eight week, twenty-four performance run at the Present Company Theatorium. The 2002 winter production "Buckaroo Bindlestiff's Wild West Jamboree" was extended to fifteen weeks at the Mazer Theater, an historic Yiddish theater located in the Lower East Side.

For the past seven years Bindlestiff has spent six months a year touring the United States with the Autonomadic Bookmobile, a traveling info/book shop, and a troupe of eight performers, presenting nightly performances to an increasingly diverse national audience. This verstatile performance troupe exposes the public to the traditions of live entertainment at street festivals, in theaters, and in clubs. The 2001 national tour featured 91 performances in 58 towns and cities, reaching a national audience of over twenty thousand. The Autonomadic Bookmobile and Sideshow recently made its first tour as its own unit.

Besides its public performances, BFVA is committed to providing education and enrichment programs to support variety arts. Bindlestiff has taught circus arts to inner-city children through the New York City Housing Authority. We have lectured and performed at colleges and universities, such as Yale University, New York University, Hampshire College, and Tyler School of the Arts. BFVA, Inc. publishes an annual newspaper, the Roustabout Reporter. Now in its fourth edition, with a press run of 5,000, the Roustabout carries articles pertaining to the development of the Bindlestiffs, historical accounts of the history of the American performing folk traditions, contemporary issues effecting variety artists, and articles by leading academic scholars.