Editing Tom Robbins (section)

==Other activities==
During his brief stint in New York in 1965 Robbins joined the {{ill|New York Filmmakers' Cinematheque|de|Film-Makers' Cinematheque}}.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robbins|first1=Tom|title=Tibetan peach pie: a true account of an imaginative life|date=2014|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|isbn=9780062267405|page=219|edition=First}}</ref> In the mid-1960s, as a member of the Seattle Arts scene, Robbins reviewed art for several publications in Seattle, wrote essays for museum catalogs, organized gallery exhibits, and was the self-described ringleader in a "boisterous neo-Dada gang of guerilla artists, the Shazam Society".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Marks|first1=Ben|title=Rainy Day Psychedelia: Seattle's 1960s Poster Scene About To Get Its Day in the Sun|url=http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/seattles-1960s-poster-scene-about-to-get-its-day-in-the-sun/|website=Collectors Weekly|access-date=August 23, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Robbins|first1=Tom|title=Tibetan peach pie: a true account of an imaginative life|date=2014|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|isbn=9780062267405|pages=234–235|edition=First}}</ref>

Robbins defended, in print, Indian mystic [[Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh|Osho]], although he was never a follower.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 7, 2013 |title=Tom Robbins essay on Shree Bhagwan Rajneesh also known as Osho {{!}} Osho News |url=https://www.oshonews.com/2013/08/07/tom-robbins-on-osho/ |access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref> Robbins spent three weeks at ceremonial sites in [[Mexico]] and [[Central America]] with mythologist [[Joseph Campbell]], and studied mythology in Greece and Sicily with the poet [[Robert Bly]]. Robbins also traveled to [[Timbuktu]].<ref name="HarperCollins Publishers" /> Robbins was a member of the [[Marijuana Policy Project]]'s advisory board, alongside numerous other notable figures such as [[Jack Black]], [[Ani DiFranco]], [[Tommy Chong]], and [[Jello Biafra]];<ref>{{cite web|title=MPP ADVISORY BOARD|url=http://www.mpp.org/vip/|work=Marijuana Policy Project|access-date=April 27, 2013|year=2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223011150/http://www.mpp.org/vip/|archive-date=February 23, 2012}}</ref> he was honoured at the Laureate Dinner of Seattle's [[Rainier Club]] that has also recognized other local figures, such as Charles Johnson, Stephen Wadsworth, [[Timothy Egan]] and [[August Wilson]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=The Rainier Club - Laureate Nominations |url=https://www.therainierclub.com/files/Laureate%20Nomination%202019.pdf |access-date=March 9, 2022 |website=[[Rainier Club]]}}</ref> and he sat on the board of directors of [[The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas]] (formerly 826 Seattle), "a nonprofit writing and tutoring center dedicated to helping youth, ages six to 18, improve their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write."<ref>{{cite web|title=Our Staff & Leadership|url=http://www.826seattle.org/about/our-staff-leadership/|work=826 Seattle|access-date=April 27, 2013|year=2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105222602/http://www.826seattle.org/about/our-staff-leadership/|archive-date=November 5, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=About 826|url=http://www.826seattle.org/about/about-826/|work=826 Seattle|access-date=April 27, 2013|year=2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018202245/http://www.826seattle.org/about/about-826|archive-date=October 18, 2014}}</ref>

Madame Zoe, a Richmond psychic and palm reader who once lived in Richmond's South Side, was fictionalized in Robbins's ''[[Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)|Even Cowgirls Get the Blues]]''. In 2016 Richmond artists Noah Scalin and Thea Duskin recreated her bedroom as an installation in the art gallery at Chop Suey Books in [[Carytown, Richmond, Virginia|Carytown]] in Richmond.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lord|first1=Jo|title=Artists collaborate on visual tribute to Richmond Psychic|publisher=Richmond Times-Dispatch|date=April 28, 2016|location=Richmond, Virginia|page=F6}}</ref> The novel ''Even Cowgirls Get the Blues'' was adapted into [[Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film)|a film]] in 1993 by [[Gus Van Sant]], starring [[Uma Thurman]], [[Lorraine Bracco]], and [[Keanu Reeves]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Original Theatrical Trailer | date=July 8, 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Q1VTuna-w |language=en |access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>