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    A Gathering of the Tribes is an arts and cultural organization dedicated to excellence in the arts from a diverse perspective. Located on the Lower East Side of New York City, Tribes has been in existence since 1991.


  • A Gathering of the Tribes, 285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor (between Avenues C and D)
    Phone: 212-674-3778
    Fax: 212-674-5776
    Email: Info@tribes.org


  • Tribes is a member of Chamber Music of America, Poets & Writers, Poets Society of America, St. Marks Poetry Project. We are Funded by NYC DCA, NYSCA & The Andy Warhol Foundation among others. All contributions are tax deductible.

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  • The 16th Annual Charlie Parker Festival

    Throughout the forties, Charlie Parker revolutionized jazz and immortalized the Lower East Side by capturing its combustive atmosphere and translating it into music. It is no wonder that every year the Lower East Side returns a little bit of the favor by celebrating Charlie Parker, his life and his legacy, as well as his deep rooted relationship with this neighborhood, through A Gathering of the Tribes' Charlie Parker Festival.
    This year, A Gathering of the Tribes is please to present the 16th Annual Charlie Parker Festival, entitled "BIRD LIVES," from August 2 - August 29. More information about this year's festival can be found here

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Ernest Hemingway (A Review of Tao Lin’s Richard Yates)

Since I have like three venues to publish it in, and I told Tao I needed a galley, I feel obliged to write a review of Tao Lin’s novel, Richard Yates. I don’t think I will ever read anything by Richard Yates. Reading Tao Lin has a way of erasing any literary knowledge […]


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Partially a proclamation to the 1970’s, the artists and the derelicts, the rich and poor, the talented and talent-less, “Just Kids” stands as an ode to friendship and love; everything in between. Patti Smith’s memoir is poetic and true with an honesty and straightforwardness that is disguised in her poetry and music. […]


I Need That Record Store: Retail as Club Membership

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I first heard about it when I was about 12 — a store where Kiss albums could be procured for about a dollar less than at the mall; a store that, strangely, wasn’t in the mall. It wasn’t far, but it did mean asking my mother to make another trip.

Things seemed different at […]


Whitney Biennial 2010

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With a name like “2010” you don’t really know what to expect when heading to the 2010 Whitney biennial. Unfortunately, you don’t really know what to think about the exhibit after leaving either. Though the theme of “2010” is justified by the curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari in the exhibit’s […]


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I don’t want him to tear my clothing off anymore. I don’t want him to crush my serenity
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The Reunion: A Forecast                                                                           by Suejin Suh
 
 
Has it been more than three years?  Three or four years-ish since you cleverly sang,  
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Or was this an impromptu melody I made just […]



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UNPOP curatorial statement

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“A free society is one in which it is safe to be unpopular.” –Adlai Stevenson
Unpop has a variety of playful reactions to both art as commodity and the political legacy of pop art. Art is a commodity so oversupplied that it may be the testing grounds for a post-scarcity economy. Its economy of […]


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Latest Fiction

Ernest Hemingway (A Review of Tao Lin’s Richard Yates)

Since I have like three venues to publish it in, and I told Tao I needed a galley, I feel obliged to write a review of Tao Lin’s novel, Richard Yates. I don’t think I will ever read anything by Richard Yates. Reading Tao Lin has a way of erasing any literary knowledge […]


Gone Fishing, Again

by Christopher Heffernan

The cult classic Trout Fishing in America, written by Richard Brautigan and first published in 1967, has been released in a new edition by Mariner Books, a subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.  The book has not been published on its own since the early ‘80’s when […]



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A Starter Kit for Collectors: Exposition et vente au profit de TRIBES

A Starter Kit for Collectors: Exposition et vente au profit de A Gathering of the Tribes
Samedi 1er mai – Dimanche 16 mai 2010
Vernissage: Samedi 1er mai 14-18H
Réception pour les artistes : Samedi 1er mai, 19h-22H
Tribes Gallery
285 East 3rd Street, 2ème étage, NYC 10009
A Gathering of the Tribes est une association artistique et culturelle qui […]


A Starter Kit for Collectors: Art Exhibition and Sale A Benefit for A Gathering of the Tribes

A Gathering of the Tribes is an arts and cultural organization dedicated to excellence in the arts from a diverse perspective. Located on the Lower East Side of New York City, Tribes has been in existence since 1991.   tribes-poster-color.jpg
Saturday May 1st, 2:00 - 6:00 pm : Public preview
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September Tribes Calendar of Events

A GATHERING OF THE TRIBES

Calendar – September 2008

 

————————————————————————————————————Saturday September 6th 4-7pm -  A Tribute to John Ranard at the St. Marks Poetry Project  located at 131 East 10th Street @ 2nd Ave.

Saturday September 6th 7-10pm Opening for the celebration of the photography of John Ranard.  The exhibition runs till September 30th

————————————————————————————————————Monday September 8th @ 7:30 HOWL Festival presents A Gathering of the Tribes Poets featuring Steve Cannon, John Farris, Merry Fortune, Amy Ouzoonian and Eve Packer at St. Marks Poetry Project located at 131 East 10th Street @ 2nd Ave.

————————————————————————————————————Wednesday September 10th @ 9pm HOWL Festival presents a Panel Discussion on Lower East Side Poetics at St. Marks Poetry Project located at 131 East 10th Street @ 2nd Ave. Panelists include Steve Canon John Giorno, Hettie James, Daniel Kane, and Bob Holman.

————————————————————————————————————Saturday September 13th 2-4pm Memorial reading of I Dream About You Baby, poems by Lester Afflick at the St. Marks Poetry Project located at 131 East 10th Street @ 2nd ave.

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Saturday September 20th 8pm Patrick Brennan – saxophone / Bern Nix – guitar / Lisle Ellis – bass present Personic at Tribes Gallery

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Sunday September 28th 5-7pm Book party for Tom Savage who will be reading from his new book Brain lifts along with Phyllis Wat

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To find out more about Tribes, who we are and what we do, check out Tribes on Myspace/A Gathering of the Tribes; Youtube under HOWL, Native New Yorker, Amiri Baraka/Tribes; Facebook; Flickr:  http:/www.flickr.com/photos/tribesgalleryphotos/; and www.dowpub.com.  Tribes books and magazines are available on Tribes website www.tribes.org, Ebay.com, and Amazon.com.  Tribes is a member of Chamber Music of America, Poets & Writers, Poets Society of America, and St. Marks Poetry Project.

A Gathering of the Tribes, 285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor (between Avenues C and D)

212-674-8262 or 212-674-3778; info@tribes.org F train to 2nd Avenue or 6 train to Bleecker Street

 

Thanks to our funders: The Sonia Alden Foundation, NYSCA, the DCA, Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, David Hammons, Simon Jones, Hilary Maslon, Mireia Sentis, The Greenwich Collection, The Delmas Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The Buddy Taub Foundation.