It’s approximately 4 in x 5 in, silver gelatin print. It looks as if it’s a rehearsal photo and or Butch is teaching.
If anybody else has any information on this photo or purchasing this photo contact us! gatheringofthetribes@gmail.com
We have an updated description from Nancy Sosman- “This was Mother’s Day May 8, 1994 “Butch Morris and the Chorus of Poets II” in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Nineteen years ago nearly to the day.”
For Immediate Release:
Steve Cannon’s Fly By Night Press has just released a collection of Ron Kolm’s recent poems. The title of the book is Divine Comedy. The book release party/reading will be on Saturday, May 18th, at seven in the evening. Thad Rutkowski, Chavisa Woods, Carl Watson, Bonny Finberg, George Spencer, Tsaurah Litzky, Rob Hardin and Steve Dalachinsky will be reading from the book. As always, Jim Feast will be the MC. There will be copies of Divine Comedy for sale at a special price.
Amazon Review by Michael Lindgren:
The poet, editor, and activist Ron Kolm has been a part of the downtown literary scene since the mid-1970s, when he was among the writers and booksellers who rotated around the now-legendary Strand / Eighth Street Books / CBGBs axis. Kolm is a member of the literary collective the Unbearables, where he has acted as editor and anthologist for a series of counter-hierarchical literary endeavors of varying scope and impact, and is currently an associate editor of the (now online-only) Evergreen Review. The publication of Divine Comedy represents the clicking into place of the final facet of his multivalent career, and an elegy of sorts for a dirtier, randier, tougher, lost city. The book consists of a series of brief lyrics describing, with acerbic humor, the misadventures in sex and love and literature of a sensitive-but-fearless poet-narrator at sea in the whirlwind of the New York City demimonde in all its seedy glamour. An essential, era-defining work; a classic of rough’n'ready alternative literature.
A Gathering of Tribes is at 285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor (between Ave C & D)
New York, NY, 10009
Private Party! Please RSVP to email below!
Phone: 212-674-3778
Email: gatheringofthetribes@gmail.com
Don’t forget to look at our current exhibit: Out of the closet, Into the open. Art auction, bidding starts @ $100.
TRIBES’ Open house!
April 14, 3:00PM- Onward
285 E. 3rd St. 2nd FL
Books for sale! Art for sale! Tribe’s memorabilia for sale!
Refreshments & Snacks available
If you can’t buy anything, stop by and say hello to Steve Cannon “The Blind Guy”
Michael Randall at 490 Atlantic
“Twenty (odd) small paintings”
“I believe that both painting and abstraction — far from being exhausted, irrelevant or dead — still contain limitless fresh possibilities.” -Michael Randall
I first became acquainted with the paintings of Michael Randall when I found a batch of cast-off watercolors in the garbage outside his building. I liked the energy of the abstract forms, the vitalism they seemed to exude, encompassing both a joyous buoyancy and an undefined anxiety. I scooped them up and took them home. (My entire art collection is composed of works the artists themselves have rejected. Many of these end up in storage.) Some of the Randalls still hang on my walls.
My Only Mentor, Butch Morris (1947-2013)
By Wayne Horvitz on February 21, 2013
Marclay, Morris, Horvitz 1987
Butch Morris (center) performing with Christian Marclay (left) and Wayne Horvitz (right) at the Times Square-area bar Tin Pan Alley in 1987. Photo by Keri Pickett, courtesy Wayne Horvitz
I met Butch Morris shortly after moving to New York City in 1979. I am not sure how or when, but he was extremely gracious to me, became a lifelong friend, and I can honestly say he is the only single human being who I think of as a mentor. It wasn’t about music in any technical sense, but really more in a social sense: How music fit into his life, how he created community, what he cared about, what he didn’t care about, and so on. The fact that Butch was fun, charming, a great person to travel with, to dine and drink with, and to hang with is something everyone who knew Butch can speak to. I could go on for many pages, even chapters, but I will not. Instead I would like to speak to two singular aspects of Butch’s contribution to music since he came on the scene in the ‘70s: community and conduction.
Angel Orensanz is located at 172 Norfolk Street (LES) New York, NY
Please contact Tribes info@tribes.org or 212-674-8262 for more information.
We are excited to announce that in our 33rd season Theater Breaking Through Barriers will be presenting the New York City premiere of According to Goldman, a play by Bruce Graham, opening Off-Broadway on April 6th and continuing through May 5th.
Theater Breaking Through Barriers is the only Off-Broadway theater, and one of the few theaters in the country, dedicated to advancing actors and writers with disabilities and changing the image of people with disabilities from dependence to independence. The cast includes Stephen Drabicki, Pamela Sabaugh and Nicholas Viselli, mixing able-bodied, hard-of-hearing and visually-impaired actors.
The New York Times calls us “an extraordinary troupe designed to defy expectations”. The New York Post says we are “quite simply one of the most enjoyable companies in the country,” and The Village Voice touts us as “long purveyors of quality drama.”
According to Goldman tells the story of Gavin Miller, a former Hollywood screenwriter, who has left the industry to teach a college-level screenwriting course in the northeast. Jeremiah, a student in the class from Africa with an affinity for old films and Fred Astaire, proves to be a promising writer. Gavin and Jeremiah begin working on a Hollywood screenplay about Jeremiah’s life with the hopes of making it big. Gavin’s wife Melinda is less than thrilled to hear that her husband wants another shot in Tinseltown.
Out of town reviews:
“Entirely fresh and captivating”– Talkin’ Broadway
“It’s a pleasure to experience.”– Central Record
“Savvy and insightful…”– Courier Post
To purchase tickets, learn about discounts or more information please contact us at:
Hope to see you at the show,
Samantha Plakun
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
“FIRE ESCAPES, WATERFRONTS & ROOFTOPS AS URBAN LANDSCAPE,” A SOLO EXHIBITION BY EUGENE HYON, A NEW YORK-BORN ART PHOTOGRAPHER
New York, December 5, 2012—Emerging artist/photographer Eugene Hyon
will exhibit sepia tone and digital color photographs for one week in Steve Cannon’s art gallery at A Gathering of the Tribes, located at 285 East 3rd Street, 2nd floor, between Avenues C & D. After January 25, 2013, this exhibition will be extended to February 1, 2013. Closing Reception Party will be held Saturday, February 2, 2013 between the hours of 5:00PM-7:00PM.
The theme of the exhibit is a photographic series that calmly observes those features that make buildings part of an urban landscape, which on the surface is man-made in structure, yet is made physically natural and spiritually alive in its use and occupation by people.
I create with a painter’s eye for composition. Each photo is evidence of the patience required to get things just right and my attention to craft and detail is what holds a viewer’s attention. Stillness, elegance and classical proportion are the stylistic characteristics that make my photographic compositions. A viewer never senses overweening intention or manipulated intervention. What is uplifting occurs simply and as a result of patient witness in which that kernel of hope ultimately shines through. Soulfulness is that crucial element that prevents my photography from becoming lost in the noise of the temporary and trivial.
The gallery at A Gathering of the Tribes was chosen for its strong sense of history, artistic neighborhood atmosphere and relevance to the exhibit’s photographic subject matter. The popularly known “Tribes” on the Lower East Side was founded by Steve Cannon, author, well-known mentor of emerging contemporary artists and an iconic figure of the Lower East Side art scene.
For further information about the art photography of Eugene Hyon:
80 La Salle Street, Apt. 7G
New York, NY 10027-4713
1.646.388.2962 (cell)
E-mail address: eugenehyon@hotmail.com
Web site: http://local-artists.org/user/9203
This can be turned into a contract if necessary.
DO NOT:
You will owe us at least $1000 in damages for each of these things if you do them, but what’s more important than the punishment is that you DON’T DO THESE THINGS.
8. At the opening, it is customary to pay for the wine and other refreshments by taking donations of $3/cup and sometimes door donations as well. You must find someone to pour the wine and work the door. Ask Tribes volunteers.
9. You must stop playing music in the back yard by 10 pm, in the apt by 12pm, and everyone must leave by 2 am. Come in before an event to make sure the place is in good shape, and clean it up afterward because visitors will be there the next day.
9. Tribes requests a donation of 40% of sales of any work. Officially, Tribes isn’t selling anything, but checks written to us count as donations, so we operate as a go-between, and it makes buying things easier. Understand that you have to be paying enough attention and be present enough to sell work and keep track of your money.
10. Re-emphasizing because it’s important: CLEAN UP. Leave the space in better shape than you found it. Remove fasteners, spackle, sand, remove everything you put on the walls and repaint if you made art on the wall. Don’t leave art here after the closing date. We have enough “donated” as it is.
The main point is, it is up to you to make things look professional. You need to make something to be proud of. Regardless of your genius, it is not a privilege of yours to have other people do the gallery work for you. This means that things can be as you want them, but it also means that you must show respect for yourself and others. I don’t mean to insult you – all of this should be obvious and possible, and we really want to show your art here. But if you don’t promise to take care of these things, you cannot show at Tribes.
Janet Bruesselbach, 11/27/2012
