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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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June Calendar 2010

June 2nd, 2010 A Gathering Of The Tribes Posted in Book Party, Exhibition Opening, Gallery, Music Performance, Workshop No Comments »

WALTZING IN QUICKSAND: POETS IN COLLAGE
May 21st - June 27th, 2010

Collage Workshop
: Sunday June 6th, 2-4 pm
Opening Reception: Sunday June 6th, 4-6 pm

Garden Concert with Michael Shenker
Sunday June 6th, 6:30 pm

Tribes Gallery
285 East 3 rd St
New York, NY 10009

Tribes Gallery is excited to present the exhibition Waltzing in Quicksand: Poets in Collage. This is the most recent and ambitious showing of the work of Poets in Collage regulars Steve Dalachinsky, Bob Heman, Yuko Otomo, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Valery Oisteanu and Bruce Weber, who have been exhibiting together in various permutations around town since 2006, with the inspired addition of Star Black, Aaron Howard, Nicole Peyrafitte and Lewis Warsh.

Sunday June 6th from 2 to 4pm
there will be a collage workshop led by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Valery Oisteanu. Anyone can join in making collages! Donation based*
Poets in Collage Opening Party following the workshop from 4-6 pm~
6:30 pm Concert in the Garden with Michael Shenker, vocalist and pianist performing R &B, Jazz, and Pop Classics as well as original songs.
Thursday June 10th, 8 pm CATWEAZLE CLUB PRESENTS:  Completely unplugged! 12-15 open stage slots — comedy, poetry, music, dance — sign-up commences at 7:30pm, performance begins at 8pm. Featuring one or two extended sets per evening. Offering local and imported beers at $2-3 apiece. Please join us!
FEATURED PERFORMER
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Sunday June 13th 5-7 pm, Kathryn Takara & Rashidah Ismaili Read Islands, Issues, Identities: Poetics from the African Diaspora : “Hawai`i and West African Black scholar/poets reflect on the politics of identity, family, community, alienation, and assimilation.”
Sunday June 20th 2-5 pm, The Vision Festival Presents...
Poetry by: Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Bob Heman, Lewis Warsh.
Poetry & Music : Albey Balgochian & Jane Grenier B, Barry Wallenstein, Yuko Otomo - Shayna Dulberger, Jake Marmer / & Alon Nechushtan, Aaron Howard w/Gwen Krueger & Tomislav Butkovic, Steve Dalachinsky , Alexandre Pierrepont, Tamara Singh, Tsaurah Litsky, Steve Ben Israel
Musicians/Improvs: Ellen Christi, Max Johnson bass, Andrew Barker drums, Charles Waters reeds
Sunday, June 27th 5 to 7 pm What happens next zine collating/reading
Host: Eve Packer Contributors, artists & poets: Joanne Pagano Weber, Marilyn Sontag, Bruce Weber, Keith Roach, Diana Kurz, Ellen ‘windy’ Lytle, Marilyn Sontag, Eve Packer, Bob Quatrone, Miriam Stanley, George Spencer, Ron Kolm, Cindy Hochman, Patricia Carragon, and others to be announced…

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Garden Readings & Music
May 23rd-June27 2010
A Gathering of the Tribes
285 East Third Street, 2nd Fl
NYC 10009

Sunday June 6th from 2 to 4pm there will be a collage workshop led by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Valery Oisteanu. Anyone can join in making collages! Donation based*

*Poets in Collage Opening Party following the workshop from 4-6 pm~

7:00 pm Concert in the Garden with Michael Shenker,
vocalist and pianist performing R &B, Jazz, and Pop Classics as well as original songs.

Sunday June 13th 5-7 pm, Kathryn Takara & Rashidah Ismaili Read
Islands, Issues, Identities: Poetics from the African Diaspora : “Hawai`i and West African Black scholar/poets reflect on the politics of identity, family, community, alienation, and assimilation.”

Sunday June 20th 2-5 pm, The Vision Festival Presents…
Poetry by: Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Bob Heman, Lewis Warsh.
Poetry & Music : Albey Balgochian & Jane Grenier B, Barry Wallenstein, Yuko Otomo - Shayna Dulberger, Jake Marmer / & Alon Nechushtan, Aaron Howard w/Gwen Krueger & Tomislav Butkovic, Steve Dalachinsky , Alexandre Pierrepont, Tamara Singh, Tsaurah Litsky, Steve Ben Israel
Musicians/Improvs: Ellen Christi, Max Johnson bass, Andrew Barker drums, Charles Waters reeds

Sunday, June 27th 5 to 7 pm What happens next zine collating/reading

Host: Eve Packer Contributors, artists & poets: Joanne Pagano Weber, Marilyn Sontag, Bruce Weber, Keith Roach, Diana Kurz, Ellen ‘windy’ Lytle, Marilyn Sontag, Eve Packer, Bob Quatrone, Miriam Stanley, George Spencer, Ron Kolm, Cindy Hochman, Patricia Carragon, and others to be announced…


FREE COLLAGE WORKSHOP

A Gathering of the Tribes presents:
Poet-run collage workshop
June 6, 2010 from 2-4 pm

Open to everyone!!! FREE
Tribes Gallery
285 East Third Street, Manhattan
212.674.3778
info@tribes.org

Coinciding with a show of poets’ collages curated by Bruce Weber, Tribes Gallery is sponsoring a one-of-a-kind special free workshop!

Join poet and master collagist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright for an afternoon of fun and learning. Wright is part of a long-tradition of poets who do collages. He studied with Alice Notley at St. Mark’s Church. His collages have been included in magazines and art exhibitions.

Materials such as rubber stamps, markers, glue and images will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring extra images. At the end of the workshop you will be able to take your creations home.

Valery Oisteanu, the poet and noted art historian will join Wright. Wright and Oisteanu have curated several collage shows together and both write regularly for The Brooklyn Rail.
Other poet/ collagists in the show include Star Black, Lewis Warsh, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo and Bruce Weber.

So come and enjoy an afternoon of hands-on, ‘make your own & bring it home’ work of art with experienced and acclaimed writers and artists. Stick around after the workshop for the Opening Party for the Poets in Collage exhibition on view now at Tribes Gallery!

*The events were made possible by Salon 94, David Hammons and Capital One Bank *

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Tribes in April

March 19th, 2010 A Gathering Of The Tribes Posted in Book Party, Events, Exhibition Opening, Features, Gallery, Magazine, Music Performance, Poetry No Comments »

Thursday April 1st, 8pm

Calling all musicians, poets, artists, singers, songers, ranters, ravers, and lovers.

All performers welcome — open sign-up begins at 7:30pm

Grand opening night will be Thursday, April 1st, 2010 and will feature an extended set by folk musician Danny Schmidt, as well as open floor spots. Amazing refreshments — alcoholic, edible, and otherwise — will be available.

And Again! Every Other Thursday, 8pm

$5 door/ Performers FREE , Sign-up at 7:30pm

Completely Unplugged, Utterly Magical Music, Poetry, Story and Song & All Manner of Performance Artistry, since 1994

The Girl Eye Show, April 3 at 7 pm

Opening Reception Saturday, April 3 at 7 pm with music and performance.

Photos Relating Females

Lauren Goldberg, Anne Marie Hansen, Beth Hommel, Cassie Olander

Prints by young urban female photographers evidence a spontaneous and intimate female gaze enveloping homo-sociality. This is about both distance and closeness, intra-gender formal queerness and the receptive camera.

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Bowery Books Poets

Sunday April 11th, Poetry Readings from 5-7 pm in Tribes Reading Room

Poets Fay Chiang, Cynthia Kraman and Janet Hamill.


Book Party

April 17th, 6-8 pm

Shalom Naumen’s Selected Works

‘Unbearables’ Book Release Party and Reading

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Saturday, April 24th, 6-10 pm, $2 Admission

6:00-8:00pm Readings by Carl Watson, Sparrow, Foamola

8:00-10:00pm OPEN Mic with Guitaris t& Songwriter Chris Barrera

A Night of Near Miss(il)es: Jazz Performance

April 30th, 9pm

Will McEvoy-bass, Nathaniel Morgan-altosax, Cody Brown-drums, Owen Stewart Robinson- guitar.

Donations to the space gracefully demanded.

Play, drink, discuss and hang. Look forward to it!!

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