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Esta exposición es un reportaje fotográfico, en blanco y negro, de la escena y los acontecimientos que rodearon la conferencia RIO+20 de Rio de Janeiro, organizada por las Naciones Unidas el pasado mes de junio, contados por Conceição Praun.

La exposición coincide con los continuos esfuerzos de Praun para coordinar  la Conferencia de Partidos (COP), que se celebra anualmente y a la cual está vinculada desde el año 2009.

Conceição Praun,  nació en Olinda, Pernambuco, al noreste de Brasil.

Praun se interesó en los complejos procesos existentes tras la “cámara obscura” (laboratorio) y aprendió los principios de este mecanismo óptico mientras residía en Londres. Es allí donde tuvo su primera exposición. Cuando vivía en París, conoció a Georges Fèvre (1930-2007), un maestro del revelado que había aprendido la técnica con el famoso Henri Cartier-Bresson. De esta relación surge el interés de Praun por “el instante decisivo” (‘l’instant décisif’), la teoría de Bresson.

Fèvre que se convirtió en el mentor de Praun e influyó mucho en su carrera, le hizo prometer que se centraría en los contrastes metafísicos del blanco y  el negro.

Sus fotografías se basan en las características de la espontaneidad de la composición y en las atmósferas que van de lo conciso a lo borroso.

Praun viaja alrededor del mundo buscando subrayar las condiciones sociales y las circunstancias del entorno para concienciar sobre las conductas de la sociedad.

 

“Cuidar del entorno es un deber que trasciende los límites culturales, socio-económicos y de todo tipo” – Conceição

 

Lugar: A Gathering of the Tribes
285 E. 3rd Street, 2nd Fl. (entre las Avenidas C and D) New York, NY 10009

Inauguración: Domingo, 2 de septiembre, 2012 de 6 a 9 pm

Clausura:  Domingo 30 de septiembre, 2012.   De 6 a 9pm

{Música en vivo y aperitivos}

RSVP: cpraun@hotmail.com

Fechas de exposición: Del domingo 2 de septiembre al domingo 30 de septiembre, 2012

Horario de la galería: de 1 a 6pm, todos los días.

Groove, Bang, and Jive Around – eBook coming soon!

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Art by Richard Merkin, 1993

Steve Cannon’s seminal underground hit is coming to Amazon, iBooks, Google Books, and anywhere else you request, Tuesday, August 28th!

We’re also announcing a CALL FOR ENTRIES of art inspired by this filthy novel, set in 60s New Orleans and the land of Oo-bla-dee, full of jazz, voodoo, sex and satire, and starring Annette, a gorgeous, sex-crazed teenage girl.  Tribes will host the Groove, Bang, and Jive Around show August 5-30.  To enter, email janet@bruesselbach.com before July 27 with a jpg, your name, the title, date, and price, or just email to tell her you’re in, and drop off the pieces and labels with that info before August 2nd.

We’ll be hosting a release party Tuesday, August 28th, 6-9 pm.  Bring your e-reader or phone loaded with the book and be ready to read out loud. If you can help set up direct sales of the book, would like to perform at the release party, or can help with the art show, email gatheringofthetribes@gmail.com

MIND-ROAMING JOURNEYS: Surreal Reading Performances with Photo-Projections

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MIND-ROAMING JOURNEYS: Surreal Reading Performances with Photo-Projections

CONTEMPORARY NY SURREALIST ARTIST/WRITERS READ FROM THEIR TEXT-WORKS
AS THEIR ART-WORKS ARE PROJECTED LARGE-SCREEN
(SOMETIMES ACCOMPANIED BY ACTIONS, MUSIC, LIGHTS AND SOUND).

SUNDAY, JULY 22nd: 5-7 p.m

Sunday Summer Reading Series
hosts: Alyssa Devine and Natalie N. Caro
event curator: Barbara Rosenthal

some contributors: Barbara Rosenthal, Willow Gray, Peter Grzybowski, Plankhead, Dean Ebben, Rafael Sánchez….more TBA

the theme: ‘inwardly focussed psychologically-motivated images in words and pictures.’

curatorial statement: “Each performer will take the audience on a short voyage through their souls and psyches.”

where: Tribes Gallery, 285 e. 3rd st, 2fl
see you then!

$5 donation
cheap cash bar

 

 

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Giant fishes made with plastic bottles, backdropped by a silhouette of the Sugarloaf Mountain, Botafogo Beach, Rio+20. Rio de Janeiro.

The exhibition is a photo reportage in Black & White outside the historical RIO+20 conference, in Rio de Janeiro organized by the United Nations this past June, and of the numerous side events that complimented that event as reported by Conceição Praun.

This exhibition co-insides with Ms. Praun continuous efforts to coordinate with the annual Conferences of the Parties (COP), since Ms. Praun’s involvement beginning in 2009.

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Conceição Praun, was born in Olinda, Pernambuco in the north east of Brazil.

Ms. Praun developed an interest in the complex processes behind the “camera obscura,” (Dark Room) and learned the principles of this optical device while living in London. There, she had her first showcase followed by others.

Ms. Praun then moved to Paris where she met George Fèvre (1930-2007), the master of photo development and who was an apprentice to Henri Cartier-Bresson, an established photographer. This relationship encouraged Ms Praun’s deep appreciation on his theory of ‘l’instant décisif’.

Fèvre became Ms. Praun’s mentor and exercised a great influence on her career, making her promise that she would focus into the metaphysical contrasts of black and white.

Her photographs are based on the characteristic of spontaneity over prose and composition, in between clear and hazy atmospheres.

Praun travels the world seeking to highlight the conditions of social and environmental circumstances in order to create awareness on society’s behaviours.

“Take care of our environment — it’s a duty which transcends cultural, socioeconomic and all kind of boundaries.” – Conceição

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Place: A Gathering of the Tribes

285 E. 3rd Street, 2nd Fl. (between Avenues C and D) New York, NY 10009

Opening Reception: Sunday, September 2, 2012 6pm to 9pm                                                                              

Closing Reception:  Sunday, September 30, 2012 6pm to 9pm

{Live Music and Snacks}

RSVP: cpraun@hotmail.com

 

Exhibition: Sunday, September 2, through Sunday, September 30, 2012

Gallery Hours: 1pm to 6pm Daily

 

by Conceição Praun

www.cpraun.net

Tribes Summer Reading Series

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Tribes Summer Reading Series

Sunday July 8, 2012

It’s our first reading series, come listen to these emerging writers!

The Secret’s out…here’s the line up:

Readers:

Abigail Welhouse is an MFA candidate at the City College of New York, focusing on poetry and literary translation. Her writing has appeared in such places as Frostwriting and the Fox Cry Review. She has previously read at the CCNY MFA Reading Series and the Earshot Reading Series. If you know anyone who can help her fulfill her dream of naming nail polish colors professionally, please tell her after the reading.

Cathy Taylor states she has no credentials, just her work. Her writing is tightly organized but she wants for it not to feel that way. She wants the listener/reader to feel free to imagine a painting, a thought, a song or even a wrong note.

Robert Balun has done his best to travel and become a well-rounded person. He writes with the perspective of the post-9/11 student-loan generation, and tries to do as much as possible. Robert has been a reader for the Earshot NYC reading series, and his writing has appeared in the journals O Sweet Flowery Roses and Promethean, and the zine Sleeping in a Torn Quilt / Dreaming of Gold. Recently, he was selected as the winner of Empirical Magazine’s 2012 Poetry Contest. Robert lives in Brooklyn while he pursues his MFA at City College.

Crystal Vagnier is a CCNY alum and an award-winning playwright. Attempting to live up to the honor of “The Abraham A. Bernstein Class of 1930 Award: For a Graduating Senior Who Demonstrates Promise in a Creative Field” (what a title) Vagnier has since scoured various parts of the world in search of stories. After multiple road trips across America, a two month stay in the South Pacific, and a year of living in and touring the Middle East and Eastern Europe, she has 177 countries and 13 American states left to explore.

Featured Reader:

Kate Levin is about to make her publishing debut in the 2012 edition of the literary review The New Guard with an excerpt from her unpublished novel Punk Prophet. She is a member of the Buffalo Poets who read around the city and regularly here at tribes every third Friday of the month. She is also adept at moving paperclips with her mind. She’s hoping to move on to people soon.

BRAIN MELT

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Closing extended to July 25!! Come by and check it out.

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 16th, 8-11pm

A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery
285 East Third St, 2nd Floor (Between Ave C&D)
New York, NY\ 10009
(212) 674-3778

info@tribes.org / gatheringofthetribes@gmail.com

June 16 – July 25, 2012

Come to Tribes Gallery for a group show featuring a hefty dose of monsters, other worlds, cat psychics, apocalyptic visions of the future, alternate dimensions, new alphabets, circle jerks, unexpected performances, a fat batman, ghosts and so much more.

This show includes a lineup of artists hailing from New York, Brooklyn & Oakland, CA.
Each artist provides us with a rare glimpse into the secret worlds within their heads.
Witness the spectacle of worlds colliding, expect the unexpected, and come get your brain melted.

Participating Artists:

WILLIAM HATCH CROSBY / JOHNNY MATLOCK / OLIVIA PEEBLES /
ZARA MESSANO / SAM ZIMMAN / IAN HARKEY
TED QUINLAN / DYLAN CHITTENDEN / JEANINE OLESON
DORON MAX HAGAY / JANE CLAIRE QUIGLEY / GIL GENTILE
HANNAH DEUTSCH / MOIRA CONNELLY/ & MORE

$5 Donation to Tribes Recommended

Booze for $ale

Curated by Hannah Deutsch
(foreversweetleaf@gmail.com)

93 ‘Til INFINITY

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Clayton Patterson Show

 

A Gathering of the Tribes Presents:
93 ‘Til INFINITY

Opening Saturday May 5th

CINCO DE MAYO
9-11PM

285 East Third Street Between C&D

-CLAYTON PATTERSON-
-MINT&SERF-TRIPPP P GANG-

Experience MIRF and the Peter Pan Posse transform legendary Lower East Side gallery, Tribes, into a nineties time capsule. The space will be bombed floor to ceiling by some of New York’s most loved (or hated) graffiti artists. Renowned LES documenter, Clayton Patterson, will display photos from the early nineties as life-sized images mounted on the graffitied walls.
Come celebrate the history of the Lower East Side we love and miss with the legends who saw it all, in a gallery that helped make it what it was and continues breathing life into what it is.
FREE BOOZE. FREE PIZZA.
TRIPPPS UP. NEVER DOWN.
FULL MOON.

L.E.S.

Closing:  Thursday May 31st

(Screening of Clayton Patterson’s documentary CAPTURED)

9-11PM.

Curated By
Jessie Mac
For inquiries contact the curator at
jessiemac068@gmail.com

Tribes Gallery
Walk-in Hours 12-5, Tuesday-Friday.
Or By Appointment

908 603 7517

My Champagne Waltz CD Release Party

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SUNDAY, MAY 20: 5-7 P.M.

CELEBRATE!

‘MY CHAMPAGNE WALTZ’—the brand-new poetry/jazz CD

from STEPHANIE STONE (piano/vocals) & EVE PACKER (poetry)

featuring: Daniel Carter & Noah Howard

This is a belated birthday 91st birthday and first CD release party for Stephanie!

Performers:

host: DANNY SHOT

STEPHANIE STONE: piano/vocals

‘One of the TRUE ORIGINAL New Yorkers’—TimeOut

EVE PACKER: poetry

‘fun, thrilling, provocative, wit sharp as stiletto heels. Seeing her perform

is even better.”—Stephen Wolf, the Villager

 

DANIEL CARTER: reeds—iconic avant wind/reeds mult-instrumentalist,

has performed w/other dimensions in music, cecil taylor, ya lo tengo & more…

NY he calls our ‘cosmic cauldron.’

 

DAN STEIN: bass

other guests: TBA

 

“the joy of this cd …shows us you can never keep a good New York woman

down.”—steve dalachinsky

 

            FREE!

        Refreshments!

TRIBES GALLERY

285 E. 3rd St., 2 fl (betw. c & d)

(F to 2nd ave or 14th st eastbound bus to e. 4th)

212-674-3778

Molly Ruth April 8th at 5pm

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MOLLY RUTH & FRIENDS

On April 8th, 2012, Molly Ruth will be performing songs from her forthcoming debut LP, Birth Against the Nation. She sings about animals, incest, fear, glory, murder, god, honor, blasphemy, tragedy, fervor, frenzy, longing, dreams, deserts, pain, devotion, crossroads, blood, birds, minds, time, and war. She will be performing alone with an acoustic guitar.
Jackson Lynch, after having wintered in northern Alberta with the Count Abyrnethy of Flatbush, has now descended from the galleries of outrageous glamour to bestow us with his glowing blues.
Lorraine Leckie is a no-nonsense singer/songwriter whose music combines honest, heartfelt poetry with beautiful, simple melodies, all performed with an attitude that’s hard as nails and barely concealing of an aching vulnerability just below the surface. A native of Whitby, Ontario, Canada, Lorraine grew up surrounded by the music of Neil Young and Hank Williams, both of whom she claims as strong influences. She began writing poetry at a young age and was eventually drawn to make music when more and more people suggested she turn her poems into songs.
For more information, contact:

Molly Ruth

Beau Alessi presents a MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA

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Beau Alessi presents a MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA

Wednesday, April 11th
8:00 PM

at A Gathering of the Tribes

285 East 3rd Street, Second Floor
FREE // $5 suggested donation

Come out Wednesday night for this showcase of LOCAL and/or IMPORTED
MUSICIANS who will, collectively, showcase a variety of NEW AND
EXCITING STYLES from all corners of the ROCK-AND-ROLL sphere:

BEAU ALESSI will be displaying his “aggressive acoustic guitar”
stylings, in the service of his various story-songs about zombies and
vampires and other stuff that is interesting to 8-year-olds. There
will also be some PERFORMANCE/VISUAL ART ELEMENTS, possibly in the
form of an OUTRAGEOUS COSTUME.

KEN MINAMI is a true rockandroll journeyman from Japan who has just
finished a massive tour of the US with his band, KEN SOUTH ROCK. Ken
heads back to Japan a few nights after this show, so don’t miss this
opportunity to see this rare acoustic performance. Ken’s music creates
one of the most potent mixtures of ENERGY, JOY, and EXPLOSIVE ROCK AND
ROLL POWER that you will experience on this continent or any other.

RAYVON BROWNE is the musical vessel for the weird and wonderful
folk(ish) songs of MORGAN HERINGER and CAL FOLGER DAY. These two play
a variety of ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS and OLD TIMEY COVER SONGS,
augmented by a wide selection of under-respected instruments
(mandolin, ukelele, melodica, vibraslap) and BIZARRE, PRECARIOUSLY
HIGH-PITCHED, BEAUTIFUL HARMONY SINGING.

ST. LENNOX is just your average singer-songwriter, except he uses an
IPHONE instead of an ACOUSTIC GUITAR. And he is also IMMENSELY MORE
TALENTED than your average singer-songwriter. He’s managed to make
electronic music that isn’t cold or alienating; instead his songs
crackle and pop with the exciting kinetics that recall the VERY
ESSENCE OF HUMANITY ITSELF. With perfect pitch.

Two Poets, Four Languages, April 29

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

TWO POETS, FOUR LANGUAGES: On April 29, 2012, at 4:30pm A Gathering of the Tribes hosts a reading by two poets who weave multiple languages through and around their poetry, exploring and testing the boundaries of culture, language, and meaning.

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John Gosslee will read from his collection 12 (Gival Press, 2011), which approaches the twelve signs of the zodiac through the time-tested form of the sonnet. Each sonnet in 12 is presented in English, French, and Spanish, presenting a uniquely polyglot exploration of a subject that has compelled many cultures and eras. John will also bring some of his newest work to perform.

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Turkish-American poet and artist Kamal Ayyildiz looks across cultures through the pairing of poetry with photography. He will open the evening with poetry from his book The Cistern (2007, Citlembik), along with other new works.

 

A GATHERING OF THE TRIBES

285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor (between Ave C & D) * Phone: 212-674-3778

Fax: 212-674-5576 * Email: info@tribes.org