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The Arts(Performing)@Tribes presents Nicca Ray… From Hollywood to New York A Bad Trip Producer                       Steve Cannon/A Gathering of the Tribes Director                         George Spencer Music                             Elizabeth Kresch at 9:30pm on Monday January 2, 2012 on TWC  56 RCN  83 FiOS 34 This is the first of a two-part documentary about multimedia artist Nicca Ray: actor, director, playwright, poet, fictionista and biographer. … Read more

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Carsten Höller: Experience

by Emma S. Hazen LAB REPORT: Carsten Höller: Experience ABSTRACT The New Museum is a laboratory and its visitors are the test subjects with the current show, Carsten Höller: Experience. In this article, I present my current research on the subject, including discussion with the exhibition’s curator, Massimiliano Gioni. The museum will be conducting research … Read more

The Arts(Performing)@Tribes A New Cable Show on Channel 56(TWC), Channel 83(RCN) and Channel 34(FIOS) at 9:30pm on Monday, October 10, 2011 A Documentary Part one of a two part series Michael Carter

A Salute To Volunteers by Aidan Gardiner

  Photo by Aidan Gardiner Steve Cannon enjoying a recent jazz performance at his arts space, A Gathering of the Tribes. An arts space that has always had its door open, now needs some help, in return, from the community By Aidan Gardiner On a recent hot Sunday, Steve Cannon sat on the right side … Read more

Wed@ 8:30 PoetryThinAir … George Spencer talking with Chavisa Woods. Direction and Video by Mitch Corber We are uploading more shows to YouTube so you can watch them at your convenience at http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=poetry+thin+air+spencer&aq=0.

The Arts(Performing)@Tribes

A Gathering of the Tribes is pleased to announce that it is the Producer of a new cable show: The Arts(Performing)@Tribes. The focus will be on multi-media artists who are working in the visual arts, performance, theater, dance and film/video. George Spencer is the Director. Initially the shows will be on Vimeo and in the … Read more

*John Farris* Interviewed by Norman Douglas, 10 October, 2010 I met John Farris in 1983, not long after moving to the Lower East Side. Tina Carstensen was a budding poet and a teacher at the nursery school on Avenue D, and she introduced at Vazac Bar on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue B. … Read more

George Spencer interviews, Mitch Corber films. Part 1: Part 2:

ROCKIN’ ROBIN: NOT JUST ANOTHER FOLK SINGER

WRITTEN BY PHAEDRA PINKSTON Singer/songwriter Robin Greenstein is keeping folk music alive in New York City. Originally a Native of Long Island NY, Greenstein was taught the guitar at age 11 and later the banjo at 17. Inspired by legendary musicians like Joni Mitchell and Simon and Garfunkel, the musician eventually enrolled in Suny Stony … Read more

 By Howard Pflanzer     I talked to Thom Corn, the curator of the exhibit, A Starter Kit for Collectors, at the Tribes Gallery on Sunday afternoon, May 16th, just before it was coming off the walls of the gallery.   Pflanzer: How did you decide on the artists for this exhibit?   Corn: I … Read more