POW-WOW...

A pow-wow (also powwow or pow wow) is a gathering of North America's Native people. The word derives from the Narragansett word powwaw, meaning "spiritual leader".

The Narragansett are and Algonquian Native American Tribe from Rothe Island.

From next May 31st until  June 1 will be held  the new Native American Pow-Wow & Festival in New york, by Native American Artists from Across the Americas, at the Aviator Sports Complex 3159 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11234. 

It is a good oportunity to see the modern pow-wow, which is a specific type of event where both Native American/First Nations and non-Native American/First Nations people meet to dance, sing, socialize, and honor Native American/First Nations culture. There is generally a dancing competition, often with significant prize money awarded.  

Pow-wows vary in length from one day session of five to six hours to three days. Major pow-wow or pow-wows called for a special occasion can be up to one week long.

The term also has been used to describe any gathering of Native Americans of any tribe, and as such is occasionally heard in older Western movies. The word has also been used to refer to a meeting, especially a meeting of powerful people such as officers in the military. However, such use can also be viewed as disrespectful to Native culture.

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THE MET GALA RED CARPET...

The last May 6 at 7pm sharp, started the most glamorous event that take place in New York City, The Met Gala Red Carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

With the subject 'PUNK: Chaos to Couture', The Met's spring 2013 Costume exhibition, started last May 9 and  will be through  August 14. 

Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition show the punk's impact on high fashion from the movement's birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today, including  original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk's visual symbols, focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of "do-it-yourself" and the couture concept of "made-to-measure," the seven galleries are organized around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style.

The themes included New York and London, and tell us the punk's origin story as a tale of two cities, following by Clothes for Heroes and four manifestations of the D.I.Y.  (do -it-yourself) aesthetic—Hardware, Bricolage, Graffiti and Agitprop, and Destroy.

The clothes are animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.

It is a beautiful fashion exhibition to see if you are here or you coming to New York this season.

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