The phrase "alternative gatherings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to different types of meetings or events that serve as substitutes for traditional gatherings.
Example: "The community organized alternative gatherings to promote local artists and foster creativity."
Alternatives: "different meetings" or "substitute events".
Ayodi, along with a team of people from the NGO Franciscans International, has been attending the People's summit, the alternative gathering to the UN conference on sustainable development, taking place about an hour's drive away (on a good day).
Ms. Sarandon, who had just addressed the alternative gathering known as the shadow convention in the chaotic, humid gloom of Patriotic Hall, had come up here to the fourth-floor press room to be interviewed by Mr. Hoffman.
Unlike the majority of the world, who will be focusing on the inescapable sporting events in the custom built stadiums and venues, we will instead be looking to capture, map and make sense of the alternative gathering sites of London 2012: the live and celebration sites.
We have already seen the beginning splinters of market products for GPS-enabled cruising: Scruff is an alternative gathering space for those who find Grindr offputting.
Limiting the density of fast-food restaurants through regulation may have unanticipated negative outcomes related to older adult health and well-being if alternative gathering spots are not developed.
Meanwhile, WoW's enduring obsession with booty continues with a wealth of new Pandaren items and Monk glyphs – both of which can be cashed in at the auction house (including a new black market version) to noobs looking for an easy alternative to gathering.
Mr. Bamford is equally scorching on the subject of an alternative intelligence gathering operation (called the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group) set up at the Pentagon by Mr. Feith and Mr. Wurmser, arguing that it "was little more than a pro-war propaganda cell" designed "to produce evidence to support the pretexts for attacking Iraq".
Related to the current inadequacy of formal data/statistics, project activities should expand NGO and Ombudsman Office capacities for alternative data gathering and monitoring.
It was "Open Day" at the Seventh Annual International Film Financing Conference, a somewhat more intimate, boutique-size alternative to annual gatherings like the American Film Market in Los Angeles in February and the Independent Film Financing Market in New York in September.
The board game aspect feels like it could stand to be a bit more fleshed out, but this should provide a nice alternative for group gatherings once basic fights have lost some of their initial lustre.
