What was intended to be a gathering devoted to the work of Judith Malina turned into a celebratory shiva.
The occasion was the Tiny House Jamboree, which had been advertised as the largest-ever gathering devoted to houses that contain no more than four hundred square feet of living space.
They were there to dance the forró, a rustic country dance from northeastern Brazil that has fired the romantic imaginations of Parisians young and old, at a weekly gathering devoted to the dance.
Starting on Sunday, Washington will host 20,000 scientists, public health officials, activists and journalists at the biannual conference of the International AIDS Society, the world's biggest gathering devoted to the disease.
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Secretary of State John Kerry replaced President Obama at the opening of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on Monday, leaving China's president, Xi Jinping, as the dominant leader at a gathering devoted to achieving greater economic integration.
I looked back the other day at the talk I gave then, expecting to it to sound like prehistory, and to my astonishment it was something I could have read today, particularly to a gathering devoted to Image and Imagination.
The building's transformation began in 2007 with a discussion among some grain farmers, bakers, oven builders and others attending Skowhegan's inaugural "Kneading Conference", an annual gathering devoted to preserving grain-related traditions, uses and local jobs.
Elsewhere at the convention, which is expected to log a capacity crowd of about 125,000 by the time it ends on Sunday, the giant exhibition hall teemed with the sort of spectacles you would expect at a gathering devoted to fantasy, in all of its many forms.
Each year, as regular as clockwork, Switzerland plays host to Baselworld, the world's largest gathering devoted to luxury timepieces.
