In 1968, Mr. Escalona helped found the Festival de la Leyanda Vallenata in Valledupar, Colombia, which became the most important gathering for vallenato music.
It has been an especially important gathering for South Africa, the newest members of the club, which hosted such a summit for the first time.
The Annual Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering SAMPEeventent is one of the world's most important gatherings for those involved in aerospace composites.
Let me begin by expressing my deep appreciation to the Government of the People's Republic of China, not only for their warm hospitality in hosting this important gathering, but for its committed partnership with UNICEF as we work together to build a better future for every child.
Based on their comments, and on e-mails received over the following days, it occurred to Beatts that, to his customers, something like a membership might seem not only like an opportunity to help Borderlands but also like a genuine business transaction: they would be paying for the continued existence of what, to them, was an important gathering place for science-fiction readers.
His father and uncle ran the 8th Street Bookshop, an important gathering place for the Beats and other downtown literary spirits; it was in his uncle's apartment, above the store, that Dylan first met Allen Ginsberg.
After the German army was repulsed from Moscow's suburbs during World War II, the hotel became an important gathering place for politicians and diplomats, includng Stalin himself and Churchill.
It is now once again actively involved in research and an important gathering place for scientists.
During Beebe's later years, Simla was an important gathering point for researchers in many other areas of biology.
All of these parks are important gathering places for residents and allow what was once a dry plain to be lush, active, and green.
"The Forum has been an important gathering place for Angelenos and a respite from the sterility of corporate luxury-box venues," Rage Against the Machine/the Nightwatchman's Tom Morello told The Times in 2010, when Madison Square Garden officials first announced their interest in the building.
