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Giorno Poetry Systems Institute Inc

LXCL:Food and drink at Gem Home (181 Mott St) One seat for the live performances at 222 Bowery One pre-release vinyl copy of our new GPS Record, signed by Juliana HuxtableFree admission to all GPS events for the next 12 months.All but $222 of your purchase is tax-deductible

222 BOWERY TICKET

LXCL:Food and drink at Gem Home (181 Mott St) One seat for the live performances at 222 Bowery.All but $222 of your purchase is tax-deductible

INDIVIDUAL TICKET

LXCL:If you can't attend yourself, you can still support this event by buying a ticket for someone else. This will allow GPS to invite an artist, a poet, or a musician to join the event.Food and drink for someone else One seat for someone else for the live performances at 222 Bowery.All but $222 of your purchase is tax-deductible

A TICKET FOR SOMEONE ELSE

In order to raise funds for Giorno Poetry Systems, John Giorno would produce benefit concerts. Between 1975 and 1994, benefits included performances by Philip Glass, Joan Jonas, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Debbie Harry, Sonic Youth, and John Waters, among many others. This year&rsquo;s benefit is cohosted by&nbsp;Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman.&nbsp;After food and drinks at a nearby restaurant, they join some very special guests to perform at 222 Bowery, culminating in performances of their own. Other performers and readers include Lydia Lunch,&nbsp;Lee Ranaldo &amp; Leila Bordreuil,&nbsp;Matt Sweeney &amp; JR Reynolds,&nbsp;Ellen Fisher,&nbsp;Tongo Eisen-Martin,&nbsp;JD Samson,&nbsp;Pema Dragpa What&rsquo;s special here is seeing live performances by cultural icons in the intimate context of&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://giornopoetrysystems.org/222-bowery/the-building" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">a historic NYC loft.</a> There are <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/first-gps-benefit" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">only 75 seats available</a>. Reserve yours now!All ticket sales benefit GPS&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://giornopoetrysystems.org/grants/treat-a-stranger" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Treat a Stranger Grants</a>,&rdquo; where a jury of artists, poets, and musicians give unrestricted grants to other artists, poets, and musicians to support housing, health, immigration, legal costs, childcare, and other basic needs. Gathering places for artists and the avant-garde, so central to the history of downtown New York, are becoming increasingly rare. Artists first moved into 222 Bowery in 1958; Giorno founded GPS in 1965; Burroughs moved into the Bunker in 1974; and GPS made it into a public venue in 2023. We need your help to keep this all going.

In order to raise funds for Giorno Poetry Systems, John Giorno would produce benefit concerts. Between 1975 and 1994, benefits included performances by Philip Glass, Joan Jonas, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Debbie Harry, Sonic Youth, and John Waters, among many others. This year’s benefit is cohosted by Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman. After food and drinks at a nearby restaurant, they join some very special guests to perform at 222 Bowery, culminating in performances of their own. Other performers and readers include Lydia Lunch, Lee Ranaldo &amp; Leila Bordreuil, Matt Sweeney &amp; JR Reynolds, Ellen Fisher, Tongo Eisen-Martin, JD Samson, Pema Dragpa What’s special here is seeing live performances by cultural icons in the intimate context of <a href="https://giornopoetrysystems.org/222-bowery/the-building" target="_blank">a historic NYC loft.</a> There are <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/first-gps-benefit" target="_blank">only 75 seats available</a>. Reserve yours now!All ticket sales benefit GPS’s “<a href="https://giornopoetrysystems.org/grants/treat-a-stranger" target="_blank">Treat a Stranger Grants</a>,” where a jury of artists, poets, and musicians give unrestricted grants to other artists, poets, and musicians to support housing, health, immigration, legal costs, childcare, and other basic needs. Gathering places for artists and the avant-garde, so central to the history of downtown New York, are becoming increasingly rare. Artists first moved into 222 Bowery in 1958; Giorno founded GPS in 1965; Burroughs moved into the Bunker in 1974; and GPS made it into a public venue in 2023. We need your help to keep this all going.

Giorno Poetry Systems Institute Inc

A Benefit for Giorno Poetry Systems

222 Bowery

222 BOWERY TICKET

$2,222

INDIVIDUAL TICKET

$1,000

A TICKET FOR SOMEONE ELSE

$1,000

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