World AIDS Day 2020 Programming
Please join our community partners in recognizing World AIDS Day on December 1, 2020 with a robust selection of virtual programming.
VISUAL AIDS: DAY WITH(OUT) ART 2020: TRANSMISSIONS
DECEMBER 1-31, 2020
For Day With(out) Art 2020, Visual AIDS presents TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK) presented in n partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
THE CENTER: VISIONS OF HIV: HOW WE SEE HIV/AIDS IN THE MEDIA
DECEMBER 1, 2020, 6:30 PM ET
This is a special panel discussing how HIV and AIDS are represented in mainstream media. We’ll talk with community members Johnny Guaylupo (Housing Works Assistant Director), Michelle Lopez (Healthy Aging Specialist at GMHC) and writer & actor Charles Sanchez about their experiences with HIV and AIDS in the media and art, and how that impacts their work. This event is part of The Center’s Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art programming.
29th ANNUAL OUT OF THE DARKNESS
DECEMBER 1, 2020, 7-8 PM ET
Virtual Gathering for World AIDS Day
Guest speakers and performers include (in order of appearance):
Readers — Barbara Martinez, Chabeli Sanchez, Dana Rees, Joseph Sigman, Brent Nicholson Earle
The Reverend Vanessa Brown
NYC Flaggers — Kobi Bromley, Rene Diaz, Marcus K Garcia, Rob Menguan
Manhattan Borough President Gale S. Brewer
Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS
Singers — Aaron Casey, Kristyn Christman-McCarty, Mario Diaz-Moresco, Kathleen Grace Fiori, Christian Adam Jacobs, Sarah Misch and pianist, Gordon Schermer
Anela Layugan, Jon Rodriguez, Parade Stone
Mark S. King
Barbara Martinez
The Reverend Mark E. Erson
Co-sponsors (as of 11/17): American Run for the End of AIDS (AREA), Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), International AIDS Prevention Initiative (IAPI), Keith Haring Foundation, St. John’s Lutheran Church
Supporters (as of 11/17): ERC Consultants, Inc., HUP! Productions and Virtual Studio LLC, NYC AIDS Memorial, Rivers of Living Water UCC
The gathering will be live-streamed at facebook.com/OOTDWAD
