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Center Events Commemorating World AIDS Day 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

A Screening of Last Address



Center Visual Arts and Visual AIDS are  proud to announce that Tate Modern, El Museo del Barrio, Museum of Arts and Design, Wexner Center for the Arts, Grey Art Gallery at NYU, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Fales Library & Special Collections, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and Andy Warhol Museum, among others, will mark 20 years of action and remembrance of Day With(out) Art by screening Last Address
Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joe Brainard, David Wojnarowicz, Hugh Steers, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, Klaus Nomi… the list of New York artists who died of AIDS over the last several decades is countless, and the loss immeasurable. Last Address, by filmmaker Ira Sachs, uses images of the exteriors of the houses, apartment buildings, and lofts where these and others were living at the time of their deaths to mark the disappearance of a generation. The film is a remembrance of that loss, as well as an evocation of the continued presence of these artists work in our lives and culture. Last Address running time is 8 min 36 sec and may be seen throughout the day.  To learn more about each of the artists honored in Last Address.  

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Wednesday, December 3, 2010

The State of the Equality Movement in the Age of the Internet



A converstion with Cleve Jones, Founder of the NAMES Project (The AIDS Quilt,)  Rick Jacobs, Founder and Chair of Courage Campaign and Patrick J. Murphy, U.S. Representative Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District to benefit TESTIMONY The National Organizing and Public Education Campaign for LGBT Equality. 

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Wednesday, December 4, 2010

Dance 208 Presents Life Ball



In conjunction with World AIDS Day, this dance will be a true celebration of the incredible people that are not only living with HIV/AIDS but are also thriving.  This year, Life Ball will feature bartending by the Pos Peds, a group of people living with HIV/AIDS.  Pos Peds’ goal is to eliminate stigma through their positive public example.  We hope to see you at Life Ball!

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