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Art will spread a new message with the project ‘I: Art Against AIDS’ – a series of discussions and exhibitions spread over a year that will promote awareness about AIDS and the implications of the disease in India. The project, a collaboration between the Religare Arts Initiative and UNAIDS – the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS – will open with a discussion Dec 1, which is World AIDS Day. Twenty contemporary artists, both established and new, will contribute their art works for the inaugural show followed by 980 more through out the year. The subject of the 1,000 art works will be HIV/AIDS. The works will be displayed at Religare’s Arts Gallery till Dec 11. The list of artists include Baba Anand, Ashok Bhowmik, Rajesh Patil, Promod Gaikwad, Daina Mohapatra and Jyoti Ranjan Jena. ‘We, at Religare’s Arts Initiative believe that it only takes one thought, one action and one person to make a change in life. With this project, we want to show that the medium of art can make a pow
On Tuesday, World AIDS Day, a 1,200-square-foot section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at George Mason University in Fairfax County. ad_icon More than 100 panels will be shown in a day-long commemoration as part of the school’s HIV Awareness Week. The event will include a speech by Hydeia Broadbent, an international AIDS activist who was born HIV-positive. Broadbent, 25, was abandoned at a Las Vegas hospital and was not expected to live past age 5. She became a “test baby” for HIV medications and now advocates for awareness, prevention and treatment. The George Mason event is one of many taking place in the Washington area. The Whitman-Walker Clinic will hold a candlelight vigil at 5:30 p.m. at Dupont Circle. The Metro D.C. LGBT Community Center will host several events, ending with an “Our Heroes” exhibit of 150 black-and-white photographs of people who have influenced the struggle against HIV/AIDS. And World AIDS Day at the World Bank will feature a panel of speakers,
