Each year, UNAIDS selects a theme for World AIDS Day. This year's
theme is: Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise. At GMHC, we are committed
to stopping the spread of HIV and providing compassionate care to
men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS. We also take this
opportunity to connect our work to what is happening globally. The
calendar that follows contains a variety of activities in observation
of World AIDS Day 2006, which this year comes as we commemorate the
25th anniversary of the AIDS pandemic and 25 years of GMHC. We
hope you will join us at any or all of these events.
Shh…HIV
Thursday, November 30, 11 am – 1 pm
This forum will provide participants with an opportunity to
explore the emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological
challenges and implications of HIV disclosure. Hosted by the
Women's Institute. Room 230
AIDS: Our Celebration of Life:
Remembering Those Who Have Passed
Thursday, November 30, 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Rejoicing in our lives today; Renewing our commitment to take
action—This annual, non-denominational/non-traditional service
is a time for remembering those who have passed from HIV/AIDS
and an opportunity to rejoice in those who are living with
HIV/AIDS. Refreshments will be served following the service.
Hosted by the Volunteer, Work & Wellness Center, Program
Services Advisory Group and the Center for Special Studies,
New York-Presbyterian, The University Hospitals of Columbia
and Cornell. Room 405/410
Buddy Program Dedication Event
Thursday, November 30, 6:30 pm – 8 pm
This event will celebrate and commemorate the work of the Buddy
Program. Refreshments will be served. Hosted by the Volunteer,
Work & Wellness Center. 119 West 24th Street Lobby.
Reopening of the Robert C. Woolley and
Jeffrey S. Childs Living Room
Friday, December 1, 4 pm – 5 pm
This event will celebrate the re-opening of the Living Room
with a generous donation of furnishings by Mitchell Gold and
Bob Williams. Hosted by the Volunteer, Work & Wellness Center.
12th floor Living Room
Free HIV Testing
Friday, December 1 & Saturday, December 2
The David Geffen Center for HIV Prevention and Health Education
will be offering free, confidential rapid HIV testing with
same-day results (some results may require further testing).
Testing will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis
and will be limited to capacity.
Registration: Friday: Begins at 1 pm, and testing begins
at 2 pm. Saturday: Begins at 10 am, and testing starts at
11 am. For more information, call (212) 367-1100. Register
at the Security desk in the 119 West 24 Street lobby.
Wrap & Rap with GMHC and Barnes & Noble
Saturday, December 2
Volunteers will launch the 13th year of the community outreach/fundraising
effort at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble store by wrapping gifts, encouraging
shoppers to take agency literature, and receiving donations that benefit
the agency's services and programs. Throughout December, volunteers will
be in this store on the weekends. 675 Sixth Avenue at 22nd Street
Movement Matters: 25 Years of HIV and AIDS
Tuesday, December 5, 10:30 am – 12 pm
Join us for a special panel discussion with people who represent
various perspectives and experiences of a quarter-century of the
pandemic: people living with AIDS, activists, clients, volunteers
and employees of AIDS service organizations and community-based
organizations, from the early days in the 1980s, through the
1990s, and into the 21st century. Panelists include: Buck Broker,
Activist; Shirlene Cooper, New York City AIDS Housing Network;
Priscilla Hall, Activist; Heide Jones, GMHC; and Joey Lopez,
Ali Forney Center; and Moderator: Robert Bank, Chief Operating
Officer, GMHC. Room 405
Special Benefit Screening of "3 Needles"
Tuesday, December 5, 7 pm
Starring Lucy Liu, Chloë Sevigny, Stockard Channing, Olympia
Dukakis, Sandra Oh, Shawn Ashmore, and directed by Thom Fitzgerald.
"3 Needles" presents a portrait of people all over the world who
struggle to sustain their spirits in the face of the deadly AIDS
crisis. This luminous film visits rural China, a plantation in
South Africa, and Montreal's porn film industry, to tell three
separate yet universal stories from the pandemic. In collaboration
with Emotion Pictures. Benefit tickets are $25.
All tickets must be purchased in advance. For more information
or to purchase tickets by phone, please call (212) 367-1472. To purchase tickets online,
please click here.
City Cinemas Village East, 181 Second Avenue (at 12th Street), NYC
Women's Institute Second Anniversary
Thursday, December 7, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
A celebration of the year's achievements and the "rolling out"
of future endeavors. Special performance by renowned comedienne,
Judy Gold. This event is by invitation only. For more information,
please call (212) 367-1060.
Unless otherwise specified, the events will be held at GMHC,
The Tisch Building, 119 West 24th Street (between 6th and 7th
Avenues). For more information, please call (212) 367-1016, send
an e-mail at krishnas@gmhc.org.
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