SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS
December 1, 2004
UCLA WORLD AIDS DAY TEACH-IN
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9 – 10:50 a.m. -- Creating an AIDS Media Campaign
Royce Hall 314
Firdaus Kharas, co-creator and co-producer, The Three Amigos; Mariana
Amatullo, co-founder and co-director, designmatters; Moderated by Amy
Shimshon-Santo, Department of World Arts and Cultures
Public service announcements can be as witty as The Three Amigos, with
their boisterous trio of animated condoms, or as incisive as those created
by students of designmatters in their ongoing collaboration with the
United Nations. Come hear how it’s done and dream up a PSA of
your own.
10 a.m.-12 noon -- AIDS and the Moving Image
OID Instructional Media Lab, Powell Library, Room 270
Seating is limited
Sponsored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the OID Instructional
Media Library
On World AIDS Day, regular operations of the Instructional Media Lab
will be suspended for two hours in order to present an eclectic selection
of AIDS-themed news and public affairs programs, TV dramatizations,
and instructional media. Over 30 individual viewing stations will continuously
display a mix of programming from the past 20 years in the hope of raising
AIDS-awareness and initiating further discussion.
A sample of the types of programming to be featured:
Oprah Winfrey (1989) - Discussion of discrimination against
people with AIDS.
Absolutely Positive (1991) - Narrator/filmmaker Peter Adair
asks 11 people - women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of
life - to share their stories regarding HIV.
And the Band Played On (1993) - Made-for-cable movie based on
journalist Randy Shilts’ bestseller about the beginnings of the
AIDS crisis.
Non, je ne regrette rien (No Regret) (1990)
Filmmaker Marlon Riggs’ look at five seropositive black gay men
and their individual confrontations with AIDS.
Odo Ya! Life with AIDS (1997) - A look at how the Brazilian
religion Candomble has provided a source of strength and power for a
group of AIDS sufferers.
Shouting Silent (2002) - An adult orphan who lost her mother
to HIV/AIDS returns home to document other young women who have lost
their mothers to the AIDS pandemic in Africa.
12 noon-12:50 pm “I Know—and Knowledge is Power”
Sponsored by UCLA AIDS Institute
Bruin Plaza
Free
Featuring Grizzly Peak and actress Jasmine Guy
Come to central campus for the formal launch of the year-long “I
Know—And Knowledge is Power” campaign, which encourages
members of the UCLA and wider community to find out their HIV status.
A non-invasive, highly accurate, rapid test, using saliva to determine
if an individual has been exposed to the virus, will be administered.
Members of the AIDS Institute’s executive office and participating
celebrities will be tested on camera at this media event, which will
be centered on a mobile rapid-testing van. Passersby will be invited
to join them. (Status results will be not be disclosed.) People who
participate will receive a red rubber wristband emblazoned with the
motto “I Know.” The Institute’s six undergraduate
AIDS ambassadors will hand out information on the “I Know”
campaign to get out the message that knowing one’s HIV status
gives a person power over the virus—the power to control its spread
within infected individuals and the power to control its spread within
the community.
1 p.m. -- MAKE ART/STOP AIDS Performance Showcase
Freud Playhouse
Sponsored by the School of the Arts and Architecture and the Department
of World Arts and Cultures
Peter Carpenter, choreographer, U.S.
Sunil Gupta, photographer, India and U.K.
Jessica Holter, writer, Punany Poets, U.S.
Ntare Mwine, actor and playwright, Uganda and U.S.
David Roussève, choreographer, U.S.
Moderated by David Gere, UCLA Dept. of World Arts and Cultures.
From dance to spoken word, and from solo performance art to stunning
photography, these five international artists demonstrate what art can
accomplish at a time of worldwide cataclysm. In the process, they also
define a new approach to public health, galvanized and strengthened
through partnerships with the arts.
3 – 4:50 p.m. -- AIDS Treatment: Reaching the People?
Freud Playhouse
Sponsored by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières
Dr. Gildon Beall
Dr. Rick Hamner
Dr. Deborah Milligan
Moderated by Roger Bohman, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental
Biology
This hour-long film (2003) follows the lives of people living with
HIV/AIDS in three very different settings: Guatemala, Thailand, and
Malawi. You meet patients and their families as they struggle with the
day-to-day challenges of accessing and adhering to antiretroviral treatment,
confronting stigma, and maintaining dignity. The film screening is followed
by a Q&A with doctors who have worked in the affected countries.
5 – 7:30 p.m. -- Sex Talk: Censorship of LGBT Sexuality in
HIV Prevention Messages
Freud Playhouse
Sponsored by UCLA AIDS Institute and The Charles R. Williams Project
on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law
Whether you are a lawyer or are simply interested in AIDS and international
affairs, join in this evening symposium on the legal impediments to
the dissemination of maximally effective AIDS education and prevention
efforts. Edwin Bayrd, Executive Director of UCLA AIDS Institute, and
Brad Sears of the Williams Project lead the discussion.
Panel 1: Community Messages
Dawn Averitt, Founder, The Well Project
Monica Foster, Executive Director, Women at Risk
Charles Henry, Director, Los Angeles County Office of AIDS Programs and Policy
Gia Lee, Professor, UCLA School of Law
Darlene Weide, Former Executive Director, Stop AIDS Project
moderated by Edwin Bayrd, Executive Director, UCLA AIDS Institute
Panel 2: Public Education
Stuart Biegel, Professor, UCLA School of Law
Rocio L. Cordoba, Attorney
Firdaus Kharas, Producer, The Three Amigos public service announcements
Clea Litewka, HIV Prevention Peer Educator, PEP/LA
moderated by Brad Sears, Executive Director, The Williams Project
Registration for 2.25 units of CLE credit will cost $60. The UCLA School
of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
7:30 a.m.-11:00p.m. – Display of AIDS POSTERS
Libraries throughout UCLA campus
Sponsored by the UCLA Library
For further information, call (310) 825-6925.
In observance of World AIDS Day, the UCLA Library will present a selection
from a recently acquired collection of AIDS posters from around the
world. The posters will be on view in various campus libraries including
the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, the College Library, and the
Charles E. Young Research Library. Among the countries represented are
Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, France, Germany, India,
Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Switzerland,
Uganda and the United Kingdom.
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WORLD AIDS DAY
Performances, Screenings, Exhibitions, Discussions
to Commemorate
World AIDS Day at UCLA on Dec. 1
Procession at noon will launch ‘I Know — And Knowledge
Is Power’ campaign
As part of UCLA Year of the Arts, the university is observing World
AIDS Day on Dec. 1 with a series of events throughout campus. Spearheaded
by a campus consortium organized by David Gere, an associate professor
in the department of world arts and cultures, and Edwin Bayrd, executive
director of UCLA AIDS Institute, events include an exhibition of international
AIDS posters; presentation of AIDS-themed news and public affairs programs,
films, and instructional media; theater and choreographic performances;
and public panels of national AIDS leaders.
Campus parking is $7 and is available in Lot 4 for Royce Hall and the
Powell Library (enter the campus at Sunset Boulevard and Westwood Plaza)
and in Lot 3 for the Freud Playhouse (enter the campus at Hilgard Avenue
and Wyton Drive). The Kinross Building is located at 11000 Kinross Ave.,
west of Gayley, in Westwood Village. Paid parking is available in adjacent
structure 32.
Highlighting the day will be the launch of “I Know — And
Knowledge Is Power,” a yearlong campaign to encourage people to
learn their HIV status. A campuswide procession at noon will culminate
at Bruin Plaza with special guests and live entertainment on the Bruin
stage. People dressed in black and wearing red ribbons will be converging
on Bruin Plaza from the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden on north
campus (where artwork will be draped in black), the Medical Center on
south campus and the student residency halls on west campus. (See listing
for 12 noon for further details.)
Marchers will be wearing signs bearing statistics such as: In the United
States as of 2002, new AIDS diagnoses indicated that 30 percent are
attributable to heterosexual acts and 40 percent to sex between men;
more than two-thirds (68 percent) of estimated new AIDS diagnoses among
women were due to heterosexual contact and 29 percent to injection drug
use; and in 2001 teen girls represented more than half (56 percent)
of reported HIV cases among those aged 13–19. Worldwide, the major
route of HIV transmission is heterosexual sex; as of 2002 an estimated
15 million living children had lost one or both parents to AIDS; and
only 7 percent of people with HIV in need of antiretroviral therapy
have access to prevention and treatment programs.
Throughout the day, the department of world arts and cultures and UCLA
AIDS Institute, in partnership with the UCLA Library, UCLA Film and
Television Archive, OID Instructional Media Library and Media Lab, UCLA
International Institute, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans
Frontières, and Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law and
Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law, will lead campus and community
participants in considering the ways in which people can help stop AIDS
around the world. Every two hours, a new AIDS awareness perspective
will be featured, along with powerful messages from outspoken artists
no longer willing to stand silent in the shadow of government indifference
and social disapproval.
Two days later, on Dec. 3, artists, activists and scholars will gather
for a continuation of the MAKE ART/STOP AIDS initiative (see listing
at the end of this announcement).
David Gere was the recipient of a $50,000 two-year Global Impact
Research grant from the UCLA International Institute to study the uses
of the arts in educating people about AIDS and to run pilot projects
on AIDS awareness through art in South Africa, Suriname and India. Earlier
this year, he spent six months in India on a Fulbright scholarship contacting
Indian artists and preparing for the Kolkata workshop that took place
there in July. The project received widespread coverage in the Indian
press.
Edwin Bayrd has served as the executive director of UCLA AIDS
Institute since 2002. In his two years at UCLA, he has organized clinical
symposia on behalf of the CARE Center and launched two new lay-language
publications to introduce the work of the UCLA AIDS Institute to prospective
colleagues, collaborators and donors.
Support for UCLA World Aids Day has been provided by UCLA School of
the Arts and Architecture, UCLA AIDS Institute, the University of California
Humanities Research Institute, UCLA International Institute, and UCLA
Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia.
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