No-Art Day for HIV Awareness

TURNING RED

AFRICA---December 1st is World AIDS Day. Be the first to learn what (RED) has in store this year: join us and help deliver an AIDS FREE GENERATION by 2015. [link]

TIMES COLONIST
By Amy Smart

Warren Bailey, executive assistant with Vancouver Island
Persons Living with HIV-AIDS Society, at the Sukhi Lalli Care Clinic lobby.

CANADA---A Day Without Art coincides with World AIDS Day and is held in cities around the world. "It's another visual symbol to say that HIV is still with us," said Michael Yoder, who spearheaded the event as executive assistant at the Victoria AIDS Resource and Community Service Society. "And when an artist dies, we lose their art." Arts and HIV/AIDS organizations across the U.S. launched the first Day Without Art in 1989 as a national day of action. That year, hundreds of participants closed museums and galleries, sponsored special shows tackling the subject of disease or sent staff to volunteer with community organizations. Today, an estimated 8,000 organizations host similar events. [link]