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- HUACA
is looking for new members to help generate interest
and publicize events. Please e-mail us at
huaca@fas.harvard.edu
or call the Harvard AIDS Institute
- at
496-6354 if you would like to join
us.
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- Mission
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Year's Events
The Harvard
University Arts Committee on AIDS
The primary aim of the Harvard University
Arts Committee on AIDS (HUACA) is to generate Harvard student,
faculty and staff involvement in artistic projects addressing HIV
infection and the AIDS pandemic. These projects are focused around
World AIDS day and the activities of Harvard University's AIDS
Awareness Week.
- Our goal is to educate and increase
awareness about HIV and AIDS by encouraging the incorporation of
HIV/AIDS themes into arts projects;
- The committee will advise students in
the development of their own projects and help identify sources of
funding; we will serve as facilitators and publicists;
- The role of this committee is to
publicize, using an "umbrella" approach:
- availability of space for
projects;
- the projects once they're
confirmed
- We will make every effort to include the
greater Cambridge and Boston communities in these events and
activities.
- Members of the committee are from many
different parts of the University:
- Harvard
AIDS Institute
- University
Health Services
- Office
for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe
- Harvard
University Art Museums
- Carpenter
Center for the Visual Arts
- Graduate
School of Arts and Science
- Memorial
Hall/Lowell Hall Complex
- American
Repertory Theater
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- Links to AIDS related web
pages:
- Harvard
-Radcliffe AIDS Education and
Outreach
- AIDS Action
Committee
- UNAIDS
- American
Association for World Health
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Harvard
University AIDS Awareness Week, December 1-8,
2000
- Using the power of art to spread
awareness of HIV/AIDS and commemorate those who have died or are
living with the disease, the Harvard University Arts Committee on
AIDS (HUACA) has announced events scheduled for Harvard AIDS
Awareness Week.
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- HARVARD UNIVERSITY OBSERVES AIDS AWARENESS WEEK 2000
- Visual, literary, and speaking events promote education and
commemoration
Harvard University will present a series of events for Harvard
AIDS Awareness Week (November 24-December 6, 2000) commemorating
those who have died from or are living with the disease and
fostering awareness of HIV/AIDS within and outside of the Harvard
University community. Facilitated and promoted by the Harvard
University Arts Committee on AIDS, these events are held in
conjunction with World AIDS Day, established by the World Health
Organization and observed annually on December 1. The events
include an exhibition and benefit auction of southern African art;
an interactive visual arts project; an evening of inspirational
speakers; a gallery exhibit and sale to benefit local AIDS
projects; and a poetry reading and a poetry-writing workshop.
ArtWorks for AIDS, an exhibition of works by 30 southern
African artists, will be on display at Harvard University's
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge,
November 24-28. Following the exhibition, the collection will be
auctioned in Boston on November 30 to raise funds for HIV programs
in southern Africa. Each artist's work explores the theme of HIV
in Africa with an emphasis on women and children. ArtWorks for
AIDS has been organized by the Harvard
AIDS Institute, a University-wide organization
dedicated to conducting and catalyzing international research to
end the worldwide AIDS epidemic. For more information, visit the
Institute's website at http://aids.harvard.edu or e-mail
artworks@hsph.harvard.edu.
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- World AIDS Day Peace Prayers, part of a city-wide project,
will be held at Harvard University's Adams House, Plympton St.
between Massachusetts Ave. and Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, on
Monday, November 27 at 8 p.m. Jen Mergel, a non-resident arts
tutor at Adams House, will preside. Adams House will provide
supplies to create "prayer sheets," which will then be displayed
and made available for purchase at a gallery in Boston. Contact
Patricia Palmer, (617) 493-3434, for more information.
International art dealer Barbara Krakow has joined with Elleni
West, president of African AIDS Initiative International (W.E.B.
DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies at Harvard), to
co-sponsor two events. The first, Advent Hope for AIDS in Africa,
is a service to be held at Trinity Church, Copley Square in
Boston, on Friday, December 1, 6-9 pm. The event will be hosted by
Reverend Samuel Lloyd of Trinity Church and will include speakers
from Harvard University and the local community. The second event,
Anything but Paper Prayers, will open on Saturday, December 2,
with a reception from 3-5:30 pm at the Barbara Krakow Gallery, 10
Newbury Street, Boston. The day-long event follows A Day Without
Art, an observance traditionally held December 1, in which art
galleries close their doors in memory of the many artists who have
been lost to AIDS. Over 100 area artists have been invited to
participate in an exhibit that will both honor and benefit
African
AIDS Initiative International and the Boston Pediatric
and Family AIDS Project. For more information on this exhibit and
the service at Trinity Church, please contact the African AIDS
Initiative at (617) 496-5998 or ethio@fas.harvard.edu.
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- The final event in Harvard University's observance of AIDS
Awareness Week is a literary "double-feature" to be held over two
evenings. AIDS and the Poetry of Healing is the title of a
lecture/reading by award-winning poet Rafael Campo at the Harvard
Advocate, 21 South Street, Cambridge, on Monday, December 4, at 7
pm. Admission is free and open to the general public; information:
(617) 495-8676. Campo teaches and practices general internal
medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston, where he serves primarily Latinos and
people living with HIV and AIDS. He is the author of The Other Man
Was Me (Arte Publico Press, Houston, 1994), which won the 1993
National Poetry Series award; What the Body Told (Duke University
Press, Durham, 1996), which won a Lambda Literary Award for
Poetry; and The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in
Empathy, Identity, and Desire (W.W. Norton, New York, 1996), a
collection of essays which also won a Lambda Literary Award, for
memoir. His newest book, Diva (Duke University Press, 1999), was a
finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the
Paterson Poetry Prize last year. This event is co-sponsored by the
Harvard University Arts Committee on AIDS, the Harvard Advocate,
and Learning From Performers (Office for the Arts at Harvard).
AIDS and HIV-An Epidemic of Forgetting, A Call to Remember: A
Workshop to Write Yourself to Deeper Awareness will be taught by
certified poetry therapist John Fox on Tuesday, December 5, at 7
pm in the Adams House Lower Common Room, "C" Entry on Plympton
St., Cambridge. Enrollment is free and limited to Harvard
undergraduates and University affiliates. For more information and
to enroll, call Michael Hoyt at 617-496-0778, or by e-mail at
cwhc@uhs.harvard.edu. John Fox is a lecturer in the graduate
school of psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda,
California. He is the author of two volumes of poetry and a leader
of poetry-writing workshops throughout the United States. His most
recent book is Poetic Medicine, published by Penguin Putnam. The
workshop is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Arts Committee
on AIDS, Harvard University Health Services Center for Wellness
and Health Communication, and Learning
From Performers (Office
for the Arts at Harvard).
-
- The Harvard University Arts Committee on AIDS (HUACA) is an
organization whose primary aim is to generate Harvard University
student, faculty and staff involvement in artistic projects
addressing HIV infection and the AIDS pandemic. These projects are
focused on World AIDS Day and the activities of Harvard
University's AIDS Awareness Week. For more information, call
co-chairs Thomas Lee, (617) 495-8676, and Aimee Ricciardone, (617)
496-6091.
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Harvard University AIDS
Awareness Day: December 1, 1999
AIDS AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
SUBJECT OF HARVARD PANEL
- Artists and critics will convene on World AIDS
Day
- to discuss "disease as metaphor"
- On-line
review of event on ArtsEditor
(Cambridge, MA)-"Art for AIDS' Sake: Is the Disease Still a Valid
Metaphor?" is the topic of a panel discussion to be held at Harvard
University on World AIDS Day 1999-Wednesday, December 1, at 7 pm. The
panel will be held in Loker Commons, basement of Memorial Hall
(Sanders Theater), 45 Quincy St., Cambridge. Admission is free and
open to the public (no tickets or reservations required); for more
information, please call (617) 495-8676.
Sponsored by the Harvard University Arts Committee on AIDS, the
panel will convene artist/curator Kathy Bitetti; artist/activist Jay
Critchley; choreographer/dancer Tommy Neblett; and writers Michael
Bronski and Cate McQuaid to discuss AIDS and its relevance to current
artistic expression. Have the critics of so-called "victim art"
squelched attempts by artists to bring new meaning and insight to
living with, and dying from, AIDS? Does arts activism compromise
aesthetics? And through their work can artists help stem the tide of
apathy and misconception about AIDS "cures" and vaccines?
"As we approach the turn of the century and look back on almost
two decades of life with AIDS, we are at a crossroads," says Thomas
Lee, Co-chair of the Harvard University Arts Committee on AIDS. "The
artistic community was among the first to be decimated by the
disease, and the first to respond. But what is now left for artists
to communicate to audiences? Can we still be galvanized by the power
art? The panelists will address these questions and talk about how
AIDS has affected their own work, and affected the way that they
evaluate the work of others."
About the Panelists:
Kathy Bitetti, executive director of the Boston-based
Artists Foundation since 1992, has been a curator as well as an
HIV/AIDS activist for the past 11 years. She is cofounder of Visual
AIDS Boston, which organizes arts programming in recognition of World
AIDS Day. Bitetti is also an exhibiting sculptor and installation
artist.
Cambridge resident Michael Bronski is a critic and essayist
whose books include The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash and the
Struggle for Gay Freedom (St. Martin's Books, 1998), Culture Clash:
The Making of Gay Sensibility (South End Press, 1984), and the
forthcoming Pulp Friction: Gay Male Erotic Writing Before Stonewall
(St. Martin's Press). His essays and reviews have appeared in
numerous anthologies, and he is a regular contributor to the Boston
Phoenix, The Advocate, Z Magazine, Lambda Book Report, and other
publications.
Jay Critchley is a Provincetown-based artist/activist whose
work incorporates performance, conceptual manifestos, and sometimes
recycled materials to explore a range of social issues. His
installation projects include "Miss Tampon Liberty" (a 13-foot
replica of the statue made from 4,000 plastic tampon applicators
found on Cape Cod beaches, first exhibited in 1986); "Old Glory
Condom Corporation" (1989); and "The Olympdyck Project: It's Hard To
Be a Man," a multimedia installation on masculinity and sports
created for the Arts Festival of Atlanta in 1995 in conjunction with
the Olympic Games. Critchley established the Provincetown Harbor Swim
for Life and Community Festival, which since 1989 has raised over $1
million for AIDS programs on Cape Cod. Critchley is a 1999-2000
Marshall Cogan Visiting Artist at the Office for the Arts at
Harvard.
Cate McQuaid is an art critic and writer. Her weekly column
of gallery reviews and numerous feature stories appear in the Boston
Globe, and she contributes regularly to ArtNews magazine and WBUR's
"Morning Edition."
Somerville resident Tommy Neblett is co-Artistic
Director/Choreographer of Prometheus Dance, based in Boston. He has
performed primarily with Dan Wagoner and Dancers, Laura Dean Dancers
and Musicians, and Concert Dance Company of Boston before forming
Prometheus Dance in 1992. Neblett is an instructor for the Dance
Program of the Office for the Arts at Harvard, and is currently on
the faculties of the Boston Conservatory and Emerson College.
"Ecstasies and Devotions," his evening-length dance piece on
mortality and AIDS, premiered in [YEAR].
About the Harvard University Arts
Committee on AIDS:
The Harvard University Arts Committee on AIDS (HUACA) was
established in 1993 to generate Harvard student, faculty, and staff
involvement in artistic projects addressing HIV infection and the
AIDS pandemic. These projects are focused around World AIDS day and
the activities of Harvard University's AIDS Awareness Week (November
29-December 5, 1999). HUACA's goal is to educate and increase
awareness about HIV and AIDS by encouraging the incorporation of
HIV/AIDS themes into arts projects; to assist and support students in
the development of their own projects and help identify sources of
funding; and to serve as a facilitator and promoter for events and
projects at Harvard for World AIDS Day and AIDS Awareness Week. The
general public is also invited to participate. For more information,
call Thomas Lee, (617) 495-8676, or Aimee Ricciardone, (617)
496-6091.
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Harvard
University AIDS Awareness Week: November 28 - December 5,
1997
-
- Ongoing
- The Holiday Toy
Drive
- Sponsors:
Cambridge Cares About AIDS
- Location: Dudley House/Lehman
Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
- A drive to collect holiday gifts for
children who are infected or
- affected by HIV/AIDS. The toys will be
distributed to people who go to
- Cambridge Cares About AIDS for
services.
- For more information and additional
drop-off locations, call Alexandra
- Vega-Merino at 617-493-4249 or e-mail
merino@fas.harvard.edu.
-
- Community Interactive
Altar
- Sponsors:
PRIDE (Promoting Respect for
Inclusive Diversity in Education), Harvard University School of
Education
- Location: Gutman Library,
Cambridge
- A memorial to those who have succumbed
to or are living with AIDS and HIV. For more information visit the
PRIDE Web site, http://hugse1.harvard.edu/~pride/AIDSday.html
-
- Friday, November
28
- Seconds
- Sponsors:
Harvard Film Archive
- Location: Carpenter Center, 24
Quincy Street, Cambridge
- Time: 8:30 p.m.
- 1984 Directed by John Frankenheimer;
starring Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, and John Randolph
- In this film, Rock Hudson, whose acting
career was cut short by AIDS,
- plays a middle-aged banker who fakes his
death and undergoes plastic
- surgery in order to reemerge as the
handsome artist Tony Wilson.
- Complete with a new posh home in Malibu
Beach, his groovy new life
- includes Bacchanalian excess and a
grape-squishing orgy. The
- discomforting photography of Wong Howe
relates the claustrophobic
- nightmare of a man who finds that
freedom is a dodgy concept.
- For more information, call the Harvard
Film Archive at 617-495-4700 or
- visit the Web site: http://film-4.fas.harvard.edu.
-
-
- Saturday, November
29
- Crimes of
Passion
- Sponsors:
Harvard Film Archive
- Location: Carpenter Center, 24
Quincy Street, Cambridge
- Time: 9:00 p.m.
- 1966 Directed by Ken Russell; starring
Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, and John Laughlin
- First and foremost, an extremely
uninhibited satire on American sexual
- dreams and nightmares. Kathleen Turner,
a career woman who doubles by
- night as the ultra-hooker China Blue,
acts out every male fantasy in the
- book until she picks up a cop. In
between, the film lays into an
- average suburban couple,
living a sexual fantasy of their own marital
- fulfillment. The film relies on sheer
pace and stylistic bravura and
- talks dirty more wittily than anything
since Bogart and Bacall.
- For more information, call the Harvard
Film Archive at 617-495-4700 or
- visit the Web site: http://film-4.fas.harvard.edu
-

-
- Sunday, November
30
- Art as Medicine/Medicine as
Art: A Special Project for World AIDS Day
- Sponsors:
Harvard University Art Museums and
the Norman Zinberg Clinic of the Cambridge/Somerville Health
Network
- Locations: Straus Gallery of the
Fogg Art Museum and the adjacent Mongan Center study room, 23
Quincy Street, Cambridge
- Time: 1:00 to 4:30
p.m.
- Medicine and art meet in this unique
event created by printmaker and
- physician Eric Avery and presented by
the Norman Zinberg Clinic of the
- Cambridge/Somerville Health Network and
Harvard University Art Museums.
- The Zinberg AIDS clinic will move its
clinical activities into a
- specially created environment in the
gallery. Audience members will
- view patient-doctor consultations and
follow with public discussion of
- the concepts and practices embodied in
this event, while a performance
- artist illustrates the presentation.
- For more information, call Kate Ewen at
617-495-2397.
-
- Seconds
- Sponsors: Harvard Film
Archive
- Location: Carpenter Center, 24
Quincy Street, Cambridge
- Time: 9:00 p.m.
- 1984 Directed by John Frankenheimer;
starring Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, and John Randolph
- In this film, Rock Hudson, whose acting
career was cut short by AIDS,
- plays a middle-aged banker who fakes his
death and undergoes plastic
- surgery in order to reemerge as the
handsome artist Tony Wilson.
- Complete with a new posh home in Malibu
Beach, his groovy new life
- includes Bacchanalian excess and a
grape-squishing orgy. The
- discomforting photography of Wong Howe
relates the claustrophobic
- nightmare of a man who finds that
freedom is a dodgy concept.
- For more information, call the Harvard
Film Archive at 617-495-4700 or
- visit the Web site:
http://film-4.fas.harvard.edu.
-
-
- Monday, December
1
- Art as Medicine/Medicine as
Art: A Special Project for World AIDS Day
- Sponsors: Harvard University Art
Museums and the Norman Zinberg Clinic of the Cambridge/Somerville
Health Network
- Locations: Straus Gallery of the
Fogg Art Museum and the adjacent Mongan Center study room, 23
Quincy Street, Cambridge
- Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,
2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Medicine and art meet in this unique
event created by printmaker and
- physician Eric Avery and presented by
the Norman Zinberg Clinic of the
- Cambridge/Somerville Health Network and
Harvard University Art Museums.
- The Zinberg AIDS clinic will move its
clinical activities into a
- specially created environment in the
gallery. Audience members will
- view patient-doctor consultations and
follow with public discussion of
- the concepts and practice embodied in
this event while a performance
- artist illustrates the practices.
- For more information, call Kate Ewen at
617-495-2397.
-
- AIDS Information
Booth
- Sponsors: Harvard-Radcliffe AIDS
Education and Outreach and the
- Center for Wellness and Health
Communication, Harvard University Health Services
- Location: Straus Gallery of the
Fogg Art Museum
- Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30
p.m.
- Free distribution of condoms and AIDS
awareness information.
- For more information, call Linda Frazier
at 617-495-9629.
-
- Ethical Issues in
International HIV/AIDS Research
- Sponsor:
Harvard AIDS Institute
- Location: Snyder Auditorium,
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue,
Boston
- Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00
p.m.
- A panel discussion about the ethical
issues that arise in international
- HIV/AIDS research, particularly the
ongoing controversy about the use of
- placebos in trials to prevent
mother-to-infant transmission.
- For more information, call Kimberly
Hensle at 617-432-4126.
-
- AIDS Feature Films:
Longtime Companion and
Philadelphia
- Location:
Graduate Student Lounge of Dudley
House/Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
- Time: Longtime Companion"
6:00 p.m.
- Philadelphia" 8:00
p.m.
- Refreshments will be
provided.
- For more information, call Alexandra
Vega-Merino at 617-493-4249 or
- e-mail merino@fas.harvard.edu.
-
-
- Tuesday, December
2
- A Working Group Meeting to
Develop and Launch the Harvard AIDS Memorial
- Sponsor:
Harvard Gay and Lesbian
Caucus
- Location: Private Dining Room,
Dudley House/Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
- Time: 1:00 p.m.
- For more information, call Carol Johnson
at 617-427-8840 or
- 617-742-2100, x453.
-
- AIDS Awareness Documentaries:
No Regrets and All Gods
Children
- Location:
Graduate Student Lounge of Dudley
House/Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
- Time: No Regrets" 6:00 p.m.
- All Gods Children" 6:30 p.m.
- Discussion and refreshments will
follow.
- For more information, call Alexandra
Vega-Merino at 617-493-4249 or
- e-mail merino@fas.harvard.edu.
-
-
- Wednesday, December
3
- Discussion with Dr. David
Brudnoy
- Sponsor: Dudley House Public
Service Fellows
- Location: Dudley House Common
Room
- Time: 12:00 p.m.
- Dr. David Brudnoy, controversial media
personality and author of the
- 1997 bestseller LIFE IS NOT A REHEARSAL,
will talk informally about
- his struggle with AIDS, the complex
process of self -revelation, and the
- David Brudnoy Fund for AIDS Research.
Lunch will be served. To sign
- up for the event, please come to the
Dudley House Office on the third floor.
-
- Thursday, December
4
- Candlelight Vigil
- Sponsor: PRIDE (Promoting Respect
for Inclusive Diversity in Education), Harvard University School
of Education
- Location: Steps of Memorial
Church, Harvard Yard
- Time: 9:00 p.m.
- Remembrance of those who have succumbed
to or are living with AIDS and HIV. Reception immediately
following at Gutman Library, School of Education. For more
information , e-mail pride@hugse1.harvard.edu
or visit the PRIDE Web site, http://hugse1.harvard.edu/~pride/AIDSday.html
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- Friday, December
5
- The Changing Face of
AIDS
- Sponsor: Harvard Spectrum and
Harvard-Radcliffe AIDS Education and Outreach
- Location: Adams House Squash
Courts, Corner of Mt. Auburn and Bow Streets,
Cambridge
- Time: 7:00 to 11:00
p.m.
- Featuring the work of student artists,
the exhibit will show how the
- demographics of AIDS have spread to
encompass all segments of the
- population.
- For more information, call Tyrone Jones
at 617-493-2370.
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- Harvard
University AIDS Awareness Week: December 1 - 8,
1996
-
- Harvard University commemorated World
AIDS Day, Friday, December 1, by hosting
- AIDS-related events throughout the week
of December 1 through 8, which has been designated
- AIDS Awareness Week at Harvard. A number
of events were scheduled to take place on and
- off-campus that week, including benefit
screenings of Derek Jarman's The Tempest and other
films,
- a conference on HIV and the Black and
Latino communities, the Fourth Annual GospelFest for
- AIDS, a chamber music concert, and
performances at the American Repertory Theater.
-
- Held every December 1, World AIDS Day is
a time of international focus on the epidemic.
- Harvard's AIDS Awareness Week was begun
in 1993 by the Harvard University Arts Committee
- on AIDS, which seeks to foster student,
faculty, and staff involvement in artistic responses to
the
- epidemic.
-
- A complete AIDS Awareness Week calendar
follows below. This information is also available by
- phone by calling (617) 496-2000, ext.
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- Sunday, December
1
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- The Wild Duck
- Sponsor: American Repertory
Theater
- Location: Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle
Street, Cambridge
- Time: 2:00 p.m.
- A play written by Henrik Ibsen, adapted
by Robert Brustein, and directed by François
- Rochaix. Often considered Ibsen's
greatest work, The Wild Duck marked a new
- departure for the father of modern
drama, blending the naturalism of his middle dramas
- with the symbolism of his late period.
AIDS education materials will be distributed
- before and after the performance, and
donations will be accepted for the AIDS Action
- Committee. For more information and
ticket prices, call (617) 547-8300.
-
- Chamber Music Concert
- Sponsor: Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of
Boston
- Location: Sanders Theater, 45 Quincy
Street, Cambridge (see local map)
- Time: 3:00 p.m.
- This event is a unique opportunity to
hear world-renowned violinist James Buswell
- performing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto
No. 1. One of Prokofiev's most intimate and
- personal works, it provides a perfect
vehicle for Buswell's dazzling technique. The
- program will conclude with Brahms' lush
and beautiful Serenade No.1, performed in
- honor of World AIDS Day 1996. For more
information and ticket prices, call (617)
- 496-2222.
-
- Harvard Film Archive Benefit
Screenings
- Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive. All
proceeds will be donated to the AIDS Action Committee.
- Location: Carpenter Center for the
Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge (see local
map)
- Films/Times:
- The Tempest (1979) at 4:00 and
7:30 p.m.
- Directed by Derek Jarman. Jarman's
version of Shakespeare's The Tempest is
- simultaneously respectful and radical, a
hymn to the ruined glories of Old England
- spiced with his inimitable punk
aesthetic. Shot in crumbling abbeys and mansions, and
- starring playwright Heathcote Williams
as an aging hipster Prospero and singer Toyah
- Wilcox as a punk-waif Miranda, Jarman's
The Tempest playfully reworks
- Shakespeare with deliberate anachronisms
and delightful diversions.
- Life and Death on the A List
(1996) at 6:00 p.m.
- Directed by Jay Corcoran, who will be
present at the screening. One of the most vital
- and moving films to have been provoked
by the AIDS epidemic, this documentary
- follows the life and death of Tom
McBride, a New York actor dying of Progressive
- Multifocal Leucoencephalopathy (PML), an
AIDS-related brain disease. Featuring
- interviews with McBride, his friends,
lovers, and admirers set against the glamour party
- world of New York's "A-list," Corcoran
reveals an unsparing look at one man's
- relationship to his beautiful body and
how he copes with its disintegration.
-
- For more information and ticket prices,
call (617) 495-3251.
-
-
- Monday, December
2
-
- AIDS Information
Booth
- Sponsors: Harvard-Radcliffe AIDS
Education and Outreach, and the Office of Health
Education,
- Harvard University Health
Services
- Location: Cabot Science Center, 1 Oxford
Street, Cambridge (see local map)
- Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Free distribution of condoms and AIDS
awareness information. For more information,
- call (617) 495-9629.
-
- The Day the Ketchup Turned
Blue
- Sponsor: Harvard-Radcliffe Office for
the Arts
- Location: Adams House, corner of Mt.
Auburn and Bow Streets, Cambridge
- Times: Every half-hour from 7:00 to 9:00
p.m.
- Please note: Open only to members of the
Harvard community. Because of the small scale of
- the performance, seating for the five
shows (every half-hour from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.) is limited
and
- must be reserved by calling
495-8676.
- A toy theater presentation and AIDS
allegory by Dan Hurlin. The Day the Ketchup
- Turned Blue, based on a very short story
by playwright John C. Russell, is performed
- using a Victorian-style toy theater
outfitted with cutout puppets and other ingenious
- stagecraft. Hurlin's performance has
been scheduled during Harvard University's AIDS
- Awareness Week as a tribute to Russell,
who died of AIDS in 1994.
-
-
- Tuesday, December
3
-
- AIDS Information
Booth
- Sponsors: Harvard-Radcliffe AIDS
Education and Outreach, and the Office of Health
Education,
- Harvard University Health
Services
- Location: Widener Library, Harvard Yard,
Cambridge
- Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Free distribution of condoms and AIDS
awareness information. For more information,
- call (617) 495-9629.
-
- Harvard AIDS Institute
Seminar
- Sponsor: Harvard AIDS
Institute
- Location: Harvard School of Public
Health, Room 502, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington
Avenue,
- Boston (see directions)
- Time: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
- Speaker: George Pavlakis, M.D., Ph.D.
Head, Human Retrovirus Section, Frederick Cancer
- Research and Development Center,
National Cancer Institute
- A lecture entitled "HIV, Molecular
Biology, and Pathogenesis." Free and open to the
- public. For more information, call (617)
432-1023.
-
-
- Wednesday,
December 4
-
- AIDS Information
Booth
- Sponsors: Harvard-Radcliffe AIDS
Education and Outreach, and the Office of Health
Education,
- Harvard University Health
Services
- Location: Widener Library, Harvard Yard,
Cambridge
- Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Free distribution of condoms and AIDS
awareness information. For more information,
- call (617) 495-9629.
-
- Faculty Unplugged: An AIDS
Benefit
- Sponsors: Harvard-Radcliffe AIDS
Education and Outreach, and the Office of Health
Education,
- Harvard University Health
Services
- Location: Quincy House Dining Hall, 58
Plympton Street, Cambridge (see local map)
- Time: 9:00 p.m.
- Proceeds from this benefit performance
by Harvard faculty and staff members will go
- to a local AIDS organization. Tickets
are $3.00 for Harvard students, $5.00 for
- members of the community. For more
information and ticket prices, call (617)
- 496-2222.
-
- Boys' Night Out
- Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive
- Location: Carpenter Center for the
Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge (see local
map)
- Time: 10:00 p.m.
- This short film by Harvard graduate Yule
Caise has been described by the filmmaker
- as a multiethnic fairy tale about one
man's journey from crass homophobe to
- enlightenment and understanding of the
AIDS crisis. Admission is free, for more
- information, call (617)
495-4700.
-
- Food for the Body and the Mind:
Healthy Struggles for Living with HIV/AIDS
- Sponsors: Massachusetts Public Health
Association, Harvard AIDS Institute
- Location: Jean Mayer USDA Human
Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University, Boston
(see
- directions)
- Time: 12:30 pm registration, 1:00 to
4:30 pm program
- A conference on nutrition and AIDS, with
Kenneth Mayer, MD, Director, Brown
- University AIDS Program, as the keynote
speaker
-
-
- Thursday,
December 5
-
- AIDS Information
Booth
- Sponsors: Harvard-Radcliffe AIDS
Education and Outreach, and the Office of Health
Education,
- Harvard University Health
Services
- Location: Widener Library, Harvard Yard,
Cambridge
- Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Free distribution of condoms and AIDS
awareness information. For more information,
- call (617) 495-9629.
-
- Six Characters in Search of an
Author
- Sponsor: American Repertory
Theatre
- Location: Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle
Street, Cambridge
- Time: 8:00 p.m.
- A play written by Luigi Pirandello,
adapted and directed by Robert Brustein. From the
- first shattering moment when the
ethereal Six Characters in Search of an Author
- crossed the stage of the A.R.T.,
audiences across the United States and as far away as
- Europe and the Far East have been
thrilled and haunted by these spectral beings.
- AIDS education materials will be
distributed before and after the performance, and
- donations will be accepted for the AIDS
Action Committee. For more information and
- ticket prices, call (617)
547-8300.
-
-
- Friday, December
6
-
- AIDS Information
Booth
- Sponsors: Harvard-Radcliffe AIDS
Education and Outreach, and the Office of Health
Education,
- Harvard University Health
Services
- Location: Cabot Science Center, 1 Oxford
Street, Cambridge (see local map)
- Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Free distribution of condoms and AIDS
awareness information. For more information,
- call (617) 495-9629.
-
- Waxprint
- Sponsors: Harvard University Arts
Museums, Harvard-Radcliffe Office for the Arts
- Location: Sackler Museum lobby,
Cambridge
- Time: 9:00 a.m. to 11:00
p.m.
- Red and white imprints will be cast when
members of the Harvard-Radcliffe
- community who have been touched by AIDS
dip their hands into colored wax,
- contributing to a sculptural
installation facilitated by artist-in-residence Janet
Echelman.
- For times and specific location
information, call (617) 493-2038. This event is open
- only to members of the Harvard
Community.
-
- Six Characters in Search of an
Author
- Sponsor: American Repertory
Theatre
- Location: Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle
Street, Cambridge
- Time: 8:00 p.m.
- See December 5 listing for description.
AIDS education materials will be distributed
- before and after the performance, and
donations will be accepted for the AIDS Action
- Committee. For more information and
ticket prices, call (617) 547-8300.
-
- 2nd Annual Marlon T. Riggs Film
Festival
- Sponsors: Office of Undergraduate
Programs, Lyman Common Room, Men of Color Against
- AIDS (MOCAA), Kendall Institute, and
Education For Action.
- Location: Lyman Common Room, Agassiz
House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge (see local map)
- Time: 6:00 pm -10:00 pm
- Two of Marlon Riggs' last films will be
shown: "No Regrets" at 6:00 pm and "Black Is
- Black Aint" at 7:00 pm. A group
discussion facilitated by Matthew Florence, Executive
- Director of MOCAA; Jacqueline Maloney,
CEO, Kendall Institute; and Gail Burton,
- Coordinator of Education for Action will
immediately follow.
-
-
- Saturday,
December 7
-
- HIV and the Black and Latino
Communities
- Sponsor: Black Students
Association
- Cosponsors: W.E.B. DuBois Institute for
Afro-American Research, Black Men's Forum,
- Caribbean Society, Association of
Radcliffe Black Women, Fuerza, Latinas Unidas, Harvard
- African Students
Association.
- Locations: Cabot Science Center, 1
Oxford Street (see local map); Sever Hall, Harvard Yard
(see
- local map); To be announced;
Cambridge
- Times: Conference held from 11:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. Benefit at 7:30 p.m.
- 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. "History of HIV
Prevention and AIDS," Cabot Science
- Center B
- 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Lunch (not
provided)
- 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. "AIDS and People Ages
15 to 24"
- 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Simultaneous panel
discussions, Sever Hall
- "AIDS and Africa"
- "AIDS and the Caribbean and Latin
America"
- 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Simultaneous panel
discussions, Sever Hall
- "HIV and Women of Color"
- "HIV and Men of Color"
- 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. "Research and Myths
about HIV and AIDS in Black and Latino
- Communities in the United States,"
Science Center B
- 7:30 p.m. Benefit Performance to raise
money to fight AIDS among Black and Latino
- communities. Location to be announced.
For more information, call (617) 493-6341.
-
- Six Characters in Search of an
Author
- Sponsor: American Repertory
Theatre
- Location: Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle
Street, Cambridge
- Time: 2:00 p.m. and 8:00
p.m.
- See December 5 listing for description.
AIDS education materials will be distributed
- before and after the performance, and
donations will be accepted for the AIDS Action
- Committee. For more information and
ticket prices, call (617) 547-8300.
-
-
- Sunday, December
8
-
- Six Characters in Search of an
Author
- Sponsor: American Repertory
Theatre
- Location: Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle
Street, Cambridge
- Time: 2:00 p.m. and 8:00
p.m.
- See December 5 listing for description.
AIDS education materials will be distributed
- before and after the performance, and
donations will be accepted for the AIDS Action
- Committee. For more information and
ticket prices, call (617) 547-8300.
-
- Fourth Annual GospelFest for
AIDS
- Sponsors: Harvard-Radcliffe Office for
the Arts, the Open Gate, Inc. and others to be
announced
- Location: Memorial Church, Harvard Yard,
Cambridge (see local map)
- Time: 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
- An annual concert bringing together
Gospel musicians from within the Harvard
- community (Brothers and Sisters of the
Kuumba Singers, Harvard Graduate School of
- Education Choir, Harvard-Radcliffe Under
Construction), as well as the larger
- community, including Boston College
Voices of Imani and Boston Women's Voices
- from the River. The organizers hope to
create a place from which to draw strength,
- generate love, and discover new ways to
support one another in dealing with the
- epidemic. For more information, call
(617) 493-2331.
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Information
for Members
-
-
- Membership List (Updated
10/00):
-
- Andrea Schafer
- Communications Assistant
- Harvard AIDS Institute
- 651 Huntington Ave.
- PHONE: 432-4390
- FAX:
-
- Tom Lee, Program Coordinator
- Learning from Performers
- Office for the Arts
- 74 Mt. Auburn St.
- PHONE: 5-8676
- FAX: 5-8690
- EMAIL: lee16@fas.harvard.edu
-
- Ellen Fox, Director of Student
Services
- GSAS
- Dudley House-Rm. B2
- PHONE: 5-5005
- FAX: 6-5169
- EMAIL: efox@hugsas.harvard.edu
-
- Aimee Ricciardone
- Associate Box Office Manager and
- Manager of Student Ticketing
Services
- Sanders Theater
- PHONE: 6-6091
- FAX 6-6094
- EMAIL: aricciar@fas.harvard.edu
-
- Doug Kirshen
- American Repertory Theater
- 64 Brattle St.
- PHONE: 496-2000 x8844
- FAX:
- EMAIL: dkirshen@fas.harvard.edu
-
- Cathy McCormick, Director of
Programs
- Office for the Arts
- 74 Mt. Auburn St.
- PHONE: 5-8676
- FAX: 5-8690
- EMAIL: cmccorm@fas.harvard.edu
Michael Hoyt
University Health Services
75 Mt. Auburn St.
PHONE: 6-0778
FAX: 5-1135
EMAIL: mhoyt@uhs.harvard.edu
Chloe Teasdale
African AIDS Initiative International Inc.
PHONE: 6-5998
FAX:
EMAIL: ethio@fas.harvard.edu
AEO Contact:
Sarah Murphy
PHONE: 5-7357
FAX:
EMAIL: smurphy@fas.harvard.edu
-
- HUAM Contacts:
-
- Melissa Davenport
- VES/Carpenter Center
- PHONE: 5-5-5666
- FAX: 5-8197
- EMAIL: davenpor@fas.harvard.edu
-
- Marjorie B. Cohn
- Print Curator
- Harvard Art Museums
- PHONE: 5-2393
- FAX: 6-3800
- EMAIL: cohn@fas.harvard.edu
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