Visual AIDS presents RALLY THE TEAM on Thursday, September 29 from 6-8 PM for a spirited discussion with artists and community activists about the current score of HIV Prevention and Safer Sex campaigns, including Play Smart. Panelist include:
Demetre Daskalakis is an assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine. He is the founding director of the NYU/Bellevue Men’s Sexual Health Project (M*SHP) and Project 36:00, programs that provide HIV and STI preventive services. Working off a biomedical model, Dr. Daskalakis has integrated community based action with research and clinical care.
Ted Kerr is a Brooklyn based artist and writer whose work focuses on queerness and HIV. In 2011 he was the artist in residence at the Institute for Art, Religion & Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary under the tutelage of AA Bronson. In Canada, Kerr was a founding member of Exposure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and Culture Festival and was the first Artist in Red, a creative residency program at HIV Edmonton. He also served on the National Advisory board of the What It Takes - Gay Men's Health Campaign in 2009.
Ivan Monforte is a New York-based artist and Community Health Specialist with the Institute for Gay Men's Health at GMHC. He has worked on several HIV Prevention campaigns. Monforte has exhibited widely and is the recipient of a UCLA Art Council Award, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation, and an Art Matters grant for research in Samoa.
Moderated by Nelson Santos, Associate Director, Visual AIDS.
Followed by a Play Smart reception and trading card signing with photographers:
Michael Alago
Mike Harwood
Luna Luis Ortiz
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
and the Play Smart models
Play Smart safer sex trading cards, produced by Visual AIDS, is an honest and straight-forward approach to promote harm reduction, HIV testing and post-exposure prophylaxis. Play Smart is distributed for free and packaged with trading cards, stickers, condoms and lube. The back of each trading card features information to help you learn more and play smart. Click here for more info.
RALLY THE TEAM: Play Smart
Thursday, September 29 from 6-8 PM
The cards here are cute but so not speaking to the vast number of Straight Black women who are the latest HIV cases. As an African-American artist with a sex life and concern for HIV Prevention how are we to speak to the diversity of experience and desire?
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