NOT OVER: You, Me, Us, & AIDS - In 3 Parts

NOT OVER: You, Me, Us, & AIDS is organized by artists and activists L.J. Roberts, Quito Ziegler, and Ted Kerr as part of QuORUM FORUM.  The three week series of events, explores the ongoing impact of HIV/AIDS in queer life.

All events are free and open to the public. Events take place at the New School.

 

Eric Rhein, Leaves, 1999-2012 - Each leaf is a "portrait" of a person who has died of AIDS

 Part 1: INTERGENERATIONAL STORY TELLING HOUR

 Saturday, January 21 from 1-3pm
 Organized in part with Dan Fishback
 Kellen Auditorium, New School
 Main floor, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street

Queers who died of AIDS in the 80′s and 90′s will be remembered with stories and performances by their surviving friends and admiring descendants. Current artists from our community will also share performances that reflect on this lost history and its impact on their lives now. Featuring Eric Rhein, Sur Rodney Sur, Kate Huh, Jack Waters and Hana Malia. Audience is invited to welcome and introduce lost loved ones, ghosts and friends we lost.  

Still from Untitled

 Part 2: UNTITLED (film screening)

Saturday, January 28, from 1-3 pm

Kellen Auditorium, New School

Main floor, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street

UNTITLED is a non-linear 60 minute film by Jim Hodges, Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz, placing HIV / AIDS within the context of national and international moments. UNTITLED is a people’s history of the last 30 years with AIDS at its center. After the screening we will debrief the impact of AIDS on our collective history and together, discuss how we understand ongoing AIDS impacting our lives today and into the future.
 

NOT OVER buttons produced by Visual AIDS

Part 3: LIVING WITH HIV

Saturday, February 4, from 1-3 pm

Orientation (Bark) Room, New School, Ground Floor, 2 W. 13th St
 
The epidemic of HIV and AIDS touches all parts of our lives from our intimate relationships with ourselves and others, to the way we access healthcare, participate in the economy and politics, have sex, consume culture, and generally move through the world. This town hall style meeting brings together a diverse group of people to share contemporary experiences of how HIV shapes our lives, the work we do, and the way we form identity and community. Featuring Amy Sadao of Visual AIDS; Che Gossett of ACT-Up Philadelphia; Amanda Lugg, Director of Advocacy and Mobilization of the African Services Committee ; Laura Whitehorn, senior editor at POZ Magazine; and Michael Tikili of  The Global Access Project of Health Gap.  

For more information about all these events can be found at www.quorumnyc.org Questions and inquiries can de directed to aidsnotover@gmail.com.