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World AIDS Day

BY KELLY GRAML
UCLA Today

How will you observe World AIDS Day?

On Thursday, Dec. 1, dozens of groups from every corner of the UCLA campus will meet at various locations to mark World AIDS Day 2005. The campus community will have a mix of eclectic activities to choose from — performances, workshops, HIV testing, multimedia displays and a lunchtime march and rally.

Sponsored by an array of student groups, the Department of World Arts and Cultures and — most prominently — the UCLA AIDS Institute and the School of the Arts and Architecture, the day’s events are meant to build on a broad campus commitment to intervene in the AIDS epidemic.

“We want to reach as many people as possible, and we’re hoping that the sheer size of the campus collaboration and the diversity of the events will be compelling,” said Ragini Sharma, member of the Student Welfare Commission and student leader of World AIDS Day 2005.

The slate of events will include:

9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Kerckhoff Art Gallery
AIDS Memorial Quilt
On display Nov. 28 through Dec. 2.

9 a.m.-noon
Powell Library Room 270
“AIDS and the Moving Image 2”
The Film and Television Archive and Instructional Media Library will present AIDS-themed documentaries, narrative feature films, queer activist works and more, demonstrating the evolution of the AIDS crisis in moving image mass media.

11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Bruin Plaza
Free HIV Testing

Simple and confidential pin-prick HIV tests will be conducted inside mobile testing units. Counselors will talk to test-takers about the results approximately 20 minutes later.

11:30 a.m.
March

Three sets of marchers will walk from Schoenberg Hall, DeNeve Plaza and the Court of Sciences to Bruin Plaza.

Noon.
Bruin Plaza
Rally
Hear live music performances and speakers discuss their experiences with AIDS interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.

1-4 p.m.
John Wooden Center
Workshops and Symposia
Insights from an HIV-positive UCLA student, AIDS education, the work of Students for International Change in Tanzania, among other topics.

4-6 p.m.
Kaufman Family Garden Theater.
Ntare Mwine, actor, performance artist and creator of the one-man show “Biro,” will lead a workshop on the theater-based AIDS interventions in Africa.

8 p.m.
Glorya Kaufman Hall
“Mourning Dances”

Rebecca Alson-Milkman, dance MFA candidate, presents a work that highlights issues related to HIV/AIDS. Tickets: (310) 825-2101 or www.tickets.ucla.edu.