World AIDS Day

Public service announcements can be as witty as The Three Amigos, with their boisterous trio of animated condoms, or as incisive as those created by students of designmatters in their ongoing collaboration with the United Nations. Come hear how it’s done and dream up a PSA of your own. Open to UCLA students who sign up in advance at the World Arts and Cultures office, Kinross Building, Room 200.

• Firdaus Kharas, co-creator and co-producer, The Three Amigos;
• Mariana Amatullo, co-founder and co-director, designmatters;
• Moderated by Amy Shimshon-Santo, Department of World Arts and Cultures

On World AIDS Day, regular operations of the Instructional Media Lab will be suspended for two hours in order to present an eclectic selection of AIDS-themed news and public affairs programs, TV dramatizations, and instructional media. Over 30 individual viewing stations will continuously display a mix of programming from the past 20 years in the hope of raising AIDS-awareness and initiating further discussion.

A sample of the types of programming to be featured:

• Oprah Winfrey (1989) - Discussion of discrimination against people with AIDS.
• Absolutely Positive (1991) - Narrator/filmmaker Peter Adair asks 11 people - women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life - to share their stories regarding HIV.
• And the Band Played On (1993) - Made-for-cable movie based on journalist Randy Shilts’ bestseller about the beginnings of the AIDS crisis.
• Non, je ne regrette rien (No Regret) (1990)
  Filmmaker Marlon Riggs’ look at five seropositive black gay men and their individual confrontations with AIDS.
• Odo Ya! Life with AIDS (1997) - A look at how the Brazilian religion Candomble has provided a source of strength and power for a group of AIDS sufferers.
• Shouting Silent (2002) - An adult orphan who lost her mother to HIV/AIDS returns home to document other young women who have lost their mothers to the AIDS pandemic in Africa.
• Sponsored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the OID Instructional Media Library.
• Seating is limited

Come to central campus for the formal launch of the year-long “I Know—And Knowledge is Power” campaign, which encourages members of the UCLA and wider community to find out their HIV status. A non-invasive, highly accurate, rapid test, using saliva to determine if an individual has been exposed to the virus, will be administered. Members of the AIDS Institute’s executive office and participating celebrities will be tested on camera at this media event, which will be centered on a mobile rapid-testing van. Passersby will be invited to join them. (Status results will be not be disclosed.) People who participate will receive a red rubber wristband emblazoned with the motto “I Know.” The Institute’s six undergraduate AIDS ambassadors will hand out information on the “I Know” campaign to get out the message that knowing one’s HIV status gives a person power over the virus—the power to control its spread within infected individuals and the power to control its spread within the community.

• Special guests and entertainment to be announced
• Sponsored by UCLA AIDS Institute. Free

From dance to spoken word, and from solo performance art to stunning photography, these five international artists demonstrate what art can accomplish at a time of worldwide cataclysm. In the process, they also define a new approach to public health, galvanized and strengthened through partnerships with the arts.

• Peter Carpenter, choreographer, U.S.
• Sunil Gupta, photographer, India and U.K.
• Jessica Holter, writer, Punany Poets, U.S.
• Ntare Mwine, actor and playwright, Uganda and U.S.
• David Roussève, choreographer, U.S.
• Moderated by David Gere, UCLA Dept. of World Arts and Cultures

Sponsored by the School of the Arts and Architecture and the Department of World Arts and Cultures

This hour-long film (2003) follows the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in three very different settings: Guatemala, Thailand, and Malawi. You meet patients and their families as they struggle with the day-to-day challenges of accessing and adhering to antiretroviral treatment, confronting stigma, and maintaining dignity. The film screening is followed by a Q&A with doctors who have worked in the affected countries.

• Dr. Gildon Beall
• Dr. Rick Hamner
• Dr. Deborah Milligan
• Moderated by Roger Bohman, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

Sponsored by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières

Whether you are a lawyer or are simply interested in AIDS and international affairs, join in this evening symposium on the legal impediments to the dissemination of maximally effective AIDS education and prevention efforts. Edwin Bayrd, Executive Director of UCLA AIDS Institute, and Brad Sears of the Williams Project lead the discussion.

• Charles Henry, director, Los Angeles County Office of AIDS Programs and Policy
• Prof. Gia Lee, UCLA expert in constitutional law
• Paul McNamee, Office of AIDS Surveillance, New York City Department of Health
• Julie Stinberg, ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project
• Stuart Biegel, UCLA education law expert

Sponsored by UCLA AIDS Institute and Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law

In observance of World AIDS Day, the UCLA Library will present a selection from a recently acquired collection of AIDS posters from around the world. The posters will be on view in various campus libraries including the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, the College Library, and the Charles E. Young Research Library.

Among the countries represented are Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Switzerland, Uganda and the United Kingdom.

Sponsored by the UCLA Library
For further information, call (310) 825-6925.