Join the Pride Center and Lehigh University Art Galleries for a LUally Film Screening: Day With(out) Art World Aids Day 2024. 

During this session, participants will watch a screening of five short story videos about the impact of HIV/AIDS globally. Participants will engage in discussion about the impact of the short videos and be equipped with allyship skills on how to best support people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and how to advocate for better health resources for minoritzed communities.

Lunch will be provided.

 Please register in advance.

Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me...

For Day With(out) Art 2024, Visual AIDS announces Red Reminds Me…, a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting. The commissioned artists deploy parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to build a new vocabulary for representing HIV today.

The title is drawn from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist, poet, and long-term survivor with HIV, who writes: “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me…to be free.”* Linking “red” to freedom, Jennings flips the usual connotations of the color and offers a new way of thinking about the complexity of living with HIV. Just as a prism bends and refracts light, Red Reminds Me…, expands the emotional spectrum of living with HIV. It shows us that while grief, tragedy, and anger define parts of the epidemic, the full picture contains deep, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory feelings.

Red Reminds Me… will feature newly commissioned short videos by artists working across the world:

• Gian Cruz (Philippines)
• Milko Delgado (Panama)
• Imani Harrington (USA)
• David Oscar Harvey (USA)
• Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia)
• Nixie (Belgium)
• Vasilios Papapitsios (USA)

The artists in this program were selected through an open call process juried by artists/activists aAliy A. Muhammad and Jessica Whitbread, curator Alper Turan, and community organizer Josué Lopez.

The hour-long video program will premiere on December 1, 2024, World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art. Visual AIDS will partner with museums, galleries, universities, and organizations around the world to present free screenings on/around December 1. Learn more and register as a partner here.

*Jennings recites this poem in the video Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV, created by Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes for Day With(out) Art 2022: Being and Belonging.

For more information visit the Visual Aids website.