The Alvin Ailey Dance Company’s Home Spotlights the Fight Against HIV by Chip Alfred Deep where the sun don’t shine Is a place that I call home. When the planetary alignment is right And the DJ cuts out the lights Deep is where I’m home. —”Underground Is My Home” by Dennis Ferrer from Home The planets and the stars aligned for the world premiere of Home, a work inspired by the courageous stories of ten people affected by HIV. With high-energy hip-hop choreography by Rennie [...]

Visual AIDS is marking 30 years of AIDS by distributing Untitled by Jim Hodges, Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz. The film will be screened nationwide at museums, arts organizations, colleges, community groups on December 1, 2011, also known as World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art. All screenings are free and open to the public. Beginning with a reflection on the early AIDS epidemic, Untitled eschews a linear narrative to introduce a fractious timeline, moving from the sublime to the tragic and back again. By [...]

Directed by Alex Stockley and Tom Barry Firecracker Films/Staying Alive Campaign No videos, no VJs, and no celebrity headliners marked this year’s World AIDS Day, as MTV and its grantmaking Staying Alive Campaign decided to unplug itself for one hour from its normal sexy venues in an effort to abate harmful stereotypes and to encourage twenty-something hipsters to empower themselves by taking an enlightened approach to HIV. Producers feel that at-risk youth, by talking openly about the virus, self-policing their own sexual behaviors, and getting [...]