ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS
Short Videos by Black Queer artists commissioned by Visual AIDS (NYC)
creening & Discussion, with introductions + responses by Roy Pérez and Omari Weekes
To mark World AIDS Day, we'll sit with Portland's own Maurice Evans. Maurice has worked to reduce barriers to treatment, and provide community & health support to HIV-positive Portlanders, with Cascade AIDS Project and with the Multnomah County Health Department. We are looking forward to discussing Maurice's work in our community, and the state of HIV/AIDS care more generally in our community.
We'll talk with Avram Finkelstein, author of After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its Images.
We'll also be talking with Roya Amirsoleymani of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), on World AIDS Day events this coming weekend, hosted by PICA - Sarah Schulman in Portland! For more info on those events, see below.
Anthony Hudson will also stop by the studio, along with Carlo Rossi, to talk about two events coming up in December: SLANT, queer storytelling at Mississippi Studios; and Queer Horror, at the Hollywood Theater.
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creening & Discussion, with introductions + responses by Roy Pérez and Omari Weekes
In honor of World AIDS Day, the following programs consider the political past, present, and future of art, AIDS, social justice, and queer life. At 2 pm, Sarah Schulman reads from and discusses her book Gentrification of the Mind:
At 3 pm, Lisa Bates (Professor of Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State University); Sharita Towne (artist and educator) and manuel arturo abreu (artist and writer) will discuss Schulman’s Gentrification of the Mind and its relevance to the intersection of social justice, housing policy, and queer, POC, and artist communities in present-day Portland.
At 4:30, A screening of the documentary UNITED IN ANGER: A History of Act Up, followed by a Q&A with the film’s co-producer, Sarah Schulman.
Sarah Schulman discusses her controversial new publication, Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, followed by a moderated conversation with anti-violence and anti-racism activist and conflict resolution expert Dana Ghazi (M.A., Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Portland State University).
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***Image, taken from advocate.com: "Indian sand artist Sudersan Pattnaik puts the final touches on a sand sculpture on the eve of World AIDS Day as a horseman rides by on Golden Sea Beach in Puri."