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African Gospel Acappella will perform Dec. 1 at the One World AIDS Day Celebration in
Portland. The ensemble is composed of six musicians from Liberia who are all blind.
Make a Promise
by Rainbow Youth at First United Methodist Church,
Eugene will commemorate the day with a candle­
light memorial observance sponsored by the HIV
Alliance. The event will take place from 5:30 to
6:30 p.m. at the downtown Park Blocks.
600 State St. This event is wheelchair accessible and
free.
At 6, there will be a film screening of Coming to
Say Goodbye: Stories of AIDS in Africa. This 30-
Organizers invite the community to come together
minute documentary is a collection of stories about
in solidarity and remember those lost to the disease
courageous people living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya and
and honor those living with HIV by lighting candles
Tanzania. It is a story of church workers, medical pro­
and making a promise. For further information and to
fessionals, social workers and educators who stand by
submit names for the reading of people who have died
those suffering, especially the thousands of children
of AIDS,
contact
jerrypj@aol.com
Jerry
or
call
at
541-343-6476
the
HIV
or
Alliance
541-342-5088.
orphaned by AIDS.
The film will be followed by a discussion by Joyce
V. Millen, assistant professor of anthropology at
Willamette University. She was previously a research
Structuring Fear: Remembering
associate/instructor in the Department of Social
Gay artist Mike E. Walsh is presenting his installa­
Medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of
tion titled Structuring Fear: Remembering through
Partners in Health’s Institute for Health and Social
Dec. 23 at Gallery 2, 110 W. Broadway in Eugene. The
Justice. She also worked for several years in West
exhibition is open and free to the public. There will be
Africa, where she conducted extensive ethnomedical
an opening reception at 5 p;m. Dec. 2.
and epidemiological research. She is co-editor and
In the installation, Walsh presents a timeline, like
author of the critically acclaimed book Dying for
the human genome's double helix, providing a window
Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the
into AIDS with parallel rows of 46 white Venetian blind
Poor and co-author of Global AIDS: Myths and Facts.
slats adorned with 46 names of artists who have died
After the discussion, Millen will answer questions
from the disease. On the floor and walls are objects
from the audience.
symbolically deconstructing the human body into
Confluence: The Willamette Valley Mixed GALA
rock-salt piles, bowls with blood red liquid, oak
Chorus will perform at 7, and there will be a candle­
leaves, hands, photos, text and other elements that
light walk to the front steps of the Oregon State Capitol
embody fragility and transfiguration.
at 7:15.
Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday.
After the reading of Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s procla­
mation, Salemites will gather to remember those
who have died, offer encouragement and support to
Dinner, a Movie and a Vigil
World AIDS Day events in Salem commence at
5 p.m., with a dinner buffet for the community hosted
those living with HIV/AIDS and in the process edu­
cate those who may not be well informed about the
disease.