Monday, December 1, 2008 marks World AIDS Day, the international day of AIDS awareness and of remembrance of those we have lost to AIDS. 2008 also marks the 20th anniversary of the first World AIDS Day. In recognition of the sobering fact that AIDS is still with us, LIFEbeat has partnered with several organizations at the forefront of AIDS action, prevention, service and advocacy to host an evening of remembrance.

Out of the Darkness
World AIDS Day, December 1, 2008

Candlelight Vigil
Begins at 6:00 pm
Gay Men's Health Crisis
119 West 24th St. (between 6th and 7th Aves)

Candlelight Procession to Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South (at Thompson Street)

Time of Reflection and Reading of Names of those we have lost to AIDS
Begins at 6:30 pm for those not at the Candlelight Vigil

World AIDS Day Program
Begins at 7:00 pm

Refreshments served following the program.

There will be disabled access with a wheelchair-accessible elevator. The program will be ASL interpreted.

SPONSOR ORGANIZATIONS:

• AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP/NY)
• The American Run for the End of AIDS (AREA)
• Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA)
• End AIDS Now
• Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC)
• International AIDS Prevention Initiative (IAPI)
• The Keith Haring Foundation
• LIFEbeat

Image: Keith Haring, Silence = Death, 1989, © Haring Estate.

For a list of LIFEbeat's other World AIDS Day activities, click here.