Highways Performance Space i Santa Monica has a unique comunity event lied up for World AIDS Day weekend.

November 30
WITNESS
VETERAN ACTIVISTS REVISIT ACT UP/LA AT 20
A reunion of the most effective activists in generations meets a new generation facing its own challenges.
DONATIONS please.

Beginning @ 7:00pm:
Reception in the gallery for activists + artists reflecting on the life of ACT UP/LA in photography and multi-media installations.

Beginning @ 8:30pm
The veterans of activist campaigns share their (sometimes conflicting!) perspectives and memories on confronting healthcare bureaucracies, the LAPD, and each other's mortality. Surprise guests!

December 1
GOING IN: ONCE UPON A TIME IN SOUTH AFRICA
MICHAEL KEARNS
In honor of World AIDS Day, activist-artist Michael Kearns tells stories of devastation and of redemption and of a journey he took with his daughter, Tia, to Johannesburg, South Africa. An impassioned look at the challenges everyone--no matter what continent you live on--faces when dealing with a plague that continues to rage on after more than a quarter of a century.
Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

Highways

...And here's something special from Highways regular Marcus Kuiland-Nazario:

Friends and Foes:

Come see the interactive liquour laced memory shrine I have created for the ACT UP 20th Anniversary event @ Highways this Friday. Just like in the good old days - I'll be outside during the panel with the cool kids discussing our outfits, signs, banners and security strategies for the next demonstration. At least that is until we hear chairs being thrown about. Come share your memories at:

CASH BAR: an interactive memory shrine

This CASH BAR is a memorial to the ACT UP fundraisers - including Rock for Rigs, Guy-O-Rama, Naked City, Trouble and The Shooting Gallery. Those events not only raised thousands upon thousands of dollars for ACT UP, they also infected the culture of the city forever, introducing many artists to the community. This piece is a memorial to all of the shameless transgressive acts, both legal and illegal. Moral and immoral. Those acts fueled by survival guilt, addictions and afflictions. Lust and love. Joy, pain and fear. But definitely not shame.

ACT UP/FIGHT BACK

SILENCE=DEATH

   

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