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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE
November, 1991
World AIDS day schedule
by Martha Pontoni
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Five Cleveland area organizations will be Sharing the Challenge" on December 1 for World AIDS Day. The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art will be the site for an all day program of artistic and educational events, with opening remarks by Lee Fisher, Attorney General of Ohio. World AIDS Day is an international day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis whose purpose is to increase awareness about AIDS and the pressing social issues it raises and to promote action to end the AIDS crisis. This is the fourth annual World AIDS Day and the second year HIT and the Center for Contemporary Art have collaborated in the observance.
David Rubin, Curator of the Center for Contemporary Art comments, "We have to use what we have to make the larger community aware of the vast scope and seriousness of the problem. We need to put out the message AIDS is everyone's problem."
The Center for Contemporary Art is joined by the Cleveland Play House, the Health Issues Taskforce (HIT), the Living Room, and the NAMES Project. The program in Cleveland will include dance, music, film, drama, performance art, and a creative writing workshop.
Some of the featured events include a performance by the Cleveland School of Arts choir, readings from the AIDS Project Creative Writing Workshop, and dancers John Giffin and Micheal Milligan performing excepts from Last Songs, which deals with aspects of death and dying in situations that deal from the comic to the tragic. The Names Project Quilt will be on display in the Play
House Reinforcer lobby from November 26 through December 1. Three films, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, Tongues Untied, and Red, Hot & Blue, will be shown concurrently in Studio One of the Play House starting at 1:30 p.m. Information tables will also be set up during the day.
Schedule of Events.
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Opening Ceremony AIDS Project Creative Writing Workshop Readings by people living with or affected by AIDS John Giffin and Micheal Milligan, 3 excerpts from Last Songs String Trio, featuring representatives of PAND (Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament) David Sudak and Scott Davis, Jazz Processional
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5:15
The Play House Lab Company
6:15
7:00
Love and Science, an original play by K.C. Davis
Reprise of Jazz Processional Celebration of Life and Continuation featuring Lyric Opera Cleveland and the Cleveland School of Arts choir.
Subject to change without notice. Call 421-8671 for additions.▼
WCF to honor contributions of two
The Women's Community Fund will honor two outstanding contributors to the advancement of women's rights at a reception November 18, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Elizabeth Wade Sedgwick will be presented with the Creative Philanthropy Award and Debra Hirshberg will be given the Distinguished Alumna Award.
Sedgwick, who was nominated by Planned Parenthood, will receive the philanthropy award for her lifetime achievements in working to advance the cause of family planning and freedom of choice.
The award is given annually to an individual philanthropist who is innovative and willing to take risks. In addition to her support of Planned Parenthood, Sedgwick has been involved with the Natural History Museum, Health Hill Hospital and University Hospitals.
For the first time, the Women's Community Fund is presenting a
Distinguished Alumna Award. It will be presented to Hirshberg in recognition of her extrordinary commitment to the Women's Community Fund and to other women's organizations.
She was a founding board member of The Women's Community Fund and is currently chair of the Technical Assistance Committee and an advisor to the Women Managing Money Program. She was treasurer of WCF and chaired the Allocations Committee.
Hirshberg has been active with a variety of other organizations, including the Ohio Chicago Art Project (The Dinner Party), The Land Project, The Women's Building Project and Oven Productions.
The reception will be from 5:30 to 7:30 pm November 18 at the Ritz Carlton, Tower City. Tickets are $30. For more information or reservations, call 229-5001.▼
QUESTION OF THE MONTH
What has been your experience with racism?
Each month, the Chronicle has a "Question of the Month," focusing on an event or controversy in the lesbian-gay community. Readers may call 1-900-446-KWIR (5947) to give an answer. Comments or opinions may also be recorded; we will publish excerpts of these in the following issue. The call costs 99¢ per minute. November's Question:
This month we've instituted a new column intended to be for, by and about people of color. It came about as a result of several conversations by members of the Chronicle with a group called the Racism Forum. Have you witnessed any incidents of racism? If you have any thoughts on this type of oppression or the new column, call 1-900-446-KWIR and let us know. We will publish the results in November.
Last month's question:
Who would you like to see come out?
Finally, a little life in Cleveland. Following are the people, for whatever reasons others want to see come out: Jodie Foster, my mother, my ex-therapist, Mary Rose Oakar, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Lanigan with Webster, my grandmother, Gary Suhadolnik (really, who wants him) and Sally, whoever she may be. There was a little surprise that Dagmar was not included, but maybe folks figure she's already out.▼
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