An assortment of fat quarter fabric cuts.
Sections of The AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display in The Renaissance Center’s Rotunda from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. as a powerful visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic. This year the display will feature quilt panels honoring several Nashville residents who died of AIDS including: Jeffrey Wilbanks, Stephen Smith and Ken Friedman, known as entertainer Diana Hutton.
The event will include a performance at 7 p.m. by Nashville in Harmony (NiH), a 102-member chorus directed by Don Schlosser. The reception and performance are free to the public.
Established in 1987, the NAMES Project Foundation is the international organization that is the custodian of The AIDS Memorial Quilt. The AIDS Memorial Quilt began with a single 3 x 6 foot panel created in San Francisco in 1987. Today, the quilt is composed of more than 48,000 individual 3 x 6 foot panels, each one commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS. These panels come from every state in the nation, every corner of the globe and they have been sewn by hundreds of thousands of friends, lovers and family members into this epic memorial, the largest piece of ongoing community art in the world.
In a war against a disease that has no cure, the AIDS Memorial Quilt has evolved as our most potent tool in the effort to educate against the lethal threat of AIDS. By revealing the humanity behind the statistics, The AIDS Memorial Quilt helps teach compassion, triumphs over taboo, stigma and phobia; and inspires individuals to take direct responsibility for their own well-being and that of their family, friends and community.
Julie Rhoad, executive director of the NAMES Project Foundation explains, “We are thrilled to have the chance to share The AIDS Memorial Quilt with your community. These handmade blocks, created by friends and family, tell the stories of individuals who have lost their lives to AIDS. We bring you their stories in the hope of inspiring compassion, healing and personal responsibility. We thank The Renaissance Center for hosting this event and we invite you all out to see what wonderful art we have created together as a nation.”
Sections are continuously on display across the country in schools, churches, community centers, businesses, corporations and a variety of other institutional settings all in the hope of making the realities of HIV and AIDS real, human and immediate. To date, more than 15 million people have seen the AIDS Memorial Quilt at tens of thousands of display throughout the world. For more information on the NAMES Project and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, please visit www.aidsquilt.org or call the national headquarters at (404) 688-5500.
Sections of The AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display in The Renaissance Center’s Rotunda from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. as a powerful visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic. This year the display will feature quilt panels honoring several Nashville residents who died of AIDS including: Jeffrey Wilbanks, Stephen Smith and Ken Friedman, known as entertainer Diana Hutton.
The event will include a performance at 7 p.m. by Nashville in Harmony (NiH), a 102-member chorus directed by Don Schlosser. The reception and performance are free to the public.
Established in 1987, the NAMES Project Foundation is the international organization that is the custodian of The AIDS Memorial Quilt. The AIDS Memorial Quilt began with a single 3 x 6 foot panel created in San Francisco in 1987. Today, the quilt is composed of more than 48,000 individual 3 x 6 foot panels, each one commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS. These panels come from every state in the nation, every corner of the globe and they have been sewn by hundreds of thousands of friends, lovers and family members into this epic memorial, the largest piece of ongoing community art in the world.
In a war against a disease that has no cure, the AIDS Memorial Quilt has evolved as our most potent tool in the effort to educate against the lethal threat of AIDS. By revealing the humanity behind the statistics, The AIDS Memorial Quilt helps teach compassion, triumphs over taboo, stigma and phobia; and inspires individuals to take direct responsibility for their own well-being and that of their family, friends and community.
Julie Rhoad, executive director of the NAMES Project Foundation explains, “We are thrilled to have the chance to share The AIDS Memorial Quilt with your community. These handmade blocks, created by friends and family, tell the stories of individuals who have lost their lives to AIDS. We bring you their stories in the hope of inspiring compassion, healing and personal responsibility. We thank The Renaissance Center for hosting this event and we invite you all out to see what wonderful art we have created together as a nation.”
Sections are continuously on display across the country in schools, churches, community centers, businesses, corporations and a variety of other institutional settings all in the hope of making the realities of HIV and AIDS real, human and immediate. To date, more than 15 million people have seen the AIDS Memorial Quilt at tens of thousands of display throughout the world. For more information on the NAMES Project and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, please visit www.aidsquilt.org or call the national headquarters at (404) 688-5500.