World AIDS Day Observance at The Renaissance Center

With a couple of wars on our hands and an economic meltdown of gargantuan proportions, it's easy to lose sight of the AIDS pandemic--assuming you're not one of the roughly 33 million people worldwide living with the disease. And while strides have been made in treatment and prevention, AIDS still killed over 2 million people last year, including roughly 300,000 children. To commemorate World AIDS Day, Dickson's Renaissance Center hosts this one-day viewing of panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt, now recognized as the world's largest community art project. Initiated by activist Cleve Jones in 1987, the quilt now features panels with the names of 91,000 people killed by the disease--and that number represents only 17.5 percent of all U.S. AIDS deaths. Nashville in Harmony, a 52-member chorus comprised of members and supporters of Middle Tennessee's GLBT community, will perform at 6:30 p.m., followed by a reception that ends at 8:30.
Mon., Dec. 1, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 2008