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Posted Aug 30 2010 1:12pm

ACT UP Oral History Project

ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis

Opening Night Reception
Wednesday, September 8
6:00-8:00PM
White Columns
320 West 13th Street, NYC

Free admission

September 9 - October 23, 2010.

A recently expanded video collection of the ACT UP Oral History Project will be presented in the main gallery space at White Columns, featuring 116 complete interviews screening on 14 monitors.  The exhibition will be accompanied by parallel screenings, discussions and a reading series curated by Sarah Schulman on Monday evenings (details below). More information about all the events on the White Columns website.


Reading Series

Monday, September 20, 7:00PM
Larry Kramer
Dudley Saunders

Monday, September 27, 7:00PM
Emanuel Xavier reads Roy Gonzalves
Edmund White reads Robert Ferro
Dale Peck reads Sam D'Allesandro
Lynn Tillman reads Cookie Mueller
Alexis Pauline Gumbs reads Essex Hempill

Monday, October 4, 7:00PM
David Halperin reads Michel Foucault
Jaime Manrique reads Reinaldo Arenas
Jim Eigo reads John Preston
John Weir reads David Fineberg
Marie Howe reads Tory Dent
Terry Rowden reads Stephen Corbin
Penny Arcade reads Jack Smith


Related Events
Pre-Launch Party for ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993
Tuesday, September 7
10:00PM till late
Santos Party House
96 Lafayette Street, NYC
Free admission

Queer/Art/Film (co-sponsored by MIX NYC)
Douglas Crimp presents The Films of ACT UP
Monday, September 13
7:00PM
IFC Center
6th Avenue and West 3rd Street, NYC
For tickets and more information click here.

Last Address: A Memorial for a Generation of New York City Artists Who Died of AIDS
Viewable from the street anytime day or night in the NYU Kimmel Windows Gallery
Located on the exterior of the NYU Kimmel Center
La Guardia Place & West 3rd Street, NYC

Now through October 9, 2010


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Preserving the legacy of ACT UP, while revealing the complexity, diversity, and ingenuity that made it possible for ACT UP to change the face of AIDS in America.

actuporalhistory.org
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