ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993. Writers with HIV/AIDS Reading Series

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"ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993" at WHITE COLUMNS320 West 13th StreetNew York,

NYAt White Columns a series of readings - curated by Schulman of the ACT UP Oral History Project - will take place on Monday evenings at the exhibition, "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993"."Writers with HIV/AIDS" Reading SeriesMonday September 20 at 7pm:Larry Kramer (reading)Dudley Saunders (singing)from wikipedia: "Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) is an American playwright, author, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for Women in Love in 1969, earning an Academy

Award nomination for his efforts. Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his 1978 novel Faggots, which earned mixed reviews but emphatic denunciations from the gay community for his portrayal of shallow, promiscuous gay relationships in the 1970s.Kramer witnessed the first spread of the disease that became known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among his friends in 1980, and he co-founded the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), which has become the largest private organization to assist people living with AIDS in the world. Not content with the social services GMHC provided, Kramer expressed his frustration with bureaucratic paralysis and the apathy of gay men to the AIDS crisis by writing a play titled The Normal Heart which was produced at The Public Theatre in New York City in 1985. His political activism extended to the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, a direct action protest

organization widely credited with changing public health policy and widespread perception of people living with AIDS (PWAs) and awareness of HIV and AIDS-related diseases.[1] He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Destiny of Me (1992), and has been a two-time recipient of the Obie Award."Dudley Saunders is a singer-songwriter, performance artist, activist, fiction writer and documentarian who most recently won the 2009 OutMusic Award for "Outstanding Album of the Year". His last performance collaboration with Woodbury won a 2007 Obie Award, and his documentary THE PROCESS won the Aurora Award.Additional readings in the series include:Monday September 27 at 7pm:Emanuel Xavier reads Roy GonzalvesEdmund White reads FerroDale Peck reads Sam D'AllesandroLynne Tillman reads Cookie Muelleris ine Gumbs reads Essex HemphillMonday October 4 at 7pm: Halperin

reads Michel Foucault Manrique reads Reinaldo ArenasJim Eigo reads Preston Weir reads FinebergMarie Howe reads Tory DentTerry Rowden reads CorbinPenny Arcade reads Jack Curated by Helen Molesworth and Grace and organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museums ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 was originally presented in fall 2009 at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Regards, VergelPoWeRUSA.org