AIDS Memorial Quilt Comes to Palomar College
February 26, 2013
What:
The AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT will be on display at Palomar College,
hosted by Palomar College Health Services in cooperation with Palomar College
LGBTQ Pride Center and sponsored by Vista Community Clinic. A series of events
commemorating this exhibition are planned.
When:
Week of March 11 - 15, 2013
Quilt display may be viewed during open Library hours:
Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Where:
Palomar College
1140 West Mission Road
San Marcos, CA 92069
Library
and MD Building
Schedule
of Events
Tuesday,
March 12
Bill Jahnel,
history professor presents
Memory Quilts: Documenting Love and
Loss in Needle and Thread
11:30
– 12:30 p.m., room LL-208C (Library)
Fergal O’Doherty,
English professor reads
A Tree with No
Leaves
2:30
– 3:30 p.m., room MD-157
Peter Bowman,
political science professor presents
HIV/AIDS and Civil Rights Protection
and
Vista Community
Clinic presentation on HIV Education
3:30
– 4:30 p.m., room MD-157
Wednesday
March 13
Vista Community
Clinic–HIV Education.
1
– 2 p.m., room LL-208C
Abbie Cory, English
professor presents the film,
How to Survive a
Plague
2
– 4 p.m., room O-13
Reception, including refreshments
5 – 7 p.m.
Second floor Library Lobby
Thursday, March 14
Kathy Grove,
sociology professor - with two guest speakers, presents
I Don’t Live with
HIV, It Lives with Me: Women’s Stories.
12:30–2
p.m., room MD-157
Background:
According to The NAMES Project Foundation website, “The Quilt was conceived in November of 1985
by long-time San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones…Today the Quilt is a
powerful visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic. More than 48,000 individual
3-by-6-foot memorial panels — most commemorating the life of someone who has
died of AIDS — have been sewn together by friends, lovers and family members.”
More information may be found at www.aidsquilt.org.
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MEDIA
CONTACTS:
Melinda Finn, Public Affairs Office, 760-744-1150,
ext. 2365, mfinn@palomar.edu
Laura Gropen, Public Affairs Office, 760-744-1150,
ext.2152, lgropen@palomar.edu
Bruce
Orton, 760-744-1150, ext. 2723 borton@palomar.edu