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The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt or AIDS Quilt, is a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Weighing an estimated 54 tons, [1] it is the largest piece of community folk art in the world, as of 2020.
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. [2] Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with ...
The AIDS Quilt Songbook is an ongoing collaborative song-cycle with subsequent additions responding to the stigma surrounding, ignorance of, and grief caused by the spread of HIV/AIDS, serving as a companion work to the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. While its original printed edition consists of 18 songs with texts and music by American ...
It's a living tribute to people who've died from HIV/AIDS — a disease that attacks the body's immune system. Newsy visited the quilt's home in San Leandro, California. Gert McMullin has mothered ...
Cleve Jones (born October 11, 1954) is an American AIDS and LGBT rights activist. [1] He conceived the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, which has become, at 54 tons, the world's largest piece of community folk art as of 2020.
U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday hosted AIDS survivors, advocates, and family members who lost loved ones to the disease for a display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at the ...
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in front of the Washington Monument. A few days after the DNC speech, another case of shingles left scars across his head; [16] within weeks he was hospitalized with cryptosporidiosis [6] [12] and subsequently cryptococcal meningitis. [16]
The work features songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Each of the monologues is written from the perspective of characters who've died from AIDS and the songs represent the feelings of friends and family members dealing with the loss.