Local government, the NHS and charities are joining forces in a trail-blazing collaboration to mark this year’s World AIDS Day in Birmingham – and the teamwork could point towards achieving the elimination of HIV, say experts. Birmingham City Council, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham-based charities including Saving Lives, the team behind the […]
Birmingham will mark the 35th World AIDS Day with a vigil at the ‘Ribbons’ HIV and AIDS Memorial, Hippodrome Square on Friday, December 1. The event, designed to “remember, educate and celebrate”, will feature music, speeches, candles and lanterns, and a minute’s silence. Those who wish to join the vigil can arrive at the memorial […]
Birmingham-based artist and HIV activist Garry Jones is one of three faces leading National AIDS Trust’s (NAT) Rock the Ribbon campaign for World AIDS Day 2023. Jones was pivotal in conceptualising, campaigning for and fundraising for Birmingham’s HIV & AIDS Memorial alongside several other campaigners. Additionally, he has led various other projects including the Birmingham HIV Memorial Quilts which have been on display across the city.
Artist Garry Jones and Positive Peers project lead, Rachel Greaves, were honoured with awards for their work on The Ribbons, Birmingham AIDS and HIV Memorial (BAHM). Presented by Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, the awards were “in recognition of your contribution to the West Midlands through BAHM.”
Inspired by the original NAMES memorial quilt which began in San Francisco in 1985, this project saw the creation of over 50 quilt panels designed to educate, destigmatise, and commemorate those lost to AIDS.
The Cover-Up Quilt Project is an Arts Council-funded community art project, led by Garry Jones, which features 40 quilt panels each of which signify a historic moment or memory – locally, nationally or internationally – in the 40 years since the first HIV diagnosis in the UK
On World AIDS Day – Thursday, December 1 – the Birmingham community came together in Hippodrome Square to witness the unveiling of the city’s HIV & AIDS Memorial sculpture, almost two years after the idea was born from artist Garry Jones.
Almost two years after the idea was first conceived by artist Garry Jones, alongside Phil Oldershaw and Andrew King, Birmingham’s AIDS & HIV Memorial is due to be unveiled on World AIDS Day – Thursday, December 1 – at Hippodrome Square from 6pm.
Over seven months, more than £180,000 has been raised for the Birmingham HIV and AID Memorial – a new public artwork in Birmingham
The Cover-up Quilt is an Arts Council-funded community art project, inspired by the original AIDS quilt which began in San Francisco in 1984.
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