2011 World AIDS Day: Bay Area Events

Posted on December 1, 2011

World AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1 each year around the world. Local organizations provide a number of information, and testing opportunities throughout the year. Each World AIDS Day the Bay Area commemorative events grow more exciting and creative! Check out the events for 2011:

[National Event]
ONE and (RED) are hosting a live broadcast — “The Beginning of the End of AIDS” — today at 10AM EST. Speakers include President Obama, former President Clinton, Bono, and Alicia Keys, and a few others. This two-hour event will be featured on YouTube live at 10AM at http://www.youtube.com/TheONECampaign

November 24 – Dec 2

Oakland City Hall illuminated in Red in honor of World AIDS Week

November 28 to Dec 1
AIDS Quilt will be on display in the Tang Center Lobby
2222 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA

DECEMBER 1ST EVENTS

10AM – 4PM
TESTING EVENT
Volunteers of America providing testing in Berkeley at the Out of the Closet Thrift Store
1600 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA
For more info call: Phillipe Smith [510] 533-5253 ext 14
http://voaba.org

11AM – 1PM
WORLD/PWN – Word AIDS Day Count Us In! March and Rally
Stand up to demand women with HIV are counted in programs, budgets, planning and leadership! Meet at WORLD’s office: 449 15^th Street, Suite 303 in downtown Oakland at 11AM. RSVP -> WORLD, [510] 986-0340, or pwn@womenhiv.org | http://pwn-usa.org

12Noon
Alameda County Office of AIDS Annual Awards Luncheon
Lake Chalet Restaurant
For more information contact: Michael Lee [510] 268-7641 michael.lee@acgov.org | http://officeofaids.org

12Noon – 3PM
La Clinica de la Raza – Tabling Outreach Event
Transit Village Plaza (Between 34^th & 35^th on International Blvd.)
For more information contact: Catalina Palacios [510] 535-6404 or email cpalacios@laclinica.org | http://laclinica.org

1PM – 3PM
APEB – Health and Resource Fair
Frank Ogawa Plaza
Free HIV testing on Broadway and 14^th.
For more info contact: [510] 663-7979 | http://apeb.org

5PM – 7PM
“We Were Here” Film Screening and Discussion
70 Barrows, UC Berkeley
For more information contact: Sam Sheffield sheffysam@gmail.com | http://berkeleyfreeclinic.org/bbc

2PM – 4PM (Panel) , 4PM – 6PM (Reception)
Voices from the Epidemic: 30 Years of HIV/AIDS
Tang, 2222 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
For more information contact: Sam Sheffield sheffysam@gmail.com | http://berkeleyfreeclinic.org/bbc

6PM – 9PM
World AIDS Day: Art Murmur Celebration
17^th – 26^th Streets & Telegraph Avenue
Hosted by: AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and GSO. Art Murmur promotes the arts community in an organized monthly First Friday Art Walk event, called Art Murmur, which is free and open to the public. This well attended event by people of all background will incorporate WAD with free testing, and HIV information. Be sure to invite your friends!
For more information contact Get Screened Oakland [510] 238-7657 | http://getscreenedoakland.org http://oaklandartmurmur.org

7PM – 9PM
World AIDS Day Celebrity Bartender Night
Home of Chicken & Waffles, 444 Embarcadero Way, Oakland, CA
Celebrity Bartenders-Matt Barnes, Khalif Barnes, & Chuy Gomez. Benefiting East Bay AIDS Advocacy

8PM – 11PM
Grace, Beauty, Legs, Sex & Condoms
All are invited for FREE appetizers, performances, raffle prizes, a health fair featuring information about HIV vaccine studies. Hosted by: The HIV Research Section SFDPH, Berkeley Free Clinic, Get Screened Oakland, and the East Bay AIDS Center.
Bench & Bar, 510 17^th Street, Oakland
For more information contact: [415] 554-9058 | http://SFisReady.org

10PM – 2AM
CAL-PEP Midnight Grill Out
Castro (Oakland)
For more info contact: Jamila Shipp [510] 874-7850

DECEMBER 9TH

5:30PM
Community and Communion: DIRTY LAUNDRY – Dinner and Movie Night
Exploring the connection between Black Churches and their Lesbian and Gay family members.

Film maker Maurice Jamal will join a panelist of clergy and community leaders as they discuss the dilemma of welcoming lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals into the Black Church. Please register at http://communityandcommunion.eventbrite.com/ by Wednesday, December 7th. Sponsored by The Coalition of Welcoming Congregations of the Bay Area and the Umoja Project

First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St., Oakland, CA 94612
For more information contact : Rob Newells newellsrobert@gmail.com