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DIARY WORLD AIDS DAY EVENTS LISTING

NOVEMBER

14-30 LONDON
GFest – gayWise LGBT Arts Festival
London November 14th - 30th 2007
GFest selection of artists, performers and short film announced. The Festival programme is announced on Gfest website: www.gaywisefestival.org.uk.

21 LONDONDERRY
Northern Ireland Regional Sexual Health Conference
Radisson SAS Roe Park Resort, Limavady Co. Londonderry , 21 November 2007
21st and 22nd November 2007 – residential. As a lead up to World AIDS Day, the event aims to further advance awareness of HIV and sexual health and its promotion by providing information and discussion of topical issues ranging from local to global perspectives. There will be a range of high quality speakers and workshops to attend. Tel: 0044 28 90 821524 time: 8.30am reg for 9.30am start, cost: £155.00 p.p single occupancy. shealth.team@belfasttrust.hscni.net

29 TRURO
Suck It!
Bar200, Truro , 29 November 2007
The opening event of this monthly soon to be regular is to be Cornwall’s only World AIDS Day event. Music, performance, and possibly comedy on the night.

29 LIVERPOOL
Tribute To James Lyons: Velvet Goldmine
Fact, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4dq,, 29 November 2007
On the eve of director Todd Haynes’ new film – the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There – Outsiders Liverpool LGBTI Film Festival re-visits his ‘David Bowie biopic’ Velvet Goldmine. Cast that includes Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard, Lindsay Kemp. Buy your World AIDS Day red ribbons here! Tel: 0871 704 2063, time:20.30, cost: £4.50/£6.50 www.outsiders2007.com

30 EDINBURGH
The Normal Heart
Ego, Picardy Place, Edinburgh, 30 November 2007
Production of the Larry Kramer play The Normal Heart, looking at the rise of the AIDS epidemic within the gay community. Tel: 0131 477 4154, time: 14.30 & 19.30, cost: £10 min. donation www.thenormalheart.com

30 LONDON
The Ocean is Made of Many Drops: individuals successfully fighting HIV in sub-Saharan Africa’ Photographs by Nell Freeman
The arches of the Gymnasium building at St Pancras International, 30 November 2007.
Photojournalist Nell Freeman has worked across sub-Saharan Africa documenting the lives of ordinary individuals doing extraordinary things in their work of caring for those affected by AIDS and in ending the spread of HIV.

30 BOLTON
It’s not what we do it’s why we do it!!!!
Canon Slade School, Canon Slade School, Bradshaw Brow, Bolton, BL2 3BP, 30 November 2007
6th Form students and staff are being sponsored to come to school as their favourite children’s TV or Panto character. We will also be selling red ribbons and having a cake bake sale. Many other events in the pipeline. Tel: 01204 333343, time: all day, cost: donations.

30 NOTTINGHAM
Communicate!
Sillitoe Room @ Waterstones, Wheeler Gate, Nottingham, 30 November 2007
10am-4pm: A display of a piece of writing about HIV translated into several different languages, braille, BSL & artwork & poetry representing HIV images. Tel: 0115 947 5414

DECEMBER

01 LONDON
A Concert for World AIDS Day
Cadogan Hall, 01 December 2007
On World AIDS Day, internationally acclaimed boys’ choir ‘The London Oratory School Schola’ and a host of star soloists perform two compelling settings of the Requiem. ‘A song of hope’. Proceeds to SURF – The Survivor’s Fund for those infected with HIV in Rwanda and SOS Children’s Villages for children orphaned through AIDS. Tel: 020 7730 4500, time:19.30, cost: £15 to £29
www.london-oratory.org/schola

01 PORTSMOUTH
A Service for World AIDS Day
John Pounds Memorial Church, Portsmouth, Hampshire,

01 December 2007
An informal service for everyone. There will be prayers for those living with HIV and AIDS, those who have died, and for their carers, along with some music and a time to light a candle for a loved one and to remember all those we love. Tel: 07845 321223, time:19.30, cost: free. www.holyangelsportsmouth.ik.com

01 LONDON
Barbara Cook and Friends
London Coliseum, 01 December 2007
World AIDS Day Concert. An 80th birthday tribute to Barbara Cook. Barbara Cook and Friends will be performing to raise funds for Interact Worldwide and World AIDS Day. Joining Barbara on stage will be a host of West End stars including: Ruthie Henshall, Maureen Lipman, Charlotte Page, Elaine Paige, Nicholas Parsons, Sian Philips. Tel: 0870 145 2200, time:19.30, cost: £18-£150

01 CANTERBURY
Body of Hope
Canterbury Cathedral, 01 December 2007
A special service for World AIDS Day, in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. With Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. Time: 19.00, cost: free. www.allsaintsstaplehurst.co.uk/world_aids_day.html

01 PAISLEY
HIV and AIDS: Young People and Equality
Paisley, 01 December 2007, The Wynd Centre, 6 School Wynd, Paisley
HIV and AIDS: Young People and Equality (Paisley).
Aged 14-25? Care about the world around you? Oxfam in Scotland, the Scottish Youth Parliament and the Roars Not Whispers project invite you to a special conference on World Aids Day, looking at the role of young people in addressing the problems of HIV and AIDS. www.scottishyouthparliament.org.uk/PaisleyWAD.htm.

01 BRIGHTON
Outdoor photography exhibition to mark World AIDS Day
Brighton Jubilee Library, Brighton, 01 December 2007
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is holding a photography exhibition displaying the extraordinary things that ordinary people are doing to respond to HIV around the world. It will be available as a public exhibition in Brighton, UK, from 23 November to 7 December and as an online exhibition on the Alliance’s website www.aidsalliance.org. The Brighton exhibition will be held outdoors in a public square in front of Brighton’s award-winning Jubilee Library, and will be lit up at night.

01 PORTSMOUTH
Screaming Queens Ghost Hunt
Portsmouth, 01 December 2007
World AIDS Day Celebrity Charity Ghost Hunt. Come and join us for a night of spooky ghost hunting at Portsmouth’s Fort Nelson. Tel: 07775 503 799, time:18.30, cost: £20.00.
www.darkencounters.co.uk

01 NATIONWIDE
TEAMUTAC World AIDS Day
Bicycle Ride
Your Town, 01 December 2007
In an attempt to raise awareness to World AIDS Day, join TEAMUTAC (Until There’s a Cure) for a 27 mile/km bicycle ride. Please contact us for further information. We are looking for someone to organise this ride in London and other cities email: brian@teamutac.com, www.teamutac.com

01 LONDON
World AIDS Evensong at Westminster
Westminster Abbey, 01 December 2007
Annual collaboration between The Cara Trust and the Abbey. Please contact us for more details. Tel: 020 7243 6147 email: chris@caralife.com cost: free www.caralife.com.

01 NEWCASTLE
World AIDS Day March and Vigil
Newcastle/Gateshead, 01 December 2008
Meet at top of Grey Street, near the Monument, march to the Sage Gateshead, followed by a musical celebration and vigil in the Sage.
Tel: 0191 490 1699, time: 14.45, cost: free.

01 BOURNEMOUTH
World AIDS Day Service
St Stephen’s Church, St Stephen’s St, Bournemouth, 01 December,
Organised by Body Positive Dorset (Please note NOT St Peters Church).
Red Ribbons to show support for people with HIV will be available at the church and also all day outside Borders in Bournemouth and at Castle Point shopping Centre. Please arrive at 6.45 to be seated in time for the service.

01 LONDON
The Cara Trust is pleased to announce 2 free central London events to mark World AIDS Day 2007
Date: Saturday 1st December, St. Pancras Church, Upper Woburn Place (opposite Euston)
Time: 12 noon - 1pm. Evensong service, Saturday 1st December, Westminster Abbey
Uplifting concert featuring a choir from London Gay Men’s Chorus. Time: 3pm. Please contact Chris Woolls, Cara Director, on 020 7243 6147 mail@caralife.com for further details. The Cara Trust - Focusing on the spiritual and pastoral needs of people with HIV.

02 LONDON
World AIDS Mass
The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption & St. Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho, London W1B 5NB, 02 December 2007
Annual collaboration between The Cara Catholics for AIDS Prevention & Support (CAPS) joins with the Soho Masses Pastoral Council and the Church of the Assumption for a Mass to mark World AIDS Day 2007. Refreshments follow the Mass. Tel: 020 8986 0807, time:17.00, cost: free www.sohomasses.com

02 LIVERPOOL
Fame!
Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, Liverpool, L1 9BP, 02 December 2007
You want Fame? Well Fame costs. And right here’s where you start paying... In sweat! That’s right, boys and girls - break out the sweatbands and legwarmers for a rare chance to see the story of the New York City High School of the Performing Arts on the big screen. It’s a little dated now (Doris becomes a liberated woman just by going to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show! The kids dance in the streets to Fame!) but it’s charming, and defiantly optimistic, even for its gay and black characters - a rare thing back in 1980. I sing the body electric... This screening is dedicated to the late HIV positive actor Gene Anthony Ray. Collection in aid of Liverpool HIV and AIDS charity Sahir House. Tel: 0151 709 3789, time: 19.30, cost: £3-£4. www.outsiders2007.com

11 LONDON
The Cara Trust - Group for gay men with HIV
Tue 11th December, time: 7pm, St. James’ Church, Piccadilly.
Disclosure - who and when to tell, or not. Tue 8th January, 7pm, St. James’, Piccadilly. Subject: The Law in the bedroom: prosecutions for HIV transmission. Speaker: Dr. Matt Weait - Birkbeck University. Contact Chris Woolls, Cara Director, 020 7243 6147 mail@caralife.com

13 LONDON
The 2007 Annual Food Chain Carol Service
St Paul’s Church, The Piazza, Covent Garden, WC2, 13 December
Each year The Food Chain is privileged to be able to host a Carol Service at St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden. The service provides an opportunity to celebrate our work and to bring together service users, volunteers and supporters. Cost: free www.foodchain.org.uk

JANUARY

18 PRESTON
The Red Ribbon Cabaret
53 Degrees, Fylde Road, Preston, 18 January 2008
The annual fundraiser is back- bigger, better and camper than ever! A fabulous evening of dance, song, comedy, and glitter galore raising money for local charities working with those affected by HIV. Featuring a host of acts from the local area, including the infamous drag troupe ‘Linda and the Laundrettes’, the evening is compered by comedian Jonathon Mayor. Now in its 13th year, the Red Ribbon Cabaret continues to go from strength to strength, with this year’s show set to be another triumph! Tel: 07894 108 906, time: evening, cost: from £7.50. www.redribboncabaret.com