48 Hours To Action / Campus World AIDS Day
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48 Hours to Action 2009
48 Hours to Action is back for World AIDS Day 2009 at 6pm on Dec. 1st in Kaufman Hall at UCLA with another dynamic evening of entertainment to raise awareness, and have a great time doing it. UCLA student artists have just 48 hours to create a new performance piece/art piece in response to an HIV-related theme that intervenes in the epidemic. The urgency of the artist's work echoes the urgency needed in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
48 Hours 2009 will feature indie rock sensation The Jakes http://www.myspace.com/thejakes and includes special appearances by the AIDS Performance Team (trained by South African artist Pieter-Dirk Uys) who use humor to fight HIV, Dance Marathon, and more special guests!
This year's show is hosted by the amazing performance artist and AIDS-activist Noel Alumit!
Tickets are $6 and are available at the UCLA Central Ticket Office and will be available online shortly.
Campus World AIDS Day - Tue. Nov. 24th
Join us for Campus World AIDS Day on Tue, Nov. 24th at one of three locations to take part in the march, and then stay for the awesome noon performance/rally in Bruin Plaza.
Processions begin just after 11:30am at: De Neve Court & Dickson Court & Court of Sciences and converge at Bruin Plaza.
In Bruin Plaza
Performance by Indie rock band The Travelers, Camp Kindle, Hillel Wasserman, and the AIDS Performance Team.
Free Oral HIV Testing:
Monday, Testing van at Court of Sciences, 10am-4pm
Tuesday, Testing vans at Pauley Concourse, 10am-4pm
FREE T-shirts, condoms, wristbands, and drinks!
48 Hours to Action 2008>
On December 1, 2008 the UCLA Art|Global Health Center presented its annual “48 Hours to Action,” a dynamic evening of entertainment to observe World AIDS Day, a time to bring global awareness to HIV/AIDS. “48 hours to Action” rallied student artists from the UCLA campus to generate art (music, dance, spoken word, visual art) related to a theme revealed just 48 hours before the performance.
The artists responded to the high pressure request by creating inspired beautiful dances, engaging monologues, beautiful paintings and photographs, interactive experiences and awe-inspiring songs and poems.
Dance Marathon at UCLA, a student-run AIDS organization was on hand to get the audience on its feet by teaching them a morale dance from a past dance. A short new uplifting choreography is taught every year at Dance Marathon, a 26-Hour dance to raise money for pediatric AIDS.
2008 marked the third year for 48 Hours to Action, which began in 2006 in conjunction with the arrival of the Keiskamma altarpiece to UCLA. Each year the event has taken on a slightly different shape with the altarpiece in 2006, Anurupa Roy performing puppetry in 2007, and L.A. hip-hop group the Elevaters featuring Adam Stern in 2008. What endures is the sense of urgency the process creates, and that people leave the theater having been part of a creative activist community.
Plans for 2009 are well under way and include South African performance artist Pieter-Dirk Uys training a group of student performers to act as company for the show.
