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Still Around

Friday, October 21, 5pm FREE

(The HIV Story Project; Jörg Fockele and Marc Smolowitz, producers; 82min., 2011)

Co-Sponsor: BESTD Clinic
Community Co-Presenters: Sixteenth Street Community Health Center HIV Department, FORGE
Campus Co-Presenters: UWM Department of Dance, docUWM, Community Media Project
Campus Partner: UWM Women's Resource Center

A video quilt that weaves together a diverse array of stories – of men and women; young and old; gay, straight and transgender – all living with HIV. Still Around shares artful testimonials brought together to mark the 30th anniversary of one of the world's most substantial health pandemics. Produced by the San Francisco-based collective The HIV Story Project, Still Around is a collaboration between subject and filmmaker: each portrait started with an individual living with the disease who wanted to tell their story, a filmmaker then brought in to collaborate on the story's realization. The results wonderfully vary in form – straightforward documentary, spoken word performance, experimental poetics, a dance piece. But in sum the anthology marks a triumph of voices raised – in courage, in defiance, as witness.

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Stuart Gaffney, filmmaker/former Milwaukeean and one of the contributors to this anthology, will be in attendance!

Join us for an after-party after tonight's shows Art Bar-Riverwest, 722 E. Burleigh. Festive drink specials.

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