[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[AG-TECH] A Day Without Video.
ArtGrid 24 hour observance
event:
World AIDS Day / A Day
Without Art (Video)
December 1,
2006
Established by the World
Health Organization in 1988, World AIDS Day serves to focus global attention on
the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Observance of this day provides
an opportunity for governments, national AIDS programs, arts organizations,
churches, community groups and individuals to demonstrate the importance of
the fight against HIV/AIDS.
With an estimated 39.4
million people worldwide living with HIV at the end of 2004, and more than 20
million people having died of AIDS since 1981, December 1st serves to remind
everyone that action makes a difference in the fight against
HIV/AIDS.
To remind the public that
AIDS can touch everyone and to inspire positive action, we
invite all Access Grid sites, when systems are not in use and you
have parked your node in a venue, to send black video or turn off your cameras
and send blue video. We hope that this will represent the losses to
the arts, sciences and technology communities as a result of
HIV/AIDS.
If you would like, you can
park your AG nodes at the ArtGrid lobby:
For more information please
contact me. Thank you all for your participation and observance of this
day.
Jimmy & Beth
Miklavcic