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World AIDS Day 2013 Benefitting The Michigan AIDS Coalition and The NAMES Project Foundation Michigan

Please join Honorary Chairs David Coulter, Mayor of Ferndale and Mary Liz Curtin of Leon & Lulu for a Casual Evening Celebrating World AIDS Day 2013 Benefitting The NAMES Project Foundation, Michigan Chapter and the Michigan AIDS Coalition.

Join us for hors d'oeuvres, refreshment, entertainment and a brief presentation.

View the first Quilt block, # 0001, done in 1987, and the most recent block, # 5914, from 2013.

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This event is free to attend, but donations are greatly appreciated




The Michigan AIDS Coalition (MAC) was formed February 1, 2009. MAC is one of Michigan’s oldest non-profit, community-based organizations dedicated to health promotion, harm and risk reduction, HIV and sexually-transmitted disease prevention education. MAC has conducted thousands of workshops and trainings, reaching over a half million people. We will continue this mission until it is no longer necessary.

In June of 1987, a small group of strangers gathered in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would neglect. Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to thereby help people understand the devastating impact of the disease. This meeting of devoted friends and lovers served as the foundation of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

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Today the Quilt is a powerful visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic. More than 48,000 individual 3-by-6-foot memorial panels — most commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS — have been sewn together by friends, lovers and family members.


RSVP: Shanthi L. Sivanandham, Michigan AIDS Coalition
Email: ssivanandham@michiganaidscoalition.org
Ph: 248-545-1435 x 105

Facebook: http://https//www.facebook.com/events/591134470933696/

To learn more about Michigan AIDS Coalition or The NAMES Project, please visit: http://www.michiganaidscoalition.org/ and http://www.aidsquilt.org/




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